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The most long-playing show celebrates the 30th anniversary on the air

A bust of Leonid Yakubovich was installed on the roof of the main entrance of the television center. That is, they did not install, but inflated - a bust of a rubber. 4.5 meters high. Nap to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the capital show "Field of Miracles". 29 years out of 30, he leads it.

The journalist, who shot the plot for “good morning”, noted with amazement that her whole life passed under Yakubovich (however, the whole generation that did not know life without Putin had already grown and gained the “younger field” of the “field of miracles” for a decade). Stability, however.

The first release of capital show was aired on October 26, 1990. Even on central television.

In the last year of the existence of the USSR, when both the CT and the country were already breathing on incense.

Later Leonid Parfenov in his legendary cycle “The other day. Our era ”(“ Events, people, phenomena that have determined the way of life, that without which it is difficult to imagine, it is even more difficult to understand ”) put the birth of a“ field of miracles ”on a par with such iconic events of the 1990s as the first“ McDonald's ”, the unification of Germany, the program of 500 days: 500 days:

“On central television, in accordance with the eternal need of“ bread and spectacles ”, quality changes occur in the most neglected genres. The revolutionary new information and entertainment programs of TSN (television news service) and the "Field of Miracles" appear ... Vlad Listyev is the first leading capital show. For a politicized audience of "look" is a betrayal of democracy. But soon the whole country rotates the drum and is surprised to find out that there is such a letter in this word. By the end of the year, the "Field of Miracles" is the most popular television program. "

People who have not watched TV for a long time, like Professor Preobrazhensky, who woke up after fainting, can be in amazement: “How? Is he still dancing? " Dancing, dancing! Every week on Fridays at 20:00 on Channel One, which has undergone fair transformations over the years, but left the day and the air of the folk show itself and the time of the air.

According to one of the legends of leaves, during a foreign business trip, I saw on a hotel TV the famous American game Wheel of Fortune (“Wheel of Fortune”) and decided to transfer it to his native soil.

There were few people heard about licenses and copyrights in those distant and wild, frankly, then.

At first, in the name of the new show, the continuation was clearly read - the “Field of Miracles in the Country of Fools”, but the second part was soon forgotten.

And miracles remained.

By the end of the 90th bread in the country, there were less and less, consumer goods and in the best years were in a huge shortage, but now people did not have money for its acquisition at all. In the first issue of the “Fields of Miracles” (can be found on YouTube), the winning woman chose a male cologne from the list of prizes, and, agreeing to a super-game and winning it, she received a stereomagnetroph with laser lighting. There were also a refrigerator, a video recorder, a TV and a car at stake - coveted wealth symbols.

The people were inspired. The most successful ones had a happy opportunity to realize the two most secret dreams sooner or later - to get on TV (remember the anthem of the later project “Factory of Stars”: “Cool! You hit TV, you are a star!”) And by pure luck, easily stretch the fish from the pond, that is, to become the owner of scarce goods. It is not surprising that in a matter of months the “field of miracles” has turned into the main television hit, the streets were dying out of which the demonstration of which was dying.

After about a year, Vlad Listyev caught fire with a new project and left the “Field of Miracles”, passing it to anyone then to the not -known Leonid Yakubovich.

It was Yakubovich who suggested changing the concept of the show: “Not about what they play, but about those who play it.”

So the capital show gradually transformed from just quiz into a kind of carnival or fair, where people from the most distant corners of the country and neighboring abroad are ready to rush even on deer in the morning in the early morning-and not for the prize, but in order to stand in an elegant studio under the Sofita, to show themselves, to give the hotels of his own manufacturing, to give him a bear in the bear And delve into a mustache.

Is it possible to blame them for this or even more despite them? Of course not, in the life of most people there is so little joy and light that this minute of fame, even if the move has not reached them, will remain with them forever as the most vivid memory that they will pass from generation to generation.

By the way, I also fell into this glory. In 1997, a special issue with the participation of writing journalists was arranged at the “Field of Miracles”. It seems that she and my colleagues and I did not bring to the studio, but I won the game, at randomly guessing the “letter in this word”.

After the release of this issue, I understood the literal meaning of the expression “wake up the famous”, and also realized the true scale of the popularity of the “fields of miracles”. On the street next to me, cars were inhibited, the drivers of which offered to take me where I wanted, "at least to the" field of miracles "." In the nearest cafe, the whole kitchen came to see the winner of his favorite show, including the main cook. “Oh, and we saw you in the“ Field of Miracles ”, - with enthusiasm, recognizing me, sellers in stores, doctors in the clinic and just passers -by said. By this time, I was already “widely known in narrow circles”, that is, I acquired some name in a professional and reader environment.

But all this turned out to be a real nonsense in comparison with glory gained thanks to some correctly guessed letter.

Years passed. The spectacles on TV became more tougher and merciless, offering the audience to laugh at the humiliation of their participants, who for the sake of winning were ready to eat worms, falling face in mud or sit in a cage in sight of the public, staring at them.

Yakubovich still allows him to twitch himself by his mustache, dress up in a diver's costume and with longing in his eyes (and you try to take out this for 29 years in a row), but invariably listens to the amateur Virshi participants, admires the kids who read the non-sophisticated rhymes with a good grin. Aunts in national outfits.

And, by the way, the “Field of Miracles” today is one of the few television programs where you can see real people - not fake, not frank marginals, not domestic rapists that arrange fights right in the studio to the pleasure of the leading and creators of the show. Ordinary people who just want a holiday, and they receive it, even if the prize goes to another.

And Leonid Yakubovich, without any doubt, is worthy of the monument in life. Even on the visor of one of the entrances of the television center. He himself, having removed against the backdrop of his rubber copy, laughed heartily.

A good sign. So, he was not fermented. A long life on TV has many to do this.