''Sopotocientos'' was a

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children's television program broadcast in the early 1970s.

Program

Sopotocientos produced and broadcast in the early seventies by Televisora Nacional, channel 5. The series was similar in style to

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, starring children and characters representing animals. The series was a great success during its broadcast, and later an album with its featured songs was released. Despite being broadcast on channel 5, Sopotocientos was a community program, which meant that other Venezuelan television channels collaborated in the production. The series was promoted by First Lady

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, and was both advised and directed by psychologist Alba Revenga, who was later in charge of the contents of the

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. According to Alicia Pietri, the series reached an audience of over a million children viewers and was awarded the Meridiano de Oro and Guacaipuro de Oro awards.

Characters

* Rascón Corroncho: Hedgehog played by Óscar Ibarra * Potamito: Hippopotamus played by Martha Velasco * Doña Coco: Crocodile played by María Luisa Lamata * Pablito: Hugo Rojas * Tinita: Karin Lechner * The father: Julio Capote * The mother: América Alonso

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