In 1967 he made his TV in Moscow appearing in the leading role as Unknown Soldier in the TV movie "Steps to the Sun" ("Shagi v Solntse") "()" which premiered on the USSR National TV in 1967. Successful appearances on television made Petr Shelokhonov known to major film studios and soon he made his big screen debut in the film titled "Hidden Enemy" (1968). Petr Shelokhonov played a good looking spy, who was surreptitiously killing people and infiltrating the Soviet rank and file wearing a Soviet police uniform. The film release coincided with the real attack on the Soviet leader Brezhnev by an armed man who penetrated the Kremlin wearing Soviet uniform. Brezhnev's police Chief N.A.Schelokov wrote an angry letter to the Soviet Communist Party demanding that this "anti-Soviet" film must be banned. Immediately the film was banned and Petr Shelokhonov was censored. Then the film was altered and re-made for release later in 1969 under new title, Amnesty Not Possible, but it was banned and altered again, now titled Razvyazka (1969). In it the spy, played again by Petr Shelokhonov, is wearing a white shirt instead of a Soviet uniform, because the Soviet KGB ordered the filmmakers to do such changes.