George Burns hosted an NBC
special from Disneyland entitled "Magic in the Magic
Kingdom." Some of the guests of this spectacular event consisted of Siegfried & Roy, Lance Burton, Harry Anderson and Dean Gunnarson.
Featured in the '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' exhibit, Dean Gunnarson
was chained, handcuffed and locked inside a submerged shark cage. Well beneath the
surface before a world wide audience, Dean struggled in the dense water for 2 minutes
and 13 seconds, extricating himself from handcuffs, chains and the confining shark
cage. As Dean broke the surface to the applause of many, George Burns announced to
the world, "Now there's a new Houdini, and his name is Dean Gunnarson."
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