TV series
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
Overview
The Masked Magician returns to television to defy his fellow conjurers and disclose the tricks that have captivated audiences for centuries. Nowhere else has a magician dared to expose the secrets behind the world's most mystifying illusions.
Details
- First air date
- 2008-10-02
- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 13 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary, Mystery
- Network
- MyNetworkTV
- Production
- Nash Entertainment
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Val Valentino as Self - Masked Magician
- Allie Cohen as Self - Magic Assistant
- Lyndsay Haldorson as Self - Magic Assistant
- Samantha Faye Lee as Self - Magic Assistant
- Lauren Melendez as Self - Magic Assistant
- Paige Peterson as Self - Magic Assistant
- Mitch Pileggi as Narrator (voice)
Creators and crew
- Val Valentino - Creator
- Bruce Nash - Creator
- Val Valentino - Producer
- Bruce Nash - Producer
Episodes
Episode 1
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including Walking through a Great Wall of Steel; Surviving being cut in half by The Giant Buzz Saw; and Making a Woman Vanish right before your eyes from a magic chair. Plus, the magician has a special illusion in store for his special guests, The WWE Divas.
Episode 2
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including making a 5 ton elephant appear from out of the blue; how to levitate a beautiful woman with no hidden wires; how to make an assistant vanish while standing atop an elevated platform; and the method to slicing a girl into 3 pieces and how to put her back together again.
Episode 3
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including surviving decapitation by a razor sharp Guillotine, Houdini’s death defying Milk Can Escape, how to survive pulling a heavy steel chain through your neck, and one of Magic’s most spectacular tricks: levitating over a three story building in broad daylight.
Episode 4
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including making a 3 ton truck disappear in the blink of an eye, pulling an auto registration through the windshield of a car, biting an ordinary quarter in two with your teeth, and walking through the spinning blades of an industrial turbo fan.
Episode 5
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including walking through a sheet of solid steel, bending a spoon using only the power of the mind, levitating the legendary zombie ball and surviving being ground into pieces by a powerful wood chipper.
Episode 6
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including escaping from a solid steel drum filled with water, making an ordinary dollar bill float into the air and slicing an assistant into three pieces in the classic Zig-Zag.
Episode 7
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including surviving decapitation by a razor sharp Guillotine, Houdini’s death defying Milk Can Escape, how to survive pulling a heavy steel chain through your neck, and one of Magic’s most spectacular tricks: levitating over a three story building in broad daylight.
Episode 8
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including how to making a girl’s torso disappear while standing in the middle of an ordinary room, conjuring spirits and making them appear in an empty teepee, and surviving the fiery blades of death.
Episode 9
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including how to make a playing card pass through a solid glass window, making a girl levitate then disappear into thin air, and how to survive underwater while holding your breath for a world record 18 minutes.
Episode 10
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including how to make a motorcycle vanish in mid-air, making ghostly apparitions appear in a spirit séance and the secret to making a 2-ton military vehicle appear from nowhere.
Episode 11
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including how to walk through a solid pane of glass, making a beautiful girl vanish in a puff of smoke, and how to levitate into the air and pass through giant hoops made of steel.
Episode 12
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including how to turn an ordinary cup of coffee into a cup filled with coins, making birds appear from inside an empty box and levitating a trolley car high into the air and then making it vanish in the blink of an eye.
Episode 13
The Masked Magician reveals the secrets behind Magic’s biggest illusions including how a world famous street magician pulled off the ultimate trick: walking on water, slicing off a woman’s hand with a sharp blade and then reattaching it again, and how to take an empty enchanted throne and, with a puff of smoke, make a beautiful assistant appear from nowhere.
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