Breaking The Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed - Australian Version

Australian Version

Breaking the Magicians' Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
Format Reality
Documentary
Starring Grant Denyer/Mitch Pileggi(narrator/announcer)
Val Valentino (Masked Magician)
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 12
Production
Running time 1 hour (with adverts)
Broadcast
Original channel Seven Network, Fox8
Original run June 14, 2010 – September 12, 2010

This show first aired at 7:30 Monday, June 14, 2010 on Network Seven and has changed to Sundays at 6:30 on 7Two. This is the same show as the US version with some minor changes. This show also began to air on Australian pay television network Fox8 on Wednesday 21st of September 2011. This version is a duplicate of the American version.

Since the first run of the series, the shows have been rerun many times on Sundays on Channel 7. (The latest repeat dated Sunday 19 August 2012)

List of Grand Illusions Revealed
Show One
June 14, 2010
  1. Death Saw
  2. Levitating a Girl on a Floating Table
  3. Making a String Quartet Disappear
  4. Making a Girl Appear from a Set of Clothing
  5. Passing Through a Steel Wall
Show Two
June 21, 2010
  1. Head Being Cut off by a Guillotine
  2. Making a Girl Appear/Disappear from a Cabinet
  3. Houdini Milk Can Escape
  4. Knife Russian Roulette
  5. Chain Through Neck
  6. Penetrating A Plate Glass Window Without Shattering the Glass
Show Three
July 4, 2010
  1. Making a Woman Disappear From a Cabinet and Reappear Somewhere Else
  2. Impaling a Woman With a Sword
  3. Passing Through a Steel Plate
  4. The Twister
  5. Surviving Being Cut Up in a Wood Chipper
Show Four
July 11, 2010
  1. Crushing A Woman With A Steel Plunger
  2. Assistant's Revenge
  3. Sawing a Girl in Half in a Torture Device
  4. Sticking a Rose Through a Girl
  5. Passing Through a Turbofan
Show Three
July 18, 2010

This episode was a repeat of show three in a different order and with a different narrator.

  1. Making a Woman Disappear From a Cabinet and Reappear Somewhere Else
  2. Passing Through a Steel Plate
  3. The Twister
  4. Impaling a Woman With a Sword
  5. Surviving Being Cut Up in a Wood Chipper
Show Five
July 25, 2010
  1. Teleporting From One Oil Drum to Another
  2. Topsy-Turvy (Flipping a Box But Not the Girl Inside It)
  3. Magically Writing On a Slate Board
  4. Cutting a Girl In Three
  5. Teleportation
Show Six
August 1, 2010
  1. Levitating a Girl on a Table
  2. Making Girls Appear in a Crystal Cylinder
  3. "Twilight Zone" Door
  4. Disembodied Princess (Removing the Magician's Torso)
  5. Impaling a Girl on a Spike
Show Seven
August 8, 2010
  1. Houdini's Magic Trunk
  2. Making a Girl's Middle Disappear
  3. Evil Spirit Pyramid - Conjuring Spirits
  4. Catching a Selected Card in the Air with a Sword
  5. Escaping the Blades of Death
Show Eight
August 15, 2010
  1. Magic Barrel (Through the Eye of a Needle)
  2. Houdini's Fish Bowl
  3. Playing Card Through Street Window
  4. Asrah levitation
  5. Making Girls Appear In Mid Air
  6. Holding Breath Under Water For 18 Minutes
Show Nine
August 22, 2010
  1. Making a 1200cc Motorbike Disappear in Mid Air
  2. Spinning a Girl Upside Down
  3. Spirit Room with Disappearing Medium
  4. Levitating a Foot off the Floor
  5. Making a 5 Ton Military Vehicle Appear From Nowhere (In an Empty Parking Lot)
Show Ten
August 29, 2010
  1. Woman Vanishes From Steel Plate In Mid Air
  2. Crushing A Woman With A Steel Plunge
  3. Transformation Of Skeleton To Dummy To A Girl
  4. Floating Through A Solid Steel Frame (No Wires)
  5. Penetrating A Plate Glass Window Without Shattering It
Show Eleven
September 5, 2010
  1. Producing Girls From Within Triangle Screen
  2. Making Live Birds Appear And Vanish From Boxes
  3. Crushing A Woman And Putting Tube Through Her Body
  4. 16 Ton Trolley Car Levitates And Disappears
Show Twelve
September 12, 2010
  1. Making A Girl Vanish In A Giant Game Of Three Card Monte
  2. Creating A Woman From A Cloud Of Smoke
  3. Hand Being Cut Off In Guillotine
  4. Knife Russian Roulette
  5. Dividing A Woman In Three And Head Over Heels
  6. Walking On Water (Surrounded By Spectators)

This list covers only large-scale illusions. Other smaller tricks were exposed in between those listed above.

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