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.
CreatorsJustin Edgerton, Ken Johnson
This Child Is Mine
Dec 7, 1972
Custody battle between the adoptive and biological mother plays out in a court-room.
A Gift of Terror
Dec 3, 1973
A young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death.
The Things I Never Said
Oct 31, 1973
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.
A Special Act of Love
Nov 14, 1973
A novitiate nun's newfound happiness as a surgeon's wife is shattered when her husband becomes terminally ill.
I Never Said Goodbye
Dec 3, 1973
A mother is caught in the middle when her son-in-law accuses his wife doctor of euthanasia.
The Other Woman
Dec 4, 1973
A single woman has an affair, becomes pregnant ,and decides to raise the child as a single parent.
Alone with Terror
Dec 5, 1973
A housewife is determined to prove her deceased cop husband wasn't on the take.
My Secret Mother
Dec 6, 1973
A single woman discovers she's pregnant, and decides to find her birth mother.
The Mask of Love
Dec 7, 1973
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.
