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Does anyone have an old Retro USSR TV schedule from the 60s or 70s?
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Post #4 by Stanislav ignored my favorite CCCP1 show (via SCTV), the game show "Uposcrabblenyk," where the female contestant suggested a 26-letter word (or was it 28, who cares), to complete the ludicrous crossword puzzle on the wall. Her opponent "challenged" it, and the authorities deemed the word a slang word, inadmissible. She storms off, as the loser, and quickly shakes her challenger's hand, walking off stiffly but briskly.
I think this is on YouTube...just type uposcrabblenyk (and spell it right!).
I liked the bit because it looked like European-resolution video, as if CCCP1 really was jamming the airwaves (that was the purpose of those episodes).
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I think this is on YouTube...just type uposcrabblenyk (and spell it right!).
I liked the bit because it looked like European-resolution video, as if CCCP1 really was jamming the airwaves (that was the purpose of those episodes).
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cd637299 said:
The "European-resolution video" was just video effects that were very new for 1981 (when the episode aired), three years before the actual "Scrabble" game show debuted.
Oh, and thanks for "Dancing With The Czars"; I had some trouble thinking that up.
dustintv said:
Here's one from 1975, same intro music and even more garish chroma-key work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVSIp-8his
Classic Soviet TV Invades Decadent American Commercial For German Car:
(With bonus commercial for capitalist pigs at Disney)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_63y26l7qw
(With bonus commercial for capitalist pigs at Disney)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_63y26l7qw
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It looks like Uposcrabblenyk has been removed.....oh well.
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David67 said:
Soviet television watched you! ;D
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Soviet televisions were about 3 tons, made of steel and granite and had a 5 inch screen. But these were the newer 1961 models.
I think old Communist Chinese tvs made during the Mao era were constructed from bricks taken from the old wall. But at least the operas they showed (and they only had the one) were in color...red.
Joe
Corky Marlowe said:
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was for Smirnoff the equivilent of the Kennedy assasination for Vaughn Meader.
I hear that Yakov Smirnoff is still around. What's his schtick?
Joe
RicoGregg said:
I loved Soviet Bandstand! I think it was hosted by a nurse. They had the top ten criminals against the state and rate yourself, which kids participated in to see if they could be rehabilitated.
It was sad though. They were not allowed to dance because that was considered western and decadent. So the kids sat in the wooden chairs watching Van Cliburn films.
For Soviet TV though it was not that bad.
Joe
visaman said:With 14 time zones The TV Guidenick would be huge, even with only 4 channels. :
4 channels???? I think only top party officials could get all four channels. And three of them were folk dancing.
Joe
RicoGregg said:
The best ones were in the Soviet color system, which was a giant wheel with sparklers of different colors that revolved outside the tv set.
TVWorldwide said:
Here's a Soviet-era commercial for a portable TV set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5JgqVzNWEA
And one for an electric shaver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A0ChGwsDuM
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Here are some excerpts -- from Timothy Green's 1972 book The Universal Eye -- about television news in the Soviet Union at the time:
"The Soviet interpretation of what is and is not news differs markedly from that of the West. A factory that exceeds its tractor output target is news; a plane crash is not. Human interest has a low priority. Sometimes the news readers will say 'And now we go direct to Tashkent,' as if some major story is breaking there. However, up come pictures of a tractor sowing the first of the spring wheat that day."
"When three Soviet cosmonauts were killed by a cabin leak on reentry in June 1971, it was six hours before Moscow television broke the story. [...] Although the Russians are now slightly more forthcoming with their television pictures of space flights, the Russian viewer has yet to be told in advance of a launching and see a live liftoff. But he has become thoroughly familiar with the regular chief reporter on space, Yuri Fokin, the amiable Moscow counterpart of Walter Cronkite."
"While home news on Russian television plays up Soviet triumphs, the troubles of capitalist countries are gloated over in some detail. Strikes, Vietnam war protests, riots in Northern Ireland are all shown to underline bourgeois decadence or repression of the workers. [...] Both news and current affairs steer well clear, however, of any kind of controversy about the Soviet Union."
"The Soviet interpretation of what is and is not news differs markedly from that of the West. A factory that exceeds its tractor output target is news; a plane crash is not. Human interest has a low priority. Sometimes the news readers will say 'And now we go direct to Tashkent,' as if some major story is breaking there. However, up come pictures of a tractor sowing the first of the spring wheat that day."
"When three Soviet cosmonauts were killed by a cabin leak on reentry in June 1971, it was six hours before Moscow television broke the story. [...] Although the Russians are now slightly more forthcoming with their television pictures of space flights, the Russian viewer has yet to be told in advance of a launching and see a live liftoff. But he has become thoroughly familiar with the regular chief reporter on space, Yuri Fokin, the amiable Moscow counterpart of Walter Cronkite."
"While home news on Russian television plays up Soviet triumphs, the troubles of capitalist countries are gloated over in some detail. Strikes, Vietnam war protests, riots in Northern Ireland are all shown to underline bourgeois decadence or repression of the workers. [...] Both news and current affairs steer well clear, however, of any kind of controversy about the Soviet Union."
joeybabe25 said:
And we can't forget Russian Bandstand.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnwD2A4dXk
You'd BETTER like the #1 song, or else!
--Russell
TVWorldwide said:
Amazing how far ahead of its time it was - sounds exactly like MSNBC.
From 1975, here's the national weather forecast from Soviet TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhKPao1ray8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhKPao1ray8
SixtiesGuy said:
This one was even further ahead of its time -- unsettlingly like Fox News avant la lettre (note the commentary before the variety show):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMecO38MZCc
comparable russian storylines
There's a new series on F/X called The Americans, about KGB spies living in the United States in the 1980s. Is there a comparable show in Russia, called The Russians, about CIA spies living there?!
I can't think of any other TV show titles, but I came up with some movies:
Don't Drink the Vodka
The Americans are Coming, the Americans are Coming
Nicolai and Alexandra
I can't think of a revised title for Dr. Zhivago.
There were umpteem sitcom episodes up until the 1990s either about regular Americans and Communists or Russians solving the Cold War, or about Russians defecting to the US: The Andy Griffith Show, Night Court, WKRP in Cincinnati and I think I Dream of Jeannie. Those were the ones I could think of immediately. Have there been any others? There could be comparable Russian sitcoms about the same situation.
There's a new series on F/X called The Americans, about KGB spies living in the United States in the 1980s. Is there a comparable show in Russia, called The Russians, about CIA spies living there?!
I can't think of any other TV show titles, but I came up with some movies:
Don't Drink the Vodka
The Americans are Coming, the Americans are Coming
Nicolai and Alexandra
I can't think of a revised title for Dr. Zhivago.
There were umpteem sitcom episodes up until the 1990s either about regular Americans and Communists or Russians solving the Cold War, or about Russians defecting to the US: The Andy Griffith Show, Night Court, WKRP in Cincinnati and I think I Dream of Jeannie. Those were the ones I could think of immediately. Have there been any others? There could be comparable Russian sitcoms about the same situation.
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