Eldorado was a bit slow at the start, but towards the end it was getting quite good and would have probably slotted into that mid-90's soap craze quite well.

Why did the producers cast a number of non-actors when the show started? Surely if they couldn't act, what was the point of casting them?

The episodes that followed the decision to cancel the show were some of the best in soap history.

It was a crying shame that the BBC got rid of this; they should have believed in it more and backed it, as it was just gaining traction when the axe fell...

Thank you for this!!

Thanx so much for posting xx

Eldorado would have been massive during the early to mid 1980's, but by the early 1990's, people had started to see through the culture of exotica and excess, it just goes to prove that you need luck and timing in almost every aspect of life. That said, Eldorado was absolutely pants!

This turned out to be a pretty good soap once all those goofy teenagers were let go. Too bad it didn't last a few more years.

"The rise and fall" it never did rise to fall

It was just insane, some of the characters in it, for example : Bunny(the overweight balding middle aged man) with his 17 year old bride Fizz. Who on Earth thought that was a good idea?

Same thing happened with ITV soaps London Bridge and Family Affairs.

Oddly no mention of the Aussie soap influence ... yet, anyway!

I'm curious as to what the other possible soap operas may have been about, the ones that didn't get picked in favor of "Eldorado."

Sun, sea and sex? I don't recall Eldorado being remotely sexy.

speaking in Spanish without subs is insane. it should not have gone out.

Why is the voiceover terrifying?

The Show had a great consepct it was just rushed and it was axed by the new head of bbc not due to lack of viewers it had 8 million viewers in its last couple of weeks sure just look at them 5 eps of eastenders where pat and peggy frank and roy went to spain ?

@nwlman Eastenders was great from the start.

Unknown before and after unknown still

is this a murder documentary or a soap docu?

Twas the 1990s - all implied.

Why was the BBC in so much trouble in the early 90s

they never gave it a chance, Eastenders was rotten at the begining, ITV had Albion Market, they axed that as well

"I thought a lot of the top British tv actors were well off financially but unlike the American actors the British actors especially the older veteran actors pretty much lived on monthly pensions for example I thought Benny Hill was a millionaire being a big comedy star but he wasn't, British actors put in real good performances and get paid very little but the american ones get paid a lot and are very bad, British soaps are pretty much realistic some try to emulate the american ones, U.K. soaps are better at least from what I have seen of them."-🤔📻. 🌐🌍🌎🌏🗺🌏🌎🌍🌐.

so instead of trying to make eastenders better ( I love it) they deside to make a whole new soap with some of the producers and writers of eastenders

and wwe raw fron 93 to 99

El dorado had less life in it than my nans tights

The music choices for this programme are awful! Really irritating and distracting

This was just rushed it was also the first soap to cast a real disabled actor. Some characters that work on paper don't work in real, shows take time to mold and grow the last 2 months of this show my parents wouldn't miss an episode nor did 9-10 million peole cause they had hit gold it was crafted and worked. Eastenders gets 2 to 5 million now the last few years but they will never get rid of that . The real reason it was cancled was cause England knew they where leaving Europe and they where not taking the Euro money coming in and having a tag line "bringing Europe together as one" just didn't work. BBC is government run. Where as Channel 4 is privately owned that's why brookside was able to be so racey, (didn't like it) 🙄. Anyhow the BBC ****** UP. Shame on them they would be crying out for 9 to 10 million viewers now.

Omg Tony Holland that man has a very annoying voice

The end of the show is pretty decent but early episodes are shite

How back then and now the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation love to waste tax payers money and keep asking for more but keep giving us less.

Eldorado was embarrassing, why is that Tony Holland always looking scruffy and homeless? he must have bags of cash..?!

sun , sex ha ha ha and southern spain , it was a joke . such bad acting