Original title
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
Released
4/23/2004
Origin country
GB
Genre
Documentary
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
18
The internationally acclaimed psychological illusionist takes the theatre audience and viewers on a jaw-dropping, laugh-out-loud journey to a climax of the most astonishing mind-reading. This is Derren at his best: funny, energised and a master of audience control. The show features plenty of audience participation, shocking stunts and mind games, as Derren demonstrates why he is one of the country's most exciting live performers.
Derren Brown, the acclaimed psychological illusionist, returns to Channel 4 for a thought provoking - and life transforming - special. Following the successes of previous television specials such as Russian Roulette Live, Séance, The Heist and The Events, Derren once again creates edge-of-the-seat television as he takes 'average Joes' on an extraordinary psychological journey. In a powerful transformation, which will include an amazing, must-watch finale, Derren releases his subjects from the restraints that they have placed on themselves and allows them the opportunity to fulfil their true potential, opening the door to a new and exciting future...
Is it possible to predict the outcome of Britain's National Lottery? Derren Brown did just that on Wednesday night. In Friday's extraordinary show he revealed three possible ways he may have been able to do that. He began with the science of mathematics and probability. Is there a pattern in the numbers? A numerical code that could unlock good fortune? Next his investigation continued into the world of intuition and the wisdom, and sometimes madness, of crowds. What influence on the outcome can the players themselves have? Finally, Derren explained what he definitely did not do. Is it possible to control the outcome of the lottery using more devious means? In other words, can you rig the world's most secure lottery? And if so, how would you go about it?
Derren demonstrates his astonishing powers of persuasion before an invited audience and then invites the nation to join in a very special television event that will have you on the edge of your seat. Derren takes his baffled volunteers through an amazing series of psychological experiments that reveal the myth, mystery and power of mind control. He reveals the secrets behind subliminal imagery, the science of perception without awareness, how to dominate the minds of strangers using low frequency sounds and control human behaviour by subtly reshaping our environment. For the finale of the show Derren talks live to viewers at home. Can Derren control the minds of the entire nation?
Derren Brown explores the powers of the mind in this unique special which reveals the propaganda value of psychic powers and features some incredible demonstrations of telekinesis, mind control and remote viewing Remote Viewer Dr Wayne Carr takes on a challenge from Derren to psychically divine a chosen location. The blind Daniel Kish reveals how he can see without eyes. And a court illustrator is invited to play an unusual game of 'Guess Who? The finale of the show featured a nationwide experiment in which you took part. Were your psychic powers revealed?
Can you really take down a casino and beat it at its own game? Derren Brown investigates several ways to beat roulette from betting strategies to methods that depend on incredible skills of visual prediction.
Derren Brown Presents the 3D Magic Spectacular features some of the world's greatest, funniest and most shocking magicians performing magic in stunning 3D. With Derren as host, some of Britain's leading performers dazzle the audience with incredible trickery, and amazing archive footage features performances of some of the world's greatest magic tricks.
Illusionist Derren Brown sets out to discover whether some of the more extraordinary claims from around the world are true, beginning by exploring the world of a Liverpool-based psychic medium. Joe Power claims he can communicate with the dead, and alleges that one of the many people he has made contact with is John Lennon.
Derren makes a taxi driver forget about an obvious destination. He also plays chess against nine of the U.K.'s top chess players.
On the Street: Derren could read how many fingers someone was holding up (behind their back and then in their pockets). Then he made them read how many fingers he held up. Martin Kemp: Derren guessed what object Martin was going to choose from 150 objects, before he had chosen it. Penalty Shoot-Out: Derren predicts, split-seconds before the penalty is taken, where a mid-fielder is going to kick the ball into the goal, five times. He gets it right every time. Memory: Derren draws a building almost perfectly from memory, but it turns out to be a mirror image. Penalty Light Test: A goalie guesses every time which button the mid-fielder presses, as they turn on the same lights at the same time.
Leaving wallet ringed with yellow circle containg cash on Regent Street. Identifying three pieces of music conducted, without any orchestra, by Robin Stapleton selected from list of Derren's CD collection. Invisible Man hypnosis routine with film student. Street Work: Member of the crowd mindreading the address of another bystander after a little instruction from Derren. Orchestra playing a piece (after having started randomly) which was chosen by the conductor and only transmitted to them by his "mental conducting."
Derren uses a voodoo doll to restrict a woman's movements and makes a primary teacher transmit her thoughts to her pupils.
Street Work: Member of the crowd mindreading the name of another bystander's pet after a little instruction from Derren. Undertaker sorting a pile of photographs. Based on the photographs' subjects, Derren reveals that he had unwittingly sorted them into people that were dead, and those that were alive. Derren decribes the process as having been "out of this world." Michel Roux, Jr cooks a meal which reminds him of a specific occasion, Derren then describes the scene he has pictured and gives the breeds and names of the two dogs in the memory. A butcher, baker and candlestick maker arrange furniture in a room and then select a toy each. Derren then shows them a room in a dolls' house laid out in the same way with their three figures holding the chosen toys.
Street Work: Repeatedly identifying the finger thought of by a member of the public, having the subject tell how many fingers Derren is holding up out of sight. Predicting words given by a psychologist during a word dissociation game. Final prediction of a free choice word. Derren stopping woman walking across a room by clenching his fist out of her sight. Woman stopping pedestrian walking past the window by clenching her fist. Derren correctly predicting 'secret' drawing from a dissociated drawing (like the word dissociation game) drawn by the psychologist. Derren predicting item to be selected from a supermarket by a supermarket designer with a label on his back. The route around the supermaket had also been predicted on an envelope sent earlier in the week.
Derren uses his fingers to see. He also gives Simon Pegg the present he always wanted.
Derren steals wallets without stealing them.
Derren guesses numbers and amazes an horologist.
Derren shows of a quick counting technique and puts someone in a very realistic zombie game.
Derren shows some card tricks to a cardmaker. He also identifies the owner of a cell phone by the ringtone.
Derren makes people drunk without the use of alcohol nor drugs. He also impersonates "The Brown Raja who sees all" at a fair.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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