hi Tom nice to see you oh hi Dave how's the show going well you know it's a tough time
slot oh yeah Thursdays at eight o'clock at uh what's his name Cosby whoo yeah sitting
still though we're making some changes yeah yeah well you know the show's been on a few
years we want to keep it fresh and yeah oh Dave here come here meet my new TV family
hi Magnums Bunch wow I don't get it well we're kind of moving out of action in the warm family
comedy do you have a like have you thought about a complete neurological workup I mean
a really good doctor my first guest made a total fool of himself on this program a few
months ago
he uh he submerged his head in a tub of water and did motorboat Impressions and things like
that uh I'm not sure if it affected his career or not too much he is the star of a program
on another Network called Magnum PI please welcome a very very nice man in a good sport
Tom Selleck
thank you
you want to take a shot it's up there with a decaling oh not even close try one more
try one more let me hold it well that's a handsome oh my God can we show this now yeah
sure oh oh boy oh my God I'd hit on the show but uh yeah we have tricks all right can we
show them the mug now or you want to save it sure boy that's a that's beautiful
that's uh and and what would it what would a person pay for one of those thousands and
thousands of dollars as you can see on the bottom Dave it says sample that is a sample
now why is that a sample see when Magnum was hot no no no no no no no no no no early on
about the second year they I suppose they have approval of what they merchandise so
they can't use your likeness name or likeness yeah that's what it says anyway so they sent
me over these pictures of this mug with a bamboo shaft coming out of my head and everything
it's really nice and I said I can't have them do that but I really wanted one so I said
Gee it's an idea I'm sure I'd like could you make me up one and and I'm sure I'll approve
it and they said well that'd be very expensive I said well just do one and it's just a first
amending so so they made it up and I said no so this is this is the only Magna mug in
existence and it's really nice and tasteful as you can all see so that that really is
a collector's item if somebody would uh we're so inclined no not not that I want it but
you know I'm sure someone might uh but you know actually as as stuff like that goes that's
not that's not the worst it could be pretty bad um since then they stopped asking me yeah
yeah they just they just kind of forget and things come out and I call them up myself
we forgot to get your approval Tom but it's already been out now do you see yourself like
on lunch boxes and uh shopping bags and uh mostly uh iridescent stamps yeah they kind
of glow in the dark I've seen those and stick on things because then you can stick them
on a lunchbox or anything yeah now do you get a little uh piece out of that I've gotten
a huge piece I've gotten one check I got it about in the fourth year now three thousand
dollars is a lot of money yeah but not for the merchandising on a television show that
was in the top ten for a long time so uh so the stuff it didn't move now where do you
think that they are hiding something from you no no you're probably right it probably
did move and they're they're hiding it from you they have special accounting procedures
as you well know yeah uh now do you have attorneys looking into this no well you better they're
paying me enough for this show see now that's the spirit that's why people like you you're
a nice guy you're a reasonable sword you're not one of these naughty stuck up and Annie
said I had no case oh I see now uh the last time you were here we went over there and
you stuck your head in a tub of water you're not mad well good I'm not resentful I mean
people said don't go on the show he'll rip you apart I came on I did something stupid
which I wanted to do you didn't ask me no but it was very enjoyable we all like I had
a great time yeah and there's just no hard feelings at all I just I did a a little videotape
about a year ago because somebody wanted to see what a typical day was like on the set
and then when we did your show by the way we were number 15 in the ratings that's great
now we're number 38. Oblivion
yeah um how long has your show been on the air this is our sixth year sixth year well
I mean that's already strong yeah it's a long time it's a good spot it's probably a temporary
little just a plateau you've hit don't you think yeah
probably anyway so I just made this little videotape of what you know naturally the budgets
are going to be cut and things change a little bit so I did a typical day before I did your
show and now that we're finished oh I see so we have something showing your life before
and after now do we have time to see it now or you want to do a commercial we'll do a
commercial and oh this would be good so people come back and watch this oh good yeah we have
to pause here for a second we'll be right over here take another shot at the sky please
thank you all right Tom Shelley yeah [Music] Dave uh we're gonna take a look at this videotape
but it just occurred to me before I came out here somebody mentioned that you had an announcement
you were you may or may not make on this show is that is that true or was that not true
just that I arrived at in New York this morning at uh no no I heard that this was a a big
announcement that's about it you felt that you needed to get on the network I needed
time what do we hear about this that he was going to make an announcement The Daily News
the largest circulation of any newspaper in the Free World The Daily News said that he
had an announcement to make something about your subscription I think yeah and I told
him that I'm sorry but the studio can't afford the five subscriptions and we'll cut it down
for two all right so we've been duped is that the deal yeah all right well let's take a
look at let's take a look at your videotape oh well that you know as I said I mean what
would the announcement have been though what would
it
in the show that we did in the I mean I didn't know you were going to ask me this Dave well
I was one of our uh staff members mentioned it to me as I came out that basically that
the changes in Magnum are coming and I think we gave our the viewers a preview of what
is to come on so you're weaseling out of this aren't you no I just didn't have any
studs and they made Morty what was the announcement there you go no I'm not getting married
where's the guy from The Daily News oh he's on the phone are you sure it was the Daily
News it just could have been it could have been Gumball trying to screw us up hey are
you Is that real I mean are you guys really mad I have nothing but the highest regard
for the man in his show for some reason he doesn't like us well you know something I
mean I used to sell Brian clothes
that's true it Felts meager in the in the valley in Los Angeles yeah yeah and I used
to sell him clothes he was uh doing very well at the local network and I wasn't yeah and
uh he used to come in and tell me show business stories maybe I could bring you guys together
could you Tom yeah [Applause] well let's get the daily news on the phone and uh uh well
enough about that but you you're not getting married no not in not in the next 20 minutes
yeah and while I'm in there and also it's not the kind of thing you want to go and announce
on television anyway is it no no you're not like that um a football player so they did
that oh yeah mad Rashad proposed to it you know it's an old hat now it's getting done
yeah yeah well I would have announced it but yeah all right um so we're gonna look at this
video table oh yeah yeah yeah this is kind of a before and after doing your show okay
this is Tom Selleck's shot in and around where you do your show yeah this is what a typical
day shooting is like on our show let's enjoy this together shall we in the traffic
you're wonderful time
good morning Mike well 10 a.m sharp good morning Mr Sonic so we had to bring you in so early
today oh that's all right
this is my mobile dressing room it isn't much but we call it home well I better go outside
they're all waiting for me and I have to go to work you wonderful time oh thank you Robin
hi Tom Charles and the staff just wanted to say good night oh thanks Jerry shall I just
go right in why don't you go right in there waiting for you okay hi guys
all right it's so embarrassed when you do that every day [Music] what time would you
like to come to work in the morning oh I don't know Charles whatever is best for you oh anytime
you want to do it thank you here Tom oh thank you Reuben here you go been working really
hard on the rewrite time I I hope you like it I I think it's pretty good oh thanks Chris
I'll just pick it up in the morning I'm gonna go home and get ready for tomorrow's work
and then I did the Lettermen show
very nice
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] morning Mike good morning I see some ID please sure I think
I got some somewhere here
um
as you can see Dave um there's been a few changes here hi Robin hi Jerry I just came
by to say good night everyone [Music] [Applause]
[Music]
that's tough
that was very funny well you know I
put it together and then I saw your Film Festival uh Sunday and and got second thoughts but
I brought it in no that was very nice thank you very much tell me about going to the uh
the White House for the princess guy and uh uh Charles reception that was kind of fun
I mean it was it was bizarre I was a little nervous but uh I got invited and all I had
to do was was fly for 22 hours on a weekend that's relaxing it was very relaxing it's
refreshing I was at Washington for nine hours and uh back on the plane back on the plane
and back to work did you did you did you meet the obviously I'm at the the two I met them
in in the reception line and that was brief we had the prince and I didn't know what to
say yeah what did he say he said uh are you acting away furiously and I of course
and uh then I met her and I I'm a big fan she's an attractive woman a handsome woman
comely all of those things yeah now you you uh what about the big dance you go to the
dance well they had right afterwards it was a Dance I mean we in the White House and and
they started it out I mean she was dancing with John Travolta and he was winging her
you know all over the floor that's so cheap isn't it
and all these that's right I hate it these very sophisticated people are standing around
in a circle I mean they weren't clapping like at a sock hop but but they were watching so
one of the White House aides they have these little minions who run around and to make
the party go they said dance with the first lady that's what the first lady said I can't
I mean she said I mean John Travolta's out there dancing he gets paid to do that and
I can't do that I said maybe when something's it was to Saturday Night Fever I mean what
was I gonna do
oh I found out later because I danced with Nancy you did dance with her now see I would
be like that he's close yeah Nancy's great and she sung in my ear I can't remember the
song but it was great
in your ears yeah I mean I've I mean I've talked to Nancy two three times now and singing
in your ear yeah and she said this is my kind of song and I wish I could remember the name
I can't yeah so anyway I said when they play something slower I will so the second song
they said they didn't say go dancer the first day I said dance with the princess there you
go no I mean I said what and anyway I I hesitated and John travolt to ask her to dance again
oh this guy unbelievable
he's just screwing up the courage to ask her to dance and he danced again and all of a
sudden the one of the aides says you've got to cut in now because two dances would probably
be gossip yeah so I cut in and it was I immediately slowed down the tempo so something that had
nothing to do with what was being played was she [Laughter] ratted out of ballroom dancing
my older brother went and I saw the pain he went through and I just said but now how was
she was she uh she must have been fun
princess this is Royal Well no I understand it but I mean she 'd light on her feet and
yet the an armful well I was a [ __ ] I mean because of my lack of formal train I
mean I don't really know how to do is take about two steps and dip and you can't do that
with a princess no so I just kind of I apologize the whole dance is really I said I'm sorry
and she said it was nice because I was so tall because she's about five ten and she
doesn't dance as close but I got my arm around her trim a little waste yeah and uh and we
held hands and we danced and and she said that uh I was a big item in England still
well that's nice boy oh boy Tom
all right um he is nice to see you again and oh I'm sorry good luck moving good luck moving
those mugs but I'm gonna have second thoughts on this and they still may have the most load
it up and take one more shot uh this of course is Tom Selleck the star of Magnum PI seen
on another Network we'll pause here briefly for station identification and then we'll
be right back [Applause]