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.
| El comisario | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Police procedural |
| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 191 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 min (approx.) |
| Production companies |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Telecinco |
| Release | 16 April 1999 – 2 January 2009 |
| Related | |
| El Príncipe | |
Premise
editThe 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
editFinal cast
edit| Actor | Character | Seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Tito Valverde | Gerardo Castilla | 1 – 12 |
| Joaquín Climent | Pascual Moreno | 1 – 12 |
| Elena Irureta | Laura Hurtado | 1 – 12 |
| Juanjo Artero | Carlos "Charlie" Márquez | 1 – 12 |
| Jaime Puyol | Andrés Casqueiro | 1 – 12 |
| Marcial Álvarez | Jorge "Pope" San Juan | 1 – 12 |
| Cristina Perales | Eloísa "Elo" Soriano | 1 – 12 |
| Patxi Freytez | Mikel Miralles | 2 – 12 |
| Fernando Andina | Lucas Aguilar | 5 – 12 |
| Rocío Muñoz | Eva Ríos | 9 – 12 |
| Iris Díaz | Vanesa Santana | 9 – 12 |
| Eva Martín | Josefa "Pepa" Romero | 11 – 12 |
| Ruth Gabriel | Federica "Fede" Villalta | 12 |
| José Luís Torrijos | Santos Marino | 12 |
| Cristina Castaño | Sara Ruíz | 12 |
Departed cast
edit| Actor | Character | Seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Andoni Ferreño | Vidal | 1 |
| Nathalie Poza | Alicia Ponce | 1 |
| Tristán Ulloa | Julio Ponce | 1 – 2 |
| María Jesús Sirvent | Rosario Ponce | 1 – 4 |
| Francesc Orella | † Telmo Chacón | 2 – 4 |
| Mar Regueras | Dolores "Lola" Écija | 2 – 5 |
| Charo Zapardiel | † Rita Carvajal | 1 – 7 |
| Silvia Abascal / Mercé Llorens | Sonia Castilla | 1 – 2 / 8 |
| Laura Domínguez | Cristina "Tina" Mariño | 1 – 4 / 8 |
| Pilar Punzano | † Ángela Alonso | 6 – 8 |
| Manu Fullola | José Raimundo "Joserra" García | 6 – 8 |
| Zutoia Alarcia | Elena Serrano | 6 – 10 |
| Margarita Lascoiti | Guadalupe "Lupe" López | 1 – 11 |
| Paula Echevarría | † Clara Osma | 8 – 11 |
| Marisol Membrillo | † Ángeles "Geli" Chamorro | 9 – 11 |
| Diego Molero | Horacio Abarca | 9 – 11 |
Production and release
editProduced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso,[6] the series was known as 'Las calles de San Fernando' prior to its release.[7] 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.[8] The series featured a 50 million peseta budget per episode, high for Spanish television at the time.[9] The broadcasting run ended on 2 January 2009,[10] after nearly 10 years on-air, 12 seasons and 191 episodes.[11]
Tito Valverde and Juanjo Artero reprised their characters in El Príncipe in 2016, in guest appearances.[12]
Episodes
edit| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | Average viewership | Share (%) | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | Network | ||||||
| 1 | 9 | 26 April 1999 | 21 June 1999 | Telecinco | 4,426,000 | 26.6 | [13] | |
| 2 | 17 | 3 January 2000 | 24 April 2000 | 4,100,000 | 24.4 | [13] | ||
| 3 | 22 | 8 January 2001 | 28 May 2001 | 4,250,000 | 24.8 | [13] | ||
| 4 | 14 | 7 January 2002 | 9 April 2002 | 3,733,000 | 22.3 | [13] | ||
| 5 | 15 | 3 September 2002 | 18 December 2002 | 3,750,000 | 22.9 | [13] | ||
| 6 | 13 | 23 April 2003 | 16 July 2003 | 3,909,000 | 25.7 | [13] | ||
| 7 | 13 | 7 January 2004 | 31 March 2004 | 4,631,000 | 26.1 | [13] | ||
| 8 | 20 | 19 October 2004 | 18 March 2005 | 4,920,000 | 29.2 | [13] | ||
| 9 | 24 | 18 November 2005 | 25 April 2006 | 4,257,000 | 24.6 | [13] | ||
| 10 | 12 | 10 October 2006 | 26 December 2006 | 4,165,000 | 23.0 | [13] | ||
| 11 | 16 | 14 September 2007 | 14 December 2007 | 3,493,000 | 22.6 | [13] | ||
| 12 | 16 | 12 September 2008 | 2 January 2009 | 2,122,000 | 15.1 | [13] | ||
References
edit- Citations
- ^ a b c d Lacalle 2002, p. 57.
- ^ "Si eras fan de 'El Comisario', esto te interesa…". Diez Minutos. 26 September 2018.
- ^ a b Sáez, Will (7 March 2016). "Paula Echevarría reúne a sus compañeros de 'El Comisario' 7 años después". Ecartelera.
- ^ "El doble reencuentro de Charlie y Pope tras el final de "El comisario"". ABC. 27 July 2018.
- ^ "Ángel de Andrés intervendrá en la vuelta de "El Comisario"". Vertele!. eldiario.es. 11 September 2008.
- ^ Gómez, Rosario G. (23 April 2003). "'El comisario' potencia la acción y el humor en los nuevos capítulos". El País.
- ^ Monjas, C.L. (4 January 2009). "Adiós al comisario Castilla". La Voz.
- ^ "Las curiosidades que nunca se han contado de "El Comisario"". Vertele!. eldiario.es. 2 January 2009.
- ^ "Servir y proteger a la audiencia durante 10 años". La Región. 7 February 2020.
- ^ "Así será el regreso de 'El Comisario' a Telecinco ocho años después". Bluper. El Español. 6 April 2016.
- ^ Coalla, Carla (22 May 2019). "Diez series españolas que han llegado a los 100 capítulos". El Comercio.
- ^ "Juanjo Artero y Tito Valverde retoman sus papeles de El Comisario en El Príncipe". Europa Press. 5 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Vacas Gómez 2017, p. 297.
- 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.