The 40 Most Popular Telenovelas of the 70's
A list of some of the most popular telenovelas from the 1970'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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- StarsJulissaJorge MistralJaime FernándezAt Rio Escondido, Lalo Coraje, a famous football payer, returns home to Rio Escondido, to his brothers Jeronimo and Juan and their parents, Ana and Sebastian Coraje. Also there is Pedro Barras, owner of a diamond mine; his wife Estrella works for the Corajes. The two families are rivals for power. Lalo is engaged to Paula, but he has an affair with Dr. Maciel's daughter Rita. Paula is pregnant and he marries her. Meanwhile, Pedro's daughter Clara returns to the country. She is schizophrenic and has a double personality: "Diana" is her good side and "Marcia" is her evil side. Juan meets and falls in love with Clara, but Pedro wants her to marry the noble Falcon. Estrella falls in love with Lorenzo and they try to kill Pedro. Jeronimo falls in love with Lina-Potira, an Indian, but she will marry Rodrigo. Jeronimo issues a policy against Pedro Barras, but Pedro has silly, drunken Dr. Maciel, corrupt inspector Falcon, and foreman Jose Matos on his side. In the end Falcon redeems himself and Jose Matos is revealed to be Pedro's illegitimate son with the maid, Dominga.
- 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.
- StarsMiguel ManzanoSilvia PasquelAngélica MaríaItalian woman moves to Mexico to wed a man in an arrange marry.
- 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.
- 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.