Lindenstraße is a German television show on ARD's Das Erste, one of Germany's two publicly administered TV channels. The first episode was aired on 8 December 1985 and since then new episodes have been broadcast weekly. Its current timeslot on Das Erste is Sundays at 18:50. The events of the Sunday episode usually take place on the Thursday before the show, based on the TV station's original plan of airing the episodes Thursday night. Prior of the start of the show, the timeslot was switched to Sunday evening but the Thursday remained the day the events usually take place as the show shall feature the daily life routine of the protagonists on a working day. Exceptions are the so-called holiday episodes that take place on Sunday, such as for Christmas and Easter and also on important election days.
Setting the pace for other soap operas in Germany, the first episodes were met with mostly bad reviews. However, Lindenstraße soon became one of the most successful shows on German TV.
Prakaidao (Dao) is a modern, independent career woman and a confirmed bachelorette looking to have a child through in vitro fertilization and without getting married. Chai Jan is both rich and attractive, but is also very focused on his career. He is a perfectionist and has impossibly high standards for a future wife, which is why he still remains single at 35. Dao starts searching for the best biological father for her child and finds that Chai Jan meets her exacting standards. She decides to become friends with him in order to verify his viability, but luck isn't on her side and through a series of unfortunate incidences he sees her as a troublesome woman and distrusts her. Will she manage to achieve her goal of having a child with Chai Jan without the entanglements of a relationship?
When Yothaka's mother marries Chatcharun's rich father, Chatcharun is not happy. He believes that she and her mother are both gold diggers. Also, Yothaka has just returned from abroad and has a care-free "western" attitude. She is a rebel at heart, while Chatcharun is conservative. Along with believing that she is a gold-digger, he also thinks she is "easy". She encourages that misconception just to annoy him. He harasses, she teases. They bicker. A lot.
The story of Phung, a beautiful PR lady who has a crush on a customer until she is fired from her old job, making her and her 3 friends Tai, Nok and Kwang become unemployed! Before they met the "35 Dara Show Shop", a luxury club with Miang, a handsome, nerdy young man as the store manager. They have to do whatever it takes to get a job in this club. But the road is not always strewn with rose petals. When she meets with a gang of beautiful local girls like Rose, Lavender, Jasmine and Chaba, it becomes a battle for the number of Night Angels' drinks. Along with many turmoil that happened every day. So Miang and Phung must work together to solve problems to make this club the number one club.
Twins Ploy and Plair were separated shortly after their birth. After Ploy spots Plair accidentally at work, she's determined to talk with her and tell her the truth about how she was taken away. Not long after the twins meet and the truth comes out, the 2 unintentionally swap lives and have to live the daily life of their other half.
Yuna is the third wife of Carlos, a billionaire who wants a son as his offspring. After learning that the child Yuna gave birth to was a girl, Risa, Yuna's mother, then exchanged the child with their driver's son, Yudi, in exchange for a sum of money. Yudi agreed to this proposal even though his wife, Asti, objected. Out of revenge, Asti threw the baby in a trash bin at a brothel complex and then adopted her cousin's baby. The abandoned baby was later found by Susan, a prostitute who had just repented. Susan gave the baby the name Putri, she grew up to be a brave girl. Meanwhile, the boy who lives with Carlos and Yuna, Raja, grows up to be an arrogant spoiled boy. At his school, he crossed path with Putri.
Berrenger's is an American primetime television soap opera created by Diana Gould that aired on NBC in 1985. The series revolved around the Berrenger family, a New York dynasty which owned the glamorous department store which bore their name.
Following in the tradition of Dynasty and Dallas, Berrenger's played up to the familiar motifs of 1980s soap operas - glamorous and beautiful characters, using money and power in games of love, business and betrayal.
The series was cancelled after 13 one-hour episodes had been produced. In North America, only 11 of the 13 episodes were screened. Because of studio television output deals it was screened in Europe and Australia, and has sustained a modest cult following.