Tricky TV

200522m

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.

Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 2005

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1. Episode 1

A 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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2. Episode 2

A 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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3. Episode 3

Mulhern 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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4. Episode 4

The 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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5. Episode 5

Bradley 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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6. Episode 6

Magic 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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7. Episode 7

Comedian 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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8. Episode 8

Singer 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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9. Episode 9

Mulhern 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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10. Episode 10

Mulhern 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.

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