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This is a list of Italian television related events from 1981.
Debuts
RAI
Variety
- Blitz – 3 seasons. Interstitial program of the Sunday afternoon, hosted by Gianni Minà and focused on sport and entertainment. In 1984, the show is at the center of a scandal, because of a blasphemy said live by the actor Leopoldo Mastelloni in an interview.[1]
- Mister Fantasy – Musica da vedere (Music to see), variety hosted by Carlo Massarini and Mario Luzzato Fegis, that reveals the music videos (often realized on purpose for the show) to the Italian public; four seasons.[2]
Private channels
Show for children
- Bim Bum Bam (Antenna Nord, later Italia Uno and Canale 5) – lasted till 2002, hosted for all the 1980s by Paolo Bonolis, sided by the puppet Uan. The program, started in the Rusconi's Antenna Nord as a simple container of animated films, becomes, after the passage to Fininvest, the most popular show for children of the time. The show includes, besides the cartoons (of which The Smurfs is the most successful), comical sketches and parody fiction.[3]
Television shows
Drama
- I giochi del diavolo (The devil’s games) – cycle of TV-movies, based on six fantastic tales of the Nineteenth Century, chosen by Italo Calvino; the most significant is La Vénus d'Ille, by Mario and Lamberto Bava, from Prosper Merimée’s tale.[4]
- La giacca verde (The green jacket) – by Franco Giraldi, with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Renzo Montagnani and Senta Berger; from a Mario Soldati’s story. In the second world war, a famous conductor and a modest timpanist exchange their social roles and almost their identities.
- Il padre (The father) – by Giorgio Pressburger, from the Strindberg’s play, with Giorgio Albertazzi.[5]
- Maria Zef – by Vittorio Cottafavi, from the novel of Paola Drigo, with Renata Chiappino and Siro Angeli; 2 episodes. It’s the story (played in Friulian language with Italian subtitles) of a country girl, victim of the misery and of her uncle’s abuses.[6]
Miniseries
- Don Luigi Sturzo - by Giovanni Fago, biopic with Flavio Bucci in the title role; 3 episodes.[7]
- Vita di Antonio Gramsci (Life of Antonio Gramsci) – by Raffaele Maiello, script by Suso Cecchi D’Amico and Giuseppe Fiori, with Mattia Sbragia in the title role; 4 episodes.[8]
- George Sand – by Giorgio Albertazzi (also actor as Michel de Bourges), with Anna Proclemer in the title role; 4 episodes.[9]
Variety
- Tutto compreso (All inclusive) – by Giancarlo Nicotra, with Ezio Greggio and Enrico Beruschi; variety set in a resort, considered a forerunner of the Drive In’s formula.[10]
- Stasera niente di nuovo (Nothing new tonight) – by Romolo Siena; last show in RAI of Raimondo Vianello and Sandra Mondaini, sided by the young soubrette Heather Parisi.[11]
- Telepatria international ovvero niente paura siamo italiani (Telepatria international, or No fear, we are Italians) variety with Renzo Arbore and Luciano De Crescenzo, dealing ironically with the Italian patriotism theme: 3 episodes.[12]
- Mille milioni (A thousand millions) – musical show with Raffaella Carrà, coproduced by RAI and 4 foreign televisions and shot in 5 world metropolis (Mexico City, Buenos Aires, London, Moscow and Rome).[13]
News and educational
- È una domenica sera di novembre (It’s a november Sunday evening) – documentary by Lina Wertmuller about the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, with an interview to Martin Scorsese. [14]
References
- ↑ "Blitz". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ↑ "Mister Fantasy". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ "bim bum bam". Lega Nerd (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ↑ "I giochi del diavolo". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ↑ "Il padre". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ "Maria Zef". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ↑ "Don Luigi Sturzo". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ "Vita di Antonio Gramsci". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ "George Sand". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-10.
- ↑ "Tutto compreso". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ↑ "Stasera niente di nuovo". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ↑ "Telepatria International". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ↑ "Millemilioni". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-07-18.
- ↑ "È una domenica sera di novembre". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-07-18.
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