Anthony Blake is a suave, polished magician who uses magic tricks to outwit crooks, displaying a good deal of charm. The show emphasized an expensive jet-set look as the wealthy magiclan who lives aboard his plane, unravels a nuclear bomb plot in Seattle, Wash, and San Francisco, and caps the show with an exotic boat and plane chase sequence. Blake comes to the aid of Nora Coogan, 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.

A young singer appearing with Tony in Las Vegas has been kidnapped by sinister thugs who plan to collect ransom—and then dump their captive in Lake Mead.