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8/10
Rance "Apollo 13" Howard features in this magical episode
safenoe8 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Two Happy Days connections with Murder with Mirrors. The director is Anson Williams, who played Potsie in Happy Days, and it also features Rance Howard (born Harold Rance Beckenholdt), who is the father of Ron Howard, who played Richie Cunningham in Happy Days.

Here the murder happens at a magic show, with Paul Madison drowning in a trick gone wrong. Paul is played by Bruce Abbott, who played Judge Nicholas Marshall in two seasons of one of my favorite series, Dark Justice (Ramy Zada played the Judge in one season).

Emma Samms (born Emma Elizabeth Wylie Samuelson) appears as another magician. Emma has British and achieve much fame in shows such as Dynasty and the Colbys, a spin off of Dynasty. I sometimes wonder why The Colbys was not called The Colbies, but maybe it's a grammatical thing.

Also Ray "House Calls" Buktenica appears as a shady business type character.

It was impressive seeing the illusions throughout the show.
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7/10
Fun entry
coltras3520 June 2022
Dr Sloan's free tickets to a magic show become an invite to murder. A magician dies during a performance in a water tank. Apparently it's murder as the keys were switched and his partner (a friend of Dr Mark Sloan) is accused of the murder. His motive: the now dead magician wanted to sever their partnership. But, the doctor realises in his usual investigation that others in the entourage had reason to drown the magician, and that includes Emma Samms, who, like always, is a sight for sore eyes. This is a fun entry which tips it's hat to the world of magic; it's an ode to this side of entertainment.
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