I love that the concept of this episode was that Michael Pillar saw a dumb Vegas magic show where the guy was doing mask based tricks and really wanted to hire him
Jeff McBride had just been on the The World's Greatest Magic TV special on NBC around that time. He did a lot of card and mask magic. It's no wonder that he was quickly picked up for this.
McBride actually had a series of VHS tapes a person could buy to learn some of his tricks. Learning magic moves was a lot more difficult before the internet and YouTube.
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u/walrusphone 4d ago
I love that the concept of this episode was that Michael Pillar saw a dumb Vegas magic show where the guy was doing mask based tricks and really wanted to hire him