About this season
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.
Episodes (7)
1. The Drug Knot
Aired 10 September 1986 • 60 min
High school teen is heavily addicted to drugs such as Cocaine and can't seem to stop, until he is faced with a tragedy.
2. Little Miss Perfect
Aired 13 January 1987 • 44 min
Upset over having to move to a new neighborhood and leave her boyfriend and friends, a teenage girl develops bulima as a way t deal with her problems.
3. My Dissident Mom
Aired 14 January 1987 • 60 min
Husband and wife whose conflicting opinions on the use of nuclear weapons threatens to jeopardize not only the husband's impending business deal, but the relationship of the family itself.
4. The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Aired 27 January 1987 • 47 min
Uncomfortable with racist language in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", a high school student and his parents attempt to get the book removed from the school's library.
5. What If I'm Gay?
Aired 31 March 1987 • 60 min
The popular and macho captain of the high-school soccer team is forced to confront his homosexuality, after his buddies discover a male-pornography magazine in his bedroom.
6. Juvi
Aired 21 April 1987 • 60 min
After being falsely accused of theft by her stepfather, a teenage girl is arrested and placed in juvenile hall.
7. An Enemy Among Us
Aired 21 July 1987 • 60 min
A teenager is stunned to discover that he has contracted the AIDS virus after having a blood transfusion.