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.
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4 episodes
Convicted of murder and set for execution, John Evans tells his story to the prison chaplain.
Runtime: 60 minThe story of Geraldine Oxley, a cognitively deficient 12-year-old girl whose parents remove her from the institution where she has been raised in order to give her a normal-as-possible home life.
Runtime: 60 minA teenage boy (played by Baio) suffers the consequences of drinking and driving.
Runtime: 60 minTeenagers from diverse backgrounds experience their freshman year in High School.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
6 episodes
Two high school sophomores make a suicide pact.
Runtime: 60 minTrue story of high school hockey coach Bob Anastas. After losing two of his all-star hockey players, he gets the students to prevent more tragedies by forming Students Against Drunk Driving.
Runtime: 60 minTeenager from India comes to the US to live with her American 'sister'.
Runtime: 60 minStudents are paired off in a make-believe marriage class, so they can learn how money problems can affect a marriage.
Runtime: 60 minOn the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join what he believes is the toughest gang at school.
Runtime: 60 minTeenage girl is caught shoplifting and decides to face a jury of her peers in Student Court, instead of facing her punishment in Juvenile Court.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
4 episodes
Racial discrimination is examined when a social studies teacher assigns his students to play 'The Color Game', which divides the class into different social classes.
Runtime: 60 minWanting to be accepted by others at school, a hearing-impaired teenager attempts to change her image.
Runtime: 60 minFive pregnant teenage girls meet up at a group counseling session and begin to discuss their situation and feelings amongst each other.
Runtime: 60 minTeenage girl begins to question her religion after her sister is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
7 episodes
High school teen is heavily addicted to drugs such as Cocaine and can't seem to stop, until he is faced with a tragedy.
Runtime: 60 minUpset 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.
Runtime: 44 minHusband 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.
Runtime: 60 minUncomfortable 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.
Runtime: 47 minThe 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.
Runtime: 60 minAfter being falsely accused of theft by her stepfather, a teenage girl is arrested and placed in juvenile hall.
Runtime: 60 minA teenager is stunned to discover that he has contracted the AIDS virus after having a blood transfusion.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
4 episodes
Detective investigates a club where teenage boys play war games, but start taking their fantasies into the real world.
Runtime: 60 minAfter her grandmother is pronounced brain-dead following a stroke, a teenage girl must make the painful decision whether to continue life support.
Runtime: 60 minAfter a series of bad luck, a single mother and her sons become homeless and are forced to live in their car.
Runtime: 60 minOn leave from the army, a 19-year-old returns home to find his kid brother the leader of a gang. A gang he once led.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
6 episodes
The issue of teenage date rape is seen through the eyes of a teenage girl and her older brother, and how it affects their relationships with the opposite sex.
Runtime: 60 min17-year-old boy is addicted to gambling, and soon it starts to take over his life.
Runtime: 60 minTwo teenage boys are suspended from school after distributing an underground newspaper on campus.
Runtime: 60 minTwo black teenagers are sent through time to experience how blacks were treated during the civil rights movement.
Runtime: 60 minDrug-addiction treatment center for teenagers where the counselors are ex-addicts themselves.
Runtime: 60 minTeenage boy is stunned when his Grandfather's Nazi past comes to light.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
6 episodes
A 15-year old school girl refuses to dissect a frog and sues her school district for not allowing her to do an alternative project.
Runtime: 60 minA group of high school students take part in a parenting class where their assignment is to treat a sack of flour like a new-born baby.
Runtime: 60 minTeenage girl struggles to cope when her brother is diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.
Runtime: 60 minKorean boy, who has been adopted by an American family, decides to attend a Korean-American summer camp to learn more about his heritage.
Runtime: 60 min15-year-old girl comes to grips with the fact both of her parents have a drinking problem.
Runtime: 60 minTeenage athlete is in denial about his epilepsy, as he tries to achieve super-stardom on the basketball court.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
5 episodes
Wanting to seek his father's approval, a high school student starts using steroids to make the track team. But soon these drugs start to take a toll on his body.
Runtime: 60 minHigh school senior is involved in a hit and run and is forced to deal with the consequences.
Runtime: 60 minAfter her mother announces her plans to move the family to another state, a 16-year-old girl decides to seek legal emancipation.
Runtime: 60 minA teenage girl starts dating the most popular boy in school, and everything is wonderful until he starts being violent towards her.
Runtime: 60 minTeenage boy tries to help a girl who is being sexually abused at home.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
5 episodes
Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her deceased boyfriend was exposed to the AIDS virus.
Runtime: 60 minTwo teenage brothers are stunned when their mother announces that she is pregnant.
Runtime: 60 minSpecial featuring 50 things young people can do to save the earth.
Runtime: 60 minIn this story about learning not to take life for granted, Steve, a teenager, loses his best friend in a car accident.
Runtime: 60 minTwo teens from racially different background begin a relationship after witnessing the murder of a mutual friend.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
5 episodes
When a high school girl claims she is being sexually harassed by another student, an in-school court is convened to settle the dispute.
Runtime: 60 minIlliterate 25-year-old decides to return to high school by posing as a teenager so he can learn how to read.
Runtime: 60 minTwo students cry censorship when the school asks them to edit out portions of their film which are deemed 'inappropriate.'
Runtime: 60 minA high-school wrestler suspects his uncle is molesting his little brother, which forces painful memories of his own abuse to surface.
Runtime: 60 minA community begins to take sides when an affirmative action program is introduced.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
4 episodes
Teenage boy, who has been raised by a lesbian couple, must contend with the conservative views of his new school.
Runtime: 60 minHigh school students are left to pick up the pieces when the entire track team is killed in an airplane crash.
Runtime: 60 minA teenager is stunned to discover that her boyfriend has given her an STD.
Runtime: 60 minTwo teens from different cultural backgrounds face opposition from their parents when they begin to date.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
6 episodes
Three teens are caught defacing a rabbi's temple. Instead of punishment, the rabbi suggests 25 hours of Holocaust, Judaism, and tolerance education. Which he would teach.
Runtime: 60 minDesperate for a summer job, a teenage boy decides to masquerade as a girl to land a job as a chambermaid.
Runtime: 60 min"What About Your Friends" is a one-hour film that takes a unique look at the senior year successes and failures of three high school girlfriends as they prepare for college.
Runtime: 60 minFour separate stories are dramatized showing the tragic consequences when teens use guns to solve their problems, and how they can solve the same problem without guns.
Runtime: 60 minTeenage girl has trouble dealing with the fact her mother has breast cancer.
Runtime: 60 minTeenager wants to be a stand-up comic and go on tour, despite her father's objection.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
3 episodes
Native American teenager decides to learn more about her culture by spending the summer on the Indian Reservation where her mother was born.
Runtime: 60 minKeanu Reeves hosts this special where celebrities narrate letters, diaries, and published stories of children who have lived through the Holocaust.
Runtime: 60 minWhen her parents split up, a teenage girl must move out of the suburbs and into the big city.
Runtime: 60 min