CBS Schoolbreak Special

Jan 24, 1984

Convicted of murder and set for execution, John Evans tells his story to the prison chaplain.

Mar 27, 1984

The story of Geraldine Oxley, a cognitively deficient 12-year-old girl whose parents remove her from the institution where she has been raised in order to give her a normal-as-possible home life.

Apr 24, 1984

A teenage boy (played by Baio) suffers the consequences of drinking and driving.

Jun 12, 1984

Teenagers from diverse backgrounds experience their freshman year in High School.

Oct 16, 1984

Two high school sophomores make a suicide pact.

Dec 11, 1984

True story of high school hockey coach Bob Anastas. After losing two of his all-star hockey players, he gets the students to prevent more tragedies by forming Students Against Drunk Driving.

Jan 22, 1985

Teenager from India comes to the US to live with her American 'sister'.

Mar 5, 1985

Students are paired off in a make-believe marriage class, so they can learn how money problems can affect a marriage.

Apr 2, 1985

On the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join what he believes is the toughest gang at school.

Apr 23, 1985

Teenage girl is caught shoplifting and decides to face a jury of her peers in Student Court, instead of facing her punishment in Juvenile Court.

Oct 22, 1985

Racial discrimination is examined when a social studies teacher assigns his students to play 'The Color Game', which divides the class into different social classes.

Jan 14, 1986

Wanting to be accepted by others at school, a hearing-impaired teenager attempts to change her image.

Jan 28, 1986

Five pregnant teenage girls meet up at a group counseling session and begin to discuss their situation and feelings amongst each other.

Apr 1, 1986

Teenage girl begins to question her religion after her sister is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Sep 10, 1986

High school teen is heavily addicted to drugs such as Cocaine and can't seem to stop, until he is faced with a tragedy.

Jan 13, 1987

Upset over having to move to a new neighborhood and leave her boyfriend and friends, a teenage girl develops bulima as a way t deal with her problems.

Jan 14, 1987

Husband and wife whose conflicting opinions on the use of nuclear weapons threatens to jeopardize not only the husband's impending business deal, but the relationship of the family itself.

Jan 27, 1987

Uncomfortable with racist language in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", a high school student and his parents attempt to get the book removed from the school's library.

Mar 31, 1987

The popular and macho captain of the high-school soccer team is forced to confront his homosexuality, after his buddies discover a male-pornography magazine in his bedroom.

Apr 21, 1987

After being falsely accused of theft by her stepfather, a teenage girl is arrested and placed in juvenile hall.

Jul 21, 1987

A teenager is stunned to discover that he has contracted the AIDS virus after having a blood transfusion.

Oct 20, 1987

Detective investigates a club where teenage boys play war games, but start taking their fantasies into the real world.

Jan 12, 1988

After her grandmother is pronounced brain-dead following a stroke, a teenage girl must make the painful decision whether to continue life support.

Mar 29, 1988

After a series of bad luck, a single mother and her sons become homeless and are forced to live in their car.

Apr 19, 1988

On leave from the army, a 19-year-old returns home to find his kid brother the leader of a gang. A gang he once led.

Oct 18, 1988

The issue of teenage date rape is seen through the eyes of a teenage girl and her older brother, and how it affects their relationships with the opposite sex.

Dec 6, 1988

17-year-old boy is addicted to gambling, and soon it starts to take over his life.

Jan 10, 1989

Two teenage boys are suspended from school after distributing an underground newspaper on campus.

Jan 24, 1989

Two black teenagers are sent through time to experience how blacks were treated during the civil rights movement.

Mar 28, 1989

Drug-addiction treatment center for teenagers where the counselors are ex-addicts themselves.

Apr 11, 1989

Teenage boy is stunned when his Grandfather's Nazi past comes to light.

Oct 17, 1989

A 15-year old school girl refuses to dissect a frog and sues her school district for not allowing her to do an alternative project.

Jan 16, 1990

A group of high school students take part in a parenting class where their assignment is to treat a sack of flour like a new-born baby.

Jan 30, 1990

Teenage girl struggles to cope when her brother is diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.

Mar 27, 1990

Korean boy, who has been adopted by an American family, decides to attend a Korean-American summer camp to learn more about his heritage.

Apr 10, 1990

15-year-old girl comes to grips with the fact both of her parents have a drinking problem.

Apr 24, 1990

Teenage athlete is in denial about his epilepsy, as he tries to achieve super-stardom on the basketball court.

Oct 16, 1990

Wanting to seek his father's approval, a high school student starts using steroids to make the track team. But soon these drugs start to take a toll on his body.

Jan 18, 1991

High school senior is involved in a hit and run and is forced to deal with the consequences.

Jan 22, 1991

After her mother announces her plans to move the family to another state, a 16-year-old girl decides to seek legal emancipation.

Mar 6, 1990

A teenage girl starts dating the most popular boy in school, and everything is wonderful until he starts being violent towards her.

Apr 2, 1991

Teenage boy tries to help a girl who is being sexually abused at home.

Oct 22, 1991

Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her deceased boyfriend was exposed to the AIDS virus.

Jan 21, 1992

Two teenage brothers are stunned when their mother announces that she is pregnant.

Mar 10, 1992

Special featuring 50 things young people can do to save the earth.

Mar 24, 1992

In this story about learning not to take life for granted, Steve, a teenager, loses his best friend in a car accident.

Apr 7, 1992

Two teens from racially different background begin a relationship after witnessing the murder of a mutual friend.

Oct 20, 1992

When a high school girl claims she is being sexually harassed by another student, an in-school court is convened to settle the dispute.

Dec 1, 1992

Illiterate 25-year-old decides to return to high school by posing as a teenager so he can learn how to read.

Jan 19, 1993

Two students cry censorship when the school asks them to edit out portions of their film which are deemed 'inappropriate.'

Mar 9, 1993

A high-school wrestler suspects his uncle is molesting his little brother, which forces painful memories of his own abuse to surface.

Apr 13, 1993

A community begins to take sides when an affirmative action program is introduced.

Oct 12, 1993

Teenage boy, who has been raised by a lesbian couple, must contend with the conservative views of his new school.

Oct 26, 1993

High school students are left to pick up the pieces when the entire track team is killed in an airplane crash.

Mar 8, 1994

A teenager is stunned to discover that her boyfriend has given her an STD.

Apr 12, 1994

Two teens from different cultural backgrounds face opposition from their parents when they begin to date.

Oct 11, 1994

Three teens are caught defacing a rabbi's temple. Instead of punishment, the rabbi suggests 25 hours of Holocaust, Judaism, and tolerance education. Which he would teach.

Oct 25, 1994

Desperate for a summer job, a teenage boy decides to masquerade as a girl to land a job as a chambermaid.

Jan 24, 1995

"What About Your Friends" is a one-hour film that takes a unique look at the senior year successes and failures of three high school girlfriends as they prepare for college.

Apr 26, 1994

Four separate stories are dramatized showing the tragic consequences when teens use guns to solve their problems, and how they can solve the same problem without guns.

Apr 11, 1995

Teenage girl has trouble dealing with the fact her mother has breast cancer.

May 30, 1995

Teenager wants to be a stand-up comic and go on tour, despite her father's objection.

Oct 24, 1995

Native American teenager decides to learn more about her culture by spending the summer on the Indian Reservation where her mother was born.

Dec 19, 1995

Keanu Reeves hosts this special where celebrities narrate letters, diaries, and published stories of children who have lived through the Holocaust.

Jan 23, 1996

When her parents split up, a teenage girl must move out of the suburbs and into the big city.