If you're in the mood for very big hair and an '80's feel, Ballade Vir n' Enkeling will be right up your 21 Jump Street.
First broadcast in 1987, the show premieres on SABC2 at 21h00 on Friday night (23 February, 2007) and replaces Die Sonkring that finished last week.
All the footage is being broadcast in it's original quality without any digital enhancement which, according to the SABC, is to keep the authentic feeling of it.
Here's what the show's about:
Set in 1985, Ballade Vir 'n Enkeling (Ballad for a Loner) centres around journalist Jacques Rynhard and his sudden, mysterious disappearance.
As the story begins Jacques has just been awarded the Basson Prize for his novel Die Enkeling, but he disappears before the announcement is made.
Otto Beukes, the editor of the magazine Die Huisvriend, decides to follow up on the story and puts top journalist Carina Human on the story.
In a quest to find out where Jacques has gone and why he's disappeared Human begins the search for him by locating to the people closest to him.
Initially none of them wants to talk to her but as the continues asking her probing questions and sifting through their lies she slowly but surely gets them to open up to reveal the truth across the series.
The first people Carina makes contact with are Jan-Paul Otto, a freelance actor who is supposedly Jaques’s best friend and Lena - who is an artist and the love of Jacques' life. They refuse to talk about Jacques but through the little they do say Carina realises that they have something to hide.
Gavin van den Berg as Jacques Rynhard
Karin Fourie as Carina Human
| Premiere Details |
| Channel |
SABC2 |
| Date |
Friday 23 February, 2007 |
| Time |
21h00 |
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