
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…
Drama • Series • 1985 • 2 seasons
Starring: Dulcie van den Bergh, Cyrilene Slabbert, Steve Hofmeyr
Created by: Franz Marx
S1 E1 - Episode 1
Andries Barenhoren gets a promotion and asks Marietjie for a divorce. Steve ask Leana to marry him.
Sep 5, 1985
S1 E2 - 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.
Sep 12, 1985
S1 E3 - 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.
Sep 19, 1985
S1 E4 - 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.
Sep 26, 1985
S1 E5 - 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
S1 E6 - 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
S1 E7 - Episode 7
Oct 17, 1985
S1 E8 - Episode 8
Oct 24, 1985
S1 E9 - Episode 9
Oct 31, 1985
S1 E10 - Episode 10
Nov 7, 1985
S1 E11 - Episode 11
Nov 14, 1985
S1 E12 - Episode 12
Nov 21, 1985
S1 E13 - Episode 13
Nov 28, 1985
S1 E14 - Episode 14
Dec 5, 1985
S1 E15 - Episode 15
Dec 12, 1985
S1 E16 - Episode 16
Steve and Mercia return to South Africa and Mercia has to immediately make an important decision regarding her future.
Dec 19, 1985
S1 E17 - 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
S1 E18 - Episode 18
When Jack arrives at Barnhoorn House in search of Wessel, he starts to terrorise Annemarie.
Jan 2, 1986
S1 E19 - Episode 19
Stienie tries to persuade Leana to help her look for Jack.
Jan 9, 1986
S1 E20 - Episode 20
Leana turns up at Andries's office and learns the good news about Steve's project.
Jan 16, 1986
S1 E21 - 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
S1 E22 - 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
S1 E23 - 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
S1 E24 - 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
S1 E25 - 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
S1 E26 - Episode 26
Feb 27, 1986
S1 E27 - Episode 27
Mar 6, 1986
S1 E28 - 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.
Mar 13, 1986
S1 E29 - 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.
Mar 20, 1986
S1 E30 - 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.
Mar 27, 1986
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Agter Elke Man
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.
Drama • TV Series • 1985