Houdini: Escapes. Séances. One Last Trick.

Episodes

1. 01 Episode 1: The Box That Sank Before 15,000 Eyes Free1:27 Before an enormous New York crowd, Houdini enters a shackled box and lets the water decide whether his legend survives.
2. 02 Episode 2: The Passport That Changed His Birthplace Locked2:06 Houdini resurfaces, but the documents behind his public identity reveal a man whose birthplace, name, and profession shift across the record.
3. 03 Episode 3: The Jail Cell That Crowned a King Locked1:32 Houdini turns police restraints, locked containers, and public challenges into proof that no authority can hold him.
4. 04 Episode 4: The Milk Can Built Like a Coffin Locked1:27 Houdini escalates from police restraints to water, burial, and open air, forcing his body into increasingly lethal-looking prisons.
5. 05 Episode 5: The Stunt the Newspaper Couldn't Confirm Locked1:39 When the archive cannot verify every spectacle, Houdini's greatest instrument emerges: his ability to control the crowd before the trick begins.
6. 06 Episode 6: The Draft Card Signed by a Stage Persona Locked1:28 America's wartime bureaucracy tries to reduce Houdini to a form, only for his theatrical identity to appear in the signature itself.
7. 07 Episode 7: The Escape Device Hidden in a Patent Locked1:37 A diving-suit patent and a film camera reveal Houdini racing to preserve both his inventions and his image before time closes in.
8. 08 Episode 8: The Final Escape He Never Made Locked1:41 Houdini dies in Detroit, leaving witnesses, collectors, and contradictory records to determine what remains after the performer is gone.
9. 09 Episode 9: The Archive That Wouldn't Let Him Vanish Locked1:45 Decades after Houdini's death, collectors and archivists complete his last escape by preserving the evidence—and its unresolved contradictions.