Ace of Wands (1970)
Ace of Wands is a fantasy-based British children's television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972, created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television. The title, taken from the name of a Tarot card describes the principal character, called "Tarot" who combined stage magic with supernatural powers. Tarot has a pet Owl named Ozymandias, played by Fred Owl. The series ran for two seasons of thirteen episodes and a third season of twenty, with fourteen story arcs, in a similar manner to early Doctor Who. Many, if not all, of the first 26 episodes are believed to have been wiped, although the final season is intact.
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Episode 1 - Seven Serpents, Sulphur and Salt, Episode One
Release Date: 1971-07-21Aided by the bizarre and beautiful Polandi and his servant Luko, evil magician Mr. Stabs sets out to steal the missing segment of the Secret Seven Serpents, which are in Tarot's possession. Several have already died for possessing it, and Tarot is the next victim on Stabs' hitlist.
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Episode 2 - Seven Serpents, Sulphur and Salt, Episode Two
Release Date: 1971-08-11Aided by the bizarre and beautiful Polandi and his servant Luko, evil magician Mr. Stabs sets out to steal the missing segment of the Secret Seven Serpents, which are in Tarot's possession. Several have already died for possessing it, and Tarot is the next victim on Stabs' hitlist.
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Episode 3 - Seven Serpents, Sulphur and Salt, Episode Three
Release Date: 1971-09-01Aided by the bizarre and beautiful Polandi and his servant Luko, evil magician Mr. Stabs sets out to steal the missing segment of the Secret Seven Serpents, which are in Tarot's possession. Several have already died for possessing it, and Tarot is the next victim on Stabs' hitlist.
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Episode 4 - Joker, Episode One
Release Date: 1971-09-22Investigating why normally well-behaved children suddenly go berserk and wreck their classrooms, Tarot and his companions find themselves up against the fiendish Uncle Harry and his strange troupe of travelling entertainers.
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Episode 5 - Joker, Episode Two
Release Date: 1971-08-18Investigating why normally well-behaved children suddenly go berserk and wreck their classrooms, Tarot and his companions find themselves up against the fiendish Uncle Harry and his strange troupe of travelling entertainers.
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Episode 6 - Joker, Episode Three
Release Date: 1971-08-25Investigating why normally well-behaved children suddenly go berserk and wreck their classrooms, Tarot and his companions find themselves up against the fiendish Uncle Harry and his strange troupe of travelling entertainers.
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Episode 7 - Nightmare Gas, Episode One
Release Date: 1971-09-01The theft of a deadly hallucinatory gas, H23, by the deadly Thalia and her brother Dalbiac, plunges Tarot and friends into a nightmare adventure. Contact with the gas induces nightmares so real the victim dies after 23 minutes: captured and exposed to the gas, Tarot has mere minutes to live.
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Episode 8 - Nightmare Gas, Episode Two
Release Date: 1971-09-08The theft of a deadly hallucinatory gas, H23, by the deadly Thalia and her brother Dalbiac, plunges Tarot and friends into a nightmare adventure. Contact with the gas induces nightmares so real the victim dies after 23 minutes: captured and exposed to the gas, Tarot has mere minutes to live.
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Episode 9 - Nightmare Gas, Episode Three
Release Date: 1971-09-15The theft of a deadly hallucinatory gas, H23, by the deadly Thalia and her brother Dalbiac, plunges Tarot and friends into a nightmare adventure. Contact with the gas induces nightmares so real the victim dies after 23 minutes: captured and exposed to the gas, Tarot has mere minutes to live.
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Episode 10 - The Eye of Ra, Episode One
Release Date: 1971-09-22The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.
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Episode 11 - The Eye of Ra, Episode Two
Release Date: 1971-09-29The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.
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Episode 12 - The Eye of Ra, Episode Three
Release Date: 1971-10-06The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.
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Episode 13 - The Eye of Ra, Episode Four
Release Date: 1971-10-13The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.