Tricky Dicky's Mission Impossible

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Tricky Dicky's Mission Impossible is a sketch from children's television show, ZZZap!.

Tricky Dicky only lasted one series. As each scene began Tricky Dicky would walk into a black, dark room. We see him walk close up to the camera and two ghostly eyes appear. He quickly types some stuff on a typewriter then walks out of the black room. He then set a challenge, which was what he had written on the typewriter. His "trademark" was a very high, creepy giggle. After that, Tricky always set a challenge of some kind that from the description would sound simple (e.g. Pour custard on a pudding), but had a twist that made it more difficult (e.g. the custard would be in a wheelbarrow and the pudding at the end of an obstacle course). The kids often failed, but sometimes won. If they failed, at the end of the scene we see Tricky holding up a sign reading - 'Mission Impossible'. If the kids won, we see him shaking his head and holding a sign reading "Mission Possible". The first 'Tricky Dicky' scene was when he set a challenge of making the kids pop balloons (without shoes) on a bus with a time limit. Tricky was also driving the bus. When he was in the black room, Tricky's captions on the screen were white, but when he was out they were a purplish blue. Tricky's square was in the middle below the clown square in Series 1.Tricky dicky wore a black hat over his head and wore a grey coat at the end of tricky's scene there was a label black on white background. A bit of Tricky Dicky still remained on Zzzap! When from Series 11 onwards the music played in the Tricky Dicky sketches was used for the Guess The Animal (Eyes In Leaves) puzzle.