Derren Brown: Trick or Treat Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 6: EPISODE: 6

  The power of superstition comes into force when all the participants from the series, including Doctor Who star David Tennant, are invited to a party to mark the end of filming, with the psychological illusionist having one final trick up his sleeve. Last in series

• Season 2 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

  Nervous IT worker Jason is taught techniques that unlock the secrets of powerful confidence. He is challenged to attend a potentially embarrassing speed-dating event on two occasions, before learning the trickster has a final surprise in store for him

• Season 2 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

  Derren Brown ambushes office worker Angela in total darkness, before setting her a number of physical and mental tasks to ensure she is ready to survive being kidnapped. During her ordeal, she will have to use newly acquired psychological techniques to escape her predicament

• Season 2 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

  The illusionist ambushes Doctor Who actor David Tennant while filming, and the Time Lord agrees to undergo a series of experiments in which he experiences the feeling of time-travel. These include witnessing an event from the 1930s and progressing forward in time to predict a news event days before it happens

• Season 2 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

  Psychological trickster Derren Brown demonstrates the power of negative suggestion when he tries to find out if 19-year-old Lauren will be able to resist killing a kitten after being told not to. Plus, he makes a circus performer fall off the high-wire, and schoolchildren succumb to temptation

• Season 2 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

  Psychological trickster Derren Brown returns to persuade members of the public to sign a Faustian pact with him and participate in a macabre game of Trick or Treat. His first subject is father-of-two Glen, who agrees to compete in a pub quiz featuring top teams from all over London

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 6: EPISODE: 6

  A woman witnesses her own death in a staged out-of-body experience, while Derren travels to Queens in New York to see if he can tell whether a group of second-hand car salesmen are lying. Back in London, the illusionist tries to plant a single thought in the minds of a crowd in Covent Garden. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

  The illusionist's next victim experiences what it is like to live on London's streets as a madman. Martin Freeman is shown the power New Age crystals can hold, and in America Derren predicts the behaviour of a large crowd of accountants

• Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

  A woman is taught to play the piano to concert standard in two weeks, while a disguised Derren attempts psychic readings in a New York restaurant. Actor Simon Callow also falls under his spell

• Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

  A London pensioner is taught to play high-stakes poker and entered in a professional tournament, while Derren becomes a living waxworks at Madame Tussauds and visits Las Vegas, where he uses his powers of suggestion to make a woman temporarily colour-blind

• Season 1 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

  Guardian art critic Adrian Searle is invited to slash through a priceless work by Jake and Dinos Chapman. An IT consultant is given the experience of a split personality, and Derren goes shopping in New York - with a wallet full of blank pieces of paper

• Season 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

  The psychological trickster persuades members of the public to sign a Faustian pact with him and participate in a macabre game. A man is persuaded to choose a 'trick' card, before being put to sleep in a phone booth in London only to wake up in Marrakesh. Derren also attempts to plant a word in the mind of an unsuspecting American and performs an illusion with the help of the League of Gentlemen