ABC Weekend Special (1977)
- Genre
- anthology series
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 15 seasons, 112 episodes
- Rated
- TV-Y
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a Saturday morning children's anthology series. It aired short live-action and animated stories meant to get kids interested in reading.
whimsicalgentleeducationallightheartednostalgicvariedfamily-friendly
What happens
ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute American television anthology series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from September 10, 1977 to August 30, 1997, which featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated. Similar to both ABC Afterschool Special and The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, the ABC Weekend Special 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. The main focus of ABC Weekend Special was to encourage children to read. With the debut of the ABC Weekend Special, 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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