I should state right now that 'Billy Joe Bob' is my introduction to "Magnum P.I.". Not really sure why I didn't start from the show's beginning, but here we are. And it's a good episode, but a curious launching point for a second season; usually, that's when a show adopts its confidence, wrinkles smoothed out, ready to get the new season going.
There's action here, sure, with a punch-first-ask-later Texan strolling in in search of his missing sister. All signs point to her occupation as a well-to-do call girl, and murder at the hands of a drug-pushing pump. But it goes deeper than that as the police are secretly involved and the Texan's thirst for revenge threatens to blow the case.
But it's Magnum's having a heart and begrudgingly taking the case (in spite of its no-doubt bleak resolution) that sold me. If the show has more of this beyond just the Ferrari and exotic locations, then count me in.
7/10