 "Westerdeich" was the second Australian soap opera to be re-formatted for a European audience by RTL.The first was in 1992; the Grundy Organisation soap opera, "The Restless Years" (1977–81), was remade as "Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten" ("Good Times, Bad Times"), and this series is still running as of December 2019.Only 3 weeks before "Westerdeich" launched on RTL, another Australian soap opera remake launched on TV channel, Das Erste on January 3, 1995