The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (Season 1)

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.

  • Poster for This Child Is Mine

    This Child Is Mine (Episode 1)

    Writer: Richard De Roy

    Air date: 1972-12-07

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: Custody battle between the adoptive and biological mother plays out in a court-room.

  • Poster for A Gift of Terror

    A Gift of Terror (Episode 2)

    Writer: Art Wallace

    Air date: 1973-12-03

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: A young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death.

  • Poster for The Things I Never Said

    The Things I Never Said (Episode 3)

    Writer: Pat Fielder

    Air date: 1973-10-31

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: Devastated 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.

  • Poster for A Special Act of Love

    A Special Act of Love (Episode 4)

    Writer: D.C. Fontana

    Air date: 1973-11-14

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: A novitiate nun's newfound happiness as a surgeon's wife is shattered when her husband becomes terminally ill.

  • Poster for I Never Said Goodbye

    I Never Said Goodbye (Episode 5)

    Writer: Jeff Myrow

    Air date: 1973-12-03

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: A mother is caught in the middle when her son-in-law accuses his wife doctor of euthanasia.

  • Poster for The Other Woman

    The Other Woman (Episode 6)

    Writer: Peggy O'Shea

    Air date: 1973-12-04

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: A single woman has an affair, becomes pregnant ,and decides to raise the child as a single parent.

  • Poster for Alone with Terror

    Alone with Terror (Episode 7)

    Writer: Art Wallace

    Air date: 1973-12-05

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: A housewife is determined to prove her deceased cop husband wasn't on the take.

  • Poster for My Secret Mother

    My Secret Mother (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1973-12-06

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: A single woman discovers she's pregnant, and decides to find her birth mother.

  • Poster for The Mask of Love

    The Mask of Love (Episode 9)

    Writer: Sherman Yellen

    Air date: 1973-12-07

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: An 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.

The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

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