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The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1973)

The ABC Afternoon Playbreak poster
Genre
anthology series
Country
United States
Length
3 seasons, 16 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is an anthology series that aired monthly on ABC in the 1970s. Each episode was a single ninety-minute drama featuring well-known TV and film actors of the time.

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What happens

The ABC Afternoon Playbreak is an American television anthology series that was broadcast on ABC from 1973 to 1975. The ninety-minute dramas aired once a month and featured some of the more popular television and film stars of the 1970s (Diana Hyland, Bradford Dillman, Patty Duke, Diane Baker, David Hedison). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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