Barry and Stuart

Jones and MacLeod's first television series Magick (aka Sick Ticks also, Crack Magick) debuted on 5 October 2003 and was described as "comedy magic featuring surreal characters in bizarre and uncomfortable situations."[8] It began airing in Australia on SBS on 1 February 2007 under the title Sick Tricks.

This series featured reverse film magic, where the magic was performed backwards and the film later reversed to reveal the backmasking.

In one of a series of 'crimes' caught on CCTV, footage captures two men being caught en flagrante in a public toilet by a police officer. To get out of trouble, one of the men hides the other behind his coat and makes him disappear. In another incident, a man breaks into a car by sticking his hand through a glass window without breaking it.

Secret filming in a supermarket captures MacLeod and Jones magically sabotaging the products by putting dead insects into sealed bottles of mineral water and penetrating razor blades through the foil lids of ready-meals.

In 2004 this four-part series was nominated for a Rose D'Or comedy award in Montreux.[9]

Dirty Tricks is a six-part series that was hosted by Jones and MacLeod. It was described as "magic meets Natural Born Killers."[10] The show also had regular spots from Pete Firman, Ali Cook and Jonathan Goodwin as well as guest appearances from international variety acts and celebrities including Penn & Teller and Kevin James.

At the end of every show, the presenters "kill" the radio and TV presenter Neil Fox in a horrific and painful manner. This includes him being cremated, stabbed and crushed.

This one-hour special aired over the Christmas holiday period in December 2005. In this show Jones and MacLeod drew inspiration from the accounts of Jesus' miracles in the New Testament to present illusions which included apparently walking on the surface of water in a glass tank, turning water into wine, causing a blind person to temporarily 'see', appearing to raise a deceased person, causing a virgin to apparently become 'pregnant' and feeding 5000 people.

Following on from The Magic of Jesus this one-hour special aired in June 2006. The duo drew inspiration from the miracle accounts in the Old Testament. Jones and MacLeod performed illusions such as turning staffs into snakes in Egypt, exactly where it was said to be performed in the Old Testament, casting some of the plagues of Egypt on two fans in an enclosed part of a restaurant, a transformation into a pillar of salt, exorcism of a demon, robbing a man of his strength as Samson had, apparently raising someone from the dead and pulling a coin from the mouth of a fish, performed on a boat in the Red Sea.

The Magicians is a BBC primetime show, that aired its first series during January 2011. It featured Barry and Stuart alongside host Lenny Henry and fellow magicians Luis de Matos and Chris Korn. The show returned for its second series on 7 January 2012, with Barry and Stuart being the only personalities retained from series one.[11] The second series featured two new magicians alongside Barry and Stuart; American magician Jason Latimer and English magician Pete Firman. This second series was broadcast live and was the first magic series to do so in the UK in 30 years[12]

In December 2013 Barry and Stuart's latest show, The Happenings, a four x 60 min series debuted in the UK on the digital channel Watch HD. The duo went undercover as they set about making the unbelievable paranormal-like events believable to the unsuspecting residents of towns across the UK and America.

Each episode was a self-contained narrative and featured their magic and illusion under the guise of mysterious incidents that were played out over the course of a few weeks in four towns.[13] Episodes featured, ghosts, vampires, aliens and government cover-ups.[14] A number of events filmed for the program made national headlines including their faked ghost sighting and alien landing.[15]

The program was first broadcast internationally in April 2014 on the National Geographic Channel.[16]