I watched the best Magnum P. I. ever!

[Rescued One]

It was aired in 1985. Filmed in Tidewater, Virginia.

"Going Home"

Magnum went home for his grandfather's funeral. David Huddleston played his stepfather.

The music was awesome (I got tears in my eyes at the end).

10 Several classic original "oldies" can be heard in this episode: "Come Go With Me" by the Del-Vikings, "When I Fall in Love" by Nat King Cole, "Duke of Earl" by Gene Chandler, and Joe Cocker's version of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released". The Cocker song is memorably highlighted at the end of the episode when Magnum visits the Vietnam Memorial.

 

[rebornfree]

Oh I can imagine that would be tear-jerking. I remember times when I've felt an episode of a programme or a film really touched me (only because I'm old I can't remember what most of them were now! ).

A film I like, and think the music is very well suited to the story, is 'You've got Mail'. Maybe one of the reasons is that the girl in it lost her mother young (she inherited her mother's bookstore, which is in the beginning of the film so that's not a spoiler) as I did. There's a scene where she remembered her, and I choke up every time I see it.

 

[Rescued One]

Oh I can imagine that would be tear-jerking. I remember times when I've felt an episode of a programme or a film really touched me (only because I'm old I can't remember what most of them were now! ).

A film I like, and think the music is very well suited to the story, is 'You've got Mail'. Maybe one of the reasons is that the girl in it lost her mother young (she inherited her mother's bookstore, which is in the beginning of the film so that's not a spoiler) as I did. There's a scene where she remembered her, and I choke up every time I see it.

Oh. yes! The old version(1940) had James Stewart as Margaret Sullavan's future husband. It was called The Shop Around the Corner.

I'm sorry you lost your mother when you were young. My neices lost their mother when she was 52. The younger ones hadn't graduated from high school.

 

[rebornfree]

Oh. yes! The old version(1940) had James Stewart as Margaret Sullavan's future husband. It was called The Shop Around the Corner.

I'll have a look for that. I love old films and enjoy watching James Stewart.

I'm sorry you lost your mother when you were young. My neices lost their mother when she was 52. The younger ones hadn't graduated from high school.

Thank you - it was hard. I'm sorry to hear about your nieces and the loss of your sister/SIL. It must have been a great loss to all the family.