Ace of Wands - Episode Guide

Meet Tarot, Ace of Wands and renowned illusionist - a 20th century Robin Hood - with a pinch of Merlin and a dash of Houdini. In this episode, Tarot's magic skills are put to use when a laboratory is burgled and a professor's brainchild, a device to cure paralysis, is stolen. Tarot and his friends Lulli, Sam and Mr. Sweet are asked to find the missing invention which could, in the wrong hands, be a devastating weapon.

Trying to track down the invention, Tarot and Sam trail Teddy Talk. Teddy disappears into a black car owned by the beautiful but evil Madame Midnight, one of Tarot's most evil and powerful adversaries.

When Tarot finally comes face-to-face with the mysterious Madame Midnight, the final round in this exciting battle of wits begins disastrously for Tarot. It looks as though she holds all the aces. Or does she?

Tarot, with the help of Lulli, Sam and Mr. Sweet, is asked to investigate the mysterious disappearances of two government ministers. He is intrigued particularly when he discovers a certain sinister Señor Zandar is involved.

Tarot, Sam and Lulli follow the trail of the disappearing ministers to a very strange house and Señor Zandar is waiting for them.

Hypnotised by Zandar, Lulli lures Tarot into a trap. Zandar and the Fat Boy open their sinister box of tricks with surprising results.

Tarot and Lulli have been locked up by Fat Boy in an empty cellar. Empty - except for a poisonous snake that hates people. And the final round begins of Tarot vs Zandar.

A daring bank robbery, clouds of smoke, an incredible houseboat and a mysterious villain are the strange ingredients for a new adventure for Tarot and co.

Falk holds Lulli and Sam prisoner in his boat. He is now ready to put his master plan into action. Has Tarot another trick up his sleeve with which to foil Falk? It was originally planned to build a reproduction of the main switchroom at Battersea Power Station for tonight's episode. Then director John Russell decided to try and film inside the power station itself. Permission was granted and you can see for yourself what happened in tonight's episode

A birthday surprise - then Venus vanishes. But how and where? And who are the mysterious Tun-Ju and Mrs. Kite? Tarot is alarmed, but why?

It's a dead end for Tarot and Lulli, but "gas man" Sam tracks art-shark Tun-Ju and discovers a very unpleasant kind of magic.

Ozzie the Owl squawks and Sam begins to get his memory back. Later, Tarot, Sam and Lulli visit Tun-Ju, the emperor of art-thieves and it's fun and games all round. But what is the ominous Tun-Ju really after?

The Mona Lisa is threatened as Tun-Ju embarks on the most daring scheme of his career as the emperor of art-thieves. In this last episode, Tarot and Tun-Ju finally meet.head on and it results in a deadly double-cross.

Tarot, super sleuth and professional magician, Lulli, Sam and Mr Sweet meet the formidable Mr Stabs, who possesses incredible supernatural powers. From his headquarters in the basement of a seedy Taxidermist's shop and aided by the bizarre and beautiful Polandi and his malicious servant Luko, Stabs must retrieve from Tarot the elusive key to the mysterious secret of the Seven Serpents.

Tarot has information vital to Mr Stabs. One man has already died in macabre circumstances for possessing it. Will Tarot meet the same fate? In the first episode of "Seven Serpents Sulphur and Salt", Postle performed a strange ritual to exorcise the spirit of the Sacred Seven Serpents. Lulli, who had been under its influence the longest, broke away from the magic circle. Without its protection, her life is in grave danger ...

In Episode Two Mr Stabs, in the guise of Polandi, invaded Tarot's head-quarters. He used the power to steal from Lulli the vital segment of the secret seven serpents. From it he can discover the hiding place of Flameld's formula for the transmutation of base metal into gold. Still under Mr Stabs' evil and corrupt influence, Lulli has put poision in Tarot's coffee.

Why should normal well-behaved children suddenly go berserk and wreck their classrooms? And who are Uncle Harry and his strange companions? Tarot becomes involved in a new mystery and discovers a whole pack of surprises.

Tarot has now taken to the road with his travelling company "Spells On Wheels". First task is to find Uncle Harry and the mysterious Joker before they can do any more harm. But Uncle Harry is alerted to the threat and the Joker assures him that Tarot can be dealt with.

Posing as a hitch-hiker, Lulli thumbs a lift with Uncle Harry's villanous troupe. But the Joker has anticipated her action and she walks into a trap. In this episode, Tarot and the Joker finally come face to face. But is Ace the trump card?

Tarot meets a new adversary - the beautiful but deadly Thalia. With her monosyllabic brother Dalbiac she steels a top-secret weapon.

Thalia and Dalbiac are holding Lulli and Dr. Winthrop prisoner in a remote windmill. Thalia plans to use the deadly H.23 gas on them to prove its effectiveness to a potential buyer. But when Tarot arrives he is welcomed with the gas instead. The nightmare begins...

Tarot is saved from being burnt at the stake by the Roundheads, but Thalia and Dalbiac are waiting with more nightmare gas. And this time there's no escape.

A diamond that can turn people in to chalk; a talking computer and an eccentric chess master called Ceribraun involve Tarot in a new and interesting mystery.

Ceribraun's trap for Tarot is well baited - with Mr. Sweet! But when it appears that the Eye of Ra has turned Mr. Sweet into a tiny chalk statue, Tarot, Lulli and Sam decide to act

Using telepathy, Lulli communicates to Tarot that she is a prisoner in Sir John Peckham's vaults and that she has been turned into a 6-inch high chalk statue. Tarot races to her rescue, but someone else is waiting for him.

Tarot and Ceribraun play out the final moves in a dangerous and complex game of double-cross.

Tarot meets up with Chas and Mikki, a brother and sister, who live in a studio over an old London street market. Chas is a photographer, and Mikki a freelance journalist. Mikki is worried about a series of inexplicable accidents in the market, although Chas is inclined to laugh the whole thing off..

Tarot begins to put together the pieces that make up the mysterious happenings in the street-market. Why are Spoon and the other musicians always around, even when the market is closed? Is Mockers, the "prophet of dooom", in league with them? And what is the role of Mr Dove, watching over the market through binoculars from his tower-block office?

Tarot's exhibition of his magic powers in Madge's shop has ended in the smashing of a shelf of china - but Tarot was not the cause.Is there really a curse on the market? Meanwhile, Chas has gone off on his own to investigate the warehouse where Tarot's car was found.

Tarot and Mikki have the same dream - a dream about ancient Egypt. It leads Mikki to have an encounter with a medium, John Pentacle, and Tarot to endanger his life.

Will the voice of Atep, which has influenced both Mikki at the seance and Mr Sweet in his room at the University, affect Tarot as he rehearses his escapology? And is there some connection with Tarot's former stage partner, Quabal?

Chas thinks that he has been attacked - by Tarot! And Ozzie the owl has been behaving strangely. Tarot has decided that he will only discover the secret of the power of Atep - and the part played by his former stage partner, Quabal - by going to Egypt. This week Tarot and company meet up with the man who discovered Atep's tomb, Fergus Wilson.

Tarot, Chas and Mikki have visited Atep's tomb, near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. And Mikki has been presented by an Arab boy with a statuette from the tomb, which seems to have strange powers. Fergus Wilson has met up with Tarot's double, and Tarot prepares himself for a confrontation in Atep's tomb with his former stage partner, Quabal.

A bank robbery - and the robber not even present at the time! A man who uses torn-up paper as money. And Mikki's sudden feeling that she needs a holiday. These are the ingredients of a new adventure for Tarot, Mikki and Chas.

Tarot and Chas have gone to inspect a derelict house - where the security men had, for no reason they could explain, left the money which should have been delivered to the bank. Suddenly Chas finds himself in a room with no door, and Tarot is standing on a high building from which there is no way down. The mysterious Mr. Peacock observes them quietly.

Chas has decided to go it alone, and has found his way to the mysterious Mr Peacock's lodgings. But after a demonstration of Mr Peacock's powers, he finds himself a prisoner.Tarot and Mikki are about to do their mind-reading act at a smart West End restaurant - they wonder what has happened to Chas, but, as Mikki says, "he's old enough to take care of himself".

One of Mr Sweet's colleagues at the University disappears, and the trail leads Tarot and his friends to a dolls' hospital run by the eccentric 'Mama Doc'.

Professor Darien has fallen into Mama Doc's trap, and has been over-powered by her sidekick Bobby, the fake policeman. But why has Mama Doc enticed the professor to visit her dolls' hospital?

Mr Sweet and Mikki have both visited Mama Doc's dolls' hospital - but Mikki has not returned

Chas has an unusual assignment - to attend an old lady's hundredth birthday party. But Tarot and Mikki sense that something has happened to Chas - who later returns with no memory of what happened at the party - and after it.

Chas, under hypnosis, apparently robbed the post office in the village where the Edgington sisters live. But is he still under some hypnotic power? Meanwhile Tarot has discovered a curious fact about Mathilda Edgington - that she died two years ago!

Tarot, imprisoned in the cellar at Bliss cottage, has found out from the hypnotized Chas that the old ladies plan to kidnap the Commander-in-Chief of British Land Forces, NATO. Mikki escapes to warn the Army authorities, but finds her car surrounded by the old ladies.

Mikki is suspicious when she is refused entry to a small town fete - a fete run by to strange but flawlessly beaufiul girls and an equally beautiful young man. Tarot's interest is only aroused when he discovers that the fete, which makes no charges, gives prizes of valuable equipment.

Tarot, Mikki and Chas survive a near crash caused by one of Jay's bizarre inventions. They return angrily to the seemingly deserted fete to find an eunexpected reception awaiting them.

Tarot, Mikki and Chas waken from a drugged sleep to find that The Beautiful People have moved on. They return to London in a desperate attempt to trace Jay before he and his sisters turn their undoubted talents to a more deadly purpose.

Using their power of though transference, Tarot and Mikki make contact with Emm, but why is she suddenly so eager to meet Tarot and learn about telepathy? Is she laying a trap for Tarot, as he, Mikki and Chas head unsuspectingly for the Recreation Hall?