1968 in Italian television

Events

  • The miniseries L’Odissea and La famiglia Benvenuti begin a new trend in the RAI fiction: they are shot in color (also if broadcast in black and white) by movie directors and with a cinematographic style. However, the RAI doesn't stop producing the traditional “scripted novels” in theatrical style.
  • January 15.: the broadcast schedule of the National Channel is extended to the lunch time, now covering the time slots from 12.30am to 2pm and from 17pm to 23.30pm.
  • October 1: the Swiss television begins the color broadcasting, in time for the Mexico Olympic Games.[1] Soon, many Italian viewers prefer the Italian Swiss channel (TSI), in colors and not politically conditioned, to the RAI.

Debuts

Variety

  • La corrida – Dilettanti allo sbaraglio (The corrida – Amateurs at risk). Talent-show, hosted by Corrado Maltoni; born for the radio in 1968 and successfully transposed in TV in the Eighties. Unlike the following talent-show, here the competitors are true amateurs, often good-willing but comically inept, and politely mocked by the host.
  • Oggi le comiche (Today slapstick) – Anthology, hosted by Renzo Palmer, of comic shorts from the golden age of silent film.
  • Senza rete (Without a net) – Musical show of the summer; lasted for 8 seasons, with various hosts. So called because the singers perform “without the net” of the play-back, it gets, in some years, up 18 million viewers.[2]

Serials

  • La famiglia Benvenuti (The Benvenuti family) – by Alfredo Giannetti, with Enrico Maria Salerno, Valeria Valeri and Claudio Gora. This family comedy about the life of a middle-class family (an architect, his wife and his two sons) is, by now, a precious time capsule about the Italian way of life in the late Sixties. It gets a great success by public and critic and, in 1969, a second season in colors is shot. Later, it's no more replied, because the child star Giusva Fioravanti (who played the role of the younger son) is become a NAR terrorist.
  • I ragazzi di padre Tobia (Father Tobia's children) by Mario Casacci and Alberto Ciambricco. It's a serial for kid about the adventures of a boy-scout band and their spiritual leader, the unconventional parson Father Tobia (Silvano Tranquilli)

Television shows

Dramas

  • Il caso Chessman (The Chessman affair) – by Giuseppe Fina
  • Addio giovinezza (Farewell youth!) – by Antonello Falqui, with Nino Castelnuovo and the singer Gigliola Cinquetti, from the Camasio and Oxilia’s play about the love affairs of two undergraduates..

Period drama

Mystery

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Variety

  • Canzonissima 1968 (Supersong 1968) – hosted by Mina, Walter Chiari and Paolo Panelli. The winner of the traditional musical competition of the winter is Gianni Morandi, with Scende la pioggia (The rain goes on, cover of Eleonore by the Turtles).
  • Che domenica amici (What a Sunday, my friends!) – hosted by Raffaele Pisu and the duo Ric e Gian.
  • Quelli della domenica (The Sunday people) – comic variety, broadcast the Sunday afternoon. It revealed to a large public the duo Cochi e Renato and moreover the disturbing and grotesque humor by Paolo Villaggio. The Genoese comic created, for the show, two of his most famous characters: the professor Otto von Kranz, a German illusionist, arrogant and muddler, and Giandomenico Fracchia, a pusillanimous clerk oppressed by his superiors.[9]
  • Delia Scala story – tribute show to the famous soubrette.
  • Su e giù (Up and down) – quiz, hosted by Corrado Maltoni.[10]
  • Vengo anch’io (I come too) – hosted by Raffaele Pisu.

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Educational

  • Appunti per un film sull’India (Notes for a movie about India) – by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The writer-director, in spite of his very fierce critics on TV and mass-culture, accepts to realize for RAI a documentary about  “hunger and religion in the Third world”.[12]
  • Questa nostra Italia (This our Italy) – by Guido Piovene and Virgilio Sabel. Piovene repeats, for the television, the tour of Italy already performed in 1955 for the radio.[13]

Ending this year

  • Almanacco
  • Non è mi troppo tardi

See also

References

  1. AFS, Archivio federale svizzero. "Introduzione della televisione a colori in Svizzera, 1 ottobre 1968". www.bar.admin.ch (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  2. "Senza rete". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  3. "L'affare Dreyfus - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  4. "Il Circolo Pickwick - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  5. "La freccia nera - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  6. "Le mie prigioni - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  7. "Le donne del tenente Sheridan". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  8. "Sceneggiati e Fiction 1965 - 1970 -". Rai Teche (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  9. "Quelli della domenica - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  10. "Su e giù - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  11. "Varietà 1967 - 1969". Rai Teche (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  12. "Appunti per un film sull'India". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  13. "Questa nostra Italia - Sabel e Piovene - RaiPlay". www.raiplay.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-18.
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