Magnum PI does SEA

[Looper]

Just watching a weird and geographically challenged episode of Magnum PI.

They go to Cambodia to rescue an old Vietnam vet ex army buddy.

On the way they go to Bangkok first for some R'n'R and manage to get a boat up river from there to Cambodian jungle (?)

Love those shorts.

[Marmite the Dog]

Think about it; where does the programme come from?

[dirtydog]

Did they boat through Burma on the way

[genghis61]

In Phnom Penh last month and one of the cable channels seeemd to be the Chuck Norris channel, showing a dreadful series of CN movies - Braddock: Missing In Action 1, 2 and 3. He also takes a boat from Thailand to rescue MIAs in Vietnam.

this from Wiki

Missing in Action is a 1984 action B-movie directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. The film was followed by a prequel, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) and a sequel, Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988).

Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) is a U.S. Army officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 1 year ago. After the war, Braddock, now retired, accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner.
Braddock gets the evidence he needs then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck (M. Emmet Walsh), an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POWs from General Trau (James Hong).

Derek Adams of Time Out wrote that the film was "so bad that it defies belief. It's xenophobic, amateurish and extraordinarily dull". He also labeled it as "all-gooks-are-baddies propaganda".[7] On the film's AllMovie profile, Jeremy Beday described the film as a "crass, dopey Rambo-esque film that ultimately fails to connect with anything interesting in the realm of fact or fiction" and that its "chop-socky, shoot-em-up, explosion-a-minute action quickly wears thin".[8] Steve Crum of Video-Reviewmaster.com wrote that MIA was "Chuck Norris' best film, and that isn't saying much"