P.I.

She hosted beauty pageants and the Rose Parade and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, appeared on game shows, recurred on “General Hospital,” and made many guest appearances on episodic television, from “Magnum P.I.” to “The Drew Carey Show” to “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Lacking big themes, it’s not so much meat-and-potatoes television as fish and corn grilled over a camp fire, and on the prestige scale it sits somewhere between “Magnum P.I.” and “True Detective,” leaning toward the former.

He started his career in the mailroom at Universal and became a writer and producer for television shows like “Rockford Files” and “Magnum P.I.”

Even Charles’ goofier moments gleam with a satin elegance that scrapes against the no-nonsense manner of Estrada’s P.I.

“That’s an unusual way to start,” the “Magnum, P.I.” and “Blue Bloods” star admits in an interview.