EP Eric Guggenheim on Magnum P.I. Season 5, what he learned from making Hawaii Five-O, the Magnum/Higgins relationship, and working with this cast.
The Big Picture The fifth season of the NBC series Magnum P.I. will ultimately be its last, but until then, there’s still plenty of action and plenty of relationship dynamics to explore among Thomas Magnum , Juliet Higgins , TC and Rick . While continuing to take on cases of all kinds, Magnum and Higgins’ love for each other is strengthening and the brotherhood is stronger than ever.
ERIC GUGGENHEIM: It’s a good question. In the case of this season, the finale was not written to be a series finale, but because we hadn’t gotten a pickup, we did take that possibility into consideration as we were crafting it. When you watch it, you’ll see that we were clearly teeing up some stuff for a Season 6. But first and foremost, we wanted to make sure we covered our bases and that the episode worked as a series finale, if need be.
You’ve said that this is not necessarily how you would have chosen to end the series, if you had gotten to do a Season 6, or even more seasons beyond that. Did you have a concrete idea for some bigger ending in mind that you were working toward, or had you never gotten that specific? GUGGENHEIM: Yeah, I would say that I think we’re leaving the characters in a good place. I wanna be very careful here because I don’t want to give away too much. We’re not gonna have a “Who shot JR?” style ending. There have been so many shows that have gotten burned on cliffhanger endings, whether it’s the original Quantum Leap or ALF or Legends of Tomorrow or Lucifer, before they got rescued by Netflix. This finale is not one of those endings.
You made the decision to finally get Magnum and Higgins together in Season 5, which definitely changed the dynamic, and I think it did so in really positive ways. It often adds a playfulness between those characters that a show like this needs to balance out some of the seriousness of the jobs they’re hired to do.
GUGGENHEIM: There are so many things. From a production standpoint, this past season was very difficult. We cross-boarded most of our episodes, so we were shooting two episodes at once, we were in six and a half days, we were doing constant double-ups, and this was the smallest budget that we’ve had on the show, by far, and yet I feel that there was no dip in quality. I don’t think we cut any corners. I think it still feels like the same show that we’ve been making for five years.
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