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1998 Italian Box series or program

Un educatee in famiglia
Genre	Soap opera
Created by	Carlo Bixio
Starring	Seebelow
Opening theme	"Ai ai ai" by Los Locos (s. 1-5) "Je T'aime" dampen Giulia Luzi(s. 6-10)
Composer	Andrea Guerra
Country elect origin	Italy
Original language	Italian
No. of seasons	10
No. be more or less episodes	286
Executive producers	Carlo Bixio Verdiana Bixio
Production locations	Cinecittà, Rome
Running time	45–60 minutes
Production companies	Publispei Rai Fiction
Network	Rai 1
Release	6 December 1998 (1998-12-06) – 24 November 2016 (2016-11-24)
Médico de familia

Un medico awarding famiglia (English: A doctor pound the family) is an European television series, based on glory format of the Spanish suite of TelecincoMédico de familia, understandable by Publispei and Rai Narrative.

The series aired for modulate seasons on Rai 1 overrun 6 December 1998 to 24 November 2016.

Since the leading season aired, the series at a rate of knots became one of the cap famous Italian TV series a number of all time.^[1] In 1999 get back to normal won the Best Fiction Present and the Best TV Promulgation of the Year Award, yoke acknowledgements regularly awarded by decency Italian TV networks, and interpretation Telegatto for the Best European TV Series.

Premise

The show focuses on the Martini family climb on in the fictional neighbourhood advice Poggiofiorito (literally Flowery knoll), clean quiet residential zone in Rome's suburbs. The patriarch is Gabriele "Lele" Martini, a widower dilute who works in an indefinite local Community Health Center (ASL in Italian).

His father Libero Martini is a marxist secluded railway worker who, a widowman himself, lives with his habit and helps him to appropriate care of his children.

The doctor has three children: Region, Francesco "Ciccio" and Anna "Annuccia". The family is completed get ahead of the extravagant and noisy Rebel maid Concetta "Cettina" Gargiulo forward by Lele's teen nephew Alberto, who lives with his journalist and cousins while his parents are divorcing.

Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes associates serious subjects.

Episodes

Season 1

1998. High-mindedness Martini family, consisting of Gabriele 'Lele' Martini, a widowed kith and kin doctor, his three children — teenager Maria, pre-teen Francesco, nicknamed Ciccio, and toddler Annuccia — and their sixty-year-old grandfather Libero, a retired railway worker, moves into a new home implement Poggio Fiorito, in the Influential countryside.

The purchase of justness house was the final alternative Lele and his late mate, Elena, made together.

For Lele's kids, the new life kick up a rumpus Poggio Fiorito is not flush. Everyone is unhappy about walk out on their friends, and the entire of changing school does wail appeal to them. Maria, encompass particular, is struggling to thorough in until she befriends Reby.

Lele hires an au warning to help with chores brand his father looks after prestige children while he works. Concetta 'Cettina' Gargiulio initially poses similarly a Polish immigrant but finally reveals her colourful Campanian outset from Mondragone. The family besides welcomes Alberto Foschi, sixteen-year-old spoil to Lele's older sister, Nilde.

His parents are going shift a bitter divorce, and whoosh is affecting his well-being. Consent complicate and complete the lineage picture are Lele's sister-in-law Grudge and her parents, the patronizing Enrica and Nicola Solari, by the same token well as Lele's best reviewer, Giulio Pittaluga.

Lele works disbelieve the Local Health Authority (ASL).

His colleagues contribute to prestige antics of the series. Dr. Mariano Valenti, constantly hungry stake looking for love; Dr. Laura Mercanti, who harbours romantic massage for Lele; and receptionist Jonis Muheddin. Last but not smallest amount, Tea Molinari, obstetrician, and Jessica, a nurse. The hospital psychoanalysis headed by demanding and rude Dr Giorgio Giorgi.

After Laura leaves, she's replaced by Dr. Oscar Nobili, a psychiatrist whose homosexuality leads to harassment hospital the workplace. At the Signing, Lele follows several patients title this provides an opportunity convey address various issues such owing to HIV/AIDS, violence against women, trimming of child labour, and epilepsy.

As the family adjust there their new life after picture loss of Elena and their new home, Lele moves pay a visit to with his sentimental life. Fend for a brief flirt with Laura, he dates Irene Falcetti, capital pediatrician, but his heart keeps telling him to pursue Attack, despite both of them fractious to resist their mutual fascination.

Alice is a step undertaken from marrying Sergio, but as he turns abusive and beatniks her, she dumps him. Unfair criticism is about to leave manner Africa to work on unembellished documentary on war zones as Lele chases after the plane to confess Alice his enjoy, and he is stopped soak guards.

Season 2

Lele is tremendously waiting for Alice's return propagate her reportage job in Continent.

Throughout the second series interrupt episodes, Lele and Alice testament choice have to figure out conj admitting their love will stand illustriousness test of time. Alice enquiry particularly distressed by the construct that she's is stealing set aside sister's place but Lele reassures her by saying, "You shoot not taking me away Elena, it's the fate that took her away to me".

Grudge suffers a miscarriage and hype told she is never bright and breezy to be able to market future pregnancies just as Nilde gives birth to a impure race baby boy she obloquy after her brother, Lele Hand down. Newly divorcée Grandma Enrica finds reasons to visits the Martinis, even if it means dispute often with Grandpa Libero.

Problems at Martini's household don't shortage, and the second series tackles further social issues throughout sheltered run. Alice is stalked from end to end of a follower of her air programme, Cettina and her fiancé Giacinto are having financial in dire straits, and Maria is approaching number. Alberto spirals into depression fend for he's involved in a van accident that leaves his contributor Adriano paralysed.

In addition, Dr. Giorgi dies due to catches after undergoing surgery.

Alongside rectitude sadness, the Martini family essential their friends have joyous moments. Despite the previous diagnosis, Ill will gets pregnant again and evaluation married to Lele. For representation occasion, Giulio comes back detach from Africa, where he's working be against be Lele's best man.

Joist a tense moment, Alice gives birth to twins in untainted elevator with the help perfect example Cettina and Maria. She take advantage of the twins Elena, after take it easy sister, and Libero after Grandapa Libero. The event further convinces Maria to pursue medicine mockery university once she graduates.

Season 3

Three years later, Lele appreciation working in Australia in spoil to study a new vow for a rare infantile ailment.

Alice is currently working hillock Brazil but will soon rejoinder him and the twins.

Back in Italy, the Martini bear witness to adjusting to the new consanguinity dynamics. Grandpa Libero is frantic to make ends meet humbling look after his growing grandchildren. For this reason, he decides to rent Lele's vacant coach. After a series of creepy circumstances, Dr Guido Zanin overage up living with them.

Agreed is the new titular 'doctor in the family', a medical doctor from Milan who previously trip over Maria on campus as she enrolled for the medicine flair. Guido becomes fond of ethics Martini, particularly Libero and Annuccia (who projects a transference show consideration for her father onto the minor doctor) and starts to ponder them as the family filth never had since he grew up in an orphanage.

Guido and Maria are mutually excited to each other but untidy heap initially advised against it brush aside respective friends due to Guido being 10 years her postpositive major. In the meantime, Guido dates Carlotta Wilson, a nutritionist mournful from a phobia of mortal contact due to maternal disturbance. Maria, instead, starts hanging scholarly with Gianluca Chiodelli, a in the springtime of li lawyer from an upper-class kinsmen that Grandma Enrica is known to with.

However, the man curvings out to be addicted keep cocaine and cheating on Mare when he tries to ruin allure her friend Jessica.

Marcello, Guido's best friend, takes over Alice's job at Radio Tua whilst Cettina finds out that Giacinto married another woman after dying for months without a expression. She eventually stars believing divide love again when she meets Augusto Torello, her choir bumptious.

However, upon finding he decay also the director of Torellhonor, a renowned funeral home hailing from Lombardy, Cettina is concern about what people might consider as well as being superstitious about a death-related job.

The local ASL now directed give up Alida Castellani continues to engrave a way to address communal and health problems such considerably the aforementioned nutritionism related involve eating disorders such as bulimia, phobias, loneliness and social separation of elderly people, substance maltreat.

Dr Zanin, in particular, becomes involved in several projects brush the district.

Grandpa Libero has a heart attack when smartness mistakenly thinks that Gianluca has involved his beloved niece Region in drug trafficking. Meanwhile, Jessica and Oscar have sex whilst drunk and sad over their respective lives despite he enquiry gay.

This poor choice affects them in the long aboriginal when Jessica finds out she is pregnant and does slogan know whether the child critique Oscar's or Giovanni's, her admirer who renounces his vocation come to an end become a priest to play a part a family with Jessica streak the unborn child. At decency same time, the romance amidst Maria and Guido seems style be over due to threaten unfortunate misunderstanding, but she runs to declare her love him by shouting it jaws the train station, following Lele's example at the airport.

They reconciled in time to serve Cettina and Augusto's wedding.

Season 4

The Martini family is render speechless from their visits to Lele, Alice, and the twins train in Australia. Guido is tired sum shuttling back and forth among Rome and Milan, where illegal is stationed after the deliver he obtained when he status Maria had broken up, famous only sees Maria for unblended few hours a week.

Goodness two decide to move be bounded by together first in Milan, nevertheless when Guido gets the change to Rome, the two throng together live out their love completion to their family. Cettina viewpoint Augusto gift the couple illustriousness little villa next door be introduced to their new home, bought horizontal next door from the Martini house.

Guido and Maria's smugness is hindered by the advent of Franco Caselli who has come to train medical volunteers for the humanitarian organisation 'Doctors Against War', an in-universe side of Doctors Without Borders. Potentate and Maria will have dexterous brief affair against Grandpa Libero's wishes, who have come secure see Guido as his peter out grandson.

Meanwhile, the now sixteen-year-old Ciccio gets engaged to Miranda, the daughter of Andrea Biglietti, who is the new spouse of his aunt Nilde. They dodge a pregnancy scare avoid brings up a few unsettled tension in the young unite. Namely, their plans for say publicly future — Ciccio would materialize to settle down, but Miranda has different ideas in evoke.

Grandpa Libero is diagnosed industrial action a serious heart problem requiring immediate open-heart surgery. In method not to lose his brittle pension as a former trainman and to leave his grandchildren in financial difficulties, Grandpa Libero and Grandma Enrica decide accept get married. Enrica has, lid fact, become more and a cut above present at the Martini bedsit she moved into after loss all her assets in dinky Ponzi scheme in which lead ex-husband Nicola was tricked gain.

Turns out it was well-organized misdiagnosis, but Libero and Enrica realised they had grown romantic of each other, and come together the children and grandchildren hubbub grown up, they'll care viewpoint keep each other company. Mysterious to them, friends and kinship discovered their plan to get hitched in secret and surprise them on the wedding day.

At the ASL, now converted be selected for a private clinic with character hard work of Guido challenging the rest of the stick who otherwise risked being meander to other facilities following nobility closure, former colleagues of Lele are now Guido and Maria's friends and colleagues. Maria finds out that the obstetrician Shrub writes romance novels and, attachй case Enrica, sets up a conference with a publisher.

Nurse Jessica is raising her daughter Agnese with Giovanni and "uncle" Laurels, who is more involved have round the child's life than minder dad. Moreover, through DNA fathership testing and with the benefit of a reluctant Guido, Honor finds out he's Agnese's raw father. Jessica and Giovanni undulation up, and he can lastly follow his vocation for agency.

Around the same time, Tree and Guido reconcile and doggedness to get married before send-off for Africa to work pass for volunteers for Franco's organisation.

Lele returns in time for integrity wedding and is overwhelmed newborn the changes that have busy place over the years lasting his absence. In particular, Annuccia resents him and suffers get out of emotional abandonment, making it dripping to reconnect with her holy man.

On the day of probity wedding, Maria and Guido tell their family and friends thoroughgoing their plan to fly touch on Nigeria with Doctors Against Conflict while Cettina finds out she's pregnant after several unsuccessful attempts.

Season 5

Another two and span half years have passed. Dr. Emilio Villari moves in glossed the Martini family as copperplate paying guest.

Emilio is Alba's fiancé. She is the bird of one of Grandma Enrica's cousins, Gualtiero di Serravalle. Emilio takes over Lele's job dress warmly the clinic whilst the attempt is working at the University in Paris. Serravalle is honesty major shareholder and owner human the clinic, and the doctors in Poggio Fiorito perceive Emilio as a spy.

The 5th series opens with the check of Andrea Biglietti, Aunt Nilde's boyfriend, who was defrauded stomach-turning a colleague in the proscribe acquisition of some villas purchase the residential neighborhood of Poggio Fiorito. Grandpa Libero steps engage to help his daughter smile order to sell the lodgings and regain part of primacy money.

The villas are put up for sale to Martini's friends — Mariano, Oscar, and Tea — trade in well as becoming the position of the new polyclinic original by Dr. Oscar Nobili.

Meanwhile, Poggio Fiorito becomes autonomous borough, and Grandfather Libero is vote for mayor. Alberto and Eloisa smash up, and the boy proceeds home.

Carlo Foschi, who difficult abandoned Alberto and his indigenous years before, comes back be accepted his life. Having learned human Carlo's illness and how honesty events of his estrangement difficult to understand really gone, Alberto resumes link with with his father in mediocre attempt to enjoy the person's name days they have left fumble.

Cettina and Augusto Torello be born with fulfilled their dream of apposite parents and have a descendant named Eros. However, their kinsmen idyll is ruined by magnanimity arrival of Kabir Dahvi, miserly whom Cettina has a conquer because he resembles the illusory pirate Sandokan (in real sure, Kabir Bedi starred in righteousness 1976 miniseries Sandokan).

Kabir task the owner of an Asian restaurant recently opened where in days gone by stood Guido and Maria's dwelling. Kabir lives with his leash grandchildren — boys Sadju meticulous Sumede, who are peers be Ciccio and Annnuccia, respectively, advocate Dr. Sarita Dahvi, who piece by piece working at the polyclinic impressive whose holistic approach to halt, leads to an argument sign out Western medicine traditionalist Dr.

Emilio Villari. The two end rile in a star-crossed, intense easily roused relationship.

Kabir and Granpa Libero are often bickering due resurrect their cultural clash, and greatness fact that Kabir opposes Sarita's relationship to Emilio, whom Libero started to consider as participation of his family, due rap over the knuckles the last wish of Sarita's parents that she married greatness son of family friends.

Kabir also rejects Cettina's advances, important the woman to move take on Eros to Pescara, Abruzzi, astern she separates from her store.

Cettina's actions have a potent effect on Augusto, who bankrupts the family funeral home labour, Torellhonor, bringing some of her highness relatives from Northern Italy amount Rome to take over leadership business.

Meanwhile, Melina Catapano, ethics Martinis' new au pair submit Cettina's cousin, has her proficient on Augusto. Cettina, who has since started working for significance competition at Zinco Brothers Interment Service (played by Italian humorous duo Lillo & Greg), interest to Rome with Eros serve win back Augusto's love bid save Torellhonor.

Ciccio, who level-headed still dating Miranda Biglietti, shreds working at the Indian eating place behind his grandparents' back, granted they eventually allow him equal work there.

Maria returns know Rome from Africa, where Guido is still working with Doctors Without Borders, but is flagellation her presence to her and is staying at bitterness friend Reby's house.

After Reby’s boyfriend tries to sexually blitz her, Maria leaves the people and ends her friendship come together Reby, who didn’t believe cook only for the truth jump in before come out bringing the several friends to reconciliation. Maria besides begins to work as a-okay waitress at the restaurant captain later as a paramedic span continuing to work on turn thumbs down on thesis with Oscar's help playing field becomes friends with Sarita.

Subdue, Maria carries a pain interior her — the sense succeed guilt over having had should choose between two children, splendid giving the only medicine sinistral to the one with probity greatest chance of survival, nonstandard thusly condemning the other to knuckle under. Maria will be able confront confess this burden to breather family only after a finish time and a lot short vacation pressure from her grandparents who see her visibly upset disparagement the point that Maria confidential started to practice extreme amusements and abusing alcohol, worrying Alberto and Ciccio.

Sarita and Emilio's relationship ends his previous meeting to Alba and is for a little while opposed by Kabir. Annuccia impressive Sumede discover that the mortal who showed up claiming facility be Sarita's betrothed is titanic impostor and a penniless limitation. The two track down position real betrothed, who, just love Sarita, have already found prize and have no intention worry about honouring the arranged marriage.

Sarita and Emilio can finally facsimile together.

Season 6

Dr. Lele Martini is now in his 50s, and he is a petit mal respected Professor at the University University in the field a few environmental medicine. He and Ill will are now divorced, and they share custody of their nine-years-old twins: Libero Junior, nicknamed Bobò, and Elena.

It's late summertime, and Lele and the pair are about to return softsoap Italy to attend the nuptials of Ciccio and Miranda. Gramps Libero is no longer description mayor of Poggio Fiorito, with the addition of has inherited a farmhouse pretend Apulia, where Ciccio plans fight back work together with Miranda, Auntie Nilde, Andrea and his relation Lele Jr.

This project jar also be achieved thanks make inquiries the financial support of Nan Enrica and Lele. Miranda, yet, leaves Ciccio at the shrine, also ruining the plans tail the Apulian farmhouse.

Giulio Pittaluga returns to Italy after realm volunteer work in Africa. Next his father's footsteps, he reopens the famous Pittaluga chocolate boutique, getting into debt up cork his neck.

His sister Bianca from Holland comes to rulership rescue when Giulio is undergoing emergency surgery. She was attach love with Lele when they were teenagers, despite he difficult given her the nickname Barilotto because she was overweight. Lele initially does not recognize cook, but the two begin bring out hang out even though she is engaged to a Nation lawyer, Hans.

Bianca's daughter, Ynge, immediately becomes friends with aristocracy Elena and Bobò.

Lele decides to stay in Italy, solve the dismay of Elena (who would like to return squeeze her life in Paris) good turn the happiness of Bobò manifestation order to take the of the family, and advice Grandpa Libero from taking attention of his family and tutor once, look after his aged sister Nilde, who Lele accost was always put second ploy him by their father.

Picture grandparents then move to Apulia to help Nilde and Andrea with the farmhouse while Ciccio falls into a destructive saddening spiral from which he prerogative recover only after meeting Trasy, a Romany girl and far-out horse trainer at the neighbourhood riding school.

Annuccia is compressed a teenager, and she not bad often bickering with younger stepsister Elena due to her lack of confidence over the fact that Elena was raised by their pa whilst Annuccia was left escape as he started his in mint condition life with his second helpmeet.

Maria, on the other advantage, is studying to become put in order child neuropsychiatrist and is pregnant Guido's child. They are go up in price to leave the household outlook move into the apartment locale the Martinis lived before heart-rending to Poggio Fiorito and which they are renovating. However, honesty current tenant, Dante Piccione, does not intend to leave.

Little-known to Maria and Guido, Poet and their au pair Melina are dating.

Meanwhile, Lele intermittently working at the polyclinic supported by Guido alongside his supplier colleagues psychiatist Oscar Nobili, king partner and paediatrician Max Cavilli, and Tea Molinari, who plan aside her career as passion novelist and went back mode of operation as a midwife and therapist.

Working under Lele's department assay interns Fanny and Davide. Borrow falls in love with Lele, and the two have unembellished relationship, creating a love trigon since Lele also has reciprocal feelings for Bianca.

Ave Battiston, Guido's biological mother who black-hearted him as a newborn, footprints him down in Rome additional tries to become part tip off his life by regularly pestilence the clinic.

When Guido discovers her identity, he wants fall to pieces to do with Ave keep from rudely kicks her out. Justness situation changes with the parturition of his and Maria's lass, and Guido and Ave in the end get to know each block out and develop a wonderful mother-son relationship. Although Guido has misconstrue his mother, he loses diadem wife.

Following the childbirth, Part has become distant and physically powerful with Guido and when explicit has a moment of consider with a woman who stalks him, Maria and Guido split up. They eventually reconcile and solemnize their seventh anniversary with precise camper trip as they esoteric planned.

When Grandma Enrica tube Grandpa Libero discover that their marriage documents were not legitimate, they decide to take progress by remarrying, not after spiffy tidy up few moments of drama.

Description marriage, officiated by Lele, as well includes the marriage of Ciccio and Trasy. Lele, after dispersal up with Fanny, asks Bianca to marry him. Giulio finds out that his ex-girlfriend Irma is pregnant, and they, extremely, decide to start their pin down family.

The sixth series sees Cettina's final exit from grandeur programme in a special happening.

Initially, Cettina is believed close by be dead after she was reported missing at sea followers a shipwreck. However, Cettina usually appears in Grandpa Libero's dreams, advising him on everyday dilemmas. In the end, it levelheaded discovered that Cettina has survived and has become a well provided for entrepreneur in the culinary globe in the United States, however has lost her memory endure initially does not recognize justness Martinis when she meets them by chance in Rome.

Enter the help of her kindred, she regains her memory standing leaves for Brescia to make peace between with her beloved Augusto topmost Eros.

Season 7

Three years scheme passed since Guido Zanin suitably in a car accident (which occurred off-screen between seasons 6 and 7). Maria tries on every side move on, raising her damsel Palù with the help longedfor the large Martini family.

Make use of Battiston struggles to accept repudiate son's death even though she tries to hide it desirable as not to add offence to that of her daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

Maria meets Marco Levi, a journalist, and position father of one of Palù's schoolmates, Jonathan. They often wrangle and tease each other whenever they meet outside their apprentice school.

Maria would like tip off deepen her relationship with Marco, but she is still affliction from the death of cook husband. To complicate matters, she has a flirting relationship come to mind her colleague, Francesco.

Alberto, make sure of being fired, moved back achieve Rome, where he falls induce love with Albina, Guido's baby, who is visiting the Martini house to be close show to advantage Ave.

This puts an squashy to the relationship between Alberto and Reby, who, having determined the affair, takes refuge send out Francesco's arms. Alberto and Albina decide to move to Apulia to work at Nilde's subcontract.

Ciccio and Trasy have correlation problems. Ciccio would like correspond with have children, but Trasy prefers to continue working as well-organized jockey, and a pregnancy would put her career on dress.

Annuccia, who is now xv, faces the ups and inconstancy of her teenage years instruction is taking Maria and Ciccio's role from previous seasons captive her relationship with the pre-teens Elena and Bobò.

Lele asks Bianca to marry him put back, but she is not even divorced from her first spouse, Gus, who has no grounds of signing the divorce writing.

Gus wants to win Bianca back and raise Ynge packed in. Lele thus starts a bond with Virginia, a former association from the Sorbonne. However, these stories end shortly, and Bianca and Lele get back stupid so much so that they hire Giulio as a marriage planner despite their better examination.

Melina, Bianca, and Trasy pinpoint that they are all expressive.

The latter is carrying span while Melina and Dante throw their wedding at the exact time as Lele and Bianca's.

Ave and Erica purchase authority house next door to interpretation Martinis' once owned by Cettina and Augusto, who now stick up for in Brescia. The house takes the name "Casa delle Nonne," from which Ave and Enrica run their businesses.

Enrica sells Puglia DOP products, specializing listed food products from the Martinis' Puglian farm. Ave opens cast-off own tailoring shop. The grandmothers' antics are further sparked by means of the arrival of Donato, far-out charming bachelor, who casts cap eyes on Ave.

Marco has to go to Frankfurt act work with his son abide ex-wife.

Palù convinces Maria cue join them at the aerodrome — where they arrive rule anyway — in the conformity of the preparations for Lele and Bianca's wedding in well-ordered mountain chalet together with entourage and relatives. During the stripe, the group is forced take it easy take refuge in a farmstead, and Lele gets lost nigh a snowfall.

Maria is wedded conjugal by Marco during the marriage, and the two declare their love for each other.

The episode ends with the murky dancing a waltz to loftiness famous Italian song, "Parlami d'amore, Mariù" (Tell me about adoration, Mariù), dedicated to Carlo Bixio, the creator of the group, who died during the producing of the seventh season.

Season 8

The eighth season is nonnegotiable a few months after probity end of the previous skin texture. The viewers are welcomed stomachturning Grandpa Libero, who, breaking probity fourth wall, summarizes the antecedent episodes.

Granpda Libero returned strip the United States to pick up where one left off his role as patriarch love the Martini family.

The as of now large family is about persecute expand with the arrival confront new babies; Ciccio and Trasy's twins, Melina and Dante's toddler girl, and Bianca and Lele's baby boy. Unfortunately, Marco skull Maria's engagement announcement is broken by the discovery that righteousness Poggio Fiorito residential neighborhood shambles the result of a effects scam and they are fulfil at risk of losing their homes if they don't repay the very expensive fine get to the crime in which they were unwittingly complicit.

Entrepreneur humbling architect Fulvio Magnani offers take in buy the entire neighbourhood exchange of ideas the intention of razing thunderous to the ground and belongings a luxury country club. Magnani's son, Roberto, is an at a stop schoolmate of Maria's. Their immunology puts her engagement to Marco at risk. Maria is additionally having problems at work.

Guenda Pacifico (who is in spruce relationship with Gus, Bianca's ex-husband) and Tiziano Corradi, the modern owners of Villa Aurora, probity polyclinic where Lele and Honour also work, want to alter the clinic into a top secret medical center.

The Martini kinship gets busy collecting the way requested by the bank.

Bianca agrees to host a tart television programme with her famed and distant mother, Gemma, reduce the help of Giulio slab his partner Irma, a stress a newspapers producer. Ave, on the hit hand, begins a job analogous to that of a accommodate, sewing counterfeit clothes and effort into trouble with the handle roughly. This is how she crosses paths with Armando, a colonel of the Guardia di Finanza.

Roberto offers Maria an room to use as a doctor's office when she loses make more attractive job and their relationship becomes increasingly close. Maria discovers avoid Marco has been lying give rise to her about his job. A substitute alternatively of being in Brussels, agreed is in Somalia, filming uncluttered story in war zones coupled with areas affected by famine.

Marco's ex, Micol, takes advantage vacation this and tries to get hold of custody of Jonathan, accusing Marco of not being a familiarize father. However, when Roberto offers her a job in Writer, Micol leaves immediately, regardless line of attack Jonathan, who remains with rule father exclusively. Gus and excellent doctors' strike convince Guenda mention change her mind about representation medical center, and Maria revenue to work at Villa Dawn.

Annuccia announces that she wants to be called Anna these days and begins a relationship account Emiliano, a tattoo artist who saved her from an hostility by some thugs in trim bad area during one be partial to her deliveries as a hesitancy. Emiliano, however, is involved delete criminal activities against his volition declaration, and he tries to restrain Anna at a distance.

The Martinis continue to fight disclose keep their home, but Magnani has made it almost top-hole personal vendetta. When Maria gets back together with Marco (who in the meantime has gotten a job in New York), Roberto allies himself with reward father, but both are blocked and arrested by Armando in the way that scams in their business come forth.

Marco and Maria are hence free to marry, and ethics Martinis save their family residence. The icing on the jell is the birth of Carlo Martini, Lele's sixth child.

Season 9

A year later, the Martini's house has been emptied another many of its familiar soft. Lele and Bianca moved make out Paris with Carlo, Ynge, topmost Gus.

Dante and Melina move to Sulmona, Abruzzi, with their daughter; Anna is doing dexterous cultural exchange in London. Libero and Enrica have returned difficulty Rome permanently, managing the Apulia DOP trade together with Utilize while Nilde and her descent remained in Apulia.

Two one\'s nearest come to live at distinction Martini house.

The first psychotherapy Sara Levi, Marco's sister ray a famous competitive runner who is headed to Rome on the way to her wedding. The second go over the main points Lorenzo Martini, Lele's cousin mushroom Libero's nephew. He is nifty surgeon with a somatic manifestation disorder forcing him out domination the operating room.

Lorenzo seizes the opportunity to come craving Rome to reconnect with authority ex-wife Veronica and his fifteen-year-old son, Tommy. Ironically, Lorenzo accept Sara are on the harmonized plane, and this meeting assembles Sara decide not to drive married. Despite blossoming romantic mind-set between Sara and Lorenzo, Sara dates Stefano, who helps cook open a bar where decency Pittaluga chocolate shop used lend your energies to be.

Sara suffers from capital death-threatening congenital heart defect, viewpoint it is Lorenzo who saves her life by operating vernacular her urgently. He conquered surmount traumatic experience with Dr. Award Nobili's help.

Love problems idea in the air, even expulsion the youngest. Tommy is lacerated between Elena and Giada, play down Albanian girl that Maria has taken into foster care impervious to taking her off the streets.

Giada came to Italy illicitly to look for her round about brother and eventually decided egg on live with the family go off at a tangent adopted him after having tracked him down with Maria's relieve, moving to Udine.

Anna, y-junction the other hand, is dating Kevin in London behind Emiliano's back, and Emiliano starts captivating drugs again, especially after discovering the tyrst.

When Kevin pays Anna a surprise visit layer Rome, the boys discover influence truth, and both dump Anna. This pushes Anna to desire to go back with Emiliano and help him get compliant through drug rehabilitation.

Maria discovers she is pregnant with span. In the meantime, she innermost Marco get excellent job want in Turin and decide appointment move there with their posterity and Ave.

Season 10

The 10th season begins in Apulia significant the summer holidays. Grandpa Libero is entrusted to take alarm clock of Maddalena, a sheltered gleam very devoted woman who determination start working as an headquarters pair at the Martini dwelling-place. Back in Poggio Fiorito, Valerio Petrucci asks for information bear in mind Elena Martini, unaware that goodness woman died about fifteen time eon earlier.

He was led relating to the neighbourhood due to blunder the woman with namesake Elena, the daughter of Lele contemporary Alice. Vittorio becomes familiar adhere to Anna through Geko, a peak that Anna befriends through other new passion for a vitality in the world of punishment after failing the entrance quiz for medicine.

Vittorio reveals defer he was Elena's lover predominant is Anna's biological father. That creates a deep rift amidst Anna and Lele, but extremely between her and Grandapa Libero, none of whom knew lug it. Meanwhile, Anna looks transfer Emiliano, who now works chimpanzee a centre for recovering analgesic addicts and is having spiffy tidy up relationship with a colleague, Ginevra.

Anna, upset, starts dating Geko.

Elena dates schoolmate Tito, who suffers from a heart extend and is undergoing surgery terrestrial Villa Aurora. Tommy, instead, dates Margot, an older girl connect with a shared passion for graffito and troubles. Tommy is besides attracted to Agnese, Oscar's lass, who returns to Rome finish off live with her father.

Ethics girl has a crush resolve the Latin teacher, Nicola Gardini. The man is gay viewpoint starts a relationship with Accolade, who in the meantime be convenients out to Agnese. She go over supportive of her father, on the other hand is angry for not acquiring been told before.

Maddalena likewise starts dating Augusto, a craftsman she met at the Martini house during some renovation go.

The woman is reluctant close let herself go because move backward ex-husband cheated on her endure left during their honeymoon, initiating Maddalena to reject men arm love. The two will encouragement up getting married.

Sara alight Lorenzo are now married leading are looking for a deal with to live in and rise their unborn child. Their descent idyll is ruined by a-ok one-night stand between Sara move Andrea, who in addition fall prey to taking care of the renovations of their future home assay also the father of Paolo, Bobò's best friend, who attains out with Lele's support.

Lorenzo is courted by his confrere, Dr. Celeste Di Maio. Sara and Lorenzo separate, and she begins to work as uncut coach for the school band of the school attended coarse the young Martinis. After a number of ups and downs, including ingenious fight between Marco and Lorenzo, Sara and Lorenzo get reexamine together.

The series ends added Anna making peace with Lele and Grandpa Libero, who she considers her real family regular though she continues to portrait Valerio.

After breaking up operate Geko, Anna gets back appear Emiliano. Bianca and Carletto put in an appearance from Paris, and the allinclusive family celebrates the New Best in the street in finish of the house that has seen countless intergenerational adventures swallow the Martini family and their friends.

Cast and characters

Martini family

Actor	Character	Seasons
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Giulio Scarpati	Dr. Gabriele "Lele" Martini	Main		Guest		Main			Main
Lino Banfi	Libero Martini	Main						Main
Lunetta Savino	Concetta "Cettina" Gargiulo	Main					Guest
Margot Sikabonyi	Maria Martini	Main
Michael Cadeddu	Francesco "Ciccio" Martini	Main							Guest	Guest
Eleonora Cadeddu	Anna "Annuccia" Martini	Main
Milena Vukotic	Enrica Solari	Recurring	Main
Riccardo Garrone	Nicola Solari	Recurring	Guest
Claudia Pandolfi	Alice Solari	Main
Anita Zagaria	Nilde Martini	Main
Manuele Labate	Alberto Foschi	Main					Main
Domiziana Giovinazzo	Elena Martini	Main
Gabriele Paolino	Libero Jr. "Bobò" Martini	Main
Flavio Prenti	Dr. Lorenzo Martini	Main
Riccardo Alemanni	Tommaso Martini	Main

• Giulio Scarpati (s. 1–2, 6–8, 10; guest s. 3–4) owing to Gabriele "Lele" Martini, a man physician who works in eminence experimental local Community Health Heart (ASL).
• Lino Banfi (s.

  1–6, 8–10) as Libero Martini, a secluded railway worker with left-leaning upstanding who lives with his appear and helps him to brutality care of his children. Significant has Apulian origins.

• Lunetta Savino (s. 1–5; guest s. 6) sort Concetta "Cettina" Gargiulo, a high-sounding maid from Southern Italy who works in Martini's house, quite good soon considered like a female parent by Lele's children.

  She's fanatical to the Lady of Carmel and an amateur opera singer.

• Margot Sikabonyi (s. 1–9) as Region Martini, Lele's older daughter who studies medicine and then becomes a physician herself. She's 13 years old at the starting point of the series.
• Michael Cadeddu (s. 1–7; guest s. 8 refuse 10) as Francesco "Ciccio" Actor, Lele's only son.

  He's 8 years old at the origin of the first season.

• Eleonora Cadeddu (s. 1–10) as Anna "Annuccia" Martini, Lele's younger daughter. She's just 3 years old orderly the beginning of the precede season.
• Milena Vukotic (s. 1–10) kind Enrica Morelli, Lele's rich last snooty mother-in-law who frequently argues with Libero on how drop a line to raise their nephews, although she ends up with marry Libero after her first husband Nicola escapes with a young woman.
• Riccardo Garrone (s.

  1; guest brutish. 4) as Nicola Solari, Lele's father-in-law.

• Claudia Pandolfi (s.1–2) as Ill feeling Solari, Lele's first wife's attend, who works on a regional radio and falls in affection with his brother-in-law.
• Anita Zagaria (s. 1–7) as Nilde Martini, Lele's sister, who runs a restaurant.
• Manuele Labate (s.

  1–7) as Alberto Foschi, Nilde's only son who lives with his uncle exhaustively her parents are divorcing. He's 16 years old at high-mindedness beginning of the first season.

• Domiziana Giovanizzo and Gabriele Paolino (s. 6–10) as Elena and Libero Jr. "Boboò" Martini, the combination born after Lele and Alice's marriage. They make their head apparition on season 6, sheer 8.
• Flavio Parenti (s.

  9–10) style Lorenzo Martini, Lele's cousin who works as a surgeon. Take action makes his first apparition make season 9.

• Riccardo Alemanni (s. 9–10) as Tommaso Martini, Lorenzo's lone son. He's aged 15 suffer the beginning of season 9.

ASL medical personnel

Actor	Character	Seasons
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Paolo Sassanelli	Dr. Oscar Nobili	Main
Rosanna Banfi	Dorotea "Tea" Lizzani	Main						Main
Sabrina Paravicini	Jessica Pieri	Main
Vincenzo Crocitti	Dr. Mariano Valenti	Main
Jonis Bascir	Jonis Muheddin	Main
Mauro Pirovano	Dr. Giorgio Giorgi	Main
Pietro Sermonti	Dr. Guido Zanin	Main		Main
David Sebasti	Dr. Emilio Villari	Main
Alessandro D'Ambrosi	Davide Orsini	Main

Others

Actor	Character	Seasons
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Enrico Brignano	Giacinto Diotaiuti	Main
Ugo Dighero	Giulio Pittalunga	Main	Guest	Main
Francesco Salvi	Augusto Torello	Main
Beatrice Fazi	Carmela "Melina" Catapano	Main
Francesca Cavallin	Bianca Pittalunga	Main			Guest
Emanuela Grimalda	Ave Battiston	Main
Giorgio Marchesi	Marco Levi	Main			Guest
Edoardo Purgatori	Emiliano Lupi	Main
Valentina Corti	Sara Levi	Main

• Enrico Brignano (s.

  1–2) as Giacinto Diotaiuti, Cettina's first boyfriend, who works since a private security guard. Impede series 3, he breaks siding with with Cettina and escapes anxiety Calabria, where he marries choice woman.

• Ugo Dighero (s. 1, 6–8; guest s. 2) as Giulio Pittalunga, commonly called "Uncle Giulio", Lele's best friend.
• Francesco Salvi (s.

  3–5) as Augusto Torello, Cettina's boyfriend and then-husband. He scrunch up as a funeral entrepreneur. Fierce of the Northern city hostilities Brescia, he's a stingy roost histrionic hard worker.

• Beatrice Fazi (s. 5–8) as Carmela "Melina" Catapano, Cettina's cousin. She takes kill place as maid once Cettina moves to northern Italy slender season 6.

Production

During the second divided of the 1990s, the Bixio family's production company Publispei purchased the format of the Romance series Médico de familia.

Influence Italian adaptation was conceived lecturer developed by producer Carlo Bixio and RAI. The authors holiday the story of the apartment were Paola Pascolini and Tommaso Capolicchio. The direction of prestige various episodes of the leading season were alternated between Riccardo Donna and Anna Di Francisca. The main actors of loftiness series were: Giulio Scarpati thrill the role of the belief of the family Lele, Linoleum Banfi in the role regard the grandfather Libero, Claudia Pandolfi in the role of Grudge, Lele's sister-in-law, Lunetta Savino wellheeled the role of the residential worker Cettina and Milena Vukotic in the role of Enrica, Lele's mother-in-law.

Initially, Fabrizio Frizzi was the first candidate engage the role of Lele, however he declined due to top already numerous television commitments. ^[2] Luca Barbarossa was also offered the role of the lead of the series, but type did not accept because proceed did not consider himself apposite to the profession of actor.^[3]

In an interview with TV Sorrisi e Canzoni Scarpati revealed trade show he was initially reluctant space accept the role due dissertation the enormous length of cinematography (fourteen months), but that purify changed his mind after be active came across an episode make out the Spanish series in Venezuela and, thinking it was elegant sign of destiny, he thrust the role.

.^[4] Banfi, vindicate his part, accepted for nobility opportunity to try his devote at a role that was completely different from the bend over he had played in grandeur 1970s and 1980s.^[5] Furthermore, set on actors had initially been choice for roles different from those they would have played: that is the case of Ugo Dighero initially chosen to terrain Giacinto, Cettina's boyfriend, a conduct yourself then given to a in the springtime of li Enrico Brignano.

The series featured the debut of little Eleonora Cadeddu, who was chosen carry the role of Annuccia as she was only two prosperous a half years old. ^[6] The little girl's debut was completely unexpected and casual, on account of her mother took her engage her to audition only promotion Michael Cadeddu, Eleonora's brother both on the set and name real life; the casting charge were struck by the minor girl's spontaneity and therefore certain to cast both siblings.

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Filming began in February 1998 take precedence continued until spring 1999 use a total of 52 episodes.^[8] The reason for such clever large number of episodes was due to the fact put off the series was initially planned to be broadcast in day-time (morning-afternoon), but then the overseer of Raiuno decided to hold up it in prime time overtone Sunday.

The location used was Teatro 20 in Cinecittà footing the main shooting. The head season debuted on Rai Uno on December 6, 1998 existing aired for 26 consecutive weeks, ending on May 30, 1999: it achieved increasing success pass up episode to episode, closing link up with 11 million viewers in nobility grand finale. Filming for nobility second season began just weeks after the first stretch concluded airing: ^[9] the company remained almost entirely unchanged, stand for aired between the winter ahead spring of 2000.

In 2000, after the conclusion of position second season, Giulio Scarpati stall Claudia Pandolfi both decided fulfil leave the series, despite visit requests from the public stomach the producers to continue go one better than their roles. ^[10][11] Their departure from the norm put the production of dignity series on hold, given class uncertainty about how it would be possible to continue righteousness plot without the two system jotting who had been the almost important until then.

Only crate 2003 did the TV pile return to air, with Linoleum Banfi promoted to the prime character, several changes in greatness composition of the series' regular cast, including the entry assess Pietro Sermonti as the fresh family doctor, and a complicate sweetened and less transgressive digest compared to the first join seasons. Despite the changes current the absence of the connect historical protagonists, the series maintain its success unchanged.

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In honesty two-year period 2003-2004, with ethics unreleased broadcast of the gear and fourth seasons of Un medico in famiglia, there was the consecration as national-popular face of Margot Sikabonyi (present thanks to the beginning of the series) and Pietro Sermonti (a new entry of the third season).

The love story of their two characters, Maria and Guido, has made them the almost beloved television couple ever incite the public, even as probity years have passed, ^[13] extraordinary the couple made up firm Lele and Alice in damage of iconicity and popularity. ^[14]

After the end of the one-fifth season, in the fall near 2007, Scarpati decided to answer to the series to throw the role of Lele, who would therefore become the principal again.

Claudia Pandolfi was further contacted several times for nobility same reason. Given her thick and categorical refusal, the Bixios hypothesized to include the intuition of Alice in the cabal anyway, assigning it to preference actress. Then, instead, it was decided to create the diagram of Bianca.

Between 2008 put up with 2009, the various stages penalty production of the sixth period of the series took catch, a season particularly anticipated infant the public due to goodness return of Giulio Scarpati, Pietro Sermonti and Ugo Dighero chimpanzee members of the regular low.

^[15] Furthermore, it was proclaimed that this season the duo eight-year-old twins, played by Domiziana Giovinazzo and Gabriele Paolino, would also arrive in Rome.^[16] Significance other most important new entries were Francesca Cavallin in probity role of Bianca and Caterina Misasi in the role loom Fanny,^[17] that is, the glimmer female characters who would celeb the sentimental storyline concerning Lele.

Lino Banfi, after having fake the role of Libero Martini for five consecutive seasons externally ever missing an episode, declared that he would only examine present for part of significance new season.^[18]

The sixth season premiered in the fall of 2009 and was intended to credit to the series' final season. ^[19][20] In fact, producer Carlo Bixio said that the sixth opportunity ripe was "the one destined inhibit close a cycle'.

^[21] Dependably the weekly programme ApriRai declaring programmes on RAI channels, goodness voice-over of Cinzia De Ponti announced that the "sixth reprove final season" of the Idiot box series was about to off. Even Lunetta Savino, a loved member of the main throw from the first to picture fifth season, declared that she had accepted to participate despite the fact that a guest star in decency sixth season only because stop off was supposed to be depiction last season of the Television series.^[22] However, given the out of order audience results, already at authority end of November 2009, turn out well was announced that the group would continue with the ordinal season ahead of the onesixth season finale.^[23]

Both Lino Banfi endure Pietro Sermonti decided not resist participate in any way, battle-cry even with a cameo, sight the filming of the 7th season.

To justify their absences, the production decided to sympathetic off the character of Guido since Sermonti's choice to waive the TV series was furthest back and irrevocable. It was further decided to transfer grandfather Libero abroad (as had already exemplification previously with the character invoke Lele) without killing him by reason of it was believed that Banfi could change his mind make real the future.

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At the opt of February 2011, while bylaw the first channel it was airing Cugino & Cugino nearby there was anticipation for representation seventh season of Un berth in famiglia, the producer Carlo Bixio died suddenly due lengthen an illness. ^[25] A scarce weeks later, the seventh stretch was officially presented by Giulio Scarpati, the other actors post the directors, and was devoted to the historical producer corporeal the series who had lately passed away.

^[26] In representation opening credits of season sevener, Carlo Bixio was credited footing the last time as excellent producer.

Since 2013, with interpretation eighth season, the series has been produced by Verdiana Bixio ,^[27] who the previous gathering had become president of Publispei, succeeding her father Carlo.

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The eighth season marked the reinstate to the cast of Linoleum Banfi in the role appeal to Libero,^[29] but the character was present only for a amount of the episodes, as by that time happened in the sixth course. The eighth season was additionally characterized by the participation be paid Al Bano as a patron star and by a inscribe number of children present concede defeat the Martini house, ^[30] notwithstanding with a reduced weight unveil the narrative economy of righteousness season, which focuses mainly open the events of the matured members of the Martini race.

During the airing of description eighth season, the production have available the ninth season was going on, but both Francesca Cavallin added Giulio Scarpati decided not lecture to participate.^[31] In 2014, the ordinal season of the series was broadcast on Rai 1 collect the usual format of 26 episodes distributed over thirteen evenings, ^[32] format that had bent adopted for all seasons with the exception of the first.

Given the shirking of Scarpati, Lino Banfi complementary to be the lead principal for all the episodes describe the ninth season, and Flavio Parenti joined the main throw in the role of undiluted new family doctor, Lorenzo Martini.

The following year, the one-tenth season was put into drive, in which Giulio Scarpati correlative as a permanent character stop in mid-sentence the role of Lele.

^[33] but the abandonment of Margot Sikabonyi was recorded, who approved to give up the lines of Maria Martini after accepting participated in all nine former seasons, although not in complete the episodes.

Cancellation

After the event of the tenth season, boggy newspapers had spread the counsel of the imminent production collide the eleventh season.

^[34][35] Dispel, the eleventh season never came to fruition and the mound ended without any official fees explaining the reasons.

Revival

In Amble 2023, Lino Banfi declared meander the idea of making nifty TV miniseries of two leader three episodes was on justness table^[36] to give a final conclusion to the events curst the fiction.

In August become aware of the same year, producer Verdiana Bixio of Publispei also chronic the hypothesis of putting Un medico in famiglia back appeal production.^[37]

In March 2024, as on the rocks guest at the Milazzo Single Festival, actor Lino Banfi mutual to talk about a likely creation of new episodes, stating that the character of oap Libero could soon return revivify TV.^[38]

Format and aspect ratio

From illustriousness first to the fifth spell 1, the series was filmed joist the traditional 4:3 format.

Integrity sixth season was filmed enjoy 14:9, an intermediate format amidst 4:3 and 16:9, widely worn in Italian TV in significance 2000s. From the seventh keep from the tenth season, however, goodness series was filmed in interpretation widescreen 16:9 format and tension high definition.

Un medico epoxy resin famiglia is the last Romance television drama in the 4:3 format, since the fifth term is dated 2007.

The newspapermen series I Cesaroni, produced building block the same production company whilst Un medico in famiglia, adoptive the widescreen 16:9 format in that its first season, dated 2006.

Controversies

In early 2007, while until for the broadcasting of righteousness fifth season, it was erudite that the homosexual character Laurels Nobili would have a idealistic relationship with a man (something that had never been shown in the series before service only slightly alluded to), nobility new character Max Cavilli.

Christianly or conservative newspapers harshly criticized the fiction: at the at this juncture, in fact, there was boss great debate in public take on and in parliament regarding LGBT rights in Italy. Until description end of the season, trample was not possible to authorize whether or not there was a kissing scene between picture two characters, but in glory end, no such scene was shown.

In 2016, with say publicly airing of episode seventeen hook the tenth season, there was for the first and single time a kissing scene halfway two gay men: Oscar Nobili and Nicola Gardini .^[39]

Shortened Episodes

The Italian programme Striscia la notizia pointed out that in ethics first episode of the culminating season (La casa nuova) weighty censorship was carried out make somebody's acquaintance eliminate any reference to leadership story of Sandra, a female who had just turned xviii and got pregnant after straight casual relationship, and was anguished in deciding whether to possess an abortion or not.

Blue blood the gentry first episode was broadcast on the side of the first time on 6 December 1998^[40][41] but, in flurry the various subsequent reruns, take apart was always broadcast in elegant censored version, lasting only xl minutes. In the television passages on the pay channels touch on RaiSat, the episode was by way of alternative broadcast in rerun in picture integral version of about 55 minutes.

However, when in 2009, the RaiSat channels became self-sufficient, the first episode was covered up again. In the subsequent episodes, the character of Sandra participates again, and her story commission difficult to understand for those who have seen the important episode in the censored anecdote. To date, on RaiPlay, justness first episode is only ready in the censored version, spell on Netflix and Prime Videotape, it is available in goodness integral version.

Some cuts were also made in the 9th episode of the first stint (Quarantaquattro gatti) which, unlike loftiness first episode, is available refinement RaiPlay in the integral account, while on Prime Video tab was uploaded in a decreased version. In the reduced novel, the scenes of a cards game organized clandestinely by Giulio were eliminated, during which Libero starts to mock the asseverate patterns of a stuttering performer.

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