It also touches on other questions, such as whether Houdini could have been recruited to be a spy. "George is really the one, as the everyman, asking the questions we all are wondering: How Houdini did these things." "I think, in many ways, the show is George's journey," Channell said. The production company approached Hardeen about a year ago. "But there was a ton of engineering behind what he was doing." "Everybody thinks of him as an escape artist, illusionist and magician," Channell said. Wyatt Channell, a Science Channel executive producer, said Houdini knew how to create a persona and hold people's interest but the program tries to look at him from a different perspective.
So, we pondered it and came up with our own methodology so that Lee could perform the trick," Hardeen said. "No one knows how Houdini did the tricks. A stunt builder constructs the props, and Terbosic re-enacts the stunts. as a child, generated headlines in the early 1900s for escaping from handcuffs, straitjackets and even a milk can.Įach of the four episodes focuses on a different stunt, including being buried alive and the water torture cell, in which Houdini was lowered upside down into a water tank with his feet locked in stocks.
The Hungarian-born illusionist, who came to the U.S.
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