Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)

Mad Buck Gibson (1981)

Darren McGavin: Buck Gibson

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• Mad Buck Gibson : I was always afraid of dying. But now, death has screwed up. He's overplayed his hand. You see, it's the only thing that we're really afraid of in death. We know it's inevitable, we just don't know when. But now, don't you see, now I know that death can't cheat me of life, can't cheat me of really, truly living a full life. Because... now I don't have to hold back something to save for tomorrow or the next year or for next summer. Now I know that there never will be another summer. I know there will never be another morning quite as glorious such as this. You see I won. Because I've nothing to lose.

• TC : Yeah, yeah, so anyway, my next favorite one was 'Dagger of the Scorpion'.

  Mad Buck Gibson : Oh.

  TC : That's where the guy gets the girl in the bathtub...

  Rick : [interrupting]  Yeah!

  TC : Yeah, yeah, yeah...

  Rick : Yeah, yeah, yeah and she gives him the mickey! Hey Buck, can you really make a mickey out of asperin, baking soda and aftershave lotion?

  Mad Buck Gibson : Pal, you give me a medicine cabinet and I can make a mickey out of anything.

• Mad Buck Gibson : What's a pal for if not to see a pal off, hm?

• Mad Buck Gibson : You know the last time I saw her namesake, we were up in Tarchello up in the Italian alps near Yugoslavia. She was entertaining the troups and I was covering the Big Bang for old uncle Henry Lewis... It seems like yesterday about two hundred years ago.

• TC : Eh, you know, I know you get tired of hearing this, but I've read all of your books.

  Mad Buck Gibson : Oh come on, not all...

  TC : All twenty-seven. My favorite is 'Curse of the Aztec Goddess'.

  Mad Buck Gibson : Right.

  TC : I mean you're sort of an inspiration to me, because I've sort of working on something of my own. You know, maybe when I finish a chapter, you'd read it?

  Mad Buck Gibson : Oh yeah, you got it, BC.

  TC : TC.