Series
The Wizard
Action & Adventure
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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Seasons & episodes
1El Dorado9 Sept 1986 · 60mAlex 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.
2Reunion16 Sept 1986 · 60m
3Haunting Memories23 Sept 1986 · 60mAlex and the pretty owner of a local toy store share some frightening ghostly manifestians at her store, and Simon tries to find out why.
4Seeing is Beliveing30 Sept 1986 · 60mSimon 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.
5An Inside Job7 Oct 1986 · 60mTodd, 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.
6Born to Run14 Oct 1986 · 60m- 7The Other Side21 Oct 1986 · 60m
8Twist of Fate28 Oct 1986 · 60m- 9Nobody's Perfect8 Nov 1986 · 60m
10It takes a Chimp15 Nov 1986 · 60m
11Endangered Species16 Dec 1986 · 60m
12Trouble in the Stars30 Dec 1986 · 60m
13The Heart of a Dancer6 Jan 1987 · 60mDuring 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.
14Never Give Up20 Jan 1987 · 60m- 15Daydream Believer27 Jan 1987 · 60m
- 16Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves3 Feb 1987 · 60m
17The Aztec Dagger19 Feb 1987 · 60m- 18Papa Simon5 Mar 1987 · 60m
- 19H.E.N.R.I. 814 Mar 1987 · 60m
Details
- Created by
- Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
- First aired
- 9 Sept 1986
- Last aired
- 14 Mar 1987
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- CBS
- Episodes
- 19
- Votes
- 11 on TMDB
Cast
David RappaportSimon McKay
Douglas BarrAlex Jagger
Fran RyanTillie Russell
