Director of Photography John McPherson
Written by Sam Egan; Produced by Robert Bennett Steinhauer;
Directed by Reza S. Badiyi
After getting the sack from a restaurant, David hooks up with an aging magician who is not quite ready to face up to the fact that he is a) past it, and b) not quite the mythical figure he wishes to consider himself to be. Simultaneously working on an intravenously applied serum that could cure him, David is momentarily tangled up in the complicated politics of the magician's life, which involves an old flame that is about to be married off to a money-seeking gangster, a long lost daughter that wants to put her father on the right path, and the old man's deteriorating health in light of heart and asthma problems.
Was this episode inspired by Bixby's thespian past (he starred in the short lived The Magician a few years prior to The Incredible Hulk), or perhaps by the title of the series that both Ray Walston and Bill Bixby starred in the mid sixties (My Favorite Martian), or perhaps a combination of both? I'm not sure but the labyrinthine life of the initially very corny magician Jasper (played by Walston) makes for an entertaining net for David to become entangled in, as he innocently attempts to continue his business of finding a cure. Also features the ever lovable Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining).
Written by Sam Egan; Produced by Robert Bennett Steinhauer;
Directed by Reza S. Badiyi
After getting the sack from a restaurant, David hooks up with an aging magician who is not quite ready to face up to the fact that he is a) past it, and b) not quite the mythical figure he wishes to consider himself to be. Simultaneously working on an intravenously applied serum that could cure him, David is momentarily tangled up in the complicated politics of the magician's life, which involves an old flame that is about to be married off to a money-seeking gangster, a long lost daughter that wants to put her father on the right path, and the old man's deteriorating health in light of heart and asthma problems.
Was this episode inspired by Bixby's thespian past (he starred in the short lived The Magician a few years prior to The Incredible Hulk), or perhaps by the title of the series that both Ray Walston and Bill Bixby starred in the mid sixties (My Favorite Martian), or perhaps a combination of both? I'm not sure but the labyrinthine life of the initially very corny magician Jasper (played by Walston) makes for an entertaining net for David to become entangled in, as he innocently attempts to continue his business of finding a cure. Also features the ever lovable Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining).
Number of Fists: ****
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