ABC Weekend Special Season 5: 1981 - 1982

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The ABC Weekend Special was a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997, and was generally known in my home as "The last chance to see some cartoons before American Bandstand. It featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated.

The 1981/1982 season was the fifth season of this show overall, and featured many re-runs of the past 4 seasons mixed with the new half-hour episodes:

• "The Puppy Saves The Circus", featuring the increasingly popular character of "The Puppy" and his friends saving a circus
• "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", an adaptation of the classic Mark Twain short story
• "Bunnicula", which I have embedded above, the story of a vampire bunny
• "Miss Switch To The Rescue" parts 1 and 2, the second Weekend Special to feature the popular Miss Switch character
• "The Joke's On Mister Little", a story of two boys who play pranks on the titular Mister Little (and NOT the first episode of "The Littles")