1958 in Italian television

none 1958 Italian television This is a list of Italian television related events from 1958. Events 6 January: Aurelio Fierro, with Scapricciatello, wins Voci e volti della fortuna, first edition of Canzonissima. 1 February - Totò makes his TV debut, as a guest to Il Musichiere. He appears together with Vittorio Gassman and Mario Soldati. During the show, he cries on air: “Cheers for Lauro”. This was in reference to Achille Lauro, leader of the Monarchist National Party, who at the time of the airing, was accused of serious administrative irregularities as a Naples major.Gaspari https://books.google.com/books?id=bQ8S427Nu9EC&dq=%22Achille+Lauro%22+1958+%22sindaco%22&pg=PA169 Storie di sindaci per la storia d'Italia Forlenza 2009 Donzelli Editore 978-88-6036-425-8 169 it Because of this controversial reference, this very popular comedian would rarely be invited for RAI appearances in the following years.https://www.raiplay.it/video/2017/03/Con-Mario-Riva-a-Il-Musichiere-8332320e-e96f-46a8-b992-6b549423bd89.html Rai Totò - Con Mario Riva a "Il Musichiere" - video - RaiPlay Rai 2019-03-27 1 February: Domenico Modugno and Johnny Dorelli win the 1958 Sanremo Music Festival with Nel blu, dipinto di blu; the victory of the singer-songwriter Modugno marks a revolution in the Italian pop music. 20 February - the journalist Ugo Zatterin Ugo Zatterin it Ugo Zatterin announces the closing of the state-controlled brothels. He uses cryptic language and never utters the term ”prostitution”. The episode has become emblematic of RAI's prudish tendencies in this period.http://www.teche.rai.it/2016/02/20-febbraio-1958-la-sospensione-delle-case-chiuse/ 20 febbraio 1958: la sospensione delle case chiuse - 2016-02-20 Rai Teche it-IT 2019-03-27 April 13: in Milan, the experimental transmissions of the Second Channel begin.http://www.radiomarconi.com/marconi/ancona/valcamonica/amarcord/storiatv.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20061030222248/http://www.radiomarconi.com/marconi/ancona/valcamonica/amarcord/storiatv.pdf usurped October 30, 2006 Storia della TV -1910-1990 May 25: first political election in Italy after the birth of the TV. In the previous months, RAI is fiercely attacked (mainly by the communists, but also by the right-wing press and by the Republican Party) for its political line pro-government and pro-DC. October 24: in Milan, the judicial police seizures the studios of TVL-Televisione libera, two weeks before the announced start of transmission with a show by Frank Sinatra. The estate, property of Italcementi, RCA and other Italian and American partners, had already made, without license, some experimental broadcasts (the first ones on Italy realized by a private TV).https://www.newslinet.com/storia-della-radiotelevisione-italiana-esperienze-private-dal-1955-al-1967/ Storia della radiotelevisione italiana. Tempo Tv e TVL Televisione Libera: le prime tv private. Nel 1956 e 1957! Redazione 2010-02-17 Newslinet it-IT 2019-03-27 November 4: RAI broadcasts Pope John XXIII's coronation; for the first time in history, such a ceremony is seen on TV.Caeremoniale Romanum The Coronation of Blessed Pope John XXIII 2011-08-09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbx9l4fuRlY 2019-03-27 November 18: in Canton Ticino, Radiotelevisione svizzera in lingua italiana begins to broadcast; at first, it airs programs in German language with Italian subtitles. Debuts United States - The Perry Como show Educational Telescuola (TV School) – care of the Professor Maria Grazia Puglisi Maria Grazia Puglisi it Maria Grazia Puglisi, supported by the Ministry of Education. It's one of the first distance education experiments in the world, aimed to the young ones living in place without educational institutions, but also to the adults without instruction (like the inmates). The show consists of secondary schools lessons, given in studio to a true public of children, and lasts six years.Vittoria Paolo https://books.google.com/books?id=5-gCEAAAQBAJ&dq=Maria+Grazia+Puglisi+Telescuola+1958&pg=PT19 Educare a distanza: Tre conversazioni su radio, tv e web con Marino Sinibaldi, Roberto Farné e Simone Pieranni 2020-09-14 Marietti 1820 978-88-211-9739-0 itCroce Maria Angela https://books.google.com/books?id=B_AdAAAAMAAJ&q=Maria+Grazia+Puglisi+Telescuola+1958 Filmologia e società: Linguaggio filmco e dinamiche psicologiche 1971 Il mulino 109 it Uomini e libri (Men and books) – first Italian TV literary column, hosted by Luigi Silori, in collaboration with Giulio Cattaneo Giulio Cattaneo it Giulio Cattaneo (letterato) and Elio Vittorini; thanks to it, many great Italian writers appear for the first time on the little screen.Gallerani Guido Mattia https://books.google.com/books?id=VvhvEAAAQBAJ&dq=Uomini+e+libri+1958&pg=PA85 L'intervista immaginata: Da genere mediatico a invenzione letteraria 2022-05-17 Firenze University Press 978-88-5518-550-9 85 it Arti e scienze (Arts and sciences) – cultural magazine, care of Leone Piccioni Leone Piccioni it Leone Piccioni; 5 seasons.Omaggio a Picasso https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/omaggioapicasso 2023-04-12 RaiPlay itBarba Bruno https://books.google.com/books?id=_azZDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Arti+e+scienze%22+%221958%22&pg=PT153 1958: L'altra volta che non andammo ai Mondiali 2020-03-27 Rogas 978-88-353-9611-6 it I viaggi del telegiornale (The news program's travels) – exotic travel magazine care of Giorgio Prosperi and Stanislao Nievo, with the collaboration of renowned directors as Folco Quilici and Roberto Rossellini. Television shows Comedy and drama The actor Gilberto Govi achieves great public success with a cycle of four comedies in Genoese dialect (Quella buonanima, That dearly departed, by Ugo Palmerini; Colpi di timone, Rudder strokes, by Enzo La Rosa.Teatro 1958 - 1958 https://www.teche.rai.it/teatro-1958-1958/ 2019-03-27 Rai Teche it-IT) I fratelli Castiglioni (The Castiglioni brothers) by Alberto Colantuoni, directed by Sandro Bolchi, with Aldo Silvani and Otello Toso; a dead man mocks his two greedy nephews and heirs. The sword of Damocles, comedy by Vittorio Cottafavi, with Giulia Lazzarini, Enrico Maria Salerno and Ernesto Calindri. Scaramacai, la storia di un pagliaccio (History of a clown) - by Alda Grimaldi, with Pinuccia Nava Pinuccia Nava it Pinuccia Nava; for children, in 2 episodes.Scaramacai - La storia di un pagliaccio https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/scaramacai-lastoriadiunpagliaccio 2021-12-17 RaiPlay it Romeo bar by Anton Giulio Majano, with Ubaldo Lay, Ivo Garrani, Valeria Moriconi and Rentato De Carmine; among the first mystery dramas of the Italian television. In New York, two cops (a man and a woman) and a mystery writer investigate about an amnesiac.Svanoni Massimo Romeo Bar - Miniserie TV (1958) https://www.davinotti.com/film/romeo-bar/52729 2025-02-05 il Davinotti it A doll's house by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, with Lilla Brignone, Ivo Garrani and Arnoldo Foà. The taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare, directed by Daniele D’Anza, with Lea Padovani, Gabriele Ferzetti and Ilaria Occhini. Antigone by Euripides, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, with Valentina Fortunato. Miniseries Valentina, una ragazza che ha fretta (Valentina, hurry girl) – directed by Vito Molinari, text by Vittorio Metz and Marcello Marchesi, with Alberto Lionello; musical comedy about time travel.Grasso Aldo https://books.google.com/books?id=S8JkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Valentina,+una+ragazza+che+ha+fretta%22+%221958%22+%22Vito+Molinari%22 Storia della televisione italiana 2000 Garzanti 978-88-11-73883-1 66 it Canne al vento (Reeds in the wind) – by Mario Landi, from the Grazia Deledda's novel, with Carlo D’Angelo, Cosetta Greco and Franco Interlenghi.Canne al vento - Lo sceneggiato https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/cannealvento-losceneggiato 2021-09-24 RaiPlay it Capitan Fracassa (Captain Fracasse) – by Anton Giulio Majano, from the Theophile Gautier's novel, with Arnoldo Foà, Lea Massari, and Nando Gazzolo.https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/capitanfracassa Capitan Fracassa RaiPlay it 2019-11-07 The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - by Daniele D’Anza, from the Dickens’ novel, with Antonio Cifariello and Arnoldo Foà.Lancia Enrico https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_WFEVsGvhYC&dq=%22Le+avventure+di+Nicola+Nickleby%22+%221958%22&pg=PA217 Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri Poppi Roberto 2003 Gremese Editore 978-88-8440-214-1 217 it Mont Oriol – by Claudio Fino Claudio Fino it Claudio Fino, from the Guy de Maupassant's novel; first Monica Vitti's leading role.Lancia Enrico https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_WFEVsGvhYC&dq=%22Mont+Oriol%22+%221958%22&pg=PA336 Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri Poppi Roberto 2003 Gremese Editore 978-88-8440-214-1 336 it Padri e figli (Fathers and sons) by Guglielmo Morandi Guglielmo Morandi it Guglielmo Morandi, from Ivan Turgenev's novel, with Alberto Lupo and Eleonora Rossi Drago.Morreale Emiliano https://books.google.com/books?id=KUsAEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Padri+e+figli%22+%221958%22&pg=PA306 Così piangevano: Il cinema melò nell'Italia degli anni cinquanta 2012-10-08 Donzelli Editore 978-88-6036-790-7 306–307 it Umiliati e offesi (Humiliated and insulted) – by Vittorio Cottafavi, from the Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, with Enrico Maria Salerno.Umiliati e offesi https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/umiliatieoffesi 2021-11-12 RaiPlay it https://www.teche.rai.it/sceneggiati-e-fiction-1954-1965/ Sceneggiati e Fiction 1954 - 1965 - Rai Teche it-IT 2019-03-27 Serials Aprite polizia (Open, it's the police) – by Daniele D’Anza, with Renato De Carmine; first Italian detective serial.Aprite: polizia! https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/apritepolizia 2020-12-19 RaiPlay it Il teatro dei ragazzi (The children's theatre) – a series of nine teleplays for the youngest ones by Nicola Manzari.Sardo Rosaria https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg4wnEjme9IC&dq=%22Il+teatro+dei+ragazzi%22+%221958%22&pg=PA32 Dall'Albero azzurro a Zelig: modelli e linguaggi della tv vista dai bambini Centorrino Marco Caviezel Giovanni 2004 Rubbettino Editore 978-88-498-1051-6 32 it Variety Canzonissima 1958 – second edition of the musical tournament bound to the New Year lottery, the first called Canzonissima; this year, Renato Tagliani Renato Tagliani it Renato Tagliani, Ugo Tognazzi and Walter Chiari host the show and the winner is Nilla Pizzi, with "L'edera". In the Sixties and the Seventies, Canzonissima will become the peak show of Italian television. La via del successo (The road for success) – directed by Vito Molinari, hosted by Walter Chiari. For the show, the comedian creates his most famous sketch, where two passengers on a train have a long debate around the “sarchiapone”, an inexistent animal.https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/laviadelsuccesso/ La via del successo - RaiPlay www.raiplay.it it 2019-03-27 Le canzoni di tutti (Everybody's songs) – directed by Mario Landi, texts by Luciano Salce and Ettore Scola; variety about history of Italian songs.https://www.teche.rai.it/varieta-1955-1958-2/ Varietà 1955 - 1958 - Rai Teche it-IT 2019-03-27 News and educational Il pranzo di Natale (Christmas dinner) by Mario Soldati – the writer, after the success of Viaggio nella valle del Po, realizes another gastronomical reportage.Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/ilpranzodinataledimariosoldati 2020-12-19 RaiPlay it Viaggio nel Sud (Travel on Southern Italy) – by Virgilio Sabel Virgilio Sabel it Virgilio Sabel, on ten episodes.https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/viaggionelsud Viaggio nel Sud RaiPlay it 2019-11-15 Cinquant’anni 1898-1948 (Fifty years) – by Silvio Negro and Gian Vittorio Baldi, first RAI program of historical disclosure. Vite celebri (Famous lives), care of Marisa Mantovani Marisa Mantovani it Marisa Mantovani.Vite celebri: Enrico Caruso https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/vitecelebrienricocaruso 2023-03-15 RaiPlay it La quarta dimensione. Avventure nel tempo e nello spazio (Fourth dimension. Adventures in space and time)- popular science program, care of the International Electronic, Nuclear and Tele-radio-cinematographic Review. Uomini nello spazio (Men in space) – program about astronautics, care of the professors Giorgio Alberti and Aurelio Robotti. Ending this year Decimo migliaio Telematch Births Paolo Del Debbio (born 13 February 1958) - Italian television presenter and politician. Fabrizio Frizzi (5 February 1958 – 26 March 2018) - Italian television presenter and voice actor. References 1958