Esperanza (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama, Romance |
| Created by | ABS-CBN Creative Department |
| Written by | Dado C. Lumibao Wali Ching Reggie Amigo |
| Directed by | Jerry Lopez Sineneng, Rory B. Quintos and Don Miguel Cuaresma |
| Creative director(s) | Don Miguel Cuaresma |
| Starring |
Judy Ann Santos Wowie de Guzman Piolo Pascual Angelika dela Cruz Marvin Agustin Carmina Villaroel Jolina Magdangal Jericho Rosales Charo Santos-Concio Elizabeth Oropesa Dante Rivero |
| Theme music composer | Vehnee Saturno (Arranged by Dennis R. Quila) |
| Opening theme | "Esperanza" by April Boy Regino |
| Country of origin | Philippines |
| Original language(s) |
Filipino English |
| No. of episodes | 633 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Marinella Bandelaria-Bravo |
| Editor(s) | Ben Panaligan, Mel Fernandez |
| Running time | 30-45 min (Philippines) Monday - Friday 7:00pm (moved to 7:30pm) |
| Production company(s) | Star Creatives |
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| Original network | ABS-CBN |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Original release | February 17, 1997 – July 30, 1999 |
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| Esperanza | |
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| Directed by | Jerry Lopez Sineneng |
| Produced by | Charo Santos-Concio Malou N. Santos |
| Screenplay by | Dado Lumibao |
| Starring |
Judy Ann Santos Wowie de Guzman |
| Cinematography | Joe Tutanes |
| Edited by | Marya Ignacio |
| Distributed by | Star Cinema |
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| Country | Philippines |
| Language | Tagalog |
Esperanza is a Filipino primetime television drama that was aired by ABS-CBN from February 17, 1997 to July 30, 1999 replacing the 4-year run Mara Clara. It was re-aired in Studio 23 and Kapamilya Channel, which are both an ABS-CBN subsidiaries. The show posted the country's highest rating of a single episode in a TV series which is 67%. Its finale episode rating of 59.8% is the second highest rated finale episode of all time, behind the 2002 finale episode of Pangako Sa 'Yo (also aired by ABS-CBN). A film adaptation was subsequently made in 1999 by Star Cinema with the same title.
The series was delayed in 1997 on its international channel TFC due to late broadcasting. It was aired on June 2, 1997 to November 12, 1999 with current broadcasts of Mula sa Puso.
The series follows Esperanza's search for her real family. It seems that Esperanza's mother, Isabel, and father Juan Salgado, got married without the approval of Isabel's mom. To be together Isabel refused to marry the man her mother promised her to, Jaime Elustre, and Juan left the girl he had been dating at the time, Sandra.
As the years went by Isabel gave birth to three kids, two daughters and a son. One day Esperanza's mother took her, her sister, and brother on a bus trip to visit someone. Due to a bus accident, they got separated and had Juan believing all of them to be dead.
Unknown to the three kids, they were adopted by families in the same neighborhood allowing for them to be good friends. Esperanza, the eldest, was adopted by a poor family. She was never told she was adopted. She grew up letting her adoptive mother Selya mistreat her, such as treating her like a slave while she lavished love on her own kids JunJun and Andrea. Her adoptive father Raul did nothing to help her. The only happy moments in her life was being with her childhood friend and sweetheart Anton. Danilo, the second child, who also did not know he was adopted, was rescued by a poor loving family: Ester and Luis who have a son named Noel, who treated him as if he were their own son. Cecille, the youngest, was adopted by a rich couple named Belinda and Mayor Joaquin Montejo who is very controlling and secretly beats her.
When Esperanza learns about her parentage, she tries searching who she really is. She finds out that her mother and brother might have died in the accident while her adoptive father was able to save her and her sister Regina but couldn't support them both. He renamed her from Socorro to Esperanza and gave Regina to the Major who accepted her only after learning that he couldn't have kids and renamed Regina as Cecille. On accident Danilo finds the newspaper Esperanza was reading that asks for help locating Juan's missing family and that explains about their separation and finally learns the truth, that he is Esperanza's brother Raphael. While Danilo now knows the truth he cannot join in Esperanza's search for their father knowing in his heart that his adoptive family is the only family he wants. Esperanza understand and continues to tell Cecille what she knows who accept this and asks her to take her away from her abusive adopted father.
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