The Magician - Season 1

In the series opener, Anthony Blake sets out to discover who tried to murder his best friend, Max Pomeroy, a newspaper columnist with an impressive   array   of   enemies. 

A young singer appearing with Tony in Las Vegas has been kidnapped by sinister thugs who plan to collect ransom—and then dump their captive in Lake Mead. 

Tony Blake meets and falls in love with beautiful Joanna Marsh, only to lose her in a tragíc hit-and-run accident.

Blake's life is placed in jeopardy when he seeks the reasons behind a hospitalized young boy's fright and retreat into silence. By making a plant grow before a distrusting woman's eyes, Blake hopes she will provide a clue to the event that traumatized a young man in a backwoods town full of close-mouthed people. While performing his magic act in a hospital, Blake encounters Ian Keefer, a 17-year-old who goes into hysterics when he sees fire in the act. Probing the core of Ian's dilemma takes Blake to Elm Ridge, a southern backwoods town where the people, including Sheriff Platt and Mrs. Thatcher, are fearful, silent and sometimes violent. 

In this strange tale, magician Anthony Blake (Bill Bixby) finds himself trying to prove the innocence of a friend who is accused of murder. The brutal fact is Blake and many others at a party witnessed the friend firing the gun at a man, but he swears he can't remember the shooting. He uses his disappearing magic to help the suspect in an escape plot from the prison hospital.

The magician, Anthony Blake (Bill Bixby), beats a trio of thieves to a long-hidden cache of money and then, with magic, seemingly throws the bills away right before their eyes. Sam Hill (Joe Flynn) causes an accident and ends up in a hospital room with Blake, who also was injured. Blake notes that Hill has amnesia. In efforts to help him regain his memory, Blake finds that Hill was one of four men who robbed a military payroll many years earlier and is the only one of the group who knows where the money is stashed.

Lloyd Nolan guests as a reformed criminal who tries to disassociate with all criminal activities especially a shady prison executive who is masterminding a robbery. 

A young girl with psychic powers (Pamela Franklin) keeps seeing murders before they happen, so she enlists the aid of friend Tony Blake (Bill Bixby.)

In the search of a missing art treasure solid silver cat, Tony tracks a ruthless beauty and her killer panther.

An escape artist is killed while performing his act and Tony goes after a special effects man against the wishes of several people.