Don Chisciotte by Maurizio Scaparro, from Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, with Pino Micol and Peppe Barra. Per un viaggio in Italia, trilogy of TV-movie about a travel in Italy, directed by three non-Italian female writer (Susan Sontag, Edith Bruck, Marguerite Duras). Un marziano a Roma (A martian in Rome) – directed and interpreted by Antonio Salines, from an Ennio Flaiano’s play. An alien landed in Rome passes quickly from fame to oblivion. The scarlet and the black, by Jerry London, with Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer and John Gielgud; 2 episodes. La freccia nel fianco (The arrow in the side) – by Giovanni Fago, with Anne Canovas, from the Luciano Zuccoli novel, about the tragic love between a mature woman and a younger boy. Miniseries Delitto e castigo (Crime and punishment) by Mario Missiroli, script by Tullio Kezich, with Mattia Sbragia; 5 episodes. The serial is wholly shot in studio, to get the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Dostoevskij’s novel. Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (That awful mess on Via Merulana) – by Piero Schivazappa, from the Carlo Emilio Gadda’s novel, with Flavio Bucci; 4 episodes. Fontamara (extended version for the television) by Carlo Lizzani, with Michele Placido and Ida Di Benedetto; 4 episodes. Piccolo mondo antico (The little world of the past) by Salvatore Nocita, from Antonio Fogazzaro’s novel, with Mario Cordova, Laura Lattuada and Alida Valli; 4 episodes. It’s followed by other two miniseries from Fogazzaro (Piccolo mondo moderno, by Daniele D’Anza, and Il santo, by Gianluigi Caldirone). Basileus Quartet by Fabio Carpi, with Omero Antonutti. Serial Le storie di Mozziconi – by Nanni Fabbri, with Leo Gullotta as a Roman tramp, from Luigi Malerba’s tales. Variety Morto Troisi, viva Troisi! (Troisi is dead, hail for Troisi) – by Massimo Troisi, with Roberto Benigni and Lello Arena; mockumentary where the Neapolitan actor stages his death, his burials and the hypocritical comments of his colleagues. Pranzo in TV (Dinner in TV) – talk show, hosted by Luciano Rispoli; VIP and ordinary people are reunited around a dinner table to comment the daily events. Chewing gum show – comic variety, with Cochi Ponzoni and Maurizio Micheli. Folkitalia – variety with Toni Cosenza. Galassia 2 – by Gianni Boncompagni; the show, very expensive for its sci-fi scenography, is for RAI the greatest flop of the year. Gransimpatico – with Enzo Jannacci. La porta magica (Magic door) – with Renato Rascel (in