Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Creator: Sergey Mikhalkov
Network: Russia-1, Central Television USSR, NTV , TV-6
Seasons
47
Episodes
2201
Status
Ended
Nikolai Parfyonov
Georgi Burkov
Boris Novikov
Gennadiy Yalovich
Viktor Filippov
Igor Kashintsev

Boris Gitin
Yevgeni Vesnik
2005