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The Magician

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The Magician	label	The Magician
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The Magician	comment	The Magician is an American television series that ran on NBC during the 1973â€“74 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 named Anthony Dorian; the name was changed due to a conflict with the name of a real life stage magician.Blake was a professional stage magician who used his skills to solve crimes and help the helpless. Years earlier, Blake had been in prison on a trumped-up espionage charge in an unnamed country in South America. He discovered a way to escape with his cellmate, which began his interest in escapology. The cellmate died and left him a fortune. The escape, apparently followed by exoneration from the false charges that had led to it, led to Blake's pursuit of a career in stage magic, which made him famous. He never forgot his unjust imprisonment, and it motivated him to seek justice for others. Blake frequently received assistance from acerbic columnist Max Pomeroy, Max's brilliant but wheelchair-bound son Dennis, his assistant and pilot Jerry, and later Magic Castle owner Dominic.
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The Magician / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Magician / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: "The Illusion of Black Gold" features a reclusive oil billionaire named Victor Paradine who no one has seen in person in years. The character is very heavily based on Howard Hughes.
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The Magician / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
The Magician / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: In "The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings", a Wicked Toymaker sends a warning to his intended by firing off a vintage hand-cranked Gatling gun in his weapon collection via remote control.
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The Magician / int_1305f045	type	Vanity License Plate
The Magician / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: Tony drives a white Corvette with the licence plate 'SPIRIT'.
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The Magician / int_14aa871a	type	Improvised Zipline
The Magician / int_14aa871a	comment	Improvised Zipline: In "The Illusion of Black Gold", Tony uses a pair of handcuffs he had earlier taken from the prisoner he was rescuing to slide down a guywire to the ground, carrying the prisoner on his back.
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The Magician / int_1d8f9329	type	Deadly Bath
The Magician / int_1d8f9329	comment	Deadly Bath: In "Lady in a Trap", the thief who masterminded the theft of a rare book is drowned in his bath by the Dirty Cop who arrives to collect the loot.
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The Magician / int_1e7f218c	type	Drowning Pit
The Magician / int_1e7f218c	comment	Drowning Pit: In "Nightmare in Steel", one of the bad guys attempts to murder Tony's Lovely Assistant by sabotaging the lock on the glass tank being used for a water escape trick.
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The Magician / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
The Magician / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: In "The Vanishing Lady", a kidnapper is fleeing from Blake when he trips and falls over the edge of a catwalk. Blake grabs him by the foot and refuses to haul him up till he tells him where the missing woman is being held.
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The Magician / int_283d8c21	type	Forklift Fu
The Magician / int_283d8c21	comment	Forklift Fu: In "Nightmare in Steel", the villains attempt to dispose of Tony by running him down with a forklift loaded with drums.
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The Magician / int_29942324	type	ConArtist
The Magician / int_29942324	comment	In "Man on Fire", a female Con Artist stages a Staircase Tumble to convince her boyfriend that he has killed her. Her partner then arranges to dispose of the 'body', so he can blackmail the mark into handing over industrial secrets.
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The Magician / int_2b32a3a1	type	Under the Truck
The Magician / int_2b32a3a1	comment	Under the Truck: In "The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings", Tony is being chased by a model plane loaded with plastique. He escapes by driving his low-slung Corvette under the trailer of a fuel tanker. The plane slams into the side of the tanker and explodes.
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The Magician / int_2b5c636d	type	How Unscientific!
The Magician / int_2b5c636d	comment	How Unscientific!: "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow" features a woman with genuine psychic abilities: the only example of anything genuinely paranormal in the whole series.note The episode was made in the early 70s when parapsychology was an emerging field of huge interest in popular science
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The Magician / int_2d9e89f7	type	We Help the Helpless
The Magician / int_2d9e89f7	comment	We Help the Helpless: Tony is independently wealthy, and will freely use his skills to aid anyone he thinks is facing injustice. (After the Retool, this conceit is pretty much forgotten, and Tony mostly only helps friends.)
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The Magician / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
The Magician / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: In "Shattered Image", a mobster attempts to threaten Tony only to find that Tony had lifted his automatic off him earlier. When Tony hands it back, he points it at Tony. Tony then says that to fire one of those, you need one of these and holds up the clip. The mobster grabs the clip and leaves. As he does so, Tony opens his hand and lets the bullets spill out on the bar.
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The Magician / int_3056adad	type	Witness Protection
The Magician / int_3056adad	comment	Witness Protection: In "Illusion in Terror", Tony's Girl of the Week turns out to be in witness protection. After her photo appears in the paper, syndicate hitmen turn up looking to kill her.
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The Magician / int_31362f50	type	Hollywood Fire
The Magician / int_31362f50	comment	Hollywood Fire: In "Illusion in Terror", Tony is locked inside a burning barn but seems to suffer no ill effects from the heat. And while there is some smoke, there is not nearly enough.
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The Magician / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
The Magician / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: In "Ovation for Murder", Albie is sent to prison after only being accused of murder. There is no indication of arraignment, bail, or a trial.
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The Magician / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
The Magician / int_33576bdb	comment	The Sheriff: Sheriff Platt in "Lightning on a Dry Day" is the "typical" small-town sheriff. It is clear from his introduction that he knows about Town with a Dark Secret's secret. Averted because at the end he turns against the mastermind, Eleanor Gilpin.
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The Magician / int_399b3dbe	type	Money to Throw Away
The Magician / int_399b3dbe	comment	Money to Throw Away: Tony does it in "The Man Who Lost Himself". Having grabbed the stolen loot from the bad guys, he releases the bundles into the wind, forcing the crooks to stop chasing him in order to grab it. He actually pockets the real cash and releases bundles of stage money to distract them.
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The Magician / int_3a41f8f9	type	Rare Money
The Magician / int_3a41f8f9	comment	Rare Money: In "The Man Who Lost Himself", three crooks seem to be going to extreme lengths to discover the location of the relatively small sum of $24,000 stolen in a military payroll heist in Hawaii during World War II. It turns out the cash is in the form of so-called 'Aloha money'; money overprinted with the word 'Hawaii' in case the Japanese overran Hawaii. Now valuable collectors' items, the $24,000 in uncirculated bills is worth $1.6 million.
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The Magician / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
The Magician / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: A hitman knocks Blake out by rapping him over the back of the head with a pistol in "Illusion in Terror".
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The Magician / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
The Magician / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: Wheelchair-bound Dennis Pomeroy is a super-genius of sorts, being Max and Tony's computer hacker and researcher.
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The Magician / int_400b9d22	type	Sunglasses at Night
The Magician / int_400b9d22	comment	Sunglasses at Night: One of the bad guys in "The Man Who Lost Himself" constantly wears sunglasses, even while creeping around a darkened hospital at night. It becomes even more ridiculous when he and his partner start shooting out the lights so they can escape. In "The Illusion of the Cat's Eye", Tony wears sunglasses while driving at night.
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The Magician / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Magician / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: In "The Illusion of the Queen's Gambit", the robbers do this when they take over the casino. They announce what they have done just as Jerry is picking up a phone to call for help.
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The Magician / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
The Magician / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: Used as part of a Frame-Up in "Ovation for Murder": allowing a hitman to impersonate the patsy and commit murder in plain sight.
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The Magician / int_4b7364d	type	Dead Man Honking
The Magician / int_4b7364d	comment	Dead Man Honking: In "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", Tony fakes his death by Animal Assassin by slumping forward in his car, his head on the steering wheel and the horn blaring.
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The Magician / int_4e95743e	type	Cutlery Escape Aid
The Magician / int_4e95743e	comment	Cutlery Escape Aid: At the start of "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", a reclusive movie star being held prisoner by her shady business manager has used a spoon to prise the mortar loose from between several bricks and remove the bricks. After being caught, her jailer tells her that from now on she will be eating with a plastic spoon.
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The Magician / int_4ebb6d16	type	Lava Pit
The Magician / int_4ebb6d16	comment	Lava Pit: The Chinese warlord in "The Illusion of the Lost Dragon" has a lava pit concealed beneath the floor of the corridor leading to his inner sanctum. Anyone attempting to intrude has a limited time to solve the puzzle lock on the door before the slowly opening floor dumps them in the lava.
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The Magician / int_4f243887	type	Magician Detective
The Magician / int_4f243887	comment	Magician Detective: Blake uses his skills as an illusionist and escapologist to solve crimes as needed.
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The Magician / int_51566669	type	Auction of Evil
The Magician / int_51566669	comment	Auction of Evil: In "The Illusion of Black Gold", kidnappers attempt to auction off a kidnapped scientist who has developed a process for extracting oil from shale.
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The Magician / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
The Magician / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: The villain in "The Illusion of the Lost Dragon" is a descendant of warlords who used to rule Szechuan Province, and regards anything that originates from there as his property. This includes demanding daughters of Chinese immigrants as tribute. Although he mentions that he is of mixed race (presumably to explain why the white actor playing him does not look Chinese) he dresses in ancient Chinese armour, and lives in a palace surrounded by Chinese servants.
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The Magician / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Magician / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: In "Lightning on a Dry Day", the real villain, Mrs. Gilpin, offers guests tea and cookies and remains affable throughout even when revealed as the mastermind.
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The Magician / int_54adb6a3	type	Staircase Tumble
The Magician / int_54adb6a3	comment	Staircase Tumble: In "Man on Fire", a female Con Man fakes a fatal staircase tumble as part of a plot to convince the mark that he is a murderer.
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The Magician / int_56352cc6	type	Animal Assassin
The Magician / int_56352cc6	comment	Animal Assassin: In "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", the bad guys attempt to dispose of Tony by placing a rattlesnake in his car. In "The Illusion of the Cat's Eye", the female antagonist uses a trained leopard to kill her victims and simulate an ancient Egyptian curse.
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The Magician / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
The Magician / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: In "Lightning on a Dry Day", the local toughs in a Town with a Dark Secret slash the tires on Tony's Corvette in an attempt to intimidate him into leaving town. As The Sheriff points out to them, this just makes him more determined to stay. The bad guys shoot out the tires of Tony's Corvette to prevent from escaping in "The Man Who Lost Himself".
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The Magician / int_58bf7895	type	Eat the Evidence
The Magician / int_58bf7895	comment	Eat the Evidence: In "Lady in the Trap", the Girl of the Week grabs the piece of paper containing the location of the body and eats it as the Villain of the Week is trying to read it.
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The Magician / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
The Magician / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Nearly turns deadly when Tony uses the vents to sneak into a supposedly abandoned restaurant in "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate". The bar he is holding on to as he peers out the vent snaps and he slides down into the central and only just manages to catch himself; leaving him hanging above a Deadly Rotary Fan.
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The Magician / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Magician / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: The mastermind in "The Manhunters" plunges to his death when he is washed over a spillway while trying to escape from Blake.
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The Magician / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
The Magician / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: In "Nightmare in Steel", the Ruthless Modern Pirates use anesthetic pistols which cause instantaneous knockout when they hijack the cargo ship.
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The Magician / int_5c3206a	type	Ransacked Room
The Magician / int_5c3206a	comment	Ransacked Room: In "The Magician - Pilot", Blake visits Francine's apartment in search of Mary Rose. He finds the apartment ransacked and Francine beaten up on the floor. Francine's dazed words send him to a houseboat, only to find the bad guys have beaten him to it, with the houseboat ransacked and Mary Rose missing.
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The Magician / int_5f60aadd	type	Deadly Remote Control Toy
The Magician / int_5f60aadd	comment	Deadly Remote Control Toy: In "The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings'', Tony is chased along a country road by a remote control plane packed with plastique. He eventually manages to escape it by driving Under the Truck. The plane slams into the side of the truck and explodes.
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The Magician / int_5f8e4390	type	Belly Dancer
The Magician / int_5f8e4390	comment	Belly Dancer: In "The Vanishing Lady", Blake visits a witness who runs a belly dancing school. There seems to be no reason for her to have this particular occupation beyond Fanservice.
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The Magician / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Magician / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: In "The Vanishing Lady", a singer is kidnapped and a million dollar ransom demanded from her agent/boyfriend.
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The Magician / int_66eb63b1	type	Brandishment Bluff
The Magician / int_66eb63b1	comment	Brandishment Bluff: In "Lady in a Trap", Tony is able to bluff a Dirty Cop into handcuffing himself to a radiator by convincing him he has a gun aimed at him under the desk.
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The Magician / int_6861146e	type	Epiphany Therapy
The Magician / int_6861146e	comment	Epiphany Therapy: In "Lightning on a Dry Day", Ian recovers from the acute mental trauma of seeing a man burn to death, in what is a very short period of time after Tony returns him to the institute. The doctor finding out what Ian saw was enough to cure him.
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The Magician / int_708cabf8	type	Sleeping Dummy
The Magician / int_708cabf8	comment	Sleeping Dummy: Tony leaves a dummy made out of balloons in the cot when he escapes from a jail cell in "Lady in a Trap".
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The Magician / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Magician / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: In "The Vanishing Lady", a kidnapped singer uses the phrase "chin up" when allowed to speak on the phone to prove she is alive. Blake thinks it was an odd thing for her to say and is sure it is a clue. Dennis's research skills eventually turn up a meaning.
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The Magician / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
The Magician / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", two hobos with baseball bats attempt to rough Tony up. He manages to grab the bat off one of them and turn the tables.
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The Magician / int_78848a7b	type	Harmless Lady Disguise
The Magician / int_78848a7b	comment	Harmless Lady Disguise: In "The Illusion of Black Gold", three bikers disguise themselves as old ladies to crash a funeral parlour and stage a kidnapping.
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The Magician / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
The Magician / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: The two-part "The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit" begins when a previously unseen ex-girlfriend of Tony's arrives on his doorstep being chased by gangsters. Confusing matters is that on-screen dialogue establishes they broke up a year ago, before Tony was at the Magic Castle. But the girlfriend knows all about the Magic Castle's secret elevators and Tony's penthouse.
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The Magician / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
The Magician / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: "The Magician" refers to protagonist Tony's occupation as a stage magician.
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The Magician / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
The Magician / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: In "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow", a hitman uses scuba gear to hide inside a fuel tanker in order to infiltrate a high security research facility.
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The Magician / int_7e1767df	type	Framed Face Opening
The Magician / int_7e1767df	comment	Framed Face Opening: Tony appears in the early episodes in a full-body frame. The other main stars have their faces framed in production Multiplying Balls, and after the Retool on cards that Tony causes to rise out of a deck.
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The Magician / int_7f9bfc3f	type	Human Mail
The Magician / int_7f9bfc3f	comment	Human Mail: In "Man on Fire", a teenager steals one of Tony's trick trunks and conceals himself in it after arranging for it to be delivered the photographic studio that is blackmailing his father.
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The Magician / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Magician / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: the Retool, Max and his son disappear without mention (except Max appears in one episode filmed before the Retool that was aired afterward). Jerry disappears without mention five episodes into the Retool, although actor Jim Watkins continues receiving a star credit. The SPIRIT jet that Tony used before the Retool disappears and is never mentioned. Given he lived there, its disappearance without a trace is unusual. Janet in "The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit". The whole episode is written to bring Tony and Janet back together as a couple, and work out Tony and Janet's father's vitriolic relationship. However, Janet disappears without a trace in future episodes.
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The Magician / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
The Magician / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Tony lights the cigarette of friend who is being held captive with a lit candle he pulls from inside his jacket. While the crooks think this is just another of Tony's pointless magic tricks, it actually allows him to place the candle in front of a gas line in preparation for a later escape attempt.
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The Magician / int_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
The Magician / int_8816272b	comment	Blinded by the Light: In "The Illusion of the Cat's Eye", Tony blinds the bad guy who is chasing him with a shotgun through a darkened warehouse by tossing a piece of burning flash paper in his face.
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The Magician / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Magician / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Blake drives a white Chevrolet Corvette with custom license plates ("SPIRIT") and, for its time, an exotic feature: a car phone.
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The Magician / int_8df6cb00	type	Censor Suds
The Magician / int_8df6cb00	comment	Censor Suds: In "The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit", Tony is set up and sent to met a Professional Killer in a hotel room: The assassin turns out to be woman who greets Tony in the bath: her modesty protected by the bubble bath.
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The Magician / int_90ce783a	type	Slipped the Ropes
The Magician / int_90ce783a	comment	Slipped the Ropes: Somewhat averted in "Lightning on a Dry Day", when Platt handcuffs Tony and pretends that Tony is his prisoner. Tony escapes the cuffs on his own, and even Platt seems surprised. Played straight in "The Illusion of the Deadly Congolmerate", where Tony points out to the bad guys that his friend Frank Denbo is a trained escapologist and has clenched his fists and tensed his muscles, meaning that the straps holding him to the dentist chair aren't actually tight and he can slip free at any time by relaxing his muscles. The crooks assume Tony is stalling and ignore him. When Tony stages a dramatic distraction, Denbo is able to slip free immediately.
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The Magician / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Magician / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Reverend Wally runs a homeless mission, but is secretly supplying Disposable Vagrants to the eponymous conglomerate to become bodies to be used in their Faking the Dead racket.
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The Magician / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Magician / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow", a hitman is worried that a psychic might be able to identify him, decides that his junior partner is too much of a potential weak link and kills him before going after the psychic.
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The Magician / int_95713538	type	Outside Ride
The Magician / int_95713538	comment	Outside Ride: In "The Magician - Pilot", Blake and Mary Rose have to jump from a speedboat onto a seaplane being piloted by Jerry. They cling to the outside as the plane takes off.
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The Magician / int_a04fe73e	type	Imposter Forgot One Detail
The Magician / int_a04fe73e	comment	Imposter Forgot One Detail: In "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", a reclusive movie star (who is an old friend of Tony's) is being held prisoner in her house by a gang of crooks who are bleeding her bank account dry. When Tony investigates, he is shown into the bedroom of an imposter who summarily dismisses him. However, while in the bedroom Tony spots a packet of cigarettes. Tony's friend doesn't smoke and won't allow people to smoke around her.
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The Magician / int_a2836be5	type	Identity Amnesia
The Magician / int_a2836be5	comment	Identity Amnesia: In "The Man Who Lost Himself", Tony helps a man who loses his memory following an accident on Tony's stage, and cannot remember anything about himself: including why he is being chased by two men.
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The Magician / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
The Magician / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: One of the bad guys does this in "Man on Fire"; somehow managing to shoot out the chair Tony had jammed under the door handle as well.
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The Magician / int_ab173426	type	Ruthless Modern Pirates
The Magician / int_ab173426	comment	Ruthless Modern Pirates: In "Nightmare in Steel", Tony thwarts a gang of modern pirates bent on hijacking a freighter carrying millions of dollars in fuel as cargo.
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The Magician / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Magician / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All of the episodes following the Retool have titles beginning "The Illusion of..."
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The Magician / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
The Magician / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: In "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow", Tony mentions to Dominick that he is learning hang-gliding during a conversation at the start of the episode. Guess what skill he uses to stop the Professional Killer at the end of the episode?
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The Magician / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Magician / int_acecb17d	comment	In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Tony is practicing sailing cards across the room when he flicks the final card harder and uses it to extinguish a lighted candle and then bury itself in the dartboard on the wall. When Dominick examines the card, he discovers that that particular card is metal. Tony explains that it is not really a magic trick, but a skill called 'card sailing'. Becomes a Chekhov's Skill later in the episode when Tony uses it to escape from the bad guys. He throws the metal card hard enough to puncture a gas line, and the leaking gas ignites off a candle Tony had placed there earlier, creating a fireball.
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The Magician / int_ad54954f	type	Punk in the Trunk
The Magician / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: In "The Illusion of the Cat's Eye", Tony trails the bad guys to their meet by hiding in the trunk of their limo.
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The Magician / int_aec88ae0	type	Driving into a Truck
The Magician / int_aec88ae0	comment	Driving into a Truck: In "The Illusion of Black Gold", the Girl of the Week drives Tony's car into the back of a large truck, which turns out to be the mobile office of the reclusive billionaire Tony has been trying to locate.
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The Magician / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Magician / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: In "Lightning on a Dry Day", Blake visits the small town of Elm Ridge, North Carolina, after meeting a young man who was rendered catatonic by something he saw near there. The locals make various attempts to run him out of town before he eventually discovers that the town matriarch is manufacturing illegal rejuvenation drugs, and the young man witnessed a Treasury agent who got too close to the truth being burned alive.
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The Magician / int_b063ec7d	type	Skeleton Key Card
The Magician / int_b063ec7d	comment	Skeleton Key Card: In "The Magician - Pilot", a heavy uses his credit card to jimmy the lock on Tony's dressing room.
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The Magician / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
The Magician / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: In "The Illusion of the Lost Dragon", Tony is able to keep working on a complicated puzzle lock despite the heat of a Lava Pit opening up underneath him. Earlier in the episode, a young man was similarly unaffected until he fell into the lava, at which point he was instantly incinerated.
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The Magician / int_b219ac90	type	ReTool
The Magician / int_b219ac90	comment	The SPIRIT jet that Tony used before the Retool disappears and is never mentioned. Given he lived there, its disappearance without a trace is unusual.
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The Magician / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
The Magician / int_b892dd2d	comment	Girl of the Week: Tony has several romantic interests who disappear at the end of the episode they appear in, and are never mentioned again. This is particularly noticeable in "The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit", when Janet drops into Tony's life. She had a relationship with him a year ago when they were engaged, knew enough about his stage routine to slip into it while evading two thugs, and knows the Magic Castle's hidden elevators. Tony becomes romantically involved with Janet again, and resolves the conflict between Janet and her father. And yet Janet is never heard from again.
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The Magician / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The Magician / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: In "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow", a psychic has visions connected to a string of murders. However, she refuses to go to the police because she also has a vision of herself being killed while standing only a few feet away from a cop. When the killer confronts her in her home, she suddenly realizes that the TV is on and showing a cop show, so she is only a few feet away from a cop on the screen.
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The Magician / int_bc452029	type	Strapped to an Operating Table
The Magician / int_bc452029	comment	Strapped to an Operating Table: When Tony finds his kidnapped friend The Amazing Denbo in "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Denbo is strapped into a dentist chair as a dentist prepares to forcibly alter his teeth to match those a criminal preparing to fake his death.
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The Magician / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
The Magician / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: In "Lady in a Trap", a crook attempts to dispose of his girlfriend by chaining her feet to a heavy weight and throwing her off the side of his boat. Fortunately for her, he is over the point where Tony and Jerry are scuba diving and they are able to rescue her.
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The Magician / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Magician / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: In "Illusion in Terror", Blake's Girl of the Week is run down and seemingly killed by a hitman in a parking garage.
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The Magician / int_c2ecf3b8	type	Show Some Leg
The Magician / int_c2ecf3b8	comment	Show Some Leg: In "Nightmare in Steel", Tony's Lovely Assistant distracts a pair of guards on a boat by setting up on the dock to do some painting, and taking off her jacket to reveal an extremely abbreviated top that makes it look like she is topless from the back. While the guards are ogling her, Tony sneaks on board.
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The Magician / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Magician / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Throughout the first half of the series, Jerry, Max, and Dennis give indications of how close they are to Tony and to each other. They're ready at a moment's notice to come to Tony's aid if he needs it, and Tony shows he'll do likewise. In "Lightning on a Dry Day," when Tony says he's about to cancel a trip to Washington, Jerry asks about it, grinning. One can tell he's thinking, "Uh oh, he's found a mystery to solve," and he approves completely. Then Max immediately asks what he can do to help. In "Illusion in Terror," Tony becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to his girlfriend. Jerry and Max are visibly worried about him, and Max keeps telling Tony to back down; his obsession has become dangerous. They're all very different men from different backgrounds, but make no mistake: Jerry is much more than an employee, and Max and Dennis are much more than colleagues; they all care very deeply for one another. (There is some of this in the second half of the series with Dominic, but Dominic is more a comic relief character, and his chemistry with Tony isn't near as good as Max and Jerry were.)
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The Magician / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The Magician / int_c601fc37	comment	In "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow", Tony uses a thrown card to smash the desk lamp a Professional Killer is using for illumination; plunging the room into darkness.
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The Magician / int_c78560a2	type	Stolen by Staying Still
The Magician / int_c78560a2	comment	Stolen by Staying Still: In "Ovation for Murder", Tony breaks a friend out of the jail wing of a hospital and then conceals him in a linen closet on the same floor. This convinces the real criminals that he has escaped, while allowing him to convince the police that he never left the secure floor.
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The Magician / int_ccb3498d	type	Escape Artist
The Magician / int_ccb3498d	comment	Escape Artist: Tony learned escapology getting out of the South American prison where he initially learned his craft. He demonstrates his escape skills in multiple episodes, and handcuffs are incapable of holding him.
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The Magician / int_ccd7abf5	type	Fakeout Escape
The Magician / int_ccd7abf5	comment	Fakeout Escape: In "Ovation for Murder", Tony breaks a friend out of the jail wing of a hospital and then conceals him in a linen closet on the same floor. This convinces the real criminals that he has escaped, while allowing him to convince the police that he never left the secure floor.
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The Magician / int_d06a524b	type	Ripped from the Phone Book
The Magician / int_d06a524b	comment	Ripped From The Phonebook: In "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow", a Professional Killer is given Tony's name from his employer while he is in a phone booth, and immediately rips the page with Tony's name and address out of the directory.
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The Magician / int_d3c6cf4f	type	Unwilling Suspension
The Magician / int_d3c6cf4f	comment	Unwilling Suspension: In "Illusion in Terror", Blake is suspended by his ankles and left to die in a burning barn.
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The Magician / int_d5e6c609	type	Sleight of Handiness
The Magician / int_d5e6c609	comment	Sleight of Handiness: Illusionist Anthony Blake employs his trickery on mooks and the Villain of the Week to right wrongs.
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The Magician / int_d61c0620	type	Joker Jury
The Magician / int_d61c0620	comment	Joker Jury: In "The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings", a Wicked Toymaker kidnaps the industrialist he blames for stealing his toy ideas and puts him on trial before a jury of marionettes before sentencing him to death.
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The Magician / int_d9d864e2	type	Stage Magician
The Magician / int_d9d864e2	comment	Stage Magician: Tony's day job is as an illusionist and escapologist.
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The Magician / int_dabfaec4	type	Wicked Toymaker
The Magician / int_dabfaec4	comment	Wicked Toymaker: In "The Illusion of the Lethal Playthings", someone is trying to kill a friend of Dominick's by detonating bombs and using marionettes and remote controlled toys. Tony's investigation brings him to a toy shop and he becomes the target of the madman.
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The Magician / int_e1223d07	type	Evil Elevator
The Magician / int_e1223d07	comment	Evil Elevator: In "Nightmare in Steel", a hitman attempts to kill Tony's new Lovely Assistant by sabotaging the elevator so that it bursts into flame when she presses a button.
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The Magician / int_e1d1a88c	type	Disposable Vagrant
The Magician / int_e1d1a88c	comment	In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Tony exposes a conglomerate who are abducting Disposable Vagrants, then killing them and using their bodies to help wealthy criminals fake their deaths by using plastic surgery and dentistry to make them match the criminals and then staging 'accidents' when the bodies are damaged beyond recognition and the coroner has to use fingerprints or dental records to establish identity.
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The Magician / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
The Magician / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Tony Blake is a world famous Stage Magician who dabbles in investigation because he cannot stand to see injustice.
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The Magician / int_e3d5ba34	type	Slippery Skid
The Magician / int_e3d5ba34	comment	Slippery Skid: In "Nightmare in Steel", Tony is being chased through a ship when he causes his pursuers to skid and crash by spraying machine oil on the floor. Later in the same episode, he causes the leader of the pirates to trip and fall by tossing a handful of bullets under his foot.
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The Magician / int_e658f2a8	type	Death Dealer
The Magician / int_e658f2a8	comment	Death Dealer: In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Tony is practicing sailing cards across the room when he flicks the final card harder and uses it to extinguish a lighted candle and then bury itself in the dartboard on the wall. When Dominick examines the card, he discovers that that particular card is metal. Tony explains that it is not really a magic trick, but a skill called 'card sailing'. Becomes a Chekhov's Skill later in the episode when Tony uses it to escape from the bad guys. He throws the metal card hard enough to puncture a gas line, and the leaking gas ignites off a candle Tony had placed there earlier, creating a fireball. In "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow", Tony uses a thrown card to smash the desk lamp a Professional Killer is using for illumination; plunging the room into darkness.
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The Magician / int_e90b789a	type	Lovely Assistant
The Magician / int_e90b789a	comment	Lovely Assistant: Tony used a variety of lovely assistants over the course of the show; seemingly hiring a new one in each city he performed in. When the format of the show changed to give him a permanent base of operation, he gained a permanent lovely assistant named Kathy. He sometimes also used a male assistant named Larry.
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The Magician / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
The Magician / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: In "Lady in a Trap", the local sheriff is part of the conspiracy to steal a rare book.
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The Magician / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
The Magician / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: After knocking Dennis out, a hitman leaves him bound and gagged in his wheelchair as he prepares to assassinate Max in "The Manhunters".
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The Magician / int_ebe5d89c	type	Disco Dan
The Magician / int_ebe5d89c	comment	Disco Dan: The villain in "The Illusion of the Lost Dragon" is a Chinese warlord who has set up a compound where he lives as if it is the 16th century; the time of his ancestors' greatest power. All of his guards, servants, concubines, etc. dress in appropriate period Chinese garb.
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The Magician / int_edf841f6	comment	Worthless Treasure Twist: Inverted in "The Man Who Lost Himself", where three crooks seem to be going to extreme lengths to discover the location of the relatively small sum of $24,000 stolen in a military payroll heist in World War II. It turns out the cash is in the form of 'Aloha money'; money overprinted with the word 'Hawaii' in case the Japanese overran Hawaii. Now valuable collectors' items, the $24,000 in uncirculated bills is worth $1.6 million.
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The Magician / int_ef0f881b	comment	Trick Arrow: The villains in "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow" are a pair of Professional Killers who use bows and arrows: including some 'realistic' explosive arrows.
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The Magician / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: In "The Illusion of Black Gold", the kidnappers are using a biker gang called the Road Knights as their muscle.
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The Magician / int_f0084ee5	comment	Impossible Theft: In "The Illusion of the Cat's Eye", an insurance underwriter asks Tony to investigate when a silver statue is stolen in seemingly impossible circumstances. The statue was inside a locked case with four locks, each requiring a different key, and having to be unlocked in sequence to open the case. Each lock was separately alarmed, and the floor around the case was rigged with a pressure sensitive alarm that would trigger with an ounce's change in pressure. The statue vanished within minutes of the alarm being tested and the doors locked.
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The Magician / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: In "Shattered Image", Tony drops an ice cream cone in the lap of the thug who has been tailing him, using the distraction to steal his car keys.
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The Magician / int_f4f01ac	type	Deadly Rotary Fan
The Magician / int_f4f01ac	comment	Deadly Rotary Fan: Tony is left dangling above a giant spinning fan when an attempt to use an Air-Vent Passageway goes awry in "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate".
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The Magician / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Tony initially believes believes the homeless men being abducted are being used as involuntary organ donors for illegal transplants. They are actually abducted to provide corpses to an organisation that specializes in helping rich criminals to fake their deaths.
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The Magician / int_f842fb67	comment	Disappearing Box: In "Illusion in Terror", Tony uses a disappearing box to 'vanish' his girlfriend when the two of them are being chased through Tony's workshop by a pair of hitmen.
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The Magician / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In "Man on Fire", a female Con Artist stages a Staircase Tumble to convince her boyfriend that he has killed her. Her partner then arranges to dispose of the 'body', so he can blackmail the mark into handing over industrial secrets. In "The Illusion of Black Gold", Tony helps the CIA fake the death of a defecting scientist so his former government will stop looking for him. In "The Illusion of the Deadly Conglomerate", Tony exposes a conglomerate who are abducting Disposable Vagrants, then killing them and using their bodies to help wealthy criminals fake their deaths by using plastic surgery and dentistry to make them match the criminals and then staging 'accidents' when the bodies are damaged beyond recognition and the coroner has to use fingerprints or dental records to establish identity.
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The Magician / int_fbf7ec85	comment	Suicide by Assassin: In "The Illusion of the Fatal Man," a wealthy man suffering from a Convenient Terminal Illness hires a pair of Professional Killers to kill the three men he blames for sentencing an innocent man to death, and then to kill him, as punishment for having allowed it to happen.
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The Magician / int_fc4a7224	comment	Trash Landing: In "The Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit", Tony escapes from the gangsters who are chasing him by jumping from a second storey landing into a huge pile of trash—which seemingly consists of cardboard and rags—in the alley.
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The Magician / int_fdc83c2c	comment	Dead Hat Shot: The death of the first Victim of the Week in "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow" is shown by the head of an arrow protruding through the back of his chair and his coffee cup hitting the floor.
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