Eldorado (1992)

Directed by

Stephen Butcher

Genre

soap opera

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 158 episodes

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This soap opera follows British and European expats living in a fictional Spanish coastal town. They deal with relationships, secrets, and daily life in a sunny setting.

sunnyglamorouslight-heartedslow-paceddramaticsoapyepisodichopeful

What happens

Eldorado is a British soap opera created by Tony Holland. It ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa Eldorado in Spain and following the lives of British and European expatriates, 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. In spite of a high-profile advertising campaign on television, radio and in the press preceding the launch ('Are you ready for Eldorado?', read by actor Campbell Morrison), the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers or critics. Following a radical overhaul, ratings improved, but it was deemed too late to save the programme and it was cancelled by BBC1's new controller, Alan Yentob, in March 1993. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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