Alexander Blacke is a magician who after having a near death experience retires. But when his plans for retirement to turn out as he expected. He goes to a magician's convention where a fellow magician is attempting a dangerous stunt--being placed in a coffin and being submerged under water. When he is brought up, the man is dead but not from drowning; he was shot. Alex helps the police find out what happened.
I remember this when it premiered because the pilot episode ran the same night the Pats upset the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1985 playoffs! It was a weird fit in the TV landscape then, and one can only watch with amusement now - or disgust, depending on your point of view - at Hal Linden blindly herding around this bumbling cast of characters for close to two hours. Or should I say miscast - Linden included.
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