The cases of a stage magician/escape artist who moonlights as an amateur crimefighter.
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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 ...
A magician is killed during the filming of a highly risky magic trick. Blake takes on both the investigation and his friend's place in recreating the Table of Death illusion for the cameras.
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| Bill Bixby | ... | Anthony Blake / ... 22 episodes, 1973-1974 | |
| Julian Christopher | ... | Jerry Anderson / ... 22 episodes, 1973-1974 | |
| Keene Curtis | ... | Max Pomeroy 12 episodes, 1973-1974 | |
| Joseph Sirola | ... | Dominick 11 episodes, 1974 | |
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Cami Sebring | ... | Kathy / ... 11 episodes, 1973-1974 |
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Mark Wilson | ... | Mark Wilson / ... 9 episodes, 1974 |
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Anthony Blake is a very compassionate and wealthy magician, who uses his talents as an illusionist and escape artist to help people in trouble. Max Pomeroy, a friend who is a syndicated columnist, describes him as "One of the few individuals in this age of numbness, who can still regard the suffering of a fellow human being as his own." He is motivated to help because he had been falsely imprisoned in South America for espionage. Written by C. Rohnacher <ARSU14A@prodigy.com>
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Although Todd Crespi plays a paraplegic as recurring character Dennis Pomeroy, he was perfectly ambulatory in real life. See more »
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Despite some plots that didn't quite measure up, the show had cool factor, and charm as only the great Bill Bixby could deliver. Additionally, the series is unique in its premise, if not in its mysteries.
Bixby did a great job of performing Mark Wilson's magic. Wilson was a popular professional magician who had his own TV show in the 60s. While I don't see it listed on this site, I distinctly remember what I believe to have been a 30 minute Saturday morning series where he rescued his beautiful assistant from bad guys each show - of course using his magic each week.
If you like magic, or Bill Bixby, or especially both (like me), keep an eye out for this. Since it only ran one season, once in a rare while a cable channel will run a marathon of the entire series.
ETA: The series is now available on DVD, as of sometime in 2017, I believe.