ABC Weekend Specials

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.

Seasons

Specials

3 episodes

Season 1

197717 episodes

Season 2

197812 episodes

Season 3

197912 episodes

Season 4

19808 episodes

Season 5

19817 episodes

Season 6

19839 episodes

Season 7

9 episodes

Season 8

19848 episodes

Season 9

19858 episodes

Season 10

19869 episodes

Season 11

19882 episodes

Season 12

19921 episodes

Season 13

1 episodes

Season 17

19948 episodes

Season 18

1 episodes