Later, at 10pm, TV Globo in Rio de Janeiro also premiered its first soap opera, Ilusões Perdidas, directed by Líbero Miguel and Sérgio Britto, with a cast acting for the first time on television: Reginaldo Farias, Leila Diniz, Miriam Pires, Osmar Prado and also the participation of Norma Blum and Zilka Salaberry hired from TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro, where they participated in Teatrinho Trol on Sunday afternoons.
That first week, musical programs also debuted with Darlene Glória and the duo Cyl Farney and Dick Farney; the humorous program TNT, with Betty Faria and Márcia de Windsor; The Treasure Hunt, presented by Walter Forster, in which guests had to discover in a model of Rio de Janeiro where the production had hidden the chest with the treasure, through tips about that particular location; Who is who?
presented by Célia Biar, when the guests had to discover among the three participants which one spoke the truth in relation to having a certain profession, and TV Ó canal zero and TV 1 canal meio, with Agildo Ribeiro and Paulo Silvino, all from cinema, without having done any work until then for television, and Câmera Indiscreta, the latter a national version adapted from the American original directed by Mauro Salles, Maurício Dantas and Roberto Farias, shown on Wednesdays, at 7:15 pm, presented by Renato Consorte and the "cara de pau" journalist and comedian José Martins de Araújo Jr., and a news program presented by Hilton Gomes, Tele Globo, the embryo of Jornal Nacional.
On Sunday afternoons, Globo premiered Jonny Quest and the British supermarionation series, Thunderbirds, in the first week, both of which achieved great success among children at the time.
[1] This first phase of Globo was also responsible for the launch in Brazil of American series such as: Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters, A Ilha dos Birutas, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Mister Ed, Ben Casey, I Dream of Jeannie and Batman.