Compañeros (TV series)

Compañeros (lit. 'Companions') is a Spanish teen drama television series. Produced by Globomedia, it aired on Antena 3 from 1998 to 2002.

The fiction follows the mishaps of a group of teenagers studying for the Bachillerato at the Instituto Azcona.^[1]

• Eva Santolaria as Valle Bermejo.^[2]
• Antonio Hortelano as Quimi Verdet.^[3]
• Lara de Miguel [es] as Sara Antón.^[3]
• Nicolás Belmonte as Eloy Rubio.^[3]
• Julián González [es] as César Vallalta.^[3]
• Virginia Rodríguez [es] as Isabel Arbueso.^[3]
• Ruth Núñez as Tanja Mijatovic.^[4]
• Duna Jové [fr] as Arancha Alberti.^[5]
• Daniel Retuerta [es] as Lolo Bermejo Fuentes.^[6]
• Manuel Feijóo [es] as Luismi Bárcenas.^[7]
• Clara Lago as Desirée.^[8]
• Miguel Rellán as Félix Torán.^[9]
• Francis Lorenzo as Alfredo Torán.^[10]
• María Garralón [es] as Rocío.^[10]
• Beatriz Carvajal as Marisa Viñé.^[11]
• Cristina Peña as Jose.^[10]
• César Vea as Gustavo.^[10]
• David Janer as Martín.^[10]
• Begoña Maestre as Duna Belarde.^[12]
• Tina Sainz as Tere Roncesvalles.^[13]
• Mercè Pons as Ana.^[14]

The series premiered on 25 March 1998.^[15][16] Produced by Globomedia and created by Manuel Valdivia,^[17] the series was initially produced with a tight budget.^[2] It eventually became one of the most iconic Spanish fiction series.^[2] The broadcasting run, comprising 121 episodes and 9 seasons,^[15][2] ended on 16 July 2002.^[18]

Compañeros sparked a 2001 feature film spin-off, No te fallaré [es] (transl. "I won't let you down"), titled after the series' popular opening theme,^[19] which was composed by Daniel Sánchez de la Hera and performed by Greta y Los Garbo [es], and then Los lunes que quedan [es] and Marte Menguante.^[20] In 2018, Colegas, a spoof web series (paying homage to Compañeros and another popular teen drama series from the 1990s, Al salir de clase), featuring some actors from the series, was broadcast on Playz.^[3]