This project can be a mixed bag. For every long-lost gem I’m delighted to watch again, there’s ten lots of Sky-recorded 90s telefantasy about which there’s barely an original word that could be written.

So as I work through the tapes I’ve digitised, I can see what’s coming up on the next few recordings, and I look forward to some of them a lot more than others. This tape is a case in point.

Stuff the White Rabbit was a late-night BBC2 show presenting some of the best magicians working at the time, doing mostly close-up and table magic. It’s one of the few shows on TV that can safely feature Jerry Sadowitz, in his secret identity as a superb close-up magician. Not that I can share this with you, as I don’t want to get another copyright strike against me, like I did last time I uploaded one of these shows.

In the first episode, as well as presenter John Lenahan, there’s magic from a very animated David Williamson