The Most Popular Telenovelas of the 70's and 80's
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- StarsVerónica CastroRogelio GuerraAugusto BenedicoMariana Villareal (Castro) finds herself homeless after her father dies and her stepmother takes over their hacienda.
- StarsDiana BrachoGonzalo VegaMaría RubioA mother's overbearing and unhealthy love for her only biological son will lead to the realization of a despicable plot that ends up ruining the lives of many individuals.
- StarsLupita FerrerJeannette RodríguezCarlos MataA poor maid becomes pregnant and is fired; with no money for herself and the child, she leaves her in an orphanage. Years later she has become very rich and successful, but she has never forgotten the child she abandoned years before.
- StarsPatricia PereyraHéctor GómezIrma DorantesTeresa desperately seeks to escape poverty. Resentful of the miserable life that left her without her sister, she plans to use her beauty and intelligence as method to enter the luxurious world to which she so desperately wants to belong.
- StarsJosé BardinaLupita FerrerEva BlancoLandowner Rodolfo Peñalver insists in bringing his pregnant wife Blanca to his hacienda. Blanca's pregnancy is high-risk since she's had previous miscarriages and is recovering from the measles. During a stormy night, Blanca goes into labor. When the local doctor can't be found, midwife Dominga is called and together with servant, Chana, they deliver a dead baby girl. Gazing at the unconscious Blanca, Dominga comments how unfair life is since she's just delivered a healthy baby boy to a poor widow who has died in childbirth. Chana comes up with the idea of passing the little orphan as Blanca's baby. After the deed is done, Chana gives Dominga Blanca's set of emerald earrings as payment for her silence. Although Rodolfo is ecstatic with his bouncing son, Chana can't help but tell her mistress the truth. Blanca is distraught to know her daughter is dead, but goes along with the pretense since she's grown fond of the new baby. It takes many years before the Peñalvers return to the hacienda. By that time, Juan Pablo has become a doctor and is Rodolfo's pride and joy. He comes to the hacienda in the company of his cousin and fiancée, Graciela. Strange things start happening to the Peñalvers. Blanca attempts to find her daughter's grave and can't find it in the local cemetery. Juan Pablo meets a wild raggedy girl that bites him on the hand. He becomes obsessed with the girl and starts neglecting Gracielita. It turns out that the girl, called Esmeralda, is blind and is Dominga's adopted daughter. When Chana sees Esmeralda wearing the emerald earrings, she begins to wonder if the baby really died.
- StarsVerónica CastroIgnacio López TarsoSergio JiménezTo save Maria Elena's baby, Maria Elena's nanny has to -kidnap- him and take him far away to raise him.
- StarsOfelia MedinaEnrique Álvarez FélixMaría Rubio"Rina" is a macabre telenovela that tells the rags to riches story of a poor hunchback and destitute girl who sells straw dolls in the street and eventually comes to inherit a large house and fortune. As the storyline progresses, it incorporates an occult theme. Rina sells dolls made of straws on the street to support her paraplegic father and younger brother and sister who attend school. One day she passes a house on the street owned by a rich man, Leopoldo, who sticks his head out the window and befriends Rina. Later, he manipulates her into marriage, although he is elderly and sick. Rafaela, Leopoldo's sinister and materialistic sister-in-law, wishes Leopoldo would die so she can inherit his fortune. Leopoldo, however, will have his revenge. Upon Leopoldo's suspicious death, it is learned during the reading of the will that Rina will inherit the house and all assets--but only if she agrees to live there. Rafaela will not inherit the house, but will be allowed to live there with her sister and son, Carlos Augusto. Naturally, this infuriates Rafaela, who with her sister concocts a sinister plan to disinherit Rina and make her leave the house, by getting Rina to marry Carlos Augusto. Her son Carlos Augusto opposes this idea. Once living in the house, Rina experiences strange and and inexplicable phenomenon that are difficult to explain. "Rina" premiered in 1977 and ran through January 1978. Its original bleak ending was changed. Remade as "Maria Mercedes" with Thalia in the nineties.
- StarsMartha RothJorge Martínez de HoyosAna MartínOyuki Ogino lives in a Japanese village in the early 1970s. She is a beautiful, honest, good woman whose beauty and physical attributes are used by her ambitious brother Yutaka Ogino, who exploits her and forces her to work as a Geisha.
- StarsHilda CarreroEduardo SerranoAlba RoversiFollows the life of Emiro Lizarraga, the owner of Amazonas, a farm. h
- StarsCatherine FulopFernando CarrilloHilda Abrahamz'Abigail' is the story of the beautiful, troubled only daughter of a well-known businessman, a spoiled rich girl who falls in love with her literature professor at San Lazaro Prep School. So begins the odyssey of love that juggles an unfortunate marriage, a child, and neglectful parents until Abigail and Carlos Alfredo are happily united.
- StarsJeannette RodríguezCarlos MataMiguel AlcántaraGabriela Suarez, a theater student and cheerleader for a basketball team, begins a job at a carwash to help her family--her father has just died and she is the firstborn. The carwash is owned by famous businessman Tito Clemente, who will meet Gabriela and have a short but passionate affair with her. Gabriela, however, is falsely accused of drug trafficking and ends up with a 15-year jail sentence. Tito abandons her to her bad luck, choosing to ignore that she's expecting his child. In jail, Gabriela plots her escape, something she pulls off after serving seven years behind bars. Only one objective drives her existence: revenge against the man who ruined her life, Tito Clemente. To achieve her purpose, she changes her name and her physical appearance and manages to reintroduce herself into Tito's life and make him fall in love with her all over again.
- StarsCaridad CanelónMaricarmen RegueiroCarlos MataAlthough Eugenia Montiel was a minor when she committed a crime, she sits in prison for five years awaiting her judgment. She knows that the one responsible for her long imprisonment was the lawyer, Diego Mendoza; she hates him and swears to take revenge on him for this injustice. Silvana, a violent predator, hits her in the head with a fire extinguisher, which temporarily blinds her. A strange woman called Endrina visits Diego and asks him to repair his injustice. Taking advantage of Eugenia's blindness, Diego pretends to be a nurse, makes friends with her, and falls in love with her although he's already married to Pilar Luján with whom he has daughter María de los Ángeles. Before knowing the face of Eugenia, he marches, leaving her the truth in a letter. Eugenia gets free and goes to live with Endrina and her sister Cándida, who adopt her. Cándida knows the secret about Eugenia's origin, but she dies without telling her. Eugenia has only one clue: the name "Constitución Méndez"; with this she goes to Caracas to look for the cruel and powerful Constitución who is her real mother, something that both of them ignore.
- StarsVictoria RuffoJaime GarzaGabriela GoldsmithThe innocent María López leaves her town, looking for a better economic future in Mexico City. She gets a job as a servant in the home of a wealthy family. María falls in love and gives up her employer's son and he leaves her pregnant.
- StarsLucía MéndezEnrique Álvarez FélixJulissaA millionaire man married to a sick woman falls in love with a famous cabaret artist.
- StarsRogelio GuerraAngélica AragónIrma LozanoA woman spends 20 years in Prison in a foreign country. Once she gets out, She finds out her children have been told a lie.
- StarsMayra AlejandraFlavio CaballeroCarlos OlivierThis is a Telenovela Venezuela about virgin bride-to-be Leonela Ferrari (Mayra Alexandra) getting ready to be married. One night she is the victim of a violent drunken man, Jorge Luis Guerra (Carlos Olivier), who rapes her. Her fiancé refuses to marry her, and when she realizes that she is pregnant, her rich, influential parents dread what "everyone will say" when they find out that Leonela is pregnant and not getting married. Leonela later becomes a lawyer and puts Jorge Luis Guerra in jail for 12 years, during which he falls in love with her and regrets what he did.
- StarsMiguel ManzanoSilvia PasquelAngélica MaríaItalian woman moves to Mexico to wed a man in an arrange marry.
- StarsAdela NoriegaThalíaBlanca SánchezMaricruz and Beatriz are best friends, Beatriz comes from a wealthy family and Maricruz doesn't. Both are about to turn 15, at which age they will leave their childhood behind. Girls, welcome to adulthood.
- StarsPierina EspañaJosé Luis Rodríguez 'El Puma'Carlos OlivierThis story of love, persecution and intrigue in the underground struggle against a dictatorship.
- StarsEduardo YáñezAdela NoriegaEnrique LizaldeLove story between a teacher and a student in a all-girls boarding school
- StarsLucía MéndezAndrés GarcíaSalvador PinedaA young woman gets involved in a feud between two brothers.
- StarsRubens de FalcoLucélia SantosGilberto MartinhoThe difficulties faced by a gentle-hearted young white slave targeted by the obsession of her lord in the Brazilian colonial period.
- StarsJacqueline AndereErnesto AlonsoHumberto ZuritaBeatriz is a widow who is dedicated to raising her children, Vicky and Juanito, along with her mother-in-law Doña Emilia. Beatriz marries Enrique, later discovering the satanic treatment that her husband has in exchange for money.
- StarsMarina BauraElio RubensMarisela BertiFrom beyond the Meta, from beyond the Cinaruco, from beyond the Cunaviche. From farther that too far, according to the llaneros from the Arauca. From there came Barbara. A woman of dark origins. This is her story.
- CreatorMargarita VillaseñorStarsLucía MéndezAlma MurielJorge MartínezDiana Salazar is a woman who has the ability to move things with her mind.
- StarsEnrique LizaldeAngélica AragónLuceroThe story of an orphaned girl and her new life after she is adopted by a widower and joins his family.
- StarsGabriela RiveroAugusto BenedicoArmando CalvoThe differences between the upper and lower classes of Mexican society in an elementary school.
- StarsVíctor CámaraGrecia ColmenaresJeannette RodríguezA poor young blind girl falls in love with a guy.
- StarsChelo RodríguezArnaldo AndréAlma IngianniAlthough she grew up in a humble environment, Rafaela became an educated young woman dedicated to the medical profession and helping others. In the hospital where she got a job, in addition to numerous professional challenges, Rafaela will also find love in her handsome colleague Juan Jose, but she will also reveal secrets from the past about her origins.
- StarsRocío BanquellsIsabela CoronaAngélica AragónNatalie is an uneducated girl, who manages to conquer the heart of Victor, her friend since childhood. Both have to face the opposition of society and especially Victor's parents.
- StarsJosé BardinaElluz PerazaAmérica AlonsoMistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.