Simplemente Maria is a telenovela, starring Victoria Ruffo, Manuel Saval, Jaime Garza and Silvia Derbez. The telenovela, a production of Valentín Pimstein, premiered on October 16, 1989 and ended on May 11, 1990 on El Canal de las Estrellas.
Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges over him. Alex by contrast is a yuppie. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalry with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a graffiti artist who is on the run from the São Paulo police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.
This serial portrays the lives of young people in a student residence. Louise, who owns the house, has had to play every role imaginable, including mother, nurse, confidant, psychologist and probation officer. With their affection for Louise, it's no wonder they come back every year. Some manage to stand on their own two feet, but Louise is always there for them.
Inspired on Jorge Amado's romance "Tieta do Agreste", the plot is set on the fictional city of Santana do Agreste, at Brazil's northwest, and has as main theme Tieta's life turnarounds. Twenty-five years after being chased out of town by her father Zé Esteves, she returns to her home town seeking revenge against everyone who mistreated her and laugh at her face in the past.
Generations is an American soap opera that aired on NBC from March 27, 1989, to January 25, 1991. The show was groundbreaking in that it was the first soap opera to feature from its inception an African-American family.
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
The story tells the story of Diana (Maria Sortè), a highly successful fashion designer married to an unreliable and lying man, Giacomo, and of Gianluca (Enrique Novi), a widower with a 10-year-old girl, Arianna. Diana, after discovering that Giacomo has another wife and two children, Davide and Chicco, abandons him, and leaves for a cruise with her friend Gloria. On the ship he meets Gianluca in the company of Viviana, who is actually staying with him for money. The meeting between Gianluca and Diana is one of those that are not forgotten and, what seemed only physical attraction, turns into true love. Diana is introduced by Gianluca to her daughter and immediately wins her sympathy.
Carrusel is a Mexican telenovela, produced by and first broadcast on Televisa in 1989. It covers daily life in a Mexican elementary school and the children's relationships with a charismatic teacher named Jimena. Among other plot devices, it deals with the differences between the upper and lower classes of Mexican society — specifically as seen in a romantic relationship between Cirilo, a poor black boy, and a spoiled rich girl, Maria Joaquina Villaseñor.