BBC Eldorado intro 1990s 

You're right- Jurassic Park was to blame! ITV resorted to having dinosaurs in Emmerdale in order to compete. Remember the infamous occasion when half the Dingle family were eaten by a rampaging T-Rex? And there was also a minor storyline in Neighbours where Bouncer the dog was carried of and eaten by a Pterodactyl. And Harold Bishop was played by a Stegosaurus. They don't make them like that any more.

I've heard the actors in this show aren't doing too well these days. They all have woodworm.

A famous TV failure. I remember it well because it played for the first time just as I was leaving junior school.

The show only lasted about a year, from summer 1992-summer 1993. The only reason I used to watch it was as an excuse to avoid doing revision for my A-Levels for another half-hour. It was pretty awful (and expensive). The wife of one of my work colleagues actually worked on the show and I didn't have the heart to tell her how bad it was.

Howards Way wasn't a failure at all. It enjoyed big audiences in the UK and abroad. It was only the real life death of one of the main characters the led to it's end.

Good old Marcus Tandy!!

I was born in June 1992 one month before the show started.

the BBC should do a special reunion episode next year since it was axed 20 years ago. Hopefully it might be taken seriously picking up from where it left off. Thumbs up if you agree.

Howards Way didn't fail.

Marcus Tandy. Loved his ways and woes. your right, it was brillers, unlike Eastenders. :( :)

Yes from ITV but from Manchester, not the West Midlands.

She had a hell of a moustache though lol!

@jane1975 the set is in the same condition as it was left but is being used as a hotel now i was unfortunate enough to stay there thinking it would be a nice place to stay how wrong i was the only upside to the place is you can walk around the set

the show had to compete with JURASSIC PARK which i think finished off the show. people were seein the film twice which meant they were going out instead of whatchin t.v

@pufferfishish Yeah, it strongly reminds me of 1992 as well!

That's sad. But also true in my case.

How could they have people speaking in Spanish,and not have subtitles?...Eldorado was quite simply doomed from the start...

LMAO thats THE best reply to a dumb comment on youtube i have ever seen.

A soap with acting that made the cast of Crossroads (with Benny Hawkins) look like method actors who had been personally trained by Larry Olivier

@03smithacs wow what an achievement lol

i thought the acting in this was terrible

I can say crap in spanish ELDARADO!

Kill me.

I know the word for crap in Spannish ELDORADO

I don't know why I'm pointing this out, but there's an unrelated piece of music by French synth-meister Jean-Michel Jarre titled "Eldorado" which appears on his 1991 album "Images". Good thing the BBC didn't use it as the show's theme song - otherwise JMJ would end up being forever associated with one of the biggest flops in television history!

This show did not last long

Yeah, apparently it had improved a lot but was cancelled for political reasons. The BBC wanted to be seen as more upmarket or something at the time; whether its early problems had given it a bad image or it just wasn't what the BBC wanted to be seen doing full stop, who knows? The theme is still anodyne rubbish though (as are its bland CGI visuals); not a patch on May's EastEnders theme, which was about the only good thing about *that* dour, humourless, po-faced miseryfest.

good concept but a flop

it was no worse than eastenders ..

Bad soap. Nice tune though.