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.
Episode 1
This Child Is Mine
Custody battle between the adoptive and biological mother plays out in a court-room.
Episode 2
A Gift of Terror
A young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death.
Episode 3
The Things I Never Said
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.
Episode 4
A Special Act of Love
A novitiate nun's newfound happiness as a surgeon's wife is shattered when her husband becomes terminally ill.
Episode 5
I Never Said Goodbye
A mother is caught in the middle when her son-in-law accuses his wife doctor of euthanasia.
Episode 6
The Other Woman
A single woman has an affair, becomes pregnant ,and decides to raise the child as a single parent.
Episode 7
Alone with Terror
A housewife is determined to prove her deceased cop husband wasn't on the take.
Episode 8
My Secret Mother
A single woman discovers she's pregnant, and decides to find her birth mother.
Episode 9
The Mask of Love
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.
1979 · ★ 6.8
2010 · ★ 8.2
2018 · ★ 6.4
1983 · ★ 6.2
2020 · ★ 6.9
1955 · ★ 7.8
2022 · ★ 7.3
1985 · ★ 7.2
2021 · ★ 7.7
2017 · ★ 6.9
2020 · ★ 8.4
2026 · ★ 8.3
2022 · ★ 6.7
2018 · ★ 6.9
2020 · ★ 6.6
2016 · ★ 8.0
1973 · ★ 7.0
2008 · ★ 6.8
2019 · ★ 8.2
2011 · ★ 6.1
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