About this season
The ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997. It featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated. Similar to both the ABC Afterschool Special and The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie that had started five years previous, the ABC Weekend Special differed in that it was primarily aimed at younger viewers following ABC's Saturday Morning cartoon lineup, whereas the ABC Afterschool Special was known for its somewhat more serious, and often dramatic storylines dealing with issues concerning a slightly older teen and pre-teen audience. With the debut of the ABC Weekend Special, some of the early ABC Afterschool Specials that had been targeted towards younger viewers were subsequently repackaged and re-run instead as ABC Weekend Specials.
Episodes (12)
1. The Big Hex of Little Lulu
Aired 15 September 1979 • 30 min
2. The Contest Kid Strikes Again
Aired 22 September 1979 • 30 min
3. The Girl with ESP
Aired 20 October 1979 • 30 min
4. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Part 1)
5. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Part 2)
6. The Incredible Detectives
Aired 17 November 1979 • 30 min
7. The Revenge of Red Chief
Aired 15 December 1979 • 30 min
8. The Puppy's Amazing Rescue
Aired 26 January 1980 • 30 min
9. The Gold Bug (Part 1)
10. The Gold Bug (Part 2)
11. The Trouble with Miss Switch (Part 1)
Aired 16 February 1980 • 30 min
Rupert Brown (voiced by Eric Taslitz) and Amelia Daley (voiced by Nancy McKeon) are classmates who discover that their teacher, Miss Switch (voiced by Janet Waldo), is a witch with a magical talking cat named Bathsheba (voiced by June Foray).
12. The Trouble with Miss Switch (Part 2)
Aired 23 February 1980 • 30 min
Miss Switch and Bathsheba fly to Witch Mountain with Rupert and Amelia in their plan to stop the wicked witch Saturna (voiced by June Foray), who has condemned Miss Switch and taken control of the Witches' Council.