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Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind

Series 3

2006 · 6 episodes

  1. 1. Episode 301

    2006-03-26 · 30m

    Derren visits the Valley of Fire, Nevada, where he makes the sun disappear and then shows viewers how he did it. He conducts the same experiment on a group of people in Hollywood, Barcelona and London, and Matt Lucas is dumbfounded by a card trick.

  2. 2. Episode 302

    2006-04-02 · 30m

    Derren tries to manipulate the thoughts of athlete Kelly Holmes at a north London running track - with fascinating results. He also attempts to implant notions into the dreams of a sleeping student.

  3. 3. Episode 303

    2006-04-09 · 30m

    Derren uses his powers of misdirection and illusion to win a blindfolded noughts and crosses game in London, and finds water divining in the Nevada desert is thirsty work. A group of strangers invited onto the show find they all have something in common.

  4. 4. Episode 304

    2006-04-16 · 30m

    Derren sets out to get two people communicating with each other despite speaking different languages and performs a routine spanning the canals of Venice. He also invites Robbie Williams to a remote location in the East End for a spot of body piercing.

  5. 5. Episode 305

    2006-04-23 · 30m

    Derren travels to Vienna, where he performs a perplexing effect on the giant Ferris wheel featured in Orson Welles' The Third Man. He also manipulates a cinema audience to forget a film they have just watched, while Stephen Merchant takes part in a game of fifty-fifty chance.

  6. 6. Season 3 finale

    2006-04-30 · 30m

    Derren performs an old séance trick for Meera Syal, makes an amputee feel sensation in their missing limb and demonstrates a memory feat in Monaco.

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