20 June - Resignation of Filiberto Guala, CEO of RAI since 1954. He was a skilled administrator, but considered controversial for the bigoted decency codes which he imposed on television. He was replaced by Marcello Rodinò.[7] Guala was a fervent Catholic, and would later become a Trappist monk.[8]
19 December - Birth of the company Il tempo TV, aiming to create of the first Italian commercial network. Its president is Renato Angiolillo, owner and director of the Roman right-wing newspaper Il Tempo.[9] After a four-years-long legal battle, the project is definitively stopped by a sentence of the Constitutional Court.[10]
31 December - The covering of the Italian territory by the TV signal is completed.
Debuts
L'amico degli animali (The animals' friend), hosted by Angelo Lombardi, educational show about zoology.[11] The Lombardi's phrases "Hello, friends of my friends" and "Andalù, take it away", said to his African helper, become proverbial.
La piazzetta (The little square), variety show. After three episodes, an exhibition of the dancer Alba Arnova with apparently bare legs (she wore a tight leotard) arouses L'Osservatore romano's protests and the show is deleted.[13]
Il marziano Filippo (Filippo the Martian), by Cesare Emilio Gaslini, with Oreste Lionello, science-fiction miniserie for children; the plot is strangely similar to the E. T.’s one.
Ending this year
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