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ABC AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL: THE UNFORGIVABLE SECRET (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas intended for young audiences. In this drama, Angela, a 15-year-old girl, learns that she is an illegitimate child. She had been brought up believing that her father was at one time married to her mother and lived in Saudi Arabia. However, when Angela's mother, Karen, gets married and her husband wants to adopt Angela, the truth comes out. Karen confesses that she never married Angela's father and that he does not know of her existence. Since he lives only a few hours away, Angela sets out to meet her father. She gets to know him and his son and realizes that there is no place for her in their lives. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: February 10, 1982 4:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:45:57
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T84:0198
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Teenagers; Illegitimacy
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1972-1997
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Marilyn Olin … Executive Producer
- Ken Greengrass … Executive Producer
- Lynn Ahrens … Executive Producer
- Phil Lawrence … Executive Producer
- David Kappes … Producer
- Alex Grasshoff … Director
- Durrell Royce Crays … Writer
- Hila Colman … Based on the book by
- Elliot Lawrence … Music by
- Danny Aiello … Cast, Frank
- Amanda Plummer … Cast, Angela
- Barbara Feldon … Cast, Karen
- Lois Smith … Cast, Margaret
- Stephen Vinovich … Cast, Larry
- Jo Lynn Sciarro … Cast, Carole
- Ken Albrecht … Cast, Robert Gray
- Mary Fogarty … Cast, the Woman on the Bus
- Robert Sonderskov … Cast, the Minister
- Michael J. Miller … Cast, Joe