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The Best TV Shows on Central Television USSR

Every Central Television USSR Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, Central Television USSR has aired more than 20 shows between 1961 and 1990. Premiering in 1961 and 1962, KVN and Фитиль (киножурнал) are among Central Television USSR’s most celebrated shows. As of April 2025, our compilation of Central Television USSR’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows.

  • Оба-на!
    Оба-на! (1990)9.0

  • What? Where? When?
    What? Where? When? (1975)8.3

    What? Where? When? is an intellectual game show well known in Russian-language media and other CIS states since mid-1970s. Today it is produced for television by TV Igra on the Russian Channel One and also exists as a competitive game played in clubs organized by the World Association of Clubs. Over 17 000 teams worldwide play sport version of game, based on the TV show.

  • Adventures of Captain Vrungel
    Adventures of Captain Vrungel (1980)8.1

    An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.

  • Nu, pogodi!
    Nu, pogodi! (1969)8.0

    Follows the comical adventures of a mischievous yet artistic wolf [Volk], trying to catch a hare [Zayats]. The series has additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the wolf's plans.

  • Seventeen Moments of Spring
    Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)7.8

    A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies.

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)7.8

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov and filmed in Russia (the then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986, and the series was one of the most successful in the history of Russian television.

  • Фитиль (киножурнал)
    Фитиль (киножурнал) (1962)7.5

  • Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
    Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1971)7.1

  • Yeralash
    Yeralash (1974)7.1

    The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

  • V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life
    V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life (1983)7.0

  • KVN
    KVN (1961)6.5

    KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.

  • Captain Nemo
    Captain Nemo (1976)6.5

    A Soviet three-part television miniseries directed by Vasily Levin loosely based on the novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

  • State Border
    State Border (1980)6.4

  • The Life of Klim Samgin
    The Life of Klim Samgin (1988)6.3

  • Russia Is Young
    Russia Is Young (1984)6.0

  • Eternal Call
    Eternal Call (1976)5.7

    A saga about the life of the Siberian Savelyev family during the period 1902 through the 1960s as they survive through three wars, a revolution, and Soviet government approval.

  • Visit to the Minotaur
    Visit to the Minotaur (1987)5.5

  • Time
    Time (1968)3.5

  • The Road to Calvary
    The Road to Calvary (1977)2.8

  • Olga Sergeevna
    Olga Sergeevna (1975)N/A