Short answer: if the question is when the original run of Sai de Baixo ended on Globo, the answer is March 31, 2002. The year 2001 appears because Memória Globo itself has a summary sentence saying that the show "stayed on the air until December 2001", but the same archive gives the official broadcast period as 03/31/1996 to 03/31/2002 and lists a seventh season in 2002. For that reason, 2001 should not be used as the final date of the original broadcast run.
The three dates that clear up the confusion
| Date or period | What happened | How to interpret it |
|---|---|---|
| 12/30/2001 | A Mandinga do Tempo aired as the last episode listed in season 6, the 2001 season. | It marks the end of that annual cycle, not the end of the series on Globo. |
| 01/06/2002 to 03/31/2002 | The official episode guide lists a seventh season, ending on March 31 with the farewell episode. | This confirms that the original run continued on television in 2002. |
| 2013 | Viva produced four special episodes. The first premiered on Viva on 06/11/2013, and Globo aired all four on 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 and 11/24/2013. | This was a later special revival, not an uninterrupted continuation of the original run. |
Why do some references say Sai de Baixo ended in 2001?
The confusion originates inside Globo's own historical documentation. On the main program page, Memória Globo gives the broadcast period as 03/31/1996 to 03/31/2002. On that same page, however, an introductory text says that Sai de Baixo "stayed on the air until December 2001". Read by itself, that sentence makes 2001 look like the definitive ending.
The episode guide resolves the discrepancy more precisely. After A Mandinga do Tempo, aired on 12/30/2001 and placed in season 6, the official list opens a seventh season in 2002. It begins on 01/06/2002 and continues with weekly episodes through 03/31/2002. The program's evolution page also states that the farewell episode aired on March 31, 2002.
December 2001 can therefore be treated as the end of the 2001 season, or as a shortened formulation found on one historical page. It is not, however, the best date for answering when the original television run ended.
What the sources allow us to say about production
It is important to separate production from broadcast. The official pages consulted document transmission dates, seasons and the final episode, but they do not establish one clear date for the end of recording or production of the original run. Therefore, it is not safe to turn December 2001 into "the end of production" without a specific source about the recording schedule.
The verifiable fact is that previously unaired episodes were officially organized as a seventh season and broadcast from January through March 2002. Anyone documenting the television duration of the original run should therefore use 1996 to 2002, not 1996 to 2001.
2002 is the ending date of the original run
The official period given by Memória Globo starts on March 31, 1996 and ends on March 31, 2002. The episode list confirms the 2002 sequence, with titles broadcast in January, February and March, ending with the farewell installment on 03/31/2002.
This also explains why television databases, retrospectives and program profiles may show 1996 to 2002 as the show's duration even when another historical note mentions December 2001. The March 2002 date is supported by both the official date range and the episode by episode record.
The 2013 special should be counted separately
More than a decade later, Viva produced four new episodes to celebrate the channel's third anniversary. The first was scheduled for June 11, 2013 on Viva. Months later, Globo announced that all four specials would air on Sundays, on November 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2013, after Fantástico.
That revival does not change the end date of the original run. The clearest way to record the chronology is: original run broadcast from 1996 to 2002; new special episodes produced by Viva in 2013 and later also broadcast by Globo.
So, was it 2001 or 2002?
For the question "when did Sai de Baixo end on Globo in its original run?", the most precise documented answer is March 31, 2002. December 2001 corresponds to the end of that year's season and also appears in a summary sentence on Memória Globo, but it does not match the ending documented in the episode guide. As for the end of recording or production, the consulted sources do not provide a specific date that would justify automatically equating it with December 2001.
