El comisario
El comisario is a Spanish police drama television series that originally aired for twelve seasons from 1999 to 2009 on Telecinco. Produced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso and starring an ensemble cast with the likes of Tito Valverde, Juanjo Artero, Elena Irureta, Marcial Álvarez, Jaime Pujol, Cristina Perales and Fernando Andina, among others, the plot tracks the daily life the members of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía at the police station of San Fernando in Madrid.
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Genre | Police procedural |
Country of origin | Spain |
Original language | Spanish |
No. of seasons | 12 |
No. of episodes | 191 |
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Running time | 60 min (approx.) |
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Original network | Telecinco |
Original release | 16 April 1999 – 2 January 2009 |
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Related shows | El Príncipe |
Premise
The fiction, a police drama, is set in the 'San Fernando' police station, in the fictional district of the same name in Madrid.[1][2] It deals with the daily life of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía agents working in the station.[1][3]
Gerardo Castilla serves as a cold but respectful Chief Police officer for the entire series.[3] Recurring personal subplots include the friendship between Pope and Charlie,[4] and the up and downs of the relationship between Charlie and Elo.[1][5]
Cast
- Tito Valverde as comisario Gerardo Castilla.
- Juanjo Artero as subinspector Carlos Márquez, "Charlie".[6]
- Marcial Álvarez as Jorge San Juan, "Pope".[7]
- Jaime Pujol as Andrés Casqueiro.[8]
- Elena Irureta as Laura Hurtado.[9]
- Cristina Perales as Eloísa "Elo" Soriano.[10][11]
- Patxi Freytez as Mikel Miralles.[12]
- Fernando Andina as Lucas Aguilar.[12]
- Rocío Muñoz as Eva Ríos.[10]
- Iris Díaz as Vanesa Santana.[10]
- Eva Martín as Pepa Romero.[10]
- Laura Domínguez as Tina Mariño.[13][12]
- Cristina Castaño as Sara Ruiz.[10]
- Ruth Gabriel as Federica "Fede" Villalta.[10]
- Mar Regueras as Lola Écija.[13][14]
- Francesc Orella as Telmo Chacón.[15]
- Paula Sebastián as judge Pilar Aranda.[13][16]
- José Luis Torrijo as Santos Marino.[10]
- Diana Peñalver as Matilde.[10]
- Marc Clotet as Pau Montaner.[10]
- Álvaro Monje as Salvador "Salva" Bocanegra.[17][10]
- Margarita Lascoiti as Lupe (Seasons 1–11).[18][10]
- Joaquín Climent as agente Pascual Moreno (Seasons 1–11).[19]
- Àngels Gonyalons as Raquel Salcedo.[10]
- Albert Comas as Felipe Sánchez.[10]
- Mercè Llorens as Sonia Castilla (Seasons 8–10).[10]
- Daniel Rubio as Kevin Soriano.[10]
- Lara Grube as Daniela.[10]
- Carla Hidalgo as Cecilia Trujillo.[10]
- Valentina Burgueño as Sofía Márquez,[10] Charlie's daughter.[20]
- Eduard Farelo as Juez Ignacio Lorenzo (Season 5).[10]
- Pilar Punzano as Ángela Alonso (Seasons 6–8).[10][21]
- Joan Massotkleiner as Judge Ignacio Lorenzo (Seasons 6–7).[10]
- Manu Fullola as José Raimundo "Joserra" García Arregui (Seasons 6–8).[10][22]
- Zutoia Alarcia as Elena Serrano (Seasons 6–10).[10][22]
- Paula Echevarría as Clara Osma López (Seasons 8–11).[10][23]
- Diego Molero as agent Horacio Abarca (Seasons 9–11).[10][13]
- Marisol Membrillo as inspector Ángeles "Geli" Chamorro (Seasons 9–11).[10]
- Lorena Bernal as Cristina.[13][24]
- Alba Flores as Sohara.[13][25]
- Lucía Napal as Ximena.[13][26]
- Nathalie Poza as Alicia Ponce.[27]
- Belinda Washington as Elena Barrios.[13][28]
- Cristina Brondo as Lucía.[13][29]
- Silvia Abascal[13] as Sonia Castilla.
- Tristán Ulloa as Julio Ponce (Season 1).[13][30]
- Andoni Ferreño[13]
- Charo Zapardiel[13]
- María Jesús Sirvent,[13] as Gerardo Castilla's maid.[31]
Production and release
Produced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso,[32] the series was known as 'Las calles de San Fernando' prior to its release.[33] The producers initially envisioned a dramedy, but the series was eventually re-written as a police drama.[1] The series began airing on 26 April 1999.[13] The series featured a 50 million peseta budget per episode, high for Spanish television at the time.[34] The broadcasting run ended on 2 January 2009,[35] after nearly 10 years on-air, 12 seasons and 191 episodes.[36]
Tito Valverde and Juanjo Artero reprised their characters in El Príncipe in 2016, in guest appearances.[6]
Episodes
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | Average viewership | Share (%) | Ref. | ||||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | |||||||
1 | 9 | 26 April 1999 | 21 June 1999 | Telecinco | 4,426,000 | 26.6 | [37] | ||
2 | 17 | 3 January 2000 | 24 April 2000 | 4,100,000 | 24.4 | [37] | |||
3 | 22 | 8 January 2001 | 28 May 2001 | 4,250,000 | 24.8 | [37] | |||
4 | 14 | 7 January 2002 | 9 April 2002 | 3,733,000 | 22.3 | [37] | |||
5 | 15 | 3 September 2002 | 18 December 2002 | 3,750,000 | 22.9 | [37] | |||
6 | 13 | 23 April 2003 | 16 July 2003 | 3,909,000 | 25.7 | [37] | |||
7 | 13 | 7 January 2004 | 31 March 2004 | 4,631,000 | 26.1 | [37] | |||
8 | 20 | 19 October 2004 | 18 March 2005 | 4,920,000 | 29.2 | [37] | |||
9 | 24 | 18 November 2005 | 25 April 2006 | 4,257,000 | 24.6 | [37] | |||
10 | 12 | 10 October 2006 | 26 December 2006 | 4,165,000 | 23.0 | [37] | |||
11 | 16 | 14 September 2007 | 14 December 2007 | 3,493,000 | 22.6 | [37] | |||
12 | 16 | 12 September 2008 | 2 January 2009 | 2,122,000 | 15.1 | [37] |
References
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- Lacalle 2002, p. 57.
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- "Ángel de Andrés intervendrá en la vuelta de "El Comisario"". Vertele!. eldiario.es. 11 September 2008.
- "Juanjo Artero y Tito Valverde retoman sus papeles de El Comisario en El Príncipe". Europa Press. 5 April 2016.
- "El actor de Marcial Álvarez de "El Comisario" reconoce que gracias a la serie sigue trabajando". Público. 1 August 2009.
- "Jaime Pujol". El Mundo. 5 January 2007.
- "Patria: ¿Dónde habíamos visto a Elena Irureta y Ane Gabarain, las dos 'amas'?". La Vanguardia. 29 September 2020.
- Vacas Gómez 2017, p. 295.
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- "Las curiosidades que nunca se han contado de "El Comisario"". Vertele!. eldiario.es. 2 January 2009.
- "Mar Regueras, una mujer 'todoterreno'". La Crónica de Badajoz. 27 November 2019.
- "Diez datos desconocidos sobre Francesc Orella, el intérprete de "Merlí"". Infobae. 25 May 2018.
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- Jorreto, Elena (7 August 2013). "Reencuentro de ficción sobre las tablas". ABC.
- "´El comisario´ vuelve hoy con casos reales". El Periódico Extremadura. 7 January 2004.
- "Así es Pilar Punzano, el azote de "Cuéntame"". La Voz de Galicia. 13 September 2015.
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- Coalla, Carla (16 January 2019). "De '7 Vidas' a 'Los Nuestros 2': así ha cambiado Paula Echevarría". El Comercio.
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- ""El comisario" intentará detener a los chicos de Operación Triunfo". Vertele!. eldiario.es. 7 January 2002.
- Pérez, Nacho (9 March 2021). "¿Dónde has visto antes a Nathalie Poza? repasamos sus mejores papeles antes del Goya por La boda de Rosa". Qué!.
- "'El Comisario' se despide 10 años después". Europa Press. 1 January 2009.
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- Cámara, Nora (2 July 2020). "Tristán Ulloa, el sacerdote de oscuro pasado en 'La monja guerrera'". Diez Minutos.
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- Bibliography
- Lacalle, Charo (2002). "Las producciones del 2001" (PDF). Quaderns del CAC. Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya: 51–80. ISSN 1138-9761.
- Vacas Gómez, María Mercedes (2017). La ficción televisiva española del s.XXI a través de sus personajes (Tesis doctoral). Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València. doi:10.4995/Thesis/10251/85133.