''El súper'', also known as ''El súper: Historias de todos los días'', is a Spanish

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. Aired from 1996 to 1999, it was the first daily television series produced in Spain broadcast at the national level.

Premise

The fiction follows Julia, a woman working as a

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in a supermarket. After Julia finds out she is a member of the Bernal family and thus the rightful heir to the supermarket chain she works in, she becomes the main foe of Alfonso Torres, a villain figure responsible for most of the crimes happening in the series.

Cast

Production and release

''El súper'' was the first daily national television series produced in Spain. A regional daily series, the Catalan ''Poble Nou'', predated the series. Filming started in August 1996 in a Tele 5 set located in Villaviciosa de Odón. Some prominent screenwriters such as Orestes Lara, Rodolf Sirera, Jaume Banacolocha, Virginia Yagüe, and Adolfo Puerta were part of the scriptwriting team. Boris Izaguirre also worked as screenwriter. The series was a mash-up of elements from US

s (such as ''

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''), the thriller genre and the

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. The first two seasons were produced by Zeppelin and Diagonal TV whereas the following two seasons were produced by Estudios Picasso. Aired from 6 September 1996 to 31 December 1999, The broadcasting run comprised 4 seasons and 738 episodes, broadcast at late afternoon. The running time was 20–30 minutes. The series' main tune (initially an instrumental sax theme to which the vocals of Natalia Millán added in the second season) became very popular in Spain.

References

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