About this season
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.
Episodes (9)
1. This Child Is Mine
Aired 7 December 1972 • 90 min
Custody battle between the adoptive and biological mother plays out in a court-room.
2. A Gift of Terror
Aired 3 December 1973 • 90 min
A young woman starts having premonitions of her friends dying. Once her friends begin to die, she starts having premonitions of her own death.
3. The Things I Never Said
Aired 31 October 1973 • 90 min
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.
4. A Special Act of Love
Aired 14 November 1973 • 90 min
A novitiate nun's newfound happiness as a surgeon's wife is shattered when her husband becomes terminally ill.
5. I Never Said Goodbye
Aired 3 December 1973 • 90 min
A mother is caught in the middle when her son-in-law accuses his wife doctor of euthanasia.
6. The Other Woman
Aired 4 December 1973 • 90 min
A single woman has an affair, becomes pregnant ,and decides to raise the child as a single parent.
7. Alone with Terror
Aired 5 December 1973 • 90 min
A housewife is determined to prove her deceased cop husband wasn't on the take.
8. My Secret Mother
Aired 6 December 1973 • 90 min
A single woman discovers she's pregnant, and decides to find her birth mother.
9. The Mask of Love
Aired 7 December 1973 • 90 min
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.