Tricky TV (2005)
Tricky TV is a fast paced modern magic show for CITV. Presented by children's presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern, the show features magic on the street, "wicked wind-ups", illusions, and teaches a number of tricks step-by-step.
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Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2005-09-05A full-sized model gorilla comes to life, Stephen makes a dream come true for a class of school kids - by causing their teachers to vanish. Jennifer Ellison is amazed by a card trick, and then cut into three in the "Zigzag Girl".
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2005-09-12A school trip to the Kent Museum of life takes a turn when Stephen flattens a schoolboy called josh by putting him through a mangle, attempts to make a tank disappear, and then leads a cookery class that gets out of hand.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2005-09-19Mulhern demonstrates the illusion of levitation, customers at an ice-cream van are served a surprise, and in the closing illusion, Caprice participates in a giant card trick.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2005-09-26The Cheeky Girls help Stephen perform a trick with playing cards - by sitting on them. Plus Stephen demonstrates a trick where a handkerchief turns into an egg with a touch of magic. Finally, the Cheeky Girls help Stephen with another trick where he saws them both in half and switches their lower halves.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2005-10-03Bradley Walsh is amazed by a card trick with a football link; Stephen transforms a viewer's old family car; a poster comes to life; a harmless toy terrifies members of the public; and a viewer asks Stephen to use their mother in a dangerous feat.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2005-10-10Magic is involved in a school trip to the cinema, and Mulhern performs a trick involving Rachel Stevens's expensive ring, and then saws her in half while she is standing up. Mulhern also places a bodybuilder on the Table of Death to be impaled by a bed of sharp spikes falling from above.
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Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 2005-10-17Comedian Joe Pasquale plays a version of Russian roulette, Stephen tries to turn a pack of cub scouts into brownies, and Holly is sent to the guillotine.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 2005-10-24Singer Peter Andre receives a shock when the presenter attempts a trick using a fork, Mulhern shows the secret to making someone levitate, and there is a big trick with a plane.
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Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 2005-10-31Mulhern visits a sleepover to show a sleeping levitation, rescues a cat with magic, and shows off the secrets of a haunted house.
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Episode 10 - Episode 10
Release Date: 2005-11-07Mulhern presents a trick with a box of tissues, guest Jack Osbourne receives some unusual help to overcome his jet-lag, and a bodybuilder volunteers for a dangerous underwater trick.