ABC Weekend Special

ABC Weekend Special was a weekly 30-minute American television anthology series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997 which featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated. Similar to both ABC Afterschool Special and The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, the ABC Weekend Special differed in that it was primarily aimed at younger viewers following ABC's Saturday-morning cartoon lineup, whereas the ABC Afterschool Special was known for its somewhat more serious, and often dramatic, storylines dealing with issues concerning a slightly older teen and pre-teen audience.

With the debut of the ABC Weekend Special, some of the early ABC Afterschool Specials that had been targeted towards younger viewers were subsequently repackaged and re-run instead as ABC Weekend Special's.

Ever since its cancellation in 1997, this show became rarely known by children today. Most episodes hadn't surfaced on DVD, but very few have surfaced on VHS, which are considered extremely rare and hard to find, which are assumed expensive.

Title sequence
During the series' tenure on Saturday Mornings, ABC Weekend Specials had three main opening title sequence packages, all of which included storybook/literary elements and characters in varying forms.

List of episodes
''This list only contains the episodes Rick Reinert produced and directed. The other episodes that aren't related to Reinert's work are off-limits from this list.''