List of South African Television Series - S

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• The Saint - British action series. Starring Roger Moore
• Santa Barbara - American soap opera
• 'Sgudi 'Snaysi (1986) - long-running comedy series. Made by Penguin Films and broadcast on SABC, it achieved the highest audience ratings ever for any SABC show. 78 hour-long episodes were broadcast; it was also shown in Zimbabwe and Swaziland. The series starred Daphne Hlomuka; Gloria Mudau; Thembi Mtshali; and Joe Mafela.
• Scandal - Local soap opera produced for e.tv
• Seepsteenbateljon (1978) - Local drama
• Señor Onion - Mexican onion who used to play a guitar, sing and live in constant fear of being eaten
• Sewende Laan - (English: 7th Avenue) - Local soap opera produced for SABC2
• Shaka Zulu - Locally produced historical drama about the life of the legendary Zulu king, Shaka
• Shane - American TV western
• Sha Na Na - American musical variety show
• Shogun (1980) - American mini-series
• Silver Spoons - American sitcom. Starring Rick Schroder as Ricky Stratton
• Simon & Simon - American detective series
• Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings - British children's animated television programme
• The Simpsons (1990-) - An American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening revolving around a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
• Skippy the bush kangaroo - Australian television series for children
• Skooldae - Popular local drama about live in high school
• Skoppensboer - Local drama
• Die Slampampersirkus - Local drama
• Sledge Hammer! - American police sitcom
• Small Wonder - American sitcom about a small robot girl
• The Smurfs - Popular 1980s animated television series from Hanna-Barbera Productions
• Special Assignment - investigative journalism (SABC3)
• Sol en Gobele - Dubbed.
• Sonkring - Local drama
• SOS(2000)- South African produced youth sitcom centering around the lives of 5 flatmates
• Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (1985) Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea is the English title of the French animated series Les Mondes Engloutis and the story concerns a fictional lost city, Arkadia
• Spellbinder (TV series) (1995) - Spellbinder (Polish: Dwa światy (Two worlds)) is a sci-fi television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska.
• Spenser: For Hire (1980's) is a mystery television series based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels.
• Spies en Plessié -- Met Permissie (TV series) Popular comedy talk show presented by PG du Plessis and Jan Spies featuring interesting characters and storytellers.
• Sportfokus (1976–1980) - Tuesday night Sport programme, presented in Afrikaans, hosted by Jan Snyman - SABC
• Sportsview (1976–1980) - Friday night Sport programme, hosted by Martin Locke. - SABC
• Sportsvision
• Star Trek - Extremely popular American Science Fiction series. Starring William Shatner. The series follows the exploits of Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise as they right wrongs across the galaxy.
• Starsky & Hutch - American detective series
• Stolen Lives Local drama series about a woman who finds out she was kidnapped as a baby and her search for her original family. Starring Gina Benjamin, Brumilda van Rensburg.
• Straatvalk - Dubbed from the American series Street Hawk about a police officer who fights crime on his all-terrain attack motorcycle
• Strange Report about Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist, solves bizarre cases. A UK ITC production shown in South Africa. Starring Anthony Quayle
• Studio 53
• Suburban Bliss Local sitcom
• Survivor (South Africa) - Local adaptation of the popular reality show
• Die Swart Kat (1980s) - Locally produced Kids crime buster series based on the popular Afrikaans novels