ABC Weekend Specials

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but I somehow still managed to watch just about

every kids show on television as a kid and Today

is no exception kind of a rare one a little bit

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right, folks. You actually probably couldn't

tell from that intro because it doesn't really

give it away. And a lot of you are probably like,

hmm, that sounds vaguely familiar. Or maybe to

some of you it doesn't sound familiar at all.

But today we are going to be talking about the

ABC. Weekend specials. That's right folks the

ABC weekend specials. It's not our typical topic

here But I felt like we need to cover it and

before we get too far into our actual discussion

about the ABC weekend specials Let me at least

tell you guys what the heck it is if you are

not familiar if your memory banks are not quite

up to ABC weekend specials debuted back all the

way in 1977 but the reason it works for our season

it's not really an exception for the telecast

season one because it aired from 1977 to 1997

so it was on air for a good 20 calendar year

17 total seasons according to most online sites

obviously this is no mystery it aired on ABC

hence the ABC weekend specials And it was usually

a 30 minute show. And it lasted for approximately

130 episodes, somewhere around there. It kind

of depends on how you number them and which ones

you count and which ones you don't count. A couple

things. First of all, lot of the episodes were

broken into parts so you had like part one of

a certain story and then the next weekend you'd

get part two and then maybe you get part three

etc so a lot of the episodes are broken into

parts so that's why the number might be a little

bit off for some people and this is very much

like the ABC afternoon special which some people

might remember that was kind of even more rare

than this one I remember the weekend specials

better than the afternoon specials but ABC did

both of them. The afternoon specials were more

geared towards a more slightly more serious tone

a little bit maybe more of a mature audience

as far as the kids go whereas the weekend specials

could cater to the youngsters as well so you

got a little bit more of a younger slant on the

weekend specials and since I probably watch this

as a youngster in the early mid 80s that's probably

why the weekend specials resonates a little bit

more with me. Now, for those of you that don't

know, it was an anthology series that aired specials

in both live action and in animation. So there's

not like a consistent thing going on. I mean,

you had individual stories that were being told

in multiple parts sometimes, and then you'd go

on to a completely different story. Sometimes

you had live action episodes, sometimes you had

animation, or maybe even a little bit of both.

Most notably, the show was hosted by a puppet.

an orange cat puppet kind of like i guess is

how you describe them but hopefully you recognize

this name captain og read more captain og read

more usually it was captain like as in captain

crunch with the cap apostrophe n o period g period

read more as one word so captain og read more

Now this character not only introduced all the

stories as kind of like the host or the presenter,

he also starred in five animated episodes of

the show, and he did a bunch of PSAs, and everybody

should know what PSAs are, public service announcements,

that encouraged children to read more. Ha. And

for those of you that are really interested in

the PSAs, continue listening, because you might

see or hear. Well, you won't see them, but you'll

hear them later on. So stay tuned. My memories

of ABC Weekend Specials are specifically I remember

watching these with my sister. I don't remember

exactly what time of the day they aired, but

I want to say it was somewhere around the lunch

hour. You know they did have the after -school

special which obviously was in the afternoon

the ABC weekend special I want to say was sometime

between like 10 in the morning to like 1 or 2

in the afternoon I mean, I know that's a big

block, but I remember it somewhere either before

or after lunch was when they aired. And I don't

remember any of the specifics about the actual

episodes from my childhood. What I do remember

is Captain OG Readmore. I remember him introducing

the stuff. I remember his voice perfectly and

his look perfectly. You put a picture of him

in front of me at any point in my life and I

would have been able to tell you exactly who

he was. And I do remember the story format and

the fact that it was like you're reading a book

and you're going into that book and that there

was some familiar stories and plots and topics

that they did cover. It was also reminded me

a bit of some of the TV series or specials that

you used to see for like the babysitter's club.

My sister was big into that where it's live action

people but it's kids and you can relate to them

because there wasn't a lot of that on TV. I mean

you had your cartoons and you had your adult

shows but you didn't get a lot of live action

just straight up kid shows. And so this kind

of gave you that, you know, like a babysitter's

club Encyclopedia Brown type vibe to it. And

if anybody gets that reference, wow, you get

major points. And please go to our website and

comment that you understood the reference I just

made there with Encyclopedia Brown. So, you know,

I don't have specific memories, but I have vague

memories of the type of show it was, the person

that introduced it, and what nots. But we're

going to get a little bit more into this and

kind of delve into who appeared on the ABC weekend

specials. Now usually I don't do a who's who

for these more like anthology series but for

this one I wanted to mention some stuff because

it is a cornucopia of names that hopefully people

will remember. Now like I said there are some

animated episodes and some voice work done in

this show which is probably another reason why

it ended up on the telecast season one. And let

me just run down some of the voice actors that

appeared voicing characters on episodes of the

ABC weekend specials, and this is ridiculous

here. Michael Bell, Frank Welker, Bob Holt, Joan

Gerber, Hazel Sherman from way back when, Alan

Oppenheimer, John Irwin, better known as He -Man,

Don Messick, Alan Melvin, Howard Morris, Scatman

Crothers, John Stevenson, Janet Waldo, June Foray,

Hans Connery, Linda Gary, Noel L. North, Peter

Cullen, Nancy Cartwright, Hal Smith, Tress McNeil,

Peter Reneday, Neil Ross, Rusty Taylor, B .J.

Ward, Bettina Bush, Corey Burton, Charlie Ather,

Rob Paulson, Jim Cummings, Elizabeth Daly, and

Andy McAfee. Wow. I mean, the voice work in this

was stellar. I mean and we're gonna get into

a little bit more of that because there was a

little um double dipping I'll call it but the

animated parts of the ABC weekend specials were

very well voiced um and so that was definitely

something that added to the value of this show

but there was also quite a few actors that you

might notice or might recognize that appeared

in the live -action segments of the ABC weekend

specials. Now most people might not recognize

the name Robbie Wriste but I definitely do because

Robbie Wriste was the person who played Michelangelo

in the first live -action Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles movie and he was He appeared in a couple,

actually. He was like a recurring person on the

ABC weekend specials. He actually played Michelangelo

in all three of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

live action movies. So I think that's pretty

cool. But the other names you should definitely

recognize. And we're talking about Anthony Michael

Hall, Christian Slater, Billy Dee Williams, Lando

Calrissian there, Drew Barrymore, Melissa Joan

Hart, Lucille Bliss, Christopher Daniel Barnes,

Fred Savage, Yeah, buddy. Sarah Gilbert from

Roseanne. Soleil Moon Frye. Tom Bosley. Father

Dowling. Adrian Barbeau. James Earl Jones. Prince

Charles. I'm not stuttering there. Prince, the

actual Prince Charles. Nichelle Nichols from

Star Trek. Lore. Mark Hamill. Luke Skywalker.

Florence Henderson and Eve Plumb from the Brady

Bunch. James Avery from Fresh Prince and the

voice of Shredder as some people might know him.

So those are just a few of the ones that really

jumped out at me as far as people that appeared

in the live -action parts of this show. And I

even think I remember that a couple of them,

I think Drew Barrymore, Melissa Joan Hart, or

Solil Moon Frye, a couple of them appeared in

the same episode, so I wish I could find those

actual episodes. This was actually, here's a

little bit of trivia for you, and I guess I should

leave this for later, but... This was according

to my sources Melissa Joan Hart's first ever

acting role was as a Character on the ABC weekend

specials, so this is where Melissa Joan Hart

actually got her start before Clarissa Before

Sabrina before any of that stuff was ABC weekend

specials so like I said there if you were somehow

watching now and Listening to the voices on the

animated parts or being very watchful eye over

the live action parts, you would definitely notice

and recognize some of the people that were involved

in this as you watched it. Don't know it's kind

of like when we were talking about are you afraid

of the dark where? You just kind of have these

random people who are just kids to you just doing

like different stories and telling different

stories But every once in a while you had one

that you recognize show up So that is the who's

who of the ABC weekend specials like I said most

of them appeared once or twice or had recurring

Roles where they got to play multiple parts,

but there's not like recurring characters So

we can't really go into the characters there

really isn't any to talk of so with that it is

definitely time for The good. The bad. The ugly.

That's right, it's time for The Good, The Bad.

and the ugly of the ABC weekend specials. Starting

with the theme song like we always do you heard

it at the beginning the top of the show here

you know it's just an instrumental theme song

I do like the beginning and like the initial

hook as far as how to get you know getting into

the show but I really prefer my theme songs to

have some lyrics or something else catchy besides

just that initial musical intro so the theme

song is somewhat lacking I don't know if I'd

call it bad but I wouldn't call it good either.

Memorable to me, I still remember it. You know,

I mean, I hear it and I instantly know that's

the theme song for the ABC Weekend Specials.

Maybe some people don't, but just not the, you

know, not top -notch theme song or anything.

There was some stuff we can talk about with the

title sequences. During the series run on Saturday

mornings, there was three main title sequence,

I guess you can call them packages. They all

kind of had a storybook or like literary elements.

Kind of feel to them, and they did have some

characters that would show up now the first one

was from 1977 to 1990 so this was the main one

This is the one that most people would remember

except for maybe some young whippersnappers out

there, and that was the pop -up book opening

title sequence now this had a stack of books

on a library desk and a disco theme tune in the

background which is the one you kind of heard

there. A larger book in the middle of the display

with the show's title printed on the cover and

it magically opens with the ABC logo printed

on the first page and then all of a sudden you

see various figures from literature pop out from

the book and then it says children's novels for

television, short story specials, and then the

series title kind of blossoms into view at the

end of the intro where it says WC weekend specials.

Obviously this was the longest running sequence

in the show's history going for 13 years. The

next four years from 1990 to 1994 they had a

kind of package which was labeled reading as

magic. There was a new theme song for this, a

new visual. Combined computer animation with

live action elements as neighborhood kids discover

the wonders of reading with a turn of a page

and a little bit of magic. And then the enchanted

books are open, the readers become part of the

story, and they show cowboys to undersea explorers,

cave kids. One of the books, again like the first

one, magically grows and flips open, except this

time it has a capnology read more ushering the

readers in for fun and adventure. So a tiny bit

different there and then for the last three years

from 94 to 97 there was one called adventures

in reading It was updated once again the CGI

opener takes place back at the library Where

we pan through a row of books the camera stops

at a book with ABC circle signature printed on

the spine the side of it The logo that magically

pops out and grows arms and legs and leaps to

a book on a nearby desk It opens the book and

it dives into an array of worlds and universes

inhabited by letters the circle figure fights

off combatants at a medieval castle swings a

vine in the jungle and flies through the solar

system in its spacecraft. The circle figure ends

its journey on the front cover of a book with

the show's title beside it. So each one had similar

feel with the book just different ways to do

it and there was obviously a different song used

but most people remember the actual pop -up book

one and so there was definitely three different

intros and that's cool you know I'm glad that

they tried to switch things up being on the air

for you know 20 years you definitely should do

that you can't keep the 1977 look in 1990s. That

probably wouldn't have made sense. So I have

no problem with the different title sequences,

and it kind of adds a little bit of interesting

historical aspects to the show. So it's not bad.

It's not ugly. So I guess we'll title that as

good. The closing credits. also changed throughout

the years. A short version of the theme from

the intro played usually as a bookmark floats

into view, gently landing in the closing pop

-up book, and then it usually fades in and says,

you know, recommended by the National Education

Association or this or that. That was at least

one of the early ones. There was different closings.

Closings are never as interesting as the intros,

but I did want to talk a little bit about the

actual show as far as topics and variety because

you did get definite variety of topics covered

and as far as subject matter and I just want

to kind of briefly go through some of the things

that maybe some people would would recognize

from the actual episodes that were aired because

some things were familiar type storylines like

as far as a literary type stuff you had like

some things that were on Sherlock Holmes type

stories. You had a little bit of fairy tale stuff.

You had... Oh, what was the one that I was thinking

of just a minute ago? You had Tom Sawyer and

Huck Finn type stories. You had... Oh god, now

my mind's going completely... A Velveteen Rabbit?

story. The Sawyer and Huck Finn were called the

Adventures of Con Sawyer and Huckle Mary Finn.

They're funny. Like I said before you also had

the Captain O .G. Readmore ones where he appeared

in some of the animated forms and you had a variety

of animated stuff and some of you aren't going

to remember these maybe but PJ Funny Bunny was

in a lot of them. you had the magic flute or

the magic pearl you had mcgee and me you had

a whole bunch of the littles like the television

show the littles you had ralph s mouse um you

had oh gosh what else the mouse and the motorcycle

you had Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Pippi Longstocking.

You had a couple different times where they did

the Adventures or the Return of Bungie, if anybody

remembers that. So there was a bunch of different...

The Secret World of Og. I barely remember that.

Mistswitch. and a lot of the puppies or scruffy

so I mean you had a whole bunch of different

stuff that you were bombarded with now I don't

remember a lot of the animated segments of the

show I mean I remember the littles from when

the littles were on but I don't remember a bunch

of the more like independent original animation

To me, the ones that I remember are the actual

live action ones. And like I said, it kind of

had a feel of the Babysitter's Club, a little

bit of a feel of Are You Afraid of the Dark,

where... You had these stories where kids were

getting into mischief or kids were exploring

like a haunted building or something like that.

And as I said, you usually was split into parts

and you did have to wait weeks in between parts.

That was probably the one bad thing about this.

I mean, I guess maybe if you were a kid, you

remembered it and you were like, Oh, you know,

I got to make sure I watch this week. But as

a kid, I feel that I probably missed a lot of

the parts. I didn't get the entire story because

if you're showing part one, one week and then

part two, another week and part three the next

week, I mean, it's hard to keep up. with as a

kid and there was a ton of two or three partners

I think 1 2 3 4 I'm just counting for you right

now 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 at least

33 34 35 at least about 35 of the shows were

split into two to three parts So that kind of

takes away from it as a kid because usually you

probably wanted to see the whole story all in

one one foul swoop I imagine these were all filmed

as in one one swoop But then they broke them

down to stretch the show out and give you something

to watch every Saturday morning I mean, I guess

they maybe were stretching for content at times

and they didn't have enough to fill their schedule

so they broke all these into different parts

and you only had a half hour block so that's

you know mostly stories are hour or hour and

a half long stories broken into individual half

hour blocks but I think the one positive about

this show was the variety you definitely had

a unique variety of stuff you didn't know what

you're gonna get I mean unless you knew part

two or part three of a of a topic or a story

was coming up You know, from week to week you

didn't quite know what you were going to get.

You basically tuned in and OG Readmore introduced

you to whatever the topic of the day was or the

story of the day was. And then you delve into

that world it was very much like you know the

opening sequence is kind of allude to you were

some you know emerging yourself into the world

of the book and becoming part of that world and

the characters and everything like that and You

know you couldn't really have too many expectations

You didn't know what you're gonna get so some

episodes you might have liked some episodes you

might not have liked as much But it was an adventure

every time every weekend, and you know you gotta

give him credit for that you know it was competing

against a whole bunch of saturday morning cartoons

for the most part until the nineties where it

probably did a lot better when cartoons kinda

got the axe but it definitely had its spot and

it definitely has a special spot in my heart

as i remember watching it but there's no sense

in me trying to delve into each and every story

that that took place but that would just bore

the heck out of you guys so the theme song was

you know The title sequences were cool. They

did their job and the topics and the variety

are cool. The acting is hit or miss. The acting

in this, I mean you did have some real legit

actors like I named off earlier, but you also

had a bunch of one -time actors or people that

were trying to get their break that maybe never

had appeared in anything before or maybe never

appear in anything after. So the acting is a

little hit or miss. I will give you that much,

but... The writing is good. The stories are good,

and I'm gonna give you something in the next

segment that should prove to you about the writing

The writing is top -notch in this episode so

the writing is definitely one of the good parts

And with that I think we will close out the good

the bad and the ugly of the ABC weekend specials

and move on to our next segment What is that

again? Things that make you go hmm That's right.

It's time for a couple things that you might

not know about ABC weekend specials Although

I'm assuming that a lot of this for everybody

is stuff that you don't know But um one thing

that I didn't know is that there was a number

of different presenters that introduced these

stories and Began the show beginning in 1979

the series was hosted by Michael Young who served

as host of the show for two seasons so he was

not around for a great deal of time. And I absolutely

do not remember him at all. Apparently he had

a 25 year entertainment career. He was recognized,

he was an Emmy Award winner. ABC's Kids Are People

2, ESPN Sports, Young Talent Time, CBS's Miss

Teen USA. So yeah, I mean, I don't recognize

him at any of that stuff, but he did it for two

years. And then we had 1981 Willie Tyler took

over. Willie Tyler was an African -American ventriloquist,

comedian, actor, whatever you want to call it.

He first appeared in Rowan and Martin's Laugh

-In. He was born in 1940, so he would have been,

you know... Well in bottomless prime when this

show started and he and his puppet Lester took

over as co -host of the series in 1981 now they

appeared in the opening segment introducing The

week's episode as well as the ending segment

wrapping up the show and he would often Recommend

the book that that week's episode had been based

on to the viewers. So he was there in about 1981

be until og read more took over And OG Readmore

took over in 1984. So Willie Tyler and his puppet

Lester did it for about three years, 1981 to

1984. And then Captain OG Readmore took over

from 1984 until the end of the run, 1997. He

obviously became the iconic figure of ABC weekend

specials. If anybody remembers anything about

ABC weekend specials, it's Captain OG Readmore.

Another thing you might not know about ABC weekend

specials is that the show featured episodes written

or based on the writings of Mark Twain you had

Mark Evan here who was a current person writing

for the show you had stuff that was written by

or based on books by Judy Bloom and Beverly Cleary

so I mean the writing for this show was top -notch

kids writing they did it right and you know obviously

they were doing it to recommend some of these

books afterwards so that kind of goes hand -in

-hand. And the third thing you might not know

about ABC Weekend Specials is it got 12 daytime

Emmy nominations and it won six of them. So it

was nominated in total for about 18 and won six

of them. So 12 singular nominations, six wins.

It also got nominated for Peabody Awards, Young

Artist Awards. all kinds of different awards

that it got nominated and won for, and like most

educational kid stuff, it got its props. So those

are the three things that I didn't know about

ABC Weekend Specials. We're actually going to

skip the where are they now section since it's

more just cameos, voice work, and guest spots.

So we're going to take a quick break and you're

going to hear some of the OG Read More public

service announcements as well as some other retro

goodness and some GeekCast radio commercials.

So stick with us and we'll be right back after

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thanks for sticking with us, everybody. Hope

you enjoyed that commercial break and maybe learned

a thing or two. Basically, at this point in the

show, we usually tell you how you can get your

hands on some of whatever the topic is, this

time ABC Weekend Specials, and how you can watch

the show. It's very sad this week because, unfortunately,

the ABC Weekend Specials has not survived too

much as far as... ways that you can watch it.

There are no DVDs for the ABC weekend specials

at this point, so it's not gonna be available

on Netflix, it's not gonna be available on iTunes.

The only way for you to get a glimpse of what

the ABC weekend specials are like is either number

one dig your old VHS tapes that you taped them

on out or find someone that did or go on to old

trusty YouTube. in which you will see, you can

get some intro videos, you can see the opening

sequence, especially the most classic one, I

think it does have some of the 90s ones on there

as well. So you can see the intro, you can see

what O .G. Readmore looked like, you can hear

him do his thing, and you can actually see a

few episodes. There is at least one full three

-part episode on there, and there is clips here

and there of other stuff, but there is one specific,

I believe it's called the Riddle room There's

another word in there the red riddle room Maybe

that you the red room riddle from 1983 season

6 And it has a broken down into that was just

a one parter But obviously on YouTube it's broken

into like two or three parts and you can see

that whole one It's not going to give you a great

Synopsis of what ABC weekend specials was all

about it's going to give you one specific episode

out of over 130. So it's not a good barometer

on how good or bad the show was, but at least

you can see that episode. You can't really see

a lot of the animation by searching for ABC weekend

specials, but if you search for some of the actual

episode titles, you might be able to find little

bits here and there that did appear on the ABC

weekend special. So unfortunately you are stuck

with YouTube as your only option and there's

not a ton of available on YouTube. You really

have to be able to do some searching and know

what to type in to find what you want to find

outside of that red room riddle, which you can

watch in its entirety. So this is the point where

we use pull out the IGN replacement crew and

try to do a better job than they do of ranking

things and out of the one through four stars

for the ABC weekend specials I'm going to have

to give this a two with an asterisk. Two means

I love the show back in the day but I really

don't have any desire to watch it again and the

thing I don't have a desire to watch now is the

live action because that's something that could

really only appeal to you in that time period

and when you are a kid because it's dated, it's

stylistic to that time period so It's really

not going to appeal to you now, but I put the

asterisk next to it because I would like a collection

of all of the animation that appeared on the

ABC weekend special on a DVD set. That would

be cool to be able to see all the different animated

works I did so I could hear. all my favorite

voice actors doing their thing and all those

other epic ones that they're listed there that

would be cool to have a collection of just the

animation from the ABC weekend specials because

that's the part I really don't remember as well

and it takes some digging to find on YouTube

so I would like to watch it that way but I'll

give it a two out of four stars on this one so

that does it for this week's episode I'd like

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We hope we succeeded in entertaining you, informing

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knocking on the door Ringing you on the phone

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notch and really get crazy for these last two

episodes of the block I Just got to simply say

in the next episode Well, hey Vern, it's Ernest

for now I'm your host optimus solo hoping that

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