Shows of the year
Drama and comedy
- Tutto Totò – by Daniele D’Anza with Totò; cycle of 9 comic TV-movie, unfinished because the death of the actor. The series, realized hastily, gets a good public success but deludes the critics and the fans of Totò, who here appears underused and far from his best shape. [12]
- La cotta (The crush) – by Ermanno Olmi, with no-professional actors; love story between two teen-agers.
- La madre di Torino (Turin’s mother) – experimental docudrama by Gianni Bongioanni, with Lucia Catullo; inspired by a true story (the rescue of a child clinging to a balcony in Turin). [13]
- Il novelliere – by Daniele D’Anza ; second cycle of tv plays, after the 1960 one, from the tales by other six great writers (Alberto Moravia, Guy de Maupassant, Giovanni Verga, Cesare Pavese, Somerset Maugham, Karel Capek).
- Lo schiaccianoci – C’era una volta (The nutcracker – Once upon a time) by Vito Molinari, musical comedy from the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet; with Carla Fracci, Giorgio Albertazzi and Renato Rascel. [14]
- Delirio a due (Duplex delirium) – by Vittorio Cottafavi, from Eugene Ionesco’s Délire à deux, with Renato Rascel and Fulvia Mammi. A couple is so intent on arguing that they do not notice that war has broken out.
- L’ospite segreto (The secret sharer) by Eriprando Visconti, from Joseph Conrad’s novel, with Nino Castelnuovo and Giulio Brogi.
- The Persians by Aeschylus, from the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, directed by Dimitrios Rondiris, with Elena Zareschi, Giulio Brogi and Tino Carraro.
Historical drama
- Il complotto di luglio, by Vittorio Cottafavi, from The july plot by Roger Manvell, with Paolo Graziosi and Tino Carraro.
- Il processo di Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù (Therese of Lisieux’s canonization) – by Vittorio Cottafavi, with Franco Graziosi and Evi Maltagliati. The life of the saint is reconstructed by the testimonies of five of her sisters.
- La sconfitta di Trotsky (Leon Trotsky’s defeat) – docudrama by Marco Leto, with Franco Parenti and Valeria Valeri.
France - The Taking of Power by Louis XIV by Roberto Rossellini
Miniseries
- Breve gloria di mister Miffin (Mr. Miffin’s Brief Glory) – by Anton Giulio Majano, from The one-eyed monster by Allan Prior, with Cesco Baseggio and Alberto Lupo ; 4 episodes. One of the first Italian fictions about sociological questions, it tells the story of an old wise man, whose life is destroyed when he becomes a TV star.
- Questi nostri figli (Those our sons) – by Mario Landi, from a Francois Mauriac’s script adapted by Diego Fabbri, with Andrea Lala, Mila Vannucci and Lino Capolicchio, 4 episodes. The themes of the French writer (the gap between the generations and between Catholics and freethinkers) are transposed into contemporary Bologna. [15]
Period drama
- Abramo Lincoln: cronaca di un delitto (Chronicle of a crime) by Daniele D’Anza, with Antonio Crast (Lincoln), Sergio Graziani (Booth) and Massimo Girotti (teller) ; 4 episodes.
- Caravaggio, by Silverio Blasi, with Gian Maria Volonté in the title role, Carla Gravina and Renzo Palmer; in 3 episodes. [16]
- I promessi sposi, by Sandro Bolchi, from Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed , script by Riccardo Bacchelli, with two young actors coming from the new-wave cinema (Nino Castelnuovo and Paola Pitagora) as the two protagonists and a stellar cast in the minor roles (Tino Carraro, Luigi Vannucchi, Massimo Girotti, Lea Massari, Salvo Randone and Giancarlo Sbragia as the teller); in 8 episodes. Scrupulously faithful to the original text, it is one of the Italian TV-novels most ambitious and most appreciated by public and critics. [17]
- La fiera delle vanità – by Anton Giulio Majano, fromWilliam Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair , with Adriana Asti and Ilaria Occhini; in 7 episodes. [18]
- Vita di Cavour (Life of Cavour) – by Piero Schivazappa, with Renzo Palmer, script by Giorgio Prosperi; in 4 episodes. [19]
- Dossier Mata Hari – biopic by Mario Landi, with Cosetta Greco in the title role and Gabriele Ferzetti ; 4 episodes.
Serials
- Sheridan, squadra omicidi (Sheridan homicide squad) by Leonardo Cortese, with Ubaldo Lay as the Lieutenant Sheridan of the San Francisco Police Department.
- I racconti del faro (The lighthouse’s tales) – by Angelo D’Alessandro, with Fosco Giachetti and Roberto Chevalier; sea adventures in 6 episodes, for children. [20]
Variety
- Partitissima - 1967 edition of Canzonissima , hosted by Alberto Lupo, won by Dalida with Dan dan dan.
- Il tappabuchi (The stopgaps) – by Vito Molinari, with Corrado Mantoni and Raimondo Vianello, in 8 episodes; mix of comic sketches, dance, quiz and candid cameras realized by Nanny Loy. [21]
- Sabato sera (Saturday evening) – by Antonello Falqui, hosted by Mina, with Rocky Roberts, Lola Falana and Franca Valeri as constant guests.
- Musica da sera (Evening music) – by Enzo Trapani, with Lisa Gastoni and Mascia Cantoni. [22]
- Diamoci del tu (Don't be formal) – by Romolo Siena, musical show aimed to the young ones, hosted by Caterina Caselli and Giorgio Gaber; debut in TV of Francesco Guccini and Franco Battiato. [23]
- Chi ti ha dato la patente? (Who gave you the driving license?) – quiz aimed to make know the rules of the road, hosted by Mascia Cantoni, with Ric e Gian as regular guests. It’s the first Italian TV show with a female presenter.
- Eccetera, eccetera - by Vito Molinari, hosted by Gino Bramieri, Marisa Del Frate and Pippo Baudo.
- Lei non si preoccupi (Don't worry) - hosted by Isabella Biagini and Enrico Simonetti.
- Scarpette rosa (Pink shoes) – tribute show to Carla Fracci, in form of an enquiry by a female reporter (Lina Volonghi). [24]
- Stasera in casa (Tonite at ...’s house)- show from the houses of actors as Tomas Millian [25] and Sandra Milo. [26]
News and educational
- La via del petrolio (The way of the petroleum) - by Bernardo Bertolucci, produced by ENI; 3 episodes. [27]
- Giovani – magazine aimed to the younger audience, care of Andrea Barbato.