On September 1, 1964, the TV show "Good night, kids!" Was released on the screens of the USSR. Today it is the oldest television program for children. And its main characters - Piggy, Karkusha, Stepashka and Filya - continue to tell children a bedtime story, as they did several decades ago.
The beginning of the way
Initially, the program contained only a series of pictures and a voiceover describing the action in the illustration. Then puppet shows began to appear. The usual format began to appear in the seventies - with the arrival of the permanent characters Fili, Stepashka and Khryusha.
Filya is the oldest character in the program, for the first time he greeted from the screen on May 20, 1968 in the voice of Grigory Tolchinsky, now this executive and brave dog is voiced by Sergei Grigoriev, who even looks like his doll.
In 1970, a new character appeared - the hare Stepashka, who began to speak in the voice of the Honored Artist of Russia Natalia Golubentseva, on whose hand he lives to this day. Its predecessor can be considered the Tepu bunny, which appeared in the first issues. It is also known that Stepashka was Leonid Brezhnev's favorite hero.
February 10, 1971 is the official birthday of Piggy, the favorite of all boys and girls for his character. This restless character spoke for a long time in the voice of Natalia Derzhavina. After her death in 2002 and serious casting, Piggy was entrusted to Oksana Chabanyuk.
Over the years, the TV show was hosted by Valentina Leontyeva, Angelina Vovk, Tatyana Sudets, Tatyana Vedeneeva, Yuri Nikolaev, Anna Mikhalkova, Oksana Fedorova, Amayak Akopyan, Oksana Fedorova and Dmitry Malikov.
Father of the Trinity
Many uninformed people believe that the famous characters were invented by Vladimir Shinkarev, an artist from the Mitki group, a writer and ideologist of his movement. However, it is not.
Vladimir Shinkarev could not think of Fili, Piggy and Stepashka, because at the time Fili appeared, the artist was fourteen years old. The author of the sensible dog was the namesake and namesake of the founder of "Mitkov" - Vladimir Shinkarev, who by that time worked as the editor of the TV show. Almost nothing is known about him.
It is also unknown who invented and developed Stepashka's character, but Khryusha's authorship is attributed to Aunt Valya (Valentina Leontyeva), one of the first hosts of this program.
In fact, it is not so important to find out who invented the toys and their characters, clothes. It is important that this program has been on Russian television for fifty years and has brought up more than one generation of boys and girls.
