7.4 /10 1 Votes
Genre Variety
Sketch Comedy No. of seasons 6 Picture format Color Final episode date 1989 Network Italia 1 | 7.4/10 IMDb Country of origin Italy Original network Italia 1 First episode date 1983 Program creator Antonio Ricci Number of seasons 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presented by Gianfranco D'Angelo
Ezio Greggio
Enrico Beruschi Cast Ezio Greggio, Gianfranco D'Angelo, Enrico Beruschi Similar OK - Il Prezzo è Giusto!, Striscia la notizia, Fantastico, Non Stop, My Secret Identity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Drive In is an Italian television variety show, broadcast by Italia 1 between 1983 and 1988. It was referred as the most innovative and popular Italian television show of the 1980s.
History
Created by Antonio Ricci, the show revolutioned Italian TV conventions and languages, proposing a zany, sharp and fast humor, partly imported from the model of the Saturday Night Live. It also proposed a new, different image of the women, more sensual and transgressive. In reason of its high audience ratings, it has a key role in the success of Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest (now Mediaset).
The show launched the careers of several comedians (such as Ezio Greggio, Giorgio Faletti, Francesco Salvi) as well as of a number of showgirls (including Tinì Cansino and Lory Del Santo). It generated a series of imitation programs, several of them also created by the same Antonio Ricci.