Little Blue Light
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The Little Blue Light (
The show featured popular artists and various prominent Soviet people:
A separate item was the performance of comedians. The apogee of the comedy program has always been Arkady Raikin's numbers, comic duets were popular — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna (Vadim Tonkov and Boris Vladimirov), Plug and Tarapunka (Yefim Berezin and Yuri Timoshenko), as well as Lev Mirov and Mark Novitsky.[1]
The best-known was the New Year's Little Blue Light (
Writer Andrey Khoroshevsky believed that the phenomenon of the "Blue Light" consisted in the fact that even the most famous guests in the program appeared to be ordinary people with problems and interests understandable to every viewer. In 2003, Mikhail Shvydkoy, Russian Minister of Culture, stated that ""The Blue Light" turned the Soviet Union into a large communal apartment — it united people at the screens."
The Little Blue Light was devised by film director Aleksey Gabrilovich, and the first show was aired on 6 April 1962 as a weekly Saturday broadcast. After some time it became a monthly show, and later it was only aired on major holidays.[1]
During the
In the 1970s the typical New Year's LBL episode lasted an hour and a half, since the late 1980s up till today the telecast begins at 12:05 am MST and lasts for three hours.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Секрет бессмертия: как изменился «Голубой огонек» In Russian
- ^ История «Голубого огонька»: когда зажегся, как сиял и почему потух?
- ^ The New Year Little Blue Light at Shabolovka – 2007 Archived 11 January 2005 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
External links
- Итоги года и традиции телевизионной новогодней ночи ((in Russian) Annual Reckoning and Traditions of the New Year's Eve on Television), Radio Freedom, 29 December 2002