CBS Schoolbreak Special

Name: CBS Schoolbreak Special
Rating: 5.5

1984

★★★☆☆ 5.5/10

📺 13 Seasons

🎬 65 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 EN

⏱️ 60 min/episode

CBS Schoolbreak Special is an American anthology series for teenagers that aired on CBS from April 1980 to January 1996. The series began under the title CBS Afternoon Playhouse, and was changed during the 1984 - 85 season. The concept was very similar to ABC's Afterschool Special.

Seasons

Season 1

1984 • 4 Episodes

Convicted of murder and set for execution, John Evans tells his story to the prison chaplain.

Season 2

1984 • 6 Episodes

Two high school sophomores make a suicide pact.

Season 3

1985 • 4 Episodes

Racial discrimination is examined when a social studies teacher assigns his students to play 'The Color Game', which divides the class into different social classes.

Season 4

1986 • 7 Episodes

High school teen is heavily addicted to drugs such as Cocaine and can't seem to stop, until he is faced with a tragedy.

Season 5

1987 • 4 Episodes

Detective investigates a club where teenage boys play war games, but start taking their fantasies into the real world.

Season 6

1988 • 6 Episodes

The issue of teenage date rape is seen through the eyes of a teenage girl and her older brother, and how it affects their relationships with the opposite sex.

Season 7

1989 • 6 Episodes

A 15-year old school girl refuses to dissect a frog and sues her school district for not allowing her to do an alternative project.

Season 8

1990 • 5 Episodes

Wanting to seek his father's approval, a high school student starts using steroids to make the track team. But soon these drugs start to take a toll on his body.

Season 9

1991 • 5 Episodes

Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her deceased boyfriend was exposed to the AIDS virus.

Season 10

1992 • 5 Episodes

When a high school girl claims she is being sexually harassed by another student, an in-school court is convened to settle the dispute.

Season 11

1993 • 4 Episodes

Teenage boy, who has been raised by a lesbian couple, must contend with the conservative views of his new school.

Season 12

1994 • 6 Episodes

Three teens are caught defacing a rabbi's temple. Instead of punishment, the rabbi suggests 25 hours of Holocaust, Judaism, and tolerance education. Which he would teach.

Season 13

1995 • 3 Episodes

Native American teenager decides to learn more about her culture by spending the summer on the Indian Reservation where her mother was born.

Network

CBS

Keywords

anthology