''L’altra domenica'' ("Another Side of Sunday") was an Italian Sunday afternoon variety show, broadcast on

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between 1976 and 1979. Created and hosted by Renzo Arbore, it was inspired by Arbore's radio program ''Alto gradimento''.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . During its first season, the program alternated serious football reports with variety show, then from the second season it focused on humor. Its cast included

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playing a surrealistic cinematographic critic,

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, Maurizio Nichetti (who also cured with Guido Manuli some animated segments), the trans-gender musical group Sorelle Bandiera, whose song "Fatti più in là" they launched in the show became a hit, Giorgio Bracardi and

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, Mario Marenco and Michel Pergolani cured semi-serious live reports from New York City, Rome and London. The show was the first Italian live program to use telephone to interact with its audience, in this case through a humorous quiz. It was referred to as "a breath of fresh air for the intelligent and the curious" and "a monument in Italian television history".

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