Morangos com Açúcar

Morangos com Açúcar (lit. Strawberries with Sugar; distributed internationally as Sweet Strawberries) is a Portuguese teen drama. It was broadcast daily on the Portuguese TV station TVI between 30 August 2003 to 15 September 2012. The Portuguese show has also been broadcast in Angola, Syria, Brazil, Romania and Galicia.

There are two versions of the show: one airs during the normal school year, and the other one, "Férias de Verão" (lit. summer break), airs during the summer months. From the first to the fourth season, the main scenario was a private school. The fifth and sixth seasons took place mainly in a public school, and from the seventh season onwards, in a public arts school.

A film of the series was released on 30 August 2012, and grossed €1,207,647.10.

In May 2006, an outbreak of the so dubbed "Morangos com Açúcar Virus" was reported in Portuguese schools. 300 or more students at 14 schools reported similar symptoms to those experienced by the characters in a then recent episode where a life threatening virus affected the school depicted in the show. Symptoms of the "virus" included rashes, difficulty breathing, and dizziness. The perceived outbreak forced some schools to temporarily close. The Portuguese National Institute for Medical Emergency eventually dismissed the illness as mass hysteria. This outbreak raised the concern of some parents regarding the major influence this series has on children who watch it. The story was reported internationally in newspapers, magazines and online.

Bernardino Esteves (popularly known as Dino) was portrayed by Francisco Adam. The character was retired from the series after Francisco Adam died in a car accident in April 2006. In the last episode featuring Dino, the character was seen leaving in a hot air balloon, and threw his favourite orange coloured hat onto the ground, where his lover, Susana, took it and kept it as a memento. The entire cast of the telenovela appeared and waved goodbye to the character, and the actor who portrayed him.

In July 2012, Henrique Jales was sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing a child while casting for the show for TVI.