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- DirectorDon WeinerStarsMitch PileggiMark ThompsonSybil AzurThe following "big" secrets are revealed: Lady to a Tiger in a Cage, Levitating a Lady, Chinese Lantern (From Shadow to Flesh), Zig Zag Lady, Exploding Crate, Sawing a Lady in Half, Lady in a Sword Basket, Elephant Vanishing from a Cage.
- 19981h7.9 (304)TV SpecialDirectorDon WeinerStarsMitch PileggiMark ThompsonSybil AzurThe "big" secrets revealed: Crushing a Lady, Teleporting Lady, Tranced Lady of Steel, Walking Through a Wall, Animating a Suit of Armor, Shooting an Arrow Through a Lady, Switching Places with Executioner, Box of Pain, Water Torture Escape.
- 199850m7.9 (238)TV SpecialDirectorDon WeinerStarsMitch PileggiMark ThompsonSybil AzurThe "big" secrets revealed: Escape from the Impaling Bed, The Stretch(ing Lady), Throwing Knives, Haunted (Doll)House, Catching a Bullet, The Mismatched Girl (in a stack of boxes), Vanishing Tank.
- DirectorDon WeinerStarsMitch PileggiMark ThompsonVal ValentinoThe following "big" secrets are revealed: Escape from... 1) Car Crush, 2) Cremation, Spike Torture, Surviving a Guillotine, Buried Alive (and Rising from the Grave), Death Trap (Falling onto Flaming Spikes), the Magician's Identity.
- DirectorAlan CarterStarsRobert UrichTHE HIDDEN SECRETS OF MAGIC is a one hour special that tells the story and secrets of the magical feats that have gained legendary status worldwide.
- StarsHarry AndersonCriss AngelDiscover the real razzle-dazzle behind the power of hocus-pocus! Join host Harry Anderson as he gives you a behind-the-scenes tour through cunning misdirections, optical illusions, and manipulations of geometry. The Science of Magic reveals trade secrets you thought you would never learn. See how audiences are mystified by daring sleights of hand. Watch closely. Perhaps you'll be the next Houdini!
- DirectorPhil NoyesHarry PallenbergStarsCriss AngelGay BlackstoneLance BurtonAbout Magic Assistants. The one who distorts her body into impossible positions while the magician cuts her in pieces, sets her on fire and says TAA DAA. Who's the real magician?
- DirectorSimon WithingtonStarsMartin DanielsAlan AlanDave AllenA compilation of illusions that went disastrously wrong, including a number of near fatal cases. Also featuring a discussion of some of magic's most dangerous acts and mishaps featuring world famous magicians.
- DirectorHelen AlbonStarsFay RipleyDynamoTamara EcclestoneA two-hour special compiling and ranking 50 of the greatest magic tricks ever seen on TV.
- StarsAdam BuxtonJoe CornishThe Amazing JohnathanThis is an excellent compilation of 50 superlative magical tricks and many are on show for the first time.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldPeter CareStarsDavid CopperfieldClaudia SchifferKim AlexisThis is a TV special/documentary in which David Copperfield is interviewed in his Magic Warehouse by his girlfriend, the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, about his career as an illusionist, speaking primarily of the most famous illusions and escapes performed over a period of about 15 years. The illusions shown are taken from 8 TV specials between The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (1981) and The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires of Passion (1993) and are 12: "Train Car Vanish" (1991), "Amazon Ritual" (aka "Burning Rope Escape" and "Fires Of Passion") (1993), "Graffiti Wall" (1992), "Cocoon" (aka "Passion's Prison") (1993), "Lear Jet Vanish" (1981), "Death Saw" (1988), "Brazilian Water Levitation" (1991), "Statue Of Liberty Disappears" (1983), "Touch The Magic - Destinations Of Flight" (1992), "Walking Through The Great Wall Of China" (1986), "Building Implosion" (1989) and "Flying" (1992). However several illusions are reedited in audio and video to be shorter, even by several minutes, removing first the respective explanations. Five short montages without either dialogues or sound effects are shown along the steps of the interview, and each of them, accompanied by a different song or instrumental music, shows various other illusions only in the related significant phases, and further are just mentioned for few seconds. This TV special/documentary is the only one also officially released on VHS and DVD-Video, but with the title "DAVID COPPERFIELD - ILLUSION", printed on the cover and also shown before the beginning of the special. Released in 2000 as SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION, this home video release presents further differences from the original version aired on CBS in 1994: it also shows 3 illusions taken from The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Unexplained Forces (1995): "Grandpa's Four Aces", "Barclay House" and "Snow", and presents different closing credits. The release on DVD-Video presents a main menu that allows instant access to 13 illusions and to the extras, which include the choice of language between the original English audio and a Spanish dubbing, and an optional audio commentary by Copperfield himself, which accompanies the entire documentary.
- DirectorChristoph BaadenMarcie HumeStarsJon ArmstrongBrian GillisDavid Minkin"MAGICIANS follows four world-class magicians on stage and off, exploring how and why these characters so passionately dedicate their lives to the craft of illusion. Their journey takes us from the most humbling of road gigs to grand performances on the biggest of stages, from finding love to terrible personal loss; and to the prospect of losing everything for a dream others don't understand. As we come to understand why each is obsessively chasing his own dream, we'll discover the unhidden secret: far more fascinating than the magic are the magicians themselves."
- 20121h 28mNot Rated7.1 (1K)79MetascoreDirectorMolly BernsteinStarsRicky JayWinston SimoneDick CavettRicky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) -- and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Deceptive Practice traces Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. Featuring rare footage from his 1970s TV appearances (doing 3-card Monte with Steve Martin on The Dinah Shore Show) and told in Jay's inimitable voice, this is a remarkable journey inside the secretive world of magic and the small circle of eccentrics who are its perpetual devotees.
- StarsLance BurtonBrett DanielsGreg FrewinA magic special from Las Vegas, featuring some of the world's greatest magic
- DirectorKent WeedStarsThe Amazing JohnathanDirk ArthurScott BeringerThis fantastic show searches the globe for the greatest magicians, illusionists, close-up workers, comedy magicians and mind readers for an epic performance together at Caesars Palace.
- StarsJohn RitterBob ArnoDirk ArtherIn one night, 18 magicians from around the world perform their all time best, creating a magic show to amaze and excite all audiences.
- DirectorKent WeedStarsJohn RitterJoaquin AyalaLilia AyalaThe fourth annual celebration of magic, mystery and grand illusion featuring twenty of the most talented magicians at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
- DirectorKent WeedStarsJohn RitterMichael AmmarHarry AndersonThis fifth special in the long-running series features an impossible mega-illusion where Baywatch star Kelly Packard gets beamed across the Grand Canyon – without any camera tricks!
- DirectorKent WeedStarsLuís de MatosGreg FrewinLorenzo Lamas
- DirectorKent WeedStarsBrett DanielsLuís de MatosGalina
- DirectorAlan CarterStarsMichael GrandinettiDean GunnarsonSteve WyrickLeading magicians and escapologists attempt a series of tricks and stunts that put them in serious danger.
- DirectorRon KantorStarsTony Randall
- DirectorSteven J. SantosStarsPenn JilletteTeller
- StarsPenn JilletteTellerJonathan BurnsHowie Mandel anguishes over a trick that turns his 2 $100 bills into a $1 and a red piece of paper. Viewers, adults and children, perform trick taught in first episode. Finally, the duo leads cast of Nancy Drew and viewers in a cool trick.
- DirectorAndrew J. GolderStarsPenn JilletteTellerMichael CarbonaroPenn hands a tin foil ball for magicians to perform with. A magician shows how to perform a rising pencil in a vase trick. Shin Lin fools the boys for a third time. Finally, Penn guides Dakota and Elle Fanning to do a trick from home.
- DirectorStar PriceStarsAaron CarterPenn JilletteDaran NorrisPenn and Tell practice their unique brand of magic and comedy in the Carribean and underwater.
- DirectorDeclan LowneyStarsPenn JilletteTellerKari ColemanMore terror/magic hijinks from Penn & Teller, with support from some other players. Paul Provenza spends the whole show trapped in a system of giant tubes. Skits include a new director and an auditioning starlet who can and will do anything, and the Three Stooges on a construction project. Other notable tricks include earthworms finding a photo from a stack, a borrowed ring apparently cut from a volunteer's stomach, and a bullet swap.
- DirectorJohn MoffittStarsPenn JilletteTellerVictoria JacksonPenn and/or Teller play with mirrors, teach 900 people to make a hankie disappear, play with clear acrylic boxes, turn marshmallows into tools of violence, do some erotic fire-eating, become the King of Animal Traps, produce bees without end, make Jane Curtin do a magic trick with a needle, dental floss, and her pierced ear, and drive a truck filled with concrete over Teller.
- DirectorBob BalabanStarsPenn JilletteTellerDonald AcreeA pair of magicians perform a magic trick involving "invisible thread" which could affect the fate of human existence.
- DirectorCordelia StoneStarsPenn JilletteTellerPenn reads "Casey at the Bat" while Teller escapes from a straight jacket; Penn does a not-wimpy card trick; Teller gives the illusion of reality with a cigarette; Penn eats fire; and the guys show you a trick you can do at home, if you don't mind taping over Masterpiece Theatre.
- DirectorArt WolffStarsPenn JilletteTellerLydia LunchPenn and Teller show you seven ways to con your slow-minded friends out of their ill-gotten cash with the help of their interactive videotape.
- DirectorCriss AngelStarsCriss AngelSteve AokiBanachekThe "Magician of the Century," illusionist Criss Angel dares to transcend boundaries once again. With more than 30 illusions, "Trick'd Up" gives an uncensored look at Criss as he astounds audiences with new revolutionary demonstrations.
- DirectorDave HardingStarsCriss Angel
- DirectorDave HardingStarsCriss Angel
- DirectorMatthew AkersStarsDavid BeckhamDavid BlaineDave ChappelleMagic meets documentary in the one-hour special, as Blaine blows the minds of the most recognizable celebrities in the world, including David Beckham, Johnny Depp, Drake, Steph Curry, Dave Chappelle, John Travolta, Patrick Stewart, Emma Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others.
- DirectorMatthew AkersStarsDavid BlaineHadji AliWoody AllenMagician David Blaine ventures across America from New York to Los Angeles, performing to various celebrities and the general public.
- DirectorJacob SeptimusMichael DimichDavid BlaineStarsDavid BlaineBob BrownWilliam KalushDavid Blaine does it again. With 'Vertigo', we see some more incredible magic and unusual illusions. Intercut with the Magic is David - standing on a pole in NY for two days. A pole that seemed to be extended 10 stories tall with nothing for him to hang on to - and there was nothing to catch him. This portion of the program was live and at the end of the show - he jumped into a stack of cardboard boxes.
- DirectorMatthew AkersStarsLuke AikinsMike BauwensDavid BlaineDavid Blaine will redefine magic once again for an unprecedented live event at a time when the world could use a positive distraction.
- StarsEmily BluntJohn KrasinskiBryan CranstonBlaine's famous friends make appearances and allow him to work his mysterious talents on them.
- DirectorDavid BlaineStarsDavid BlaineOrlando BloomKevin 'Kimbo Slice' FergusonBlaine enters the Hurricane stricken Ninth Ward in New Orleans and changes some people's luck. When he returns home to New York City, viewers see him doing magic for some of his friends, including Orlando Bloom, John Mayer and the Super Bowl Champion NY Giants.
- DirectorRoger GoodmanStarsDavid BlaineMorgan StreblerJosh TurnerDavid Blaine well we all know He's a weirdo!
- DirectorRoger GoodmanBob TalbotStarsDavid BlaineStuart ScottFor seven days and seven nights, Blaine is submerged in 10,000 gallons of water in front of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Liver damage, kidney failure, loss of feeling in fingers and toes threaten his attempt to break the world record of 8 minutes 58 seconds for underwater breath-holding in Drowned Alive.
- DirectorHarmony KorineSteve SmithStarsDavid Blaine
- StarsDavid BlaineRobin RolesFearless is a collection of David Blaine's three TV specials, "Street Magic," "Magic Man," and "Frozen In Time."
- DirectorRoger GoodmanStarsDavid BlaineKevin SpaceyLenny KravitzStreet magician, David Blaine, attempts to freeze himself within a block of ice for 72 hours. The hour includes pre-taped footage of Blaine's preparation for the trick and his entry into the icy hangout, as well as segments of Blaine stumping pedestrians with his hip brand of sleight of hand and trickery.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsDavid BlaineUri GellerRobin RolesThe magician performs on city streets and travels to the jungles of Haiti and South America mystifying various bystanders, strangers and a few celebrities with his unique brand of street magic.
- DirectorDavid BlaineStarsDavid BlaineLeonardo DiCaprioEdward O'BlenisIn this show David Blaine amazes people with his magic and use of optical illusions. There are no gimmicks, rules, or tricks just pure talent.
- DirectorPaul MillerStarsThe Amazing JohnathanKristy ClarkErica JonesStand up comedian/magician, The Amazing Johnathan, comes to the stage and Comedy Central in this one-hour, stand-up special. Check out Jonathan while he shows the audience that convincing magic is harder than it looks.
- DirectorThe Amazing JohnathanStarsThe Amazing JohnathanPenny WigginsJoin The Amazing Johnathan in this hilarious 80 minute DVD. Shot live at the The Palms at Crown Melbourne, Australia.
- DirectorBob HenryStarsDavid CopperfieldCarl BallantineValerie BertinelliThis is the first official Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Orson Welles and broadcasted on CBS like all the following ones, while the previous year he has been the star and conductor of the ABC special The Magic of ABC (1977), which marked his debut on television. The official title "THE MAGIC OF DAVID COPPERFIELD" is shown through an homonymous book left on a carpet that is framed at the beginning, and also appears in the head of the closing credits. The stars of this special are 7 and the illusions performed are: "Vanishing Silk" (aka "Metamorphosis"), "Card Manipulation", "Date With A Magician" (aka "Divide And Conquer"), "Dancing Cane", "Levitating A Lady", "Carl Ballantine Comedy Magic" (performed by Carl Ballantine), "Psycho Shower Scene", "Dancing Handkerchief", "David Cut In Half Lengthwise", "Orson Welles Mentalism Spot" (performed by Orson Welles) and "Asrah Levitation" (aka "Illusion With Bernadette Peters 'Higher and Higher' ").
- DirectorStan HarrisStarsDavid CopperfieldLoni AndersonValerie BertinelliThis is the second CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Bill Bixby, but is still titled "THE MAGIC OF DAVID COPPERFIELD", without the number "II" with which is better known. For the first time David Copperfield is also co-writer, and besides the 6 stars accredited in the opening titles several unknown characters also appeared. The illusions performed are: "Tower Illusion", "Floating Mirror Ball" (aka "Floating Ballroom Mirror Ball"), "Loni's Poster", "The Jewel Thief", "Torn And Restored Cue Card", "The Alan Alan Great Escape" (performed by Alan Alan), "Ring Flight", "Cigarette Through Quarter", "The 50's", "Orange, Lemon, Egg And Canary", "Memories" (aka "The Attic"), "The Detective" and at the end a kind of conclusion of "Loni's Poster".
- DirectorStan HarrisStarsDavid CopperfieldJack KlugmanDebby BooneThis is the third CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jack Klugman, and is the first one to be numbered. In fact it is officially titled "The Magic Of DAVID COPPERFIELD III", even if it is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari", in which "Levitating Ferrari" is a reference to the second illusion, given that never before an illusionist has been able to levitate (and then vanish in midair) an object as big and heavy as a 60.000 $ Ferrari. So, the illusions performed are: "Appearing Car Keys", "Floating Ferrari", "The Couple", "Ring Finger", "Broken Heart", "Art Gallery" (aka "Linking Rings"), "Shimada Parasol Act" (performed by Haruo Shimada), "Record Album Prediction" (aka "Record Albums") and "David's Fable" (aka "The Fable"). In the opening titles 6 stars are accredited and in the last illusion a duck appears for the first time, and Copperfield often will ripropose it in future illusions, revealing also the name, not yet known to the audience.
- DirectorSid SmithStarsDavid CopperfieldJason RobardsSusan AntonThis is the 4th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jason Robards and then presented by David Copperfield himself, inside a flying Lear Jet. For the first time he is also the producer. This special is officially titled "THE MAGIC OF David COPPERFIELD", but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane", in which "The Vanishing Airplane" is a reference to the last illusion, a feat that for the first time in the history of magic had to be performed in the open, outside the television studios, because of the dimensions of the object: a Gates Lear Jet model 25, year 1976, registration number N564CL, 7 tonnes, produced by Gates Learjet Corporation. And never before an illusionist has been able to vanish an airplane, or in any case something that big. To demonstrate the absolute absence of camera tricks or video effects, the illusion itself has been filmed in long take. The Lear Jet is surrounded at 360 degrees by a ring of 40 blindfolded spectators and also by external walls that have hidden all within a square area. Until a few seconds before the disappearance, only the shadows of the Lear Jet and of the ring of spectators were visible on the front wall thanks to some headlights. So, the illusions performed are: "Jet Emblem Vanish", "Picture Frame Illusion", "Zig-Zag Laser" (aka "Upside Down Laser Cutting"), "Doll To Life" (aka "The Ballerina"), "Clubhouse", "Finger Ring In Rose" (aka "Ring Flight To Rose"), "Love Isn't Just For The Young", "Levitating A Boy", "C.J.'s Card Trick" and then "Lear Jet Vanish", which is also one of the few illusions no more repeated by Copperfield during his own career.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldRon MeraskaStarsDavid CopperfieldMorgan FairchildMichele LeeThis is the Statue of Liberty. Tonight, the illusion of the century. David Copperfield will attempt to make the Statue of Liberty disappear. So begins the 5th CBS Copperfield TV special. It is officially titled "THE MAGIC OF David COPPERFIELD V" but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears". The Statue of Liberty Disappears is a reference to the last illusion.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldJeff MargolisStarsDavid CopperfieldRicardo MontalbanBonnie TylerThis is the 6th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Ricardo Montalban. It is officially titled "THE MAGIC OF David Copperfield VI" but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over the Grand Canyon", in witch "Floating Over the Grand Canyon" is a reference to the first illusion, given that for the first time David Copperfield performs an illusion in witch he floats in midair. This illusion is one of the few no more repeated, and also one of the few conceived and filmed for the TV audience only, since it was not possible to have a live audience. However in this special he finally reveals the name of his duck, called "pet duck Webster" and showed for the first time in the "David's Fable" illusion, the last one of the third special. So, the illusions performed are: "Grand Canyon Levitation", "Vanishing Giraffe Neck", "The Girl And Her Bird", "Instant Photo" (aka "Kids Allisa And Bo"), "Love Magic Lost" (aka "One More Night"), "Audience Jumping Rubber Bands" (aka "Project Magic", that is first a rehabilitation program founded by Copperfield in 1982), "Slow-Mo Duck" and "Escape From Death". This last feat is the first escapology number that Copperfield presents in a special, never performed before by anybody, and inspired to an illusionist of the past, Harry Houdini. During this escape, Montalban shows the Copperfield's parents, Hyman Kotkin and Rebecca Kotkin, who make their first appearance among the spectators in a Copperfield TV special.
- DirectorPaul MillerStarsDavid CopperfieldAngie DickinsonTeri CopleyThis is the 7th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Angie Dickinson. It is officially titled "The Magic Of David Copperfield VII" but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield VII: Familiares". The illusions performed are: "Video To Life (Part 1)", "Webster The Mind-Reading Duck", "The Painter" (aka "Paintings To Life"), "Run Duck Run", "Psycho Shower Scene", "Let's Burn A Deal", "Father And Son" and "Video To Life (Part 2)". In both parts of "Video To Life" a video is projected onto the front of an empty box, raised from the ground, and David Copperfield is able to interact laterally with the video through an opening in the right side of the box, taking objects from it and putting other things in there. In the process various people visible through the video also come out from this opening and then return into it, but each time that the projected video is suspended and the front side is open the box is always empty. "Part 1" ends with an elephant appearing into the box, while in "Part 2" it is the host Angie Dickinson herself to appear inside the box, on a motorcycle, ready to take Copperfield offstage with herself, an action visible through the video projected on the screen as soon as the box is closed.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldStan HarrisStarsDavid CopperfieldBen VereenThis is the 8th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Ben Vereen and is the first and only one filmed outside USA, and set entirely in China, to allow David Copperfield to perform the last illusion. Not coincidentally it is officially titled "The Magic of DAVID COPPERFIELD - CHINA", even though it is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield VIII: Walking Through the Great Wall of China", in which "Walking Through the Great Wall of China" is a reference to the last illusion, given that never before an illusionist has been able to perform a similar feat. So, the illusions performed are: "Crystal Smoke Chamber", "Chinese Coin In Orange", "Broken And Restored Thread", "Pearl Production", "Boy Levitation", "Seeing Through A Woman", "Levitating A Woman", "Mr. Roger's Bandana Trick" (aka "Banana Bandana"), "Restoring A Bicycle", "Crazy Man's Handcuffs", "Chopstick Through Coin" and then "Walking Through The Great Wall Of China". Just like some of his previous illusions, this last one has been filmed in long take, on September 1985, and is one of the few illusions no more repeated. This special is also the last one produced by The Cates Brothers Company, that has produced all the earlier ones.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldGary HalvorsonStarsDavid CopperfieldAnn JillianAl CaponeThis is the 9th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Ann Jillian after a short presentation by David Copperfield himself from the Alcatraz prison's beacon. It is the first one to include officially in the title the name of the last illusion, that is "Escape From Alcatraz". Copperfield has chosen just this prison because of its reputation: Alcatraz, nicknamed "The Rock" or also "The Bastion", was opened on August 11th, 1934, as a maximum security federal prison, and has operated for 29 years, until the close of March 21th, 1963, caused by the high costs of maintenance and use. Then, in 1972, it was reopened as a tourist attraction. However, its reputation mainly comes from two reasons: it has held some of the most notorious criminals in American history, as Al Capone or George Kelly, and of the 14 escape attempts only the one of June 11th, 1962, has still not evidence of failure, after decades of FBI investigation. And Copperfield is the only illusionist that has performed his attempt, that is also one of the few escapes no more repeated. So, the illusions performed are: "Table Of Death", "Death Defying Duck", "On The Edge", "Dream Vision", "Duck-O-Matic", "Kid-O-Matic", "Reverse Duck/Kid-O-Matic" and then "Escape From Alcatraz". In addition to this feat, during this special's closing credits he performs a gag that somehow represents an opposite challenge: he can't get into his car because it is locked and the problem is that the same key is inserted in the dashboard's lock. He tries different ways to force the door but fails... This special is the first one produced by the Copperfield's first production company, and no more by the previous one, The Cates Brothers Company.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldGary HalvorsonStarsDavid CopperfieldLisa HartmanDawn Marie SwatchickThis is the 10th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Lisa Hartman and then presented by David Copperfield himself, from a huge triangular platform floating on the Atlantic Ocean. For the first time he is also the executive producer, and this special is the first and only one titled with a natural number ("10") in place of the equivalent roman one ("X"). The shown platform has been built to allow Copperfield to perform the last illusion, named "Bermuda Triangle", as expressed in this special's title. The feat that Copperfield wants to perform is to enter just before the dawn in the parallel hidden dimension present inside the Bermuda Triangle and, more important, to be the first person ever to return alive, given that nothing that entered in this parallel dimension has ever been able to come back. This illusion is one of the few no more repeated, and also one of the few conceived and filmed for the TV audience only, since it was not possible to have a live audience. So, the illusions performed are: "Death Saw", "Sailing Montage" (a montage of three illusions, known as "Sunglasses Routine", "Floating On The Beach" and "Coal To Diamond"), "Run Duck Run", "Poultry In Motion" (aka "Webster And Consuelo"), "Floating Match", "Poultry In Motion Reversed" (aka "Webster And Consuelo Restored" and "Baby Ducks") and then "Bermuda Triangle". During his own career Copperfield has performed several escapes, and "Death Saw", filmed in long take, is one of the few conceived to go wrong in order to increase suspense. In fact, before performing it, Copperfield himself tells the audience: «I'm going to be attempting an escape. That's true. But I guarantee you it's an escape like... you have never seen before», and the execution proves this to be true: because of a damage to the motor of the saw, the latter drops on Copperfield before the expiration of the 60 seconds allowed to save himself, so he remains sawed in half in full view, without any cover. After the separation of the two parts of his body, he is still able to move his feet.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldMichael DimichStarsDavid CopperfieldEmma SammsD.A. HänksDavid Copperfield performs illusions; at the end, he must escape from a hotel that is about to be demolished.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldMichael DimichStarsDavid CopperfieldKim AlexisPenn JilletteThis is the 12th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by a voice offstage who describes the location of the escape that David Copperfield will perform in this special as his last challenge: the Niagara Falls. Just like his 5th special, this one is not introduced by a host. During the opening credits Copperfield reaches the stage from the backstage on his Harley Davidson, ready to use it to perform the first illusion. So, the illusions performed are: "Motorcycle Vanish", "Camera Trick" (aka "Camera Vanish"), "Cardiographic" (aka "Card From Paper"), "Slicer", "Misled" (aka "Pencil Through $100 Bill"), "Walking Through A Mirror", "Ring On The Hourglass", "Memories" (aka "The Attic") and then "Niagara Falls Challenge". For this feat Copperfield has his hands and feet chained to an axle which is almost entirely covered by a yellow steel box (leaving only his hands and legs exposed) and then suspended in midair by chains inside a cubic platform built over a raft. A Jet Ski is attached to the raft, and the raft is set on fire, raised from the lawn and dropped in the middle of the river, at about 152 meters, or 500 feet, from the falls. Copperfield has less than 60 seconds to escape from the box, detach the Jet Ski and rise upstream before the raft goes over the edge of the falls, with a vertical drop of about 51 meters, or 167 feet. This feat has been filmed in long take and is one of the few escapes no more repeated. This is the first CBS Copperfield TV special produced by his own production company DCDI Productions, that will also produce all the following ones.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldMichael DimichStarsDavid CopperfieldJane SeymourThis is the 13th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jane Seymour, and the third and last one in which David Copperfield enters the scene on his Harley Davidson. The location is not a stage but a train station, in which Copperfield will perform both the first and the last illusion. So, the illusions performed are: "Motorcycle To Women" (aka "Motorcycle Metamorphosis"), "Torn Card On Train Window", "Head Mover", "Cut And Restored Rope", "Brazilian Water Levitation", "Card In Balloon", "Floating Rose", "Big Black Box", "Touch The Magic - Train Cards" (aka "Interactive Train Effect") and then "Train Car Vanish". This is a TV special in which 2 illusions have been performed on a train, the Orient Express, and the second of them, "Touch The Magic - Train Cards", is an interactive game conceived for an active participation of the TV audience. The last illusion, filmed in long take and no more repeated, is the levitation and the disappearance in midair of a 25,9 meters (or 85 feet) of steel and iron Orient Express dining car, 70 tonnes heavy. This illusion shares some similarities with "Floating Ferrari", the one performed in 1980 in the third TV special, in which the object levitated and vanished in midair was a Ferrari, and also with "Lear Jet Vanish", performed in 1981 in the 4th TV special, which also had a ring of spectators who surrounded a big object at 360 degrees.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldMichael DimichStarsDavid CopperfieldJames Earl JonesOrson WellesThis is the 14th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host James Earl Jones, who talks about the "flying dream" while David Copperfield is sitting at a large desk in a room where the window illuminates only the desk itself. The illusions performed are: "Heaven On The Seventh Floor" (aka "Elevator"), "Interlude", "Graffiti Wall", "Squeeze Box", "Mind Control", "Orson Welles From Beyond", "Touch The Magic - Destinations Of Flight" (the second of the interactive games performed in four specials), "Flying" and then "Flying Outside Of The Theater". "Flying" is an illusion for which Copperfield had worked for seven years, much more than any other one. Before performing it, he invites a part of the audience to go on stage to see the illusion close up, and makes them sit to the left of the stage itself, then asks two people to examine a plexiglas container. So, he sits on stage and begins to tell that he dreamed to fly since he was a child, a child who felt lonely. At the end of his story he shows a black and white short montage in which other people in the past shared his dream but failed. Then, while he is lying on stage, a falcon named Icarus that is standing on his left hand starts flying. So, Copperfield begins his own performance, flying freely for several minutes and also flying into the plexiglas container, and then flying again freely but with a girl held on to his arms. Before the beginning of this special's closing credits Copperfield exits the theater among the audience and at this point in front of a camera he performs the last illusion, "Flying Outside Of The Theater", toward the night sky. Immediately after that, the falcon does the same thing from a branch.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldMichael DimichStarsDavid CopperfieldWayne GretzkyHarry HoudiniThis is the 15th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced from Caesars Palace by David Copperfield himself, who describes an escapology number which would be performed in this location as the last feat of the special and is inspired by an illusionist of the past, Harry Houdini. Two assistants put a strait jacket on Copperfield and then wire his feet on some ropes fixed to a round platform which in turn is fixed to three ropes which will raise all in air, so Copperfield will come to be upside down, dangling in the air at 10 stories (or 33 meters, or 108 feet) on the stage. At this point the assistants set fire to the platform and to the three ropes. In addition, on the stage they place exactly under Copperfield two rectangular frames which support vertically dozens of steel and sharp spears, and then they also set fire to them. Copperfield has about two minutes to free himself and to grab a lifeline before the fire breaks the three ropes and drops him on the spears. So, the illusions performed are: "Flying Entrance", "Cocoon" (aka "Passion's Prison"), "Air Coppers" (aka "Ring Flight"), "Blueprint For Mystery", "$500,000 Challenge" (aka "Torn And Restored Baseball Card"), "After Hours" (aka "Vertical Asrah"), "Shot Through The Heart", "Touch The Magic - A Miracle In Your Home" (the third and penultimate of the interactive games performed in four specials) and then "Amazon Ritual" (aka "Burning Rope Escape" and "Fires Of Passion"). The "$500,000 Challenge" illusion is the first and only one that Copperfield has performed, with his host Wayne Gretzky, in a pre-recorded video set in his own Magic Warehouse and that he showed to the spectators in the theater via a monitor. Instead "Amazon Ritual" is an escape filmed at Caesars Palace and is one of the few escapes no more repeated.
- DirectorMichael DimichStarsDavid CopperfieldThis is the 16th and penultimate CBS Copperfield TV special, which six years later will be followed by the 17th and last one, Copperfield: Tornado of Fire (2001). The special is introduced by a voice offstage who talks about Barclay House, the set of the penultimate illusion of the special. The illusion in question is composed by four phases and the first of them consists in turn of four parts. All the phases regard the presence and manifestation of ghosts and spirits remained in the upper room which somehow escaped the destruction of a house that burned down because of a lightning during a storm. The room has a pentagonal shape and has been rebuilt on the stage, on which David Copperfield brings two boys and a girl from the audience. Then he asks the boys to tie his hands, back and neck, and then the ankles to the legs of a chair inserted into the room. This condition serves to prevent Copperfield from moving himself into the room itself and manipulating objects within it. Meantime an assistant put into the room a jacket and a box containing various objects including newspapers and a bell. The four parts of the first phase consist in the interaction of the ghosts and spirits with the objects placed in the room. In the second phase Copperfield asks the three spectators to enter the room and to blindfold themselves. At this point the two frontal walls of the room close themselves to hide the interior and then spark everywhere. At last, all five walls open themselves to show that the three spectators have disappeared from the stage. After a few seconds the room turns to ash because of several consecutive explosions from its interior. In the third phase five sheets that come from the stage begin to float in the theater going into the most different routes over the heads of the audience, until the lights go out, leaving everything in complete darkness for a few seconds. In the four and last phase, there is the reappearance on the stage of the three spectators: a table and a scaffolding are placed on the stage, on the scaffolding four sheets have been hung to hide the four sides of the space above the table, and when three shadows appear on the front sheet, the latter is dropped to show the three spectators standing on the table, still blindfolded. So the illusions performed are: "The Fan", "Vanishing Egg", "Floating Table", "The Blade", "Grandpa's Four Aces", "Touch The Magic - The Clock" (aka "Interactive Clock Illusion", the 4th and last of the interactive games performed beginning with the 13th special), "Barclay House" and then "Snow". At the end of this last illusion all the snow produced by the Copperfield's hands spreads in all the hall of the theater.
- DirectorEamon HarringtonStarsDavid CopperfieldAn hour of magic and illusion featuring magician David Copperfield performing great escapes.
- DirectorDavid CopperfieldMichael DimichStarsDavid CopperfieldCarson DalyHyman KotkinThis is the 17th and last CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Carson Daly and produced six years after the 16th and penultimate one, The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Unexplained Forces (1995). It is the only TV special with a feat broadcasted live (in USA only) from New York City (the place where both David Copperfield and Carson Daly are present) at the end of the broadcast of a free show performed, filmed and edited three months earlier, in January in a theater in Memphis, Tennessee. The TV special is officially titled "COPPERFIELD - TORNADO OF FIRE", but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield XVII: Tornado of Fire", in which "Tornado of Fire" is a reference to such feat, which is not an illusion or escape but a test of courage and endurance, filmed in long take and no more repeated. Before the beginning of the pre-recorded show, that is the only one filmed in a surrounded stage, Copperfield explains the reason of this stunt, saying that when he was six years old he and his family escaped a fire that destroyed his uncle's house, and ever since then he started having nightmares of dying in a fire. Then he realized that the best way to overcome his fears is to deal with them. He will perform this stunt after months of testing with dummies, positioning them at the center of an artificial tornado of fire of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (or 1,093 degrees Celsius). The tornado was generated to be an F2 on the Fujita scale. This TV special is actually constituted by a double climax: the other one is the last illusion of the pre-recorded show and during the show itself there are several phases of preparation of it. In fact, Copperfield talks about it since the beginning, before the first illusion, describing it as an instant travel to the "perfect place". This illusion is called "The Disappearance" or "Portal", and to perform it, he invites a boy from the audience to climb with him a thin platform present on the stage which will be raised during the illusion to prevent anyone from getting on or off without being seen. Then they hide themselves with a sheet and after a few seconds disappear from the theater in Tennessee, to appear a few seconds later in the "perfect place", which in this specific case is the shore of the beach in the Hawaii island, where the boy finds his father and reunites with him, and where an assistant is present with a camera to show live the place to the audience through a big monitor placed on the stage. At the end of this illusion the boy remains in the beach, while Copperfield alone disappears from it to reappear in the theater. There are two versions of this 17th TV special: one for USA only broadcasting (60 minutes) and the other one for international only broadcasting (90 minutes). In the first Copperfield performs nine illusions: "One", "Thumbs", "Laser", "Panty Swap", "Uncle Morty & Aunt Ida", "Tides", "Voyeur", "The Disappearance" (aka "Portal") and then "Tornado Of Fire". In the second he performs six extra illusions, shown after "Voyeur" and before "The Disappearance": "Slo-Mo Duck", "Magic In Your Hands", "Thirteen", "Moon Rise" , "Test Condition" and "Perfect Place Cards"(aka "Moon Interactive"). "Test Condition" is an illusion co-conducted by Whoopi Goldberg, connected to the stage via a monitor. Before "Uncle Morty & Aunt Ida", Copperfield's parents, Hyman Kotkin and Rebecca Kotkin, make in this special their second and last appearance among the audience members, but unlike the first appearance, in 1984, this time they are not presented.
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsBarbi BentonBill CosbyDoug Henning
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsDoug HenningBill CosbyGene Kelly
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsDoug HenningBrooke ShieldsTom Bosley
- DirectorJames AndersonJames AndersonStarsDe La SoulDynamoA magical journey into the dark heart of the UK.
- DirectorThomas CarusoStarsDynamo
- DirectorJim DrakeStarsHarry AndersonDashiell AndersonReeve CarneyA one man CBS Special featuring classic close-up magic, card tricks and other sleight of hand.
- DirectorStefan StuckertStarsDerren BrownThe master of illusion hosts a one-off special which assembles 12 members of the public to re-create a traditional séance.
- DirectorAndy NymanStarsCarl BarmaDerren BrownBenjayx MurphyDerren Brown's sixth live stage show which toured the U.K. in 2013-2014.
- DirectorDavid ColemanAndy NymanStarsDerren BrownDerren Brown's second live stage show which toured the U.K. In 2005-2006.
- StarsDerren BrownDerren Brown's fifth stage show which toured the U.K. in 2011-2012.
- DirectorStefan StuckertTony GregoryStarsDerren Brown
- DirectorAdam SpinksStarsPeter JamesAdam PatelIn his first major television special, British Asian illusionist Adam Patel, showcases his trademark brand of magic, sleight-of-hand, perceptual manipulation and mind hacking, astounding celebrities and the general public.
- DirectorAlan CarterStarsRobert GallupDean GunnarsonMark KalinLeading magicians perform tricks and escape feats that threaten death or horrific injury should they fail. Robert Gallup escapes from a strait jacket while suspended from burning ropes and plays with scorpions and wolf traps. Melinda Saxe is tied and shackled in a pit into which snakes are released. Charlotte Pendragon has her husband Jonathan Pendragon balance her on a spike and later gets into a basket through which flaming spears are thrust. Mark Kalin tackles the "Table Of Death". Gary Kurtz plays Russian roulette with sharp knives and Dean Gunnarson does a strait jacket escape while suspended from the Hoover Dam.
- StarsMat FrancoMel BNeil Patrick HarrisMagician Mat Franco, Season 9 winner of "America's Got Talent," is captured traveling from Rhode Island to Las Vegas, wowing celebrities, performing street magic and visiting family and friends.
- DirectorED GregoryStarsRodney AtkinsNancy CartwrightLauren CohanLive recording of The Magic of Rob Lake, one of the world's largest touring illusion shows, custom presented for members of the armed forces around the world.
- DirectorJulius LandauStarsLarisa BakurovaCyril TakayamaCan magic really bring happiness? Can magic break cultural and language barriers? Can magic change the world. Cyril: Simply Magic is unlike any other magic show ever made, and it's not just because Cyril is unlike any other magician. Simply Magic focuses on the idea that magic can affect people's lives positively. More than just entertainment, magic has the potential to bring happiness. And also through Cyril's seemingly impossible feats the audience gains hope that nothing in life is impossible, because Cyril accomplishes the impossible everyday. "Whatever you can imagine, can be made real."
- DirectorJames YukichStarsDean StockwellRobert GallupMagician Robert Gallup attempts "The Challenge of the Death Dive," in which he must escape from hand and leg cuffs from inside a chained U.S. Mail bag, which itself is chained inside a jail cell, which is then thrown from an airplane at 18,000 feet - giving Gallup just 41 seconds to free himself.
- DirectorMatt SmartStarsMatt Smart
- DirectorFrank OzStarsDerek DelGaudioHal SchulmanJason EnglandStoryteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
- StarsDerren Brown
- DirectorTony GregoryStarsDerren BrownSarah AlexanderJane GoldmanThe Gathering was a live stage show performed in a secret location (hidden from the audience). The audience was hand picked by Brown and included psychologists, college students, celebrities, psychics, taxi drivers, and magicians.