Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod are a duo of Scottish BAFTA-nominated[1] magicians and comedians whose work has been seen on television and on stage around the world.
The double act are known for their comically dark performing style, for taking as inspiration the accounts of Biblical miracles and faking paranormal phenomena to form the basis for some of their illusions.
[3] The filmed results of these magic sketches eventually reached a television production company and led to the making of their first TV series Magick.
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.
"[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.
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.
It featured Barry and Stuart alongside host Lenny Henry and fellow magicians Luis de Matos and Chris Korn.
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.
[14] A number of events filmed for the program made national headlines including their faked ghost sighting and alien landing.