The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak is an American television anthology series that was broadcast on ABC from 1973 to 1975. The ninety-minute dramas aired once a month and featured some of the more popular television and film stars of the 1970s.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.This Child Is Mine
07-12-19721h 30mCustody battle between the adoptive and biological mother plays out in a court-room.
- Ep 2
2.A Gift of Terror
03-12-19731h 30mA young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death.
- Ep 3
3.The Things I Never Said
31-10-19731h 30mDevastated with her marriage, a woman wanders aimless through a storm. She seeks shelter in a stranger's home, and for the first time finds someone who will listen to her.
- Ep 4
4.A Special Act of Love
14-11-19731h 30mA novitiate nun's newfound happiness as a surgeon's wife is shattered when her husband becomes terminally ill.
- Ep 5
5.I Never Said Goodbye
03-12-19731h 30mA mother is caught in the middle when her son-in-law accuses his wife doctor of euthanasia.
- Ep 6
6.The Other Woman
04-12-19731h 30mA single woman has an affair, becomes pregnant ,and decides to raise the child as a single parent.
- Ep 7
7.Alone with Terror
05-12-19731h 30mA housewife is determined to prove her deceased cop husband wasn't on the take.
- Ep 8
8.My Secret Mother
06-12-19731h 30mA single woman discovers she's pregnant, and decides to find her birth mother.
- Ep 9
9.The Mask of Love
07-12-19731h 30mAn author tries to gather information to write a biography on a deceased novelist. But the novelist's ex-girlfriend tries to stop him at every turn.
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