The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
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The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

1972
3 seasons
16 episodes
Drama

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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.This Child Is Mine

    07-12-197290m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.A Gift of Terror

    03-12-197390m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.The Things I Never Said

    31-10-197390m

    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.

  • Ep 4

    4.A Special Act of Love

    14-11-197390m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.I Never Said Goodbye

    03-12-197390m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.The Other Woman

    04-12-197390m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.Alone with Terror

    05-12-197390m

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

  • Ep 8

    8.My Secret Mother

    06-12-197390m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.The Mask of Love

    07-12-197390m

    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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