P.I.

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.

Famously, his shooting schedule for “Magnum, P.I.” forced him to decline an offer to play Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” a part which went to Harrison Ford.