Supergarcía — Season 1, Episode 1: The midnight vigilante
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 6.8/10
Episode synopsis
On April 7, 2002, José María García makes his last program without saying goodbye to his listeners. Whoever was his secretary and his right-hand man, stores thousands of hours of radio and personal belongings from García's career in dozens of boxes. Twenty years later, those boxes are opened and García returns to a radio studio to take stock of his career, which began as a young journalist of race who revolutionized radio at dawn and soon became the most listened to, influential and highest paid in the country, after passing through TVE, Cadena SER and Antena 3 and with well-known coverage such as 23-F or the Cycling Tour of Spain.
About Supergarcía
In 2002, after 40 years in the profession, José María García left the radio without saying goodbye to his listeners. 20 years later, the most media and controversial journalist in our history returns to a studio to come face to face with his past and remember and analyze the key moments of his career. Loved and hated, praised and criticized, José María García brought together millions of viewers around transistors, revolutionizing audiences and changing the style of doing radio. Race journalist, protagonist of one of the most famous radio wars, unable to silence a truth, inventor of insults such as streetlight huggers, chupóptero or correveidile, creator of night sports radio in Spain... 20 years later, García returns.