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Blacke's Magic - Episode Guide

Season 1

Breathing Room

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1986 (120 min)

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In the first episode retired magician Alexander Blacke must discover how a fellow magician, The Great Gasperini, can be submerged in an airtight container underwater for one of his escapologist routines, yet emerge dead, still sealed inside, with a bullet hole in his body!

Ten Tons of Trouble

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1986

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The Blackes search for a 10-ton statue that was stolen from a Manhattan museum.

Knave of Diamonds, Ace of Hearts

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1986

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Leonard finds himself facing a murder charge after pulling a job Alexander turned down. The elderly Blacke had accepted to test a new security system at a jeweler's and ended up accused of murder when a corpse turned up inside a vault. This episode involves a planned jewel heist, father-son rivalry and bungling police work. Alex is coerced into solving the mystery of what happened to Czar Nicholas' diamonds and who killed the jeweler.

Revenge of the Esperanza

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1986

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Leonard is in Florida to raise money for a brother and sister who think they know the whereabouts of a sunken treasure.

Death Goes to the Movies

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1986

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While working as a consultant for a movie, Alex gets an added responsibility when the producer is murdered in an editing room.

Vanishing Act

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1986

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Leonard takes Alex to the town where he met Alex's mother, but there is a problem: the town's population has vanished overnight. A corpse and the site where a man was murdered seem to vanish without leaving a trace. After seeing strange lights in the sky, the Blackes have reason to suspect that aliens might have abducted a woman.

Prisoner of Paradise

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1986

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Alex is hired to escort a notorious criminal who always escapes from his captors. Alexander (Hal Linden) suspects a businessman, Granville Stuart (Peter Haskell), of being a murderer. However, this master of escape is later believed to have leaped to his death from a heavily guarded bell-tower cell.

Address Unknown

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1986

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Alex comes to the aid of his former assistant, Louise Richmond, whose husband has blown the whistle on a conspiracy between his company and the Government. When Alex suspects General Wersching (J.D. Cannon) is accepting bribes from a corporation doing business with the government, he enlists Wersching's assistant, Major Crawford (Nancy Grahn) to help him uncover the truth.

Forced Landing

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1986

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A plane with no one aboard lands near a ghost town that Leonard recently won in a poker game.

Last Flight to Moscow

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1986

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Alex is enlisted to help a diplomat's wife defect from the Soviet embassy.

A Friendly Game of Showdown

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1986

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Leonard and Alex (Hal Linden) hatch a swindle to rescue an old friend's toy company after a rival steals his revolutionary robot prototype.

It's a Jungle Out There

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1986

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Alex and Leonard aid of a U.S. diplomat who is being blackmailed by a crooked Monte Carlo casino owner who is selling technological secrets.

Wax Poetic

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: May 7, 1986

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A Poe manuscript is apparently purloined from Alex's apartment during an auction that leaves two participants breathing nevermore.

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