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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.

Jan 24, 198413 seasons65 episodesEndedEN

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Seasons

Season 1

4 episodes

Premiered Jan 24, 1984

Season 2

6 episodes

Premiered Oct 16, 1984

Season 3

4 episodes

Premiered Oct 22, 1985

Season 4

7 episodes

Premiered Sep 10, 1986

Season 5

4 episodes

Premiered Oct 20, 1987

Season 6

6 episodes

Premiered Oct 18, 1988

Season 7

6 episodes

Premiered Oct 17, 1989

Season 8

5 episodes

Premiered Oct 16, 1990

Season 9

5 episodes

Premiered Oct 22, 1991

Season 10

5 episodes

Premiered Oct 20, 1992

Season 11

4 episodes

Premiered Oct 12, 1993

Season 12

6 episodes

Premiered Oct 11, 1994

Season 13

3 episodes

Premiered Oct 24, 1995

Episodes

1–4 of 4

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Ep 1

Dead Wrong: The John Evans Story

Jan 24, 1984

60m

Convicted of murder and set for execution, John Evans tells his story to the prison chaplain.

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Ep 2

Welcome Home, Jellybean

Mar 27, 1984

60m

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.

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