Fantastico (TV program)

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| genre = Variety show

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• Enzo Trapani
• Luigi Bonori
• Gino Landi
• Fuorio Angiolella
• Sergio Japino
• Giancarlo Nicotra

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• Loretta Goggi
• Heather Parisi
• Beppe Grillo
• Omelet
• Claudio Cecchetto
• Walter Chiari
• Oriella Dorella
• Gigi Sabani
• Romina Power
• Memo Remigi
• Corrado Mantoni
• Raffaella Carrà
• Renato Zero
• Gigi Proietti
• Teresa De Sio
• Optional
• Pippo Baudo
• Eleonora Brigliadori
• José Luis Moreno
• Macedonia
• Lorella Cuccarini
• Galyn Görg
• Pompeo & Carlotta
• Alessandra Martines
• Il Trio
• Adriano Celentano
• Marisa Laurito
• Massimo Boldi
• Maurizio Micheli
• Bruno Gambarotta
• Anna Oxa
• Enrico Montesano
• Massimo Ranieri
• Giancarlo Magalli
• Giorgio Faletti
• Jovanotti
• Gianfranco D'Angelo
• Ilaria D'Angelo
• Milly Carlucci
• Amii Stewart
• Fausto Leali
• Mario Merola

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| country = Italy

| language = Italian

| num_seasons = 13

| num_episodes = 180 (+3 specials)

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| channel = Rai 1

| first_aired = {{start date|1979|10|6}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1998|1|6}}

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Fantastico was an Italian Saturday night variety show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1979 to 1991, with an interruption in 1980, when it was replaced by the game show Scacco Matto. The TV program was linked with the Italian national lottery, and every edition consisted of 13 episodes with the final episode broadcast on 6 January, with the extraction of the winning tickets.Aldo Grasso – Massimo Scaglioni, Enciclopedia della Televisione, Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003.

The show was generally different in its structure from one edition to another; the first edition was seen by an average of 23.6 million viewers. During the years the ratings dropped, and after a disappointing edition hosted by Raffaella Carrà and Johnny Dorelli (7.8 million viewers) the show was replaced by the variety-quiz Scommettiamo che?.

An attempt to revive the show was made in 1997, but Fantastico Enrico (so titled as a reference to the presenter Enrico Montesano) obtained low ratings and Montesano eventually abandoned the show.

Several opening songs of the show charted, and two of them (Heather Parisi's "Disco Bambina" and "Cicale") peaked first at the Italian hit parade.{{cite book|last=Dario Salvatori|title=Storia dell'Hit Parade|publisher=Gramese, 1989}}