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participates in scenic creativity, is a puppet.In this case, the conversation will be about special and uniquefeatures of the puppets as actors of the three major design typesmet as far as in the very ancient form of theater, puppet theaterand since the twentieth century, in screen adaptations of puppetperformances, teleplays, and TV programs.The famous performance by S.Obraztsov’s puppet theater,named “Extraordinary concert’’ (USSR), represented certainparody to various genres of art. Later, the “Extraordinaryconcert’’ was adapted for television broadcast (USSR).Puppet environment by its nature is flexible and inventiverepresentation. Creative teams often work in collaborativecombinations with puppet forms and involve real objects intheir performances.For example, Jim Henson’s (USA) TV-show “The MuppetShow”. High ratings and super-success of “The Mappets”inspired Henson to creation of amusing, combined puppet andhuman, musical movie “The Mappets”.It is possible to observe such a phenomenon of moderntelevision as puppet TV shows, using puppets for politicalsatire in entertaining programs, with acidulous issues of actualpolicy.Studying the matter, it is possible to correctly understandthe very special features of puppet actors in scenic, cinemaand television types of spatio-temporal arts, giving the chanceto intuition and respectively means to express and transfer thementioned arts in telespace.Theoretical questions on the subject of puppet actorsin theater and on television will be illustrated with the bothGeorgian and foreign examples.258