8.5/1015 votes#1 - El Dorado
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1986
Alex Jagger, fresh from an hapless tryst with an exotic woman who could undo his tie with her teeth, is taken to California to look after Simon Mckay. Simon is a former pentagon advisor, toymaker, genius, and short. (Me, thats the order I like it to describe him.) Anyway, you also meet Darcy- the agent Alex replaces-, and Simon's very naive, eager assistant. Anyway, this episode Simon pledges to find a brother of sick boy for bone-marrow transplant. Simon, Darcy, and Alex find the brother in the ancient city of El Dorado where the bro is being held hostage.Well, they save him with the wizard's trick of the trade. The boy was given the transplant and a teddy reuxben(sp?) that could learn from the boy.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
8.0/109 votes#2 - Reunion
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1986
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Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
6.6/1011 votes#3 - Haunting Memories
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1986
Alex and the pretty owner of a local toy store share some frightening ghostly manifestians at her store, and Simon tries to find out why.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: N/A
7.2/107 votes#4 - Seeing is Beliveing
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1986
Simon tries to help out the blind by building a robotic dog that can guide and be there forever. Well, a science jerk finds out about the proto-type and convinces a arms dealer to steal the dog and its owner. Well, the plot works and the two are stolen. Simon is beating himself up and trying to do everything he can to trace the dog and hopefully his owner. The two stolen ones are found when the dog escapes and leads to the wharehouse the blind woman is being kept. Simon and Alex really just watches as the dog saves the day.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: N/A
7.0/107 votes#5 - An Inside Job
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1986
Todd, a young street punk in cheesy eighties fashion, is caught trying to steal Simon's car radio. Simon takes in the young kid and shows him a 50,000 dollar prototype of a toy plane. When Todd tries to escape, he is snatched by two assains who remind the young boy of his job, which is to steal the plane. The plane gets stolen and used to try to blow up a real plane.Simon and Alex finds Todd, then tries to stop the plan, but gets caught in a building that will blow up in 4 minutes. If the wizard can not find a way to get out and stop the evil villians, He and Alex are history. Will this be the end of the Wizard and his trustee government official? Naa, Simon gets out and screws up the villians plans. Everything turns all right in the end.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff
7.2/107 votes#6 - Born to Run
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1986
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Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
7.5/108 votes#7 - The Other Side
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1986
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Director: Charles Braverman
Writer: N/A
5.8/108 votes#8 - Twist of Fate
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1986
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Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
- 7.0/107 votes
#9 - Nobody's Perfect
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1986
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/108 votes#10 - It takes a Chimp
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1986
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Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
7.6/107 votes#11 - Endangered Species
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1986
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Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
NaN/100 votes#12 - Trouble in the Stars
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1986
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#13 - The Heart of a Dancer
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1987
During the shooting of a music video, were Simon is assisting with one of his robots, the dancer that is dancing with the robot is shot by a crazed fan, paralyzing her from the waist down. It is up to Alex, Simon and the Dancer to find the fan. At one point, the fan is spotted and followed, where we discover that he has been has been following her career for a long time. He even makes an attempt on her life while she is in the hospital recovering from the shooting. His thing is that she will dance for only him. Simon invents a machine that creates a hologram of the dancer, so she can dance again and it is thanks to this machine that the crazed fan is finally caught, as the dancer, controlling the machine, finally is able to confront her attacker. Ep ends with a new music video where we see the dancer, using the machine Simon created, dancing again.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
NaN/100 votes#14 - Never Give Up
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1987
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Director: Don Weis
Writer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Daydream Believer
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1987
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Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: N/A
- 5.0/107 votes
#16 - Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1987
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Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Michael Berk
NaN/100 votes#17 - The Aztec Dagger
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1987
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Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Papa Simon
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/1987
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Director: N/A
Writer: Arthur Bernard Lewis, Michael Berk
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - H.E.N.R.I. 8
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/1987
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Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Steven Barnes
The Best Episodes of The Wizard Season 1
Every episode of The Wizard Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Wizard Season 1!
The Wizard is a live-action, family friendly, action/adventure series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Paul B. Radin. The series included lessons in diversity,...
Genre:Action & Adventure
Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"El Dorado" is the best rated episode of "The Wizard" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Peter H. Hunt and written by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, it aired on 9/9/1986. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Reunion".