- In the days of King Arthur, they lived in Camelot, a source who entertained the Royal Court with miraculous feet South, magic high.

Above the castle walls, the ancient Necro meets with members of the magic round table.

Come with us now to the secret room of Merlin.

- Welcome, welcome once more to my secret room.

It's nice to see you again.

I'm particularly glad you came today because we have a wonderful, very mystifying Japanese trick that I think you'll like.

Well, we'll talk about that later, but right now, it's time to make the mighty sword.

Excalibur rise.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

Merlin.

Who's interrupting me?

I'm Why?

Why?

I am Merlin.

This is very important, Betty.

I'm, I'm trying to make the sword rise.

- Oh, but me, Merlin.

This is much more important.

- Nothing is more important than Excalibur.

Now, here we go.

Fiddly, die didly.

Who's blowing that?

Stop blowing that horn.

Betty, you stop right now.

Gimme that.

- Oh, Berlin, - Betty, how could you do that to me?

- But, but Berlin, I had something important to say.

- Well, I, it must be very important.

Interrupt.

Incidentally, this, this is a very unusual horn.

What kind of a horn is it?

- Well, that's what you call an indifferent horn.

- An indifferent horn.

What do you mean by that?

- Well, it just doesn't give a toot.

- Oh, be, that's a very old joke.

- You know, Merlin, it's a very old hoard too.

- I believe that.

But now that you've interrupted me, what is so important?

What do you wanna say?

- Well, Merlin, I was gonna speak to you about the membership of the Magic Round table, - The membership.

You all, you're already a member.

- Oh, I know.

I am Merlin, but many of our young friends aren't.

Many of 'em don't even know how to become a member of the round table.

- Well, that's true.

C could could you explain it to them?

- Well, gm and can I really?

- Yes.

Go right ahead.

- Well, I have to clear my throat.

- Clear it.

Go ahead.

Alright, now go - Bur.

And I need some spray - Throat spray.

- Yep.

- All right.

Here we go.

Open my, there you go.

Now, now tell them please.

- Well, well, g Merlin.

I gotta check how I look.

Do I look all right, Merlin?

Do I look, I better look in the mirror first.

Merlin.

- You look fine.

Now look in the mirror and then do this.

Please - Tell - Him.

There you, you're beautiful.

You're lovely.

Now go ahead.

- Well, G Merlin, okay.

If you say so.

Yeah.

Well, to become a member of Merlin's round table, you have to tell him all about a magic good deed that you've done and send it into him.

And then he'll send you a miniature magic wand, just like - Marlin's.

- You just send it in care of this station to Marlin.

Was that all right?

Merlin?

- That was very good.

You did an excellent job, and thank you.

- Well, thanks, Merlin.

But I just wanted to remind you, that's why I did what I did.

Well, - I know why you did what you did.

Now, goodbye.

But goodbye, Merlin.

Goodbye Betty.

- Thanks.

Thanks a - Lot.

You're welcome.

Goodbye.

Bye.

Goodbye.

Betty.

She loves to talk.

That young lady loves to talk.

Well, I'll just put the cover down so she can continue reading from the book of knowledge and, and, oh, I see.

Betty left something here for me.

It's, it's a, it's a card and it says, what does it say on here?

Let's take a look, shall we?

Two?

That's the number two.

But it sounds like TO to join.

What's that?

Round?

To join round table.

That's what it is.

A table two join round table.

Wonder what's on the other side.

Oh, yes.

Right.

See, there's the pan right to Merlin.

There's Merlin.

This is, I Does that look like Merlin?

Right To Merlin?

But I wonder where you write.

I look over here on this other side.

This card has a lot of sides to it.

Right.

Care of this station.

You do that, and I'll send you your magic membership and your wand, just as Betty said.

But tell me what your good deed is first.

Now we'll go to the Mighty Sword Excalibur and make it rise.

You help me, won't you?

Let's say the magic words together, shall we?

Very well.

Loud and clear.

Here we go.

Fiddly, die fiddly.

D, magic sword rise for me.

And the magic word today is a very tiny word, isn't it?

A RT.

Can you spell that?

A RT.

Art.

We're going to talk about art today, and I'd like to talk about art by using the magic sketchpad.

I get so many letters from you saying how you'd like to draw and what I give some more drawing lessons about the head, how to draw the human head.

I'll use my magic sketch pad.

I wonder where the sketch, there's my magic sketch pad.

Come on, please.

This is my magic sketch pad, but I, I, I would rather use the magic slate than the sketch pad because I think the slate will explain things even better.

So I'll just have it turn around and we'll use the school slate Very well.

Turn around.

Aren't you going to, you're not going to turn around.

That's how he says no.

He shakes his big head like that.

What did I do wrong?

Why won't the pad obey?

Beg your pardon?

I forgot.

Oh, I forgot to say, please.

That's a magic word.

A very important one.

We used to all say, please, more often, unfortunately, I forget, it's not very polite to ask favors and not say please.

So I'll try that word now.

Please turn around.

It worked.

In fact, please.

Usually works, doesn't it?

Well, first of all, to do a, a drawing of the human head, I like to draw, well, I like to draw an oval first.

This is cartoon type drawing.

This is cartoon type drawing.

We draw an oval shaped head.

I'm gonna put this part of the oval on top.

I think it looks a little better.

And then we'll divide it into thirds or three equal parts.

It's the same distance from here to here, from here to here, and from here to here.

That's how you tell.

That's how you know where to put the ears, because the ears belong in the middle.

Third.

So we'll put the ears there, and we have a right ear.

And now we'll put a left ear.

Now we can remove our markers because we know where the middle third of the head is.

Well also in there in the middle third, the nose fits exactly right in the middle, in the middle.

Third, well, we have a nose.

We have to have eyes, and they're right next to the nose.

And on top of the eyes, we have eyebrows, don't we?

There's one and there's another right at the top of the nose.

Now, do you know how to tell where to put the mouth while it's halfway down between the nose and the chin and the bottom.

Third halfway, we'll put a happy mouth.

And we make a happy mouth by curving the mouth up.

Better put eyeballs in there too.

The pupils of the eye.

Just put little black dots on your drawing.

Now that's a cartoon face, and you can have a lot of fun with a cartoon face.

And you can make any expression, happiness or anger.

Or you'd like to see anger.

How does an angry mouth look?

It looks just the opposite of a happy mouth.

Let's make an angry mouth by simply turning the mouth upside down.

Now it's a very sad and angry mouth.

Let's make angry eyebrows.

Oh, these are angry eyebrows.

This person is very unhappy.

Yes.

Now you might say anyone can do that, but how about actually drawing it?

It's just as easy.

I'll, I'll show you.

I'll have the sketch pad turn around and I'll do it with the, with the other side.

Please turn around.

Here is, here is what a a, a happy face might look like on the sketch pad, unless you don't want a happy face.

First, we make our oval.

That part's easy.

The ears in the middle.

Third, oh, this fellow has big ears.

Let's make a a real, what's that?

Not an angry person or happy person.

Let's make a surprise person one who is surprised.

Well, if they're surprised, if a person's surprised, his eyes are real big and the pupils are a little pinpoints like that.

And how is the mouth?

Well, the mouth is an old mouth.

It's puckered up like that.

Better give this individual some hair.

Yes, he has a little top knot here.

And we'll put a bow tie on this young man, right?

Like that.

You don't see bow ties very often anymore.

Someday we'll talk about drawing faces again, just remember the nose is in the middle.

Third, as are the ears and the eyes.

Okay.

I'm glad you liked that.

Goodbye.

Magic sketch, pat.

I'll see you later.

Goodbye.

We use paper to draw with, but we also use paper napkins at home.

And I know a Japanese trick that's done with a paper napkin that's torn into bits.

Two bits, four bits, six bits, and some small change, which I'll roll into a little ball like that.

Now, I must squeeze the ball very tightly.

Very tightly, because then the torn pieces will tend to come together.

But in addition to squeezing the ball, because this is a Japanese trick, I'm going to have to wave the magic Japanese fan over the torn pieces.

And now I think our napkin is back together again in one whole piece.

Would you like to know how that's done?

You would.

Well, if I tell you how that's done, will you promise to keep it a secret?

Not tell anyone else.

Well, this is how it's done.

You have another napkin, which you roll into a ball, a good napkin, and keep it palmed under your thumb like that.

You don't let the people know that the napkin is there.

That's a good napkin.

Then you take the other napkin and you tear it up into little pieces like this.

And you roll those pieces together into a tight, tight ball.

Roll it very tightly.

And this is where the trick comes in.

It's where the trick comes in.

And this is why I use the fan.

You see, when I squeeze the torn pieces very hard, when I squeeze them and I tap it with the fan, everyone looks at the fan and I switch the torn pieces, put them under my left thumb, keeping it palmed.

You see, you can't see that, can you?

That's known as palming.

And of course, the good napkin, the one I switched it for, can now be shown.

Isn't that simple?

Most good magic is, and all I have to do is palm it.

I can wiggle my fingers.

No one knows I have anything in this hand.

And then I open the good napkin keeping this one concealed.

And they think it's restored.

They think that it came back together again.

It looks whole.

In fact, it is whole.

That's because it's another napkin.

You what?

What if someone says, how about the napkin in your hand?

How about the torn pieces?

What do you do then?

Well, that's where your little magic wand comes in that you get by joining my club.

You touch it with a little magic wand and say, fiddly die fiddly, D torn pieces come back together for me.

And that napkin is also restored.

You know the secret?

Please keep it to yourself.

Don't tell anyone how it works all in one piece.

Thank you for watching.

I hope you'll visit me again real soon.

Write to me, Kara, this station, tell me your good deed, and I'll send you a membership card and a little magic wand.

See you soon.

Bye now.

Come here.

Magic sketch.

Pat, I want to talk to you right over there.

Marlon was produced in the studios of Ohio University Television in Athens, Ohio.