The Wizard
updateSeason 1
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Tuesday, September 9th, 1986
1: El Dorado
Alex 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.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 1986
2: Reunion
Simon travels to Hong Kong to help a troubled old friend. Much to his surprise, he confronts an embittered old "enemy" who blames Simon for his radiation poisoning.
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 1986
3: Haunting Memories
Alex and the pretty owner of a local toy store share some frightening ghostly manifestians at her store, and Simon tries to find out why.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 1986
4: Seeing is Beliveing
Simon 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.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 1986
5: An Inside Job
Todd, 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.
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Tuesday, October 14th, 1986
6: Born to Run
A jockey enters a race, in hopes of winning the big prize so that he may have enough earnings to keep his family under one roof. Simon comes to the rescue to undo the dirty deeds that prevented their dream from coming true.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 1986
7: The Other Side
Enemy agents are holding the daughter of an American scientist captive. With their goal of blackmail seeming like the ultimate outcome, Simon once again saves the day!
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Tuesday, October 28th, 1986
8: Twist of Fate
Simon comes to grips with the fact that he must, once again, face his "arch enemy" Troyan. The wisdom provided by his Tibetan mentor makes all the difference in the world.
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Saturday, November 8th, 1986
9: Nobody's Perfect
When a mobster learns of Simon's new invention, he steals it. The thief is sure he can use the device to destroy incriminating evidence held in a fool-proof safe.
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Saturday, November 15th, 1986
10: It Takes a Chimp
Simon relies on the assistance of a chimp to get to the bottom of this episode's amazing exercise in crime solving. Even though Mckay eats a little crow over this, the lesson is well-learned.
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Tuesday, December 16th, 1986
11: Endangered Species
It is brought to Simon's attention that an abandoned/lost child has actually been raised by wolves! The race is on, as Simon seeks the girl's identity before someone succeeds in killing her.
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Tuesday, December 30th, 1986
12: Trouble in the Stars
Believing he has contacted outer space aliens, a young genius stands on the brink of announcing his discovery. Little does he know, he is actually involved in the plan of terrorists seeking to create a nuclear catastrophe.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 1987
13: The Heart of a Dancer
During 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.
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Tuesday, January 20th, 1987
14: Never Give Up
When a gang of outlaws overtake an Indian village, they force their captors into farming illegal drugs. A young boy escapes and seeks Simon to help put an end to the slavery.
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Tuesday, January 27th, 1987
15: Daydream Believer
Simon and the gang are an "overly imaginative" boy's only hope to help convince authorities that his science teacher in an agent for the KGB.
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 1987
16: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
In this episode, Simon and Alex learn that things don't always appear as they really are. Befriending "people of the streets" is the catalyst that sets this lesson in motion.
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Thursday, February 19th, 1987
17: The Aztec Dagger
A curse from an Aztec dagger has reeked havoc on the life of Simon's former archaeology professor. In order to end the curse, Simon is recruited to help return the artifact to the Temple of the Sun.
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Thursday, March 5th, 1987
18: Papa Simon
When a young couple double-cross a loan shark, they fear for the life of their infant child. The teenage mother leaves the baby on the doorstep of Simon's home. He is soon involved in restoring peace and order to the frightened family.
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Saturday, March 14th, 1987
19: H.E.N.R.I. 8
Many years ago, Simon created a robot. Authorities suspect this robot has killed a research scientist. Simon hopes a six-hour gap in the robot's memory will provide evidence to prove his invention is innocent.