ABC Weekend Specials

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ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute American television anthology series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997 which featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated.read more

ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute American television anthology series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 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.

Original Release

01/29/1977 on ABC

US Release

01/29/1977

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
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# Title Air Date
1 The Secret Garden Saturday, 05 November 1994
3 Fudge-A-Mania
4 Crash the Curiousaurus Saturday, 14 January 1995
5 Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale Saturday, 25 February 1995
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Directors

Rudy Larriva, Rick Reinert, Robert Chenault, Charles Nichols, Larry Elikann, Stephen H. Foreman, Harvey S. Laidman, Arthur Lubin, Ernest Pintoff, Mark Cullingham, Edward Murphy, Steve Lumley, Claude Kerven, Robert C. Thompson, Ron Myrick, Greg Rogers, Lee Bernhardi, John Clark Matthews, Hank Saroyan, Andy Kim, Marc Daniels, Richard C. Bennett, Vidura Rajapaksa, John Reynolds, Ray Lee, Bernard Deyriès, Jeffrey Hayden, Tom Ray, Carole Beers, Marlene Robinson May, Roger Flint, Robert 'Tiger' West, Edward M. Abroms, Colin Chilvers, Randal Kleiser, Hollingsworth Morse, John Fox, Matthew Diamond, Joan Darling, Thomas G. Smith, John Llewellyn Moxey, Robert Fuest, William P. D'Angelo, Noam Pitlik, Ezra Stone, Burt Brinckerhoff, Dave Edwards, Gerald Mayer, Arthur H. Nadel, Dennis Donnelly, Lawrence Blume

Writers

Malcolm Marmorstein, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell, Sheldon Stark, Cynthia Chenault, Glen Olson, Rod Baker, Ann Elder, Mark Evanier, Barbara Brooks Wallace, Bruce Harmon, Catherine Woolley, Beverly Cleary, O. Henry, Douglas Cox, Mark Fink, Mark Twain, Marilyn Sadler, Roger Bollen, Len Janson, Marge, Marc Scott Zicree, Stephen H. Foreman, Betsy Byars, Edward Pomerantz, Hank Saroyan, Mary Rodgers, Diane Dixon, Stephen Manes, Art Buchwald, Robert Arthur, William Saroyan, Libby Hinson, Michael Chain, Richard Freiman, Barbara Corday, Bill Matheny, Washington Irving, I.C. Rapoport, Bruce Talkington, Sharman DiVono, Eric Lewald, Joe S. Landon, Barbara Avedon, George Lefferts, Dennys McCoy, Chuck Menville, James Street, Robert Specht, Jocelyn Stevenson, Alvin Boretz, Manuel Komroff, Emanuel Schikaneder, Diane Silver, Arthur Heinemann, Robert Louis Stevenson, Larry Bischof, Jack Stoneley, Amir Shoresh, Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser, Jane Yolen, Bill Brittain, Alan Kingsberg, Judson Philips, Chester Aaron, Penelope Lively, Robert McCloskey, Gene DeWeese, Susan Varley, Jeanne Willis, Alan Coren, Elaine L. Schulte, Shannon Gilligan, Joan Caufield, Don Caufield, Hal Higdon, Hilary Milton, Scott Corbett, Horatio Alger, Mark Greenhalgh, Matthew Ball, Ken Forsse, Dorothy Middleton, Kermit Frazier, T. Ernesto Bethancourt, Elizabeth Levy, Stan McMurtry, Marilyn Redmond, Margery Williams, Virginia Masterman-Smith, James Howe, Deborah Howe, Walter Oleksy, Genevieve Gray, Maggie Twohill, Pamela Pettler, Ellen Conford, Randal Kleiser, Kyle Morris, Antone Pagan, Heywood Kling, William P. D'Angelo, Pamela Hickey, Manya Starr, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Judy Blume, King Charles III, Astrid Lindgren, Edgar Allan Poe, Pierre Berton, Jim Inman, Will Ryan

Creators

Ken Forsse

Cast

Producers

Editors

Peter Parasheles, Bill Moore, Danny Martinez, Katherine Wenning, Jill Nemiro, Stanley Warnow, Robert Ciaglia, Vince Humphrey, Margot Francis, Jerry A. Eisenberg, John F. Schreyer, Gloria Whittemore, Peter Jennings, Tony Hayman, Libby Hinson, Hajime Okayasu, Jane Kurson, David Beatty, Richard C. Allen, Dennis M. O'Connor, Erick Francisco Casas Ruiz, Hyun Ki Yoon, Ian Maitland, Eiko Nishide, Manny Moura, P.J. Webb, Craig A. Colton, Tim Squyres, John A. Martinelli, Randal Kleiser

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