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The ABC Weekend Special 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 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. 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.
Alan Young
Frank Cady
Mark Hamill
Jane Withers
Michael York
Ike Eisenmann
Brad Savage
Janet Waldo
Charles Lane
Christian Slater
Melissa Joan Hart
David Doyle
Lee Patterson
John Karlen
Noah Beery Jr.
Melvyn Douglas
Billy Jayne
Brian Bloom
Olivia Barash
Juanita Moore
Tristine Skyler
Inga Swenson
Frank Aletter
Mabel King
Willie Tyler
Rossie Harris
Richard Romancito
Knowl Johnson
George Simonelli
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
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