Upcoming DVD release
VEI Entertainment has included The Magician in their upcoming complete series DVD release section. VEI recently released The Sentinel and Barnaby Jones on DVD.
http://www.visualentertainment.tv/pages/coming-soon
As of the middle of July 2016, it is still languishing on that list.
shareJust got an email from tvshowsondvd.com; it had been removed from the "Coming Soon" list, but someone checked into it, and as of today (2016 September 1), it's scheduled for a 2017 release. I guess the company decided that wasn't really coming "soon."
shareThis did finally become available, and I bought it in September of last year.
The sound is good, but the video is not top quality (which a disclaimer as the DVDs load will warn you of).
Sadly, the writer's strike sorely affected the quality of the stories. They're fun to watch with both Bill Bixby and the magic element, but there are plot holes that will make you cringe.
In one episode, four thieves rob a benefit on the Queen Mary. Near the end of the robbery, three of the thieves find the fourth unconscious on the floor of the room where the money is being taken to safety. They just leave him there, and he is never mentioned again. LOL
A few minutes later, the remaining three robbers climb into what is described as a "three passenger helicopter", with a pilot. So that makes four, and evidently the plan would have been for five!
Later on, Anthony Blake finds one of the bandits' house, with the helicopter parked right outside, even though he wasn't the pilot. Arrgggggh!