1969 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1969.

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Events

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  • January 6: Gianni Morandi wins Canzonissima with Scende la pioggia (The rain falls), cover of Elenore.
  • January 30 - February 1: Sanremo Festival, hosted by Nuccio Costa and Gabriella Farinon and won by Bobby Solo and Iva Zanicchi with Zingara. This the only time that Lucio Battisti takes part in the contest, with Un’avventura.[1] The final evening is the most seen show of the year, with 22,4 million viewiers.[2]
  • April 13: the Catholic jurist Aldo Sandulli, former president of the Constitutional Court, is nominated RAI president.[3]
  • July 20–21. For the Apollo 11 mission, RAI airs a live show lasting 27 hours. It involved more than 200 technicians and journalists, and included the presence of more than 500 guests (scientists, sportsmen and intellectuals, such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Alfonso Gatto). At 22:17 (Italian hour) the anchorman Tito Stagno announces the Moon landing with a minute in advance. He is corrected by the correspondent Ruggero Orlando, who follows the event from Houston Space center. The subsequent quarrel between the two journalists overshadows, for the Italian public, Neil Armstrong’s historical announcement: “The eagle is landed.”[4] Despite this incident, the “night of the moon” is for RAI a professional achievement and a huge public success (20 million viewers).[5]
  • October 25: Enzo Tortora, very popular host of The sporting Sunday, in an interview with the weekly Oggi announces his intention to leave RAI and argues with the company's executives, defined as "boy scouts driving a jet and playing with the keyboard"; RAI responds by not renewing its contract. In the following years, Tortora worked for RSI and for the emerging private TV channels.[6]
  • December 12: an extraordinary edition of the TG1 announces to the country the Piazza Fontana bombing; the same evening, the Prime Minister Mariano Rumor, in a TV message to the nation, condemns indignantly the slaughter and promises justice. On December 15, RAI broadcasts live the burial of the victims.[7]
  • December 16: in the evening news, the young journalist Bruno Vespa, live from the Milan police headquarters, announces: “Pietro Valpreda is one of the guilty for the slaughter in Milan and for the attacks in Rome”. Valpreda was a dancer and leader of a small anarchist group, which was verbally extremist but fully unrelated to the crime. Valpreda is subsequently depicted by television and by most of the press as a monster. The TV show Stasera Gina Lollobrigida is deleted because he appears for a few seconds as an extra. Only Indro Montanelli, interviewed by Sergio Zavoli, declares that he does not believe that the anarchists were guilty.[7]

Debuts

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Serials

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Variety

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  • Speciale per voi (Special for you) – directed by Carla Ragionieri and Romolo Siena, with Renzo Arbore (at his TV debut); two seasons. The show is one of the first aimed explicitly to the young public and reflects, indirectly, the protests of 1968 ; in every episode, a guest singer faces an audience of teen-agers, often polemic and impertinent.[9]
  • Doppia coppia (Double couple) - variety hosted by Alighiero Noschese and Bice Valori, playing the RAI receptionist; 2 seasons. For the first time, Noschese is allowed to impersonate on video the politicians.

News and educational

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  • AZ: un fatto come e perchè (AZ: a fact, how and why) – news magazine, hosted by Emilio Mastrostefano; 7 seasons.[10]

Television shows

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Drama

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Miniseries

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Mystery

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For children

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Variety

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News and educational

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  • Dicono di lei (They say about you) – interviews by Enzo Biagi.[28]
  • Gli uomini della luna rispondono (The moon men answer) – press conference of the three Apollo 11 astronauts, hosted by Sergio Zavoli.[29]
  • L’Italia dei dialetti (The dialects’ Italy) – linguistic enquiry by Giacomo Devoto, directed by Virgilio Sabel; in 14 episodes.[30]

Ending this year

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Sanremo 1969". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  2. ^ Hit (2010-08-10). "Auditel Rewind - 1969". TvBlog (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  3. ^ Bruno, Somalvico (2012-10-25). "Cronologia radiotelevisiva II: 1945-1975: 1960-1969". Cronologia radiotelevisiva II. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  4. ^ "La diretta – e la svista – della Rai sull'allunaggio". Il Post (in Italian). 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  5. ^ "L'uomo sulla Luna". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  6. ^ Frisoli, Pino (2018-11-11). "La Tv per sport: Enzo Tortora: l'intervista che nel 1969 lo allontanò dalla Rai". La Tv per sport. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  7. ^ a b "Piazza Fontana, racconto di una strage". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  8. ^ "Quando Buazzelli divenne Nero Wolfe | Gialli.it" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  9. ^ "Speciale per voi". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  10. ^ "AZ: un fatto come e perché". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  11. ^ "Eleonora Duse". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  12. ^ "Atti degli apostoli". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  13. ^ "Giorgio Albertazzi - Jekyll". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  14. ^ "I fratelli Karamazov - Lo sceneggiato". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  15. ^ "Le donne del tenente Sheridan". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  16. ^ "Francis Durbridge e la RAI - Giocando a golf una mattina". vicolostretto.net. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  17. ^ "I TROPPI MISTERI DI GEMINUS - GIORNALE POP -". - GIORNALE POP - (in Italian). 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  18. ^ "Le avventure di Ciuffettino". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  19. ^ "Gulliver". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  20. ^ "Aiuto, è vacanza!". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-06.
  21. ^ "Incontro con Fabrizio De André". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  22. ^ "È domenica, ma senza impegno". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  23. ^ "Incontro con Lucio Battisti". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  24. ^ "Lollo Tivvù - S1969 - Stasera Gina - Video". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  25. ^ "Stasera Gianni Morandi". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  26. ^ "Stasera Patty Pravo". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  27. ^ "Bentornata Caterina". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  28. ^ "Dicono di lei". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  29. ^ "Gli uomini della Luna rispondono". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  30. ^ "L'Italia dei dialetti". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.