Plan Z (TV series)

Plan Z was a comedic Chilean TV show broadcast between 1997 and 1998 in the now-defunct Chilean TV channel Canal 2 Rock & Pop, made up of short sketches, usually containing absurdist surrealist and sometimes politically incorrect humor, created by Angel Carcavilla, Carolina Delpiano, Rafael Gumucio, Pedro Peirano and Alvaro Díaz. It would often show parodies of real life situations, ridiculized stereotypes, and elements that made fun of a post-dictatorship Chile through irony.

Plan Z
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Genre	Comedy Sketch Politically incorrect humor Social satire Surreal humour Black comedy
Starring	Álvaro Díaz, Pedro Peirano, Ángel Carcavilla, Carolina Delpiano, Rafael Gumucio, Vanessa Miller, Marco Silva
Country of origin	Chile
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	2
Production
Production locations	Santiago, Chile
Running time	30 minutes (with commercials)
Production company	Aplaplac
Original release
Network	Rock & Pop Televisión
Release	January 1997 (1997-01) – 1998 (1998)

Its name is based on "Plan Z", which was a supposed plan by the Salvador Allende administration to commit a self-coup in an attempt to establish a Marxist state with the help of the MIR and of the Cuban government.^[1] The existence of this plan was supposedly confirmed by the military, but the CIA later confirmed that it was just a product of war propaganda.^[2][3][4]

The show would be given various sanctions from the CNTV due to some of the more controversial actions of the show, such as making fun of the Bible in one of the sketches called "Noche de Libros: La Biblia"^[5] and ridiculizing Salvador Allende in "Vuestros Hombres, Valientes Soldados".^[6] In January 1998, after having gained eight charges overall, the broadcast of the show was cancelled, without ever finishing its second season.^[7]

Members

The crew of Plan Z was made up of various journalists, writers, actors, and actresses:

• Ángel Carcavilla; then-journalist and publicist.
• Carolina Delpiano; TV hostess and actress.
• Rafael Gumucio; literary critic and writer.
• Álvaro Díaz; journalist and TV producer.
• Pedro Peirano; journalist and TV producer.
• Vanessa Miller; actress, writer, dancer, and TV hostess.
• Marco Silva; graphic designer and writer.

References

1. "El montaje del Plan Z: Explicado por Juan Cristóbal Guarello". Gamba (in Spanish). 12 August 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
2. "El fin de un mito en Chile: el Plan Zeta". www.clarin.com (in Spanish). 5 July 1999. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
3. "La verdad sobre el "Plan Zeta", una mentira de la CIA en Chile". La Pampa La Arena. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
4. "El arrepentimiento no siempre es suficiente". Diario y Radio U Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 August 2020.
5. "Acta de la Sesión Ordinaria del Consejo Nacional de Televisión del Lunes 10 de Marzo de 1997" (PDF). Consejo Nacional de Televisión (in Spanish). 1997.
6. "Acta de la Sesión Ordinaria del Consejo Nacional de Televisión del Lunes 7 de Abril de 1997" (PDF). Consejo Nacional de Televisión (in Spanish).
7. Alejandro Morales Vargas (2004). "El factor Peirano". Escuela de Periodismo (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2020.