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La Bola de Cristal was a Spanish TV Show that aired on TVE from 1984 to 1988. The show was the brainchild of Spanish writer Dolores Rico Oliver and was hosted by pop singer Alaska. The show, which was ostensibly targeted at a young audience, reflected the spirit of the times, that of the post-Franco Spanish transition and of the cultural and musical movement known as la movida. In contrast to previous shows, with a very childish use of language, it had continuous puns related to electronics: the Electroduendes puppets included Maese Cámara, Hada Vídeo and Bruja Avería as regular characters.
The series tells the adventures of a group of youngsters between ages 9 and 17, while on summer vacation in a small coastal town on the Spanish Mediterranean Costa del Sol.
It is the disastrous grades at the end of the school year that make several students from different places gather at the school to spend the whole summer studying, in order to make up for the lost course. Naturally, at this school, the last thing the kids are going to do is study, but the mayor of the town wants to demolish the school to build a housing development...
Four kids get lost in the forest in the middle of a storm and go take refuge in an abandoned castle. There they will meet and face Dracula, the Werewolf, Quasimodo and Doctor Frankenstein. Despite the attempts of the monsters to scare them and, in passing, recover their lost prestige, the children, with the help of Count Dracula's son, will face the evil creatures.
Chispita is a girl who has lost her mother in an accident. Shortly after she learns that she was actually adopted. With the help of her friends Tazo and Puñe, she decides to run away to find her true biological mother since her adoptive father and new stepmother do not treat her well.
Amalio and Florencio are two cabaret artists who divorce their wives and stay with custody of their children. An unscrupulous cheat the two rent both of them the same dilapidated house. There will have to live both trying to get ahead as a team of magicians who happens to be a failure. But thanks to the ideas of their children, both parents are a couple of musical comedy that, despite initial failures, is a great success with the participation of the kids. Moreover Amalio and Florencio try to flirt with girls that are radically different from their wives but the kids will all the impediments that have no future.
