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TV series

ABC Weekend Specials

1977 · TV-Y · 15 seasons · 112 episodes

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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.

About 56h to watch every episode. An estimate: 112 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Alan Young
    Mr. Monroe / Storekeeper (voice)
    4 episodes

  • Frank Cady
    4 episodes

  • Mark Hamill
    The Admiral (voice)
    3 episodes

  • Jane Withers
    2 episodes

  • Michael York
    King Sarastro (voice)
    2 episodes

  • Ike Eisenmann
    1 episode

  • Brad Savage
    1 episode

  • Janet Waldo
    1 episode

  • Charles Lane
    1 episode

  • Christian Slater
    1 episode

  • Melissa Joan Hart
    1 episode

  • David Doyle
    1 episode

  • Lee Patterson
    1 episode

  • John Karlen
    1 episode

  • Noah Beery Jr.
    1 episode

  • Melvyn Douglas
    Grandpa Doc
    1 episode

  • Billy Jayne
    1 episode

  • Brian Bloom
    1 episode

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