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ABC Weekend Specials

Show Summary

Aired: 1977 - 1997
Show Type: Live Action
Country of Origin: US

The stories had come from some childrens novels which were turned into a cartoon or acted by a few professional actors. Some stories included "Soup and Me","Tom Sawer and Huckel bary Finn," Runaway Ralph, P.J. Funnybunny, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and a few stories to get children minterested in reading books. Willie Tyler and his vent-figure Lester), and more recent Captain O.G. Readmore.After the story was over, the host would usually encourage similar readings from the days story, or tell where people can find the book that was just shown for the day, and encourage reading it.

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shiroihikariPosted: 02/08/2008

Definitely remember OG Readmore, though probably more from the PSAs than this show. I don't remember watching it that often, though I'm pretty sure my dad recorded The Mouse and the Motorcycle.

Also, CBS Storybreak was a totally different program as far as I know. I think both ABC Weekend Specials and CBS Storybreak ran until the mid 90s.

gaastraPosted: 02/22/2008

Cbs storybreak was on at the same time as weekend special.

janhall47Posted: 07/27/2009

If you want ABC Weekend Specials to be on DVD, please put down you vote on tvshowsondvd.com. The Secret World of OG and Cougar is out on DVD, you could buy it at amazon.com
Thank You

tknbydebPosted: 08/13/2009

My wife and I both grew up watching Saturday Morning cartoons and kids shows like ABC Weekend Special. Home and the Wacky Doughnut Machine was my favorite of all the episodes, and my wife loved the episode called zthe Winged Colt. We also loved watching the ABC After School Specials too, along with many other prominant shows from that time like American Bandstand, Wide World of Sports, Soul Train, Shazam!, The Secrets of isis, Space Academy, and any show that was a Sid & Marty Krofft production. It alls seems so sad that kids today are not able to grow up with such wonderful memories as ours.

mightybfanPosted: 10/18/2009

I loved Zack and The Magic Factory,The World of Og,the Miss. Switch ones,were my favs.

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