European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magnum goes out in style with 2-hour episode by Wendy Bourland magnum . Goes out in style this weekend on the american forces network. The show s eighth and final season ends on an saturday at 8 . 7 . In the United kingdom with a two hour episode. Thomas magnum Tom Selleck returns to Annapolis md., for a reunion of his naval Academy class and to see family and friends. The show is a bit maudlin Early on the scene where magnum visits the Lincoln memorial is a bit overdone for example but it moves mostly at a pleasant Pace with decent acting and a few surprises for longtime fans. Some of us for example have never seen magnum in Long pants and a coat. Naturally complications develop that Send magnum Back to Hawaii before too Long. Guest stars who have played various characters Over the years return for a final appearance. Perhaps you be wondered about the shadowy Robin masters owner of the estate run by Higgins John Hillerman ? even he shows up. The series also stars Roger e. Mosley As . And Larry Manetti As Rick. Selleck May have a successful film career going now but it was magnum . That made him a household name and he will surely be missed on the Small screen. Nosy fellow comedian Bob Hope plays an Angel dispatcher named Syc  in sunday s episode of Highway to heaven. Jonathan Michael Landon gets an assignment from Syc  who is having computer problems and must give orders verbally to retrieve another Angel Bill Mac who was mistakenly assigned to Earth at his wealthy son s estate As a Butler named Max. His appearance has been altered so no one who knew him recognizes him. The son Stanley John Pleshette displeased his father by marrying a maid Sarah Patti Karr. Max died of a heart attack an hour before the wedding. He was trying to talk his son out of the marriage then and he s determined to use his unearthly Powers to break the marriage up now. Hope s presence gives this show a comedy lift the likes of which it has never seen Jonathan is called to heaven by Syc  via Beeper. And wait until you meet Faith Hope and Charity. Of no Sidney Sheldon can t Stop churning out bestselling novels with unbelievable heroines and contrived plots and the television Industry can t resist turning them into miniseries. The latest Sheldon offering windmills of the gods begins its two part run on an on Friday night. Jaclyn Smith Jane Seymour s rival for the Queen of the miniseries Crown stars As a political science professor at the University of Kansas with a perfect husband and two perfect children. She is offered of All things an appointment As ambassador to communist Romania. She declines wanting to stay with her family but then her husband is killed in a mysterious car Accident. Heartbroken she changes her mind and accepts the appointment. Once in Romania with the children she faces opposition from All sides a hostile american Diplomat Robert Wagner and a secret group of politicians from the East and West who undermine her efforts to improve  relations. Hillerman had trouble saying goodbye after 8 years As Higgins on magnum by Joan Hanauer United press International after eight years in the role of Higgins it was hard for John Hillerman to say goodbye to magnum . Magnum played its last . Broadcast last May in a two hour finale that lbs described As a stunning conclusion to the show that premiered dec. 11, 1980. The final episode airs saturday on an it will run several weeks later on seb these have been the Best eight years of my life said Hillerman. I be been working for 33 years and this is the Best gig i Ever had. It s been a wonderful part i be worked with wonderful people and of course Hawaii is just a dreadful place to  actually he quickly admitted Hawaii is Paradise. Hillerman has a Penthouse there. The Veteran actor said he had no idea at the outset that magnum was going to be anything special. I had been through a couple of pilots and when you be been acting As Long As i have you proceed from a position of scepticism on everything he explained. It was just another Pilot until i saw it and realized Tom s  both Higgins and magnum have changed Over the years Hillerman said. It s been interesting to watch magnum age he said. Tom did something i thought charming and unusual for an actor. When magnum turned 40 a couple of years ago he started using Reading glasses. It was a Nice touch that most actors would t do. Most actors Are far too vain to do something like that but Tom in t vain at All. He s really a Nice Man unassuming and he s handled Success very Well. And i be certainly been around to watch the  Hillerman said the magnum character underwent Little other serious change Over the years. He s still very much of a boy he said. One of magnum s charms is that he won t grow up. He s a bit of a Peter pan. But the show revealed him to have a wife and child which made him More of a contemplative Man than he used to  of his own character Hillerman said it was interesting to watch him evolve. He really does have a life of his own. He started out really hard nosed by the Rule Book and in my opinion two dimensional. I asked them to give him some humor and humanity. I like playing an acerbic hard edged character rather than a Teddy Bear but i thought you needed to glimpse something underneath that. And they gave it to me almost  his favorite episodes aside from the one last year that won him an emmy have been those in which he played a dual role As Higgins and As some embarrassingly disreputable Higgins relative. They included a half brother Rodeo Cowboy a Drunken Irish priest and a poverty stricken Spanish aristocrat. The Appeal of the magnum series Hillerman believes Lay in its off beat slant on action adventure. The thing that made magnum special he said was that in the beginning it was the Only action adventure show on the air that dealt with comedy and human nature not just guns and bimbos and car chases. There was always a lot of humor and a lot of human nature with All its  the Good humor extended beyond the script. Before i worked on magnum i was considered a Rock Hillerman said. I never Ever broke up. A few years of working with Selleck reduced me to a quivering bowl of  viewing tips sixty years of America s Best loved cartoon mouse Are highlighted in Disney s Mickey s greatest adventures airing on an sunday. Also included Are Pluto Chip and Dale and other Disney characters Mickey has romped with Over the years. The historical miniseries roots which begins As an african tribe loses a member kunta Kinte Levar Burton to marauding White slavers starts its six part run saturday. Alf gets a visit from the Crew of his beloved to show Gilligan s Island on monday. Tommy James and the Shondelle Are but one of the 60s pop acts who appear on Rockin the night away monday night. The special taped at the Palm Springs Calif convention Center also stars Peter Noone of Herman s hermits Donovan Dion Jan and Dean and the mamas and the Papas. And there s Palm Springs mayor Sonny Bono and his daughter chastity. New returning series the Pilot movie for the series heartbeat airs wednesday. The show revolves around the Bay general Hospital a predominantly female staff  personal and professional  and Downs. The series probably won t last Long As of Jan. 29, it was 68th in the Nielsen ratings. Bui it s one of those shows that will attract a Small but Loyal following of viewers interested in a series with warmth compassion and Strong willed women. Movie pick 1984 s children of the com based on the Stephen King novel airs thursday. A Young couple Peter Horton of thirty something and Beauty and the beast Star Linda Hamilton unknowingly move into a Small Midwest town where the children Are performing human sacrifices on the adults. Seb update on Valentine s Day the network will show it s your first kiss Charlie Brown at 7 05 ., followed by you re in love Charlie Brown at 7 30 the series in the heat of the night featuring All in the family Star Carroll o Connor and Howard Rollins As cops in Sparta miss., debuts wednesday. John Hillerman enjoyed working with Tom Selleck. He tried to do the same to Selleck but usually it was the other Way around. It s a lot harder for me to do it to him he said but we do break each other up and it got pretty bad there toward the  sometimes nature took Over in the breaking up department. The funniest one was three or four years ago he said. Tom and Jill St. John had a very romantic scene walking along the rocks with the Ocean breaking beyond. They both looked like a million Bucks and it was High Romance until in the Middle of a take a huge wave came crashing Over the rocks and drenched them. They were sopping. It was a wonderful moment and we put it in our gag reel the one we prepared every year for our Christmas  after the last show was completed there was a permanent wrap party for some 500 people on the world s largest catamaran. It was pretty festive he said. Nobody got disgustingly  h3T" february 9, 7989 stripes Magazine 9