1967 in Italian television
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- January 1: the first episode of Sandro Bolchi’s I promessi sposi (see below) is aired.
- January 6: Claudio Villa wins Scala reale (the 1966 edition of Canzonissima) with Granada; Gianni Morandi is runner-up with La fisarmonica. During the final evening of the show, Morandi learns of the death of his newborn daughter Serena.[1]
- January 15: cable TV Tele Torino 1 begins broadcasting; it transmits advertisements and sports and music programs on 50 televisions located in the Turin Porta Nuova railway station. The new television works only one day, before being blocked by bureaucratic problems.[2]
- 27 January The young singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco, upset for the failure of his song Ciao, amore, ciao at the Sanremo festival, shoots himself in his hotel room. He leaves behind an accusatory message against the record industry and the mechanism of the contest. RAI tries to minimize the tragedy.; the final evening of the show goes on air on schedule, getting 21, million viewers (record of the year).[3] The host Mike Bongiorno only briefly mentions the suicide, not even telling Tenco's name. The festival is won by Claudio Villa, exponent of the most traditional melodic song, and Iva Zanicchi, with Non pensare a me.[4]
- 2 February: on the proposal of socialist Luigi Anderlini and republican Ugo La Malfa, the parliament postpones at least until 1971 the adoption of color TV, considered "an opulent and unnecessary consumption". Despite this stance, shared by much of the Italian political world, RAI continues experiments with color.[5]
- June 6: Arrigo Levi is the first journalist to host the news program (previously, the news were read by a speaker).[6]
- June 25: on the televisions of the five continents, Our world, the first multi-satellite television production, is aired. RAI contributes with two reports on the brothers Raimondo and Piero D'Inzeo and on the filming of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet.[7]
- 31 August: Rocky Roberts wins Festivalbar with Stasera mi butto. For the first time, television broadcasts the event (also if three weeks deferred).[8]
Debuts
Drama
- Di fronte alla legge (Facing the law) – cycle of courtroom-dramas about social questions, care of Diego Fabbri.
Serials
- Il triangolo rosso (The warning triangle) – by Mario Maffei and others, with Jacques Sernas, Riccardo Garrone and Elio Pandolfi, as three Polizia Stradale agents; 2 seasons.[9]
Variety
- Ieri e oggi – variety hosted by Lelio Luttazzi and others; 9 seasons, more three spin-off and a reprisal of 2 seasons, hosted by Carlo Conti, in 2018-2019. The guests in studio (singers or actors) reviews and comments their old performances from the RAI archives.[10]
News and educational
- Sapere (To know) - popular science program, ideated by Giovan Battista Zorzoli; 9 seasons.
- Prossimamente (Soon) – promotional column about the RAI shows of the upcoming week; lasted till 1984.
- Tuttiilibri – books magazine, care of Giulio Nascimbeni and others; it was the longest-lived RAI cultural program, lasted till 1987.[11]
