Discussions about the media made me remember these afterschool specials that were popular in the 70's and 80's. I have a dim memory of the content of these specials, and so I reviewed the list of episodes on wiki.
The first few seasons seem innoccuous enough, though the liberal bias is pretty apparent even early on. The very first ABC special dealt with an endangered species.
As the list goes on, they delve into topics like rape and abuse. To be fair, the list does portray women as capable of wrongdoing, like Please Don't Hit Me, Mom. But a lot of them have the man as the villain, like Don't Touch, and Andrea's Story.
There's a lot of these, and quite a few are uploaded to youtube. I'll have to see if I can make the time to review some of these old videos and go further into the content.
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