The 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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Created By	Bruce Lansbury
Status	Ended
Original Name	The Magician
First Air Date	October 2, 1973
Last Air Date	April 15, 1974
Seasons	1
Episodes	21
Episode Runtime	1h 0min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	—
Production Companies	Paramount Television B&B Productions
Networks	NBC

S01E21

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?

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