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 (12)
1. Episode 1
Aired 10 March 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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".
2. Episode 2
Aired 17 March 2006 • 22 min
We 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'.
3. Episode 3
Aired 24 March 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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.
4. Episode 4
Aired 31 March 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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.
5. Episode 5
Aired 7 April 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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.
6. Episode 6
Aired 14 April 2006 • 22 min
On 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.
7. Episode 7
Aired 21 April 2006 • 22 min
In "The Disembodied Princess", Stephen makes a gymnastics coach's body disappear, leaving just her head and legs.
8. Episode 8
Aired 28 April 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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".
9. Episode 9
Aired 5 May 2006 • 22 min
Stephen introduces Holly to his idea of "Modern Art" when he saws her in half while she's standing up.
10. Episode 10
Aired 12 May 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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.
11. Episode 11
Aired 19 May 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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.
12. Episode 12
Aired 26 May 2006 • 22 min
Stephen 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".