The Magician

Name: The Magician
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure
Released: 1973-10-02
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Bill Bixby, Joseph Sirola, Keene Curtis, Julian Christopher

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DramaAction & Adventure

Creator:Bruce Lansbury

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.

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Details

StatusEnded

First AiredOctober 2, 1973

Last AiredApril 15, 1974

Episode Runtime1sa

Seasons1

Episodes21

TypeScripted

Origin CountryUnited States

Original LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

Keywords

magic crime investigation

Production Companies

B&B Productions

Networks

Last Episode

S1 E21 • 4/15/1974

The Illusion of the Evil Spikes

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?