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Haplos (TV series)

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ30609862 ↗
Source-derived summary

Haplos (transl. caress / international title: Angela) is a Philippine television drama horror series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Sanya Lopez and Thea Tolentino. It premiered on July 10, 2017, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up. The series concluded on February 23, 2018, with a total of 164 episodes.

The series is streaming online on YouTube.

Premise

Angela has an ability to heal others through her caress which she doesn't know yet. While her half-sister, Lucille has an ability in witchcraft. Angela's quiet life will be in trouble with the arrival of Lucille. Lucille will take everything away from Angela believing it is for her.

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Production

Principal photography commenced on May 31, 2017.

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“Haplos (TV series)” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Haplos, series and television can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Haplos, series and television.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30609862. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Haplos (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.