50th Week 7. In March 1987, our first movie, Penn & Teller’s Invisible Thread, debuted on Showtime. Produced by our friend Tim Marx, whom we recently worked with on youngsheldoncbs and directed by the great #bobbalan , it featured cameos by G. Gordon Liddy, #AndyWarhol #DickCavett, Florence Stanley #peterwolf and of course, #TheAmazingRandi The paleycenter provides a fine synopsis: PENN & TELLER’S INVISIBLE THREAD A tongue-in-cheek adventure film starring unorthodox magicians Penn & Teller. The duo appear as the propietors of a magic shop who also book second-rate magicians. When a young patron arrives with his birthday money, Penn, in used-car salesman style, helps him spend it on hokey packaged magic tricks. The boy becomes incensed, however, when the pair sell him something called “Invisible Thread.” After paying for it, the youngster learns that it doesn’t really exist, but Penn insists that learning the secret of the thread is the key to showmanship. Later, two government agent...