Jessica Walter and Lew Ayres guest-star while series star Bill Bixby also directs “The Illusion of the Evil Spikes,” in which an escape artist is killed doing his top trick, on “The
Magician’ colorcast of Monday, April 15, 1974 (7:00-8:00 p.m.) on the NBC Television Network.
Filming is under way on a movie that could make or break producer Max Braden (Ayres) and his key aide, Marian Tripp (Miss Walter). In the big scene, a magician friend of Tony (Bixby) is lashed to a slab over which a bed of spikes is suspended upside down. A curtain is drawn around the man and he is supposed to free himself before the deadly bed slams down. When the bed drops prematurely and fatally, Tony defies producer and aide to go after special effects man Quinn (Richard Evans). David Moessinger wrote the drama.
Written by TVgy1960wXc on Aug 5, 2024