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Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
A comedy about the trip of Tarapunki and Shtepselya (popular artists of the Soviet stage of the 60s) to a concert in Moscow. The heroes were not lucky: the thirteenth car, in which they were supposed to arrive in the capital, was forgotten to be attached to the train. The merry men go to Moscow on the railroad ties, dragging a wagon ...
In the first hour of the new year 1965, a holiday program with the participation of Pavel Rudakov and Sergei Lavrov, Larisa Mondrus, Tatiana Shmyga, Leonid Engibarov, Arkady Raikin, brothers Sazonov, Iosif Kobzon, Maya Kristalinskaya, Muslim Magomaev, vocal octet "Line" and pop orchestra conducted by Eddie Rosner, Yulia Pashkovskaya, Vladimir Shubarin, Eduard Khil, quartet "Accord" was broadcast. Among the guests are cosmonauts Gagarin, Belyaev and Leonov.
Everyone has had to deal with boorishness, skulduggery, vulgarity and other vestiges of the past. And in order to better fight against vestiges today, it is necessary to study how they originated in the past. Tarapunka and Stetsel go to the Stone Age, to the Middle Ages to a knight's tournament, watching the first movie. And then they go to the future, where these vestiges no longer exist, but other problems have arisen.
Anya, finding herself in unfamiliar Kyiv, meets casual acquaintances who help her adapt to the new city. One of them, engineer Sasha, accompanies her to the train station and later comes to her city. He persuades Anya to enroll in a Kyiv institute, which she agrees to do.
About cheerful adventures of popular perfoming artists Shtepsel and Tarapunka, with elements of various acts interludes ,and the mechanic car invented by them.
The famous character of Carnival Night, Seraphim Ogurtsov, has been appointed director of the culture and recreation park. His energetic activities would once again lead to disastrous results, but fortunately, the governor of Ocean Island, Mr. Fantebras, appears on the horizon.
Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried.
