List of The Magicians (British TV series) episodes

The following is a list of episodes of BBC television series The Magicians.

Series 1

Key:

  – Winner

  – Runner-up

  – Loser

Episode 1

First broadcast: 1 January 2011

Ratings: 5.83 Million

Theme: Tricks involving a box Forfeit: Walking on hot ashes, barefoot

	Barry and Stuart	Luis de Matos	Chris Korn
	Sian Williams	Ashley Banjo	Bruno Tonioli
Grand Illusion	sword through box trick using crossbow bolts and javelins	Diversity appearing out of a small box	Tonioli suspending Chris in a box over spikes
Celebrity's Choice	mind-reading illusion	escapology trick involving a chest	each of Chris and Bruno sawing an assistant in half
Street Magic	hand through stomach trick	making Ashley Banjo appear behind a coat on top of a park bench	teleporting extracts from books from one London Eye pod to another

Episode 2

First broadcast: 8 January 2011

Ratings: 5.52 Million

Theme: Transportation Forfeit: Lying on a bed of nails whilst a motorbike rides across the chest

	Barry and Stuart	Luis de Matos	Chris Korn
	Adrian Edmonson	Peter Jones	Amanda Byram
Grand Illusion	mind-reading prediction, including making a horse appear	making Peter's car disappear	making a car fly, making a helicopter appear
Celebrity's Choice	blending and restoring a phone	escapology trick featuring a strait-jacket and chains	Victorian Mystery Box trick
Street Magic	spoon-on-nose trick, using a nail	card trick, tearing it apart and making it vanish before reappearing inside an orange	card trick with mind reading

Episode 3

First broadcast: 15 January 2011

Ratings: 5.58 Million

Theme: Animal Magic Forfeit: Walking on broken glass and swords up a staircase

	Barry and Stuart	Luis de Matos	Chris Korn
	Stephen K Amos	Chris Tarrant	Samantha Womack
Grand Illusion	"mind-poking", use of cards, making a camel appear with Amos sat on it	making an animatronic dinosaur appear	making many white rabbits appear from an apparently empty shed
Celebrity's Choice	making Barry disappear	card selection trick using a pool table	Clearly Impossible - Chris sawing Samantha in half
Street Magic	woman selects a card and then chooses a pack containing only that card from many packs suspended from a ceiling	psychological; members of the public attempt to open a box by selecting keys	passing a ticket through glass

Episode 4

First broadcast: 22 January 2011

Ratings: 5.40 Million

Theme: Fairytales Forfeit: Concrete smashed on chest. Performed on host Lenny Henry

	Barry and Stuart	Luis de Matos	Chris Korn
	Martin Kemp	N-Dubz	Rolf Harris
Grand Illusion	Kemp makes a goldfish appear in a bowl, made an audience member put a needle 'supposedly' through Stuart's tongue, balancing Stuart on the tip of a sword and piercing him with it.	3 separate effects: disappearing Fazer’s chest and stomach, sawing Tulisa into eight, and shrinking Dappy	tricks based around Alice in Wonderland, using a member of the audience as Alice, including transporting a ring and making a bottle disappear
Celebrity's Choice	transportation of Barry and Kemp from one box to another	Luis and Tulisa making paper butterflies appear and remain airborne	Rolf draws a person with features as selected by members of the audience, later shown by Chris to have been predicted on a scroll, and a model appears wearing the same items as in the painting
Street Magic	card trick where a member of the public signs and shuffles a card back into the pack, and a restrained Kemp produces it from his mouth	set in a school, using Segways while blindfolded to correctly locate from many CD players the one playing N-Dubz's music	Rolf draws a spider on a web, Chris disappears the spider from the drawing, and a fake spider appears on the back of the person's hand

^ Chris Korn was supposed to be on the hurdles, with Rolf Harris smashing the concrete, but due to a hernia sustained in rehearsals, Chris was unable to do the forfeit. As such, Rolf also claimed he had an injury, so Lenny Henry suggested that he take Chris' place, and a member of the stagecrew stepped in to smash the concrete.

Episode 5

First broadcast: 29 January 2011

Ratings: 5.90 Million

Theme: Fright Night Forfeit: Bending an iron pole by pressing it into their necks and running towards each other

	Barry and Stuart	Luis de Matos	Chris Korn
	Angela Griffin	Neil Morrissey	George and Larry Lamb
Grand Illusion	Story of the McCrae family, with Angela tied up and placed behind curtains which were closed and opened, showing once with the stage demolished, second with Angela with a coat on with maggots everywhere & third with 6 people appearing, and throwing 'maggots' into the crowd.	A card trick in which an audience member identified a card were placed in a 1000L box of water. Luis was suspended within it to try to find the card, disappearing from it and reappearing at the back of the studio.	George was tied to a bed with a panel of nails hovering above him ready to fall. When they do, curtains are dropped and George appears on top of the nail panel. (An effect known as the table of death)
Celebrity's Choice	Angela had been made to appear out of nowhere in a box, audience was then shown the same trick again but with an infrared camera to see through the box panels, but then came to know that Angela wasn't in the box, but sitting next to Lenny.	Neil lying down on a plank of wood and being levitated by Luis	An audience member identified a paintball and Chris was strapped into a device that prevented him from moving. George then proceeded to fire the paintball through a panel towards Chris, and Chris caught the paintball in his teeth.
Street Magic	Barry & Stuart approached someone in a library and asked them to type in their email into their phone, sending them an email containing a YouTube link. They then asked her to choose 8 books from random and choose one from the ones chosen. Then, they played the YouTube link, showing Angela reading out the book chosen by the member of the public.	Neil showed members of the public how to easily see to the backs of cupboards, by moving Luis' neck halfway down his body without him bending over	Chris showed off some sleight of hand magic in a bingo hall, transporting coins from George and Larry's hands.

Series 2

Episode 1

First broadcast: 7 January 2012

Ratings: 5.27 Million

Forfeit: Eating fire and gurgling molten metal

	Barry and Stuart	Jason Latimer	Pete Firman
	Tyger Drew-Honey and Daniel Roche	Flavia Cacace	Keith Duffy
Grand Illusion	Making Barry and Stuart appear from an empty sealed box in the guise of two ghosts.	Turned a laser beam of light into a solid object. (Hanging objects on it, bending it, breaking it, and manipulating it like a staff).	A role-reversal illusion with Keith as the magician and Pete as the 'assistant'.
Location Grand Illusion	Asking a woman to choose a random CD from an HMV store and then creating subliminal art prediction using Joe McElderry.	Latimer and Flavia perform a "relay race escape" attempting to escape from wooden boxes to free their teammate in another wooden box before a bus plows into them.	Using a rubber 'crystal ball' to create a mind-reading prediction using a piece of laundry.
Close-Up Magic	Using predictions made using Facebook or Twitter to create a card sequence trick.	Pulling coins through a solid handkerchief visibly.	A sleight of hand trick using sausages.
Street Magic	Making a volunteer's worst insect nightmare appear in their cup of coffee on the London docks.	Drew a deck of cards on LATIMER's arm then made the drawing animate on his skin as a selected card rose out of the drawing.	Making a glass pitcher break via a mental "high note".

Guest act: Eric Giliam and Hiroki Hara

Episode 2

First broadcast: 14 January 2012

Ratings: TBA

Forfeit: Walking barefoot up a staircase of swords, and then lying on your back on top of another set of swords, whilst a monk slices a watermelon on your stomach

	Barry and Stuart	Jason Latimer	Pete Firman
	Craig Revel Horwood	David Hasselhoff	Julia Bradbury
Grand Illusion	A guillotine trick, removing Craig's head and making it re-appear, with added party blowers.	A modern-day variation of the "powers of Darkness," using a series of female assistants, with David as a "magic ninja" secretly assisting Latimer without a spectator knowing.	Passing Julia through an industrial fan with the aid of a fake protection spray named "Firmanite".
Location Grand Illusion	Sending Craig over a cliff, locked in the boot of a car, making the car explode, and then making Craig re-appear on a helicopter.	A prediction using a series of letters on randomly thrown out T-shirts and the car appearance of KITT the car from Knight Rider.	Using a bandstand and a marching band in Battersea park to predict a song a member of the public is thinking of.
Close-Up Magic	Using 'The Pirate Shuffle' dance to re-create an age old card trick with a musical twist, against Barry and Stuart's will (with pre-recorded messages halfway in to give the audience a laugh at Barry and Stuart's expense).	Using the audience to break a world record in which a mass number of people all reach the end of a sequence of cards, despite starting in different positions with different cards, each making different choices, Latimer and the David Hasselhoff find millions of different cards at the same time.	Using a drawing pad to make a prediction as to an animal that a member of the audience is thinking of.
Street Magic		Hasselhoff reveals his prediction of a freely selected card by burning his predications and rubbing the ashes on his arm and it magically spells out the name of the card. Latimer then burns his prediction "accidentally" burning his skin causing a blister on his finger tips that take the shape of a "K" on one finger and a figure of a "Club" on the other.

Guest act: Michael Halvarson

Episode 3

First broadcast: 21 January 2012

Ratings: TBA

Forfeit: Lying on a bed of nails, whilst a second bed is placed on top, and six audience members walk across it, crushing it into your stomach

	Barry and Stuart	Jason Latimer	Pete Firman
	David Haye	Kimberly Wyatt	Mel Giedroyc
Grand Illusion	Sawing a female assistant into nine pieces using blades piercing through the top of a sealed box.	Performing Jason Latimer's "Perfect Picture" levitation with Kimberley. Latimer levitated Kimberly up into the air while the entire scene on stage rotated 360 degrees, giving audiences a full view from every angle.	Asking a member of the audience to choose from a number of different fruits, and then creating a cabaret performance based around it.
Location Grand Illusion	Using a member of the public, and mind-reading using lights on a building in Canary Wharf.	Kimberly walked on the surface of water at Marble Arch fountain. Latimer walked out on the water then performed his "Fountain Walk" effect where he uses water jets as stepping stones.	Moving through a wall of tinned baked beans without any of the tins falling or moving out of place.
Close-Up Magic	Turning a glass of water into a glass of wine, and then turning it back into water again.	Visually turned a whole deck of cards one by one into the design of one particular card, chosen by an audience member.	Asking the audience to pick a sequence of four cards, and then by using mind-reading, re-creating the sequence.
Street Magic	Creating a tattoo on a man's arm based on a special person he was thinking about.	Jason LATIMER and Kimberly went to a pub in London and proceeded to push items through a glass table. Kimberly pressed a straw through glass, while Latimer pressed his drink through the glass table surface.	Taking a woman's a mobile phone from an envelope and moving it to an arcade machine on Brighton Pier.

Guest act: Juliana Chen

Episode 4

First broadcast: 28 January 2012

Ratings: 4.31 Million

Forfeit: Walking barefoot across some broken glass and then having some concrete smashed on their head

	Barry and Stuart	Jason Latimer	Pete Firman
	Tina Hobley	Myleene Klass	Adam Woodyatt
Grand Illusion	A fake box trick, moving Tina around, ending with Tina reappearing out of the first box.	Matter illusion trick, involving Latimer dancing with a dress, making it come 'alive' and making Myleene appear inside it.	A series of cabaret tricks in the style of 50's duo Sigfreid and Roy, including a magic assistant act.
Location Grand Illusion	A series of tricks based a disused hospital, with a ghost-hunting style-show theme.	Being locked in a chamber, being lowered into a river and then escaping to safety on a bridge.	Using a number of different cars and vehicles to create a matching prediction trick.
Close-Up Magic	Making a real-life bowling ball appear from a 2D drawing on a large jotter pad.	Latimer and Myleene pointed out a prediction in a glass jar that would not be touched by anyone till the end of the effect. Latimer proceeded to randomly find audience members by launching three T-shirts into the audience to have each volunteer call out a colour, a suit, and a value. Myleene revealed the prediction inside the glass jar was the selected card.	Any Drink Called For; turning a carton of orange juice into a series of different alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
Street Magic	Holding a frog in the hand, making it disappear and then making it re-appear in the mouth.	Making a chosen card from a deck of fifty-two reappear beneath the sealed ice of an ice rink.	Asking a member of the public to think of an animal and making it appear inside a sealed box.

Guest act: David and Dania

Episode 5

First broadcast: 4 February 2012

Ratings: 5.16m

Forfeit: having an apple shot off of their head by an archer on a rotating turntable.

	Barry and Stuart	Jason Latimer	Pete Firman
	John Torode and Gregg Wallace	Phil Tufnell	Arlene Phillips
Grand Illusion	A 'Find the pea' trick, switching and make a person disappear beneath three different places.	Passing objects through a solid mirror using a volunteer, ending with a relative of the volunteer appearing.	Locking Arlene in a chamber, making her disappear and then making her re-appear.
Location Grand Illusion	With John dangling from the top of the building, Stuart makes a mobile phone vanish and reappear in John's lunch bag.	Prediction based on a large mural which has been created over three days by members of the public.	Making a donkey disappear on Weymouth beach, and re-appear on a bandstand a mile away.
Close-Up Magic	Mind-reading with the home and studio audience using a selection of different foods on a circular chart.	A child choosing a card from a deck of fifty-two, it disappearing, and then re-appearing in a sealed glass box with Latimer inside.	A 'Find your card' trick with an audience member acting as the magician and Pete as the volunteer.
Street Magic	John and Gregg transmitting taste via 'magic gum' to a volunteer.	Linking rings using the stem and bowl of a standard wine glass.	Making a ring vanish and reappear in a duck on a hook a duck stand.

Guest act: Les Chapeaux Blancs

Episode 6

First broadcast: 11 February 2012

Ratings: TBA

Forfeit: Bending an iron bar in their mouths and breaking an arrow against a wall with their necks.

	Barry and Stuart	Jason Latimer	Pete Firman
	Ed Byrne	George Sampson	Joe Swash
Grand Illusion	Making Ed Byrne appear inside a box whilst 'revealing' how it's done.	Shaping water into three dimensional shapes.	Using the Tan-O-Matic 3000 to turn Joe into an old man.
Location Grand Illusion	Ed bungee jumping in Magna, with Barry & Stuart cutting and repairing his rope using magic.	Making five people on a trailer lorry disappear and re-appear on another lorry.	A prediction trick using animals at the London Aquarium.
Close-Up Magic	Using piranha fish to predict the answer to a question.	Using a man's wedding ring to hold up an entire glass box.	Eating a maggot, regurgitating it and making it appear in the eye socket.
Street Magic	Using a mini-moto bike to pick one card out of a possible 156 cards.	Turning airport flyers into twenty pound notes.	Making a chosen card appear on the inside of a shop window.

Guest act: Hans Klok

Results

Series 1

• Winner: Luis De Matos (3 Wins)
• Runner(s)-up: Barry and Stuart (2 Wins)
• Loser: Chris Korn (0 Wins)

Series 2

• Winner: Jason Latimer (3 wins)
• Runner(s)-up: Barry and Stuart (2 wins)
• Loser: Pete Firman (1 win)