Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind (Season 3)
Episode 301 (Episode 1)
Air date: 2006-03-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Episode 302 (Episode 2)
Air date: 2006-04-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Episode 303 (Episode 3)
Air date: 2006-04-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Episode 304 (Episode 4)
Air date: 2006-04-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Episode 305 (Episode 5)
Air date: 2006-04-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Season 3 finale (Episode 6)
Air date: 2006-04-30
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
