About this season
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.
Episodes (10)
1. Episode 1
Aired 5 September 2005 • 22 min
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".
2. Episode 2
Aired 12 September 2005 • 22 min
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.
3. Episode 3
Aired 19 September 2005 • 22 min
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.
4. Episode 4
Aired 26 September 2005 • 22 min
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.
5. Episode 5
Aired 3 October 2005 • 22 min
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.
6. Episode 6
Aired 10 October 2005 • 30 min
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.
7. Episode 7
Aired 17 October 2005 • 30 min
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.
8. Episode 8
Aired 24 October 2005 • 30 min
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.
9. Episode 9
Aired 31 October 2005 • 30 min
Mulhern visits a sleepover to show a sleeping levitation, rescues a cat with magic, and shows off the secrets of a haunted house.
10. Episode 10
Aired 7 November 2005 • 30 min
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.