Robin Masters

Robin Masters is a Personnage of fiction of the American televised series Magnum . Its characteristic is to be a Arlésienne, thus it almost never appears with the screen.

Biography

Robin Masters is an author of novels multi-millionaire, owner of a very beautiful villa where reside Magnum and Higgins. According to Magnum, in Especially not of snow in Hawaii - 1st part (1-1): he comes once or two per annum in its property, the remainder of time he lends it to friends . It also has other real goods (an apartment with Manhattan, a villa with Andros and a country cottage with Innsbruck) as well as the red Ferrari that led Magnum.

In 1979, it engages the Private detective Thomas Magnum to supervise his property. Following a bet, it accepts that this one lives in the house of guests and uses his car. From time to time, it calls upon him for special missions:

To take care on one of his/her old friends ( Mad Buck , eighth episode of the second season)
To protect a famous dancer ( Enter the dance (2-10))
To release the girl of a friend ( the captive one of the tower (2-16))
etc

Little information is given on personal life Robin Masters. Its nephew, R.J. Masters (interpreted by Donovan Touches) passes to a few days to the residence in the sorcerer's apprentice (6-12).

The Masters enigma

The Mystère which surrounds it generates much speculations concerning its exact identity. Towards the oddment, it is suggested that Higgins and Robin Masters would actually be only one and even nobody. However, in the general context of the series, of many intrigues of the preceding episodes call in question the logic of this assertion.

If Higgins is well it true Robin Masters, that was not formally revealed in Magnum . In the last episode, In the search of Lily - 2nd part , Higgins declares being Robin Masters, but right before the end, it makes volte-face curiously and acknowledges in Magnum that it lied to him, letting the televiewers wonder without end in which scene the Vérité is located.

Higgins : Magnum? You know what I said to you for Robin Masters?

Magnum : Yes?

Higgins : Poisson of April! I wanted to be quiet.

At the time of a scene of the small plagues (1-4), Higgins answers a phone call and calls its correspondent Mr. Masters , but this one is not shown with the screen. Moreover, in the snoopers (1-17), Thomas Magnum helps a man designated under the name of Robin Masters to get out of a helicopter which has just landed on the lawn of the property. In the same way, in the captive one of the tower , an young woman recalls that Robin Masters and Higgins often played failures with his father. In a stormy birth (3-22), a man is held close to Magnum in a room to the residence and both are confronted with a guest who drew several shots on a body extended on a bed, believer who it was about Masters. When it is confused by the two men, it is addressed to the other man while implying unambiguous who it is about Robin Masters. In another episode, an identified man as being Robin Masters is on an aircraft whereas at the same Higgins time returns towards the villa. In Takeover by force (6-14), Robin Masters lays off Higgins because it misses money in the accounts; Magnum telephones Robin for him to speak about it and the camera shows the back of the novelist who is lengthened on the side, on his bed, while an young woman dries her hair opposite him.

However, from the later episodes pass in addition to these disconcerting details to continue to maintain the doubt, such Ascenseur for nowhere (7-8), in which Higgins indicates the car fetish of Magnum as being its Ferrari and where it evokes memories and novels and not as Magnum underlines it: my memories and its novels . In another episode, Magnum shows Higgins to engage an actor to play the part of Robin Masters and thus to dissimulate its secret identity without waking up the suspicions.

The voice of Robin Masters is heard in only six episodes. The four first were doubled by Orson Welles ( the snoopers (1-17), a stormy birth (3-22), double Quitte or (4-7) and Chantage (5-10)) It is the first novel which Robin Masters wrote. It left in 1961 and is mentioned in Quitte or double (4-7) and the world is a theater (4-12).

Fruit off Passion : mentioned in the small plagues (1-4)
The Golden delicious Spike : mentioned in the snoopers (1-17)
Tahiti Kill (adapted out of film) is located at the north of Hawaii, close to a fictitious road entitled Kalakaua Kalakua Road . This site is mentioned on four occasions: the captive one of the tower (2-16), Illusion and reality (2-19), a stormy birth (3-22) and Reason of State (8-8). From a surface moreover 800.000 M ², surrounded by walls and barriers in Stucco, it extends from the mountains to the sea. However only 20.000 m ² are shown in the series and are beside the sea. It includes/understands the principal house, a house of guests separated, a private beach, courts of tennis, stables, a greenhouse, a Patio, a sea water swimming pool, an orchard and a house of guard.

Actually, it is much smaller (12 000 m ²), does not include/understand all these elements and is in 41-505 Kalanianaole Highway, in the south-east of the island of Oahu, between the towns of Waimanalo and Sea Life Park. At the time of the turning of the series and even so far, it belongs to Eve Glover Anderson, a local political personality.

However, practically all the indoor scenes (in the house of guests of Magnum and in the house of Master) were turned in studio in Hawaii.

The house of Master is the principal villa of the field, it was built in the form of " L" in 1933 in the architectural style Mediterranean Revival . This large house on two floors includes/understands at least 6 rooms to be laid down (thus 5 for the guests), a library, a dining room, a very roomy kitchen, a living room, an office, a darkroom, a basement with a cellar as well as an interior court. The exact number of the parts which the house contains is not specified in the series. A large balcony is also on the second floor. Only Higgins, the majordomo, lives with residence in the house of Master.

Small the appendix in the North-West of the field is the building used for outsides of the house of guests. This one constitutes the private districts of Magnum. It is same architectural style as the villa with walls in stucco and a covered balcony with half. It contains a principal big room with an extremely high ceiling, a room to be slept with a bathroom and a small kitchen which is slightly elevated compared to the remainder.

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List of the episodes of Magnum

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Robin Masters

Biography

The Masters enigma

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