1978 in Italian television

This is a list of Italian television related events from 1978.

In 1978 the Italian private televisions, overcome the number of 400 and begin to be a serious threat to the RAI monopoly, also if they are again limited to the local scope and their programming remains, with some exception, low quality (sexy shows, old movies in bad copies, infomercials).

Among the foreign miniseries, the hits of the year are Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a marriage (for the critics) and Roots (for the public).