Looking back at the pop culture mainstays of this Gen-Xer's gloriously misspent youth. For an eighties kid from the Northeastern United States, whose parents drove a Chevette, and whose experience with exotic locales was mostly limited to occasional trips to tacky, mouse-themed amusement parks in Florida, Magnum, P.I . was the very definition of an aspirational television show. The long-running hit CBS series—about a handsome, funny, and sensitive Midwestern Vietnam vet turned private investigator in Hawaii named Thomas Magnum, his friends Rick (Larry Manetti) and T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) and the cantankerous but lovable scold Jonathan Higgins (John Hillerman)— was filmed on location in and around Oahu, Hawaii. As if that gorgeous, heavenly island setting wasn't enough to make me jealous, there was also the steady stream of beautiful women who regularly graced Magnum's life. Then there was Magnum's exciting profession and his insanely awesome bachelor lifestyle...
we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars