The Antena 3 premiere of the documentary series about the life of Bárbara Rey (Una vida Bárbara), garnered twice the audience as Julia Otero bid farewell to Días de tele in La 1. The data are very revealing. Before the national team’s football match was broadcast, the public’s nostalgic program achieved very modest figures.
Unlike the Messiah and the King series, which did not interest me in the slightest, this four-part documentary arouses my curiosity. It’s always interesting to see how the character is treated and to what extent he expresses himself.
My memories of the beginning of the artist from Totana are very clear. He made his television debut on July 3, 1976 on the TV show Palmarés, which aired every Saturday until the end of that year. It was a container in which the best international television works, which received awards at festivals, were broadcast. It was wrapped in cellophane paper to make it digestible and embellished with musical numbers where Bárbara Rey showed off her legs along with the Zoom ballet she. Almost no one remembers co-host Pilar Velázquez. Smelling the work, director Enrique Martí Maqueda dared to direct I Feel Strange in 1977, a very bad movie that included blockbuster lesbian scenes between Rocío Dúrcal and Bárbara Rey. I remember seeing a couple in a crowded movie theater at the time. It’s not just the flirtations with the honorary that make up the biography of the Ángel Cristo couple.
Written by Gracia Solera and Óscar Bernácer, the series is directed by the writer of The Man Who Bottled the Sun (Pedro Zaragoza, mayor of Benidorm).