
Eldorado was a British soap opera that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa del Sol in Spain and based around the lives of British and European expats, 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. A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity, Eldorado aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show Wogan, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.00pm. In spite of a high-profile advertising campaign on television, radio and in the press preceding the launch, the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers and critics. Ratings improved with a radical overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob.

as Marcus Tandy

as Pilar Moreno

as Bunny Charlson

as Fizz Charlson

as Gwen Lockhead

as Drew Lockhead

as Nessa Lockhead

as Blair Lockhead

as Stanley Webb

as Rosemary Webb

as Olive King

as Gerry Peters-Smith

as Freddie Martin

as Joy Slater

as Trish Valentine

as Alex Morris

as Trine Svendson

as Per Svendsen

as Gavin Hindle

as Allan Hindle (as Jon Morrey)

as Roberto Fernandez

as Rosario Fernandez

as Mikael Phillipe

as Natalie Jackson

as Snowy White

as Ingrid Olsson

as Dieter

as Philippe Leduc

as Maria Fernandez

as Javier Fernandez

as Lene Svendsen

as Isabelle Leduc