This Fantastic World

Part 5 · Jun 21, 1981

This Fantastic World 5

In this series of the popular television almanac, the works “On Eternal Wanderings and About the Earth” by Ray Bradbury and “The Choice” by Kir Bulychev were filmed.

Part 6 · Dec 28, 1981

This Fantastic World 6

Screen adaptation of two works by science fiction writers: “Noise Level” by Raymond Jones and “Shadow of the Past” by Ivan Efremov.

Part 7 · Jan 7, 1982

This Fantastic World 7

The main characters of this edition of the popular television almanac are the heroes of the fantastic stories of the Soviet writer O. Lukyanov “The Uncertainty Principle” and the American writer A. Porges “Valuable Commodity”. During a meeting with the inhabitants of other planets, earthlings encounter amazing phenomena...

Part 8 · Apr 2, 1984

This Fantastic World 8

Fragments of the stories were dramatized: R. Bradbury “I Sing About the Mechanical Body” (about the work of an electronic grandmother who, having human qualities, gives tenderness to children deprived of maternal affection) and I. Varshavsky “There are no alarming symptoms” about Professor Clarence, who agrees to an operation that deprives him of human emotions.

Part 9 · Aug 2, 1984

This Fantastic World 9

Lost episode which contains R. Bradbury's "Smile".

Part 10 · Dec 8, 1984

This Fantastic World 10

...People living in the future have comfortable cars, obedient robots, beautiful houses. There are only books missing in these houses. Books are declared enemies, subject to extermination...

Part 11 · Jan 4, 1985

This Fantastic World 11

Air Force Colonel and former astronaut Greg Darwin is visited by his old friend, Johnny. After talking, Greg reveals to Johnny a secret from his past. While serving in space intelligence, Darwin, along with another astronaut, Dick, was sent on a secret mission to a planet that had suffered a devastating nuclear war. On orders from the command, Greg and Dick were to find the remaining weapons on a depopulated planet, the analogues of which did not yet exist on Earth...

Part 12 · Mar 27, 1987

This Fantastic World 12

Based on science fiction stories about the relationship between man and robot: A. Belyaev’s “Open Sesame” about how a robot servant robbed two old men; A. Azimova's "Liar" about a robot who can read minds and turns out to be the most humane among people; F. Chilander's "Court" about how robots tried the last person living in the city.

Part 13 · Dec 19, 1987

This Fantastic World 13

The consequences of a nuclear war are destruction, hunger. The surviving people have even lost the memory of their former civilization. At the center of the play is the Old Man, the only person who remembers the past, because without the past humanity cannot have a future...

Part 14 · Jan 6, 1989

This Fantastic World 14

A completely ordinary person, Kolenkin, is experimentally injected into his blood with a drug that makes him unusually accurate when throwing a ball. Having received such opportunities, he gets into the basketball team and participates in important competitions...

Part 15 · Jun 4, 1989

This Fantastic World 15

Two friends founded a company to clean up planets. As long as they cleared the planets of debris, everything went well. But one day they were asked to clear the new planet of ghosts...

Part 16 · Jan 1, 1990

This Fantastic World 16

Based on the story "Wherever You Are" by James Gunn. A young scientist, Mat, is writing a dissertation on the topic “Psychodynamics of Witchcraft” and is trying to prove that the phenomena described in historical witch trials cannot exist. But one day he meets a young village girl, Ebi, who has supernatural powers, and falls in love with her. Human feelings and the excitement of a scientist begin to fight within him...