Ace of Wands
1970
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 46 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureFamily
Ace of Wands is a fantasy-based British children's television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972, created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television. The title, taken from the name of a Tarot card describes the principal character, called "Tarot" who combined stage magic with supernatural powers. Tarot has a pet Owl named Ozymandias, played by Fred Owl.
The series ran for two seasons of thirteen episodes and a third season of twenty, with fourteen story arcs, in a similar manner to early Doctor Who. Many, if not all, of the first 26 episodes are believed to have been wiped, although the final season is intact.
Seasons
Season 1
Hot on the trail of a device stolen from a research laboratory – a cure for paralysis which, in the wrong hands, could be used as a devastating weapon – Tarot and his friends meet evil villainess Madame Midnight, and her accomplice Teddy Talk.
Season 2
Aided by the bizarre and beautiful Polandi and his servant Luko, evil magician Mr. Stabs sets out to steal the missing segment of the Secret Seven Serpents, which are in Tarot's possession. Several have already died for possessing it, and Tarot is the next victim on Stabs' hitlist.
Season 3
Alongside new companions Nikki and Chas, Tarot investigates a strange curse which has frightened the smallholders away from a London street market. Mr. Dove, who watches from a nearby tower block through his binoculars, and Mockers, the local 'prophet of doom', are determined to hamper his progress.
Crew
Producer
John Russell
Network
ITV1
Keywords
telepathymagicpartially lost media