Bill Bixby in the title role as a magician who comes to the aid of Kim Hunter, playing a middle-aged woman who becomes the target of an assassin because she's witnessed a murder. The magician uses his great talents to spirit her into hiding while he recklessly goes after the murder plotters.

Magician Tony Blake discovers that Julie Carter, the singer who opens his stage illusion show in Las Vegas, has been kidnapped. Against her fiance's wishes, Tony gets involved in trying to rescue the girl, but his helicopter surveillance plan fails. Tony now finds time running out to locate and rescue Julie before the kidnappers kill her.