March 11, 1984 (1984-03-11) – January 11, 2001 (2001-01-11)
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La Piovra (Italian pronunciation:[laˈpjɔːvra]; English: The Octopus, referring to the Mafia) is an Italian television drama series about the Mafia.[1] The series was directed by various directors who each worked on different seasons, including Damiano Damiani (first season), Florestano Vancini (second season), Luigi Perelli (from the third to the seventh season and again on the tenth season), and Giacomo Battiato (from the eighth to the ninth seasons).
The music was written by Riz Ortolani (first season), Ennio Morricone (from the second to the seventh season and again on the tenth season), and by Paolo Buonvino (from the eighth to the ninth season).
The show was successfully exported to over eighty countries during and after its sixteen-year run. All ten seasons were released in Australia on DVD with English subtitles by Aztec International Entertainment, having originally aired on the Special Broadcasting Service television channel. It was also broadcast on MHz Networks in the United States. The first three seasons were shown in the UK on Channel 4.
The TV drama was successful in the Eastern Bloc, where it appeared on state TV in 1986[2] and in Albania, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria, where it appeared in the end of the 1980s (in its seventh season, the show featured Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov). In Portugal, it was re-broadcast by RTP Memória.
La Piovra is still considered to be the most famous Italian television series in the world, and all seasons received widespread public approval, with an average of 10 million and a peak of 15 million viewers. The show presents an extremely realistic portrayal of the violence and heartlessness of members of organized crime, and this remains the most distinctive feature of the production to this day.
^"Osservatorio sulla fiction italiana" [Observation of Italian fiction]. campo-ofi.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 20 March 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
^"The Octopus series". vokrug.tv (in Russian). Retrieved 20 December 2019.
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