It begins in Southern England, Folkestone in Kent to be precise, where a young boy grew up into a world of a world of magic and magicians.  His name was Clive and his father started him on the yellow brick road by giving him a magic box which made candies appear and disappear when he was six years old.  Nine years, and lots of backyard magic shows later, he made his first London West End appearance on the stage of the Fortune Theatre, Dury Lane, and a story in a national magazine led to his first network TV appearance at sixteen.  Two years later, on his eighteenth birthday,  he became one of the youngest members of the world-famous Magic Circle.  However, it was that TV debut that made the greatest impression on him. He decided to dedicate himself to the magic of television.   He developed a special persona and style of presentation--he became Clive Court, The Casual Cowboy Conjurer--  a lighthearted magician who 'threw-away' his tricks with a shrug and a self-deprecating line of patter, "I do the magic of the future--a few more tricks like that and I won't have any future."

As Clive developed his Magic Goes West style in London, he studied TV production, design, scriptwriting, advertising, and public relations.  He also toured Europe, performed on TV,  and produced a subterranean magic show in Kent's Chislehurst Caves  before heading North to work on the promotion of Granada TV's Coronation Street during its first year of production.  But the dawning of the satellite TV age with the launch of Telestar prompted him to seek more international experience.  He decided to work and study in  four major English-speaking countries and the first stop on the Casual Cowboy Conjurer's world tour was Australia....