After School Specials: 1976-1977 DVD Set
After School Specials - Francesca Baby / Beat the Turtle Drum Martin Tahse is the most prolific and successful producer of After School Specials. His 26 productions have won numerous awards and prizes including 18 Emmys three Blue Ribbons in the American Film Festival the Peabody Award and First Second and Third Prize in the Chicago Film Festival in the same year - an honor which has never since been matched. His original contributions remain important to today's young and adult audiences. "Francesca Baby" - Francesca (Carol Jones) and her younger sister Kate (Tara Talboy) live in constant embarrassment with their alcoholic mother (Melendy Britt). When their mother falls asleep in bed with a lighted cigarette endangering the lives of the girls the outcome between Francesca and her mother is both dramatic and revealingly true. "Beat the Turtle Drum" - For her birthday Joss (Katy Kurtzman) is given a horse for a week. She and her older sister Kate (Melissa Sue Anderson) go out with the horse and tie it up so they can climb and play in a tree. Kate is devastated when Joss accidentally falls and is killed. Desolate and fearing the might have been able to save her sister Kate goes on a search to come to grips with the tragedy. After School Specials - Pinballs The / Trouble River Martin Tahse is the most prolific and successful producer of After School Specials. His 26 productions have won numerous awards and prizes including 18 Emmys three Blue Ribbons in the American Film Festival the Peabody Award and First Second and Third Prize in the Chicago Film Festival in the same year - an honor which has never since been matched. His original contributions remain important to today's young and adult audiences. "The Pinballs" - Three kids each with both haunting and often humorous backgrounds form a friendship while in a foster home.