1x1 - Episode 1

September 5, 1985

Andries Barenhoren gets a promotion and asks Marietjie for a divorce. Steve ask Leana to marry him.

1x3 - Episode 3

September 19, 1985

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.

1x4 - Episode 4

September 26, 1985

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.

1x5 - Episode 5

October 3, 1985

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.

1x6 - Episode 6

October 10, 1985

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.

1x7 - Episode 7

October 17, 1985

1x8 - Episode 8

October 24, 1985

1x9 - Episode 9

October 31, 1985

1x10 - Episode 10

November 7, 1985

1x11 - Episode 11

November 14, 1985

1x12 - Episode 12

November 21, 1985

1x13 - Episode 13

November 28, 1985

1x14 - Episode 14

December 5, 1985

1x15 - Episode 15

December 12, 1985

1x16 - Episode 16

December 19, 1985

Steve and Mercia return to South Africa and Mercia has to immediately make an important decision regarding her future.

1x17 - Episode 17

December 26, 1985

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.

1x18 - Episode 18

January 2, 1986

When Jack arrives at Barnhoorn House in search of Wessel, he starts to terrorise Annemarie.

1x19 - Episode 19

January 9, 1986

Stienie tries to persuade Leana to help her look for Jack.

1x20 - Episode 20

January 16, 1986

Leana turns up at Andries's office and learns the good news about Steve's project.

1x21 - Episode 21

January 23, 1986

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.

1x22 - Episode 22

January 30, 1986

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.

1x23 - Episode 23

February 6, 1986

Marietjie is relieved that Annemarie is her old self again. But the peace is soon shattered by Hannes Sieberhagen's flirtatious ways.

1x24 - Episode 24

February 13, 1986

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.

1x25 - Episode 25

February 20, 1986

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.

1x26 - Episode 26

February 27, 1986

1x27 - Episode 27

March 6, 1986

1x28 - Episode 28

March 13, 1986

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.

1x29 - Episode 29

March 20, 1986

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.

1x30 - Episode 30

March 27, 1986

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.