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The Wizard(TV show/series, 1986-1987)

1h per episode | Genre: Action & Adventure

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 19 episodes

The WizardRating: 3.3/5 (with 3 votes)
The Wizard is an American action-adventure television series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Paul B. Radin, that aired on CBS from September 9, 1986 to March 12, 1987, during the 1986-1987 television season. ()
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About The Wizard

The Wizard is a live-action, family friendly, action/adventure series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Paul B. Radin. The series included lessons in diversity, friendship, imagination, respect, and never giving up.

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The Wizard Seasons and Episodes

09/09/1986Season 1 - 19 episodes
#1 | 09/09/1986El Dorado
Alex Jagger, fresh from an hapless tryst with an exotic woman who could undo his tie with her teeth, is taken to California to look after Simon Mckay. Simon is a former pentagon advisor, toymaker, genius, and short. (Me, thats the order I like it to describe him.) Anyway, you also meet Darcy- the agent Alex replaces-, and Simon's very naive, eager assistant. Anyway, this episode Simon pledges to find a brother of sick boy for bone-marrow transplant. Simon, Darcy, and Alex find the brother in the ancient city of El Dorado where the bro is being held hostage.Well, they save him with the wizard's trick of the trade. The boy was given the transplant and a teddy reuxben(sp?) that could learn from the boy.
#2 | 09/16/1986Reunion
#3 | 09/23/1986Haunting Memories
Alex and the pretty owner of a local toy store share some frightening ghostly manifestians at her store, and Simon tries to find out why.
#4 | 09/30/1986Seeing is Beliveing
Simon tries to help out the blind by building a robotic dog that can guide and be there forever. Well, a science jerk finds out about the proto-type and convinces a arms dealer to steal the dog and its owner. Well, the plot works and the two are stolen. Simon is beating himself up and trying to do everything he can to trace the dog and hopefully his owner. The two stolen ones are found when the dog escapes and leads to the wharehouse the blind woman is being kept. Simon and Alex really just watches as the dog saves the day.
#5 | 10/07/1986An Inside Job
Todd, a young street punk in cheesy eighties fashion, is caught trying to steal Simon's car radio. Simon takes in the young kid and shows him a 50,000 dollar prototype of a toy plane. When Todd tries to escape, he is snatched by two assains who remind the young boy of his job, which is to steal the plane. The plane gets stolen and used to try to blow up a real plane.Simon and Alex finds Todd, then tries to stop the plan, but gets caught in a building that will blow up in 4 minutes. If the wizard can not find a way to get out and stop the evil villians, He and Alex are history. Will this be the end of the Wizard and his trustee government official? Naa, Simon gets out and screws up the villians plans. Everything turns all right in the end.
#6 | 10/14/1986Born to Run
#7 | 10/21/1986The Other Side
#8 | 10/28/1986Twist of Fate
#9 | 11/08/1986Nobody's Perfect
#10 | 11/15/1986It takes a Chimp
#11 | 12/16/1986Endangered Species
#12 | 12/30/1986Trouble in the Stars
#13 | 01/06/1987The Heart of a Dancer
During the shooting of a music video, were Simon is assisting with one of his robots, the dancer that is dancing with the robot is shot by a crazed fan, paralyzing her from the waist down. It is up to Alex, Simon and the Dancer to find the fan. At one point, the fan is spotted and followed, where we discover that he has been has been following her career for a long time. He even makes an attempt on her life while she is in the hospital recovering from the shooting. His thing is that she will dance for only him. Simon invents a machine that creates a hologram of the dancer, so she can dance again and it is thanks to this machine that the crazed fan is finally caught, as the dancer, controlling the machine, finally is able to confront her attacker. Ep ends with a new music video where we see the dancer, using the machine Simon created, dancing again.
#14 | 01/20/1987Never Give Up
#15 | 01/27/1987Daydream Believer
#16 | 02/03/1987Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
#17 | 02/19/1987The Aztec Dagger
#18 | 03/05/1987Papa Simon
#19 | 03/14/1987H.E.N.R.I. 8

Additional Information

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/09/1986
Last episode released on: 03/14/1987

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:7540, Added: 05/12/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024