- Lance Burton and the Pendragons perform some of Houdini's greatest escapes and illusions.
- In this magic special, Melinda Saxe and Charlotte Pendragon present a sexy take on some of Houdini's greatest illusions. Melinda is cut in half, Charlotte is guillotined, and they each perform an amazing underwater escape. With additional magic from Lance Burton, Brett Daniels, and David Williamson.
- On a lakeside stage, Jonathan Pendragon shows the audience an empty frame. Curtains rise to close the sides, then drop to reveal Charlotte Pendragon and Melinda Saxe. As the audience cheers and applauds, the women pose in matching sling bikinis. Running down the beach, Charlotte boards a Zodiac, and is taken out to a paddle steamer on the lake, where she will brave the icy waters. Her brief swimsuit leaves no hiding places as she is shackled hand and foot, then dropped from the side of the ship. With underwater cameras watching, she must escape from her chains or drown. Back in the studio, Lance Burton explains how to get out of a straight-jacket and how Houdini was thought to have done it. Back at the lake shore, Charlotte Pendragon and Melinda Saxe greet the audience. Houdini rarely performed his unique versions of the most famous illusion in magic, sawing a woman in half. Today, Charlotte Pendragon recreate a baffling vertical sawing. Melinda is placed into a hypnotic trance, and then lies inside a long wooden box. Her hands and feet extend from either end, and are secured with hand and ankle cuffs. They remain in full view as a buzz-saw slices through the box. Charlotte then makes the spectacle even more impossible by penetrating the box with saber swords! When the swords and saw are removed, Melinda is released unharmed, still in a deep trance. Brett Daniels does a zany version of Houdini's Thumb Tie. Houdini would be proud to see the speed that The Pendragon's perform Metamorphosis. If you blink you miss it all. Charlotte handcuffs Jonathan, and ties him into a sack, which she locks into a trunk. She climbs on top, and briefly raises a cloth - which drops to reveal Jonathan. He opens the trunk to reveal that Charlotte has managed an astounding costume change from her black slingshot to a tiny red sequinned bikini. Houdini often presented the guillotine as an escape, but he was also noted for using as an impossible decapitation trick. Still in her in her tiny bikini and handcuffs from Metamorphosis, there's no place for Charlotte Pendragon to hide from the razor sharp blade of this genuine French guillotine. Melinda Saxe straps her to the board, gives her a kiss for good luck, and then slices off her head. Charlotte's head visibly drops into the basket. Melinda Saxe recreates another of Houdini's dangerous underwater stunts. Shackled and placed in water upside down, Melinda must escape from the small space before she runs out of air. David Williamson goes crazy after swallowing a handful of needles. Jonathan Pendragon recreates Houdini's dynamite escape. He blindfolds and gags his wife Charlotte, then shackles her hands and feet. She is placed inside a small wooden coffin that is lifted into the air. In 90 seconds a timed bomb attached to the coffin will explode: can she escape? Finally, Charlotte Pendragon presents Houdini's masterpiece: a five ton elephant vanishes from the middle of the stage, with Melinda Saxe on its back. Melinda does not reappear.
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