Mundo de juguete

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.^[1]

Mundo de juguete
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Abel Santa Cruz
Directed by	Rafael Banquells Manolo García
Starring	Graciela Mauri Ricardo Blume Irma Lozano Sara García Evita Muñoz "Chachita" Irán Eory Enrique Rocha Gloria Marín
Opening theme	Mundo de juguete by Lupita D'Alessio
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	605
Production
Executive producer	Valentín Pimstein
Production location	Mexico
Running time	41-44 minutes
Production company	Televisa
Original release
Network	Canal de las Estrellas
Release	November 4, 1974 (1974-11-04) – February 25, 1977 (1977-02-25)
Related
Gotita de gente Carita de ángel

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".

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.

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