Breaking The Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed - The Original Specials

The Original Specials

The series is made by production company Nash Entertainment. The first four specials featured incognito magician Val Valentino as the Masked Magician performing large-scale illusions and a few smaller-scale close up magic tricks before revealing the secrets of the tricks.

The Masked Magician was promoted as a well-known magician who wore a mask to avoid recrimination from fellow magicians. He revealed his identity in the fourth episode.

The title alluded to the magician's code: the promise by working magicians not to reveal the basis of their tricks, or else risk getting blackballed by fellow magicians.

List of Grand Illusions Revealed
Show One
November 24, 1997
  1. Lady to Tiger
  2. Chinese Lantern
  3. Levitation
  4. Exploding Packing Crate
  5. Zig Zag Girl
  6. Chinese Linking Rings
  7. Metamorphosis
  8. Sawing a Woman in Half (Selbit's Sawing)
  9. Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
  10. Sword Basket
  11. Vanishing Elephant
Show Two
March 3, 1998
  1. Crusher
  2. Teleportation
  3. Lady of Steel
  4. Vanishing Scarves
  5. Walking Through a Solid Brick Wall
  6. Suit of Armor
  7. Shooting an Arrow Through a Woman
  8. Switching Places
  9. Disappearing Doves
  10. Box of Pain
  11. Water Torture Escape
  12. Woman in the Painting*
Show Three
May 5, 1998
  1. Table of Death
  2. Stretcher
  3. Knife Throwing
  4. Haunted House
  5. Bullet Catch
  6. Mismade Girl
  7. Vanishing Tank
  8. Noah's Ark*
Show Four - Unmasking the Magician: The Final Reveal
October 29, 1998
  1. Car Crusher Escape
  2. Cremation
  3. Spike Torture
  4. Guillotine
  5. Buried Alive
  6. Death Trap
  7. The Cannon and the Crate*
This list covers only large-scale illusions. Other smaller tricks were exposed in between those listed above.
* Denotes illusions only shown on the VHS release.

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