What "After School Specials" did you watch as a kid?

[GreenPartyVoter]

--My apologies to Applegrove for this lousy copycat. :D

[sakabatou]

1. Zero

Didn't have them as a kid.

[femmocrat]

2. I don't even know what they are!

When I was a kid, the TV didn't start broadcasting until 5 p.m. with Howdy Doody. They went off-air at 11 or midnight with the National Anthem and a picture of a flag waving in the breeze. I'm old. :-(

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yeah, the "After School Specials" are a phenomenon that kids of the 70s and 80s

would be most likely to remember. :^)

I do also remember test patterns and the waving flag during off-air hours, though. Two things my kids who have only ever known Satellite TV have no clue about.

[lunamagica]

13. Really? What about the soaps?

[TheMightyFavog]

21. Our Anthem sign off herre in the green bay area had air force jets...

IIRC, it was a choral rendition of the anthem.

[UTUSN]

3. I'm thinking. I'm THINKING!1 (I love Jack BENNY) n/t

[wickerwoman]

5. Molly Ringwald gets knocked up,

feels really bad, doesn't get an abortion, and everything works out just fine.

[snooper2]

6. The A-Team

[woo me with science]

7. I remember one.

Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Don't know WHY I remember it, but I think it was Linda Blair.

[murielm99]

8. The Mickey Mouse Club n/t

[Petrushka]

9. Parents, grandparents, uncles & aunts, or neighbors fighting before, during, and/or after supper..

:shrug:

[Archae]

10. There was one about racism

I remember that one.

At the end the unrepentant racist kid is the one left out of all the fun.

[HughBeaumont]

11. I remember "Stoned", with that right-wing asshat Scott Baio.

There was a few about alcoholism, child abuse and bullying. I remember "Duffy Moon" . .. yeah, I used to watch that in the 70s-80s. I think NBC had something similar.

[Iggo]

12. Screw that. I watched The 3:30 Movie on ABC.

[hayu_lol]

14. KTLA Los Angeles, 1952

Only things on afterschool were Crusader Rabbit and Sheriff John. Since that was the year we got tv, we watched almost anything including test patterns.

[Sanity Claws]

15. The Three Stooges and Superman

Channel 11 ran The Three Stooges and Superman in the afternoon for many, many years. My brothers and I knew all of the Superman shows by heart.

This was before After School Specials. It was just reruns of old shows.

[abq e streeter]

16. Damn-you beat me to it by 10 minutes.......I'm a victim of coicumstance.

[Sanity Claws]

17. Coitinly!!

How do you spell the whoop sound that Curly did?

[abq e streeter]

20. Never figured out how you'd spell that either

Any Stooge-o-phile linguists in the lounge tonight? Maybe Noam Chomsky is a DU reader and can help us out.

[WinkyDink]

18. The Mickey Mouse Club. LOVED "Spin and Marty"!

[GalleryGod]

24. How about The Hardy Boys?

and the Applegate Treasure!?

[MorningGlow]

19. OMG! Blast from the past!

I had to look them up because I didn't remember the names, but I sure remember those ABC After-School Specials! I think the one I remember best was "Dear Lovey Heart: I Am Desperate", mainly because the title was so stupid.

Here's the list: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202179/episodes . I didn't know they did a version of the book Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack (but they just called it "Dinky Hocker"). Man, just looking at the synopses takes me back...looks like a junior version of Lifetime Movies of the Week! :puke:

[trackfan]

22. The Last of the Curlews.

Very sad.

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. Dark Shadows

[JonLP24]

25. The one with Ben Affleck as a steroid user

The only one I remember. I vaguely remember a few others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FvlIwuQBO8 - Knew there had to be a clip. This isn't the whole show but the most memorable scene.