X-Nico

3-2-1 Contact

From 1982 to 1983 the program was aired in Spain with dubbed-over versions of the American original broadcasts, and some local add-ons with four Spanish cast members: Sonia Martínez, Luis Bollain, Fernando Rueda and Marifé Rodríguez.

Sonia Martínez

But her career was put an end in 1986, when Sonia was in Ibiza filming an episode of the German TV series Großstadtrevier, in what she played the role of a police woman.

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José María Cano, after his music career, started a new life as a London-based painter, and is the author of Take a walk on the wild side, a painting inspired by Sonia.

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Sonia Martínez (Madrid, September 23, 1963 - September 4, 1994) was a Spanish actress and TV introducer, known by her role in the Spanish version of American educational TV broadcast 3-2-1 Contact aimed to spread Science through 12-14 year old audiences.

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After this children-oriented TV career, Sonia also played some characters in films of the mid-1980s period, but was mainly known for being one of the earlier Spanish famous people to die as a victim of AIDS, as Rock Hudson was in the Anglo-speaking countries.

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As a consequence of these problems, linked with some personal crises, Sonia became an Heroin addict (Social impact of this drug was extremely wide in Madrid in those years) and was diagnosed as an AIDS victim in 1990.

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Some people, as the pop composer José María Cano, tried to help Sonia with detoxification treatments, and Sonia played her last cinema role in 1994, but her health was too damaged by the virus, and she died September 4, 1994, after becoming an easy and vulnerable target for gossip and sensationalist media, including the new TV networks that broke the TVE's national monopoly in 1989-1990)

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