{"id":51328,"date":"2015-07-04T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/?p=51328"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:10:02","slug":"ace-of-wands-thames-tv-1970-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/ace-of-wands-thames-tv-1970-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace of Wands Thames TV 1970 \u2013 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Children\u2019s adventure series following the exploits of Tarot, (played by Michael MacKenzie) a stage illusionist&nbsp;and&nbsp;escapologist&nbsp;who&nbsp;becomes involved with paranormal themed&nbsp;investigations. During the first two seasons, he is aided by his assistant Lulli (Judy Loe), with whom he shares a telepathic link and his stage manager Sam (Tony Selby). Sadly these first two seasons are both missing from the archives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only remaining season in the archive, sees these two characters having been replaced by brother and sister team of Chas (Roy Holder) an aspiring photographer and Mikki, (Petra Markham) a young journalist, who conveniently seems to share the same telepathic link with Tarot that Lulli had in the previous seasons. This appears to have been a highly enjoyable series, based on viewing of the remaining season, weaving magic , fantasy and science fiction into exciting adventures that still hold up quite well 40 years later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The series was created by Trevor Preston and featured stories written by P J Hammond who went on to create <a href=\"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/sapphire-steel-atv-1979-1982\/\">Sapphire and Steel.<\/a> In total 46 half hour episodes were produced over the shows three year run. Next to nothing was produced relating to the series other than a few related magazine features etc.<\/p>\n<div class=\"archivist-outer-wrapper\">\t\t\t<div class=\"archivist_wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t.archivist_wrapper .permalink {\r\n\tfont-weight: bold;\r\n}\r\n\r\n.archivist_wrapper td {\r\n\tvertical-align: top;\r\n}\r\n\r\n.archivist_wrapper img {\r\n\tpadding: 5px\r\n}\t\t\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<table>\r\n\t<thead>\r\n\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t<th>Title<\/th>\r\n\t\t<\/tr>\r\n\t<\/thead>\r\n\t<tbody>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t<td><\/td>\r\n\t<td>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/ace-of-wands-fan-card\/\" class=\"permalink\">Ace of Wands Fan card<\/a> <br\/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t<td><\/td>\r\n\t<td>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/look-in-1972-no-29-ace-of-wands-cover\/\" class=\"permalink\">Look In 1972 no 29  Ace of Wands Cover<\/a> <br\/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t<td><\/td>\r\n\t<td>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/tv-zone-no-39\/\" class=\"permalink\">TV Zone No 39<\/a> <br\/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\tvar archivist_shortcode_attributes = {\"query\":\"category_name='ace-of-wands'&amp;orderby=title&amp;order=ASC\",\"category\":\"\",\"tag\":\"\",\"template\":\"default\",\"pagination\":false,\"controls\":\"both\"}\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s adventure series following the exploits of Tarot, (played by Michael MacKenzie) a stage illusionist&nbsp;and&nbsp;escapologist&nbsp;who&nbsp;becomes involved with paranormal themed&nbsp;investigations. During the first two seasons, he is aided by his assistant Lulli (Judy Loe), with whom he shares a telepathic link and his stage manager Sam (Tony Selby). Sadly these first two seasons are both missing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/tv-zone-no-39\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TV Zone No 39<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-television-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77177,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51328\/revisions\/77177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murdersville.co.uk\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}