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15. Basket Case

T.C. and Magnum train their respective junior basketball teams for an upcoming game. T.C.'s team seems to have the advantage until Magnum meets a spunky young teenager with a great game and persuades her to join his team. Magnum and Higgins take a shine to the girl, but discover that her foster parents are criminals who are using her as a pawn in running their con games.

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T.C. and Magnum train their respective junior basketball teams for an upcoming game. T.C.'s team seems to have the advantage until Magnum meets a spunky young teenage girl named Willie ( Dana Hill ), with a great game and persuades her to join his team. Magnum and Higgins take a shine to the girl, but discover that her foster parents Bob ( William Schallert ) and Vera (Jo Pruden) are criminals who are using her as a pawn in running their con games.

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