Anyone remember the afterschool specials?

[elismom]

Are these going to be on DVD's

How about these movies anyone remember them?

Born Innocent
Sweet Hostage
I want to keep my Baby
Dawn a teenage Runaway
All the Kind Strangers
ODE to Billy Joe

Do you remember these?
I would love for them to come to DVD

 

[doxdogy]

The only one I remember is Ode to Billy Joe.

 

[PeterPanette]

The only one I remember is Ode to Billy Joe.

Same here! But, boy did that seem like a good movie when I was 10 (or so...what year did that come out?) years old! I got the biggest crush on Robby Benson from that movie.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I loved the ABC afterschool specials. It was a big event!!
Wonder whatever happened to them??

 

[Emme]

OH MY!! I remember I remember .

Born Innocent starred Linda Blair and they did terrible things to her in the detention center with a broomstick, that scene alone detered me from a life of crime

Dawn Portrait of a Teenage Runaway starred Eve Plumb from the Brady Bunch!!

They were such a riot and I was a teenager who thought they were the coolest!! I still am pretty corny though I am a "cool corny" now...LOL

 

[MagicalMom]

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing them on DVD at Walmart. Let me go check around real quick.

 

[MagicalMom]

Here's some:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...4706477-9126203?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

 

[mantysk8coach]

I know I saw them over the holidays at Best Buy too.

 

[barkley]

most of the ones listed in the op were'nt part of the "afterschool" productions-

ode to billy joe was a theatrical realease
born innocent, dawn (and the subsequent sequels "portrait of a teenage prostitute, and portrait of a teenage alcoholic), i want to keep my baby (mariel hemmingway), sweet hostage (linda blair & a very young martain sheen) were made for t.v. movies shown at night on network television.

and born innocent became notorius after 2 girls in a juvinile dentention facility attacted a 3rd with a broom handle as they had seen in the movie.

the afterschool specials ran (both on cbs and abc) 30-47 minutes long (some we saw in the u.s. were edited for afternoon content), and included some titles like: the late great me (story of a teen alcoholoic), dinky hocker (shoots smack), and schoolboy father.

imbd site has the entire list and all the distributors that carry them (apparantly there may be some great resources out there, i may have to trip down memory lane and see if there are any that might be age appropriate for my daughter).

 

[Buckalew11]

I remember watching a nighttime movie that was about a boy locked in the basement. I don't remember if his family did this to him or what but I remember being very dsturbed by that movie. Seems like it was called whatever his first name was...like "Bobby" or something like that.

I just looked on Google-- it was called Bad Ronald. Google knows all!
Still a disturbing movie for a 9yo. I can't believe my parents let me watch it! Why was up so late??!


I remember I Want To Keep My Baby also.

 

[lewdyan1]

I miss the movie Little Darlings and it isn't available on DVD or VHS!

 

[DizznyChick]

i loved the after school specials

 

[DisTeach1]

I loved them! But the only one I clearly remember is one about a girl and her mother, and the mother died of cancer. The girl was about 15. I cried and cried because I was so close to my mother and I couldn't imagine it if she died. I don't remember what it was called.

 

[Stacerita]

I used to love the afternoon specials. I couldn't wait for the end of the school day so I could rush home and see the show. I wish they had something like that now.

And most of the movies the OP listed I remember seeing as well.

One other show that I remember but not many of my friends do is a short lived afternoon teen soap......Swan's Crossing. I remember Sarah Michelle Geller was in it. Can't remember who else. Anyone else remember?

 

[JennyMominRI]

I remember one (afterschool special)with Scott Baio and he was a swimmer heading for the olympics...Until the booze got in the way..He got drunk one night and missed the Olympic trials..Poor Chachi
I remember a movie with Linda Blair where she was a big old alkie

And there were a ton of those,I got hurt and conquerd all,like the one with Helen Hunt as a the runner who got hit by a car,and there was one with a girl who was on a schoolbus that got hit by a train.

 

[SeaSpray]

I was actually *in* one of the ABC Afterschool Specials! LOL It was called "It must be love, cause I feel so dumb", and it starred the kid who was in the movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" which eventually got turned into the tv show "Alice". The kid played her son, in the movie. Anyway, I was just an extra, walking behind the main character in front of one of the school scenes, and I was in the crowd at the basketball game, and walked past the main characters in a hallway scene. lol

My father was a theatrical teamster in NYC when I was growing up, which is where that film was made, and I went to work with him one day and was asked if I wanted to be an extra, so I did

 

[Stacerita]

And there were a ton of those,I got hurt and conquerd all,like the one with Helen Hunt as a the runner who got hit by a car,and there was one with a girl who was on a schoolbus that got hit by a train.

I remember the one with Helen Hunt and she tried some drug, I think PCP and jumped out a window. That kept me from drugs.

And I do remember the school bus one too. That one still freaks me out today. Every time I stop near the train tracks or pass over them and traffic slows down, I get nervous thinking I might get hit like the girl on the show. I never stop on the tracks, but I still think about it every time though. The most horrible memory I have from that show was when the parents go to pick up the kids belongings from the bus and there is just a table full of books, sweaters and what not.....made it too real for me and I was just a kid at the time.

 

[SeaSpray]

I remember the one with Helen Hunt and she tried some drug, I think PCP and jumped out a window. That kept me from drugs.

And I do remember the school bus one too. That one still freaks me out today. Every time I stop near the train tracks or pass over them and traffic slows down, I get nervous thinking I might get hit like the girl on the show. I never stop on the tracks, but I still think about it every time though. The most horrible memory I have from that show was when the parents go to pick up the kids belongings from the bus and there is just a table full of books, sweaters and what not.....made it too real for me and I was just a kid at the time.

I think those movies scared a lot of us "straight" back then!! Actually, it kept a lot of us from even *thinking* of doing some of the things those kids in the movies did. LOL

 

[ckay87]

Ya ever think that we loved those movies so much and remember them so well because we had NOTHING else? How many movies were you able to rent in those days? We didn't even have cable. Then of course with a 9pm bedtime, that eliminated some options too. So heck yea I enjoyed the Afterschool Specials. It was something different for a change!

But, that said, I do wish stuff like this were still around for kids. They have so many dopey and pointless entertainment options. Thankfully there IS the Discovery Channel.

 

[barkley]

in the same vein-hbo has been rerunning their "family in crisis" shorts. they would take a real story and make a 30 minute flick about the circumstances-at the end some person from the actual situation would make comments on what had happened.

i caught one with a YOUNG ben afflec as a steroid using high school athlete, and another with (something leavit?-the youngest alien on third rock from the sun) as a boy who had received an organ transplant but went to court to stop taking the anti-rejection drugs because he felt worse on them then the actual process of dying (he was successful and did pass away). they covered some more mature topics than the afterschool network specials (gay teens, date rape, hidden pregnancies, molestation).

i'm surprised "little darlings" isnt available- dd brought me the box at the video store a few years ago to rent but i told her she needed to wait a few more years (and did you know that the "hippie chick" camper was cynthia nixon from "sex in the city"-just found that out recently).