History Series / TheMagician

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse: After the ReTool, Max and his son disappear without mention (except Max appears in one episode filmed before the ReTool that was aired afterward). Jerry disappears without mention five episodes into the Retool, although actor Jim Watkins continues receiving a star credit.

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse: After the Retool, Max and his son disappear without mention (except Max appears in one episode filmed before the Retool that was aired afterward). Jerry disappears without mention five episodes into the Retool, although actor Jim Watkins continues receiving a star credit.

* SunglassesAtNight: One of the bad guys in "The Man Who Lost Himself" constantly wears sunglasses, even while creeping around a darkened hospital at night. It becomes even more ridiculous when he and his partner start shooting out the lights so they can escape.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All of the episodes following the ReTool are have titles beginning "The Illusion of..."

* CutPhoneLines: In "The Illusion of the Queen's Gambit", the robbers do this when the take over the casino. They announce what they have done just as Jerry is picking up a phone to call for help.

* CarFu: In "Illusion in Terror", Blake's GirlOfTheWeek is rundown and seemingly killed by a hitman in a parking garage.

* AnimalAssassin: In "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", the bad guys attempt to dispose of Tony by placing a rattlesnake in his car.

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: In "The Illusion of Black Gold", the kidnappers are using a biker gang cald the Road Knights as their muscle.

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: In "The Illusion of Black Gold", the kidnappers are using a biker gang call the Road Knights as their muscle.

* BrandishmentBluff: In "Lady in a Trap", Tony is able to bluff a DirtyCop into handcuffing himself to radiator by convincing him he has a gun aimed at him under the desk.

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", a reclusive movie star (who is an old friend of Tony's) is being held prisoner in her house by a gang of crooks who are bleeding her bank account dry. When Tony investigates, he is shown into the bedroom of an imposter who summarily dismisses. However, while in the bedroom Tony spots a packet of cigarettes. Tony's friend doesn't smoke and won't allow people to smoke around her.

* IdentityAmnesia: In "The Man Who Lost Himself", Tony helps a man who loses his memory following an accident on Tony's stage, and cannot remember anything about himself: including why he is being chased by two men* * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All of the episode following the ReTool are have titles beginning "The Illusion of..."

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: In "Illusion of Black Gold", the kidnappers are using a biker gang call the Road Knights as their muscle.

* AnimalAssassin: In "Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", the bad guys attempt to dispose of Tony by placing a rattlesnake in his car.
* AuctionOfEvil: In "Illusion of Black Gold", kidnappers attempt to auction off of a kidnapped scientist who has developed a process for extracting oil from shale.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: In "Illusion of the Lost Dragon", Tony is able to keep working on a complicated puzzle lock despite the heat of a LavaPit opening up underneath him. Earlier in the episode, a young man was similarly unaffected until he fell into the lava, at which point he was instantly incinerated.

* CutleryEscapeAid: At the start of "Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", a reclusive movie star being held prisoner by her shady business manager has managed to uses a spoon to prise the mortar loose from between several bricks and remove the bricks. After being caught, her jailer tells her that from now on she will be eating with a plastic spoon.
* CutPhoneLines: In "Illusion of the Queen's Gambit", the robbers do this when the take over the casino. They announce what they have done just as Jerry is picking up a phone to call for help.

* DeadManHonking: In "Illusion of Stainless Steel Lady", Tony fakes his death by AnimalAssassin by slumping forward in his car, his head on the steering wheel and the horn blaring.

* DiscoDan: The villain in "Illusion of the Lost Dragon" is a Chinese warlord who has set up a compound where he lives as if it is the 16th century; the time of his ancestors' greatest power. All of his guards, servants, concubines, etc. dress in appropriate period Chinese garb.

* DrivingIntoATruck: In "Illusion of Black Gold", the GirlOfTheWeek drives Tony's car into the back of a large truck, which turns out to be the mobile office of the reclusive billionaire Tony has been trying to locate.

** In "Illusion of Black Gold", Tony helps the CIA fake the death of a defecting scientist so his former government will stop looking for him.

* HarmlessLadyDisguise: In "Illusion of Black Gold", three [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels bikers]] disguise themselves as old ladies to crash a funeral parlour and stage a kidnapping.

* IdentityAmnesia: In "The Man Who Lost Himself", Tony helps a man who loses his memory following an accident on Tony's stage, and cannot remember anything about himself: including why he is being chased by two men.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In "Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady", a reclusive movie star (who is an old friend of Tony's) is being held prisoner in her house by a gang of crooks who are bleeding her bank account dry. When Tony investigates, he is shown into the bedroom of an imposter who summarily dismisses. However, while in the bedroom Tony spots a packet of cigarettes. Tony's friend doesn't smoke and won't allow people to smoke around her.
* ImprovisedZipline: In "Illusion of Black Gold", Tony uses a pair of handcuffs he had earlier taken from the prisoner he was rescuing to slide down a guywire to the ground, carrying the prisoner on his back.

* LavaPit: The Chinese warlord in "Illusion of the Lost Dragon" has a lava pit concealed beneath the floor of the corridor leading to his inner sanctum. Anyone attempting to intrude has a limited time to solve the puzzle lock on the door before the slowly opening floor dumps them in the lava.

* NewOldFlame: The two-part "Illusion of the Curious Counterfeit" begins when a preciously unseen ex-girlfriend of Tony's arrives on his doorstep being chased by gangsters.

* RareMoney: In "The Man Who Lost Himself", three crooks seem to be going to extreme lengths to discover the location of the relatively small sum of $24,000 stolen in a military payroll heist in Hawaii during Useful/WorldWarII. It turns out the cash is in the form of so-called 'Aloha money'; money overprinted with the word 'Hawaii' in case the Japanese overran Hawaii. Now valuable collectors' items, $24,000 in uncirculated bills is now worth $1.6 million.

* HollywoodFire: In "Illusion in Terror", Tony is locked inside a burning barn but seems to suffer no ill effects from the heat.

* DiscoDan: The villain in "Illusion of the Lost Dragon" is a Chinese warlord who has set up a compound where he lives as if it is the 16th century; the time of his ancestors' greatest power. All of his guards, servants, concubines, etc. dress if appropriate period Chinese garb.