Television is a special magic. Being one of the “youngest” genres of the entertainment industry, it quickly attracted the audience and does not lose ground even with the advent of the Internet. We all know well what happens on the screen of any program, but what remains behind the scenes? How different is the front side of the blue screen from the back side? This book is about domestic television and the programs that this television created; about the programs that made the streets die. “Come on, girls!”, “With all my heart,” “Travelers Club” and, of course, one of the most honorable screen long-lives – the program “What? Where? When?”, who is already in her fifties, but has not lost her soul or the audience’s interest in herself. From the book you will learn how the legendary Vladimir Voroshilov and Natalia Stetsenko created the country's first intellectual game - how they looked for a format, invited the first experts and went on air for the first time. And Vladimir Akopov, the same age as television, one of the founders of modern television, will remember how he and his colleagues came up with the program “Come on, girls!” - for an hour lunch break in the Ostankino canteen. The secrets of creating cult programs, experiments on television platforms, first foreign business trips, bright ups and loud reprimands - all this and much more will be told to you by the people who stood at the origins of television and through their labor gave us what we have today, including television.< /p>