definitely one of my mavourite Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee performances

Watch in 240p for audio

There's more space in that cabinet than you might think.

this is a much better presentation than the old flash paper one.
Lovely platform... nothing to so with the trick though.

This takes me back to when Saturday night tv was good...

great

This is not the Paul Daniels Magic Show but another show he did called Secrets.

It has something to do with under the box
When she gets inside she spred her legs
If we are talking about mirrors the are under the stairs
I think she got out the second he closed the door
By the way before she got out he moved the box on the same place from the beginning

what happened to the audio?

I think i've finally managed to work out how this was done, i'm not going to say how, because only lowlife cockroaches and worms would ever attempt to reveal how magic tricks are done,  regardless of if they have the right or wrong solution, anyway I think i'm right and both Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee deserve equal credit for their superb performance of this magic trick.

@GrandDizzy I'd really rather not know; the explanations of these sorts of illusions are always far more mundane than the effect of the trick itself. Good illusion it was, though.

The illusion is great, but the shackles don't contriubute in the slightest becausr they look like theyre held by magnets, and therefore easy to break loose from. The single biggest improvement to this illusion is to add a set of very large padlocks, real or otherwise, so it looks like she's trapped