Magnum
Laura
Sinatra & Selleck
Episode Number: 145
Season 7
First Aired: Wednesday February 25, 1987
Cast: Tom Selleck (Thomas Magnum), John Hillerman (Jonathan Higgins), Larry Manetti (Rick), Roger E. Mosley (T.C.), Frank Sinatra (Sgt. Michael Doheny), Kevyn Major Howard (Kevin Geiger), Joe Santos (Lt. Page), Kristin Brick (Laura)
Regie: Alan Levi
In February 1987 Sinatra guest starred in an episode of Magnum, P.I. titled 'Laura'. Playing a retired detective on a search for his grand-daughter's killer, Sinatra would appear on the cover of TV Guide and win good notice for his performance in the highest rating Magnum P.I. episode ever. This was Sinatra's last acting role, although, he was approached by Francis Ford Coppolla to play Don Altobello in The Godfather: Part III. Sinatra declined, not wanting to commit himself to a three-month shoot. In a curious turn of fate, Eli Wallach, who Sinatra replaced in the role of Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity, got the role.
Overview:
Rick persuades Thomas to take a high-reward, supposedly simple missing person case, but the person paying for the case is actually New York City cop Michael Doheny, who has his own reasons for wanting to find the man in question. Doheny has come to Hawaii to track down those responsible for the rape and murder of his young grand-daughter on the night of his retirement dinner, a hunt in which he asks Magnum's help.
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