# 1982 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1982.

## Events

* 11 July - Italy beat West Germany 3-1 to win the 1982 World Cup at Madrid, Spain.

## Debuts
### Rai

* Che fai, ridi? (What are you doing? Are you laughing?) – cycle of mockumentaries or documentaries in a humorous key about the Italian comic actors, from Monica Vitti to Diego Abatantuono, sometimes works by famous directors as Carlo Vanzina or Pupi Avati.

#### Serials

* Casa Cecilia – by Vittorio De Sisti, with Giancarlo Dettori and Delia Scala, written by Lidia Ravera; 3 seasons. The daily life of a middle-class family (the husband writer, the wife dentist and their three sons).
* La pietra di Marco Polo (Marco Polo’s stone) – by Aldo Lado; for children. Five Venetian kids make up a gang, searing allegiance upon the stone of the title.
* Pimpa – cartoon, by Francesco Tullio Altan.

### Private channels

* Maurizio Costanzo show (Rete 4, later Canale 5) – talks show hosted by Maurzio Costanzo, lasted till his death in 2022 (with a break-up from 2009 to 2015). The most long-living, popular and controversial Italian talk show, during the years sometimes has faced social questions with commendable commitment, more often has given in to sensationalism and trash.

### International

* 22 September - Voltron (Canale 5) (1984-1985)
* Marine Boy (1969-1971)

## Television shows
### Rai
#### TV-movie

* La veritaaaà (The truth) – the renowned screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, 80 years old, debuts as director and actor in a medium length film about the dreamlike adventures of a madman escaped from the asylum.

#### Miniseries

* Panagulis vive (1981) (Panagoullis lives) – biopic by Giuseppe Ferrara, with Stathis Giallelis; 4 episodes.
* Storia d’amore e d’amicizia (Love and friendship story) – by Franco Rossi, with Claudio Amendola (introducing), Massimo Bonetti and Barbara De Rossi; 6 episodes. In the Thirties, two young boxers, a Jew and an antifascist, are friend and love rivals; both will be victims of the fascism and of the war.
* L’isola del gabbiano (Seagull island) – by Nestore Ungaro, with Priscilla Ransom and Jeremy Brett; 5 episodes. Thriller set on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea and coproduced with ITV.

##### Period dramas

RAI answers to the spread of American fictions on the private networks with three miniseries of prestige, realized in international coproduction and trusted to renowned movie directors.
* La certosa di Parma (The charterhouse of Parma) – by Mauro Bolognini, from the Stendahl’s novel, with Andrea Occhipinti, Marthe Keller and Gian Maria Volontè; in 6 episodes.
* Marco Polo – by Giuliano Montaldo, with Ken Marshall in the title role, Denhom Elliott and Burt Lancaster as Pope Gregory X; 8 episodes. It's one of the most sumptuous RAI serials, realized in collaboration with NBC and the Chinese TV, that, for the first time, takes part to a Western production; the productive effort is repaid by an extraordinary public success in Italy and abroad. The serial is broadcast in 47 countries and wins three Emmy Awards.
* The life of Verdi – by Renato Castellani; with Ronald Pickup in the title role and Carla Fracci as Giuseppina Strepponi; 9 episodes. The serial is appreciated for the accurate historical reconstruction but criticized for the miscasting of the protagonist.

#### Serials

* L’indizio- 5 inchieste per un commissario (The clue – Five enquiries for a superintendent) – by Andrea Camilleri, with Lino Troisi, as a Neapolitan police superintendent in service in Turin, and Ida Di Benedetto.

#### Variety

* Attore, amore mio (Actor, my love) – Gigi Proietti’s one-man show, directed by Antonello Falqui.

## Networks and services
### Launches

| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
| Retecapri | Cable television | Unknown | | |

### Conversions and rebrandings

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### Closures

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