Criss Angel Mindfreak Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Criss Angel Mindfreak: Season 5 (2009)

• Season 5 Episode 5: Death Crash

  A speeding car crashes through five coffins; with Criss hidden in one of the coffins, the crowd determines the order in which the coffins are destroyed.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Mass Levitation

  Criss attempts to levitate a crowd.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Terminal Velocity

  Criss tries to make magic history by teleporting himself from one location to another in one continuous camera shot.

• Season 5 Episode 2: White Death

  Criss must escape from a coffin buried in ice and snow before succumbing to hypothermia, suffocation or a ground collapse.

• Season 5 Episode 1: Death Field

  Criss heads to Edwards Air Force Base in California to learn about mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs); Criss attempts to traverse a field of live explosives.

Criss Angel Mindfreak: Season 4 (2008)

• Season 4 Episode 18: Escape Over Bourbon Street

  Criss tries to escape from two straitjackets while shackled and hung upside down above a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Spirit of New Orleans

  Criss visits New Orleans and uses the city's mysticism and culture to enthrall bystanders; a stormy night in a voodoo shop; a girl's ring disappears and reappears in a salt shaker.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Car Wreck Vanish

  Criss goes on a road trip with his friend Sully from the band Godsmack; he appears suddenly in the cab of the truck; Criss makes a radio disappear from an antique store; handcuffed in a car with explosives.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Mindfreaking With the Stars

  Ted Nugent, Elvis Costello, Carrot Top and Anthony Michael Hall learn the art of Mindfreak; Criss makes a million dollar bet with Gene Simmons.

• Season 4 Episode 14: Billionaire Prediction

  Criss teaches celebrities how to perform magic; ZZ Top performs a disappearing knife trick; Wilmer Valderrama shows Criss the power of suggestion; an event in Canada features multimillionaire Richard Branson.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Premonition

  Criss makes a prediction about what item a participant will pick; Criss changes his eye color to match the color people are thinking of; moving objects with the mind.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Walk on Lake

  Criss attempts to walk across Lake Mead, the world's largest man-made lake.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Impenetrable

  Criss attempts to merge through metal and pass from one oil drum to another; an H2 Hummer that shoots cards from the hood.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Nail Gun

  Criss attempts to catch a nail traveling at 1400 feet per second; Criss uses a jigsaw to cut through a fan's arm; Criss makes a football levitate during the crew's game.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Barrel Drop

  Criss attempts to escape from a wooden box and being hoisted 100 feet high while handcuffed in an 85-gallon drum.

• Season 4 Episode 8: 24-Hour Birthday Bash

  Criss' crew and friends try to throw him a surprise party.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Silverton Final Attempt

  Criss reattempts an underwater escape while chained and confined in a locked box; Criss prepares for the stunt by training with a certified scuba diver.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Tronik

  A toy Hummer is turned into a a real Hummer; a child appears on an empty chair; a drawn picture comes to life; Criss solves a Rubik's cube by throwing it up in the air.

• Season 4 Episode 5: In Your Face

  Criss receives some surprise visitors.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Close Up

  Criss demonstrates the art of close up magic.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Cremation

  Spectators watch in horror as Criss is cremated alive.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Skeptic

  Criss invites a group of skeptical people to be a part of one of his deadly challenges.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Building Implosion Escape

  Criss loads a 9-story condominium outside Clearwater, Fla., with explosives and attempts to escape it before it implodes.

Criss Angel Mindfreak: Season 3 (2007)

• Season 3 Episode 26: Most Memorable Mindfreak Moments

  Criss counts down memorable moments with the help of celebrities, including Howie Mandel, Dave Navarro and Tito Ortiz.

• Season 3 Episode 25: Fantasy

  Criss reads the minds of Playboy Bunnies; a hypnotic suggestion prompts a crowd to undress in public.

• Season 3 Episode 24: Mexico Barrel Escape

  Criss makes a sand castle appear from thin air; suspended hundreds of feet above the ocean, Criss falls from a barrel.

• Season 3 Episode 23: H2O Teleportation

  Criss psychically links with a dolphin for a card trick; Criss vanishes from a yacht and reappears on the beach.

• Season 3 Episode 22: Thunderbirds

  Criss visits Nellis Air Force Base and makes six fighter jets appear on the runway.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Mayhem in the Making

  A day in the life of Criss Angel as he tries to shoot an episode of his show.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Seance

  Criss tries to prove he can walk on the ceiling; Criss appears to interact with the spirits of dead people.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Cement Block

  Criss gets into a see-through container which is then sealed in cement and hardened into a block.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Mentalism

  Telepathy; mind reading.

• Season 3 Episode 17: The Kid in Criss

  A doll becomes a real woman; a truck full of toys appears out of nowhere.

• Season 3 Episode 16: The Loyal

  Criss spends time with some of his fans.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Rollercoaster Thru Criss

  Criss allows himself to be tied to the tracks of a roller coaster.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Burning Man

  Criss and the crew visit a dude ranch.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Naked Jail Escape

  Criss pays tribute to magician Harry Houdini by re-creating some of his escapes and feats.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Drowned

  Institution restraints; manhole-cover levitation; water escape.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Sucker 2

  Scams; the ultimate secret.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Car Crash Escape

  Criss is chained to the side of a car full of explosives when a speeding car hits it; chopper bike.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Quad Drag Escape

  Criss prepares to be bound and dragged by an ATV while trying to escape; a costume quick-change; a floating coffee-cup; a woman's wedding ring.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Underwater Car Escape

  Criss smashes a watch to bits with a hammer; Criss draws a picture that starts talking.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Animal 2

  Animal illusions; trying to make an elephant reappear.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Motorhead

  Car, truck and bike illusions.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Screwed

  Illusions use ordinary objects; an award.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Prisoner Transport Escape

  Locked in a mailbag, Criss tries to escape from a caged truck filled with explosives as it races toward the edge of a cliff; golf skills.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Steamroller

  Criss lies on a bed of broken glass, and a steamroller goes over his body; a woman appears from a box of merchandise; street magic.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Luxor Light

  Criss tries to float more than 500 feet above ground; Criss re-creates his first-ever levitation.

Criss Angel Mindfreak: Season 2 (2006)

• Season 2 Episode 21: My Secret Cabaret

  Criss stops his pulse in five places; bloopers and outtakes.

• Season 2 Episode 20: Celebrity Seance

  Tricks, stunts and high-risk feats with extreme entertainer Criss Angel, who specialises in unusual illusions and levitation

• Season 2 Episode 19: Magician of the Year

  Criss travels to Los Angeles to accept the Magician of the Year Award.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Shark Cage Escape

  Criss is shackled, handcuffed and locked in a steel cage and sunk to the ocean floor.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Straitjacket Keelhaul

  Criss tries to survive an underwater stunt.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Military Salute

  During a visit to Vandenberg Air Force Base to pay tribute to U.S. troops, Criss makes a hummer disappear, tries to guess a card and produces a special guest from an empty duffle bag.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Motorcycle Roulette

  Tricks, stunts and high-risk feats with extreme entertainer Criss Angel, who specialises in unusual illusions and levitation

• Season 2 Episode 14: Prophecy

  Extreme entertainer Criss Angel predicts the outcome of a motor speedway race and performs magic tricks in his favourite restaurant

• Season 2 Episode 13: Sucker

  Tricks, stunts and high-risk feats with extreme entertainer Criss Angel, who specialises in unusual illusions and levitation

• Season 2 Episode 12: Back to School

  Tricks, stunts and high-risk feats with extreme entertainer Criss Angel, who specialises in unusual illusions and levitation

• Season 2 Episode 11: Metamorphosis

  Extreme entertainer Criss Angel, who specialises in unusual illusions and levitation, performs a metamorphosis trick on a Los Angeles street

• Season 2 Episode 10: Celebrity Minds

  Extreme entertainer Criss Angel dazzles a string of celebrities including Ice Cube, Vince Neil, Mark McGrath and Robin Leach

• Season 2 Episode 9: Chad's Story

  Criss helps a young conjurer achieve his dream by allowing him to perform a selection of tricks on stage at magician Lance Burton's theatre

• Season 2 Episode 8: Bike Jump Vanish

  The extreme entertainer attempts a motorcycle jump involving a 60-foot long, 20-foot high ramp with the aid of champion aerialist Trigger Gunn

• Season 2 Episode 7: Party

  The entertainer celebrates a pal's birthday by performing high-risk stunts and incredible illusions in Las Vegas

• Season 2 Episode 6: Easy Rider

  The illusionist is suspended and chained in a wooden box filled with explosives and challenges himself to escape before a stunt car crashes into him

• Season 2 Episode 5: Animal Magic

  Extreme entertainer Criss Angel astonishes onlookers by making an elephant disappear, before showcasing tricks involving monkeys, cockroaches and pigeons

• Season 2 Episode 4: Walk on Water

  The illusionist tries to prove he can walk on water, strolling across the surface of a swimming pool filled with people. Another trick sees him attempt to bring a mannequin to life

• Season 2 Episode 3: In Two

  The extreme entertainer performs the famous magic trick of sawing a person in half - but without using boxes, covers or trick clothing

• Season 2 Episode 2: Vanish

  The extreme illusionist tries his hand at a disappearing act, attempting to make a spectator vanish in front of thousands of witnesses in the Las Vegas desert

• Season 2 Episode 1: Building Float

  The extreme illusionist takes to the streets once again, astounding a large crowd of onlookers by appearing to float between two buildings in the middle of the day

Criss Angel Mindfreak: Season 1 (2005)

• Season 1 Episode 18: Up Close

  Criss tries his luck at the roulette table; a young black panther appears from a taxicab's empty trunk.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Uncut

  Highlights and outtakes from Criss' most memorable illusions.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Halloween Special

  The entertainer gets into the Hallowe'en spirit as he performs some of his most terrifying and dangerous stunts, including the 'sawed-in-two' act. He dispenses with the customary box and asks onlookers to hold his limbs while his body is chopped in half

• Season 1 Episode 15: Chicken

  The entertainer invites the Amazing Jonathan to participate in a game of chicken. The competition begins with a paintball game and an electric shock face-off. However, Criss isn't satisfied and raises the stakes, daring his friend to hit him with a car

• Season 1 Episode 14: Prediction

  The entertainer and his team take a tour through Los Angeles' Magic Castle, where they view rare Houdini artefacts and the private seance room. Plus, Criss attempts to predict a major news story and the lottery results when he appears on a radio show

• Season 1 Episode 13: C4 Crate

  The entertainer plans an escape from a crate packed with explosives. Overseeing events are a group of experts including 'Pyro' Pete, who has staged performances for the Rolling Stones. As a precaution, Criss will wear a leather jumpsuit, along with a helmet and the highest grade of earplugs available

• Season 1 Episode 12: Building Walk

  The magician attempts to walk down the side of the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas without the aid of wires or harnesses, and with no safety net beneath him. Stretched out at a 45-degree angle, he will have to withstand the high winds and vertigo

• Season 1 Episode 11: Oasis

  The entertainer attempts a remarkable escape. He will live inside an air bubble in a giant see-through tank immersed in water, with no food and a very limited air supply. After remaining in the bubble for 24 hours, he plans to disappear before the eyes of spectators

• Season 1 Episode 10: Tesla Strike

  Criss goes to Baraboo, Wis., to test one of the largest Tesla coils in the country.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Blind

  The entertainer tests his ability to see in the dark. Silver dollars, black tape and a blindfold are placed over his eyes while he drives around the streets of Los Angeles in a Mercedes. The owner of the car sits anxiously in the passenger seat as Criss tries to find one of her favourite restaurants

• Season 1 Episode 8: Superhuman

  Criss Angel attempts to find out if superhuman strength can be controlled. After training relentlessly, he performs a range of experiments - one that includes two Muay Thai boxers standing on top of him. He also rips apart phone books, pushes over a tree and lifts a taxi 2ft off the ground

• Season 1 Episode 7: Hellstromism

  The extreme entertainer tests the power of 'hellstromism' - a mind technique that triggers physical reactions from others and uncovers truths. In a bid to prove this method's worth, Criss is challenged to find a key hidden among more than 1,000 vehicles in a car park in just 30 minutes

• Season 1 Episode 6: Buried Alive

  With help from rocker Rob Zombie, Criss re-enacts his own funeral and attempts one of the most dangerous escape stunts in magic history.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Body Suspension

  Piercer Alan Falkner flies to Las Vegas to help Criss practice a mind-over-body demonstration of unique proportions.

• Season 1 Episode 4: SUV Nail Bed

  Criss has a 4.5 ton SUV drive over him as he lies on a bed of 8-inch nails.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Wine Barrel Escape

  Criss locks himself in a wine barrel filled with water, hanging eight stories high, while handcuffed; guest magician Lance Burton.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Levitation

  Criss levitates himself and bystanders; indoor sky-diving; Criss turns a drawing of a butterfly into a real one.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Burned Alive

  Criss attempts to become a human candle; Criss vanishes from a trash-can; voodoo doll; ring; ice-cube.