404:. He invited a celebrity guest onstage, and she began to experience everything that he did to his voodoo doll. Her hands became charred when he burned the hands of the voodoo doll, and she screamed when he stabbed the doll. Eran Raven performed a demonstration with snakes, two venomous and one not venomous. Each snake was placed into a jar, and a celebrity's personal object was placed into a fourth jar. The first jar chosen by Raven contained the non-venomous snake and he was accidentally bitten. He continued the routine, correctly divining and locating the personal object, which was a puffer necklace. Gerry McCambridge did a paintball prediction effect, in which the color and placement of paintballs shot at his body accurately matched his prediction. Angela Funovits performed a mind over matter demonstration in which she lit a candle with her mind and then began passing a flaming torch over her skin, divining details of a celebrity guest's relationship with a thought-of person. Funovits then burned the name that the celebrity guest was thinking of into her skin. Guy Bavli performed Russian roulette using eight jars of
417:
Guy Bavli was chosen as the winner and McCambridge was eliminated, resulting in McCambridge being the only contestant eliminated in this episode. Angel complimented Guy on his act which involved bending spoons, a trick Geller is famous for, saying it was his "best performance yet". Angela
Funovits performed an effect in which the person a celebrity guest was thinking of showed up in a photograph. Mike Super performed a motorcycle appearance and prediction effect, in which the total of several numbers written down by audience members matched the numbers on the motorcycle license plate. Eran Raven walked through an obstacle course of razors, glass shards, and scorpions while barefoot and blindfolded. There was no Uri Geller's Mental Challenge in this episode. Instead, the host challenged the audience to guess what Criss Angel has in the envelope which he challenged Uri Geller and Jim Callahan with in episode 2. This episode's celebrity guests were
446:
eliminated, leaving Eran Raven, Mike Super, and Angela
Funovits as the top three remaining contestants. Eran Raven performed a routine in which he made Ross Matthews' body strong enough to balance on the backs of two chairs. He then broke a cinderblock on his stomach. Mike Super allowed one of the celebrity guests to grab a dollar bill from a money machine, and he then revealed that the serial number on the bill matched a selected bank of playing cards. Angela Funovits allowed Ross Matthews to be secretly placed inside one of four crates by another celebrity guest. She then proceeded to chainsaw through the crates one by one, safely leaving the crate that contained Ross unharmed.
313:. Ehud Segev performed a routine in which Electra felt the touches that Matthews felt. Jim Karol performed a mind over matter demonstration, placing his hand inside of a large bear trap. Karol then revealed the celebrity that guest Hunter was thinking of. Eran Raven performed Russian roulette with six nail guns. Gerry McCambridge did a routine that allowed the audience to choose a number from one of three phonebooks. The selected phone number was then shown to perfectly match his prediction. Geller performed his Mental Challenge with a "choose-an-ESP-card" effect, a trick Geller routinely performs, which
33:
416:
In episode four, on
November 14, 2007, Gerry McCambridge and Guy Bavli both received the lowest number of votes out of the remaining five contestants. Criss Angel and Uri Geller were given the opportunity to save one of them from being eliminated. In a head to head competition with Gerry McCambridge,
670:
In the first two episodes, Uri Geller performed his mental challenge for the viewers. Originally, the viewers were to do Uri's mental challenge to win $ 10,000. Despite the fact that Criss Angel challenged Jim
Callahan with $ 1 million of his own money, the argument broke up, and the contest was not
445:
The final four contestants performed together, allowing the celebrity guests to choose from a selection of colored flags and bring one flag to each contestant. The contestants then removed their jackets, revealing that they were already dressed in the colors that matched their flags. Guy Bavli was
382:
Jim
Callahan performed an automatic writing routine, claiming to contact dead author Raymond Hill in order to identify an object that Raven-Symoné had placed inside of a closed case. Following the routine, an argument broke out when Criss Angel reviewed Callahan's performance. Angel called the act
374:
Jan Bardi performed an effect with a pendulum, using it to find "a needle in a haystack". Bardi invited Shandi
Finnessey to select a three-digit number. Each audience member had a differently numbered matchbox, each containing a different number of matches. The matchboxes were thrown at Bardi on
333:
In episode two, on
Halloween, October 31, 2007, the remaining six performed and Jim Karol and Ehud Segev from the first episode were eliminated. Uri Geller performed his Mental Challenge with a "land-on-one-of-the-nine-planets" effect where home viewers spell the name of any planet, yet come to the
386:
Addressing both
Callahan and Geller, Angel said: "I will give you a million dollars of my personal money right now if either one of you can tell me specific details of what's in here right now." As both continued to talk over and interrupt each other, Callahan walked toward Angel and called him an
370:
performed a heart stop demonstration with a nurse and Raven-Symoné taking his pulse through his wrist. After an intense period of concentration, Bavli's pulse stopped along with the heart monitor that he was hooked up to. When Bavli's heart began to beat again, Symone was so alarmed that she ran
449:
Eran Raven was eliminated next, leaving Angela
Funovits and Mike Super as the final two remaining contestants. There was no Uri Geller's Mental Challenge in this episode. Instead, Criss Angel revealed what was inside one of his two envelopes. The contents read "911". After he opened it, Angel
399:
In episode three, on
November 7, 2007, three of the contestants from episode two were eliminated including Jim Callahan who participated in the renowned dispute with Criss Angel. There was no Uri Geller's Mental Challenge in this episode. The remaining five contestants continued to perform, all
365:
with a large, sharp knife. Funovits allowed Ross Matthews to leave the knife pointing upwards in any one of five mixed stands, each covered with paper cylinders. She then smashed her hand down on the cylinders one by one, leaving only the stand with the knife at the end. Uri Geller called
390:
Mike Super performed a murder mystery routine, in which the time, place, and weapon of murder matched his prediction. Following his routine, Criss made a reference to Callahan's performance, saying this final act was "a hell of a lot more entertaining than the previous act."
360:
performed his tattoo trick with Shandi Finnessey. She drew a yin-yang symbol and Wayne showed the viewers his yin-yang tattoo which he got one month prior to the live taping. Uri Geller and Criss Angel praised Wayne for his performance. Angela Funovits performed
438:
674:
In the fourth episode, Guy Bavli and Gerry McCambridge were both eliminated but each had one last chance to impress the judges by performing his trick for the last time. In the end, the judges had to decide whom to save and whom to
1102:
408:, eliminating the unsafe beakers of liquid by dropping metal in them. The strong acid bubbled and ate away at the metal, and Bavli concluded his routine by successfully drinking the only safe beaker of water.
387:"ideological bigot", while the host tried to restrain Callahan, they fought verbally with constant audio interruptions from NBC for about 15 seconds before going to a commercial.
264:
about the show, Angel said "No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead. And that was what I said I was going to do with
1107:
1097:
375:
the stage, and the pendulum was used to find the number matchbox that corresponded to the selected number, as well as to correctly divine the number of matches inside.
1092:
1087:
383:"comical," and challenged Callahan to tell him what was inside of an envelope he removed from his pocket in exchange for one million dollars of his personal money.
400:
including at least one of the celebrity guests from Girls Next Door into their act. Mike Super opened the program with the power of suggestion, performing with a
454:
was going to happen, maybe that could have prevented it." He stated that the other envelope would be revealed on the season premiere of Angel's other program,
295:
In episode one, on October 24, 2007, the first four contestants performed, with Angel and Geller reviewing their performances. The Celebrity guests were
1122:
326:
253:, to be determined by viewers voting by phone and online. The contestants performed their effects on celebrity guests each week. The winner of
1112:
908:
999:
961:
268:
If somebody goes on that show and claims to have supernatural psychic ability, I'm going to bust them live and on television."
1117:
309:
935:
451:
366:
Funovits' performance "gripping", and claimed that she proved she was just as good as the men in the competition.
599:
493:
994:
633:
617:
565:
456:
156:
881:
833:
529:
178:
1010:
557:
405:
1022:
858:
547:
362:
350:
581:
511:
503:
460:. At the end of the episode, Mike Super was named the winner and recipient of $ 250,000.
343:
426:
296:
32:
1081:
969:
609:
357:
300:
325:
837:
339:
304:
882:"NBC Makes Big Plans for '08-'09 - Network takes gamble on year-round programming"
904:
422:
418:
401:
314:
242:
238:
174:
76:
66:
594:
521:
485:
379:
317:
had commented tends to select the card "that audiences will tend to choose."
272:
261:
234:
80:
939:
649:
539:
367:
342:
from episode one returned for episode two. The other celebrity guests were
250:
249:. The program featured ten contestants competing to become the next great
347:
142:
1004:
437:
1042:
653:
1027:
436:
335:
324:
233:
is an American television competition program judged by mystifier
1062:
1037:
152:
1047:
965:
279:
246:
195:
1103:
American television series based on Israeli television series
1067:
1072:
1057:
1052:
1032:
450:
said, "If somebody could predict, tell us on 9-10 that
245:
which debuted live on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, on
201:
191:
186:
170:
162:
148:
129:
124:
113:
102:
94:
86:
72:
62:
54:
42:
23:
278:The program was cancelled on April 2, 2008, after
260:On October 30, 2007, during an interview with
8:
1108:American English-language television shows
936:"Angel sparks altercation on 'Phenomenon'"
688:
20:
1098:2000s American reality television series
859:"Larry King Live: Mindfreak Criss Angel"
467:
1093:2007 American television series endings
929:
927:
925:
824:
1088:2007 American television series debuts
934:Access Hollywood (November 1, 2007).
7:
271:The winner of the first season was
909:James Randi Educational Foundation
834:"Geller comes to fork in the road"
282:announced its 2008–2009 schedule.
166:60 minutes (including commercials)
14:
903:Randi, James (October 30, 2007).
832:Menon, Vinay (October 24, 2007).
1043:Angela Funovits official myspace
307:, known as "Ross the Intern" on
31:
1123:American television magic shows
880:Porter, Rick (April 2, 2008).
310:The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
114:
103:
1:
1000:Full Episodes from NBC Rewind
1113:NBC reality television shows
48:Kuperman Productions Limited
46:Keshet Broadcasting Limited
1139:
371:from her chair screaming.
552:Episode 5 (fourth place)
516:Episode 5 (second place)
30:
905:"Last Week's Star Trick"
600:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
534:Episode 5 (third place)
494:Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
962:"NBC Phenomenon Videos"
861:. CNN. October 30, 2007
634:Allentown, Pennsylvania
614:Mentalist/Illusionist
578:Mentalist/Illusionist
508:Mentalist/Illusionist
442:
330:
1118:Paranormal television
701:18-49 (Rating/Share)
618:Reading, Pennsylvania
566:Long Island, New York
457:Criss Angel Mindfreak
440:
328:
257:would win $ 250,000.
175:Granada Entertainment
157:Hollywood, California
50:Explorologist Limited
680:U.S. Nielsen ratings
441:Contestant Guy Bavli
171:Production companies
149:Production locations
972:on November 4, 2007
334:same conclusion of
182:Krane Entertainment
179:Keshet Broadcasting
130:Executive producers
530:Irvine, California
443:
331:
1058:Gerry McCambridge
1017:Candidates' sites
995:NBC Official Site
816:
815:
662:
661:
558:Gerry McCambridge
406:hydrochloric acid
226:
225:
215:November 21, 2007
95:Original language
87:Country of origin
37:Title card (2007)
1130:
982:
981:
979:
977:
968:. Archived from
957:
951:
950:
948:
946:
931:
920:
919:
917:
915:
900:
894:
893:
891:
889:
877:
871:
870:
868:
866:
855:
849:
848:
846:
844:
829:
707:Weekly Rank (#)
689:
548:Tel Aviv, Israel
468:
378:Self-proclaimed
363:Russian roulette
351:Shandi Finnessey
237:and illusionist
222:
220:
212:
210:
187:Original release
140:Magic Consultant
135:Michael Agbabian
116:
105:
35:
21:
1138:
1137:
1133:
1132:
1131:
1129:
1128:
1127:
1078:
1077:
1038:Angela Funovits
991:
986:
985:
975:
973:
959:
958:
954:
944:
942:
933:
932:
923:
913:
911:
902:
901:
897:
887:
885:
879:
878:
874:
864:
862:
857:
856:
852:
842:
840:
831:
830:
826:
821:
687:
682:
667:
582:Leuven, Belgium
512:Avon Lake, Ohio
504:Angela Funovits
466:
435:
414:
397:
329:Host Uri Geller
323:
293:
288:
218:
216:
214:
208:
206:
181:
177:
153:Tribune Studios
138:
136:
134:
79:
49:
47:
38:
17:
12:
11:
5:
1136:
1134:
1126:
1125:
1120:
1115:
1110:
1105:
1100:
1095:
1090:
1080:
1079:
1076:
1075:
1070:
1065:
1060:
1055:
1050:
1045:
1040:
1035:
1030:
1025:
1014:
1013:
1002:
997:
990:
989:External links
987:
984:
983:
952:
921:
895:
872:
850:
823:
822:
820:
817:
814:
813:
811:
808:
805:
802:
799:
793:
792:
790:
787:
784:
781:
778:
772:
771:
769:
766:
763:
760:
757:
751:
750:
748:
745:
742:
739:
736:
730:
729:
727:
724:
721:
718:
715:
709:
708:
705:
702:
699:
696:
693:
686:
685:Weekly ratings
683:
681:
678:
677:
676:
672:
666:
663:
660:
659:
656:
647:
644:
640:
639:
636:
631:
628:
624:
623:
620:
615:
612:
606:
605:
602:
597:
592:
588:
587:
584:
579:
576:
572:
571:
568:
563:
560:
554:
553:
550:
545:
542:
536:
535:
532:
527:
524:
518:
517:
514:
509:
506:
500:
499:
496:
491:
488:
482:
481:
478:
475:
472:
465:
462:
434:
431:
427:Kim Kardashian
413:
410:
396:
393:
322:
319:
297:Carmen Electra
292:
289:
287:
284:
241:and hosted by
224:
223:
203:
199:
198:
193:
189:
188:
184:
183:
172:
168:
167:
164:
160:
159:
150:
146:
145:
131:
127:
126:
122:
121:
118:
111:
110:
107:
100:
99:
96:
92:
91:
88:
84:
83:
74:
70:
69:
64:
60:
59:
56:
52:
51:
44:
40:
39:
36:
28:
27:
15:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
1135:
1124:
1121:
1119:
1116:
1114:
1111:
1109:
1106:
1104:
1101:
1099:
1096:
1094:
1091:
1089:
1086:
1085:
1083:
1074:
1071:
1069:
1066:
1064:
1061:
1059:
1056:
1054:
1051:
1049:
1048:Wayne Hoffman
1046:
1044:
1041:
1039:
1036:
1034:
1031:
1029:
1026:
1024:
1021:
1020:
1019:
1018:
1012:
1008:
1007:
1003:
1001:
998:
996:
993:
992:
988:
971:
967:
963:
956:
953:
941:
937:
930:
928:
926:
922:
910:
906:
899:
896:
883:
876:
873:
860:
854:
851:
839:
835:
828:
825:
818:
812:
809:
806:
803:
800:
798:
795:
794:
791:
788:
785:
782:
779:
777:
774:
773:
770:
767:
764:
761:
758:
756:
753:
752:
749:
746:
743:
740:
737:
735:
732:
731:
728:
725:
722:
719:
716:
714:
711:
710:
706:
703:
700:
697:
694:
691:
690:
684:
679:
673:
669:
668:
664:
657:
655:
651:
648:
645:
642:
641:
637:
635:
632:
629:
626:
625:
621:
619:
616:
613:
611:
610:Wayne Hoffman
608:
607:
603:
601:
598:
596:
595:Paranormalist
593:
591:Jim Callahan
590:
589:
585:
583:
580:
577:
574:
573:
569:
567:
564:
561:
559:
556:
555:
551:
549:
546:
543:
541:
538:
537:
533:
531:
528:
525:
523:
520:
519:
515:
513:
510:
507:
505:
502:
501:
497:
495:
492:
489:
487:
484:
483:
479:
476:
473:
470:
469:
463:
461:
459:
458:
453:
447:
439:
432:
430:
428:
424:
420:
411:
409:
407:
403:
394:
392:
388:
384:
381:
380:Paranormalist
376:
372:
369:
364:
359:
358:Wayne Hoffman
354:
352:
349:
345:
341:
337:
327:
320:
318:
316:
312:
311:
306:
302:
301:Rachel Hunter
299:, supermodel
298:
290:
285:
283:
281:
276:
274:
269:
267:
263:
258:
256:
252:
248:
244:
240:
236:
232:
231:
204:
200:
197:
194:
190:
185:
180:
176:
173:
169:
165:
161:
158:
154:
151:
147:
144:
141:
132:
128:
123:
119:
112:
108:
101:
97:
93:
90:United States
89:
85:
82:
78:
75:
71:
68:
65:
61:
57:
53:
45:
41:
34:
29:
26:
22:
19:
16:NBC TV series
1033:Jim Callahan
1016:
1015:
1005:
974:. Retrieved
970:the original
960:NBC (2007).
955:
943:. Retrieved
912:. Retrieved
898:
886:. Retrieved
875:
863:. Retrieved
853:
841:. Retrieved
838:Toronto Star
827:
796:
775:
754:
733:
712:
704:Viewers (m)
455:
448:
444:
415:
398:
389:
385:
377:
373:
355:
344:Raven-Symoné
340:Ross Mathews
332:
308:
305:Ross Mathews
294:
277:
270:
265:
259:
254:
229:
228:
227:
163:Running time
139:
137:Dwight Smith
63:Presented by
24:
18:
976:November 4,
945:November 7,
914:November 7,
843:October 24,
643:Ehud Segev
480:Eliminated
464:Contestants
423:Dayna Devon
419:Tia Carrere
402:voodoo doll
346:and former
315:James Randi
266:Phenomenon.
243:Tim Vincent
239:Criss Angel
117:of episodes
77:Criss Angel
67:Tim Vincent
58:Alan Carter
55:Directed by
1082:Categories
1073:Mike Super
1068:Ehud Segev
1063:Eran Raven
1006:Phenomenon
819:References
675:eliminate.
658:Episode 2
646:Mentalist
638:Episode 2
630:Mentalist
627:Jim Karol
622:Episode 3
604:Episode 3
586:Episode 3
575:Jan Bardi
570:Episode 4
562:Mentalist
544:Mentalist
526:Mentalist
522:Eran Raven
490:Mystifier
486:Mike Super
477:Home Town
474:Specialty
273:Mike Super
262:Larry King
255:Phenomenon
235:Uri Geller
230:Phenomenon
219:2007-11-21
209:2007-10-24
205:October 24
125:Production
106:of seasons
81:Uri Geller
43:Created by
25:Phenomenon
1053:Jim Karol
1028:Guy Bavli
1023:Jan Bardi
940:Today.com
888:April 16,
650:Rosh Pina
540:Guy Bavli
368:Guy Bavli
251:mentalist
133:Suzy Lamb
884:. Zap2it
348:Miss USA
286:Episodes
143:Banachek
865:July 7,
695:Rating
498:Winner
356:First,
338:. Only
217: (
213: –
207: (
202:Release
192:Network
98:English
807:1.8/6
786:2.0/6
765:2.2/6
744:1.9/6
723:2.9/8
698:Share
671:shown.
665:Trivia
654:Israel
303:, and
73:Judges
810:6.17
789:6.16
768:6.10
747:5.95
726:8.35
471:Name
395:Three
336:Venus
1011:IMDb
978:2007
947:2007
916:2007
890:2012
867:2007
845:2007
801:3.8
780:3.8
759:3.7
738:3.9
717:5.2
452:9-11
433:Five
425:and
412:Four
1009:at
966:NBC
321:Two
291:One
280:NBC
247:NBC
196:NBC
115:No.
104:No.
1084::
964:.
938:.
924:^
907:.
836:.
804:6
783:6
762:6
741:7
720:8
692:#
652:,
429:.
421:,
353:.
275:.
155:,
980:.
949:.
918:.
892:.
869:.
847:.
797:5
776:4
755:3
734:2
713:1
221:)
211:)
120:5
109:1
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
