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Wednesday
Nov232011

HOUDINI MUSEUM FEATURED ON TV

The Travel Channel's Mysteries At The Museum will air a story from Scranton's Houdini Museum about one of Houdini's most controversial escapes on Thursday December 1, 2011, at 11:00 PM and on Friday, December 2, 2011, at 2:00 AM.  Following that The History Channel's Brad Meltzer's Decoded! will show a segment with Houdini Museum magicians and experts Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz about Houdini's unusual death that will air on January 4, 2012.  

The Travel Channel calls its segment, Keys to Houdini's Secrets. It features Dorothy Dietrich, celebrity magician and escape artist, who is a director of Scranton's Houdini Museum.  (Watch the Video promo)   

The History Channel story tells of the mysteries of Houdini's death and some never before revealed secrets about what happened in Houdini's dressing room when he was punched in the stomach that led to his untimely death.  

Yet a third television story from the Houdini Museum was shown Friday, November 11 at 9 PM throughout Canada on "Deals From The Dark Side" that is expected to air in the United States shortly.  Deals From the Dark Side... "stops in Scranton, PA, to meet with a crew of Houdini experts and the honour of placing a new bust on Houdini’s grave in New York"

Houdini continues to enchant the public's imagination with at least three Hollywood films being produced at this time about parts of his life, several Houdini related books just being published, and well a world wide New York Times half page news story, October 24, 2011, about Houdini's grave site being restored secretly by what has come to be called The Houdini Commandos from Scranton's Houdini Museum. 

When not traveling, Dietrich performs at The Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA, where she is also a director. She has been featured on numerous television shows and channels world wide including the BBC, CBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, Travel Channel, Biography Channel, History Channel, TV Land, etc. She has been called The First Lady of Magic as well as The Female Houdini. She also presides over the annual Original Houdini Seance every Halloween.  Ms. Dietrich also talks and lectures about Houdini in schools, corporate events, banks, and has the only continuous traveling Houdini exhibit in the world.