ABC Afterschool Specials

- Season 7

(1978)

Free spirited mother realizes her daughter is no longer a little girl, and tries to give her more independence. Meanwhile the daughter is puzzled by her mother's lack of attention.

In 1947, a young white boy and an elderly black man enjoy a warm and wonderful friendship based on their mutual love of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson.

A young Puerto Rican New York boy thinks his mother wants to move back to her homeland, so he takes a job as an errand boy for a small-time hood to pay for the move back to her Caribbean homeland.

Overweight teenage girl is obsessed with food and can't stop eating. Only when she turns to a friend for help, does she start making changes in her eating habits.

High school students take part in a marriage course where they are coupled up and must complete everyday married life tasks.

Teenage girl is involved in a hit and run and the guilt starts to take a toll on her everyday life.

Lonely rich kid is suddenly granted seven wishes from a genie. He uses all of the wishes to impress a girl at school, but it doesn't work out the way he envisioned.