I ragazzi della 3 C

"I ragazzi della terza C" was an Italian underrated TV show, that was quite popular in the mid 80's, but then was classified as "TV show for kids".

Nothing could be more wrong. IRDTC had a lot of philosophical, human and artistic messages. The stories of Bruno Sacchi, Chicco, Sharon, etc. represented the interior teenage angst like no other show did before.

The strength of this show was talking about some serious matters without being boring: you can find suicide, drugs, questions about the existence of man and life, ethical problems: summing up, these guys faced all life troubles like we all do everyday, but with the artistic and often experimental touch of director Claudio Risi, this show achieves an high poetic level.

This shows demonstrates that also the average Joe tv watcher could understand and enjoy characters, dialogues, stories which are on an unbelievable high cultural level.

I would like also to mention two technical aspects: the great acting level, the cast was actually full of talented young actors and the incredible rhythm (speed) of the scenes (difficult to follow sometimes).

Eventually I would like to suggest to everybody this masterpiece of Italian fiction.

I'm totally agree with Ghiretti from Netherland. I was a brat when this show was broadcast in Italian TV (in a channel owned by then commercial guru Berlusconi) and I liked it at the time just because we were shelled 24/7 by the media to watch and enjoy it, in a way similar to "Blair Witch Project" movie in late nineties.

To be brief, only a couple of actor had little experience in acting: I remember the dark Benedetta in a couple of Dario Argento's movies as a child actress, Bruno in "Acqua e sapone" (later on he said a curse out loud live on TV and that was his last performance) and Chicco in a movie starred by Jerry Calà (Holiday in America or something like that, I don't want to check). After the TV show, nobody managed to pursue acting career, because nobody really knew how to play before a camera.

Luckily, this show will be soon forgotten, because nobody from the new generation knows what we are talking about. The only thing I remember about the plot are the commercials: Raider (now Twix), Opel, Algida, Chesterfield (cigarettes commercial oh-my-god!). Nothing to add.

I read the other review on the site about this Italian show and I couldn't help but write my own just to underline the fact that the other guy must be either totally crazy or he might be somehow ironic...

This show was funny, no doubt about it, I was 10 when it started and I really liked it.. but then again I was 10!!! haha Lately I watched a couple of episodes of the re-runs that commercial channels broadcast at night and I was still kinda laughing and everything but maaaan, the show sucks big time... The actors are the worst actors ever been casted on a show, especially a couple of them. In the other review you can read that the cast was "actually full of talented young actors" - that's funny to see that all that supposed talent went nowhere since basically none of them ever made any kind of career after the show... Just have a look at their profiles...

About the supposed "deep and meaningful" matters the show was dealing with : where did you see that? About his comment on director Claudio Risi... man, u gotta be joking... That ain't either of the 2 famous Risi directors... Their names are Marco and Dino.... Claudio Risi had no "artistic and often experimental touch" whatsoever. - and also no career after the show was canceled...

In fact the things I remember more about his "talented" directing are the commercial close-ups... Thousands of now totally illegal commercials during the show itself... one of the characters had a brand new different Opel car every episode for example, commercials of ice-creams, cigarettes, pasta and so on...

Summing up, I can't say that it's worst show ever produced for Italian TV because unfortunately there are worse productions but calling this the best Italian Show ever must be some kind of weird joke....