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Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (1997)

Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 13 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 157 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A masked magician performs and explains how famous magic tricks and illusions are done. The show reveals the secrets behind the magic in a warehouse setting with no audience.

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What happens

Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed is a series of television shows and specials in which the methods behind magic tricks and illusions are explained by a narrator and are performed in a warehouse in the United States with no audience, by an unknown "world class" magician known as the "masked magician" who does not speak and wears a mask on the show to protect their identity and career. This "masked magician" is also assisted for many tricks performed on the show by a group of female assistants and normal stagehands, who also do not speak but do not have their face masked, as they are not the masked magician's regular assistants and stagehands. In its original incarnation there were four shows in 1997–1998 and a special in 2002 broadcast on the Fox network in the United States, and on Sky and ITV in the United Kingdom. In 2008–2009, a new series of thirteen shows was broadcast by MyNetworkTV in the United States and ITV4 in the United Kingdom. On May 1, 2012, reruns of the first season began airing on BIO in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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