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ABC Weekend Specials

ABC Weekend Specials

★ 7,5 /10 (8 Votes)
1977 EN 15 Seasons

Overview

The ABC Weekend Specials is a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997. It featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated. Similar to both the ABC Afterschool Special and The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie that had started five years previous, the ABC Weekend Specials differed in that it was primarily aimed at younger viewers following ABC's Saturday Morning cartoon lineup, whereas the ABC Afterschool Special was known for its somewhat more serious, and often dramatic storylines dealing with issues concerning a slightly older teen and pre-teen audience. With the debut of the ABC Weekend Specials, some of the early ABC Afterschool Specials that had been targeted towards younger viewers were subsequently repackaged and re-run instead as ABC Weekend Specials.

First air date

10/09/1977

Votes

8

Popularity

11.2

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Networks

ABC

Language

EN

Last air date

1996-08-18

Episodes

112

Episode runtime

30 min

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Specials

3 episodes

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Season 1

17 episodes • 1977

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Season 2

12 episodes • 1978

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Season 3

12 episodes • 1979

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Season 4

8 episodes • 1980

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