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Author: bill page
Date: Jun 6, 2008 16:12

psalso two masked magicians onABC
ABC secrets and ABC more secrets from the books by the author
william poundstone
big secrets, bigger secrets, biggest secrets
AND each books have copperfield illusion in them
BIGGER SECRETS HAS DC LIBERTY VANISH INFO PLUS DRAWING
biggestsecrets has sig frig and roys ilusion reavealed even thelady to
tiger illusionin midair info
plus dc escape from alka traze but they dont explaine how he
melted thru the jail cell?
PS ALSO THERE is CBS FOX masked magician in 1980s
Ps any one can add on to this thread
IF YOU KNOW ANY MORE INPUT:)

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Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
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Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally
Revealed

Title card from the first episode. Subsequent episodes had a number
after "REVEALED."
Format Reality
Documentary
Starring Mitch Pileggi (narrator)
Val Valentino (Masked Magician)
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 5
Production
Running time 1 hour
Broadcast
Original channel FOX Network
Original run November 24, 1997 – October 29, 1998
Breaking the Magicians' Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
was a series of five specials, aired on the FOX Network in the US, and
on Sky and ITV in the UK.

Contents [hide]
1 Val Valentino
2 Subsequent Specials
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Val Valentino
The first four specials featured incognito magician Val Valentino as
the Masked Magician, who performed large-scale illusions and 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.

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

The first four episodes were hosted by Mitch Pileggi.

List of Grand Illusions Revealed
Show One
November 24, 1997 Show Two
March 3, 1998 Show Three
May 5, 1998 Show Four
October 29, 1998 Show Five
May 15, 2002
Lady to Tiger
Levitation
Chinese Lantern (magic trick)
Zig Zag Girl
Exploding Packing Crate
Sawing A Woman In Half
Sword Basket
Metamorphosis
Vanishing Elephant Crusher
Teleportation
Lady of Steel
Suit of Armor
Shooting an Arrow Through
Switching Places
Box of Pain
Water Torture Escape Table of Death
Stretcher
Knife Throwing
Haunted House
Bullet Catch
Mismade Girl
Vanishing Tank Car Crusher Escape
Cremation
Spike Torture
Guillotine
Buried Alive (magic trick)
Death Trap Cutting A woman In Half With A Buzz-saw
Making An Assistant Disappear
Balancing An Assistant On Broom Bristles
Going Through The Portal

This list covers only large-scale illusions. Other tricks were
exposed.

At the end of the fourth show, the Masked Magician unmasked himself,
and revealed that he was Val Valentino.

[edit] Subsequent Specials
At the end of the fourth show, the now-unmasked Val Valentino
announced he would soon star in live magic shows in places like Las
Vegas. On February 23, 2000, Fox broadcast Secrets of Street Magicians
Finally Revealed which featured a masked street magician performing
tricks in the style of David Blaine. Fox returned to the original
format on May 15, 2002, with Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's
Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed 5 - Escape from the Ice. The new
magician was wearing a new mask and a new outfit.

[edit] Trivia
The specials were parodied on the animated television series King of
the Hill[citation needed] during an episode in which Peggy
participated in an illusion involving an exploding pinata, leading
Hank to question her throughout the episode as to how the trick was
performed. During the end credits, the trick is explained by Bobby
Hill, who is seen wearing a replica of the Masked Magician's mask,
which he removes to ask the audience "Please don't tell my dad."

[edit] External links
A YouTube account dedicated to the Masked Magician
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
at the Internet Movie Database
Breaking the Magician's Code 2: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally
Revealed at the Internet Movie Database
Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed 3 at the Internet Movie
Database
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