Why do Some People Think Higgins is Robin Masters?
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It frustrates me.
I've argued with friends and work colleagues for decades, about this.
There is at least one episode were they both feature at the same time!
Plus we get to see Robin on his private jet and in his Rolls.
He is even speaking to both Magnum & Higgins on the red telephone at one point.
We hear his voice! He is voiced by Orson Welles!
And still people try to tell me that Higgins is really Robin Masters.
He isn't.
I've argued with friends and work colleagues for decades, about this.
There is at least one episode were they both feature at the same time!
Plus we get to see Robin on his private jet and in his Rolls.
He is even speaking to both Magnum & Higgins on the red telephone at one point.
We hear his voice! He is voiced by Orson Welles!
And still people try to tell me that Higgins is really Robin Masters.
He isn't.
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I just don't see why some people think that Higgins and Robin are the same person.
Where have they got this idea from? They are adamant!
Thread closed - you have everyone convinced.....:)
Where were you 20 years ago when I needed a wing man?
It was just me, & me alone, against Chris, Barry &Stu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity
Basically, he wasn't Robin Masters, but Magnum thought he was.
Even though it makes no sense to try to change something like that.
Wouldn't be the first time that plot device has been used. Remington Steele and the Sherlock Holmes film Without A Clue used it.
Because we get to see Robin Masters in his chauffeur driven Rolls narrowly avoiding an ambush in rural France at the same time that Higgins is in Hawaii with Magnum.
We, as the viewers, actually see & hear Robin talking to the chauffeur about the incident as they are escaping.
So it would make no sense to employ an actor to play Robin Masters on the other side of the world with no witnesses to the act.
No witnesses, except Thomas Magnum.
Edit, btw I'm not personally convinced by the Higgins is Robin Masters theory of Magnum and tbh, I only watched it first run when I was pretty young. But it is *possible*.
The only witness to Robin being himself in the car in France is the viewer.
I see your point about it being theoretically feasible, apart from the fact that the actor as Robin is still playing the role when he is by himself, only for the benefit of the viewer ( you & I ).
If that makes any sense.
Bed time for me, night.
It's just made up as they go, and often retconed when they are running out of ideas.
So at the start of the series they could have been playing it straight with Higgins as the house-keeper, later on thinking it would be fun to suggest that Higgins is Robin would be very consistent with US TV series that are making 20 episodes a year and are almost running dry of ideas.
Jessica Fletcher appeared in this show, that says it all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity
Good points.
Whether or not Higgins was really Robin Masters.
Oh, do keep up. Zeuss, Apollo... get him.