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The Magician - Episode Guide

Season 1

Pilot

Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Mar 17, 1973 (120 min)

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Anthony Blake is a suave, polished magician who uses magic tricks to outwit crooks, displaying a good deal of charm. The show emphasized an expensive jet-set look as the wealthy magiclan who lives aboard his plane, unravels a nuclear bomb plot in Seattle, Wash, and San Francisco, and caps the show with an exotic boat and plane chase sequence. Blake comes to the aid of Nora Coogan, a middle-aged woman who becomes the target of an assassin because she's witnessed a murder. The magician uses his great talents to spirit her into hiding while he recklessly goes after the murder plotters.

The Manhunters

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1973

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In the series opener, Anthony Blake sets out to discover who tried to murder his best friend, Max Pomeroy, a newspaper columnist with an impressive   array   of   enemies. 

The Vanishing Lady

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1973

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A young singer appearing with Tony in Las Vegas has been kidnapped by sinister thugs who plan to collect ransom—and then dump their captive in Lake Mead. 

Illusion in Terror

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1973

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Tony Blake meets and falls in love with beautiful Joanna Marsh, only to lose her in a tragíc hit-and-run accident.

Lightning on a Dry Day

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1973

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Blake's life is placed in jeopardy when he seeks the reasons behind a hospitalized young boy's fright and retreat into silence. By making a plant grow before a distrusting woman's eyes, Blake hopes she will provide a clue to the event that traumatized a young man in a backwoods town full of close-mouthed people. While performing his magic act in a hospital, Blake encounters Ian Keefer, a 17-year-old who goes into hysterics when he sees fire in the act. Probing the core of Ian's dilemma takes Blake to Elm Ridge, a southern backwoods town where the people, including Sheriff Platt and Mrs. Thatcher, are fearful, silent and sometimes violent. 

The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1974

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A young girl with psychic powers (Pamela Franklin) keeps seeing murders before they happen, so she enlists the aid of friend Tony Blake (Bill Bixby.)

The Illusion of the Cat's Eye

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1974

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In the search of a missing art treasure solid silver cat, Tony tracks a ruthless beauty and her killer panther.

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