About: The Magic Lie

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