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Un game show italiano del tardo pomeriggio condotto da Gerry Scotti, Luca Laurenti e Paolo Bonolis.

"Mai dire TV" is a funny collage of crazy and grotesque tv shows taken from local italian tv stations and foreign channels from satellite. The show is commented voiceover by Gialappa's Band.

This variety program can be considered the heir of Drive in (1983) and the predecessor of Striscia la notizia (1988), all three created by Antonio Ricci and conducted by Gianfranco D'Angelo and Ezio Greggio. It was the program with which Lorella Cuccarini made her debut in the Fininvest Group (renamed Mediaset Group in 1993).

This TV special/documentary has been produced in occasion of the first Copperfield's tournée in Italy (autumn 1994). In his Magic Warehouse the two conductors, Giorgio Mastrota and his wife Natalia Estrada, interviewed David Copperfield about his work as an illusionist and broadcast 14 illusions selected from 8 Copperfield TV specials produced for the American network CBS, between The Magic of David Copperfield V (1983) and The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires of Passion (1993), even if some of them have been shown with the audio and video montage used in the documentary David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (1994) instead of the integral version used in their original TV special. The illusions broadcast are: "Motorcycle Vanish" (1990), "Death Saw" (1988), "Building Implosion" (1989), "Escape From Alcatraz" (1987), "Statue Of Liberty Disappears" (1983), "Twister" (1989), "Big Black Box" (1991), "Brazilian Water Levitation" (1991), "After Hours" (aka "Vertical Asrah") (1993), "Interlude" (1992), "Telekinesis" (1989), "Pole Levitation" (1989), "Slicer" (1990) and "Flying" (1992). This TV special has been followed by a second part with the same title "LA GRANDE MAGIA DI DAVID COPPERFIELD", broadcast on Wednesday, November 9th, 1994. This first part has been re-aired on the same network on Sunday, September 24th, 1995.

This episode was entirely dedicated to the interview of the protagonists of Fantozzi in paradiso (1993), which was released in theaters on the same day of the transmission. Maurizio Costanzo interviewed the four main protagonists: Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotic, Gigi Reder and Plinio Fernando, who is almost never appeared on television. It was the last movie in which he appeared, before leaving the world of cinema and devote himself to painting and sculpture in a shop near his residence in Rome. The theater was full of kids, who asked many questions, and there was also the movie's director Neri Parenti. At the end of the transmission, Villaggio distributed to all kids sticks sparkling, and pianist Franco Bracardi played music "White Christmas".

This has been the last episode of this game show, conducted for 2 years by Augusto Mondelli (99 episodes) and for 14 years by Mike Bongiorno (3,125 episodes). Its conclusion was chosen by the Mediaset Group due to the excessive cost of the rights (EUR 4,000 per episode) of the original American format Wheel of Fortune (1975) and the large drop in audience suffered by the last edition. At the end, just before the toast, Bongiorno thanked all collaborators. For the occasion, also the ex-competition judge Alvise Borghi was present in the studio. Unfortunately Bongiorno had to give up the presence of Illy Reale, who died in 1993 due to a car accident.