This Fantastic World
This Fantastic World
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This Fantastic World

1975
1 season
16 episodes
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Film adaptations of works by famous science fiction writers

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  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1

    13-04-1975

    A certain alien or "Guest" from an unknown planet comes to Earth, where he meets a schoolboy Alyosha. In the course of communication, the characters get into various fantastic plot...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    20-04-1975

    The guest and Alyosha continue their research: they find themselves in the refuge of the gods of Ancient Greece, who turned out to be a team of aliens who studied people (the film...

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3

    09-06-1980

    The almanac uses plots from the following works: Alexander Belyaev "Ariel", Alexander Grin "The Shining World", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "The Kid".

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    15-06-1981

    The guest returns after six years of absence. He communicates with Alyosha and his grandmother through the TV. He reports that he has established contact with other worlds. The sch...

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    21-06-1981

    The Guest has a Double, his evil alter ego, which exists autonomously on Earth. They meet in the Soyuz Hotel. The double offers the Guest a certain plan of existence without interf...

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    22-06-1982

    The following works were staged in the issue: Ivan Efremov's "Shadow of the Past" is an interesting idea about the possibility of the existence of natural "cameras" capable of cap...

  • Episode 7

    7.Episode 7

    27-06-1983

    The crew of an Earth spaceship finds themselves in a distant galaxy on a planet that is very similar to their home world. Astronauts are thinking about how to transmit information...

  • Episode 8

    8.Episode 8

    02-04-1984

    The guest co-host is Yeremey Parnov. The following works were staged in the issue: - Ray Bradbury "I Sing About the Mechanical Body" is a fantastic melodrama about an electronic...

  • Ep 9

    9.Smile

    03-04-1984

    Novella "Smile". The film is based on the works of Ray Bradbury.

  • The Sign of the Salamander

    10.The Sign of the Salamander

    08-04-1984

    People living in the future have comfortable cars, obedient robots, beautiful houses. Only books are missing in these houses. Books are declared enemies to be destroyed... The iss...

  • The Case of Colonel Darwin

    11.The Case of Colonel Darwin

    09-04-1985

    Air Force colonel, 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 intellig...

  • Robots are not to be trifled with

    12.Robots are not to be trifled with

    14-04-1987

    The issue is dedicated to the relationship between robots and humans. The following works have been filmed: Alexander Belyaev "Open Sesame!!": the story of how a thief disguised a...

  • Abyss

    13.Abyss

    19-04-1987

    A gloomy and hungry world after a nuclear war. The new authorities, who manage the distribution of miserable food rations to the survivors, prey on a half-mad old man, the last and...

  • Ability to Throw a Ball

    14.Ability to Throw a Ball

    20-04-1988

    Based on the stories by Kir Bulychev "Summer Morning", "The Ability to Throw the Ball". An ordinary person may not be ready for the appearance of artificial unusual abilities.

  • Absolute Protection

    15.Absolute Protection

    04-06-1989

    An adaptation of fragments of Robert Sheckley's short story "Ghost V". Two friends founded a company to clean up planets. As long as they cleaned the planets of garbage, everything...

  • Psychodynamics of Witchcraft

    16.Psychodynamics of Witchcraft

    05-06-1990

    A young scientist Matt writes a dissertation on the topic "The Psychodynamics of Witchcraft" and tries to prove that the phenomena described in the historical witch trials cannot e...

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