Mac King is, in my humble opinion, a national treasure. He taught viewers magic tricks as the World’s Greatest Magic specials went to commercials…
Mac King is, in my humble opinion, a national treasure. He taught viewers magic tricks as the World’s Greatest Magic specials went to commercials…
The Amazing Johnathan from the second World’s Greatest Magic special.
Now, after we have whipped up your excitement, in glorious standard definition black when televisions were more or less square, comes Tom Mullica performing barside from the original 1994 World’s Greatest Magic.
This promo is for the fourth World’s Greatest Magic special which premiered in 1997. John Ritter took over hosting on the third special (after Robert Urich and Alan Thicke hosted the first two specials) and hosted the fourth and fifth specials as well.
Still from the square TV years… the kind of thing you can look forward to in the WGM specials.
So here is a bit of a history lesson for those of you new to iTricks. Back in the 1990s NBC produced a World’s Greatest Magic special most years around the Thanksgiving holidays. Five in all, they were star studded events with some of the biggest names in Las Vegas as well as up and coming performers… and I am willing to bet these specials, or their spin offs (such as the World’s Most Dangerous Magic and the World’s Wildest Magic), were what hooked many of y’all on magic. The video above is just the introduction to the first WGM special… they were serious, high dollar productions!
Since we are in a slow news cycle, I am sick (I think I am just sick but we’ll see what the tests say) and it is almost Thanksgiving, iTricks will be featuring performances from the World’s Greatest Magic and the WGM spin offs today and pretty much all of next week although iTricks will probably take off for the day on Thanksgiving.
A man looking to sell a collection of vintage handcuffs brings Murray SawChuck into the shop once again on Pawn Stars.