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'''''Ponto de Encontro''''' (''Meeting Point'') was a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[television]] series that reunited people with long-lost families and friends. It was produced in the 1990s for [[SIC (Portugal)|SIC]] TV channel.
==History==
The format premiered at 22:15 on October 27, 1994, being in the same line as ''Perdoa-me'' and ''All You Need is Love''.<ref>''Público'', 27 October 1994</ref> In 1995 it moved to Monday nights.<ref name="PDE">Nunes, Maria Fátima (2011). A crença no reality show Ponto de Encontro, Revista de Letras, II, n.º 10 (2011), 389-406.</ref> Before its creation it was part of another program, ''Casos de Polícia'',<ref name="PDE"/> by April 1995, it had become the second most-watched program. By then, more than 10,000 letters to the production of the program hadn't been dispatched yet.<ref>''Público'', 12 April 1995</ref> Some of the cases shown in the program were staged.<ref name="PDE"/>

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