• 1973
  • 1h
The Magician

Summary The cases of a stage magician/escape artist who moonlights as an amateur crimefighter. View more details

  • 1973
  • 1h

The Magician

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Bill Bixby Keene Curtis Julian Christopher Joseph Sirola

All cast & crew

7.5

Details

Genres : Adventure Mystery Crime

Release date : Mar 16, 1973

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Stimson House - 2421 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Paramount Television B&B Productions

Summary The cases of a stage magician/escape artist who moonlights as an amateur crimefighter. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Mystery Crime

Release date : Mar 16, 1973

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Stimson House - 2421 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Paramount Television B&B Productions

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Episodes

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Mar 16, 1973
Pilot
A magician is asked by the mother of a plane-crash victim to check into a possible conspiracy; he discovers that the plane crash was staged.
Episode 1 • Oct 01, 1973
The Manhunters
Someone is trying to kill Max Pomeroy, Tony Blake's friend. The investigation leads Blake to an alcoholic lady gambler in distress and the plot thickens in a casino.
Episode 2 • Oct 08, 1973
The Vanishing Lady
When Julie Carter, the singer in Tony Blake's Vegas magic act and personal friend, is kidnapped in her dressing room, the magician has to race against time to save her.
Episode 3 • Oct 22, 1973
Illusion in Terror
A car accident sees Tony Blake's girlfriend Joanna taken by ambulance & soon pronounced dead but the body has vanished. Suspecting foul play, Blake investigates Joanna's past and what he finds endangers his own life.
Episode 4 • Oct 29, 1973
Lightning on a Dry Day
A hospital patient is spooked senseless by the fire in one of Tony's charity magic acts. His investigation into the young man's past leads him to a small town riddled with suspicious residents.
Episode 5 • Nov 05, 1973
Ovation for Murder
During a backyard party where Tony Blake performs, the magician witnesses a Greek man he rescued earlier shoot another man. Blake suspects he was impaired and arranges an elaborate illusion in a hospital to catch the real killer.
Episode 6 • Nov 19, 1973
Man on Fire
While arguing with her boyfriend, a woman falls down stairs and dies. The man is coerced into stuffing her body in a trunk and tossing it in a lake. Tony Blake gets involved when bad guys come after his new magic student, the man's son.
Episode 7 • Nov 26, 1973
Lady in a Trap
Out scuba diving, Tony Blake rescues a ditzy librarian he met earlier, whose boyfriend tossed her off his yacht with intention to kill. An antique Machiavelli book becomes the pivotal point of Blake's investigation.
Episode 8 • Dec 10, 1973
The Man Who Lost Himself
A man fleeing pursuers crashes into Tony Blake's stage, sending both of them to the hospital. The man wakes up amnesiac and Blake enlists his friends to help the man recover his memory.
Episode 9 • Dec 17, 1973
Nightmare in Steel
The husband of Tony Blake's clumsy new assistant has been kidnapped and is being forced to help hijack a tanker. Tony infiltrates the tanker to rescue the man and avert the crime before it's too late.
Episode 10 • Jan 07, 1974
Shattered Image
Tony Blake must protect a little girl who is targeted by her father's former mob associates. In the process, Tony attempts to clear the man's name who himself is on the run, framed for murder.
Episode 11 • Jan 13, 1974
The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit: Part I
Performing at the Magic Castle, Tony notices his ex-girlfriend in the audience, looking distraught. A man behind her is acting strange. Tony invites her onstage and makes her vanish but the bad guy is fast on their trail.
Episode 12 • Jan 20, 1974
The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit: Part II
When his attempt to free his ex-girlfriend from a cell fails, Tony has a confrontation with her ex-mobster father.
Episode 13 • Jan 27, 1974
The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady
When an attractive blonde claims to be the granddaughter of his recluse movie star friend, Tony Blake suspects an impostor, but still joins her in investigating Irene Denore's bizarre self-imposed isolation.
Episode 14 • Feb 03, 1974
The Illusion of the Queen's Gambit
Tony is performing on-board of the Queen Mary when masked robbers interrupt his act. His friend, Ed Cassidy, is blamed for the robbery and Tony Blake sets out to prove his innocence.
Episode 15 • Feb 10, 1974
The Illusion of Black Gold
Tony stages an elaborate illusion to fake the death of a defecting scientist who can extract oil from shale rock, but the scientist is kidnapped and auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Episode 16 • Feb 17, 1974
The Illusion of the Lost Dragon
In order to find a jade dragon which has been stolen from his very old friend in Chinatown, Tony will have to face a horrible death in a lava pit when the floor is literally taken from under him.
Episode 17 • Feb 24, 1974
The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate
Tony reconnects with a homeless old magician friend; the shelter where he's landed specializes in murdering the downtrodden for profit and it's up to the magician to rescue him before it's too late.
Episode 18 • Mar 03, 1974
The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow
In order to prevent further murders by a hitman who uses a bow and arrow, Tony partners with a psychic who accurately predicted the first victim's death.
Episode 19 • Mar 17, 1974
The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings
Someone is trying to kill a friend of Dominick's by detonating bombs and using marionettes and remote controlled toys. Tony's investigation brings him to a toy shop and he becomes the target of the mad man.
Episode 20 • Mar 24, 1974
The Illusion of the Cat's Eye
An insurance agent enlists Tony's help to investigate the "smoke and mirrors" theft of a highly guarded Egyptian cat statue.
Episode 21 • Apr 14, 1974
The Illusion of the Evil Spikes
A magician is killed during the filming of a highly risky magic trick. Tony takes on both the investigation and his friend's place in recreating the Table of Death illusion for the cameras.
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