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Spanish television series (1999–2009)

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	BocaBoca Estudios Picasso
Original release
Network	Telecinco
Release	16 April 1999 (1999-04-16) – 2 January 2009 (2009-01-02)
Related
El Príncipe

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.

Premise

The fiction, a police drama, is set in the 'San Fernando' police station, in the fictional district of the same name in Madrid. It deals with the daily life of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía agents working in the station.

Gerardo Castilla serves as a cold but respectful Chief Police officer for the entire series. Recurring personal subplots include the friendship between Pope and Charlie, and the up and downs of the relationship between Charlie and Elo.

Cast

Final cast

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

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

Produced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso, the series was known as 'Las calles de San Fernando' prior to its release. The producers initially envisioned a dramedy, but the series was eventually re-written as a police drama. The series began airing on 26 April 1999. The series featured a 50 million peseta budget per episode, high for Spanish television at the time. The broadcasting run ended on 2 January 2009, after nearly 10 years on-air, 12 seasons and 191 episodes.

Tito Valverde and Juanjo Artero reprised their characters in El Príncipe in 2016, in guest appearances.

Episodes

Series	Episodes	Originally aired			Average viewership	Share (%)	Ref.
Series	Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network	Average viewership	Share (%)	Ref.
1	9	26 April 1999 (1999-04-26)	21 June 1999 (1999-06-21)	Telecinco	4,426,000	26.6
2	17	3 January 2000 (2000-01-03)	24 April 2000 (2000-04-24)		4,100,000	24.4
3	22	8 January 2001 (2001-01-08)	28 May 2001 (2001-05-28)		4,250,000	24.8
4	14	7 January 2002 (2002-01-07)	9 April 2002 (2002-04-09)		3,733,000	22.3
5	15	3 September 2002 (2002-09-03)	18 December 2002 (2002-12-18)		3,750,000	22.9
6	13	23 April 2003 (2003-04-23)	16 July 2003 (2003-07-16)		3,909,000	25.7
7	13	7 January 2004 (2004-01-07)	31 March 2004 (2004-03-31)		4,631,000	26.1
8	20	19 October 2004 (2004-10-19)	18 March 2005 (2005-03-18)		4,920,000	29.2
9	24	18 November 2005 (2005-11-18)	25 April 2006 (2006-04-25)		4,257,000	24.6
10	12	10 October 2006 (2006-10-10)	26 December 2006 (2006-12-26)		4,165,000	23.0
11	16	14 September 2007 (2007-09-14)	14 December 2007 (2007-12-14)		3,493,000	22.6
12	16	12 September 2008 (2008-09-12)	2 January 2009 (2009-01-02)		2,122,000	15.1

References

Citations

^ Lacalle 2002, p. 57.
"Si eras fan de 'El Comisario', esto te interesa…". Diez Minutos. 26 September 2018.
^ 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.
^ 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.

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