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: 2006-03-10Stephen visits Blackpool beach; Holly appears from nowhere, and then uses a magical changing room to put on her bikini. In the closing illusion, Stephen uses a bodybuilder to demonstrate the "Beach BBQ".
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2006-03-17We find out how magicians make ice cream; and a donkey gets a ride for once. In the closing illusion, a bodybuilder goes to pieces in the 'Bikini Blocks'.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2006-03-24Stephen makes Holly's wedding ring vanish from inside her closed hand and then reappear inside a rose. He also brings a David Beckham waxwork to life, and then makes a horse disappear.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2006-03-31Stephen takes a knight to pieces in a suit of armour, amazes Nikki with a trick with a bottle, and brings some magic to a library.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2006-04-07Stephen amazes Philip with a close up magic trick, shows off his magic picnic basket, and then makes a viewer's mother float high in the air above London.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2006-04-14On Blackpool beach, Stephen borrows an Aunty - then makes her vanish. A card trick becomes a donkey trick. Aunty Linsey reappears in a tank of water. Beat the Cheat shares another secret. Aunty Linsey is penetrated by light-bulbs.
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Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 2006-04-21In "The Disembodied Princess", Stephen makes a gymnastics coach's body disappear, leaving just her head and legs.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 2006-04-28Stephen uses a small tree house for a Big Trick and teaches magic in the Secret Circle. He also visits a gym and stretches and squashes a bodybuilder to impossible sizes in "The Stretcher".
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Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 2006-05-05Stephen introduces Holly to his idea of "Modern Art" when he saws her in half while she's standing up.
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Episode 10 - Episode 10
Release Date: 2006-05-12Stephen attends a school in Denbigh and puts a schoolgirl called Sophie through an illusion called the Wringer where she is flattened. At a gym in London, Stephen performs Bodybuilder Bisection, using a buzzsaw to slice the man in half.
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Episode 11 - Episode 11
Release Date: 2006-05-19Stephen gets right to the point with a gym teacher, a classic confidence trick is exposed in Beat the Cheat, and a French lesson is cut short by a guillotine.
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Episode 12 - Episode 12
Release Date: 2006-05-26Stephen surprises a viewer's mother with some conjuring, and helps her dress the part, before she takes to the high seas for an illusion with pirates. Plus, magic tips for viewers in the Secret Circle, and Stephen's volunteer assistant being cut into nine in an illusion called "The Slicer".