1970 in Italian television

List of years in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1970.

Events

Debuts

  • Rischiatutto – quiz, inspired by Jeopardy! and hosted by Mike Buongiorno; five seasons. The show renews the Lascia o raddoppiìa?’s mass success and relaunches the Bongiorno’s career after a period of relative decline; it’s the first RAI 2 program to enter in the top ten of the audience. It’s yet also accused by critics of notionism and sexism (for the decorative role played by the “female valet” Sabina Ciuffini).  

Shows of the year

Drama

  • I recuperanti (The recoverers) - by Ermanno Olmi; script by Tullio Kezich and Mario Rigoni Stern. In the Forties, a young veteran and an eccentric old man earn a living from the dangerous work to recover remnants of war.
  • Le donne balorde (The oafish women) – cycle of satirical one-act plays, written and played by Franca Valeri and directed by Giacomo Colli.

Miniseries

Mystery

  • Coralba – by Daniele D’Anza, with Rossano Brazzi and Glauco Mauri; 5 episodes. The story is set in Hamburg, in the world of big pharma
  • I giovedì della signora Giulia (Mrs. Julia Thursdays) – by Paolo Nuzzi and Massimo Scaglione, from the Piero Chiara’s novel, with Claudio Gora and the real-life private eye Tom Ponzi (as a police superintendent);  5 episodes. The vanishing of an upper-class lady is the starting point for an enquiry about the secrets of the Lombard provincial life.

Coralba and I giovedì della signora Giulia are the first Italian mysteries shot in colors (also if, at the time, they are aired in black and white).

Variety

  • Canzonissima 1970 – directed by Romolo Siena, hosted by Corrado Mantoni and Raffaella Carrà (who gets success also as a singer, with the title track Ma che musica maestro). The contest is won by Massimo Ranieri with Vent’anni.

News and educational

  • I bambini e noi (Children and us) – reportage by Luigi Comencini about infancy in Italy, in 6 episodes.
  • Un secolo di lotte contadine in Italia (A century of peasants’ fights in Italy) – historical enquiry by Giorgio Bocca, in one of his very rare collaborations with RAI; in 7 episodes.
  • Roma capitale (Rome capital city) – historical enquiry, care of Giovanni Spadolini, for the centenary of the capture of Rome.

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