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My Favorite Magician
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Episode
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5 of season 3
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Director
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Reza Badiyi
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Writer
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Sam Egan
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Original airdate
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October 26, 1979
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Alias
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David Barker
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Location
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San Luis Obispo, Cal.
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Followed by
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My Favorite Magician is episode thirty-nine of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on October 26, 1979, on CBS.
Synopsis[]
David finds work as the assistant of "Jasper the Great", a mysterious magician, and becomes mixed up in assorted hi-jinks involving Jasper's estranged daughter, her new fiance, and a former flame of the magician's.
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Ray Walston as Jasper Dowd
- Joan Leslie as Lily Beaumont
- Anne Schedeen as Kimberly Dowd
- Scatman Crothers as Edgar McGee
- Robert Alda as Giancarlo Corleone
- Bob Hastings as Earl
- Bill Capizzi as Ben
- Fritzi Burr as Rose Brown
- Archie Lang as Justice of the Peace
- Franklin Brown as Maurie Brown
Highlights[]
Ending sequence (same as in "Vendetta Road", "Homecoming", and "Wax Museum")
- It was great to see Bixby and Walston together again
- When the water tank stunt goes wrong, triggering David's metamorphosis and the Hulk rampages on stage, the audience mistakenly believes that it is all part of Jasper's act, and applauds
- Contains the often used scene of the Hulk running down the lighted alleyway
- A very funny scene in which a man and a woman meet the Hulk and ask for his autograph. Bemused, he poses for a photograph but is startled by the camera flash which enrages him and runs away.
- Hulk-out 1: Stuck inside a water tank
- Hulk-out 2: Locked into a car's trunk by some mean guys
Trivia[]
The episode reunites Bill Bixby with his former co-star Ray Walston from My Favorite Martian (1963). Bixby also starred in a series in 1973 called The Magician.
In the scene where Ray Walston and Bill Bixby are driving down the road in Jasper Dowd's van and Jasper says "David you could be my assistant" and David replies "I don't know anything about magic" is a tongue in cheek reference to the fact that Bill Bixby was indeed a very accomplished magician, and his TV series "The Magician".
This is the second appearance by Robert Alda in series. The first was "Terror in Times Square."