12 Amazing After School Specials

Classes are starting again, which means young people are ready to learn important life lessons.

• 1. My Dad Lives In A Downtown Hotel

  Can Joey learn to cope with his parents' divorce?

• 2. Tattle: When To Tell On A Friend

  Cocaine: It can kill a friendship.

• 3. Summer Switch

  It's nothing but trouble when a father and son's wishes come true and they trade places for the summer!

• 4. Which Mother Is Mine?

  Alex tries to transcend the agony of being a foster child (starring Little House on the Prairie's Melissa Sue Anderson).

• 5. Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy

  "We can hitch a ride, we'll be there in no time." Uh-oh.

• 6. Two Loves For Jenny

  How will she ever decide between her violin and her boyfriend?

• 7. A Desperate Exit

  The editing at the beginning of this is straight up bizarre.

• 8. A Secret Between Friends

  AKA, "When friendship kills," AKA "Secret Vomiting"

• 9. The Best Little Girl In The World

  One of several anorexia specials that begins with a running scene. Starring Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh, with a cameo by Ally Sheedy and directed by Aaron Spelling.

• 10. Schoolboy Father

  An excerpt from the 1980 special about teen pregnancy, starring a very young Rob Lowe and Dana Plato.

• 11. Ace Hits The Big Time

  Don't join gangs! (Ends in a dance fight.)

• 12. Summer's End

  Girls can play baseball, too!