The Return of Luther Gillis

I agree with Mike and Robert; the character is irritating, and his task of providing old-timer cliché comic relief doesn't add anything pertinent to the series, which by Season 4 already seems to be trapped in a cycle of lazy goofiness and blatant similarities is plots. I can't count the number of little sisters and daughters trapped with meanies in faraway Hawaii, waiting to be rescued by a relative from the mainland with help from Thomas, or old friends who come back into the guys' lives with shady stories that very slowly unravel...

I hope the bar is raised at some point in this season, with comedy taking a backseat to dramatic action plots about Cold War intelligence and worldly crime bosses, as in many previous episodes.

And hopefully WITHOUT Luther.

I didn't like him in his first ep, and don't like him any better in the 2nd. For whatever reason, the character of Luther or the actor portraying him simply doesn't work for me.

I would agree with the first review that Luther Gillis, but he is a comic foil to Magnum, and throw in Luther's newphew who looks like a Pee Wee Herman 77 lbs weakling who refers to his uncle as Unk with a major studder, and they steal the show. The newphew actually nails his uncle for doing something wrong, and I will not go any further than that. I am 59 now, I was 22 when this episode was new, and had a long standing joke with my local aunt regarding my Unk. She was 48 and now 85 and every member of my central Ohio family loves to laugh. I suspect that most people do.