Transcript of live T.V. broadcast over all of Japan on 31 March,1983 on Nippon T.V. network.

W: female commentator
M: male commentator
Y: Uri or "Yuri" Geller


W: ....... he is continuing his study to know whether human beings have other means to access information besides the five senses.

M: Many people have gathered at this studio. They all look tense with anticipation. The most nervous person at this moment might be Yuri Geller himself. He has been struggling under the pressure.

W: Right.

M: We saw him nine years ago. I wonder what he looks like now. Let's call Yuri at the Tokyo Tower.

M: This is Miki at the Tokyo Tower.... How is everything there?

W: I am Marie Christine.

W: Good evening, my name is Miwa Tokaki.

W: This is Yuri Geller. Many boys and girls are around us. As you saw the video, there was such a big sensation when we invited him nine years ago. Watch closely what is going to happen shortly. Yuri, please explain what you are going to do.

Y: Ok, eh..All over Japan, tonight,as a matter of fact in a few minutes, something amazing and fenomenal will happen maybe in your own hands or something very unusual in your house. So stay with us and be with open mind. Believe tonight. This one and half hour, BELIEVE in what you are about to see.

(soundfile)

W: (translation into Japanese) Are you ready? The studio, please.

M: It's exiting. Let's see how all the spectators are.

W: Yes, let's. How is everybody in Hokkaido, Mr.Katsuya and miss Utsunomiya?

W: Good evening. We are standing at the foot of the TV tower on the main street. As Yuri is sending messages from Tokyo Tower, about fifty young people are waiting at the same TV tower.

W: People have brought many things,broken watches, spoons and forks. There is a cute little girl waiting here too. (to the girl):you have a wonderful clock. How did you get it?

girl: This is my grandfather's precious clock. i have brought it secretly..

W: Ah, so desu ka...

M: (at the studio) I want you to tell us ,as soon as you find any changes.

M: Clocks.... Miss Mie Nakao is at Roppongi, Tokyo

W: Mie-san, how is everything there?

W: This is Roppongi, Tokyo. We are in front of the Rowa building, 1040 meters away from the Tokyo Tower. Quite a number of people are waiting here to eyewitness the super-natural phenomena to be shown by Yuri Geller.

W: Right. People have brought spoons and other things from home. Sorry , I'm not singing today.. We have our broken records..no, broken watches.

M: Broken watches all ready for the occasion.

W: you have to have your brain fixed today...

M: As this is the closests telecasting spot from the Tokyo Tower, we are looking forward to seeing the remarkable phenomena here.

(studio)
W: They seem to be fighting.

M: As a matter of fact this program is on, LIVE both on radio and on TV. The TV is by Nippon TV and the radio by Radio Nippon.

W: Mie is commentator for the TV and Mitsuo for the radio.

M: Let us turn to Denenchofu, Tokyo

W: Hi! This is Mr.Jerry Fujio's house in Denenchofu. We have chosen his family as representative of all other Japanese families. Jerry-san, do you believe in Yuri's superpower?

Jerry: The instant I heard his voice, my palms started to sweat.

W: Oh, you are sweating so much on your forehead ,too.

Jerry: Yes, I believe him.

W: Marvellous that he has such a power, like making people sweat.

Jerry: Of that I am not so sure.

W: How about you, Tomoko-san?

W: At first I did not believe. But when I heard that my friend, Mrs.Uehara, could bend the spoon, I started to believe.

W: That was what people think here...

W: Something is happening at the Fujio residence..

(break in)

M: Tokumitsu's friend in Osaka!(on the line)

W: Mr.Kobayashi and Mr.Harunosuke of Yomiuri TV. How's everything there?

M: Good evening. We are at the green square in the Third building in front of Osaka Station.

M: Good evening. I am Harunosuke Katsura. There are about fifty people here with broken watches, spoons and other things. Look! Here is a man with a golf club! He will try to bend it!

M: Quite a few people are here in spite of the rain. i have my spoons ready.

M: I have a fork.

M: We are all filled with anticipation. Tokyo please.

(studio)

M: People have assembled at the Korakuen Stadium for the musical event,especially planned for the occasion.

W: Mr.Matsunaga at KORAKUEN

M: This is the Korakuen Staduim at Suidobashi, Tokyo.Look! There are about six thousand spectators here, two thousand in the lawn and four thousand in the stand. They are expecting to see Tamori (a noted talent) exercising his super powers to compete with Yuri Geller. With cheers, here comes Tamori. Tamori-san, can you exercise your super power.

M: No, nonsense. I have no super power at all. I want to cultivate it, though. Its only in the Korakuen Staduim that is showing such a cheerful excitement. It sounds like an uproar of a festival.

M: We have six thousand eye-witnesses, here, from the Korakuen Stadium.

(studio)

W: Such a large number of people...It looks cold out there.

M: So many people all over the country, including you, in front of your TV set, are looking forward to seeing what Yuri is going to do. In case we notice something supernatural, what should we do?

W: Mr. Miki at Tokyo Tower will tell you about it.

(Tokyo Tower)

Y: Now,all of the people,all of them, in the Stadium, at home, in the street, everybody that is listening in the house, please prepare all your broken watches and clocks and hairdryers and erasermachines (rasors?) that are broken,all of these broken watches and clocks and house appliances, bring them to the television set and put them down on the floor.

If you have keys, spoons,forks, anything of metal, golf clubs,anything, also bring them to the television set, because I will try WITH YOUR POWER, not only with MY power, try to bend some things in your homes.

Now if anything happens in your house,only if something happens, if a spoon bends, or..the watches we'll do later, we'll begin with the bending, call NTV and let us know what hjappens, but only if something happened. If something did'nt happen, don't be disappointed, because it doesn't happen to everyone.

Call NTV if anything bends or if anything unusual happens in the house, like the lights go out, or a black and white TV turns into colour, something like that.....

(translation into Japanese)

W: We have one hundred telephones in this studio ready for you to call. If anything strange happens, please call us.

M: Our telephone number is 03-2631000 and the radio Nippon is 03-586 5900

W: As the lines are going to be overcrowded, we want to limit those who can call. Those, who have odd telephone numbers can call us during the first half of the program; those who have even numbers can call us during the latter half.

(studio)Listen to the original Sound track (mp3)

W: Then let us start the experiment. Mr. Miki at Tokyo Tower!

M: (say)Are you ready?

Y: I am ready

M: No, to the people

Y: Yes.

Y: Are you ready now? If you are ready, you have to HELP me and be ready for the next fenomenal happening.

M: There are spoons in front of me. This cannot be bent. (Tries to bend). No tricks whatever. This golf club, prepared by a real-estate man, cannot be bent either.

Y: Now. First of all I must say that I am nervous, because this is not a trick, it's not magic, so I don't know if things will work. So I beg you people out there: people help me, all over Japan. I need your power now, because it is a live show.
(translation)

Y: Do you know I will try something , that i never tried before ever in my life.

(translation)

Y: I will try... First, nothing here is mine; all these spoons.. look at this spoon..the spoon is not prepared...it's a spoon... because some people thing it's a trick, but it is not. Children, I want you to do like this with your hands...Tell them to do like this and begin to BELIEVE that something is going to bend or melt or..... say BEND!
(translation)

Meanwhile i will stroke the spoon--like last time, but now it takes me... faster, because my power is stronger.
(translation)

Y: Do it with me.. BEND. BEND Stroke the golf (club). Yes,yes. Please believe and give me time. You see, I am trying to bend also this spoon, but it is not... Yes, yes. Oh oh yes , yes, more way. Something is happening here. Help me, help me. Ah ah ah ah it's bending look, look it's bending, yes. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Yes, yes, yes. Help me children. Do it with me. Yes its becoming soft. Help me. Yes. Yes !!
(Many exited voices)

Y: Tell them to put their finger where my finger is. Yes look! oh--- Yes, look it's breaking, it's breaking it's breaking. Put your fingers more--- Yes leave it, leave it, leave. Look , look look! More more more, say BEND.

W: Look! Iron powder is falling

Y: Yes, more, more, more. Yes its breaking, and it's soft- more- look look look! AH! (the end of the golfclub falls on the floor) You touch it, it's cold. Cold! Now children, look at your spoon and do the same. Do the same to your spoons!( The spoons bend all out of shape) And also her fork bent, you see?

M: Osaka calling!

W: What happened, Harunosuke-san?

M: A spoon is bent. You saw it, didn't you?

W: marvellous!

M: Have you ever bent a spoon before? No? Weird,heh?

W: Horunosuke-san, is there anybody else, who....?

W: is there anybody else?

~o, for the moment only one.

W: Matsunaga-san at Korakuen . Is there any change?

M: I see one at this moment, a boy in the front row. What did you feel? He seems to have felt an electric shock. You see? it's bent!

W: We can see it!

M: There seem to be some others. i'll call you later from the Korakuen Stadium.

W: Please call

M: How about in Sapporo?

W: We have seen so much change at Korakuen. How about those at the studio? Is there anybody who has noticed any change?

M: Has a spoon been bent?

W: It seems that nobody has succeeded at the studio probably because people watching T.V. too earnestly.

W: Still, the phones have been ringing incessantly. How about you, watching T.V.? Chika-chan, Is yours bent?

W: This was bent before the experiment.

W: Is that right. Can you find anybody around you who succeeded?

W. You don't have enough super power.

M: Kobayashi-san, will you ask the doctors?

M: Dr. Enami, what do you think of the experiment?

M: Physically it's impossible. I hadn't believed a year ago. But when I saw the experiment done by Mr. Tsuruta, one of the most psychic people in Japan, I couldn't help believing. So personally I believe it now.

M: Are you surprised?

M: Yes, very much.

W: He didn't believe a year ago! Physically imp.....

M: How about psychologically?

M: I had the impression that he has become more powerful than when he came to Japan last. I want to study him to know his psychological background.

M: Did anything happen at Korakuen?

W: Yes, quite a few people have succeeded in bending metals. Doctor, the spoons will not bend unless we believe they will, will it?

M: Right. The first step is to get rid of your psychological suppression, i.e. preconception that it is impossible. After that...... we should melt into the spoon to wish that it would bend.

W: I see. Kobayashi-san, the doctor says that we should melt into the spoon.

M: Miko's spoon is bent.

W: Mine is bent, too.

W: Look! It's bent! In front of my very eyes!!

M: Dr. Erdon Bird has experimented with Yuri using nitinol. What is nitinol?

Dr.Erdon Bird: Nitinol is a Nickel/Titanium alloy that is developed by the Naval Forces Weapons Center (sic). It has a memory that is placed at a specific temperature...
Nitinol can be deformed.... but when it is taken back to that certain temperature, it will go back to the shape (it was meant to have). This piece was made to be straight at a 100 degrees celcius. (Japanese translations partially drowns out original english)

W: Now what was the experiment you were doing with Uri Geller, using the nitinol?

Dr.Bird: In August 1973 I held a piece of nitinol, which's memory was made to be straight at 140 degrees C; he gently stroked it and the memory altered in such a way, that it is no longer straight. (Shows photograph:) This is an enlargement.

W: That means, that Yuri Geller can not only erase the memory of the metal, but also alter the memory.(sic) is that possible? What do you find?

Dr.Bird: Well, this normally cannot occur....(garbled with Japanese translation)

Yuri Geller:

O.K.!

Please say to the people that nothing happened (to): don't be disappointed. It doesn't happen to everyone. And also, the famous actor....are you sure that he bent the spoon with his mind? Because not every...very few people can do it like I do it. But there is a moment that you do like this, like this (shows) and it becomes soft without heat and then it's easy to bend.
(translation)

W: look! Unbelievable! It's all bent!

W: Jerry-san, it can not be true, can it?

M: It is true!! I can hardly believe it myself.

W: He says his heart is pounding.

M: It is so unbelievable.

W: How did you fee?

JERRY: The moment I thought that it would (bend), it went all the way, like this.

W: Jerry-san has told that the moment he thought it would, the spoon was actually bent.

M: Yuri is going to do the experiment of fixing the broken watches.

W: Jerry-san,are you sure you are not bending the spoon by force?

J: No, on the contrary. When I touch it lightly, it bends.

W: Are you positive you are not pushing it strongly?

J: Now, look.i try to push it by force.

W: Do it strongly.

J: When I push it strongly, it doen't work

W: Really? Is concentration necessary?

W: It will bend when you think it will from the bottom of your heart. Isn't that right?

J: Now it's coming...! No, it's gone.

W: His power of concentration seems to have weakened.

J: It was true, though.

W: He looked as if he was bending the spoon by force, but it was actually bent by some super-natural power.

M: Next, Yuri will do the new experiment. Takami-san, have you brought the watches ready for the experiment?

W: Ready.

M: Will they really start moving?

W: Do you have watches of your own?

M: Let's turn to the Tokyo Tower.

W: Mr.Miki at the Tokyo Tower, are you ready?

M: Yuri has been watching the monitor TV here. He says that Jerry touches the spoon too strongly. He wants to notify him that spoons will bend by just feeling gently. This golf club was broken by Yuri a little while ago. Marie saw the powder sprinkling from the broken shaft.

W: I saw the powder fall, as the golf club was against the light.

W: I saw it, too.

M: He had a cut in his finger from the broken shaft. He says it hurts a little, but he will be allright.

Y: Now the watches, now the clocks. so, all the people with the watches and the clocks, before we do this, although your watches are broken, please wind them up. OK. Now. Unfortunately I don't have any watches and clocks and broken house appliances here.
If you people at home, if you have broken hairdryers or broken watches I want you to hold them in your hand and... let's shout: When I say one, two,..three , I want you to shout the word "work!" But also you people here help me. Because somebody told me that this watch has not worked for many,many years and these are all broken (pointing at a table full of displayed watches, clocks and assorted junk). Allright. Now. Let's go all of us together. One.. two..three..:Work!
Ok everyone. When I say work, everyone has to shout.
One, two, three..Work!
Again.
One..two..three, Work!
Again. ..No. You see,I..,I have to be honest. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Ok, let me put this in the electricity to see what happened.
Give me the watch ,please.
Please believe.
One, two, three, WORK!
Again. no. Let's see. YES,THIS IS WORKING! Yes,yes,yes,yes.
This watch is ticking.
(interruption from Roppongi)
Y: Look,look,LOOK, it just started ticking, you see?
Again for this one. Believe that your power...
One, two, three..Work! Again: One,two..three..Work!
Yes, it's working! It's working. It's fixed.
Please tell the people that this power we all have. You only have to believe.
Now all the people, all over Japan, check the watches, put them to your ears. If your watches started ticking, call NTV. Look, the watch is ticking. Look at the second hand... You see, it's started. Look at that, it's moving... Yes this one is also working.. This is such an old clock, that..and it's ticking.

(Roppongi breaking in)

M: This is Roppongi. The second hand of this watch has started to move. Oh, it was moving a little ago..

W: Has it stopped?

Y:

M: This is Tokyo Tower. A watch has started to move now.

Y:

W: It has started to move! it's moving!

Y:

M: Thank you for everyone

W: Mr.Miki, while Mrs.Otani was watching Yuri, her watch started to move all of a sudden. Can you see it? There is no second hand, but you can hear it tick. How long had it been broken?

W: It had been broken since three years ago. While I was watching Qyiri's experiment with the spoon, but watch started ticking all of a sudden; but I did not succeed in the soon-bending.

W: Splendid! Mrs. Otani, what do you think?

M: It has been running foir five minutes.

(the camera gives different scenes)

W: Doctors' watches are fixed one by one... Mr.Kobayashi, it is fantastic isn't it? Are you surprised,too?

M: It is bent! It is bent at last!

M: This clock moves and stops alternatively.

W: How did you feel when you bent the spoon?

W: It was twisted first. I felt warm.

W: People have been doing their best. Oh! Oh! Here it comes! He has succeeded at last. The watch is also fixed.

W: I see another watch moving

W: See the second hand moving.

M: He could fix three watches at Roppongi.

W: Many doubted it, but quite a lot of broken watches seem to have been fixed.

(studio)

M: Watches at the studio have started to move one by one.

Yuri came to Japan on the 24th of this month. On the 27th, he visited the Technical information Centre of Tokai University at Yoyogi, Tokyo.

W: I accompanied him and saw him experiment wether he could input or output the pictures of the computer screen. He had never done that before. It turned out to be a pretty hard experiment. Here is the record. (shows)

M: On the 27th of March, Yuri underwent a new experiment, never done before in history. Before the experiment, he was thoroughly examined by Prof. Toshibumi Sakata, to make sure that he had no metals of any kind with him. Two pictures were on the computer tape and he was going to work on them, using his power. If you see any change on these two pictures, the experiment is a success. As it was his first experiment, you cannot expect too much. On the first day he tried for three hours in vain.

On the 29th, he tried the second time. The computer, the product of the modern scientific technology, didn't seem to accept a bit of his psychic power. With augmenting irritation, he seemed to concentrate all his power. He began to murmur that something would happen in a couple of minutes. When we almost gave up after three hours trial, we noticed a strange phenomena.....

Yuri: Aahh! Put -in (?)
I'm doing my best, yoo yan, I'm doing my best,..(softly) don't...

Y: I don't know.
(pause)

Y: M-m-m
Now! -- now,-- the next. Now--- Now!
Look at the monitors, ok. The coming 2,3 minutes must happen something.
How many-- about-- Please! Now!
Now! (mutters in Hebrew: ...nagwalom) NOW!|
NOW!!!

M: it has stopped!
M: You did it! (American voice)

Y: What??

M: Yes!

Y: No!!
Y: Bigo! I DID IT. OH|
{uncontrolled laughter by the same unidentified voice)
AH! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! You did it!... Yes!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! {Uncontrolled laughter, cut off by Japanese commentator)

M: The picture was supposed to come out from above, but it stopped on the way. At last Yuri has succeeded in making the machine stop.

W: This is Dr. Sakata of the Technological Information Center of Tokai University who conducted an experiment with Yuri. Dr. Sakata, did you notice anything during the experiment?

M: He tried hard for a long time. So long that we all couldn't help wishing for his success at the end. At close to the end, the computer's signal stopped suddenly. This can happen for various reasons for sure, but when I think that happened no other time but while he was using his power, it may be allowed to think that it was his power that stopped the machine. The computer stops when it receives the stop signal.

W: Can you stop the computer only by saying stop? Do you think that his super power could do that?

M: I don't know what super power really means, but I don't think it's impossible. At least the percentage may be extremely low.

W: You must be surprised then.

M: I was rather pleased than surprised.

M: Ask Dr. Edwin Brit his impression, please.

Interviewer-- What happen in Tokai University?

Dr. Edwin B: As an expert witness I consider what happened in Tokai University to be a well controlled Scientific experiment.
To my opinion, the chances are almost zero that anything else occured except uh- psychic power to made the tape stop at precisely the moment that it did.

M: Thank you. The next experiment is of telepathy.

W: Mr. Miki, Tokyo Tower!

M: Here I am. I want to tell you something. I have my brand new suits on today. A button of it melted and fell off all of a sudden.

W: It's really melt! Kikko-san, do you believe it?

M: Frankly I had not been sure of Yuri's power, but this I should admit!

W: Look at this button. It's all molten.

Y: It melted like spoon. And I didn't even touch the button.

Y: You ask him; did this happen to you in your life? Never!

M: At the moment that the golf-shaft is broken, it happened!

Y: Fantastic. This is very important for me to hear.

M: Thank you. But you owe me one button.

Y: Ha ha ha.

M: So strange that I almost feel sick.

M: Let's turn to the experiment of the telepathy, next.

W: A litlle before we started this program, we drew pictures in the room where nobody could enter. Mio drew one while I drew two. believe me we have never shown them to anybody else. I don't even know what Mio's picture is like.

W: I don't know what Mari's picture is like either.

W: Yuri is going to guess what they look like.

Girl: So, can you--

Y: Ok. Wait-- allright. Eh.

Girl: I drew two pictures.

Y: You did. Allright , now. This is very much pressure for me, because this is very precise. And I have to get it so give me a little time. And the most important thing I want to stress is that this is not a trick. You didn't tell me what you draw, I don't think you told anyone what you draw. So please people, believe that if I will succeed, it's real telepathy. Begin to draw now. You do two drawings?

g: Yes.

Y: Concentrate... Don't give me any clue. Which drawing is more difficult in your opinion, the first or the second.

G: The second one.

Y: So start concentrating on the second one.
Don't close your eyes. Look at me and begin..to draw..the drawing... in your mind... without moving your head or your eyes.
JUST STARE AT ME|

Y: Again. Draw it in slow motion in your head.

Y: Again.(sigh) Just stare at me, like a hawk. Just stare at me and draw the drawing in your mind. Yes.. Again. One more time. can you come really close to me, please?

M: Can we change?

Y: Yes, please. Please.

Y: Come close.
Stare at me!

Y: Ah. You know, it's a difficult one.
again.

Y: Well. I will draw, what I felt. It can only be one thing, what I felt. I do not feel a 100% that it is that, but I will draw it.
One more time..
I will show it to the camera.. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but it is something like a flower..

M: Mari takes out her drawing. Nobody, but herself, has ever seen it.

W: What! ..So strange!

Y: That is what I got.

M: It almost looks the same! Just a tiny, tiny difference!

W: Mr. Miki! Believe me, while I stayed with him, I felt a kind of energy coming through my head.

M: She felt something....

Mari: I drew the flower in my mind. While I was drawing, I noticed, that his head was moving along with my mind. Very astonishing!

M: Let's turn back to the studio.

(Studio)

W: Dr.Aoki has been studying whether people have some other means to perceive, beside our five senses. What do you think, Sir.

DR.Aoki: Yuri's telepathy was tested in l974 by the scientists of Standford Research Institute in California. The report was in "Nature", the science magazine, in l974. I believe his power. People may think that the telepathy is gifted to a very special person like Yuri, but it is not true.
My two years close study shows that almost every one can draw a picture by telepathy just as Yuri has done.

W: Mr. Kobayashi, he says that you can also draw a picture like

Yuri.

M: I don't know what I should say to that.

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First uploaded to the Internet 10 November 1997.

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Note: Truly remarkable was the deafening silence of the mainstream Japanese newspapers on this event. In spite of the countrywide excitement, there was nothing on it in the papers the next morning. Nothing. No mention of the Geller performance at all.

Except this, mostly covering a pre-show press conference, but confirming what happened during the show.