Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 5: The Paul Daniels Magic Show, 1985

Around his earliest TV appearances Paul Daniels insisted he would rather be known as an "unusualist", as he saw himself as more on the entertainment side compared to a traditional magician, but we suppose The Paul Daniels Unusualism Show wouldn't have come across the same way. The Magic Show certainly wasn't nothing but tricks, and here Paul promises that "many of our acts are very young indeed" which covers some double dutch skippers, a Chinese contortionist and, we suppose, Matthew Corbett with Sooty and Sweep, but definitely not Vegas illusionist Lance Burton. The big finale casts Debbie as Snow White against Ali Bongo, Brian Rogers' latest dance unit and the unmissable Fenella Fielding as the Wicked Queen.