Two hour pilot: Magician Alexander Blacke decides to retire after a near-death experience; however, when an old friend of his is mysteriously murdered during a magic trick – he was somehow shot while sealed in a coffin underwater – Alex and his father Leonard investigate and help the police to figure it out.
When a statue disappears in a matters of moments, Alex is asked to investigate. And when Alex learns that the chief of security is being held accountable, he tries to solve it and clear the man's name.
Alex refuses an offer from a strange man to test the impenetrability of his vault, instead concocting a plan for Leonard to carry out when he leaves town. Leonard reports a break-in to the police, and when they open up the vault they find that it contains the stranger's body. Leonard is arrested and bailed out by Alex when he returns, and they then go on the run in search of the truth.
Some marine biologists are looking for a lost wreck. They find it but as soon as they do, it floats up and goes away.
While working as a consultant for a movie, Alex gets an added responsibility when the producer is murdered in an editing room.
Leonard takes Alex to the town where he met Alex's mother, but there is a problem: the town's population vanishes overnight. A corpse and the site where a man was murdered seem to vanish without leaving a trace. After seeing strange lights in the sky, the Blackes have reason to suspect that aliens might have abducted a woman.
Alex has been asked by the Justice Department to help them with the extradition of Victor Kroeger, a man who pulled a scam that netted him 122 million dollars, and has been on the run for 18 years, and who has been caught in the small country of San Marcos. It seems that Kroeger has been caught before and always manages to escape. Agent Harrison was the one who handled the extradition in Honduras five years ago, and it seems his superiors want Alex to help. Alex accepts. Leonard upon hearing of this decides to go with him in hopes of getting the money. Alex, Leonard, and Agent Harrison are met by Captain Gondolpho, who apprehended Kroeger. They also run into two of Kroeger former associates, Stuart and Rhodes who both think that they sent each other a telegram asking the other to met them there. But it appears that Kroeger was the one who sent it. They also run into a photo journalist Leslie Davis, who wants to cover the story but Gondolpho is not sure if he should allow her.
Alex comes to the aid of his former assistant, Louise Richmond, whose husband has blown the whistle on a conspiracy between his company and the Government. When Alex suspects General Wersching (J.D. Cannon) is accepting bribes from a corporation doing business with the government, he enlists Wersching's assistant, Major Crawford (Nancy Grahn) to help him uncover the truth.
A plane with no one aboard lands near a ghost town that Leonard recently won in a poker game.
Alex is enlisted to help a diplomat's wife defect from the Soviet embassy.
Leonard and Alex (Hal Linden) hatch a scam to rescue an old friend's toy company after a rival steals his revolutionary robot prototype.
Alex and Leonard come to aid of a U.S. diplomat who is being blackmailed by a crooked Monte Carlo casino owner involve in selling technological secrets.
A Poe manuscript is apparently purloined from Alex's apartment during an auction that leaves two participants breathing nevermore