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.
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.
John Hillerman, who stars as Higgins, also guest stars as Father Paddy MacGuiness, an impoverished Irish priest who is Higgins' illegitimate half-brother.
A young woman who persuades Magnum to look for her brother also finagles a role in Higgins' musical production for a visiting British politician.
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.
