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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13
Year: 1984  |  1985  |  1986  |  1987  |  1988  |  1989  |  1990  |  1991  |  1992  |  1993  |  1994  |  1995  |  1996

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Dead Wrong: The John Evans Story

Original Air Date—24 January 1984
Convicted of murder and set for execution, John Evans tells his story to the prison chaplain.

Season 1, Episode 2: Welcome Home, Jellybean

Original Air Date—27 March 1984
A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old retarded girl, who's parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, in order to try to give her a home life.

Season 1, Episode 3: All the Kids Do It

Original Air Date—24 April 1984
A teenage boy (played by Baio) suffers the consequences of drinking and driving.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School of Rules and Regulations

Original Air Date—12 June 1984
Teenagers from diverse backgrounds experience their freshman year in High School.

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Hear Me Cry

Original Air Date—16 October 1984
Two high school sophomores decide to make a suicide pact.

Season 2, Episode 2: Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story

Original Air Date—11 December 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.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Exchange Student

Original Air Date—22 January 1985
Teenager from India comes to the US to live with her American 'sister'.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Day the Senior Class Got Married

Original Air Date—5 March 1985
Students are paired off in a make-believe marriage class, so they can learn how money problems can affect a marriage.

Season 2, Episode 5: Ace Hits the Big Time

Original Air Date—2 April 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.

Season 2, Episode 6: Student Court

Original Air Date—23 April 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.

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: The War Between the Classes

Original Air Date—22 October 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.

Season 3, Episode 2: Have You Tried Talking to Patty?

Original Air Date—14 January 1986
Wanting to be accepted by others at school, a hearing-impaired teenager attempts to change her image.

Season 3, Episode 3: Babies Having Babies

Original Air Date—28 January 1986
Five pregnant teenage girls meet up at a group counseling session and begin to discuss their situation and feelings amongst each other.

Season 3, Episode 4: God, the Universe & Hot Fudge Sundaes

Original Air Date—1 April 1986
Teenage girl begins to question her religion after her sister is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: The Drug Knot

Original Air Date—10 September 1986
High school teen is heavily addicted to drugs and can't seem to stop, until he is faced with a tragedy.

Season 4, Episode 2: Little Miss Perfect

Original Air Date—13 January 1987
Upset over having to move to a new neighborhood, a teenage girl develops bulimia as a way to cope with her problems.

Season 4, Episode 3: My Dissident Mom

Original Air Date—14 January 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

Season 4, Episode 4: The Day They Came to Arrest the Book

Original Air Date—27 January 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.

Season 4, Episode 5: What If I'm Gay?

Original Air Date—31 March 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.

Season 4, Episode 6: Juvi

Original Air Date—21 April 1987
After being falsely accused of theft by her stepfather, a teenage girl is arrested and placed in juvenile hall.

Season 4, Episode 7: An Enemy Among Us

Original Air Date—21 July 1987
Teen-ager is stunned to discover that he has contracted the AIDS virus after having a blood transfusion.

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: Soldier Boys

Original Air Date—20 October 1987
Detective investigates a club where teenage boys play war games, but start taking their fantasies into the real world.

Season 5, Episode 2: Never Say Goodbye

Original Air Date—12 January 1988
After her grandmother is pronounced brain-dead following a stroke, a teenage girl must make the painful decision whether to continue life support.

Season 5, Episode 3: Home Sweet Homeless

Original Air Date—29 March 1988
After a series of bad luck, a single mother and her sons become homeless and are forced to live in their car.

Season 5, Episode 4: Gangs

Original Air Date—19 April 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.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: No Means No

Original Air Date—18 October 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.

Season 6, Episode 2: Gambler

Original Air Date—6 December 1988
17-year-old boy is addicted to gambling, and soon it starts to take over his life.

Season 6, Episode 3: Words to Live By

Original Air Date—10 January 1989
Two teenage boys are suspended from school after distributing an underground newspaper on campus.

Season 6, Episode 4: My Past Is My Own

Original Air Date—24 January 1989
Two black teenagers are sent through time to experience how blacks were treated during the civil rights movement.

Season 6, Episode 5: 15 and Getting Straight

Original Air Date—28 March 1989
Drug addiction treatment center for teenagers where the counselors are ex-addicts themselves.

Season 6, Episode 6: A Matter of Conscience

Original Air Date—11 April 1989
Teenage boy is stunned when his Grandfather's Nazi past comes to light.

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 1: The Frog Girl

Original Air Date—17 October 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.

Season 7, Episode 2: Flour Babies

Original Air Date—16 January 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.

Season 7, Episode 3: The Girl with the Crazy Brother

Original Air Date—30 January 1990
Teenage girl struggles to cope when her brother is diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.

Season 7, Episode 4: American Eyes

Original Air Date—27 March 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.

Season 7, Episode 5: Maggie's Secret

Original Air Date—10 April 1990
15-year-old girl comes to grips with the fact both of her parents have a drinking problem.

Season 7, Episode 6: Malcolm Takes a Shot

Original Air Date—24 April 1990
Teenage athlete is in denial about his epilepsy, as he tries to achieve super-stardom on the basketball court.

Season 8

Season 8, Episode 1: The Fourth Man

Original Air Date—16 October 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.

Season 8, Episode 2: Lies of the Heart

Original Air Date—8 January 1991
High school senior is involved in a hit and run and is forced to deal with the consequences.

Season 8, Episode 3: The Emancipation of Lizzie Stern

Original Air Date—22 January 1991
After her mother announces her plans to move the family to another state, a 16-year-old girl decides to seek legal emancipation.

Season 8, Episode 4: But He Loves Me

Original Air Date—6 March 1991
Teenage girl starts dating the most popular boy in school and for a while everything is wonderful, until he start being violent towards her.

Season 8, Episode 5: Abby, My Love

Original Air Date—2 April 1991
Teenage boy tries to help a girl who is being sexually abused at home.

Season 9

Season 9, Episode 1: Dedicated to the One I Love

Original Air Date—22 October 1991
Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her deceased boyfriend was exposed to the AIDS virus.

Season 9, Episode 2: Two Teens and a Baby

Original Air Date—21 January 1992
Two teenage brothers are stunned when their mother announces that she is pregnant.

Season 9, Episode 3: 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth

Original Air Date—10 March 1992
Special featuring 50 things young people can do to save the earth.

Season 9, Episode 4: Please, God, I'm Only Seventeen

Original Air Date—24 March 1992
In this story about learning not to take life for granted, Steve, a teenager, loses his best friend in a car accident.

Season 9, Episode 5: Different Worlds: A Story of Interracial Love

Original Air Date—7 April 1992
Two teens from racially different background begin a relationship after witnessing the murder of a mutual friend.

Season 10

Season 10, Episode 1: Sexual Considerations

Original Air Date—20 October 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.

Season 10, Episode 2: Words Up!

Original Air Date—1 December 1992
Illiterate 25-year-old decides to return to high school by posing as a teenager so he can learn how to read.

Season 10, Episode 3: Love Off Limits

Original Air Date—19 January 1993
Two students cry censorship when the school asks them to edit out portions of their film which are deemed 'inappropriate'

Season 10, Episode 4: Big Boys Don't Cry

Original Air Date—9 March 1993
A high-school wrestler suspects his uncle is molesting his little brother, which forces painful memories of his own abuse to surface.

Season 10, Episode 5: Crosses on the Lawn

Original Air Date—13 April 1993
A community begins to take sides when an affirmative action program is introduced.

Season 11

Season 11, Episode 1: Other Mothers

Original Air Date—12 October 1993
Teenage boy, who has been raised by a lesbian couple, must contend with the conservative views of his new school.

Season 11, Episode 2: If I Die Before I Wake

Original Air Date—26 October 1993
High school students are left to pick up the pieces when the entire track team is killed in an airplane crash.

Season 11, Episode 3: Love in the Dark Ages

Original Air Date—15 March 1994
Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her boyfriend has given her an STD.

Season 11, Episode 4: Same Difference

Original Air Date—12 April 1994
Two teens from different cultural backgrounds face opposition from their parents when they begin to date.

Season 12

Season 12, Episode 1: The Writing on the Wall

Original Air Date—11 October 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.

Season 12, Episode 2: My Summer as a Girl

Original Air Date—25 October 1994
Desperate for a summer job, a teenage boy decides to masquerade as a girl to land a job as a chambermaid.

Season 12, Episode 3: What About Your Friends

Original Air Date—24 January 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.

Season 12, Episode 4: Kids Killing Kids

Original Air Date—7 March 1995
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.

Season 12, Episode 5: Between Mother and Daughter

Original Air Date—11 April 1995
Teenage girl has trouble dealing with the fact her mother has breast cancer.

Season 12, Episode 6: Stand Up

Original Air Date—30 May 1995
Teenager wants to be a stand-up comic and go on tour, despite her father's objection.

Season 13

Season 13, Episode 1: My Indian Summer

Original Air Date—24 October 1995
Native American teenager decides to learn more about her culture by spending the summer on the Indian Reservation where her mother was born.

Season 13, Episode 2: Children Remember the Holocaust

Original Air Date—19 December 1995
Keanu Reeves hosts this special where celebrities narrate letters, diaries, and published stories of children who have lived through the Holocaust.

Season 13, Episode 3: Crosstown

Original Air Date—23 January 1996
When her parents split up, a teenage girl must move out of the suburbs and into the big city.

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