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.
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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E1 · The Manhunters
Someone attempts to take the life of writer Max Pomeroy, Tony Blake's friend. Upon investigation, Tony discovers an illegal gambling operation that Max is about to testify against before a grand jury.…
E2 · The Vanishing Lady
Magician Tony Blake discovers that Julie Carter, the singer who opens his stage illusion show in Las Vegas, has been kidnapped. Against her fiance's wishes, Tony gets involved in trying to rescue the …
E3 · Illusion in Terror
Tony's girlfriend is apparently run down in a parking garage, but nobody will give him a straight answer as to which hospital the body was taken. When a mysterious uncle suddenly claims the body, Tony…
When Tony makes his assistant vanish in a flash of fire during a charity performance at a mental hospital, one of the spectators (Star Wars' Mark Hamill) becomes hysterical. Tony learns that the boy w…
E5 · Ovation for Murder
After rehearsing for a benefit performance at the Los Angeles County Fair, Tony Blake spots a man being pummeled by two assailants. After rescueing him in his Corvette, Tony discovers that the victim,…
E6 · Man on Fire
A woman who begins laughing hysterically when her boyfriend Paul proposes to her falls down a staircase after he shakes her. Matt Matthews, a supposed friend, photographs Paul as he carries the body o…
E7 · Lady in A Trap
Magician Anthony Blake is at the library to borrow a copy of a book on magic when a priceless Machiavelli manuscript is stolen. The thieves are caught but the manuscript is not recovered. The libraria…
Magician Anthony Blake is setting up for a fund raising performance outside a church when a man, chased by two pursuers, stumbles onto the stage, trips over a piece of the rigging, and causes a scaffo…
E9 · Nightmare in Steel
A band of modern-day pirates is seeking to hijack a tanker ship for its $4 million worth of fuel. They have coerced a merchant seaman to help them by kidnapping his wife, who had just gotten a role as…
E10 · Shattered Image
After a magic class Tony Blake teaches, A carnival performer comes up to tell Tony about a little girl in his care--she seems to be upset about something. Tony discovers that the girl's father is in h…
E11 · The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit (1)
Tony Blake has taken up residency at The Castle, an exclusive club for magicians, when his old girlfriend Janet Keegan comes to visit--not to get back together with him, but because she is being pursu…
E12 · The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit (2)
Tony Blake fails to rescue Janet from the jail in which the kidnappers are holding her. Soon he finds himself caught between the kidnappers, who have put out a contract on Janet, and her own father, …
E13 · The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady
Irene Denore, a famous film actress of the silent era, is being held hostage in her own home by her ruthless business manager, Brad Nicholson, who is slowly bleeding her dry of her fortune. Meanwhile,…
E14 · The Illusion of the Queen's Gambit
Tony Blake is doing a benefit performance on a casino boat when a robbery takes place. As far as the police are concerned, the prime suspect in the crime is Tony's friend, boat operator Ed Cassidy (p…
E15 · The Illusion of Black Gold
Tony Blake stages a real life illusion--making it appear that a Alexander Polchek, a scientist from the Soviet Union, is killed so that he can be given a new identity. Thanks to a leak, however, a ban…
E16 · The Illusion of the Lost Dragon
Tony gets involved in a mystery of a stolen Chinese heirloom. A sculpture of a dragon is missing, and when Tony starts to get close to the culprits he gets a karate chop for his trouble! Looks like To…
E17 · The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate
In this episode, Tony is contacted by an old Magician Friend who is down on his luck, living out of a shelter. Apparently he is concerned about someone else who turned up missing from a local shelter,…
E18 · The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow
Someone is going around killing people with, of all things, a bow & arrow. Stranger still, a psychic sees it all in her mind's eye...and has to tell someone. That someone is her good friend Tony Blak…
E19 · The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings
Tony finds out someone is trying to blackmail a friend, wealthy Jackson Wyndham, for $500,000. They have already broken into Wyndham's home, projected a bizarre puppet show in his private movie theatr…
E20 · The Illusion of the Cat's Eye
A statue of an Egyptian cat on display in a museum is this episode's main attraction. It is believed by the Egyptians that incarnated inside the statue of the Ramses Cat is an Egyptian god. They also …
E21 · 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-u…
