1968 Italian television series debuts

The Odyssey (Italian: Odissea) is an eight-episode European TV miniseries broadcast on RAI (Italian state TV) in 1968 and based on Homer's Odyssey. An Italian, Yugoslavian, German and French (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) coproduction, it was directed by Franco Rossi, assisted by Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava; the cast includes Bekim Fehmiu as Odysseus and Irene Papas as Penelope, Samson Burke as the Cyclops, as well as Barbara Bach as Nausicaa, and Gérard Herter. Several critics consider the series to be a masterful representation of the ancient world.

I ragazzi di padre Tobia is an Italian television series.

La famiglia Benvenuti (literally "The Benvenuti Family") is an Italian comedy television series that originally ran on RAI from 1968 to 1970. Two seasons were produced: the first shot in black and white, the second, experimentally, was instead made in color, although the RAI had not yet adopted this technique (the color broadcasts officially started only eight years later).

Sherlock Holmes is an Italian 1968 television series featuring Nando Gazzolo as Sherlock Holmes and Gianni Bonagura as Dr. Watson.

Senza Rete was a music show created by Giorgio Calabrese and broadcast by Rai 1 (at the time Programma Nazionale) from 1968 to 1975.