"Italian Ice" is the fifteenth episode of the second season of Magnum, P.I. which originally aired on February 4, 1982.
Plot
Magnum goes to Sicily at the request of Robin Masters to rescue a friend's daughter who was being held by mobsters. Tom rescues the girl and brings her back to the estate and then trouble occurs.
Synopsis
After rescuing a sultry young woman from a Sicilian gangster, Magnum believes that the mob is out for revenge when peculiar things happen back at home.
Cast
Main
- Tom Selleck as Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV
- John Hillerman as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III
- Roger E. Mosley as Theodore "T.C." Calvin
- Larry Manetti as Rick Wright
Guest
- Ann Dusenberry as Katrina Tremaine
- Mimi Rogers as Margo Perina
- Lilyan Chauvin as Maria, the Sicilian Cook
- Camila Griggs as College co-ed
- Jean Claudio as Marquis
- Lenny Montana as Marquis' Bodyguard
- Wallace Merck as Segundo
- Mark Tuinei as Samoan student
- Wendell Martin Jr. as Actor
- Stanley Yamagata as Waiter
Trivia
- Mimi Rogers would appear 23 years later with Tom Selleck in Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005) as attorney Rita Fiore and also working together on the TV movie Divorce Wars: A Loave Story.
- Marquis's bodyguard is played by Lenny Montana, the actor best known for his role as Luca Brasi in The Godfather.
- Burt Reynolds is the most likeness as Tom Selleck who works with them in the ABC short-lived series B.L. Stryker.
Quotes
- Higgins: He's probably doing a Burt Reynolds impersonation for the tourists!
- Magnum: Margo, come on. This is the girl! Let me explain!
- Margo: Thomas, it would take a 1930's movie to explain this and I bear absolutely no resemblance to Myrna Loy!
- (On seeing T.C.'s helicopter fly past the estate)
- Margo: Who's that?
- Magnum: Oh, that is a buddy of mine, and he sometimes flies tourists over the estate to see what famous person might be sunbathing naked on the beach.
- Margo: Well, I'm not famous or naked.
- Magnum: You will be..... famous. (smiles)