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First episode date
  
21 October 1975

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Genre
  
Children's television series

Awards
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Entertainment Special

Executive producers
  
Linda Gottlieb, Carole Hart, Ken Greengrass, Evelyn Barron, Bruce Hart

Nominations
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In Children's Programming

Similar
  
Claymation Easter, The Day After Tomorrow, Later, George Carlin: Jammin' i, Empire of the Air: The Men Who

Special Treat, also known as NBC Special Treat, is an occasional series of specials on NBC that were geared toward teenagers, similar to ABC's Afterschool Special. It debuted in 1975 and ran through the 1985–86 season. It would be replaced in the fall of 1986 with Main Street, a discussion program for teens hosted by Bryant Gumbel.

Partial list of specials

  • Soul and Symphony (Oct 21 1975)
  • Flight from Fuji (Nov 11 1975)
  • The Day After Tomorrow (Dec 09 1975)
  • Just for Fun (Jan 13 1976)
  • Papa and Me (Feb 10 1976)
  • Figuring All the Angles (Mar 09 1976)
  • The Phantom Rebel (Apr 13 1976)
  • Luke Was There (Oct 05 1976)
  • Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid (Nov 09 1976)
  • Little Women (Dec 14 1976)
  • A Little Bit Different (Feb 08 1977)
  • It's a Brand New World (Mar 08 1977)
  • A Piece of Cake (Oct 11 1977)
  • Five-Finger Discount (Nov 01 1977)
  • How the Beatles Changed the World (Nov 22 1977)
  • Snowbound (Feb 07 1978)
  • The Tap Dance Kid (Oct 24 1978)
  • Rodeo Red the Runaway (Nov 28 1978)
  • Danny Boy (Feb 20 1979)
  • The Rocking Chair Rebellion (Oct 23 1979)
  • I Don't Know Who I Am (Nov 20 1979)
  • New York City Too Far from Tampa Blues (Dec 11 1979)
  • The House at 12 Rose Street (Mar 04 1980)
  • Treasure Island (Apr 29 1980)
  • Miss Peach: Career Day at the Kelly School (Oct 21 1980)
  • Sunshine's on the Way (Nov 11 1980)
  • Oliver Twist (Apr 14 1981)
  • Jennifer's Journey (Oct 03 1981)
  • Oh Boy (Dec 06 1983)
  • One More Hurdle (Apr 10 1984)
  • Bobby and Sarah (Oct 23 1984)
  • Out of Time (Jan 29 1985)

    • References

    Special Treat Wikipedia
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