This text tries to explore what was that country that showed us the television of the decade of the eighties, in which many things happened in Colombia, such as the growth of the drug trafficking phenomenon and the violence associated with it, expressed in the war of carteles; the strengthening of the guerrillas and the attempts of peace processes, which generated an event such as the taking of the Palace of Justice, and the emergence of paramilitary groups, which were building a feeling of fear among Colombians. This in contrast to the television products that were being broadcast, for example, El cuento del domingo, the series Revivamos nuestra historia or the first color transmissions of football matches, which aroused a sense of nationalism in the public. For this particular case, this research focuses on evidence of the production of Pepe Sánchez, director who consolidates his role in television during that decade, with one of the series most remembered by Colombians of this generation: Don Chinche, produced by RTI and transmitted every Sunday from 1983 to 1989, you can trace some elements that generated national identification processes.