Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed | |
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Presented by | List of episodes) |
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Production locations | 516 South Anderson Street, Los Angeles 90033 |
Running time | 1 hour |
Production companies | Nash Entertainment Don Weiner Productions Alfred Haber Distribution |
Original release | |
Network | Fox (1997–2002) MyNetworkTV (2008–2009) |
Release | November 24, 1997 February 21, 2009 | –
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed is a series of television shows in which the methods behind
Cast
The first four specials and the full series 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 performers for the 1997–1998 specials were Sybil Azur, Michelle Berube, Marisa Gilliam, Denise Holland, Kelly Danielle Jones, Jennifer Keyes, Diane Klimaszewski, Elaine Klimaszewski, and Elizabeth Ramos.
The show returned for a special in 2002. Kimi Bateman, Kelly Cooper, Noelle Naone, and Kadee Sweeney performed with the magician (who, for this iteration of the show, was not Valentino, but instead an unknown performer). A 13-part series was televised across 2008 and 2009. Allie Cohen, Lyndsay Haldorson, Samantha Faye Lee, and Lauren Melendez were the principal performers with Paige Peterson appearing in five episodes.
The original series was presented by actor Mitch Pileggi. In the fifth special, Pileggi was replaced by narrator Mark Thompson, who served as the introducer for all the other episodes. Pileggi returned for the revived series where he solely serves as narrator.
Episodes
Production
The series is made by production company Nash Entertainment. 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. The first special, which aired in November 1997, scored the highest ratings for any Fox special to that point; another three specials were broadcast through 1998.[1] Fox returned on May 15, 2002, with Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed 5. A new magician was wearing a new mask with artificial hair, and a purple glistening outfit. It was never revealed who portrayed the magician in this episode.
MyNetworkTV bought thirteen new episodes for broadcast in the U.S. starting in the fall of 2008, with the first episode shown on October 2. They were shot at 516 South Anderson Street in Los Angeles, (34°2′25.7604″N 118°13′27.1668″W / 34.040489000°N 118.224213000°W) during the summer of 2008. The assistants learned the illusion the same day they shot it and filmed four to six illusions per day. These specials were also shown on
appeared in the first episode as part of a trick.There is an Australian version of the show that first aired at 7:30 Monday, June 14, 2010, on
References
- ^ Johnson, Allan (March 3, 1998). "It's No Secret". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- ^ "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed – Episodes". tvb.com. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2010.