Can't say I was a fan of Magnum (apart from the moustache, obviously). There have been very few performers in screen history to match Keaton. I wouldn't wish to compare to either of them, but the characters' relationships and growth is central to the series throughout. Overcoming selfishness is key at the end of this series, and the idea of them all being incomplete but in some senses complementary is all over it - key at the end of season 4, for instance.

Season 1, despite the overarching Master plot, is much more episodic than any of the others, much more monster-of-the-week. The character stuff accumulates, and is more foregrounded as it goes on.