Eldorado (TV series) Eldorado (TV series) Eldorado was a British soap opera created by Tony Holland from an original idea by John Dark and Verity Lambert 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 Eldorado in Spain and following the lives of British and European expatriates, 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
In the Red (radio series) In the Red (radio series) In the Red is the first in a sequence of four black comedy-crime drama series created for BBC Radio 4 by Mark Tavener featuring Michael Williams as BBC Reporter George Cragge and Barry Foster as Police Superintendent Frank Jefferson. The first seven-part series (BBC Radio 4, 1995), was adapted by Tavener and comedy-writer Peter Baynham from Tavener's novel of the same name (Hutchinson, 1989), which had been inspired by the writer's early experiences working for the BBC and the Liberal Party. The subsequent series, "In the Balance" (BBC Radio 4, 1997), "In the Chair" (BBC