 The Alcántaras are also direct and indirect witness of the historic acts occurring those days, including, among many others, when Antonio, Mercedes, Carlos and Miguel witness the car bombing that assassinates Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, when Toni chronicles the Portuguese Carnation Revolution from Lisbon, when all the family queue for hours for Franco's funeral chapel, when Carlos, Karina and Josete get trapped in the Alcalá 20 nightclub fire, when Antonio and Mercedes take part in the famous game show "Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez", when all the family leave El Descanso restaurant just when it suffers a terrorist attack, when Antonio proudly attends, at the Royal Palace, to the solemn signature of the agreement for which Spain and Portugal joined the European Economic Community, when Inés, Marcos and Oriol come out of the Hipercor bombing unscathed, when Toni reports live from Berlin the fall of the Wall and when Toni and his cameraman are kidnapped in Iraq during the Gulf War.Friends and acquaintances appearing in more than 100 episodes.The series has also 5 additional unnumbered special episodes not counted in the official episodes numeration.