Heads and Tails (; ) is Ukrainian travel TV show that launched in 2011. It is broadcast in Ukraine, Russia (until 2022), Israel, and Kazakhstan in Russian and Ukrainian languages. Its reruns are also available on Polish and Israeli television.
Heads and Tails is hosted by two co-hosts. In each episode, the show visits another location in the world for one weekend. One of the hosts (determined by a coin toss) receives a credit card with unlimited credit (in practice, this has been limited to US$30,000 per day), called the "Golden card", while the other has to spend the weekend with US$100 including all expenses. Starting with the second season, the show has hidden a bottle with $100 in each visited location for travelers to find.
A spin-off, titled Oryol i Reshka Shopping dealing with shopping, began airing on February 15, 2014.
Name "Орел і Решка" or "Орёл и Решка" literally means "eagle and tails", referring to pre-revolutionary Russian coins with an eagle on the "heads" side.
Hosts
Heads and Tails
HostSeason 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Alan Badoev colspan="1" colspan="8" colspan="2" colspan="16" Zhanna Badoeva colspan="3" colspan="6" colspan="1" colspan="17" Andriy Bednyakov colspan="1" colspan="6" colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="11" colspan="1" colspan="4" Lesya Nikitjuk colspan="3" colspan="2" colspan="4" colspan="4" colspan="14" colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="16" colspan="7" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="7" Regina Todorenko colspan="7" colspan="6" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="12" Yevgen Synelnykov colspan="8" colspan="3" colspan="16" Pyotr Romanov colspan="11" colspan="1" colspan="15" Anton Ptushkin colspan="13" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="8" Anastasia Ivleeva colspan="13" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="3" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="14" colspan="1" colspan="12" Maria Gamayun colspan="16" colspan="1" colspan="10" colspan="17" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" Evsey Kovalev colspan="18" colspan="1" colspan="9" Anton Zaitsev colspan="20" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" Olga Antipova colspan="20" colspan="1" colspan="6" colspan="23" colspan="1" colspan="3" colspan="23" colspan="2" colspan="2" Vasilisa Khvostova colspan="21" colspan="1" colspan="5" Michelle Andrade colspan="25" colspan="1" colspan="2" Kirill Makashov colspan="25" colspan="1" colspan="2" Anfisa Chernykh colspan="21" colspan="1" colspan="5"
Heads and Tails: Shopping
HostSeason 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kosty Oktyabrsky colspan="1" colspan="5" Masha Ivakova colspan="6" Anton Lavrentyev colspan="1" colspan="3" colspan="2" Egor Kaleynikov colspan="4" colspan="2"
Episode list
Season 1
Episode # Location Gold card holder First aired Comments 1 (1) New York City Alan 13 February 2011 2 (2) Las Vegas Alan 20 February 2011 3 (3) San Francisco Zhanna 27 February 2011 Also visited Napa and Alcatraz Island 4 (4) Los Angeles Alan 6 March 2011 5 (5) Barcelona Alan 13 March 2011 6 (6) Jordan Alan 20 March 2011 Visited Amman, Petra, Wadi Rum and River Jordan 7 (7) Israel Zhanna 27 March 2011 Visited Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea 8 (8) Rome Zhanna 10 April 2011 Also visited The Vatican 9 (9) Madrid Alan 17 April 2011 10 (10) Milan Zhanna 24 April 2011 Also visited Venice, Verona and other locations in Northern Italy 11 (11) Phnom Penh Alan 1 May 2011 Also visited Angkor Wat 12 (12) Bangkok Alan 8 May 2011 Also visited Pattaya and Ko Lan 13 (13) Ho Chi Minh City Zhanna 15 May 2011 Also visited Da Lat and other small places 14 (14) Baku Alan 22 May 2011 15 (15) Tbilisi Zhanna 29 May 2011 Also visited Batumi. This episode so no meeting between the two hosts at the end (only oneof three such episodes).
Season 2
Episode # Location Gold card holder First aired Comments 1 (16) Mexico City Zhanna 3 September 2011 Also visited Teotihuacan 2 (17) Havana Zhanna 10 September 2011 3 (18) Amsterdam Andrey 17 September 2011 Also visited Zaanse Schans 4 (19) Cancún Andrey 24 September 2011 5 (20) Batumi Zhanna 1 October 2011 Previously visited in Season 1's episode 15 6 (21) Paris Andrey 8 October 2011 Parts of the two hosts were not filmed concurrently due to passport and visa problems 7 (22) Istanbul Zhanna 15 October 2011 8 (23) Berlin Zhanna 22 October 2011 9 (24) Athens Andrey 29 October 2011 10 (25) Dubai Andrey 5 November 2011 11 (26) Kathmandu Zhanna 12 November 2011 Also visited Chitwan National Park and Everest 12 (27) Mumbai Zhanna 19 November 2011 13 (28) Chicago Andrey 3 December 2011 14 (29) New Orleans Zhanna 10 December 2011 15 (30) Dallas Andrey 17 December 2011 16 (31) Stockholm Zhanna 24 December 2011 17 (32) Lapland Andrey 31 December 2011 Visited Rovaniemi and surroundings. This is the only location in the show's history where it was known that the $100 holder would not be able to last the weekend, therefore Andrey paid many of Zhanna's expenses in advance.
Season 3
Episode # Location Gold card holder First aired Comments 1 (33) Beijing Zhanna 11 February 2012 2 (34) Hong Kong Andrey 18 February 2012 Also visited Macau 3 (35) Jamaica Andrey 25 February 2012 Visited Kingston and its surroundings 4 (36) Miami Andrey 3 March 2012 Also visited Miami Beach 5 (37) Managua Zhanna 10 March 2012 Also visited Mombacho and other small places 6 (38) Beirut Zhanna 17 March 2012 7 (39) Rio de Janeiro Zhanna 24 March 2012 8 (40) Santiago de Chile Zhanna 31 March 2012 9 (41) São Paulo Andrey 7 April 2012 Also visited Iguazu Falls 10 (42) Machu Picchu Zhanna 14 April 2012 Also visited Cusco 11 (43) Buenos Aires Andrey 21 April 2012 12 (44) Singapore Zhanna 28 April 2012 13 (45) Sri Lanka Zhanna 5 May 2012 Visited Colombo, Kiribathgoda, Bentota, Negombo and other places 14 (46) Kuala Lumpur Andrey 12 May 2012 Also visited Selangor 15–16 (47–48) Kyiv Andrey 19 and 26 May 2012 Double episode. Also visited Pripyat
Season 4
Episode # Location Gold card holder First aired Comments 1 (49) Saint Petersburg Andrey 8 September 2012 2 (50) Edinburgh Andrey 15 September 2012 3 (51) Nairobi Andrey 22 September 2012 4 (52) Riga Lesya 29 September 2012 Also visited Jūrmala 5 (53) London Andrey 6 October 2012 Parts of the two hosts were not filmed concurrently due to passport and visa problems 6 (54) Copenhagen Andrey 13 October 2012 Also visited Billund 7 (55) Cape Town Lesya 20 October 2012 8 (56) Ålesund Lesya 27 October 2012 9 (57) Palermo Andrey 3 November 2012 10 (58) Madagascar Lesya 10 November 2012 Visited Antananarivo and other places 11 (59) French Riviera Lesya 17 November 2012 Visited Nice, Cannes and Monte Carlo 12 (60) Marrakesh Lesya 24 November 2012 13 (61) Canary Islands Andrey 1 December 2012 Visited Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and other places 14 (62) Lisbon Andrey 8 December 2012 15 (63) Shanghai Lesya 15 December 2012 16 (64) Bali Andrey 22 December 2012 Visited Kuta, Jimbaran, Bedugul and other places in Bali 17 (65) Seoul Lesya 29 December 2012
Season 5
Episode # Location Gold card holder First aired Comments 1 (66) Swiss Alps Lesya 9 February 2013 Visited Lucerne and its surroundings 2 (67) Vienna Andrey 16 February 2013 3 (68) Prague Lesya 23 February 2013 4 (69) Brussels Andrey 2 March 2013 Also visited Bruges 5 (70) Venice Andrey 9 March 2013 Previous visited in Season 1's episode 10 6 (71) La Paz Lesya 14 April 2013 A significant part of this episode was focused on cocaine, which was censored on Russian television;also visited Uyuni and other locations in surroundings of La Paz 7 (72) Quito Andrey 21 April 2013 Also visited the Galápagos Islands and Otavalo 8 (73) Costa Rica Lesya 28 April 2013 Visited San Jose, Limon, Alajuela and other locations
Season 6
This season is titled Resort Season, in which the show visited resort towns and locations, which had not been visited in the past.
Episode # Location Gold card holder First aired Comments 1 (74) Abu Dhabi Nastya 12 May 2013 2 (75) Antalya Andrey 19 May 2013 Also visited Pamukkale 3 (76) Corsica Nastya 26 May 2013 Visited Ajaccio, Bonifacio and other locations 4 (77) Dubrovnik Nastya 2 June 2013 5 (78) Malta Andrey 9 June 2013 Visited Valletta, Marsaxlokk, Mġarr, Mdina and other places 6 (79) Valencia Andrey 16 June 2013 7 (80) Crete Nastya 23 June 2013 Visited Heraklion, Rethymno, Matala and other locations on Crete 8 (81) Ibiza Andrey 30 June 2013 Visited San Antonio, Ibiza town and other places on the island of Ibiza
Season 7 This season is titled Back to the USSR, in which the show traveled to locations in the Former Soviet Union. All countries were visited except Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, where not all of the crew were able to obtain a visa or permission to film. Latvia was also skipped as it had been covered in a previous episode.
Episode # Location Gold card holder First aired Comments 1 (82) Minsk Nastya 25 August 2013 Also visited Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park 2 (83) Vilnius Andrey 1 September 2013 Also visited Snow Arena 3 (84) Kazan Andrey 8 September 2013 4 (85) Crimea Andrey 15 September 2013 Visited Sevastopol, Yalta and other locations. Crimea was not a disputed territory at the time of the original airdate. 5 (86) Chișinău Nastya 22 September 2013 Also visited Tiraspol in Transnistria 6 (87) Odesa Nastya 29 September 2013 7 (88) Tallinn Nastya 6 October 2013 8 (89) Lake Baikal Andrey 13 October 2013 Visited Irkutsk and toured the lake 9 (90) Vladivostok Nastya 20 October 2013 Also visited Russian island 10 (91) Kamchatka Peninsula Nastya 27 October 2013 Visited Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and toured volcanic areas on the peninsula 11 (92) Grozny Nastya 3 November 2013 Visited to town of Itum-Kali and Argun Gorge 12 (93) Yerevan Andrey 10 November 2013 Also visited Tatev and Mount Ararat 13 (94) Georgia Andrey 17 November 2013 Toured Georgian mountains, avoiding major cities which the show visited in the past. The itinerary included Stepantsminda, Sighnaghi, Mestia, Velistsikhe, Ananuri, Ushguli and others 14 (95) Dushanbe Nastya 24 November 2013 This episode so no meeting between the two hosts at the end 15 (96) Bishkek Nastya 1 December 2013 Visited Bishkek, Ala Archa National Park and toured the lake Issyk Kul 16 (97) Almaty Andrey 8 December 2013 Also visited Astana 17 (98) Baku Andrey 15 December 2013 Previous visited in Season 1's episode 14; also visited Goychay and Shaki 18 (99) Kaliningrad Andrey 22 December 2013 Also visited Yantarny and Curonian Spit National Park 19 (100) Lviv Nastya 29 December 2013 For the 100th episode, the show presented various establishments in the city, instead of the regular tour 20 (101) Moscow Andrey 31 December 2013 The show celebrated New Year's Eve in Moscow
Season 8 In this season, titled On the Edge of the World, the show traveled to locations far away from Ukraine, especially in the far east and Australia and Oceania. Hosts – Kolya Serga and Regina Todorenko.