Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed – 02 Jan 2010

There’s only one recording today, it’s Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. These look like they’ve been slightly repurposed from the ones I occasionally watched circa 1998, when they were fronted by Mitch Pileggi off of The X Files. He’s still doing the narration for all the illusions and reveals, but he’s no longer up front on camera introducing the show. And there’s a new credit that I’m fairly sure wasn’t there in 1998 – Producer Val Valentino. That’s because he’s the Masked Magician, a semi-well known magician, but when the show originally went out, they were really pushing the anonymous thing, presumably because Lance Burton or David Copperfield might take out a hit on him. I remember watching the episode when he finally revealed his identity, and I’d never heard of him (and I’m a little bit of a magic nerd). The tricks that are revealed in this episode are: A Guillotine trick. Probably the same one Alice Cooper used to do during his shows, which led to school playground…