ROTF!!! Loved that show!
When I lived in Italy in the late Seventies, that show was on RAI - dubbed in Italian, of course. We watched it every time it was on, because we couldn't believe how bad it was. We thought something was lost in translation, but when we got back to the States and saw reruns, it made even less sense :).
The thing I remember most about the show was the Italian promo announcer saying "Spazio: Mille Novecento Novantanove". Italian is a great language.