Igor Bogdanoff joined his twin brother Grichka in the stars

Igor Bogdanoff, one of the two star twins of the 1980s for launching the first science fiction television show in France, died Monday, January 3, 2022 at the age of 72, six days after his brother Grichka, announced his agent at AFP.

“In peace and love, surrounded by his children and his family, Igor Bogdanoff left for the light on Monday January 3, 2022”, wrote his relatives in a message sent by his agent. The family did not wish to communicate on the causes of his death of Igor Bogdanoff, which occurred Monday afternoon in a Parisian hospital.

His brother twin, Grichka, died on December 28, 2021, after several days of hospitalization and coma. There too, the family did not wish to communicate on the causes of his death, but relatives had assured that he was not vaccinated and that he had contracted Covid-19. Igor Bogdanoff had also been hospitalized since mid-December.

1980s stars

Made famous in the 1980s by their science fiction show Time-X on TF1 (from 1979 to 1987), where they evolved in a spaceship setting with futuristic suits, Igor and Grichka had become the object of mockery for their deeply transformed faces which they themselves had qualified “Aliens”.

Their scientific works had also aroused their share of controversy and had won them the lightning part of the scientific community, criticizing the “Low value” of their work.

A press release from Agence France Presse made a sad announcement. Grichka Bogdanoff died this Tuesday, December 28 at the age of 72 in a Parisian hospital. The causes of his death were clarified soon after. This is the Covid-19 for which, with his brother Igor, he had been in intensive care since December 15. Grichka Bogdanoff, like her brother, was not vaccinated against Covid-19.

” Surrounded by the love of his family and his loved ones, Grichka Bogdanoff passed away peacefully, on December 28, 2021, to join his stars », Specifies the press release sent to AFP.

Grichka Bogdanoff, one of the two star twins of the 1980s for launching France’s first science fiction television show, died today at the age of 72 in a Paris hospital, her agent told the ‘#AFPpic.twitter.com/WMbFfviTLx

– Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) December 28, 2021

Two TV stars with Time X

With her twin brother Igor, Grichka presented the show Time X, broadcast from 1979 to 1987 on TF1. The magazine mixed popular science, but also science fiction. His avatars, during the 1980s, served greatly to publicize the works and authors of science fiction such as Dune by Frank Herbert Where 2001: a space odyssey by Arthur Clarke.

Many Generation X children and adolescents have also taken an interest in science thanks to Time X just like many NASA engineers found their calling in the works of Clarke and Ray bradbury. But a number of polemics, the best known of which will remain “the Bogdanoff Affair” have unfortunately made an indisputable negative counterpoint to the legacy of Time X.