After School Special
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An After School Special is a genre of children's television. Aimed at teenagers or pre-teens, they were timed to be broadcast as those age-groups returned from school, usually at 4:00 PM (hence the name).
Shows were first aired in 1972 and were typically one-hour in length, and some were aired as multi-part shows.
In the USA, shows aired on the ABC Network were called "After School Specials", while those that aired on CBS were actually called Schoolbreak Specials. The name of the ABC shows is often used to describe the entire genre. Both networks tended to use the young stars of their primetime shows in the specials.
After School Specials tended to present life and moral lessons, and were often taped and shown in high school classrooms. While some After School Specials were well regarded by educators, the genre as a whole has a reputation for kitschy melodrama, not unlike the classroom "scare" films of the 1950s, prompting the release of some episodes on DVD.
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External links
Review (http://www.tvdvdreviews.com/after74.html) of a DVD collection of ABC After School Specials.
A listing of ABC After School Specials (http://www.nndb.com/lists/992/000092716/)
After School Special is also a music tape by Marilyn Manson.
This tape has 4 tracks on it which are:
- Negative 3
- Lunchbox
- Choklit Factory
- Cyclops.
The version of Lunchbox is the original version of the song so it is different from the one on Portrait Of An American Family.