TV Series · 1973

The Magician

60 min · Drama, Action & Adventure · Ended

Composite

6.3

IMDb

7.5 / 10

751 votes

TMDB

6.8 / 10

13 votes

Local

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No votes

Synopsis

The Magician is an American television series that ran during the 1973–1974 season. It starred Bill Bixby as stage illusionist Anthony "Tony" Blake, a playboy philanthropist who used his skills to solve difficult crimes as needed. In the series pilot, the character was instead named Anthony Dorian. The name change was due to a conflict with the name of a real life stage magician.

Cast

Bill Bixby

Anthony Blake

Joseph Sirola

Dominick

Keene Curtis

Max Pomeroy

Julian Christopher

Jerry Anderson

Seasons & episodes

Season 1 (1 ep)

21. The Illusion of the Evil Spikes

Apr 15, 1974 · 60 min

Tony Blake is on the set of a movie watching his good magician friend perform the ""Spikes of Death"" escape when his friend is tragically killed. Tony is asked to perform the illusion for the still-unfinished picture since he is the only other magician who can do so. Tony agrees because he wants to help the owner of the movie studio and wishes to find out what went wrong with the escape when his friend was performing it in front of the cameras. Tony finds out the escape equipment had been tampered with by a studio stagehand who is trying to sabotage the making of the movie, so the movie studio will fail and have to sell the studio lot. But who is behind it all?