Higgins is on the hit list of African Mau-Mau warriors who are seeking bloody revenge on all ex-British soldiers in Higgins' old regiment.
A young woman who persuades Magnum to look for her brother also finagles a role in Higgins' musical production for a visiting British politician.
John Hillerman, who stars as Higgins, also guest stars as Father Paddy MacGuiness, an impoverished Irish priest who is Higgins' illegitimate half-brother.
Magnum joins forces with a hard-nosed private eye from St. Louis whey they find themselves investigating the same case but from opposite ends of the spectrum.
Susan Johnson (played by Carol Burnett) is a bank teller who, desperate to hire Magnum, locks the two of them in a time-released bank vault.
