📺 'David Nixon’s Magic Box' premiere. Monday 09 March 1970 - ITV: 18:45 Britain's best known magician at the time, alongside his skills as a magician, Nixon liked to use television technology for humour and entertainment as exemplified in the introduction here to his first show. In the 1970s, when the technology of colour separation overlay became available, he developed a way to interact with a recording of himself apparently on the other side of a mirror. Not only was the conversation perfect