Eldorado

Name: Eldorado
Genre: Soap, Drama
Released: 1992-07-06
Rating: 5.429

★ 5,4 /10 (7 Votes)

1992 EN 1 Seasons

Overview

Eldorado was a British soap opera that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa del Sol in Spain and based around the lives of British and European expats, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as EastEnders and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as Home and Away and Neighbours. A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity, Eldorado aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show Wogan, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.00pm. In spite of a high-profile advertising campaign on television, radio and in the press preceding the launch, the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers and critics. Ratings improved with a radical overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob.

First air date

06/07/1992

Votes

Popularity

6.4

Genres

Soap Drama

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Created by

Julia Smith, Tony Holland

Networks

BBC One

Language

Last air date

2002-08-28

Episodes

158

Episode runtime

30 min

Jesse Birdsall

Marcus Tandy

Eldorado

Overview

Original Soundtrack

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