![]() ![]() I wasn’t particularly interested in doing it, but I’m glad I did it.” I went ‘for two weeks’ and the rest is history - 8-1/2 years. “They called me in, and I told my agent that I didn’t want to go. He was making a good living in films and wasn’t enthusiastic about the demands of a weekly television show. If he wants to do a series.’ I didn’t,” Mosley said. “Tom Selleck said, ‘If you can talk him into coming over here he’d be good. Tom Selleck, who was about to debut as Thomas Magnum, remembered working with Mosley on a film project several years previously and recommended casting him as T.C. “Hawaii Five-0” had run from 1968 to 1980, two other made-in-Hawaii network shows had also aired by the time “Magnum” went into production, and the producers felt that they had “used up all the local guys,” Mosley said. “They realized they were doing a show in Hawaii and everybody was all white,” he explained. Mosley said the original decision to write T.C. Mosley said he didn’t see the need to be a regular in the new “Magnum.” “I wanted them to fly on their own, but by the same token I wanted the public to know that we (the original cast) gave the show our blessing, so I said we’d figure out a way for me to make some kind of cameo appearance.” One actor who crossed over from the original “Magnum” to the new “Hawaii Five-0” was Larry Manetti, who originated the character of Vietnam veteran Orville “Rick” Wright in “Magnum.” He played lounge singer Nicky “The Kid” DeMarco on Lenkov’s “Five-0,” a character who has since appeared on the reboot of “Magnum” as well. “Where would be the best place for two Black men to get together? In a barbershop.”įans know that Mosley’s involvement in the show is an example of how things work in the “Lenkov-verse.” Three reboot shows developed by former showrunner Peter Lenkov - “Magnum,” “Hawaii Five-0” and “MacGyver” - sometimes feature cast members who cross over from one show to another, or from the original series to the reboots. Mosley previously appeared as Booky in the show’s first season in 2018. Mosley was in Honolulu for his second guest appearance on “Magnum” as barbershop owner John Booky. I was really excited about it,” Hill said recently as the two actors relaxed after work in the lobby of the Prince Waikiki hotel. “I remember watching the show as a kid because back then there weren’t many African American actors playing action hero roles. Stephen Hill was one of those young viewers, and as much as he enjoyed the show he never imagined himself as “T.C.” in a hit reboot of the show - let alone working with Mosley. Mosley was the African American television action hero for a new generation. Bill Cosby had pioneered the premise of the cool and competent Black action hero, in NBC’s mid-1960s secret agent drama, “I Spy,” but from then through the end of the 1970s, Black men almost always played comic roles. Mosley was one of the four leads in the CBS crime drama series, and he wasn’t playing a goofy sidekick or a loud stereotypical “inner-city” character. Mosley in character as Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot Theodore “T.C.” Calvin on “Magnum P.I.” was an unusual experience for young African Americans in the early 1980s. ![]() Magnum, P.I.: Paradise Blues (1984) : Killed in a car crash/explosion along with Leslie Uggams and Nick Dimitri when Leslie causes the car that Tony is driving to veer over a cliff while they are being chased by Tom Selleck and Roger E. ![]() Tony's corpse is seen shortly after when Burt Reynolds and Bernie Casey find him.
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