Águila roja

Águila roja
GenreAdventure
Swashbuckler
Created byDaniel Écija
Pilar Nadal
Ernesto Pozuelo
Juan Carlos Cueto
StarringDavid Janer
Javier Gutiérrez
Inma Cuesta
Miryam Gallego
Francis Lorenzo
Country of originSpain
Original languageSpanish
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes116
Production
Executive producerHugo Mendiri Villarruvia
ProducersCésar Ruíz de Diego
Miguel Turón
Running time80 minutes (approx.)
Production companyGlobomedia for Televisión Española
Original release
NetworkLa 1
ReleaseFebruary 19, 2009 (2009-02-19) 
October 27, 2016 (2016-10-27)

Águila Roja (English: Red Eagle) is a Spanish adventure television series set in Spain during the 17th century. It was produced by Globomedia for Televisión Española and was broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española from 2009 to 2016. It is one of the channel's most successful shows, and its rights have been sold to several countries.

The aim of the show was to capitalize on the success of Televisión Española's period dramas such as Cuéntame cómo pasó, La Señora or Amar en tiempos revueltos, but at the same time aiming for mature audiences with a masked hero in the style of Zorro or Green Arrow as the main character. Many of the latter shows carry warnings that they are for mature audiences only.