Interesting Pieces Of Trivia Acquired From Wikipedia IV

As a wee kidlet, I absolutely adored Magnum P.I (and Remington Steele, for that matter – but perhaps we’ll look back on Pierce Brosnan’s telly beginnings another day). So I was thrilled to learn the following Interesting Piece Of Trivia whilst perusing the Wikipedia page for Tom Selleck’s best work to date.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum lives and resides in the ‘guest house’ of a posh, 200-acre (0.81 km2) beachfront estate, known as Robin’s Nest, in Hawaiʻi, at the invitation of its owner, Robin Masters, the celebrated-but-never-seen author of several dozen lurid novels. Ostensibly this is quid pro quo for Magnum’s services based upon Magnum’s claimed expertise in security; the pilot suggests Magnum also did Masters a favor of some kind.

In addition, Robin’s Nest is guarded by two highly-trained Doberman Pinschers, Zeus and Apollo, and all other aspects of the estate are managed by Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (played by Texas-born veteran actor John Hillerman), an ex-British Army Sergeant Major with whom, often as a humorous aside during various episodes of the series, Magnum must barter for use of estate amenities other than the guest house and the Ferrari 308 GTS (e.g., tennis courts, wine cellar, expensive cameras, etc.). During early seasons of Magnum, P.I., the voice of Robin Masters, heard only a few times per season, was voiced by Orson Welles.

ORSON WELLES? I did not know that! Thank you, Wikipedia.

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