The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

The ninety-minute dramas aired once a month and featured some of the more popular television and film stars of the 1970s (Diana Hyland, Bradford Dillman, Patty Duke, Diane Baker, David Hedison).

[1] Season 1 Season 2 The series was preempted in December 1973 for the pilot of ABC's Matinee Today, another dramatic anthology series.

The pilot ran daily for five days, but never returned to the ABC schedule.

The five episodes are frequently listed as part of The ABC Afternoon Playbreak.

[2] The 14 episodes of these two related anthologies won 18 Daytime Emmy Awards and were nominated an additional 16 times.