Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Magician' from 1970-1982:
- Bill Bixby as Anthony Blake (1973-1974)
- Joseph Sirola as Dominick (1973-1974)
- Julian Christopher as Jerry Anderson (1973-1974)
- Keene Curtis as Max Pomeroy (1973-1974)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Magician':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
March 17, 1973: Pilot
Season 0, episode 1
W: Laurence Heath D: Marvin Chomsky
With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Joan Caulfield (Lulu), Kim Hunter (Nora Coogan), Elizabeth Ashley (Sally Baker), Barry Sullivan (Joseph Baker), Allen Case (Adams), Signe Hasso (Madame Parga), Robert Mandan (Rather), Anne Lockhart (Mary Rose Coogan), Tol Avery (Dr. Fryer), Bill Quinn (Senator).
Magician Anthony Dorian's curiosity is aroused when a man walks in on one of his performances, collapses and dies. He discovers that the man wanted to tell something to a woman in his audience -- but what? Pilot movie for the fall TV series.
October 2, 1973: The Manhunters
Season 1, episode 1
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Sutton Roley
With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Jerry Quarry (Al), Lenore Stevens (Edith), Mort Thompson (Driscoll), Scott Walker (Hit Man), Vincent Beck (Stanley Owens), Stephen McNally (Manning Hargrove), Marlyn Mason (Diane Thompson).
Bill Bixby stars as Anthony Blake, a magician who uses his magic to stop crime. Tonight, Blake witnesses an attempt on the life of his friend and associate, international columnist Max Pomeroy, and sets out with his magic craft to find the would-be assassin.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Harold Livingston D: Marvin Chomsky
With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Amanda McBroom (Julie Carter), Peter Brown (Ray Weaver), John Karlen (Jim Russell), Lilyan Chauvin (Anna), Byron Mabe (Eddie Tarlow), Ramon Bieri (Lt. Corcoran), Lenore Kasdorf (Jane Roberts), Craig Morton (Sgt. Drake).
Anthony Blake gets involved in a kidnapping case when a lady singer who appears on the bill with him in Las Vegas is held for ransom.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Walter Brough D: Paul Krasny
With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Cameron Mitchell (Walter March), Brenda Benet (Joanna Marsh), Macdonald Carey (Rich), Claudio Martinez (Luis Velasquez), Thomas A. Geas (Malcolm Gregorian), Bill Zuckert (Matt Osborne), Barbara Collentine (Hannah Osborne), Carleton Young (Minister), John Pickard (Sheriff Sturdivant).
When Blake's girlfriend is reportedly killed after being struck by a car, the magician sets out to prove the police report false and embarks on an investigation of his own.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Walter Brough D: Reza Badiyi
With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Mark Hamill (Ian Keefer), Neville Brand (Sheriff Platt), Susan Foster (Maggie Platt), Frances Reid (Eleanor Gilpin), Geoffrey Deuel (Vic Reiser), Quinn Redeker (Dr. Sebring), Beah Richards (Mrs. Thatcher), George Wallace (Steve Yates).
Anthony Blake makes a plant grow before a distrusting woman's eyes in hopes that she will provide him a clue to an event that traumatized a young man in a backwoods town full of close-mouthed people.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Walter Brough D: Barry Crane
With Jack Kruschen (Albie Allikolos), Susan Oliver (Susanna), Roy Jenson (Frank Letterman), Walter Brooke (Orin Conover), Wesley Lau (Capt. Gottschalk), Sid Grossfeld (Ulricht).
Anthony Blake disappears from a linen cart in the prison ward of a hospital and reappears in an effort to pull off an escape plot for a friend suspected of murder.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Samuel Roeca, James L. Henderson D: Reza Badiyi
With Carl Betz (Paul Ryerson), Jane Merrow (Carol Spain), Lloyd Bochner (Matt Matthews), Brad David (Danny Ryerson), Erik Holland (Gruber), Wayne Heffley (Sheriff Harris).
Anthony Blake uses a briefcase of dollar bills and the assistance of an amateur magician to vindicate a boy's father, who is charged with murder.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Frank Telford, Marion Hargove D: Leslie H. Martinson
With Robert Webber (Arthur Zellman), Kristina Holland (Stacey McGranahan), William Jordan (Sheriff Sanders), Anthony Eisley (Ralph Turner), Rob Townsend (Haney), Brad Trumbull (Lt. Moore), Tom Denver (Teddy).
Magician Anthony Blake "reads" a man's mind in order to locate a rare book stolen from a museum.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Marion Hargrove D: Sutton Roley
With Yvonne Craig (Dr. Nora Zabriskie), Joe Flynn (George Blaisdell), Joseph V. Perry (Godfrey Matchek), George Murdock (Tim Dunnagan), Hal Williams (Jonathan Gordon), Pamela Britton (Betty Foster), John Milford (Stan Lubie), Russell Thorson (Alex Nicholson).
Anthony Blake beats a trio of thieves to a long-hidden cache of money and then with magic, seemingly throws the bills away.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Walter Brough, Barry Crane D: Sutton Roley
With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Leif Erickson (Nicholas Olsen), Christopher Stone (Gary Allmont), Robyn Millan (Laurie Allmont), Frank Christi (Jack), Anne Randall (Cindy Adams), Charles Picerni (Melton).
Anthony Blake simulates a fire aboard a highly explosive ship in order to foil a pirate attempt masterminded by Nick Olson.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Richard Hesse D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Joseph Campanella (Frank Mitchell), Leslie Parrish (Lydia), Ed Gilbert (Larry Malone), Wesley Lau (Capt. Gottschalk), Tara Talboy (Paula Mitchell).
In an effort to help a little girl whose father is wanted for the slaying of a leading gangster, Anthony Blake works things out with the police and thwarts the gangsters through the use of a magic trick whereby the little girl disappears and reappears in a flash of fire.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Laurence Heath D: Sutton Roley
With John Colicos (Paul Gunther), Carol Lynley (Janet Keegan), L.Q. Jones (Johnson), Lloyd Nolan (Charles Keegan), Joe Maross (Alan Burke), Joan Shawlee (Trudy), Jack Perkins (Gilbert), Charles Picerni (Johnny Kroll).
A mobster's daughter is the unwilling pawn in a fight between her father and his former partners.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Laurence Heath D: Sutton Roley
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Lloyd Nolan (Charles Keegan), L.Q. Jones (Johnson), Carol Lynley (Janet Keegan), John Colicos (Paul Gunther), Eddy Donno (Lomas), Charles Picerni (Johnny Kroll), Jack Perkins (Gilbert), John Devlin (Simmons), Barbara Rhoades (J.J. Walters), Wesley Lau (Capt. Gottschalk), Joe Maross (Alan Burke).
A prison official is masterminding a heist, and tries to enlist the aid of a reformed criminal.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Paul Playdon, Richard Hesse D: Alexander Singer
With Beth Brickell (Victoria Hunter), Anthony Zerbe (Brad Nicholson), Nina Foch (Irene Denore), Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Penny Santon (Shirley), Edward Winter (Ted Winters), Mark Lenard (Foley), Ian Wolfe (Jacob Nord), John S. Ragin (John Booker), Dolores Quinton (Miss Pitts).
Anthony Blake sets out to uncover the suspicious action of his old friend and patron, a legendary film star turned recluse.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Edward J. Lakso D: Don Weis
With Katherine Justice (Sandra Cassidy), William Shatner (Ed Cassidy), Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Byron Morrow (Lt. Lund), William Vaughan (Cole), Paul Mantee (Joe Taggart), Brooke Bundy (Virginia Miles).
While the Magician is levitating a lady and making her daughter disappear during a benefit on the Queen Mary, a group of robbers are busy at work heisting the funds.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Edward J. Lakso D: Arnold Laven
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Eric Braeden (Nelson Paradine), Lynda Day George (Stacey Hyatt), Milton Selzer (Alex Pochek), Norman Burton (Malloy), Curt Lowens (Carl Pochek), David Cryer (Taylor), Michael Cristofer (David Webster), Ben Andrews (Alan Bateman).
Anthony Blake gets caught up in international intrigue after he helps stage a mock assassination of a defecting scientist.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Howard Berk D: Alexander Singer
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Lester Fletcher (Cooper), Philip Ahn (Chao Liu), Nobu McCarthy (Mrs. Ti), Soon-Teck Oh (Sheng), Pat Li (Flower of Wisdom), Joseph Wiseman (Hon Chi Kai), France Nuyen (Dawn), Frank Michael Liu (Tom).
Wen a young Chinese lad disappears in quest of a jade statue stolen from his grandfather, his sister asks Anthony Blake to find both.
Season 1, episode 17
W: David Moessinger D: David Moessinger
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Eugene Roche (Rev. Wally Snider), Jack Ging (Frank Denbo), Charles Wagenheim (Johnny McVey), Russ Grieve (Dr. Wallenstein), Crane Jackson (Dr. Reston), Peggy Rea (Emma), Michele Marsh (Sister Janet), William Sylvester (Peter Hayden), Bill McLean (Joe Miggins).
A skid row derelict and ex-magician tells his friend Anthony Blake that his pals fail to return from visits to a nearby storefront mission.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Paul Playdon, David Chase D: Leslie H. Martinson
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Tim Matheson (Jerry Purcell), Jeremy Slate (Ross Hazlitt), Pamela Franklin (Linda Casey), Murray Matheson (Walter Moran), Fred Sadoff (Lt. Ed Gold).
After a man is slain by two cold-blooded archers, a psychic girl tells Blake that more deaths will follow.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Larry Brody D: Jack Arnold
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Louis Hayward (Millotson), Joanna Miles (Maggie Jones), Scott Hylands (Hal Millotson), Simon Scott (Jackson Wyndham), Richard O'Brien (Lt. Hoyt), Ivor Francis (Thomas Donald).
A dibolical toy maker tries to dive-bomb Anthony Blake with an ammo-loaded model airplane.
Season 1, episode 20
W: David Chase, Paul Playdon D: Paul Stanley
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Claudette Nevins (Suzanne Kelly), Don Gordon (Larry Ford), John Dehner (Simon Russell), Marianna Hill (Leila Russell), J. Jay Saunders (Lt. Kendricks), David Frankham (Derek Sheffield), Joseph Ruskin (Hassid), Joseph Mell (Hal).
In the search for a missing art treasure, Anthony Blake tracks a ruthless beauty and her killer panther.
Season 1, episode 21
W: David Moessinger D: Bill Bixby
With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Jessica Walter (Marian Tripp), Lew Ayres (Max Braden), Richard Evans (Jack Quinn), Tom Rosqui (Neil Houser), Robert Burr (Brooks Rosenthal), Herbert Anderson (R. John Fellows).
Tony Blake investigates the death of a magician friend who died during the making of a movie. (Last show of the series.)