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- This program has been the longest running talk show in the history of Italian television, with the record of 25 seasons, 4,390 episodes, 8,100 hours of transmission and 32,800 guests.
- This has been the last episode of the longest running talk show in the history of Italian television, with the record of 25 seasons, 4,390 episodes, 8,100 hours of transmission and 32,800 guests. At the end Maurizio Costanzo thanked everyone, starting with Silvio Berlusconi, founder of the Fininvest Group, and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, vice-chairman of the Mediaset Group and chairman and chief executive of R.T.I. since April 2000.
- This episode was entirely dedicated to the interview of the protagonists of Fantozzi in Heaven (1993), which was released in theaters on the same day of the transmission. Maurizio Costanzo interviewed the four main protagonists: Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotic, Gigi Reder and Plinio Fernando, who is almost never appeared on television. It was the last movie in which he appeared, before leaving the world of cinema and devote himself to painting and sculpture in a shop near his residence in Rome. The theater was full of kids, who asked many questions, and there was also the movie's director Neri Parenti. At the end of the transmission, Villaggio distributed to all kids sticks sparkling, and pianist Franco Bracardi played music "White Christmas".
- Special episode dedicated to the 20th anniversary of this talk show. In theater there were many people that Maurizio Costanzo hosted and interviewed in the course of those 20 years. The career of several guests began thanks to their participation in this program. Among with the audience in the theater there were also Silvio Berlusconi, founder of the Fininvest Group, and some chairmen of the group, as his son Pier Silvio Berlusconi. Ezio Greggio and Enzo Iacchetti were not present in the theater but have taken part in the program through a television link with the studio of Striscia la Notizia (1988), where they were. Other guests appeared through the re-broadcast of short video clips taken from episodes of past years. At the end Costanzo thanked many people, including those who worked in the program. He made a particular reference to the cameraman Valentino Tocco, having also become director of C'è posta per te (2000), one of the programs conducted by the wife Maria De Filippi.
- In this episode Maurizio Costanzo interviewed magistrate Giovanni Falcone about his fight against the Sicilian Mafia.
- Maurizio Costanzo interviewed Isabella Ceola, a woman of 22 years suffering from progeria, an extremely rare genetic disorder which causes premature aging. Those born with progeria typically have a life expectancy of around 20 years. Isabella died in 1997 at 28.