Television in the Soviet Union was not color or black and white. It was mainly gray. But those not many television programs that the Soviet television viewer really loved looked against this faceless background.
By today's standards, Soviet television was a pretty sad picture. And the matter is not in the ridiculous amount of television channels (in most settlements it was only one for a long time), and not in the absence of sophisticated television studios and bright special effects, but rather in the ideological characterization of all Soviet mass media. And, nevertheless, Soviet people had favorite popular TV shows.
This may be evidenced by the fact that some popular television programs from the Soviet past can now be seen on Russian television channels. This is a quiz show “What? Where? When?”, A children's “Good night for kids”, student KVN, musical “Morning mail” and “Song of the year”.
Humorous and youth
Humorous television programs were very popular in the Soviet Union. Probably the most rated of them was the program “Zucchini 13 Chairs”. The participation of such popular actors as Andrei Mironov, Spartak Mishulin, Olga Aroseva, Zinovy Vysokovsky, created the atmosphere of a kind of television miniature theater. They say that this program was very fond of Secretary General Brezhnev.
The viewers also had good success with such a fun program as Around the Laughter. It was led by the famous parodist poet Alexander Ivanov. And to this day, very popular satirical writers have performed in it: Mikhail Zadornov, Arkady Arkanov, Semyon Altov and others.
Youth TV shows "Come on girls!" and Come on guys! ”gathered a multimillion audience of television viewers from TV screens. Their participants (simple Soviet girls and simple Soviet guys) competed in various competitions throughout the program. All of them were certainly very beautiful and charming. And, despite the youth orientation, these Soviet "television shows" were watched by people of all age categories.
