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The Magic Land of Allakazam was a series of network television shows starring American magician Mark Wilson. [1] It ran from 1960 to 1964 and is credited with establishing the credibility of magic as a television entertainment.
In 1975, when Edward became a performer at the Castle, famed magician of television's "Magic Land of Alakazam" Mark Wilson was on the Board of Directors. The younger Mark Wilson was advised if he wanted to perform he needed to change his name, which he did, deciding to use his middle name as his last name.
Mark Wilson was the son of a salesman and he spent much of his youth traveling with his parents as his father moved about on business. He has said his interest in magic began when he was eight years old and saw a magician named Tommy Martin perform at a hotel in Indianapolis, where the Wilson family were staying at the time. [3]
Alakazam is a magic word or incantation along the lines of abracadabra. Alakazam or Allakazam may also refer to: Alakazam , a Pokémon species; Alakazam the Great, a 1960 Japanese anime film "Alakazam !", a 2016 song by Justice; The Magic Land of Allakazam, an American television series
Abracadabra – magic word used by magicians. Ajji Majji la Tarajji – Iranian magic word (Persian). [citation needed] Alakazam – a phrase used by magicians. [2] Chhu Montor Chhu – a phrase used by magicians in Bangladesh. Hocus pocus – a phrase used by magicians. Jantar Mantar Jadu Mantar – a phrase used by magicians in India.
Darnell worked as a dancer and stewardess [4] before marrying magician Mark Wilson in 1952. [5]The role that most defined Darnell's public image was as a magician's assistant in Wilson's television series The Magic Land of Allakazam, which premiered in October 1960 and ran for four years nationally in the United States.
Abracadabra written in a triangular form as represented in Encyclopædia Britannica. The first known mention of the word was in the second century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis (sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima) by Serenus Sammonicus, [10] physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who in chapter 52 prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing ...
Alakazam the Great, known in Japan as Saiyūki (西遊記, lit. "Journey to the West") , is a 1960 Japanese anime musical film , heavily based on the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West .