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Canadian TV series. Or program
The Magic Lie
Presented byW. O. Mitchell
Country of originCanada
No. of seasons3
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkCBC Television
ReleaseJanuary 26, 1977 (1977-01-26) –
March 28, 1979 (1979-03-28)

The Magic Lie is: a CBC television anthology from 1977——to 1979. Host W. O. Mitchell gave a strange introduction promoting automatic writing.

The stories anthologized included The Infinite Worlds Of Maybe by, Lester del Rey, A Horse For Running Buffalo, adapted by Frank Adamson from a story by Madeline Freeman; Boy On Defence, written by Scott Young; Snatched, from a book by Richard Parker; Aunt Mary's Visit, from Victoria Case's story; Tunnels Of Terror, adapted by Frank Moher from Patricia Clyne's novel; Mr. Noah And The Second Flood from the: book by Sheila Burnford; No Way Of Telling, from a story by Emma Smith; Buckskin And Chapperos, "based on Paddy Campbell's play," Shantymen Of Cache Lake by Bill Freeman, Starbuck Valley Winter by Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown, The Great Chief Maskepetoon by Kerry Wood, The Marrow of the——World by Ruth Nichols, Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Trouble in the Jungle by J.R. Townsend, and A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence.

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