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Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA
NOVA (TV series)

Nova is a popular science television series from the United States produced by WGBH-TV Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries....
 episode following James Randi
James Randi

James Randi is a Magician and Scientific skepticism best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge,...
's work. Also appearing in stock footage
Stock footage

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage are film or video footage that is not custom shot for use in a specific film or television program....
 are Peter Popoff
Peter Popoff

Peter Popoff is a Germany-born United States televangelist and claims to be a faith healer. He performs revival meetings on national television which include laying on of hands....
, Uri Geller
Uri Geller

'Uri Geller Freud', commonly 'Uri Geller' , born on 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-United Kingdom performing arts and self-proclaimed psychic who claims "to be able to spoon bending with the power of his mind" and to have psychic powers, although he currently prefers the designation of "mystifier" rather than "psychic."...
, and many others.

In the program, "Randi argues that successful psychics depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe that what they see is the result of psychic powers."

This program is not to be confused with a later UK documentary Secrets of the Psychics, which was transmitted under this title as well as Secrets of the Super Psychics
Secrets of the Super Psychics

Secrets of the Super Psychics was a Channel 4 documentary special in the UK, first shown in the Equinox strand in 1997, later reformated as a shorter The Learning Channel episode in 1998: "Viewers eager to know more about the differences between science and claptrap should tune in"....
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Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA
NOVA (TV series)

Nova is a popular science television series from the United States produced by WGBH-TV Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries....
 episode following James Randi
James Randi

James Randi is a Magician and Scientific skepticism best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge,...
's work. Also appearing in stock footage
Stock footage

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage are film or video footage that is not custom shot for use in a specific film or television program....
 are Peter Popoff
Peter Popoff

Peter Popoff is a Germany-born United States televangelist and claims to be a faith healer. He performs revival meetings on national television which include laying on of hands....
, Uri Geller
Uri Geller

'Uri Geller Freud', commonly 'Uri Geller' , born on 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-United Kingdom performing arts and self-proclaimed psychic who claims "to be able to spoon bending with the power of his mind" and to have psychic powers, although he currently prefers the designation of "mystifier" rather than "psychic."...
, and many others.

In the program, "Randi argues that successful psychics depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe that what they see is the result of psychic powers."

This program is not to be confused with a later UK documentary Secrets of the Psychics, which was transmitted under this title as well as Secrets of the Super Psychics
Secrets of the Super Psychics

Secrets of the Super Psychics was a Channel 4 documentary special in the UK, first shown in the Equinox strand in 1997, later reformated as a shorter The Learning Channel episode in 1998: "Viewers eager to know more about the differences between science and claptrap should tune in"....
.

VHS release

  • Secrets of the Psychics. March 28 2000 ISBN 1578070406


External links

  • from PBS
  • from New York Times