"Fawn Story" is a 1975 episode of the American television anthology series ABC Afterschool Special, directed by Larry Elikann.

[2] Med Flory, the actor who portrays the children's father in the special, said he was "touched by the story and it takes a lot of guts for people to stand up to authority, and when kids do it, you can't help being impressed".

[3] Farmer John McPhail allows his children Jenna and Toby to nurse a wounded deer.

Their fears are well-founded when the authorities show up to take the doe into custody, shooting it with a tranquilizer dart, which causes the animal to die.

After the doe is killed, the children want to change the law, and organize a letter writing campaign urging changes to the law to allow private citizens to hold wild animals when it is in the best interest of the animal