1961 in Italian television

none 1961 Italian television This is a list of Italian television related events of 1961. Events 6 January - Tony Dallara wins Canzonissima with Romantica; the year before, the singer had won the Sanremo Festival with the same song. 18 January – The liberal Novello Papafava Novello Papafava it Novello Papafava and the Christian Democrat Ettore Bernabei are nominated, respectively, for the positions of President and General Director of RAI. Bernabei, a faithful follower of Amintore Fanfani, will be the true master of the estate for thirteen years. At the beginning, his management is inspired to a line of prudent opening, softening the censure and giving space also to professionals (such as Enzo Biagi and Ugo Gregoretti) not aligned with the DC.http://cronoradiotv2.blogspot.com/2012/10/1960-1969.html Cronologia radiotelevisiva II: 1945-1975: 1960-1969 Unknown 25 October 2012 Cronologia radiotelevisiva II 2019-07-29 6 February - The duo Luciano Tajoli and Betty Curtis wins the Sanremo Music Festival with Al di là.Sera Cremona A Sanremo con Gino Paoli, Betty Curtis e gli altri https://cremonasera.it/come-eravamo/a-sanremo-con-gino-paoli-betti-curtis-e-gli-altri 2024-02-07 Cremona Sera it However, the contest, presented by Giuliana Calandra, is memorable moreover for the debut of many singers of the youngest generation, “howlers” or singer-songwriters. Adriano Celentano, runner up with 24.000 baci, arouses scandal for having turned the back to the audience in his performance. 2021-01-27 24mila baci compie 60 anni: storia di un pezzo che sconvolse l'Italia https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/musica/2021/01/25/24mila-baci-celentano-storia 2024-02-07 tg24.sky.it it 17 March: centenary of the Unification of Italy. RAI celebrates the event broadcasting, beyond the official ceremonies, Va' pensiero, a recital of lyric arias and texts read by actors, care of Marco Visconti and directed by Anton Giulio Majano.Grasso Aldo Storia della televisione italiana Garzanti 2004 9788811740315 Milan 14 April: first connection between RAI and OIRT; the Italian television broadcasts, live from Moscow, the celebrations to Juri Gagarin after the Vostok 1 mission. 11 June: Arnaldo Pambianco wins the Giro d'Italia (the "Centenary tour"). For the first time, RAI covered the event in full. September: RAI begins the survey of audience and satisfaction ratings, with the method of random telephone interviews; the most watched show of 1961 is Studio Uno, with 13,600,000 viewers.Hit 2010-08-02 Auditel Rewind - 1961 https://www.tvblog.it/post/auditel-rewind-1961 2025-02-19 TvBlog it 1 October - The socialist Enzo Biagi becomes director of the TV news; he renews the program, giving less space to internal politics and officialdom and more to chronicle and news from the world. This new deal arouses harsh polemics by the right-wing. After a year, Biagi resigns.http://www.casadellaculturaenzobiagi.com/biografia/ BIOGRAFIA Casa della cultura Enzo Biagi it-IT 2019-07-29 4 November – The Second channel begins broadcasting. This is the schedule of the first day.29 October – 4 November 1961 Il secondo programma TV http://www.radiocorriere.teche.rai.it/Download.aspx?data=AQAAANCMnd8BFdERjHoAwE/Cl+sBAAAAh6HFrocWMUKdf9dxkKWcdAQAAAACAAAAAAADZgAAwAAAABAAAAC5aJRvk1DEzqRZV4vJ7GOXAAAAAASAAACgAAAAEAAAAAA2RJ2ShJTRh4Cp4H8yR9sQAAAAnXNwvMTsqGrCszeasrLFEBQAAAC2K9gTK6mScrPw0KxTsfvtvx6v3Q== Radiocorriere TV +9,05 PMThe war and the victory: special evening about the anniversary of the Italian victory in the first world war (a concert, a documentary and the teleplay The trench, see below)11 PMNews11,20 PMThe evil queen, ballet by Birgit Cullberg. The new channel airs two hours by day (since 9 PM) and is received only by a half of the Italian population. 12 November. In the Council of ministers, Guido Gonella and Mario Scelba, exponents of the most conservative wing of DC, attack fiercely the variety shows, Enzo Biagi's TV journal and the Political tribune (see below). They accuse RAI of having “put Togliatti and the ballerinas in the Italian families’ heart.”http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,5/articleid,0083_01_1961_0280_0005_17192719/ Gonella e Scelba condannano la TV per il telegiornale e le ballerine. Tito Michele 25 November 1961 La Stampa  On “Il Verri”, the essay Mike Bongiorno’s phenomenology, by Umberto Eco, is published.2016-02-20 In ricordo di Umberto Eco Artribune https://www.artribune.com/attualita/2016/02/in-ricordo-di-umberto-eco-tante-opere-poche-omissioni/ 2024-02-07 it-IT The writing, despite its playful tone, is one of the first serious analyses of television as a social phenomenon. Debuts Serials Giovanna la nonna del corsaro nero (Giovanna the black corsair's grandmother) – four seasons; directed by Alda Grimaldi,2023-12-28 Morta a Torino Alda Grimaldi: fu la prima regista della televisione, da "Settenote" a Scaramacai https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2023/12/28/news/morta_alda_grimaldi_prima_regista_televisione-13959282/ 2024-02-07 La Stampa it written by Vittorio Metz, with Anna Campori. Cheerful parody of the pirates novels by Emilio Salgari, it was one of the most beloved shows for children of the Sixties; notwithstanding its success, all its tapes were deleted by RAI and now only some amateurish recording survives. Variety L'amico del giaguaro (The friend of the jaguar)Italian idiom, meaning a not exactly trusted friend. – three seasons; directed by Vito Molinari, hosted by Corrado, with Marisa Del Frate, Gino Bramieri and Raffaele Pisu. Humoristic show, remembered moreover for its parodies of famous movies.https://www.vitomolinari.it/televisione/26/lamico_del_giaguaro.html L'amico del giaguaro www.vitomolinari.it 2019-07-29 Chissà chi lo sa? (Who knows who knows?) – seven seasons; quiz show for children, hosted by Febo Conti.Comincia "Chissà chi lo sa?" https://www.raicultura.it/storia/accadde-oggi/Comincia--Chissa-chi-lo-sa-5111e316-c266-4db5-88ea-a4596294ae17.html 2024-02-07 Rai Cultura it Studio Uno (Studio One) – four seasons; directed by Antonello Falqui, hosted by Mina (in the second season she was temporarily replaced, because pregnant, by Rita Pavone) sided by Italian and international stars as Don Lurio, the Kessler twins, the Bluebell girls, Lelio Luttazzi and Luciano Salce. It's considered the masterpiece of the Italian TV variety, thanks moreover to the spectacular ballets, performed in minimalist scenography, to the Mina's talent, not only as singer but as entertainer too, and to the numerous guest stars. The Quartetto Cetra’s musical parodies get so much success to be developed in a separate show (The Studio One library).https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/studiouno/ Studio Uno - RaiPlay www.raiplay.it it 2019-07-29 News and educational Tribuna politica (Political tribune) – political talk show, created after the success of Electoral tribune the previous year, hosted by Jader Jacobelli; in a press conference, a politician faces journalists by various tendencies. The program gives the same space to every party present in the Parliament, the PCI included, and for this reason it is, at the beginning, strongly criticized by the conservatives (see over).Nasce "Tribuna Politica" https://www.raicultura.it/storia/accadde-oggi/Nasce-Tribuna-Politica-165d1c5b-183b-411c-aaa8-876054e24801.html 2024-02-07 Rai Cultura it Television shows Drama and comedy La trincea (The trench) – by Vittorio Cottafavi, from the Giuseppe Dessì’s drama; the life in a trench on the eve of a bloody assault, during the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo.La trincea https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/latrincea 2023-05-23 RaiPlay it The madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giradoux, directed by Sandro Bolchi, with Sarah Ferrati. The prosecuting attorney – historical drama by Fritz Hochwalder, directed by Giacomo Vaccari, with Turi Ferro in the role of Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville. L’adorabile Giulio (The adorable Giulio) – musical comedy by Garinei e Giovannini, with Carlo Dapporto and Delia Scala, directed by Eros Macchi, music by Gorni Kramer; a mature actor, impenitent playboy, must face the father’s responsibilities when the adolescent daughter leaves the boarding school.Buzzolan Ugo 23 April 1961 Cronaca televisiva La Stampa http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,4/articleid,0079_01_1961_0097_0004_17158895/ 1 November 2019 La padrona di raggio di luna (The owner of Moonbeam) – musical comedy by Garinei and Giovannini,Tedeschi Enrica https://books.google.com/books?id=cGghEAAAQBAJ&dq=%221961%22+%22La+padrona+di+raggio+di+luna%22&pg=PT208 Semplice, buttato via, moderno: Il "teatro per la vita" di Gianrico Tedeschi 2020-04-20 Viella Libreria Editrice 978-88-3313-546-5 de with Andreina Pagnani and Robert Alda, directed by Eros Macchi, music by Gorni Kramer; the life of a widow is upset when she discovers to have inherited a football player from the husband (the story is inspired by a true fact). Racconti dell’italia di ieri (Tales of yesterday’s Italy) – cycle of TV plays, taken from Italian tales of the nineteenth-century.Tallarigo Paola https://books.google.com/books?id=K7QcAQAAIAAJ&q=%221961%22+%22Racconti+dell%E2%80%99italia+di+ieri%22 Lo Sguardo libero: il cinema di Liliana Cavani Gasparini Luca 1990 La Casa Usher 22 it  L’alfiere nero (The Black Bishop) by Arrigo Boito, directed by Carlo Lodovici, with Carlo Graziosi, the story of a chess game between a racist white man and a black one, opens the series. Classic theatre Adelchi – by Alessandro Manzoni, with Vittorio Gassmann; TV direction by Carla Ragionieri Carla Ragionieri it Carla Ragionieri; footage of the historical version of the tragedy played and directed by Gassmann in a circus tent for the Italian Popular Theatre.Adelchi (1961) - Video https://www.raiplay.it/video/2022/06/Adelchi-1961-8febec8a-cecb-4d82-b5ae-8992d3cd36d4.html 2022-09-14 RaiPlay it Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, directed by Franco Enriquez, with Gianni Santuccio, Elena Zareschi and Gian Maria Volonté. The History of King Henry the Fourth, by William Shakespeare, directed by Sandro Bolchi, with a memorable Tino Buazzelli as Falstaff.Teatro 1961 - 1962 https://www.raiplay.it/video/2022/06/Adelchi-1961-8febec8a-cecb-4d82-b5ae-8992d3cd36d4.html 2020-11-12 Rai Teche it-IT The broken jug by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Sandro Bolchi, with Tino Buazzelli. Miniseries Graziella – by Mario Ferrero, from the Alphonse de Lamartine’s novel, with Ilaria Occhini; in four episodes. Il caso Mauritius (The Mauritius affair) – by Anton Giulio Majano, from the Jakob Wasserman’s novel about the consequences of a judiciary error, with Corrado Pani and Raoul Grassilli; in four episodes. Serials Le pecore nere (The black sheep) – by Gilberto Tofano; cycle of TV-plays about the life of 5 adventurers (Cagliostro, Daniel Boone, Don Juan, Francois Villon and the brigand Giosafatte Talarico), all played by Giorgio Albertazzi.https://books.google.com/books?id=oNyrpPD5eDcC&dq=%221961%22+%22Le+pecore+nere%22&pg=PA88 Gli Attori Vol. 2 M-z - 8884402697 2003 Gremese Editore 978-88-8440-269-1 88 it Le avventure di un pagliaccio (The adventures of a clown) – for children; with Luisella Nava as the clown Scaramacai, already a star of Carosello.Lancia Enrico https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_WFEVsGvhYC&dq=%221961%22+%22Le+avventure+di+un+pagliaccio%22&pg=PA260 Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri Poppi Roberto 2003 Gremese Editore 978-88-8440-214-1 260 it Variety Giardino d’inverno (Winter Garden) – by Antonello Falqui, hosted by the Quartetto Cetra. The show reveals to the Italian public Henri Salvador and the Kessler Twins and sees the Ornella Vanoni’s debut. Canzonissima 1961 – hosted by Sandra Mondaini and Paolo Poli. The show, won by Tony Dallara, with Adriano Celentano as runner up, establishes the success of the “shouters” (Italian version of the rockers). Vittorio De Sica racconta (Vittorio De Sica tells). In one of his rare TV experiences, the great actor and director tells to the children some classic fables.https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/vittoriodesicaracconta/ Vittorio De Sica racconta - RaiPlay www.raiplay.it it 2019-07-29 Tempo di musica (Music time) – by Daniele D’Anza, with Johnny Dorelli and Lea Massari, written by Luciano Salce and Ettore Patti; history of Italy through the songs. The first episode, satirizing the fascism and its wars, arouses angry protests from the extreme right; the following ones are heavily censored, enough to make D’Anza give up the show direction.18 March 1961 D'Anza rinuncia alla regia dello spettacolo Tempo di musica. La Stampa http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,4/articleid,0079_01_1961_0066_0004_16883665/ 13 November 2020 News and educational Controfagotto (ContrabassoonThe instrument was by then proverbial in Italy, after that the champion of Lascia o raddoppia? had been eliminated for a wrong answer about it.) – directed and hosted by Ugo Gregoretti; lifestyle magazine, describing the Italy of the boom in a politely satirical tone.https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/controfagotto/ Controfagotto - RaiPlay www.raiplay.it it 2019-07-29 Il giudice (The judge) – by Enzo Biagi, at his TV debut; reportage about the story of David Rubinwvicz, a Jewish child Holocaust victim.Inchieste sulla Shoah - S1961 - "Il giudice" di Enzo Biagi - Video https://www.raiplay.it/video/2018/01/Il-giudice-di-Enzo-Biagi-6470f4f9-6aac-4ad2-ac6b-0c24e372b574.html 2021-01-28 RaiPlay it References 1961