Forgotten ABC After School Specials with Future Stars!: 80s TV

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Forgotten ABC After School Specials with Future Stars!:80s TV
🕰️ Welcome to Retro Renaissance, where we're diving deep into the world of ABC After School Specials from the '80s! Join me, Kevin, your retro guide, as we uncover hidden gems featuring well-known actors before they became household names.
🌟 In this rad journey, we'll explore episodes like "Supermom's Daughter" with Marisa Tomei, "One Too Many" with Michelle Pfeiffer, and "Wanted: The Perfect Guy" featuring a young Ben Affleck. Get ready for a blast from the past filled with big hair, cheesy drama, and a sprinkle of future stardom!
🎬 Watch as we unravel the cringe-worthy, the heartwarming, and the downright hilarious moments from these forgotten classics. From '80s fashion to over-the-top dialogue, it's a trip you won't want to miss!
🌈 So, hop into the Retro Renaissance time machine, hit play, and let's rediscover the quirks and charms of these nostalgic After School Specials-where stars were born and leg warmers were a fashion staple!
👍 Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell to stay updated on more throwback treasures. What's your favorite '80s TV memory? Share your thoughts in the comments below! Until next time, let's keep the retro vibes alive! 📺✨
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:56 Supermom's Daughter
02:37 What are Friends For?
05:24 Schoolboy Father
07:36 Stoned
09:53 Amy and the Angel
11:42 Please Mom Don't Hit Me
14:23 One Too Many
16:26 Backwards, the Riddle of Dyslexia
18:26 Wanted The Perfect Guy
20:11 Outtro

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@jongoodwin5936 4 ай бұрын

The ABC After School Special wasn't just an '80s phenomenon. As a member of the target generation I remember seeing it in the '70s as well. I liked it.

@TV-Tony 4 ай бұрын

And 90s.

@melissaweintraub5854 4 ай бұрын

Do you remember a very early one called "Alexander," about an older man who moves into a house and becomes friends with the kids around, and they paint the house all different colors? Then I think he's committed to a psychiatric facility, and the end is the house being repainted white. Still upsets me.

@jcarterla 4 ай бұрын

I loved these growing up. They were so melodramatic.

@MyNameIsUnavailable 4 ай бұрын

Melodramatic is an UNDERSTATEMENT 😂

@melissaewing4821 4 ай бұрын

Anyone remember a 70s special "I Want to Keep My Baby "? About teen pregnancy. I have never forgotten that one

@pennypendleton7345 4 ай бұрын

Mommy please don’t hit me was 1981 and the little boy is Sean Astin patty’s real life son

@Stoner420one 4 ай бұрын

Came to say this ..😁😁😁

@nicolehall694 4 ай бұрын

Yeah....leaving out that detail made me stop watching

@Nate6981 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I kept waiting for them to acknowledge Sean Astin and they never did.

@Wolfie713 4 ай бұрын

It also aired in 1983 as an episode of ABC's Afterschool Specials. So the reference to 1983 isn't wrong. According to IMDb, it was originally produced for the Afterschool Special series, but debuted in a different series in 1981.

@TheNameisPlissken1981 4 ай бұрын

Funny thing about Please Don't Hit Me, Mommy was that it didn't debut after school on a weekday like most specials did. It was shown at 7pm on a Sunday Night. I actually remember watching it. It freaked me out as a kid because up until that point in my life my parents never hit me. That would change a couple years later in 1983 after I turned ten when my father hit me for calling my mother the B word.

@violinda. 4 ай бұрын

The Latchkey child being parented by television. GenX in a nutshell.

@SuV33358 4 ай бұрын

Rob Lowe looks exactly the same today 😂

@oliverbrownlow5615 4 ай бұрын

That's due to the Dorian Gray portrait he keeps in his attic.

@lizjo7213 4 ай бұрын

@@oliverbrownlow5615😂😂😂

@yodaman5069 4 ай бұрын

I love how the intro says to use titles to skip through the video, and then no titles are actually provided...

@rrsaga 4 ай бұрын

Dana Hill was also the voice of Max on Goof Troop. RIP to her.

@mikejorsch304 4 ай бұрын

Voice of Jerry in the Tom and Jerry 90's movie

@Jenifer_R_ 4 ай бұрын

I love the tracking static that only comes with a bad VHS copy. ❤❤

@briannehammack1951 4 ай бұрын

Guess America had after school specials and we had Degrassi 😂.

@Bernie3000 4 ай бұрын

Degrassi was awesome!

@annerohrbacker6097 4 ай бұрын

YES! Although I loved watching Degrassi in reruns! 😃

@oliverbrownlow5615 4 ай бұрын

Degrassi was shown in the U.S. on PBS.

@nellywilliams2776 4 ай бұрын

@@oliverbrownlow5615 yes!! I used to watch Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Jr High, Degrassi High, and Degrassi The Next Generation. They all came on PBS in the United States except The Next Generation 😅😅😅

@MyNameIsUnavailable 4 ай бұрын

We had Degrassi in the 80s here in the US on PBS

@rebels42wynn83 4 ай бұрын

As a Generation X-er, I love watching these afternoon specials. I still miss them. ❤❤❤❤

@COMPFUNK2 4 ай бұрын

Choose Your Own Adventure books were supposed to be for kids, but you always ended up dying; and in the most bizarre ways.

@joltjolt5060 4 ай бұрын

I never died in those books?

@heidifedor 4 ай бұрын

One Too Many had a twist ending.

@BewitchCraft 4 ай бұрын

How did that "What Are Friends For" one not stir Satanic Panic lmao

@MyNameIsUnavailable 4 ай бұрын

Nearly every one of these has a "local pharmacist" 😂 Today its all CVS & WALGREENS

@user-ds9lw2td9r 4 ай бұрын

I remember watching "My Mom's Having a Baby" in the 1970s. It was controversial for its time as it explained the birds and the bees to many preteens.

@juliekline2871 4 ай бұрын

I saw Mom's Having a Baby at about 4 years old. At the time there were a lot of pregnant women among our friends and family. A few weeks later a family friend was upset because she couldn't have a baby so I used a chalkboard to illustrate how babies were made.

@annerohrbacker6097 4 ай бұрын

@@juliekline2871 🤣🤣🤣

@xrrrismickey 4 ай бұрын

It's still controversial to any generation under X.

@FaydOgolon 4 ай бұрын

It didn't just explain the birds and bees, it showed an actual birth! (From an appropriate angle.) That was the controversial part.

@megmcguigan3857 4 ай бұрын

I used to watch these in the 80's as a child/teen. There was a 'punk' one back then that cracked me up!!

@deanrane1961 4 ай бұрын

"The Day My Kid Went Punk" - Hilarious!

@user-gw2bm3vx4p 4 ай бұрын

Nancy McKeon played battered wife, Tracy Thurman in a tv movie called, A Cry For Help: The Tracy Thurman Story. She was amazing in it!

@JaneDoe-ov1hb 4 ай бұрын

This brings back so many memories! I watched everyone of these as a kid!

@user-er7uq4mt8t 4 ай бұрын

There were also the HBO families in crisis series, which was like the afterschool specials. One starred a young Ben Affleck, and another one starred a young Sam Rockwell.

@ButtersCCookie Ай бұрын

YES! They showed those in Social Studies class in 90s! I forgot about those!

@RoseRose-hp4rq 4 ай бұрын

I was born in 1980 so a lot of these are too old for me. But I do remember watching ones from the late 80s with my older cousins when we would be at their house and they were in charge of the TV and the parents were all upstairs. I’m Canadian and I also grew up on classic Degrassi which tackled a lot of these issues. Really wish we could go back to these times

@esm82ify 4 ай бұрын

I was born in 82 and I've seen quite a few if them because they aired as reruns

@SuV33358 4 ай бұрын

I also remember the very first show televised about Aids. Starting Aiden Quinn That was huge back then.

@oliverbrownlow5615 4 ай бұрын

You're thinking of the NBC tv movie *An Early Frost* (1985), but ABC did an actual Afterschool Special about a kid with AIDS, *Just a Regular Kid* (1987) starring Christian Hoff and Florence Henderson, while CBS' similar series of Schoolbreak Specials aired its own kid-with-AIDS drama, *An Enemy Among Us* (1987), starring a very young Danny Nucci.

@MistressOfPuns 4 ай бұрын

Reefer Madness looks more like Meth Madness

@DianaPrinceitiswhatitis 4 ай бұрын

I remember watching these after school in elementary school in the mid 80s. I was always curious about teenage issues and high school. I wanted to know what to expect. They were well written and performed. Lots of life lessons packed in. I learned a lot it did help me as I grew up.❤

@EqualOpportunityDestoroya 4 ай бұрын

It's sad that there's a disclaimer with this video. When I was kid, there was no disclaimer with ABC After School Specials. We knew it was going to deal with a serious subject.

@SergioArellano-yd7ik 4 ай бұрын

We weren't a bunch of weak oversensitive easily offended snowflakes 🌨️

@prixe12 4 ай бұрын

@@SergioArellano-yd7ik Sergio shut up. Putting a disclaimer on a video with dark subject matter hurts no one and affects you personally in no way, shape, or form. And tbh I'd argue it's even weaker and oversensitive to whine about a wall of text that was on screen for like 2 seconds that you can easily skip. Get a grip.

@SharonThib-o-dew 4 ай бұрын

I watched all of them. I never missed them. They were fun to watch and really worth watching. Too bad they stopped making them. Some of them touched on subjects that needed to be touched on.

@bebesquid77 4 ай бұрын

About 'One too Many', Michelle Pfeiffer had several film roles before 1985 including Scarface with Al Pacino. She also had several TV roles before 1985. To say she was an "unknown" actor in 1985 is just wrong.

@nikkicat254 4 ай бұрын

I can't believe you didn't notice that the boy with Patty Duke was her son Sean Astin, I kept waiting for you to mention him. Oh and thanks for not making a big deal over Scott Baio being in one with the anti drugs message. Though I don't think it deserved a higher score then the one with Patty Duke her son and Nancy McKeon, who was my main reason for watching The Facts Of Life. I think the message about not beating your kids was even more important, since the drugs one was focusing a lot on weed, which is the least dangerous drug, even back then!

@jeanettemarkley7299 4 ай бұрын

7:50 So funny it's the one called Stoned. I'm on medical marijuana now. I saw the after schools from the 70s anyway. I was too busy being a teen to watch TV in the 80s.

@SergioArellano-yd7ik 4 ай бұрын

They showed the Scott baio one at my school, I remember when someone offered him drugs and he didn't want any and when they said he wasn't cool or whatever and why didn't he at least try it hr might like it, and he said he didn't have to eat dirt to know he didn't like it, we laughed our asses off

@xrrrismickey 4 ай бұрын

Scout Baio in glasses, bawahhhhaaaa!

@TheNedH 4 ай бұрын

Matthew Modine was also in Amy and the Angel. Also, don't you think that plot sounds a LOT like "It's A Wonderful Life"?

@kensiblonde4203 4 ай бұрын

The best one is Rex Smith falling in love with a 14 year old. 😂

@Sbamabelle 4 ай бұрын

I loved After School Specials

@joelyisdoingherbest 4 ай бұрын

I used to love these! 😂however, I don’t really remember them! 😂

@MsDisneylandlover 4 ай бұрын

I am going to check a few of these movies out.

@EqualOpportunityDestoroya 4 ай бұрын

8:00 Scott Baio and Marc Price in the same scene it's an 80s overload.

@IanDavidOnDU 4 ай бұрын

Scott Baio ruins everything.

@MyNameIsUnavailable 4 ай бұрын

I watched STONED about 3 months on KZfaq. Not bad actually. I'm 49, so I was only 5 when STONED debuted

@TheCheekymonkey212 4 ай бұрын

This was before Scott Baio became a douche.

@LKVince11 4 ай бұрын

TDS

@jenlynch5550 26 күн бұрын

Just subscribed ❤❤..loved being a teen in the 80’s❤❤

@wesdoobner7521 4 ай бұрын

Scott Baio smokes weed and then becomes the cool guy on Happy Days.

@MyNameIsUnavailable 4 ай бұрын

You missed one! 17:13 Madge Sinclair ❤ She played Eddie Murphy's Mom in *"COMING TO AMERICA"* ❤

@henrys3629 4 ай бұрын

Sean Astin Please Don't Hit Me.

@icedragonland8471 4 ай бұрын

She was also the voice of Simba’s mom in Lion King.

@robfromvan 4 ай бұрын

Scott Baio had a good one called Everyone’s Doing It or something. It was about teenage drinking.

@coryb6810 4 ай бұрын

The After School Specials always aired on Saturdays at noon! As a kid, i always wondered why they didn’t air during the week, “after school” ! lLOL !!

@Heartboy1031 4 ай бұрын

That's what I thought. I was a young kid in the 80's From the title you would think these specials aired at 4pm or something.

@coryb6810 4 ай бұрын

👍

@ButtersCCookie Ай бұрын

They were after-school. I always missed them.

@cathyhogue3693 4 ай бұрын

Love the random waterbed filling.

@jchow5966 4 ай бұрын

Those Specials were excellent. I enjoyed and learned so much from them. I watched the ones in the 1970s. Thnx for the cultural history. ☮️💟

@brocabeach 4 ай бұрын

LOL, I always wanted a Merlin!

@COMPFUNK2 4 ай бұрын

It seemed like afterschool specials slowly but surely got extended and reinvented themselves as made-for-TV movies; and they aired either on Friday nights before the news or Saturday nights before Golden Girls.

@Heartboy1031 4 ай бұрын

They need to put these shows on DVD! Not sure how long ABC's After School Special's lasted. Or how often they aired (once a week)? It would be cool to own them all on DVD! =)

@kathryncoles4206 4 ай бұрын

Amy and the Angel reminds me of Touched By an Angel.

@oliverbrownlow5615 4 ай бұрын

It sounds like a teenage version of *It's a Wonderful Life* (1946).

@TheTishy44 4 ай бұрын

I loved these….watched all of them.

@ravenpoe7093 4 ай бұрын

I loved those movies….some more than others. I loved the Saturday morning ones too. Like someone else said 80s kids had this and then there was Degrassi. I loved Degrassi too and it was more dependable aired regularly instead of monthly or whatever

@jenniferdoorenbos7174 4 ай бұрын

I remember The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Football Princess starring Helen Hunt, and The Wave

@TheNameisPlissken1981 4 ай бұрын

I loved Stoned. It was one of my favorites. I can remember watching it as an After School Special when I was like seven years old. Then HBO use to play it on a constant loop thru out the early to mid '80s. Before rediscovering it on KZfaq, the last time I saw it was in the early '90s, on 16mm film, in high school, during "drug awareness week" some nonsense like that! It was actually written and directed by John Hertzfeld who made the film 15 Mins with Robert De Niro, Two Days in the Valley with James Spader and Shade with Sylvester Stallone who he had been friends with since the early 1970s.

@constancecherry3996 4 ай бұрын

I remember these

@Belladonna629 4 ай бұрын

Does anyone remember one about a "cool" guy and "nerd" girl (maybe step-siblings?) who get stuck in a snow storm? The girl had a little dog that gets killed by wolves or something.

@shanek3148 4 ай бұрын

The rating system cracks me up each time.

@80sdreamwave32 4 ай бұрын

I remember watching this good times

@kimberlymerket1610 4 ай бұрын

I wish they would do a vid of the ones from the ‘70’s. I remember a few of them.

@anamariecameron7874 4 ай бұрын

I used to love watching this

@COMPFUNK2 4 ай бұрын

Dana Hill also voiced Max Goof on Goof Troop. RIP. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 4 ай бұрын

I never saw a single one of these.

@stevenlisten 4 ай бұрын

Nice

@EqualOpportunityDestoroya 4 ай бұрын

One Too Many is a classic.

@MotownBatman 4 ай бұрын

Back in the Early/Mid 80s, My Uncle had a VHS tape with an ABC-recorded movie: It was 13 GOING ON 30, but the Kids got into Dad's Weird Rapid Veggie Garden Greenhouse outback, and the science experiment gone wrong. Had some kid that looked like Patrick Dempsey. I cant find anything about this movie

@Wolfie713 4 ай бұрын

What else do you remember about the movie?

@MotownBatman 4 ай бұрын

@@Wolfie713 It was Definitely 13 going on 30 but with Boys/Men. the one boy grows up, becomes a School Teacher, Falls in love with the Hot blonde teacher they have a Crush on. Then he eventually goes back in the Tomato Garden, Runs the weird Veggie Growth Machine, and he goes back to 13 at the end.

@Wolfie713 4 ай бұрын

Was it an ABC movie, or just one that appeared on ABC? ie, Made-for-TV vs movie intended for theaters that ABC got the rights to. (ABC was well known for airing Superman and Superman II back in the 1980's.)

@MotownBatman 4 ай бұрын

@@Wolfie713 No this was an ABC Made for TV Movie, I remember watching it countless times, until tile VHS was wornout, Its a Real Movie LOL. 13 going on 30, but its 2 teenage boys, oh and the hot teacher that falls for the boy, ends up making herself young at the end.

@SergioArellano-yd7ik 4 ай бұрын

Wasn't that the name of a Jennifer Garner movie which also had Mark ruffalo?

@raulzavala9061 4 ай бұрын

I never saw these after school specials many popular sitcoms of the 1980's already tackled the subjects in "very special" episodes.

@kgill147 4 ай бұрын

I could immediately tell that was Jan from The Office!

@Rattrap007 4 ай бұрын

The fuzzy picture made me think Tomei was Phoebe Cates.

@melissacooper8724 4 ай бұрын

I remember Amy And The Angel when my teacher showed it to us in high school! I even saw it before It's A Wonderful Life! The one thing that stuck out for me is that Meg Ryan's character had this catchphrase, "I'm going to die!" whenever a cute boy caught her eye! Especially when she saw Amy's guardian angel! I got so annoyed with that girl that I'm surprised that she didn't do as she stated!

@jnnx 4 ай бұрын

14:59 Val Kilmer was NOT unknown by 1985. He had starred in TOP SECRET! by June 1984. He wasn’t a top star, but he wasn’t completely unknown either.

@gertibell 4 ай бұрын

Was that Martha Quinn, the MTV host at 13:26?

@joelyisdoingherbest 4 ай бұрын

Wondering if you remember a movie about a woman battling cancer. The song in it was Sunshine on my Shoulders by John Denver. I have a very vague memory of it - maybe you remember it?? It was early 80’s, I believe. Made me cry!!!

@Wolfie713 4 ай бұрын

Could it be "A Matter of Time?" S09E05, about a teen girl dealing with her mother dying of cancer.

@mariloustarr5972 4 ай бұрын

It was called Sunshine from 1973. That movie made me bawl my eyes out.

@joelyisdoingherbest 4 ай бұрын

@@mariloustarr5972 YES!!! I knew the song was in it!! Thank you!! I was 3 /4 and I remember worrying about the golden retriever losing his owner 😢😢😢

@melissaweintraub5854 4 ай бұрын

@@mariloustarr5972There was (also?) a book and then a movie called Sunshine, about a young woman who keeps a diary, at least some of it verbal, for her baby. She has a baby and a husband (?); he brings up the baby. There's then a sequel that focuses on her, I think when she read/heard her mother's journal.

@mariloustarr5972 4 ай бұрын

@@melissaweintraub5854 yes! I read them both when I was younger. I cried reading both of them.

@jeannie2599 Ай бұрын

Hey, you missed the kid that played with Patty Duke is none other than Sean Astin.....Sam Wise in Lord of the Rings movies!!!

@deanna8217 4 ай бұрын

That second one is creepy!

@mztweety1374 4 ай бұрын

Wow, we’re old❤p

@alg11297 4 ай бұрын

These were much after my time (I'm 67). The ones I remember (vaugely) were usually about a disease, a rape, a parent who was pretty out there. They all ended up on a hopeful note and I was certain they were sponsored by a Christian institution.

@stevenlisten 4 ай бұрын

I’m a 90s kid

@Wolfie713 4 ай бұрын

I'm a Toys-R-Us kid. Well, at least I wish I was.

@lilliedoubleyou3865 4 ай бұрын

7:29 ~ I'm sorry to be so shallow, but do we know what kind of BAG she's holding? That looks gorgeous.

@marylhere 4 ай бұрын

I think that was Mathew MacConehy as an extra.

@jeannehall6546 4 ай бұрын

“Amy And The Angel” is really a take on “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “It Happened One Christmas”.

@melissacooper8724 4 ай бұрын

I remember seeing that one in school before I saw "It's A Wonderful Life." In the "Amy" one there was this one girl who kept saying, "I'm going to die!" whenever she saw a cute boy! Especially when she saw Amy's guardian angel! I got so annoyed with her I simply hoped that it would happen to her!

@me0on0utube 4 ай бұрын

I hated After School Specials cuz they would aire in place of my favorite cartoons

@Wolfie713 4 ай бұрын

I have you beat. I hated when evening shows or Saturday Morning Cartoons would get interrupted/bumped/etc. for political stuff. President speaking, inauguration or some sort, etc. Jeff Foxworthy did a small bit in regards to it back in the 1990's, where he commented on how there were so many channels, but when he was a kid there were only three. "Three! And if the president came on, your night was shot! 'THE PRESIDENT'S ON! HE'S ON EVERY CHANNEL! WE'RE GONNA MISS FLIPPER!'" lol

@melissacooper8724 4 ай бұрын

@Wolfie713 Jeff Foxworthy hit it right on the head about that joke about the president's speech causing people to miss Flipper! 😂

@heidifedor 4 ай бұрын

Maybe the drank too much in “One Too Many” because they were 30 and still in high-school.

@HumanBeing1974 4 ай бұрын

Interesting fact back in the day the oldest a high school student could be was 25 years old. They changed the age limit during the 1980s . Also could smoke cigarettes and they furnished ashtrays and cigarette machines. You could have long hair and creative hairstyles. I remember when each one was eventually phased out.

@TDog14126 4 ай бұрын

Michelle Pfeiffer is so under-rated unfortunately...love her

@MyNameIsUnavailable 4 ай бұрын

Patty Duke HELL YEAH IDENTICAL COUSINS

@elt.214 4 ай бұрын

There was a movie that was always on repeat that I can’t remember the name or find. I think it was late 80’s. It was about a blonde male teen who lost a bet and had to sleep on skid row. He then befriended a bum who died and that’s all I can recall. Anyone remember that movie???

@sexymama1966 4 ай бұрын

I saw Mom's having baby and a sequel around here... The childbirth sequence was edited out of the first one because of the "guidelines of this application". Definitely recognized Dana Plato because she was going thru her own baby experience. I saw "stoned" a few months back. That was a good one."Please don't hit me" is a little too close to home. I don't remember the other ones much. Something about Amelia, I remember that one too..I remember the sponsors more: Kellogg's, General Foods, M&M/Mars, and the big one: McD's.

@user-uw1er9fg7p 4 ай бұрын

I starred in a couple of those on ABC, back when ABC was an incredible network without the influence of Disney. 🤔

@BcAngel420 4 ай бұрын

the Lawrence brothers #BrotherlyLove and Rob Lowe had the same hairdresser back then

@ikeforshort5363 Ай бұрын

♥♥♥ these growing up! No way, that's a very young #SeanAstin and #RiverPhoenix♥

@mollyyoungquist3526 4 ай бұрын

What about the Miracle of Kathy Miller starring a young Helen Hunt??

@andreveach7520 4 ай бұрын

Growing up with "Facts of Life"; 'Jo' was my favorite character, until about 9ish years ago & a woman with same name DESTROYED my life

@antoniobotello4996 4 ай бұрын

Before JOHN HUGHES films 🎥

@pandaeyes42 4 ай бұрын

Was there ever a Say No To Tequila After School Special?

@MsDisneylandlover 4 ай бұрын

I to the one that dealing with the learning disability. I didn't know i had one until college I deal with the reading disability and math disability. And stuff so not easy for me. Bit I have came a long way. #DisneyDiva