Playing Tricks
The hit undercover magic comedy show for teen channel Trouble.

Playing Tricks has a team of tricksters hitting the streets to baffle and bamboozle the public. The pranksters take on the guise of mechanics, markets traders, maniacs - anything but the super-skilled magicians they really are.

The guerrilla magicians talk us through their set-ups as viewers watch the outrageous hits play out on unwitting victims, targeting teens and twenty-somethings.

At a theme park, the tricksters stun them by pouring popcorn from an empty box, and even making their legs vanish. In a shopping centre, they levitate in shoe stores and change toilet paper into £10 notes. At a bowling alley, they produce massive bowling balls from their slimline briefcases, change the colour of their bowling shoes and, astonishingly, score a strike with an invisible ball.

The show aired in October 2003 on Trouble.