The one to stick out in my mind is about a filthy rich kid who finds a genie in his TV and she grants him three wishes. Since he had everything he wanted, he uses those wishes to try and get a girl he likes. The funniest wish is when he wants to be a great dancer at a party to impress the girl, but the genie chooses ballet as the dance he'll do.
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
My top 3 would have to include "Tattle: When To Tell On a Friend" 'cause I've always loved Allison Smith and Tammy Lauren is so evil. I can still picture her looking right at Allison's character and saying "I don't swim with tattle tales." Another fave is "Don't Touch" about the babysitter who remembers being molested by her uncle after she recognizes that the girl she babysits is being molested by a family friend played by a guy with very distinctive/creepy eyes. The most vivid scene for me is when the babysitter and the girl are playing w/a dollhouse and the babysitter gets the girl to "act out" w/the dolls what's going on. My third pick would be "Terrible Things My Mother Told Me" which was so powerful and had a classic line which I still find to be very true. The main character, a teenage girl, is asked point blank by her teacher if she's being abused. She says "my mother never hit me" and he responds with "words can sting more than any belt." Truer (sp?) words were never spoken. Beth Rowland was really good (and mean) as the mom too. Having watched her as the ditzy Vera on "Alice" it was really disturbing to see her as much a hateful person. All 3 great specials that I would love to see on DVD.
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My favorite is Psst! Hammerman's After You (18th Emergency) and Tough Girl.
sharethough i have never heard of the show and am unsure if it came on in the us or not since rachel stevens from s club 7 was in one of the episodes, and after i try to find and view rachel's episode, her episode would be my fave.
shareThe only one of these shows I remember is an episode about a daughter not getting along with her mother, and then she goes back in time as she is in the 1970s to the 1940s when her mother was a teenager and hangs out with her and her friends and finds out her mother wasn't so perfect. I think it was called My Mother was never a kid or something like that.
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I don't remember many of these specials, but one that stands out for me is "P.J. and the Presdient's Son", about a delivery boy who resembles the President's (of the United States) son and they trade places for a short time. Loved it, and unfortunately I don't see it on any of the DVDs available so far.
shareIt was definitely My Mother Was Never a Kid.
shareIn the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story (1991).
shareThere's not many specials I remember but one I will always love and remember "Tattle: When To Tell On A Friend". I use to have this on VHS, I would love to see it again.
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I think the only one I have any memory of is The Toothpaste Millionaire.
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