Mundo de juguete (English: Toy World) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of the 1973 Argentine telenovela Papá corazón. It premiered on November 4, 1974, on Canal de las Estrellas and ended on February 25, 1977.

This telenovela holds the record for having the second longest run ever for a Latin American telenovela, with a total of 605 half hour episodes (1974–1977). Most telenovelas run for an average of six to eight months; the shortest ones run about four months, and the longest up to a year. Televisa remade the telenovela in 2000, and called it "Carita de ángel".

Mundo de juguete

Plot

Cristina is Mariano's daughter, a widower. She attends a Catholic school and creates a world of her own ("mundo de juguete") in the school garden. At school she meets "Nana Tomasina", an old woman who lives behind the boarding school where Cristina attends. She takes the lonely girl in and advises her. Cristina succeeds in making her father marry Rosario who was a novice at the convent/boarding school so that she can have a new mother.

Mundo de juguete

Cast

Graciela Mauri as Cristina

Ricardo Blume as Mariano Salinas

Irma Lozano as Rosario

Irán Eory as Mercedes Balboa

Enrique Rocha as Leopoldo Balboa

Sara García as Nana Tomasita

Evita Muñoz "Chachita" as Hermana Carmela

Gloria Marín as Madre Superiora

Xavier Marc as Padre Benito

Maricarmen Martínez as Toña

Manuel Calvo as Fermín

Cristina Rubiales as Lina

Marilyn Pupo

References

External links

1974 telenovelas

1974 Mexican television series debuts

1977 Mexican television series endings

Televisa telenovelas

Children's telenovelas

Mexican television series based on Argentine television series

Spanish-language telenovelas

Television series about children

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