January 29, 1977–August 1990 | The Pop-Up Book
The original opening, designed and animated by Rick Reinert Studios, consisted of a stack of books on a library desk accompanied by a rhythmic disco theme tune in the background. A larger book in the middle of the display magically opens, with the ABC logo printed on the first page. Various figures from literature and intertitles pop up from out of the book. The intertitles read Children's Novels for Television and Short Story Specials respectively. The series title "blossoms" into view at the end of the intro.
This was the longest running umbrella sequence in the show's broadcast history. |
September 1990–September 1994 | Reading is Magic
With a new decade comes a new visual sequence and theme song. For this package, Weekend Specials combined computer animation with live action elements, as neighborhood kids discover the wonders of reading with a turn of a page and a little bit of magic. When the enchanted books are open, the readers become part of the story...from cowboys to undersea explorers to cave kids. One of the books magically grows and flips open, with Cap'n O. G. Readmore ushering the readers for fun and adventure.
This opener was animated by San Diego-based American Film Technologies, with key animation by comic book artist Terrie Smith. |
September 1994–August 30, 1997 | Adventures in Reading
During the mid-1990s, the graphics package was again updated. This CGI opener takes place back at the library, where we pan through a row of books. The camera stops at a book with the ABC Circle signature printed on the side. The logo then magically pops out and grows arms and legs and leaps to a book on a nearby desk. It opens the book and dives into an array of worlds and universes inhabited by letters! The Circle figure fights off combatants at a medieval castle, swings a vine in the jungle and flies through the solar system in its spacecraft. The Circle figure ends its journey on the front cover of a book with the show's title beside it. |
| Closing Credits
The closing sequence varied over the years. In the 1970s and 1980s, a short version of the theme played as a bookmark floats into view, gently landing in the closing Pop-Up Book. An intertitle fades in: "Recommended by the National Education Association". The NEA intertitle was used until c. 1983. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 1 | Valentine's Second Chance | 1977.Jan.29 | ABC Circle Films | A safecracker receives a second chance at freedom when he risks arrest to open a time-locked safe to save the life of a young boy named Joe Willie. |
| 2 | The Haunted Trailer | 1977.Mar.26 | ABC Circle Films | Sharon and Mickey are teenage sisters who discover that their motor home is haunted by four pesky male ghosts and join forces in their efforts to rid their home of the unwanted guests. |
| 3 | My Dear Uncle Sherlock | 1977.Apr.16 | ABC Circle Films | A 12-year-old amateur sleuth teams with his detective uncle to find the culprit who robbed a wealthy old recluse. |
| 4 | Homer and the Wacky Doughnut Machine | 1977.Apr.30 | ABC Circle Films | Homer, a mechanically-inclined young boy, invents an automatic doughnut making machine to help save his uncle's faltering coffee shop. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 5 | The Winged Colt | 1977.Sep.10 | ABC Circle Films | Uncle Coot, a former movie stuntman and ranch owner and his nephew Charles become the owners of a colt born with wings. |
| 6 | The Winged Colt | 1977.Sep.17 | ABC Circle Films | Uncle Coot refuses to believe the colt can fly, but Charles is convinced that it will. |
| 7 | The Winged Colt | 1977.Sep.24 | ABC Circle Films | When the winged colt disappears again, Charles goes in pursuit and runs into an old hermit who claims he has seen Comet fly. |
| 8 | The Ransom of Red Chief | 1977.Oct.22 | ABC Circle Films | Two inept con men kidnap a financier's son – a mischievous boy who calls himself Red Chief – and request a large ransom for his return, but the boy turns the tables on his captors. |
| 9 | Portrait of Grandpa Doc | 1977.Nov.05 | Phoenix Films | A young artist prepares a tribute to his loving grandfather, a man who encouraged him to pursue his dreams. |
| 10 | Trouble River | 1977.Nov.12 | Martin Tahse Productions | A young boy and his grandmother ride a makeshift raft down a dangerous river to escape from a group of renegades. |
| 11 | Trouble River | 1977.Nov.19 | Martin Tahse Productions | |
| 12 | Tales of the Nunundaga | 1977.Nov.26 | 20th Century Fox | |
| 13 | Tales of the Nunundaga | 1977.Dec.03 | 20th Century Fox | |
| 14 | The Escape of a One-Ton Pet | 1978.Jan.07 | Tomorrow Entertainment | |
| 15 | The Escape of a One-Ton Pet | 1978.Jan.14 | Tomorrow Entertainment | |
| 16 | The Escape of a One-Ton Pet | 1978.Jan.21 | Tomorrow Entertainment | |
| 17 | Soup and Me | 1978.Feb.04 | ABC Circle Films | The misadventures of two friends, Soup and Rob during one October day: skinny dipping in a chilly pond, dressing up as girls to avoid a bully and destroying a Halloween party with an out-of-control baby carriage carrying a giant pumpkin. |
| 18 | The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy | 1978.May.06 | Ruby-Spears | Petey the puppy goes through a series of harrowing adventures as he sets out to the city to adopt a boy of his own. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 19 | The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody | 1978.Sep.09 | Learning Corporation of America | Joanna Peabody is granted seven wishes by Aunt Thelma, a wise fairy godmother who appears on Joanna's TV screen. Joanna squanders a few wishes before she learns the value of sharing. |
| 20 | The Contest Kid and the Big Prize | 1978.Sep.16 | ABC Circle Films | Harvey Small, a 12-year-old boy enters a contest and wins first prize: the services of a butler named Hawkins for one month. |
| 21 | If I'm Lost, How Come I Found You? | 1978.Sep.30 | ABC Circle Films | |
| 22 | If I'm Lost, How Come I Found You? | 1978.Oct.07 | ABC Circle Films | |
| 23 | The $1,000 Bill | 1978.Oct.28 | ABC Circle Films | An insecure insurance salesman asserts his independence by telling off his boss and quitting his job when he finds a large amount of cash and later discovers he possesses counterfeit 1,000 dollar bills. |
| 24 | Little Lulu | 1978.Nov.04 | ABC Circle Films | Little Lulu, the mischievous little girl with big goals, and her friends crusade for women's rights when the boys object to the fact that their summer camp, Camp Whackadoo, has become co-ed. |
| 25 | Soup for President | 1978.Nov.18 | ABC Circle Films | Soup runs for school president against Janice Riker, the toughest kid in school. |
| 26 | Weep No More, My Lady | 1979.Feb.10 | Ruby-Spears | Skeeter, a young Mississippi boy, adopts a courageous dog named My Lady and together they challenge the dangers of a scary swamp when they are both held prisoner by a vengeful man. |
| 27 | The Horse That Played Centerfield | 1979.Feb.24 | Ruby-Spears | The N.Y. Goats baseball team have not won a game yet, but manager Casey Balloo has a brainstorm – he sends in Oscar, a horse who is very good at catching oranges – to catch flys in center field and figures that the team's playing will improve. Oscar manages to lead the Goats to victory. |
| 28 | The Horse That Played Centerfield | 1979.Mar.03 | Ruby-Spears | With Oscar as a permanent team member, the Goats make it to the World Series. When the Goats win the first three games, Oscar is suddenly "horsenapped" and everyone sets out on a wild hunt to rescue him before the Series is lost. |
| 29 | The Baby with Four Fathers | 1979.Mar.31 | D'Angelo/Bullock/Allen Productions | In 1946 New York City, four 11-year-old boys encounter problems when they find an abandoned baby girl and decide to "adopt" her. |
| 30 | The Puppy's Great Adventure | 1979.May.12 | Ruby-Spears | Petey is determined to prove he is an individual when his new owner is adopted by parents who do not like dogs. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 31 | The Big Hex of Little Lulu | 1979.Sep.15 | ABC Circle Films | Little Lulu uses a fortune teller, pickle-flavored ice cream and her active imagination in a scheme to convince her friend Tubby to donate money for uniforms for the neighborhood hockey team. |
| 32 | The Contest Kid Strikes Again | 1979.Sep.22 | ABC Circle Films | Harvey the contest kid wins a flock of chickens and uses them to help his friend Hawkins out of a financial predicament. |
| 33 | The Girl with ESP | 1979.Oct.20 | ABC Circle Films | Laura Hoffman, a seemingly average young girl, suddenly finds her world turned upside down when she discovers she can envision events a few minutes into the future. |
| 34 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | 1979.Nov.03 | ABC Circle Films | The ghost of a 17th-century sorcerer gets 12-year-old James Harrison into trouble when the boy refuses to become his apprentice. |
| 35 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | 1979.Nov.10 | ABC Circle Films | Irish handyman Bert Ellison volunteers to help James lure the ghost of Thomas Kempe back to its resting place. |
| 36 | The Incredible Detectives | 1979.Nov.17 | Ruby-Spears | A trio of pets – Reggie, a bulldog ; Madame Cheng, a Siamese cat ; and Hennessy, a crow – join forces to rescue their kidnapped master. |
| 37 | The Revenge of Red Chief | 1979.Dec.15 | ABC Circle Films | Two drifters again face Red Chief, the boy who enjoys being kidnapped, who becomes a part of their scheme to sell a fake rain-making machine to a drought-stricken town. |
| 38 | The Puppy's Amazing Rescue | 1980.Jan.26 | Ruby-Spears | Petey and Dolly have to outwit poachers, a hungry bear and a hawk to rescue their humans from an avalanche while celebrating Tommy's birthday at his parents' mountain cabin. |
| 39 | The Gold Bug | 1980.Feb.02 | Highgate Pictures | A young boy joins an ex-slave and a treasure hunter in a wild search for Captain Kidd's buried gold. |
| 40 | The Gold Bug | 1980.Feb.09 | Highgate Pictures | A young boy joins an ex-slave and a treasure hunter in a wild search for Captain Kidd's buried gold. |
| 41 | The Trouble with Miss Switch | 1980.Feb.16 | Ruby-Spears | Rupert Brown and Amelia Daley are classmates who discover that their teacher, Miss Switch, is a witch with a magical talking cat named Bathsheba. |
| 42 | The Trouble with Miss Switch | 1980.Feb.23 | Ruby-Spears | Miss Switch and Bathsheba fly to Witch Mountain with Rupert and Amelia in their plan to stop the wicked witch Saturna, who has condemned Miss Switch and taken control of the Witches' Council. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 43 | Scruffy | 1980.Oct.04 | Ruby-Spears | Scruffy is a lovable puppy struggling to survive in an unfamiliar world where she loses loved ones, battles fiendish foes and learns the value of loyal friends. |
| 44 | Scruffy | 1980.Oct.11 | Ruby-Spears | Scruffy – frightened and freezing – returns alone to the big city and finds an affectionate new master, a ragged but regal Shakespearean street performer named Tibbles. |
| 45 | Scruffy | 1980.Oct.18 | Ruby-Spears | Scruffy meets a tough bulldog named Butch who takes her to join his family of strays who have set up a canine commune in an abandoned station wagon. |
| 46 | Arthur the Kid | 1981.Jan.03 | ABC Circle Films | Three bumbling outlaws who advertise in the Medicine Bow Gazette for a "boss" have their careers redirected when a spunky 10-year-old named Arthur applies for the job. |
| 47 | Zack and the Magic Factory | 1981.Jan.10 | ABC Circle Films | Zack and Jenny are two young people who combine their talents to operate a magic shop. |
| 48 | Zack and the Magic Factory | 1981.Jan.17 | ABC Circle Films | Zack uses a little magic to save his aunt's magic-making factory from the wrecking ball. |
| 49 | Mayday! Mayday! | 1981.Jan.24 | ABC Circle Films | Lou Parker and his family are forced to make a crash landing in the High Sierras. With both parents trapped in the plane's wreckage, young Allison and Mark set out alone to find help. |
| 50 | Mayday! Mayday! | 1981.Jan.31 | ABC Circle Films | The prospects of rescue become increasingly dim as Allison and Mark struggle to elude a pack of wild dogs and encounter a rattlesnake ready to strike. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 51 | The Puppy Saves the Circus | 1981.Sep.12 | Ruby-Spears | Petey, after suffering a memory loss, finds fame as a performer, which saves the fortunes of a struggling family circus. |
| 52 | The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | 1981.Sep.19 | ABC Circle Films | A modern adaptation of the short story by Mark Twain about a young scoundrel who plots to win a frog-jumping contest at all costs. |
| 53 | Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit | 1982.Jan.09 | Ruby-Spears | After a family adopts an abandoned baby rabbit, Bunnicula, mysterious happenings lead the family cat Chester and dog Harold to suspect their new peer is a vampire. |
| 54 | Miss Switch to the Rescue | 1982.Jan.16 | Ruby-Spears | When Amelia is kidnapped by Mordo the warlock, Miss Switch returns to help Rupert rescue his friend. |
| 55 | Miss Switch to the Rescue | 1982.Jan.23 | Ruby-Spears | Saturna the wicked witch is the real power behind this diabolical plot. Amelia begins to fade away and vanishes – a disappearance Miss Switch knows will be permanent, unless Amelia is rescued by nightfall. |
| 56 | The Joke's on Mr. Little | 1982.Feb.06 | ABC Circle Films | An unusual school teacher uses a little creativity to out-trick an inventive pair of pranksters. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 57 | The Haunted Mansion Mystery | 1983.Jan.08 | Scholastic Productions | Angel Wilson and her neighbor Billy embark on a quest to investigate the mystery surrounding an old mansion haunted by an old miser. |
| 58 | The Haunted Mansion Mystery | 1983.Jan.15 | Scholastic Productions | |
| 59 | The Red Room Riddle | 1983.Feb.05 | Hightide | Two youngsters are trapped in an eerie haunted mansion by a ghost who tells them that to escape, they must solve the riddle of the red room. |
| 60 | Horatio Alger Updated: Frank and Fearless | 1983.Feb.12 | ABC Circle Films | |
| 61 | Horatio Alger Updated: Frank and Fearless | 1983.Feb.19 | ABC Circle Films | |
| 62 | All the Money in the World | 1983.Mar.19 | ABC Circle Films | A 13-year-old boy gets three wishes from a leprechaun, and wishes for all the money in the world. He then learns about the real-life ramifications of such a wish. |
| 63 | The Secret World of Og | 1983.Apr.30 | Hanna-Barbera | Five young siblings – Penny, Pamela, Peter, Patsy and Pollywog – journey to the underground magical and mysterious world of Og, which is inhabited by small green people. |
| 64 | The Secret World of Og | 1983.May.07 | Hanna-Barbera | The children and their pets continue their journey through Og. Penny and Pollywog are jailed by Og's little green town sheriff. |
| 65 | The Secret World of Og | 1983.May.14 | Hanna-Barbera | The children attempt to escape in a straw boat from an angry mob of Og people. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 66 | Cougar! | 1984.Jan.07 | ABC Circle Films | A young boy, Albie and his sister Sarah, stranded on an island, are confronted by a hungry cougar and a pair of kidnappers. |
| 67 | Cougar! | 1984.Jan.14 | ABC Circle Films | Albie and Sarah see their hopes for rescue dim when they are approached by two evildoers. |
| 68 | Cougar! | 1984.Jan.21 | ABC Circle Films | Albie and Sarah triumph over their kidnappers, the elements of the wild and a raging river. |
| 69 | The Dog Days of Arthur Cane | 1984.Feb.18 | Martin Tahse Productions | A full moon and an amulet are responsible for the transformation of selfish teenager Arthur Cane into a shaggy dog. |
| 70 | The Dog Days of Arthur Cane | 1984.Feb.25 | Martin Tahse Productions | Arthur, who has been transformed into a dog, gets a new outlook when he befriends a blind guitarist. |
| 71 | A Different Twist | 1984.Mar.10 | Scholastic Productions | When movie star Phil Grey does a production of Oliver with boys only, 12-year-old Christi disguises herself as a boy to get into the show. |
| 72 | The Amazing Bunjee Venture | 1984.Mar.24 | Hanna-Barbera | Karen and Andy are accidentally transported back to the year 100,000,000 B.C. in their father's time machine. Trapped in the Age of Dinosaurs, the kids confront surly cavemen and are also rescued from a pterosaur by a lovable, orange-haired creature with an inflatable trunk named Bunjee. |
| 73 | The Amazing Bunjee Venture | 1984.Mar.31 | Hanna-Barbera | Karen and Andy return to the modern world with Bunjee, who is hardly ready for civilization and soon a couple of Bunjee eggs hatch into pure prehistoric pandemonium. |
| 74 | Bad Cat | 1984.Apr.14 | Ruby-Spears | Bad Cat is a lively cat who sets out to prove that a feline does not need to be tough to have class. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 75 | Henry Hamilton, Graduate Ghost | 1984.Dec.08 | Brookfield Productions | Henry Hamilton is a ghost who has graduated from Spiritual Specter University and gets his first haunting assignment. |
| 76 | Henry Hamilton, Graduate Ghost | 1984.Dec.15 | Brookfield Productions | Henry Hamilton teaches members of a modern-day family to believe in themselves and in their dreams. |
| 77 | The Bollo Caper | 1985.Feb.02 | Rick Reinert Productions | Bollo, a leopard brought to New York to be made into a fur coat, manages to escape to Washington to try to get Congress to declare him an endangered species. |
| 78 | The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf | 1985.Feb.23 | Scholastic Productions | Walt Cribbens is a teenager who transforms into a wolf-boy form for two minutes at a time and has no idea why he is a werewolf; he decides to seek answers with the help of his best friend Cindy. |
| 79 | The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf | 1985.Mar.02 | Scholastic Productions | Walt and Cindy's quest is complicated by a series of local robberies that throw suspicion on Walt. |
| 80 | The Return of the Bunjee | 1985.Apr.06 | Hanna-Barbera | Bunjee, Karen and Andy must use the time machine once again and set out on an adventure to find a mother for the Bunjee babies. |
| 81 | The Return of the Bunjee | 1985.Apr.13 | Hanna-Barbera | Bunjee, Karen and Andy are transported back to medieval times where they must go through the obstacle of facing off against a malevolent sorceress and a three-headed dragon; eventually, they find a mother who also becomes Bunjee's mate named Bunjana and the kids return home to modern times. |
| 82 | The Velveteen Rabbit | 1985.Apr.20 | Hanna-Barbera | Robert is convinced that his toy rabbit is real. When he contracts scarlet fever, the rabbit is considered the cause of the illness and ordered to be burned. He is saved from "death" by a fairy, who turns him into a real rabbit. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 83 | The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn | 1985.Sep.07 | ABC Circle Films | Constance "Con" Sawyer and "Huckle" Mary Finn are featured in a female version of Mark Twain's classic tales of youthful innocence and adventure. |
| 84 | The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn | 1985.Sep.14 | ABC Circle Films | Constance "Con" Sawyer and "Huckle" Mary Finn are featured in a female version of Mark Twain's classic tales of youthful innocence and adventure. |
| 85 | Jeeter Mason and the Magic Headset | 1985.Oct.05 | Highgate Pictures | Jeeter Mason is a 10-year-old girl who possesses a magic moon rock that speaks to her through a radio headset and allows her to use its powers to do anything. |
| 86 | Cap'n O. G. Readmore's Jack and the Beanstalk | 1985.Oct.12 | ABC Entertainment | Cap'n O. G. Readmore and his friends – Kitty Literature, Ol' Tome Cat, Wordsy, Lickety Page and Dog-Eared – are holding their Friday Night Book Club meeting in an alley next to the public library. When members of the Book Club start to poke fun at some of the characters from their favorite fairy tales, the bookshelves part and Cap'n O. G. is confiscated by those same characters. Jack challenges Cap'n O. G. to take his place in the story. |
| 87 | Pippi Longstocking | 1985.Nov.02 | ABC Circle Films | |
| 88 | Pippi Longstocking | 1985.Nov.09 | ABC Circle Films | |
| 89 | Columbus Circle | 1985.Nov.23 | Highgate Pictures | Five children, members of the Columbus Circle Club, attempt to play a practical joke on a new, snobbish neighbor. |
| 90 | The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin | 1985.Nov.30 | DIC Entertainment | Teddy Ruxpin leaves his home on the island of Rillonia with his best friend Grubby to follow an ancient map which leads him to find a collection of crystals on the mainland of Grundo. |
| 91 | The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin | 1985.Dec.07 | DIC Entertainment | Teddy and Grubby get caught up in an adventure involving a prince, a princess and all kinds of villains as they search for a treasure. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 92 | Cap'n O. G. Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1986.Sep.13 | ABC Entertainment | Cap'n O. G. Readmore and his friends are holding their Friday Night Book Club meeting on a rainy, eerie night. They select the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and when the book is opened, Lickety Page is kidnapped into the story and Cap'n O. G. follows to rescue him. |
| 93 | The Day the Kids Took Over | 1986.Sep.20 | Highgate Pictures | Mayor Van Winkle awakens following a fall and discovers that children have taken over society. |
| 94 | The Day the Kids Took Over | 1986.Sep.27 | Highgate Pictures | Mayor Van Winkle, who is now in a society where kids act like adults, learns an important lesson about the rights of children. |
| 95 | Liberty and the Littles | 1986.Oct.18 | DIC Entertainment | Tom and Lucy Little get involved in a dangerous adventure when they crash-land on Liberty Island. |
| 96 | Liberty and the Littles | 1986.Oct.25 | DIC Entertainment | Tom and Lucy discover that their French ancestors, Les Petite Littles, are being persecuted by an evil general on Liberty Island. |
| 97 | Liberty and the Littles | 1986.Nov.01 | DIC Entertainment | Pere Egalitaire may be Tom and Lucy's only hope in convincing the French Littles that they are not demons. |
| 98 | The Mouse and the Motorcycle | 1986.Nov.08 | Churchill Films | Keith Gridley is a lonely young boy who meets Ralph, a tiny, talkative mouse with a fondness for Keith's toy motorcycle. Ralph and Keith become best friends and the daring little mouse has the time of his life riding his motorcycle. |
| 99 | The Mouse and the Motorcycle | 1986.Nov.15 | Churchill Films | Keith comes down with a bad fever and, even though his mouse family warns him of dangers like owls, cats and traps, a brave little Ralph sets out on his motorcycle to find the medicine that will save his human friend. |
| 100 | Santabear's First Christmas | 1986.Nov.22 | Rabbit Ears Productions | Santa Claus appoints a young bear as his helper in delivering toys to the animals in the forest and he becomes known as Santabear. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 101 | Cap'n O. G. Readmore Meets Red Riding Hood | 1988.Apr.02 | ABC Entertainment | Cap'n O.G. Readmore and his friends are holding their Friday Night Book Club meeting. Cap'n O. G. makes the mistake of underestimating the value of a good villain and ends up meeting Little Red Riding Hood as the new Big Bad Wolf. |
| 102 | Here Come the Littles | 1988.Apr.23 | DIC Entertainment | Henry Bigg goes to live with his greedy and heartless Uncle Augustus while his parents are lost in Africa; living in the crevices of the house are Tom and Lucy Little who soon discover that Augustus enslaves Henry and is planning on replacing his nephew's house with a shopping mall. |
| 103 | Here Come the Littles | 1988.Apr.30 | DIC Entertainment | Augustus sees Grandpa and Dinky Little and, mistaking them for toys, he locks them in a desk drawer; inside the drawer, Dinky and Grandpa discover that Augustus forged the documents in order to become Henry's legal guardian, as well as to steal and redevelop the Biggs' property. |
| 104 | Here Come the Littles | 1988.May.07 | DIC Entertainment | After a series of adventures, Henry and the Littles find evidence of Augustus' plot to steal Henry's home; Augustus is arrested, the house is saved and Henry prepares to meet his rediscovered parents at the airport. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 105 | Cap'n O. G. Readmore's Puss in Boots | 1988.Sep.10 | ABC Entertainment | Cap'n O. G. Readmore who regales his library friends – Kitty Literature, Ol' Tome Cat, Wordsy and Lickety Page – with the humorous and witty tale of his great-great-great-great-grandfather, the legendary Puss in Boots. |
| 106 | Runaway Ralph | 1988.Oct.29 | Churchill Films | Ralph the Mouse is grounded by his Uncle Lester for not sharing his toy motorcycle. Ralph decides to run away from home on his motorbike and comes to a summer camp for children, where he befriends a lonely young boy named Garfield. |
| 107 | Runaway Ralph | 1988.Nov.05 | Churchill Films | Garfield is accused of stealing another camper's watch and Ralph, determined to clear his friend's name, speeds off on his motorcycle and confronts the real watch-snatcher: a mean – and hungry – tom cat! |
| 108 | P. J. Funnybunny | 1989.Feb.04 | Animation Cottage | A floppy-eared, irrepressible young rabbit named P. J. Funnybunny and his animal buddies seek to become celebrities by making contact with creatures from outer space. |
| 109 | The Monster Bed | 1989.Sep.09 | Marvel Productions | A young boy is mysteriously transported to a spot under a monster's bed. |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 113 | McGee and Me!: The Big Lie | 1992.Jan.25 | Focus on the Family | An 11-year-old boy named Nick Martin and his family move into his grandmother's house. In an effort to make friends, Nick tells lies about an old man's house, which leads to bullies wrecking the house and Nick is forced to clean it up as punishment. His father helps him learn an important lesson about lying, elders, fear, speaking up and bullying. |
| 114 | Cap'n O. G. Readmore Meets Chicken Little | 1992.Apr.18 | ABC Entertainment | Cap'n O. G. Readmore reads the story of Chicken Little to his fellow feline friends at their Friday Night Book Club where they gather.
Note: This is the last of the five ABC Weekend Specials to feature Cap'n O. G. Readmore. |
| 115 | : Original Top Ten | 1992.May.02 | ABC Entertainment | The Kingdom Chums – Essie, Christopher, Marvelous Mose, Little Miriam and Little David – teach young children the meaning of the original Top Ten: the Ten Commandments! |
| No. | Title | Airdate | Production Company | Synopsis |
| 116 | McGee and Me!: Take Me Out of the Ball Game | 1992.Sep.12 | Focus on the Family | Nick Martin is on a baseball team, the Braves, coached by his father. It is important to them to win the game against their biggest rival, the Dodgers. And they think it is in the bag this year because of Thurman Miller, the team's biggest and best player. |
| 117 | Monster in My Pocket: The Big Scream | 1992.Oct.31 | Hanna-Barbera | A batch of monsters are shrunken to pocket size by a freak accident. Carrie Raven, a horror author's daughter, finds the good monsters and together they battle the puny bad monsters, who have learned to grow temporarily when they hear a movie monster actress's scream. |
| 118 | Stanley and the Dinosaurs | 1992.Nov.07 | Churchill Films | Stanley is a boy who dreams of times long past. While on a field trip at the museum, Stanley's mind travels to an alternative Stone Age, where dinosaurs and cavemen roam. |
| 119 | Choose Your Own Adventure: The Case of the Silk King | 1992.Dec.12 | Churchill Films | Two young Americans find adventures while searching for their missing uncle in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 120 | Choose Your Own Adventure: The Case of the Silk King | 1992.Dec.19 | Churchill Films | Two young Americans find adventures while searching for their missing uncle in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 121 | The Parsley Garden | 1993.Mar.27 | White Sneakers | During the Depression, a 10-year-old Armenian boy struggles with his sense of self and the extreme prejudice against immigrants in his community. |
| 122 | The Legend of Lochnagar | 1993.Apr.24 | BBC Scotland | A Scotsman leaves civilization to begin a new life in Lochnagar, a mysterious land in the Scottish mountains that is inhabited by a race of little people that plant the flowers for the country. . |
| 123 | Commander Toad in Space | 1993.May.08 | Churchill Films | Jack is the human navigator of the S.S. Stella, a space ship of the Algeian High Command that is run by frog and turtle-like creatures – Commander Toad and his assistants: Doc, Lieutenant Lily and the Admiral. |
