The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

1972•1h 30m

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.

Production

Seasons

9 Episodes • Premiered 1972

1. This Child Is Mine

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

2. A Gift of Terror

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

3. The Things I Never Said

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.

4. A Special Act of Love

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

5. I Never Said Goodbye

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

6. The Other Woman

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

7. Alone with Terror

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

8. My Secret Mother

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

9. The Mask of Love

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.

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