Franz Marx
Director
Agter Elke Man (1985)
Season 1
The series follows Marietjie Barnhoorn, the estranged wife of a successful businessman; Leana Steyn, the private secretary of an elderly business tycoon, who is ruthless in her ambitions to overcome her impoverished past; and aging ballerina Mercia Meyer, who returns to South Africa after living and working abroad and has to deal with the hostility of her fellow South Africans.
Released Sept. 4, 1985
Episode 44 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Leisureco, Franz Marx Productions
Network: SABC 2
Country: South Africa
Languages:
Afrikaans
S1E1 - Episode 1
Andries Barenhoren gets a promotion and asks Marietjie for a divorce. Steve ask Leana to marry him.
Sept. 5, 1985, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Leana approaches Anna Meyer, Albert Jooste's ex-wife, to buy her shares in Kemkor. It takes some convincing to get her to agree to the transaction, but it soon becomes clear that Leana is a master manipulator. She even uses her guiles to convince Andries Barnhoorn to sell his company's Kemkor shares, and gets Albert to make her his sole heir.
Sept. 12, 1985, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3
Steve presents a new manufacturing process to Andries, who recognises it as potentially revolutionary and promises to give it some thought. Leana admits to Albert that she married him for his money, and he tells her that he spent all his money to buy back the shares and that the company is on the brink of bankruptcy. Shortly afterwards, Albert has a heartattack. Anna Meyer uses Albert's demise to manipulate public opinion.
Sept. 19, 1985, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4
Van Breda, an old adversory of Albert Jooste, tries to exploit Albert's death to gain control of the company, but he hasn't counted on Leana's ambitions. Andries returns home unexpectedly and gets an earful from his daughter, Annemarie. Leana's plans to marry Steve are dealt a blow: according to Albert's will, the moment she remarries, everything goes to Mercia. Leana makes plans to take Steve's project forward for Kemkor, but he refuses to sell the plans to her. Stienie arrives at the office to see Leana.
Sept. 26, 1985, midnight
S1E5 - Episode 5
The pressure from her mother and her grief over Kobus finally gets to Mercia, and when the protesters disrupt a performance, she simply walks off stage and packs her bags to go find Kobus in Israel. At the airport she meets Steve and they become friends. Wessel leaves the army and Andries and Marietjie arrive separately to take him home. Wessel realises that they've split up and walks off. Leana takes her mother some money, but Stienie refuses to take the cash and locks her out of the house. After Leana and Andries have sealed the deal on the new manufacturing process, she reveals that Steve owns the copyright to the plans and that he will have to be managing director of the new consortium. Marietjie is worried that Wessel hasn't returned home yet. Wessel goes to stay with an old army friend, Leana's brother, Jack.
Oct. 3, 1985, midnight
S1E6 - Episode 6
Jack needs money for his bike and when he steals watches from the shop where Suzy works, Suzy's supervisor suspects her. Then Jack visits Leana's office to get money. She tells him to leave, but he assaults her and her staff and vandalises the office. Steve realises that "Karlien" is really Mercia Meyer - and Albert Jooste's daughter. He asks her to marry her.
Oct. 10, 1985, midnight
S1E7 - Episode 7
Oct. 17, 1985, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8
Oct. 24, 1985, midnight
S1E9 - Episode 9
Oct. 31, 1985, midnight
S1E10 - Episode 10
Nov. 7, 1985, midnight
S1E11 - Episode 11
Nov. 14, 1985, midnight
S1E12 - Episode 12
Nov. 21, 1985, midnight
S1E13 - Episode 13
Nov. 28, 1985, midnight
S1E14 - Episode 14
Dec. 5, 1985, midnight
S1E15 - Episode 15
Dec. 12, 1985, midnight
S1E16 - Episode 16
Steve and Mercia return to South Africa and Mercia has to immediately make an important decision regarding her future.
Dec. 19, 1985, midnight
S1E17 - Episode 17
Marietjie and Leana meet by chance and have a chat. Hettie is very unhappy about this. Jack sees Suzie and Wessel meeting and this has alarming consequences.
Dec. 26, 1985, midnight
S1E18 - Episode 18
When Jack arrives at Barnhoorn House in search of Wessel, he starts to terrorise Annemarie.
Jan. 2, 1986, midnight
S1E19 - Episode 19
Stienie tries to persuade Leana to help her look for Jack.
Jan. 9, 1986, midnight
S1E20 - Episode 20
Leana turns up at Andries's office and learns the good news about Steve's project.
Jan. 16, 1986, midnight
S1E21 - Episode 21
Leana immediately suspects trouble when she arrives home and Elzetta says that Jack is waiting for her inside. She looks for her revolver, but can't find it.
Jan. 23, 1986, midnight
S1E22 - Episode 22
Kobus Dreyer decides to leave Israel to take up an important post in South Africa. Steve shows Mercia the new house but there's tension when she insists on wanting to know more about his work. Steve and Leana eat out together under the pretext of 'work' and are unaware that Mercia is watching them.
Jan. 30, 1986, midnight
S1E23 - Episode 23
Marietjie is relieved that Annemarie is her old self again. But the peace is soon shattered by Hannes Sieberhagen's flirtatious ways.
Feb. 6, 1986, midnight
S1E24 - Episode 24
Elzetta is unhappy with Leana and asks Mercia to come and work for her. Suzie takes revenge after an argument with Jack in a caravan park.
Feb. 13, 1986, midnight
S1E25 - Episode 25
Johan says farewell to Kobus, who leaves Israel for South Africa. Hettie and Hannes arrive at the Barnhoorn house to take Marietjie to the divorce court.
Feb. 20, 1986, midnight
S1E26 - Episode 26
Feb. 27, 1986, midnight
S1E27 - Episode 27
March 6, 1986, midnight
S1E28 - Episode 28
Wessel sets up camp in an isolated spot and is visited by Monika Greyling. When he goes for a walk with her, the other members of the Greyling family search his belongings and steal all his money.
March 13, 1986, midnight
S1E29 - Episode 29
Andries begs Marietjie to return to him but she refuses. Meanwhile, Wessel is on the trail of the Greyling family, hoping to recover his money.
March 20, 1986, midnight
S1E30 - Episode 30
After her baby's birth, Suzie goes to stay with Mrs. Simpson. She visits Wessel in hospital and is shocked by his poor condition. Steve and Mercia are very happy, although she still regards Leana as a threat.
March 27, 1986, midnight
Network: SABC 2
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 44 min.
Released: Sept. 4, 1985
Last Air Date: Nov. 10, 1988, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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