1955 in Italian television
Events
- 27 January. RAI airs on TV, for the first time, the Sanremo Festival, presented by Armando Pizzo; the final evening is broadcast in Eurovision. Claudio Villa wins the contest, with Buongiorno tristezza.[1]
- 8. March. First TV live feed from La Scala. RAI broadcasts an act of La sonnambula, with Maria Callas (conducted by Leonard Bernstein and directed by Luchino Visconti).[2]
- 28-29. April. First TV live feed from the Italian Parliament for the election of the Italian President Giovanni Gronchi;[2]
- 19. November: Debut of Lascia o raddoppia? (see below), the first Italian TV program to get a mass success and become a phenomenon of costume. The Saturday evenings, peoples crowd the public exercises with a TV set (the private tubes are still rare) and the cinemas too, to bear the concurrence of the show, are forced to project it before of the movies. The presenter Mike Bongiorno and the contenders (usually, eccentric province savants) become the first stars of the Italian TV.[3]
- 17 December. The first Lascia o raddoppia’s champion, Lando Degoli, expert of music, is eliminated for a wrong answer to a question ill-formulated (“In which opera did Giuseppe Verdi use the contrabassoon?”; really, the composer used the instrument in two operas, Macbeth and Don Carlos). For two weeks, the "contrabasson affair" dominates the press and the public opinion, causing also parliamentary interrogations. At least, Degoli is readmitted to the contest, but he chooses to quit, serving the 2.560.000 liras gained till then.[4]
- 24 December. The TV service is estended to Naples and the Campania[2]
- 30 December. Eduardo De Filippo debuts on television with Miseria e nobiltà (Poverty and nobility), by his father Eduardo Scarpetta.[2]
- The RAI general director Filiberto Guala hires several young intellectuals, the so-called “corsairs” (by the formative courses followed); among them, Umberto Eco, Angelo Guglielmi, Gianni Vattimo and Furio Colombo.[2]
- Debut of Piero Angela[5] and Ruggero Orlando as correspondents, respectively, from Paris and New York. Orlando will serve his place for seventeen years becoming, because his unconventionality, the most popular Italian TV journalist.[6]
Debuts
- Lascia o raddoppia? (Quit or double) – quiz, hosted by Mike Bongiorno; 4 seasons; Italian version of the American The $64.000 question and of the French Quitte or double. It’s the most popular Italian TV show of the Fifties (see over).
- Sguardi sul mondo (Views on the world), later renamed La posta di padre Mariano (Father Mariano’s mail) – religious magazine, hosted by the Capuchin friar Mariano da Torino.
- Appuntamento con la novella (Appointment with the novella) – the actor Giorgio Albertazzi reads classic short stories.
- Buon Natale ovunque tu sia (Merry Christmas, whenever you are) – annual reportage about Christmas, now a precious document about the Italy of the Fifties.[7]
Television shows
- Piccole donne (Little women) – by Anton Giulio Majano, with Lea Padovani, Emma Danieli, Alberto Lupo and Arnoldo Foà; from the Louisa Mary Alcott's novel. Second RAI’s period drama, it repeats the success of Il dottor Antonio, so much that to the previewed four episodes a supplementary one is added
- Edipo re (Oedipus rex) - from the Sophocles' tragedy, translated by Salvatore Quasimodo, with Vittorio Gassmann, directed by Gassmann and Franco Enriquez.[8]
- Duecento al secondo (Two hundred by second) – quiz, hosted by Mario Riva, written by Garinei and Giovannini, directed by Romolo Siena, Italian version of Beat the clock. Because the ludicrous and humiliating forfeits endured by the contenders, the show is harshly censured by the press, and deleted by Rai after three months.
- Ti conosco, mascherina (I know you, Masker) – cabaret, directed by Vito Molinari, with Alberto Bonucci, Ferruccio Amendola and an almost debuting Monica Vitti.[9]
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References
- "STORIA DEL FESTIVAL DI SANREMO 1955 5° EDIZIONE". BubinoBlog - Ascolti e Notizie sulla Tv (in Italian). 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- Bruno, Somalvico (2011-03-23). "Cronologia radiotelevisiva II: 1945-1975: cronologia della radio e della televisione. 1: 1945-1975". Cronologia radiotelevisiva II. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- "Memorie - Fatti e persone da ricordare - Lascia o raddoppia, la nascita del quiz - Video". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- "DEGOLI, ADDIO ALLA VITA - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- "Angela, le origini". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- "Memorie - Fatti e persone da ricordare - Ruggero Orlando - Qui Nuova York ... - Video". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- "Buon Natale ovunque tu sia". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- "L'inconsapevolezza di Edipo -". Rai Teche (in Italian). 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- "Speciale Monica - S1955 - Ti conosco mascherina - Video". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
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