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What the heck is this?

Posted Sep 17th 2009 2:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Reality-Free

This is the game where we show you a picture from something TV-related and you have to guess what the heck it is.

The screen cap above is from the opening of a short-lived TV show from many years ago. The cuffs might give you a clue. This person got into adventures that most men in his profession never encountered. Answer later tonight.

Tags: bill bixby, the magician, the magician opening, tv show opening, what the heck is this

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1

9-17-2009 @ 2:40PM

scott said...

The Magician!!

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2

9-17-2009 @ 3:35PM

Carl said...

One of the clips from the Big Brother-eque film playing in the famous 1984 Mac ad?

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3

9-17-2009 @ 3:38PM

eleran said...

The Fugitive

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4

9-17-2009 @ 3:40PM

Mark said...

The Magician.

5

9-17-2009 @ 10:39PM

C.J. said...

I think I was watching this when my little sister Samantha was abducted by aliens.

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6

9-17-2009 @ 4:35PM

D smith said...

That's probably from Magician

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7

9-17-2009 @ 7:39PM

J. Kingston Pierce said...

It definitely comes from the opening of Bill Bixby's too-short-lived NBC mystery drama, THE MAGICIAN.

Cheers,
Jeff

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8

9-18-2009 @ 11:49AM

Bob Sassone said...

Yup, it's from the Bill Bixby series The Magician. And as C.J. hinted at, it's the show Mulder was watching when his sister was abducted.

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9-18-2009 @ 1:11PM

Daune said...

The first thing that popped into my mind was that it's from the open for The X-Files

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