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''CBS Schoolbreak Special'' is an American
anthology series An anthology series is a radio, television, video game or film series that spans different genres and presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short. These usually have a dif ...
for teenagers that aired on
CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
from December 1978 to January 1996. The series began under the title ''CBS Afternoon Playhouse'', and was changed during the 1984–85
season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and ...
. The concept was similar to ABC's '' Afterschool Special''.


List of specials


''Afternoon Playhouse'' specials

Under its original name, the ''Afternoon Playhouse'' aired a handful of made-for-TV films, the most notable of which was the 1983 release of ''Revenge of the Nerd''. The TV special was often mistaken for the film of a similar name which premiered one year later in 1984.


Season 1 (1978)


Season 2 (1979–80)


Season 3 (1981)


Season 4 (1981–82)


Season 5 (1982–83)


Schoolbreak Specials


Season 1 (January 24 – June 12, 1984)


Season 2 (October 16, 1984 – April 23, 1985)


Season 3 (October 22, 1985 – April 1, 1986)


Season 4 (September 10, 1986 – June 21, 1987)


Season 5 (October 20, 1987 – April 19, 1988)


Season 6 (October 18, 1988 – April 11, 1989)


Season 7 (October 17, 1989 – April 24, 1990)


Season 8 (October 16, 1990 – April 2, 1991)


Season 9 (October 22, 1991 – April 7, 1992)


Season 10 (October 20, 1992 – April 13, 1993)


Season 11 (October 12, 1993 – April 12, 1994)


Season 12 (October 11, 1994 – May 30, 1995)


Season 13 (October 24, 1995 – January 23, 1996)


See also

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ABC Afterschool Special ''ABC Afterschool Special'' is an American television anthology series that aired on ABC from October 4, 1972, to January 23, 1997, usually in the late afternoon on weekdays. Most episodes were dramatically presented situations, often controve ...
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Special Treat ''Special Treat'' (also known as ''NBC Special Treat'') is an American anthology series of television specials on NBC that were geared toward teenagers, similar to ''ABC Afterschool Special''. It debuted in 1975 and ran through the 1985–86 seas ...
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After school special The American Broadcasting Company coined the term Afterschool Special in 1972 with a series of television films, usually dealing with controversial or socially relevant issues, that were generally broadcast in the late afternoon and meant to be ...
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