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- This is the 17th and last CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Carson Daly and produced six years after the 16th and penultimate one, The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Unexplained Forces (1995). It is the only TV special with a feat broadcasted live (in USA only) from New York City (the place where both David Copperfield and Carson Daly are present) at the end of the broadcast of a free show performed, filmed and edited three months earlier, in January in a theater in Memphis, Tennessee. The TV special is officially titled "COPPERFIELD - TORNADO OF FIRE", but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield XVII: Tornado of Fire", in which "Tornado of Fire" is a reference to such feat, which is not an illusion or escape but a test of courage and endurance, filmed in long take and no more repeated. Before the beginning of the pre-recorded show, that is the only one filmed in a surrounded stage, Copperfield explains the reason of this stunt, saying that when he was six years old he and his family escaped a fire that destroyed his uncle's house, and ever since then he started having nightmares of dying in a fire. Then he realized that the best way to overcome his fears is to deal with them. He will perform this stunt after months of testing with dummies, positioning them at the center of an artificial tornado of fire of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (or 1,093 degrees Celsius). The tornado was generated to be an F2 on the Fujita scale. This TV special is actually constituted by a double climax: the other one is the last illusion of the pre-recorded show and during the show itself there are several phases of preparation of it. In fact, Copperfield talks about it since the beginning, before the first illusion, describing it as an instant travel to the "perfect place". This illusion is called "The Disappearance" or "Portal", and to perform it, he invites a boy from the audience to climb with him a thin platform present on the stage which will be raised during the illusion to prevent anyone from getting on or off without being seen. Then they hide themselves with a sheet and after a few seconds disappear from the theater in Tennessee, to appear a few seconds later in the "perfect place", which in this specific case is the shore of the beach in the Hawaii island, where the boy finds his father and reunites with him, and where an assistant is present with a camera to show live the place to the audience through a big monitor placed on the stage. At the end of this illusion the boy remains in the beach, while Copperfield alone disappears from it to reappear in the theater. There are two versions of this 17th TV special: one for USA only broadcasting (60 minutes) and the other one for international only broadcasting (90 minutes). In the first Copperfield performs nine illusions: "One", "Thumbs", "Laser", "Panty Swap", "Uncle Morty & Aunt Ida", "Tides", "Voyeur", "The Disappearance" (aka "Portal") and then "Tornado Of Fire". In the second he performs six extra illusions, shown after "Voyeur" and before "The Disappearance": "Slo-Mo Duck", "Magic In Your Hands", "Thirteen", "Moon Rise" , "Test Condition" and "Perfect Place Cards"(aka "Moon Interactive"). "Test Condition" is an illusion co-conducted by Whoopi Goldberg, connected to the stage via a monitor. Before "Uncle Morty & Aunt Ida", Copperfield's parents, Hyman Kotkin and Rebecca Kotkin, make in this special their second and last appearance among the audience members, but unlike the first appearance, in 1984, this time they are not presented.
- Oprah Winfrey visits Musha Cay and the Islands of Copperfield Bay to interview magician David Copperfield about his career as an illusionist and also his girlfriend Chloe Gosselin, never before interviewed on television. Copperfield reveals that he never married because for him marriage is like a formality.
- This is a TV special/documentary in which David Copperfield is interviewed in his Magic Warehouse by his girlfriend, the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, about his career as an illusionist, speaking primarily of the most famous illusions and escapes performed over a period of about 15 years. The illusions shown are taken from 8 TV specials between The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (1981) and The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires of Passion (1993) and are 12: "Train Car Vanish" (1991), "Amazon Ritual" (aka "Burning Rope Escape" and "Fires Of Passion") (1993), "Graffiti Wall" (1992), "Cocoon" (aka "Passion's Prison") (1993), "Lear Jet Vanish" (1981), "Death Saw" (1988), "Brazilian Water Levitation" (1991), "Statue Of Liberty Disappears" (1983), "Touch The Magic - Destinations Of Flight" (1992), "Walking Through The Great Wall Of China" (1986), "Building Implosion" (1989) and "Flying" (1992). However several illusions are reedited in audio and video to be shorter, even by several minutes, removing first the respective explanations. Five short montages without either dialogues or sound effects are shown along the steps of the interview, and each of them, accompanied by a different song or instrumental music, shows various other illusions only in the related significant phases, and further are just mentioned for few seconds. This TV special/documentary is the only one also officially released on VHS and DVD-Video, but with the title "DAVID COPPERFIELD - ILLUSION", printed on the cover and also shown before the beginning of the special. Released in 2000 as SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION, this home video release presents further differences from the original version aired on CBS in 1994: it also shows 3 illusions taken from The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Unexplained Forces (1995): "Grandpa's Four Aces", "Barclay House" and "Snow", and presents different closing credits. The release on DVD-Video presents a main menu that allows instant access to 13 illusions and to the extras, which include the choice of language between the original English audio and a Spanish dubbing, and an optional audio commentary by Copperfield himself, which accompanies the entire documentary.
- In this first episode have been broadcasted six illusions, taken from four CBS Copperfield TV specials: "Dancing Handkerchief", "David Cut In Half Lengthwise", "Asrah Levitation", from The Magic of David Copperfield (1978), "Lear Jet Vanish", from The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (1981), "Slow-Mo Duck", from The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over the Grand Canyon (1984), and "Video To Life (Part 1)", from The Magic of David Copperfield VII: Familiares (1985).
- In this tenth and final episode has been broadcasted "Poultry In Motion" illusion, taken from the CBS Copperfield TV special The Magic of David Copperfield 10: The Bermuda Triangle (1988). Then, at the end of the program, three illusions already broadcasted in previous episodes have been reaired and analyzed in slow motion: "Death Saw", "Grand Canyon Levitation" and "Statue Of Liberty Disappears".
- In this second episode have been broadcasted six illusions, taken from four CBS Copperfield TV specials: "Vanishing Silk", "Card Manipulation", from The Magic of David Copperfield (1978), "Loni's Poster", from The Magic of David Copperfield II (1979), "Floating Ferrari", "Ring Finger", from The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (1980), and "Death Saw", from The Magic of David Copperfield 10: The Bermuda Triangle (1988).
- In this third episode have been bradcasted five illusions, taken from three CBS Copperfield TV specials: "The Detective", from The Magic of David Copperfield II (1979), "Art Gallery", "Broken Heart", "David's Fable", from The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (1980), and "Walking Through The Great Wall Of China", from The Magic of David Copperfield: China (1986).
- In this fifth episode have been broadcasted six illusions, taken from three CBS Copperfield TV specials: "Tower Illusion", "Memories", from The Magic of David Copperfield II (1979), "C.J.'s Card Trick", from The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (1981), "Dancing Cane", "Levitating A Lady" and "Statue Of Liberty Disappears", from The Magic of David Copperfield V (1983).
- In this seventh episode have been broadcasted five illusions, taken from two CBS Copperfield TV specials: "Floating Mirror Ball", "The 50's", "The Jewel Thief", from The Magic of David Copperfield II (1979), "Father And Son", and "Video To Life (Part 2)", from The Magic of David Copperfield VII: Familiares (1985).
- In this eighth episode have been broadcasted five illusions from three CBS Copperfield TV specials: "Record Album Prediction", "The Couple", from The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (1980), "Escape From Alcatraz" escape, from The Magic of David Copperfield IX: The Escape from Alcatraz (1987), "Restoring A Bicycle" and "Boy Levitation", from The Magic of David Copperfield: China (1986).
- This was a historical episode because during the last phase of the game show Mike Bongiorno has noticed that the competitor Maura Livoli was handling something in the cabin, and so he asked his assistant Sabrina Gandolfi to go and check what she was doing. It was discovered that she was holding a piece of paper with notes, which could refer the questions (for a value of 120 million lire) that she would have to answer. At that point Bongiorno asked the authors what to do, defining such a behavior a fraud, and Ludovico Peregrini replied that Gianfranco Carosi, defending champion, was reconfirmed, so Bongiorno told Livoli she was disqualified and that such a thing had never happened in the history of the quiz. Then, during the confirmation of Carosi, Livoli fainted, but Bongiorno suspected it was a fake. She then denounced to the magistracy Bongiorno and Gianfranco D'Angelo for defamation and insult, but she lost the lawsuit.
- This episode was the first of the 5th and last season of this game show. The opening theme has changed, as well as the television studio, which is much larger, at that time the largest in Europe: more than 400 square meters with 300 seats for the live audience and a new set design.
- 200th and last episode of the longest game show conducted by Mike Bongiorno until that moment. The champion Isabella Lama, an expert on dogs, won 1.265 billion lire, the highest prize ever won in a game show in the history of Italian television until 2004.
- This episode has been broadcasted on the first day of the 3rd millennium (it was Monday), and for the occasion Mike Bongiorno wanted to invite as competitors 3 "special" people: the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton (which on January 20th will leave the White House after 8 years), the actor Richard Gere (in Italy to present his new movie Autumn in New York (2000)), and the singer Ivana Spagna. All 3 have accepted the invitation.
- This has been an episode broadcasted on the same day of the death of the competition judge Illy Reale, died in the evening because of a car accident. He will continue to appear in the game show for several weeks since the episodes were already recorded. Later he will be replaced by Alvise Borghi.
- This has been a "special" episode: all 3 competitors were part of the "Club Internazionale Super 100, grasso è bello", founded in 1987. Angela Masini has also participated in Viaggi di nozze (1995), a movie directed and starred by Carlo Verdone.
- Maurizio Costanzo interviewed Isabella Ceola, a woman of 22 years suffering from progeria, an extremely rare genetic disorder which causes premature aging. Those born with progeria typically have a life expectancy of around 20 years. Isabella died in 1997 at 28.
- This has been the first episode in which the assistant of Mike Bongiorno was Antonella Elia (in place of Paola Barale), who will remain until end season in 1996. The opening graphic and musical theme was replaced by a new theme sung, "Gira la ruota" ("Spin the wheel"), as well as the set design has been redesigned.
- Special episode dedicated to the 20th anniversary of this talk show. In theater there were many people that Maurizio Costanzo hosted and interviewed in the course of those 20 years. The career of several guests began thanks to their participation in this program. Among with the audience in the theater there were also Silvio Berlusconi, founder of the Fininvest Group, and some chairmen of the group, as his son Pier Silvio Berlusconi. Ezio Greggio and Enzo Iacchetti were not present in the theater but have taken part in the program through a television link with the studio of Striscia la Notizia (1988), where they were. Other guests appeared through the re-broadcast of short video clips taken from episodes of past years. At the end Costanzo thanked many people, including those who worked in the program. He made a particular reference to the cameraman Valentino Tocco, having also become director of C'è posta per te (2000), one of the programs conducted by the wife Maria De Filippi.
- This has been the episode number 3000 conducted by Mike Bongiorno. For the occasion, the game show did return 3 of the best competitors in recent years and also the ex-competition judge Alvise Borghi. The competitors who participated in the 3000 episodes were over 7000.
- This has been the last episode of this game show, conducted for 2 years by Augusto Mondelli (99 episodes) and for 14 years by Mike Bongiorno (3,125 episodes). Its conclusion was chosen by the Mediaset Group due to the excessive cost of the rights (EUR 4,000 per episode) of the original American format Wheel of Fortune (1975) and the large drop in audience suffered by the last edition. At the end, just before the toast, Bongiorno thanked all collaborators. For the occasion, also the ex-competition judge Alvise Borghi was present in the studio. Unfortunately Bongiorno had to give up the presence of Illy Reale, who died in 1993 due to a car accident.
- This has been the first of 3 special episodes of the game show titled "La Ruota d'Oro" ("The Wheel of Gold") and broadcasted in prime time for 3 consecutive Fridays. There were 3 phases: the first was dedicated to the competition of 3 children between 8 and 10 years of age to win toys, the second was dedicated to the competition of 3 celebrities and the third was dedicated to the champions of the previous episodes.
- This episode was entirely dedicated to the interview of the protagonists of Fantozzi in Heaven (1993), which was released in theaters on the same day of the transmission. Maurizio Costanzo interviewed the four main protagonists: Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotic, Gigi Reder and Plinio Fernando, who is almost never appeared on television. It was the last movie in which he appeared, before leaving the world of cinema and devote himself to painting and sculpture in a shop near his residence in Rome. The theater was full of kids, who asked many questions, and there was also the movie's director Neri Parenti. At the end of the transmission, Villaggio distributed to all kids sticks sparkling, and pianist Franco Bracardi played music "White Christmas".
- This episode has been broadcasted on Christmas Day and for the occasion the competitors were 3 celebrities of television: Dario Ballantini, Alessia Mancini and Fiorella Pierobon. The accumulated prize money was given to beneficence to "Fondo Amici di Paco", a national association founded in June 1997 for the protection of dogs abandoned or mistreated.
- This has been an episode broadcasted on the same day of the 77th birthday of Mike Bongiorno. For the occasion, the collaborators of the game show have prepared a big cake to celebrate it in the studio, and the competition judge Davide Tortorella has prepared a speech of greeting.
- This has been the second of 3 special episodes of the game show titled "La Ruota d'Oro" ("The Wheel of Gold") and broadcasted in prime time for 3 consecutive Fridays. There were 3 phases: the first was dedicated to the competition of 3 children between 8 and 10 years of age to win toys, the second was dedicated to the competition of 3 celebrities and the third was dedicated to the champions of the previous episodes.
- In this episode, the last in 2001, all the competitors were some collaborators of the game show itself: the director Mario Bianchi, the competition judge Davide Tortorella, the assistant Miriana Trevisan, the studio assistant Giovanni Fabbrini, the set designer Sonia Balzani, the makeup artist Rosanna Forte, and others. The accumulated prize money was given to beneficence to Emergency, the Italian humanitarian association, founded on May 15th, 1994 in Milan, to offer medical and surgical care to civilian victims of war.
- This has been the third and last of 3 special episodes of the game show titled "La Ruota d'Oro" ("The Wheel of Gold") and broadcasted in prime time for 3 consecutive Fridays. There were 3 phases: the first was dedicated to the competition of 3 children between 8 and 10 years of age to win toys, the second was dedicated to the competition of 3 celebrities and the third was dedicated to the champions of the previous episodes.
- This has been the first episode in which the assistant of Mike Bongiorno was Miriana Trevisan (in place of Claudia Grego), who will remain for 5 years until 2002. The competition judge Alvise Borghi was replaced by Davide Tortorella, who will remain until the end of the game show (December 20th, 2003).
- This has been the last episode of the longest running talk show in the history of Italian television, with the record of 25 seasons, 4,390 episodes, 8,100 hours of transmission and 32,800 guests. At the end Maurizio Costanzo thanked everyone, starting with Silvio Berlusconi, founder of the Fininvest Group, and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, vice-chairman of the Mediaset Group and chairman and chief executive of R.T.I. since April 2000.
- This has been the first episode broadcasted on Rete 4. This change was chosen by the Mediaset Group due to a decrease of the audience and a general redesign of schedules of the 3 TV channels of the group, Rete 4, Canale 5 and Italia 1. The game show will be broadcast on Rete 4 until its conclusion in 2003. Also, this has been the first episode in which the assistant of Mike Bongiorno was Claudia Grego, in place of Antonella Elia, who however took part in this episode as a competitor.
- This game show has been the first television program of Canale 5 made in Rome instead of Milan. It was invented by Corrado Mantoni for the midday slot at the request of Silvio Berlusconi, founder of the Fininvest Group. The seasons were 12 and the episodes were 2,721, until June 26th, 1993.
- "La corrida" was a radio program broadcast for the first time on January 4th, 1968, created by Corrado Mantoni and his brother Riccardo Mantoni. It was broadcast for 12 seasons until 1979, and later became a TV show broadcast for the first time on July 5th, 1986. It is dedicated to the exhibition of amateurs, which present various artistic performances, and the cleverness is judged by a live audience.
- This TV special/documentary has been produced in occasion of the first Copperfield's tournée in Italy (autumn 1994). In his Magic Warehouse the two conductors, Giorgio Mastrota and his wife Natalia Estrada, interviewed David Copperfield about his work as an illusionist and broadcast 14 illusions selected from 8 Copperfield TV specials produced for the American network CBS, between The Magic of David Copperfield V (1983) and The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires of Passion (1993), even if some of them have been shown with the audio and video montage used in the documentary David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (1994) instead of the integral version used in their original TV special. The illusions broadcast are: "Motorcycle Vanish" (1990), "Death Saw" (1988), "Building Implosion" (1989), "Escape From Alcatraz" (1987), "Statue Of Liberty Disappears" (1983), "Twister" (1989), "Big Black Box" (1991), "Brazilian Water Levitation" (1991), "After Hours" (aka "Vertical Asrah") (1993), "Interlude" (1992), "Telekinesis" (1989), "Pole Levitation" (1989), "Slicer" (1990) and "Flying" (1992). This TV special has been followed by a second part with the same title "LA GRANDE MAGIA DI DAVID COPPERFIELD", broadcast on Wednesday, November 9th, 1994. This first part has been re-aired on the same network on Sunday, September 24th, 1995.
- This has been the Italian version of the popular USA game show of the same name. In this game show, contestants are shown a phrase with the letters covered. They must spin a wheel marked with prizes or penalties for chances to win money by guessing the missing letters. The winner is the one who can guess the complete answer to the hidden puzzle. With its 99 episodes conducted by Augusto Mondelli and 3,125 episodes conducted by Mike Bongiorno, this program has been the longest running game show in the history of Italian television.
- After 4 years from the end of the game show conducted for 3,125 episodes by Mike Bongiorno, the company Endemol Italia has bought the rights of the original American format Wheel of Fortune (1975) to produce this new edition, this time conducted by Enrico Papi and broadcasted on Italia 1. The assistant was Victoria Silvstedt, the same that took part in the French edition, La roue de la fortune (1987).
- This evening entertainment program was dedicated to the illusionist David Copperfield. The broadcasting of his illusions, taken from the CBS Copperfield TV specials (see "Connections" section), was alternated with scenes shot in a studio set up like an island, where in addition to the conduction of Moana Pozzi there were also six dancers, and Gianni Fantoni performed several micromagic gags. There are ten episodes: the first eight have been broadcasted on Saturday from June 20 to August 29, 1992, while the last two have been delayed for unknown reasons, and have been broadcasted only in 1994, on August 26 and September 9.
- This has been the Italian version of the popular USA game show of the same name, in which competitors guess the prices of featured products in order to win them. With its more than 3,430 episodes this program has been the second longest running game show in the history of Italian television, surpassed only by La ruota della fortuna (1987) added to La ruota della fortuna (2007).
- This variety program can be considered the heir of Drive in (1983) and the predecessor of Striscia la Notizia (1988), all three created by Antonio Ricci and conducted by Gianfranco D'Angelo and Ezio Greggio. It was the program with which Lorella Cuccarini made her debut in the Fininvest Group (renamed Mediaset Group in 1993).
- "Sei un fenomeno" is a variety program broadcasted for ten Saturday, from July 6th until September 7th, in which Paolo Bonolis presented several videos of every general of human enterprises, like curiosities, challenges of courage, artistic talent, sport competitions, cultural practices. Much space was given to the illusionist David Copperfield, that Bonolis called the pivot of the program: each episode showed at least a Copperfield's illusion, taken from CBS Copperfield specials (see Connections section).
- This has been a game show based exclusively on luck: the competitors had to answer YES or NO to questions without being able to hear them, having to wear headphones that played loud music, or answer a series of YES or NO before knowing the relative questions.
- This game show has been the longest (200 episodes) conducted by Mike Bongiorno until that moment, and the one where, in the last episode (June 11th, 1992), an Italian TV show won the champion the highest money prize ever given in the history of Italian television until 2004.
- This program has been conceived by ABC network to provide several anticipations about its upcoming season of programs. 14 ABC stars have taken part to this variety show, composed by dialogues, music, dancing, songs, and above all by magic. In fact the program was conducted by a 21 year old illusionist, David Seth Kotkin, whose stage name is David Copperfield, who made his "official" debut on television in this occasion, after a first appearance in Magic at the Roxy (1976). The official title of this program, "the magic of abc", is shown in the screen of the television set used as a prop in the first illusion, called "TV Appearance From Empty Box". The other illusions performed are: "Card Productions", "Production Of Hal Linden", "Psycho Shower Scene", "Levitating TV Antenna", "David Cut In Half Lengthwise", "Backstage With The Magician", "Maltese Canary, Lemon, Egg" and "Sailor Scene". By its nature, this program has been conceived for airing only once and on ABC network only, so it was never reaired, or officially redistribuited in home video. However, it has been so successful that it convinced the producer Joseph Cates to put Copperfield under contract to produce for CBS network an annual series of specials called "The Magic of David Copperfield", the first of which has been broadcasted the following year, on Friday, October 27th.
- This is the first official Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Orson Welles and broadcasted on CBS like all the following ones, while the previous year he has been the star and conductor of the ABC special The Magic of ABC (1977), which marked his debut on television. The official title "THE MAGIC OF DAVID COPPERFIELD" is shown through an homonymous book left on a carpet that is framed at the beginning, and also appears in the head of the closing credits. The stars of this special are 7 and the illusions performed are: "Vanishing Silk" (aka "Metamorphosis"), "Card Manipulation", "Date With A Magician" (aka "Divide And Conquer"), "Dancing Cane", "Levitating A Lady", "Carl Ballantine Comedy Magic" (performed by Carl Ballantine), "Psycho Shower Scene", "Dancing Handkerchief", "David Cut In Half Lengthwise", "Orson Welles Mentalism Spot" (performed by Orson Welles) and "Asrah Levitation" (aka "Illusion With Bernadette Peters 'Higher and Higher' ").
- This is the 10th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Lisa Hartman and then presented by David Copperfield himself, from a huge triangular platform floating on the Atlantic Ocean. For the first time he is also the executive producer, and this special is the first and only one titled with a natural number ("10") in place of the equivalent roman one ("X"). The shown platform has been built to allow Copperfield to perform the last illusion, named "Bermuda Triangle", as expressed in this special's title. The feat that Copperfield wants to perform is to enter just before the dawn in the parallel hidden dimension present inside the Bermuda Triangle and, more important, to be the first person ever to return alive, given that nothing that entered in this parallel dimension has ever been able to come back. This illusion is one of the few no more repeated, and also one of the few conceived and filmed for the TV audience only, since it was not possible to have a live audience. So, the illusions performed are: "Death Saw", "Sailing Montage" (a montage of three illusions, known as "Sunglasses Routine", "Floating On The Beach" and "Coal To Diamond"), "Run Duck Run", "Poultry In Motion" (aka "Webster And Consuelo"), "Floating Match", "Poultry In Motion Reversed" (aka "Webster And Consuelo Restored" and "Baby Ducks") and then "Bermuda Triangle". During his own career Copperfield has performed several escapes, and "Death Saw", filmed in long take, is one of the few conceived to go wrong in order to increase suspense. In fact, before performing it, Copperfield himself tells the audience: «I'm going to be attempting an escape. That's true. But I guarantee you it's an escape like... you have never seen before», and the execution proves this to be true: because of a damage to the motor of the saw, the latter drops on Copperfield before the expiration of the 60 seconds allowed to save himself, so he remains sawed in half in full view, without any cover. After the separation of the two parts of his body, he is still able to move his feet.
- This is the second CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Bill Bixby, but is still titled "THE MAGIC OF DAVID COPPERFIELD", without the number "II" with which is better known. For the first time David Copperfield is also co-writer, and besides the 6 stars accredited in the opening titles several unknown characters also appeared. The illusions performed are: "Tower Illusion", "Floating Mirror Ball" (aka "Floating Ballroom Mirror Ball"), "Loni's Poster", "The Jewel Thief", "Torn And Restored Cue Card", "The Alan Alan Great Escape" (performed by Alan Alan), "Ring Flight", "Cigarette Through Quarter", "The 50's", "Orange, Lemon, Egg And Canary", "Memories" (aka "The Attic"), "The Detective" and at the end a kind of conclusion of "Loni's Poster".
- This is the third CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jack Klugman, and is the first one to be numbered. In fact it is officially titled "The Magic Of DAVID COPPERFIELD III", even if it is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari", in which "Levitating Ferrari" is a reference to the second illusion, given that never before an illusionist has been able to levitate (and then vanish in midair) an object as big and heavy as a 60.000 $ Ferrari. So, the illusions performed are: "Appearing Car Keys", "Floating Ferrari", "The Couple", "Ring Finger", "Broken Heart", "Art Gallery" (aka "Linking Rings"), "Shimada Parasol Act" (performed by Haruo Shimada), "Record Album Prediction" (aka "Record Albums") and "David's Fable" (aka "The Fable"). In the opening titles 6 stars are accredited and in the last illusion a duck appears for the first time, and Copperfield often will ripropose it in future illusions, revealing also the name, not yet known to the audience.
- This is the 4th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jason Robards and then presented by David Copperfield himself, inside a flying Lear Jet. For the first time he is also the producer. This special is officially titled "THE MAGIC OF David COPPERFIELD", but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane", in which "The Vanishing Airplane" is a reference to the last illusion, a feat that for the first time in the history of magic had to be performed in the open, outside the television studios, because of the dimensions of the object: a Gates Lear Jet model 25, year 1976, registration number N564CL, 7 tonnes, produced by Gates Learjet Corporation. And never before an illusionist has been able to vanish an airplane, or in any case something that big. To demonstrate the absolute absence of camera tricks or video effects, the illusion itself has been filmed in long take. The Lear Jet is surrounded at 360 degrees by a ring of 40 blindfolded spectators and also by external walls that have hidden all within a square area. Until a few seconds before the disappearance, only the shadows of the Lear Jet and of the ring of spectators were visible on the front wall thanks to some headlights. So, the illusions performed are: "Jet Emblem Vanish", "Picture Frame Illusion", "Zig-Zag Laser" (aka "Upside Down Laser Cutting"), "Doll To Life" (aka "The Ballerina"), "Clubhouse", "Finger Ring In Rose" (aka "Ring Flight To Rose"), "Love Isn't Just For The Young", "Levitating A Boy", "C.J.'s Card Trick" and then "Lear Jet Vanish", which is also one of the few illusions no more repeated by Copperfield during his own career.
- This is the 9th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Ann Jillian after a short presentation by David Copperfield himself from the Alcatraz prison's beacon. It is the first one to include officially in the title the name of the last illusion, that is "Escape From Alcatraz". Copperfield has chosen just this prison because of its reputation: Alcatraz, nicknamed "The Rock" or also "The Bastion", was opened on August 11th, 1934, as a maximum security federal prison, and has operated for 29 years, until the close of March 21th, 1963, caused by the high costs of maintenance and use. Then, in 1972, it was reopened as a tourist attraction. However, its reputation mainly comes from two reasons: it has held some of the most notorious criminals in American history, as Al Capone or George Kelly, and of the 14 escape attempts only the one of June 11th, 1962, has still not evidence of failure, after decades of FBI investigation. And Copperfield is the only illusionist that has performed his attempt, that is also one of the few escapes no more repeated. So, the illusions performed are: "Table Of Death", "Death Defying Duck", "On The Edge", "Dream Vision", "Duck-O-Matic", "Kid-O-Matic", "Reverse Duck/Kid-O-Matic" and then "Escape From Alcatraz". In addition to this feat, during this special's closing credits he performs a gag that somehow represents an opposite challenge: he can't get into his car because it is locked and the problem is that the same key is inserted in the dashboard's lock. He tries different ways to force the door but fails... This special is the first one produced by the Copperfield's first production company, and no more by the previous one, The Cates Brothers Company.
- This is the Statue of Liberty. Tonight, the illusion of the century. David Copperfield will attempt to make the Statue of Liberty disappear. So begins the 5th CBS Copperfield TV special. It is officially titled "THE MAGIC OF David COPPERFIELD V" but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears". The Statue of Liberty Disappears is a reference to the last illusion.