About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. Seven Serpents, Sulphur and Salt, Episode One
Aired 21 July 1971 • 30 min
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.
2. Seven Serpents, Sulphur and Salt, Episode Two
Aired 11 August 1971 • 30 min
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.
3. Seven Serpents, Sulphur and Salt, Episode Three
Aired 1 September 1971 • 30 min
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.
4. Joker, Episode One
Aired 22 September 1971 • 30 min
Investigating why normally well-behaved children suddenly go berserk and wreck their classrooms, Tarot and his companions find themselves up against the fiendish Uncle Harry and his strange troupe of travelling entertainers.
5. Joker, Episode Two
Aired 18 August 1971 • 30 min
Investigating why normally well-behaved children suddenly go berserk and wreck their classrooms, Tarot and his companions find themselves up against the fiendish Uncle Harry and his strange troupe of travelling entertainers.
6. Joker, Episode Three
Aired 25 August 1971 • 30 min
Investigating why normally well-behaved children suddenly go berserk and wreck their classrooms, Tarot and his companions find themselves up against the fiendish Uncle Harry and his strange troupe of travelling entertainers.
7. Nightmare Gas, Episode One
Aired 1 September 1971 • 30 min
The theft of a deadly hallucinatory gas, H23, by the deadly Thalia and her brother Dalbiac, plunges Tarot and friends into a nightmare adventure. Contact with the gas induces nightmares so real the victim dies after 23 minutes: captured and exposed to the gas, Tarot has mere minutes to live.
8. Nightmare Gas, Episode Two
Aired 8 September 1971 • 30 min
The theft of a deadly hallucinatory gas, H23, by the deadly Thalia and her brother Dalbiac, plunges Tarot and friends into a nightmare adventure. Contact with the gas induces nightmares so real the victim dies after 23 minutes: captured and exposed to the gas, Tarot has mere minutes to live.
9. Nightmare Gas, Episode Three
Aired 15 September 1971 • 30 min
The theft of a deadly hallucinatory gas, H23, by the deadly Thalia and her brother Dalbiac, plunges Tarot and friends into a nightmare adventure. Contact with the gas induces nightmares so real the victim dies after 23 minutes: captured and exposed to the gas, Tarot has mere minutes to live.
10. The Eye of Ra, Episode One
Aired 22 September 1971 • 30 min
The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.
11. The Eye of Ra, Episode Two
Aired 29 September 1971 • 30 min
The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.
12. The Eye of Ra, Episode Three
Aired 6 October 1971 • 30 min
The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.
13. The Eye of Ra, Episode Four
Aired 13 October 1971 • 30 min
The Eye of Ra, a diamond reputed to have the power to turn people into chalk, is high on eccentric chessmaster Ceribraun's shopping list. Believing that the diamond has turned Mr. Sweet into a chalk statuette, Tarot decides to act. He soon finds himself a prisoner of Ceribraun's talking computer, and in danger of being crushed to death between gigantic robotic chess pieces.