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1. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: Just Pals (1982)

48 min | Drama, Romance

A 13-year-old boy finds it hard to continue his friendship with the neighborhood tomboy, who is beginning to become more ladylike.

Director: Randa Haines | Stars: Heather McAdam, Byron Thames, Arthur Peterson, Sandy Lipton

2. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: The Shooting (1982)

45 min | Drama, Romance

Three farms boys are involved in a hunting accident, and find that their lives will be changed forever.

Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Gavin Muir, Wil Wheaton, Lynn Redgrave

Votes: 17

3. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Hear Me Cry (1984)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two high school sophomores decide to make a suicide pact.

Director: Joanna Lee | Stars: Robert MacNaughton, Lee Montgomery, Elinor Donahue, Bibi Besch

Votes: 30

4. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Babies Having Babies (1986)

56 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Martin Sheen | Stars: Akosua Busia, Renée Estevez, Lori Loughlin, Claudia Wells

Votes: 46

5. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Little Miss Perfect (1987)

45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Upset over having to move to a new neighborhood, a teenage girl develops bulimia as a way to cope with her problems.

Director: Marsha Mason | Stars: Diane Baker, Mary Tanner Bailey, Pat Petersen, April Lerman

Votes: 31

6. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: An Enemy Among Us (1987)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Danny Nucci, Dee Wallace, Stephen Macht, Robin Gammell

Votes: 37

7. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: The Girl with the Crazy Brother (1990)

Not Rated | 44 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Diane Keaton | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Billy Jayne, John Apicella, Jordan Brady

Votes: 33

8. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Two Teens and a Baby (1992)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: David J. Eagle | Stars: James Calvert, Robert Picardo, Sandy Faison, Maureen Flannigan

Votes: 13

9. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: The Emancipation of Lizzie Stern (1991)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Susan Rohrer | Stars: Tammy Lauren, Karen Valentine, Stephen Brown, Dennis Parlato

Votes: 23

10. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Gangs (1988)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño | Stars: David Labiosa, Gabriel Gonzales, Raymond Cruz, Panchito Gómez

Votes: 18

11. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: I Think I'm Having a Baby (1981)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Laurie is 15 and she thinks she's pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't care. Her mother doesn't know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Shawn Stevens, Samantha Paris, Shane Sinutko

Votes: 64

12. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Welcome Home, Jellybean (1984)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, and try to give her a home life.

Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Dana Hill, Deborah May, Burke Byrnes, Christopher Collet

Votes: 40

13. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: The War Between the Classes (1985)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno | Stars: Kale Browne, Jan Gan Boyd, Don Michael Paul, Robert Ito

Votes: 30

14. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: My Past Is My Own (1989)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Helaine Head | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Phill Lewis, Allison Dean, CCH Pounder

Votes: 35

15. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: American Eyes (1990)

30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Herb Stein | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Brian Krause, David Ogden Stiers, Concetta Tomei

Votes: 18

16. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: But He Loves Me (1991)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Strathford Hamilton | Stars: Kelli Williams, Donovan Leitch Jr., Douglas Barr, Season Hubley

Votes: 99

17. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: Year of the Gentle Tiger (1979)

Drama, Romance

Asian teen is determined to win his father's respect by winning the gold medal in Judo at the Junior Olympics.

Director: Dennis Kane | Stars: Keenan Shimizu, Anthony Candell, Jeff Edmond, Henry Calvert

Votes: 6

18. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: Help Wanted (1982)

60 min | Drama, Romance

The Welsh family is hit hard when the father is laid off from his factory job, and there are no jobs in sight.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Kevin Dobson, Dee Wallace, Melanie Gaffin, K.C. Martel

19. CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (1980–1982)
Episode: The Haunting of Harrington House (1981)

Family, Mystery

A young woman who lives in a supposedly haunted house finds that her camera is picking up images of ghosts, and soon strange spirits begin to appear to her.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Dominique Dunne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Edie Adams, Phil Leeds

Votes: 48

20. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: God, the Universe & Hot Fudge Sundaes (1986)

51 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Leslie Hill | Stars: Roxana Zal, Millie Perkins, Jim Haynie, Melanie Gaffin

Votes: 15

21. CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (1980–1982)
Episode: The Zertigo Diamond Caper (1982)

Family, Mystery

Blind 12-year old is determined to clear his mother's name, when she is suspected of stealing a 564-carat white Zertigo diamond from a museum where she works.

Director: Paul Asselin | Stars: Adam Rich, Jane Elliot, David Groh, Scanlon Gail

Votes: 11

22. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Frog Girl: The Jenifer Graham Story (1989)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Harry Longstreet | Stars: Kerrie Keane, Ellen Dunning, Mitchell Laurance, Michael Greene

Votes: 21

23. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Home Sweet Homeless (1988)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Linda Kelsey, Rossie Harris, Kelley Dunn, Chance Michael Corbitt

Votes: 14

24. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: 15 and Getting Straight (1989)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Joanna Lee | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Corey Feldman, Dante Basco, Monica Calhoun

Votes: 58

25. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Big Boys Don't Cry (1993)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: James Becket | Stars: Jason Wiles, Robert Pine, Miko Hughes, Darleen Carr

Votes: 35

26. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Crosses on the Lawn (1993)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Alan L. Gansberg | Stars: Rugg Williams, Justin Whalin, Michael Warren, Nick Angotti

Votes: 10

27. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Have You Tried Talking to Patty? (1986)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Mary Vreeland, Michael Durrell, Khrystyne Haje, Joseph Mascolo

Votes: 18

28. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: No Means No (1988)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Jeffrey Auerbach | Stars: Chad Lowe, Dana Barron, Lori Loughlin, Bonnie Bedelia

Votes: 44

29. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story (1984)

46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Anne Gee Byrd, Estee Chandler, Robert Chestnut, Timothy Gibbs

Votes: 40

30. CBS Library (1979–1983)
Episode: The Incredible Book Escape (1980)

60 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Young girl is locked at the library after it closes. Soon after, four storybook characters come to life in front of her.

Directors: Seth Pinsker, Sam Weiss | Stars: Quinn Cummings, Ruth Buzzi, Penelope Sudrow, George Gobel

Votes: 26

31. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: The Drug Knot (1986)

Unrated | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Anson Williams | Stars: David Toma, Mary Ellen Trainor, Lawrence Pressman, David Faustino

Votes: 34

32. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Student Court (1985)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Robert Chenault | Stars: Katy Kurtzman, Garin Bougié, Eric Brown, Julie Dolan

33. CBS Library (1979–1983)
Episode: Wrong Way Kid (1983)

Animation, Adventure, Family

Insecure boy begins to develop his self-confidence after meeting a 203-year-old bookworm.

Directors: Lawrence Levy, Sam Weiss | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Keith Coogan, Derek Barton, June Foray

Votes: 13

34. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: Revenge of the Nerd (1983)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Class brain Bertram Cummings is tired of being picked on at school. He decides to use his brainpower to exact revenge against his tormentors.

Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Manny Jacobs, Chris Barnes, Sara Inglis, Robert Weiler

Votes: 29

35. CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (1980–1982)
Episode: Dirkham Detective Agency (1983)

60 min | Family, Mystery

Three preteens open up a detective agency. Their first case involves two poodles that have been 'dog napped'.

Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Bobby Fite, Mara Hobel, Leo O'Brien, Sally Kellerman

36. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: The Day the Senior Class Got Married (1985)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Sandy Tung | Stars: Paul Dooley, Robin Morse, Steve Monarque, Johann Carlo

Votes: 51

37. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Lies of the Heart (1991)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Barra Grant | Stars: Christopher Rydell, Charles Frank, Jennifer Gatti, Natasha Pavlovich

Votes: 21

38. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Maggie's Secret (1990)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Al Waxman | Stars: Mimi Kuzyk, Joseph Bottoms, Joanne Vannicola, Nathaniel Moreau

Votes: 10

39. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Soldier Boys (1987)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Daniel Taplitz | Stars: James Earl Jones, William McNamara, Dylan Walsh, Frank Whaley

Votes: 20

40. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Words to Live By (1989)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Bradley Wigor | Stars: Chris Gartin, Ricky Paull Goldin, Amy Benedict, Michael Fairman

Votes: 8

41. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Ace Hits the Big Time (1985)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Robert C. Thompson | Stars: Rob Stone, Karen Petrasek, Kelly Britt, John DiSanti

Votes: 33

42. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Juvi (1987)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Joanna Lee | Stars: Traci Lind, Theresa Saldana, Mariclare Costello, Khrystyne Haje

Votes: 9

43. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: All the Kids Do It (1984)

49 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Henry Winkler | Stars: Scott Baio, George Dzundza, Jeremy Licht, Frances Lee McCain

Votes: 26

44. CBS Library (1979–1983)
Episode: A Tale of Four Wishes (1981)

Animation, Adventure, Family

Girl learns important life lessons from her grandfather, after wishing she had a more exciting life.

Directors: Seth Pinsker, Sam Weiss | Stars: Ricky Nelson, Tracey Gold, Bibi Osterwald, Judy Farrell

Votes: 11

45. CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (1980–1982)
Episode: Mystery at Fire Island (1981)

60 min | Family, Mystery

Two youngsters are determined to undercover the truth, when an old neighbor disappears without a trace.

Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Beth Ehlers, Eric Gurry, Barbara Bryne, Frank Converse

Votes: 11

46. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: Gambler (1988)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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

Director: Roger Singer | Stars: Nicholas Kallsen, Jill Schoelen, Troy Winbush, George Dzundza

Votes: 13

47. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: The Great Gilly Hopkins (1981)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Unwanted foster child is bounced around the system as she looks for a home.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Tricia Cast, Conchata Ferrell, Edith Atwater, Tyne Daly

Votes: 18

48. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: Portrait of a Teenage Shoplifter (1981)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Teenager becomes involves in the thrill of shoplifting with her friends, until she is inevitably caught in the act.

Director: William P. D'Angelo | Stars: Maureen Teefy, Allen Fawcett, Laura Dean, Katherine Kamhi

Votes: 29