I wish i could go back in time to the 1970s and 1980s again. I loved those decades. They were the best. Things were simpler and things just overall seemed better.

I remember when people used to dress with class and common sense, and tried to be polite. I miss those days. #Classof84

I graduated high school in 1983. Seems so long ago! Be 60 on the 12th.

I miss the 80s❤ Class of 85

I worked with Kari (the actress who played Fran) at a high end restaurant in Oxnard CA called Jake’s around 1995. Kari worked in the bar section as a server and I worked in the main restaurant as a food server. Mr. Jacobsen who was the owner told me she was an actress and I recognized her on the TV show Gimme A Break with Nell Carter.

Wow why did I just watch this whole thing and it made me cry? I made friends with the girl next door when we moved to KS. When school started I found out that she was the “cootie girl”& no one liked her. She became my very best friend. The first best friend I ever had. Then the following summer we moved back home to LA,just like in the movie. We wrote a little bit but lost touch. Til Facebook was invented of course! We finally reunited 30 something yrs later when she flew out here. We went to Disneyland tgther. Anyway, this movie touched me

Ah felt so good, no social media.

I used to love after school specials around middle school age from 11to 13 😊

I absolutely love watching old movies, especially the ones that came out in the early 80's. It takes me back to my childhood memories. I was really young at the time 7 years old in elementary school so I really don't remember those after school special for one thing I guess I was way too young to watch it back then and it seemed like it was more for teenagers to watch but I do remember as a little child in the 80's how my mother use to dress me. The 80's was during a time when life was much simple then. It wasn't any cellphones out, no Facebook, no Instagram, no TikTok, no social media period. The woman knew how to dress back then they wasn't showing their naked behind; the showed class, Families were eating at the dinner table together, Kids would go outside and be kids and play together with their friends and the kids knew to respect their parents at all times. How I miss these days being a young child in the 80's wish that I could go back, but these days are long gone. That's why you should always cherish each and every memory especially when it comes to your family.

Station wagons,greyhound bus,live in help, . Brings back memories.😊😊😊😊

I really enjoyed this. I miss 80s to early 90s fashion.

I miss the old times. I still had my parents who were the best ever. I can't wait to be reunited with them and my grandparents. I only have 2 self centered narcissistic brothers left.

Do they even make Tv Movies like this anymore? Probably not since so many of todays’ kids are lost. I’m an 80s baby and remember different short movies with big messages and life lessons that are still with today. Grateful to be one of the last generations of simpler and eye opening times.

Marion Ross is very good. It is great to see her as a character outside of Happy Days.

Kari Michaelsen as Fran. Kari was best known for her role as Katie Kanisky on "Gimme A Break." She left show business in the 90's and became a motivational speaker.

Memory unlocked! I was class of 84 and I watched most of these specials, thanks for the flashback

This made me so nostalgic for the good days! Class of 83❤

I hate it when people pour a whole glass of juice to only take 1 sip and leave it.

More innocent times . Thanks for the memories.

What a classic movie w Jennifer Jason Leigh!!!!

Lovely movie. The 80s was a good time, good memories.

What a lovely movie! Actually teaching a good lesson! Imagine that! Truly wholesome and heartwarming ❤️

They dress like they are going to church😊 love that! Much more elegant than nowadays.

Tell me why movies like this stopped being made. What a great lesson about judging people and listening to gossip!!! Oh that the next generation would watch, listen and LEARN!!!!!

I like this. It shows that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

Wow. Marion Ross still alive in 2024. She's 95. Outlived my Mom by a mile!

I'm hooked on ABC After School Specials now. Third one I've watched today. I love old shoeless and old commercials. They make me feel better. ❤

Man this makes me feel old almost 60 and graduated high school in 1982!

Facts of Life, Gimmie A Break, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Oh yeah😁

I liked the colors and the easy acting. It was relaxing to watch. 😊

Oh my gosh! Dolfin shorts! They were the best and so comfortable.😊

I miss getting letters. There is a wonderful feeling when that letter is opened. I always send cards to people but never get them back, people opt to text.

I love these old shows!

What was great about these 80’s movies - the girls make-up was respectful, dress was conservative and everyone seems to have a mother/father. People ate dinner together and mothers were moms at home waiting for their children to come home from school and had dinner on the table. Didn’t know how much I appreciated what I had growing up - now a days, they are lucky to have just one of these things.

Fran complains about hating snobs and then she is super snobby about her mom being a cook for a month. I grew up in the 80's, this is not how it was for most people - I would have considered Fran and her family "rich". They have a very nice house, trendy clothes, trendy haircuts, nice cars and the kids go to a nice school. Definitely a rosy, made for TV picture of what it was like.

Class of ‘89 🙅🏼‍♀️ 😎 👍🏻 Thanks for uploading this.

This movie is based off the book called “The Gift Horse” by Sheila Hayes, which was one of my favorites when I was in fifth or sixth grade. I had no idea they had made a movie out of it!

I don't remember this after school special. Thank you for uploading it.

Boy has our American life changed sadly from that era to today's times.

They're both still beautiful right today

Man, Leigh could always ACT! She is fantastic

This was a great movie.😊👍I really enjoyed it! Gosh I miss the 80's....sigh😔

Simpler time - better time - healthy time - innocent time

I jusr loved seeing clothes of my youth like Ditto jeans and Dolphin shorts! I used to have over a dozen pairs of Dolphin shorts in every color and pattern available. My mom and my friend's parents would drop us off at Ports O' Cal in San Pedro so we could take the boat over to Catalina the whole day without parental guardianship. We had such a blast as young teens and summers going to Malibu with our coolers full of sandwiches, but we still walked to the village for date shakes. Those were truly great times! How I miss those days and my old friends. Class of 81.❤❤❤

Things have changed. Today, having a Mom whose a professional cook is very cool.

Yikes this is the only movie i have seen where Jennifer Jason Leigh played a likable character!!

Between Julie and Kari, a lot of my crushes from '80s TV shows are in this. And Jennifer Jason Leigh was pretty cute too 😀

One was on The Facts of Life, the other on Gimme a Break, wow I'M OLD!

Jenifer Jason Leigh had a spot on the Walton’s around the same time as this. Her first roles

today, personal chefs make huge money

These short movies were so good I remember watching these after school in the late 80s and early 90s they really touched on some serious issues at that time and still very real today this was really good 😊

I always thought she had the most beautiful hair.

I loved after school specials. Miss them.

I love these shows

I remember watching this after school!! Ohhh good times then *sighs*

I seen this back in the 80s.. Wow! Been a long time!

who liked the nostalgic music????

Kari was awesome in this! Never cared for her character on Gimmie a Break but her acting ability is great here. Love the flip hairstyles, station wagons and everything 80s!

I kept thinking Jennifer was going to pull something evil. Lol

Jennifer Jason Leigh shows her excellent acting even though this is an after school special. She had just been in Fast Times!

Fun looking back at the fashions and trends from the early 80's

Yeah. Maids made our beds, did our laundry. My mother rang a silver bell when dinner was ready. And, yes, we dressed for dinner, put our napkins on our laps and pulled a mental portfolio for sharing our experiences of the day. We never left the dinner table until we were finished with our food and asked appropriately if we "could be excused" a time long past, long gone.

Food tasted better back then. It doesn't taste like it used to. 😕 Those were definitely years that there was a lot more personal connections. Today, our smart phones are our closest friends and we live out fantasy through social media. We were always so skinny back then too!

Julie was original cast of Facts of Life?

Mrs. Cunningham's daughter is the one acting like the snob😢

Life aint always better just because youre a rich kid

Kari, Julie and Jennifer all look drop dead gorgeous here. They also all look like they are about 6 years too old for the storyline/ subject matter. Kari was 20 and Jennifer was 19 and had already acted in Fast Times at the time this was filmed. These afterschool specials were a great childhood memory but it was standard to have near adult actors portraying teens because there weren't enough child/teen actors available. That whole carousel horse scene looks weird and awkward now. Another bit of trivia, Brenda was played by Haillie Todd who went on to be Lizzie McGuire's mom . I feel so old now.

My favorite After School Special! I would have taken the carousel horse! ;-)

I was 13 that summer but missed this movie onTV. .

Very good story. I really miss these types of dramas. They had a lot of heart!

Awesome 1983 After School Special classic gem!!

Great hair.

My happiest was in the 70s and 80s😊

ABC always had the best after school specials. I really like Kari from Hello Larry. And Julie. Cute girls when I was a teenager

"I don't care if you're a cook or the first woman president" LOL

Lovely movie, really enjoyed wholesome movie.

Now that was a great movie. So refreshing to go back. It was better back then.

Mr. Fairchild was played by James Karen, one of those "hey, it's THAT guy," actors. Within the horror realm specifically he was Mr. Teague in Poltergeist[1982] and Frank in Return Of The Living Dead[1985]. He had over 200 film and television credits, but like I said you probably never knew his name, but you'd recognize him anywhere because he was THAT guy.😄 And, oh, yes, Mrs' Fairchild was Carol Lawrence who originated the role of Maria in Broadway's West Side Story.

A little fyi. At the very beginning of this video, the school doors the girls are exiting , its the same place that " Nancy ", Heather Lankencamp walks out of school in the first A Nightmare On Elm Street movie . Ive been to the location tracking down ANOES movie scenes.

So funny how they mentioned Peeksville since the other girl played Sueanne on facts of life

People dressed so much nicer back then. Nobody was half naked, covered in nasty tattoos and piercings in painful looking places. The hair was nicer, too. Clean looking, well-styled, no half shaved, not greasy looking, no bizarre colors.

Julia Pikarski 😍😍😍😍

I never saw this. Very enjoyable and thoughtful. Thanks for sharing!!!

These times were simpler sounds almost like the good old days before Internet when there was morals and ethics and young girls just pretty we’re not sexualized for more views likes ratings

Felt sorry for Andrea 😢

Thanks YT algorithm… don’t have a clue what this show is, but I just wanted to see the clothes and hair of these times… I was born in the 80s, my teen years in the 90s, but the 60s and 70s are always so cool to me…

Class of ‘84

I like this film

Brenda, Fran's cousin was played by Hallie Todd. She was the mom on Lizzie McGuire. Julie Piekarski's part here was about as small as her part in The Facts of Life! Anyway, thanks for the upload.💜

Great cast and movie!

Simple times. Give anything for that again

You're not joking!!!!! If ever they find a way to go back in time, I'd be going back to the days and house where my mother grew up, especially where she was born. kick a few asses and fix a many things! Then I'd definitely go back to my favorite time in tv, movies, decor, fashion, slang and most of all, music (disco)!!!!!!😊 Then I'd go visit the 80s and the 90s. 🎉❤😊

Why did I love this movie so much? It's a fun watch!

Andrea was just a lonely, misunderstood and judged daughter of rich parents. 🙁

I had dresses in middle school that looked exactly like what Fran and Andrea were wearing at the party! I had a lot of them and never really wore them. Except to band and chorus concerts. Some of the other girls saw me wearing them and would compliment me. I mentioned that I had a whole bunch of them but never wore them. So, a few of the girls asked me if *they* could borrow a few and wear them! 😂. I said, “You bet!”. So, I loaned out a couple of my dresses to a few different girls. It was weird seeing the other girls in school walking around wearing my dresses. But, honestly, they looked a lot better in them than *I* did! LOL. Some of those girls were a lot more developed than I was. 😂 I was really lanky and flat-chested.

The mom was the mom in "Happy Days", no?

The 80's was the best decade# Class of 1987❤

I had that kitchen table.

Love those short shorts !

Wow! That was amazing! ❤