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The Magician

TV·1973–1974·1 season, 21 episodes·NBC·Drama, Action & Adventure·1h·Created by Bruce Lansbury

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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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Episodes by season

Season0121Episodes1973–74AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01The Magician S01E01The ManhuntersOctober 2, 1973Someone attempts to take the life of writer Max Pomeroy, Tony Blake's friend. Upon investigation, Tony discovers an illegal gambling operati
  2. S01E02The Magician S01E02The Vanishing LadyOctober 9, 1973Magician Tony Blake discovers that Julie Carter, the singer who opens his stage illusion show in Las Vegas, has been kidnapped. Against her
  3. S01E03The Magician S01E03Illusion in TerrorOctober 23, 1973Tony'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 t
  4. S01E04The Magician S01E04Lightning on A Dry DayOctober 30, 1973When Tony makes his assistant vanish in a flash of fire during a charity performance at a mental hospital, one of the spectators (Star Wars'
  5. S01E05The Magician S01E05Ovation for MurderNovember 6, 1973After rehearsing for a benefit performance at the Los Angeles County Fair, Tony Blake spots a man being pummeled by two assailants. After re
  6. S01E06The Magician S01E06Man on FireNovember 20, 1973A woman who begins laughing hysterically when her boyfriend Paul proposes to her falls down a staircase after he shakes her. Matt Matthews,
  7. S01E07The Magician S01E07Lady in A TrapNovember 27, 1973Magician Anthony Blake is at the library to borrow a copy of a book on magic when a priceless Machiavelli manuscript is stolen. The thieves
  8. S01E08The Magician S01E08The Man who Lost HimselfDecember 11, 1973Magician Anthony Blake is setting up for a fund raising performance outside a church when a man, chased by two pursuers, stumbles onto the s
  9. S01E09The Magician S01E09Nightmare in SteelDecember 18, 1973A 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 hel
  10. S01E10The Magician S01E10Shattered ImageJanuary 8, 1974After 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 ab
  11. S01E11The Magician S01E11The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit (1)January 14, 1974Tony Blake has taken up residency at The Castle, an exclusive club for magicians, when his old girlfriend Janet Keegan comes to visit--not t
  12. S01E12The Magician S01E12The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit (2)January 21, 1974Tony Blake fails to rescue Janet from the jail in which the kidnappers are holding her. Soon he finds himself caught between the kidnappers
  13. S01E13The Magician S01E13The Illusion of the Stainless Steel LadyJanuary 28, 1974Irene Denore, a famous film actress of the silent era, is being held hostage in her own home by her ruthless business manager, Brad Nicholso
  14. S01E14The Magician S01E14The Illusion of the Queen's GambitFebruary 4, 1974Tony Blake is doing a benefit performance on a casino boat when a robbery takes place. As far as the police are concerned, the prime suspec
  15. S01E15The Magician S01E15The Illusion of Black GoldFebruary 11, 1974Tony Blake stages a real life illusion--making it appear that a Alexander Polchek, a scientist from the Soviet Union, is killed so that he c
  16. S01E16The Magician S01E16The Illusion of the Lost DragonFebruary 18, 1974Tony 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 c
  17. S01E17The Magician S01E17The Illusion of the Deadly ConglomerateFebruary 25, 1974In 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 ab
  18. S01E18The Magician S01E18The Illusion of the Fatal ArrowMarch 4, 1974Someone 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 ha
  19. S01E19The Magician S01E19The Illusion of the Lethal PlaythingsMarch 18, 1974Tony finds out someone is trying to blackmail a friend, wealthy Jackson Wyndham, for $500,000. They have already broken into Wyndham's home,
  20. S01E20The Magician S01E20The Illusion of the Cat's EyeMarch 25, 1974A 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
  21. S01E21The Magician S01E21The Illusion of the Evil SpikesApril 15, 1974Tony Blake is on the set of a movie watching his good magician friend perform the ""Spikes of Death"" escape when his friend is tragically k

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