CBS Schoolbreak Special
CBS Schoolbreak Special is an American anthology series for teenagers that aired on CBS from April 1980 to January 1996. The series began under the title CBS Afternoon Playhouse, and was changed during the 1984 - 85 season. The concept was very similar to ABC's Afterschool Special.
Seasons
1. Dead Wrong: The John Evans Story
Air Date: 1984-01-24
Convicted of murder and set for execution, John Evans tells his story to the prison chaplain.
2. Welcome Home, Jellybean
Air Date: 1984-03-27
The story of Geraldine Oxley, a cognitively deficient 12-year-old girl whose parents remove her from the institution where she has been raised in order to give her a normal-as-possible home life.
3. All the Kids Do It
Air Date: 1984-04-24
A teenage boy (played by Baio) suffers the consequences of drinking and driving.
4. The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School of Rules and Regulations
Air Date: 1984-06-12
Teenagers from diverse backgrounds experience their freshman year in High School.
1. Hear Me Cry
Air Date: 1984-10-16
Two high school sophomores make a suicide pact.
2. Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
Air Date: 1984-12-11
True story of high school hockey coach Bob Anastas. After losing two of his all-star hockey players, he gets the students to prevent more tragedies by forming Students Against Drunk Driving.
3. The Exchange Student
Air Date: 1985-01-22
Teenager from India comes to the US to live with her American 'sister'.
4. The Day the Senior Class Got Married
Air Date: 1985-03-05
Students are paired off in a make-believe marriage class, so they can learn how money problems can affect a marriage.
5. Ace Hits the Big Time
Air Date: 1985-04-02
On the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join what he believes is the toughest gang at school.
6. Student Court
Air Date: 1985-04-23
Teenage girl is caught shoplifting and decides to face a jury of her peers in Student Court, instead of facing her punishment in Juvenile Court.
1. The War Between the Classes
Air Date: 1985-10-22
Racial discrimination is examined when a social studies teacher assigns his students to play 'The Color Game', which divides the class into different social classes.
2. Have You Tried Talking to Patty?
Air Date: 1986-01-14
Wanting to be accepted by others at school, a hearing-impaired teenager attempts to change her image.
3. Babies Having Babies
Air Date: 1986-01-28
Five pregnant teenage girls meet up at a group counseling session and begin to discuss their situation and feelings amongst each other.
4. God, the Universe and Hot Fudge Sundaes
Air Date: 1986-04-01
Teenage girl begins to question her religion after her sister is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
1. The Drug Knot
Air Date: 1986-09-10
High school teen is heavily addicted to drugs such as Cocaine and can't seem to stop, until he is faced with a tragedy.
2. Little Miss Perfect
Air Date: 1987-01-13
Upset over having to move to a new neighborhood and leave her boyfriend and friends, a teenage girl develops bulima as a way t deal with her problems.
3. My Dissident Mom
Air Date: 1987-01-14
Husband and wife whose conflicting opinions on the use of nuclear weapons threatens to jeopardize not only the husband's impending business deal, but the relationship of the family itself.
4. The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Air Date: 1987-01-27
Uncomfortable with racist language in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", a high school student and his parents attempt to get the book removed from the school's library.
5. What If I'm Gay?
Air Date: 1987-03-31
The popular and macho captain of the high-school soccer team is forced to confront his homosexuality, after his buddies discover a male-pornography magazine in his bedroom.
6. Juvi
Air Date: 1987-04-21
After being falsely accused of theft by her stepfather, a teenage girl is arrested and placed in juvenile hall.
7. An Enemy Among Us
Air Date: 1987-07-21
A teenager is stunned to discover that he has contracted the AIDS virus after having a blood transfusion.
1. Soldier Boys
Air Date: 1987-10-20
Detective investigates a club where teenage boys play war games, but start taking their fantasies into the real world.
2. Never Say Goodbye
Air Date: 1988-01-12
After her grandmother is pronounced brain-dead following a stroke, a teenage girl must make the painful decision whether to continue life support.
3. Home, Sweet Homeless
Air Date: 1988-03-29
After a series of bad luck, a single mother and her sons become homeless and are forced to live in their car.
4. Gangs
Air Date: 1988-04-19
On leave from the army, a 19-year-old returns home to find his kid brother the leader of a gang. A gang he once led.
1. No Means No
Air Date: 1988-10-18
The issue of teenage date rape is seen through the eyes of a teenage girl and her older brother, and how it affects their relationships with the opposite sex.
2. Gambler
Air Date: 1988-12-06
17-year-old boy is addicted to gambling, and soon it starts to take over his life.
3. Words to Live By
Air Date: 1989-01-10
Two teenage boys are suspended from school after distributing an underground newspaper on campus.
4. My Past is My Own
Air Date: 1989-01-24
Two black teenagers are sent through time to experience how blacks were treated during the civil rights movement.
5. 15 and Getting Straight
Air Date: 1989-03-28
Drug-addiction treatment center for teenagers where the counselors are ex-addicts themselves.
6. A Matter of Conscience
Air Date: 1989-04-11
Teenage boy is stunned when his Grandfather's Nazi past comes to light.
1. Frog Girl: The Jenifer Graham Story
Air Date: 1989-10-17
A 15-year old school girl refuses to dissect a frog and sues her school district for not allowing her to do an alternative project.
2. Flour Babies
Air Date: 1990-01-16
A group of high school students take part in a parenting class where their assignment is to treat a sack of flour like a new-born baby.
3. The Girl with the Crazy Brother
Air Date: 1990-01-30
Teenage girl struggles to cope when her brother is diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.
4. American Eyes
Air Date: 1990-03-27
Korean boy, who has been adopted by an American family, decides to attend a Korean-American summer camp to learn more about his heritage.
5. Maggie's Secret
Air Date: 1990-04-10
15-year-old girl comes to grips with the fact both of her parents have a drinking problem.
6. Malcolm Takes a Shot
Air Date: 1990-04-24
Teenage athlete is in denial about his epilepsy, as he tries to achieve super-stardom on the basketball court.
1. The Fourth Man
Air Date: 1990-10-16
Wanting to seek his father's approval, a high school student starts using steroids to make the track team. But soon these drugs start to take a toll on his body.
2. Lies of the Heart
Air Date: 1991-01-18
High school senior is involved in a hit and run and is forced to deal with the consequences.
3. The Emancipation of Lizzie Stern
Air Date: 1991-01-22
After her mother announces her plans to move the family to another state, a 16-year-old girl decides to seek legal emancipation.
4. But He Loves Me
Air Date: 1990-03-06
A teenage girl starts dating the most popular boy in school, and everything is wonderful until he starts being violent towards her.
5. Abby, My Love
Air Date: 1991-04-02
Teenage boy tries to help a girl who is being sexually abused at home.
1. Dedicated to the One I Love
Air Date: 1991-10-22
Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her deceased boyfriend was exposed to the AIDS virus.
2. Two Teens and a Baby
Air Date: 1992-01-21
Two teenage brothers are stunned when their mother announces that she is pregnant.
3. 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth
Air Date: 1992-03-10
Special featuring 50 things young people can do to save the earth.
4. Please, God, I'm Only 17
Air Date: 1992-03-24
In this story about learning not to take life for granted, Steve, a teenager, loses his best friend in a car accident.
5. Different Worlds: A Story of Interracial Love
Air Date: 1992-04-07
Two teens from racially different background begin a relationship after witnessing the murder of a mutual friend.
1. Sexual Considerations
Air Date: 1992-10-20
When a high school girl claims she is being sexually harassed by another student, an in-school court is convened to settle the dispute.
2. Words Up!
Air Date: 1992-12-01
Illiterate 25-year-old decides to return to high school by posing as a teenager so he can learn how to read.
3. Love Off Limits
Air Date: 1993-01-19
Two students cry censorship when the school asks them to edit out portions of their film which are deemed 'inappropriate.'
4. Big Boys Don't Cry
Air Date: 1993-03-09
A high-school wrestler suspects his uncle is molesting his little brother, which forces painful memories of his own abuse to surface.
5. Crosses on the Lawn
Air Date: 1993-04-13
A community begins to take sides when an affirmative action program is introduced.
1. Other Mothers
Air Date: 1993-10-12
Teenage boy, who has been raised by a lesbian couple, must contend with the conservative views of his new school.
2. If I Die Before I Wake
Air Date: 1993-10-26
High school students are left to pick up the pieces when the entire track team is killed in an airplane crash.
3. Love in the Dark Ages
Air Date: 1994-03-08
A teenager is stunned to discover that her boyfriend has given her an STD.
4. Same Difference
Air Date: 1994-04-12
Two teens from different cultural backgrounds face opposition from their parents when they begin to date.
1. The Writing on the Wall
Air Date: 1994-10-11
Three teens are caught defacing a rabbi's temple. Instead of punishment, the rabbi suggests 25 hours of Holocaust, Judaism, and tolerance education. Which he would teach.
2. My Summer as a Girl
Air Date: 1994-10-25
Desperate for a summer job, a teenage boy decides to masquerade as a girl to land a job as a chambermaid.
3. What About Your Friends
Air Date: 1995-01-24
"What About Your Friends" is a one-hour film that takes a unique look at the senior year successes and failures of three high school girlfriends as they prepare for college.
4. Kids Killing Kids
Air Date: 1994-04-26
Four separate stories are dramatized showing the tragic consequences when teens use guns to solve their problems, and how they can solve the same problem without guns.
5. Between Mother and Daughter
Air Date: 1995-04-11
Teenage girl has trouble dealing with the fact her mother has breast cancer.
6. Stand Up
Air Date: 1995-05-30
Teenager wants to be a stand-up comic and go on tour, despite her father's objection.
1. My Indian Summer
Air Date: 1995-10-24
Native American teenager decides to learn more about her culture by spending the summer on the Indian Reservation where her mother was born.
2. Children Remember the Holocaust
Air Date: 1995-12-19
Keanu Reeves hosts this special where celebrities narrate letters, diaries, and published stories of children who have lived through the Holocaust.
3. Crosstown
Air Date: 1996-01-23
When her parents split up, a teenage girl must move out of the suburbs and into the big city.
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Rating
5.5/10
Release Date
1984-01-24
Episodes
65 (13 seasons)
Status
Ended