Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.
Set in a fictional men's prison, the series attempted to present a male version of the successful soap Prisoner. Attempts by the show's makers to differentiate the series from Prisoner saw Punishment imbued with greater realism; however, the formula did not attract high viewing figures. Network Ten deemed the new series a failure after only three episodes had gone to air, and it was quickly removed from the schedules. The remainder of the 26 episodes produced were shown out-of-ratings later that year. Unusually for a soap opera, the series was taped using the single camera technique.
The regular cast featured many notable Australian actors including Brian Wenzel, Barry Crocker, Michael Preston, Ross Thompson, Anne Haddy, George Spartels, Cornelia Frances, Lisa Peers and Julie McGregor. Mel Gibson played a prisoner in the first episode. Kris McQuade played the girlfriend of Gibson's character and was
The Best Years is a Canadian teen drama series set in Boston, Massachusetts. The series was created by producer and writer of Degrassi: The Next Generation, Aaron Martin. The first season was shown on Global in Canada and The N in the United States. The second season was shown in the U.S. on The N and in Canada on E!, CanWest's secondary network.
Eighteen years ago, Susan and Michael Vincent travelled to Spain with a group of friends. She was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Martha. Newly released on parole from the Spanish jail, Susan comes back to Chicago to regain her children’s love and prove her innocence.
Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.
By inscrutable vagaries of fate, an immensely rich family becomes moderately poor, and a moderately poor family becomes stupidly rich. In "As in the neighborhood as in the sky" we will follow the adventures of the López López, a family that has a chicken and egg warehouse in the colony, and the Ferrara family, a family that owns a fashion emporium, which allows them to coexist comfortably with the international Jet set.
A story about family. About legacy. About building up and tearing down. a story of secrets and lies. A story of how the sins of the fathers visit their children and raises the question of whether blood really crawls where it cannot run.
It is a completely new format for Czech TV viewers, namely scripted reality, a hybrid between a fiction series and a reality show. The show is about people, relationships, fun, cohabitation and life in the vibrant city of Prague.
When one of the biggest business magnates in Serbia, Branko Kadic, decides to marry his secretary Kristina, he will start an avalanche of events that will throw the Kadic family into a whirlpool of family intrigues, love affairs, and business turbulence with Branko's biggest rival in business, Vojin Konstantinovic.
Branko is not doing very well in family relations: he has no ear for the bisexuality of his son Stefan, as well as for his daughter Anastasia's ambition to realize herself in the business world. His new wife Kristina, who is gradually discovering this completely new world for her, strives to adapt to the family and keep Branko's affection. She is hindered in that by her previous affairs and the return of Branko's ex-wife Alexis, so the relationship between Branko and her is constantly changing.
Port Charles is an American television. It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital
In the first few years, Port Charles got a reputation for focusing most of its energies on the medical school program, setting more of its main action at Port Charles' General Hospital than was seen on the parent show, General Hospital. As it evolved, it turned its focus to stories with gothic intrigue that included themes such as forbidden love, vampires, and life after death. It also abandoned the basic open-ended writing style used on all other daytime dramas in December 2000, instead creating thirteen-week story arcs. This type of storytelling is a staple of Latin telenovelas. It also allowed the cast, crew, and writing staff to only work six months out of the year.
Not wanting to feel the pain of losing his loved ones over and over again, Nicolas, an immortal man, keeps himself from falling in love. As he goes through life alone, he meets Sophia, the woman who changes his life forever.
La venganza is a 1977 Mexican telenovela made by Televisa, produced by Valentin Pimstein and directed by Rafael Banquells, starring Helena Rojo and Enrique Lizalde. Writing credits belong to Ines Rodena, Maria Teresa Madero and Tere Medina. La venganza is a romantic heroine story, combining elements of Charles Perrault's Cinderella, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.