After school special
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This article is about the genre of children's television programming. For the ABC television series, see ABC Afterschool Special. For other uses, see After School Special (disambiguation).
The American Broadcasting Company coined the term Afterschool Special in 1972[1] with a series of television films, usually dealing with controversial or socially relevant issues, that were generally broadcast in the late afternoon and meant to be viewed by school-age children, particularly teenagers.[2] The specials were generally broadcast four to six times during the school year, pre-empting local programming that would usually follow the network schedule in the late afternoon hours. ABC's series ran from 1972 to 1997.