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7 Vidas

7 Vidas
Created by Nacho García Velilla
Starring Amparo Baró
Paz Vega
Gonzalo de Castro
Anabel Alonso
Santi Millán
Blanca Portillo
Carmen Machi
Javier Cámara
Santi Rodríguez
Guillermo Toledo
María Pujalte
Eva Santolaria
Cristina Peña
Yolanda Ramos
Marina Gatell
Leandro Rivera
Pau Durá
Florentino Fernández
Country of origin Spain
Italy
No. of seasons 15
No. of episodes 204
Production
Running time 1:00-1:30 (per episode)
Release
Original network Telecinco
Original release January 17, 1999 (1999-01-17) – April 16, 2006 (2006-04-16)
Chronology
Followed by Aída (2005-2014)

7 Vidas is a Spanish sitcom which aired on Telecinco from 1999 to 2006. Its title translates as "7 lives" and the symbol of the sitcom is a cat, in reference to the belief that cats have 7 lives (curiously two lives less than cats from English-speaking countries which are popularly considered to have nine lives). The series is to date 2006 the longest running show of all-time in the history of Spanish television.

It was originally inspired by the American blockbuster Friends.

At its start it wasn't a great audience success, but over time, the show continued and gained more and more popularity series after series, making it the most popular Spanish TV series of all time.

It was in 7 Vidas that the now internationally famous actress Paz Vega and other Spanish actors first became household names in Spain.

The sitcom tells the story of a group of friends in Madrid. David (Toni Cantó) was in a coma for more than 18 years and suddenly awakes and starts discovering the new world in which he lives. His neighbour, Sole (Amparo Baró) is an old woman with a penchant for slapping anyone who behaves in a way she dislikes round the back of the neck. Sole soon becomes one of the show's most popular characters. Other characters were Sole's sexually frustrated son, Paco (Javier Cámara), Carlota (Blanca Portillo) David's single sister and Laura (Laurita to her friends) (Paz Vega), their cousin from Seville (with her colourful Sevillian accent), initially Paco's principal love interest and then David's.

Characters came and went, and by the end of the sitcom the only character who had appeared in the first series and lasted until its end was Sole. Other long-standing characters, and the two most popular, in addition to Sole, were Gonzalo (Gonzalo de Castro), a waiter who later became a main character and Carlota's husband (although they were later divorced), and Diana (Anabel Alonso), a frustrated actress, and a naïve lesbian. She was the first homosexual character in Spanish television who didn't follow stereotypes.


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