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"CBS Afternoon Playhouse" The Great Gilly Hopkins (1981)
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"CBS Afternoon Playhouse" (1980)Original Air Date:
9 January 1981 (Season 2, Episode 1)Plot:
Unwanted foster child is bounced around the system as she looks for a home. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Episode Credited cast) | Tricia Cast | ... | Gilly Hopkins |
| Conchata Ferrell | ... | Mamie Trotter |
| Edith Atwater | ... | Mrs. Rutherford |
| Tyne Daly | ... | Catherine Ellis |
| Joel Fluellen |
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Though only an hour long, this adaptation of Katherine Patterson's youth novel is rather entertaining. Jodie Foster, though doing her patented "troubled teen" role, runs the emotional gamut as a kid who tells lies to avoid facing reality. Her foster family (though not credited, Mrs. Trotter has a geeky little boy who serves as Gilly's punching bag/confidant) I have not seen this in a long time (not since Nickelodeon dropped their "Special Delivery" programming of old school favorites like "Really Rosie" and "The Electric Grandmother.) It is a little dated, and there is room for it to be remade (especially depending on the success of "The Bridge to Terabithia.")