Idol Densetsu Eriko
English title: Legendary Idol Eriko
Japanese title: アイドル伝説えり子
Type: TV
Source: Original
Episodes: 51
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 3, 1989 to Mar 26, 1990
Broadcast: Mondays at 18:00 (JST)
Duration: 22 min per ep
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Studios: Ashi Productions
Producers: Big West, TV Setouchi
Themes: Idols (Female), Music

Eriko Tamura is Kousuke Tamura, the chairman of Tamura Productions (reknown music company) and Minako Tamura's (former famous idol singer) only daughter. Having talent for singing since birth, she has always loved her parent's media world. Then one day tragedy strikes when her parents get into a horrible car accident, which kills her father and leaves her mother in coma. She is left in her father's best friend, Mr. Uchida's care. Now Eriko must take the path of singing, a path her parents did not want her to pursue. Then her uncle is out to destroy her career. But in spite of all the hardship, she becomes an idol and wins hearts all over Japan.

(Source: ANN)