Weekend Special
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.
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
Season 13
Season 17
Season 18
Cast (30)
Directors
Charles August Nichols
Director
Ages 66-85
Rudy Larriva
Director
Ages 61-80
Ernest Pintoff
Director
Ages 45-64
Robert C. Thompson
Director
Arthur H. Nadel
Director
Ages 56-75
Jeffrey Hayden
Director
Ages 50-69
Randal Kleiser
Director
Ages 31-50
Arthur Lubin
Director
Ages 79-98
Marc Daniels
Director
Ages 65-84
Ron Underwood
Director
Ages 23-42
Writers
Producers
Original Name
ABC Weekend Special
Original Language
en
Spoken Languages
English
Production Countries
US