I so remember This! I was 12 yrs old babysitting a neighbor's 3 kids (ages 3-7) in the Summer of 1984 when this came on HBO (a rerun I guess..). We were all sitting on the couch watching it and really getting into it when at 25:20, the 2 smaller children started crying insisting they wanted to watch Fraggle Rock instead, so we had to turn the channel. I was ticked off and always wanted to know what happens at the end. Fast forward to 2019, I FINALLY get to see it! Hey it took 35 years, but better late than never...😃
Saw this when it first aired in Dec 1981. I was 10 and it scared the hell out of me. Ofcourse back then I misinterpreted what the officer was saying thinking he meant she would be jailed the rest of her life. But a criminal record that would always follow her is still severe.
yes and they should of done whips on her back with razor blades so to make her bleed. This or chop off her hands that what they do to thief in other countries I believe. I am not sure what the punishment was for this time period for theivery.
@anmaz8006 sounds like a real theif talking. Or, or, now hear me out...have you ever thought about getting a job and contributing to society, as opposed to theivung from it? SMDH
At first, I thought it was an old commercial with the little girl saying this is really neat, where’d you get all this stuff? Then I realized it was the preview to the movie.
What's really twisted is that in the beginning, we can keep thinking that it's so wrong what she's doing. But in the end where we know she's going to be caught, we can easily find ourselves hoping she'll make it out safely, but we know she won't.
Maureen Teefy was born in 1953 meaning she was nearly thirty years old when cast in this film. To draw a comparison some of her contemporaries would’ve been Jamie Lee Curtis, Geena Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Beverly D’Angelo, Susan Dey, Bo Derek and Carrie Fisher. So an odd casting to play a sixteen year old.
What a great special right here. This may not have had a “happy” ending, but it sends an incredible message to those who consider committing any kind of crime. Even those one may consider “not so bad” can still be a serious offense and lead to severe consequences.
I'll go even further with that argument. The parents should have stepped in and been proactive as soon as they became suspicious. They should have tried to stop it. This story shouldn't have a happy ending. It leaves a good lesson.
I remember this special in 1981 it was filmed in Paramus N.J it was the story of a young woman who was shoplifting at the mall stealing clothes and jewelry without paying I haven't seen this in a long time It was the best afterschool special. Allen Fawcett and Maureen Teefy from Fame was cool!!! Thanks for posting this Timmy!!!!
Paramus NJ just passed a law saying teenagers must be accompanied by chaperones in malls on Friday and Saturday evenings. But that wouldn't have stopped Karen.
@danacarter9147 Parents befuddled by teenage girl's obsession with boys, clothes, & make-up. "You talk to her" "But she tells me I'm butting in." LOL, would hate to see _your_ idea if cheese if you think this isn't.
I love all these “Portrait of a Teen something-or-other”. I guess having been born after this era I didn’t realize how it was actually all over the place.
Oh yes! The days when nobody had any cameras in the stores. now they got cameras all over the place. eyes in the sky is everywhere LOL! You can't fart wrong without somebody knowing
27m40sec... ooohhhh my goodness its Joe Spinell /Frank Zito.. THE MANIAC as the security guard!!! If anyone has seen this film this cameo will send tge biggest chill down your spine!! HAHA!
LMAO what is UP with those cheerleaders!!?? And that one....who standing-lap-danced that guy......I laughed so hard, I needed this!! Thank you for posting.......at 49 now, were we really like that in the early 80's?? All she does is yell through the whole movie....and that headband thing....tell me is isn't so....
It's so cool to be able to watch these after school specials again! I'm 48 now and remember this fondly. And I can say that I've never shoplifted in my entire life! I was way too scared to try it, but my bff back then was a major klepto, I couldn't believe what she got away with! She finally got busted for stealing vodka when we were 16!
I'm 47. I use to shoplift all the time till I gt caught. I was so embarrassed lucky I ws 18 so thy didn't call my mom. Never did it again. I make good money now so I can just go in a store and buy it! Back thn we were poor n cldnt afford anything!😮
Omg the scenes of the cheerleader dancing and practically giving the basketball player his own lap dance in front of everyone is just sooooo unrealistically 80’s!!!
These shows used to make me feel depressed in the 1980’s as the parents were so reasonable, calm and decent. My parents would’ve physically harmed me simply if I answered them in a manner they didn’t like.
I was twelve when this film came out. While I’m nostalgic as anyone over much of this era, for the life of me I never understood the hairstyles some men embraced during the late seventies and early eighties. It was almost as if once the “hippie era” went out all the guys chopped off their hair and tried to maintain hairstyles that emulated beautiful women with perms and feathered tresses. Its almost as if they wanted a male counterpart to “The Farrah”. I’m so glad that style didn’t last.
I don't know if she would have had a police record. No one has a police record if there's no conviction. If it was her first time and she'd had a good lawyer, she probably could've gotten probation.
The other day I saw a freight train coming fro. L a. With all the cargo containwr doors busted open swinging in the wind. You could see the boxes and stuff inside. It was erie. What's happened to our country?
Face it nothing in any store is worth risking stealing!! In this case it looks like this person had deeper issues that were leading her to this behavior! Sometimes this can be an attention-seeking device or an escape mechanism??
This a great after school special. This is showing that if you keep stealing that it will lead to jail or dead. This girl had to learn the hard way. Great!! movie.
I share the same birthday with Maureen Teefy on October 26 that is cool she played in Grease 2 as Sharon Cooper and Fame as Doris Fensecker my mom grew up watching that as a little girl one of her favorite movies same born day and we both the same height 5'4”.
In a funny way, this reminds me of the "Bosom Buddies' episode where Peter and Tom got in trouble for throwing water balloons on a car. And Tom over-corrected his behavior. "From now on, we're going to be textbook Americans. It's time for us to grow up." And then the agent who arrested them smiled and gave Tom a thumbs up. :)
It's pretty much impossible to shoplift nowadays with all of the high tech cameras, scanners and door alarms. I had friends back in the early 90's that did this on a regular basis, stole gas, cd's and cassettes. One friend of mine made a lot of money stealing from Kmart. He would take a cart, put some clothes in it, go back to the music section and just start throwing CD's in the cart covering them up when he was done with the clothes. He'd take the cart back to the gardening section and go to the outside section. He'd throw the cd's over the fence and have his buddys waiting there with his car. He'd climb the fence, throw the CD's in the car and take off. He'd go to used record stores and sell them for 3 bucks a pop. Sometimes he'd make a couple hundred dollars a week. But it inevitably failed because he'd gone to every Kmart within a 50 mile radius. He went to some of them 2 or 3 times. One of them got wise and called the cops. Just as he was climbing the fence the manager appeared and said "There's a cop waiting for you on the other side just stay there. He took off running, jumped in his car and pulled out of the lot just as the police were pulling in AND HE HAD THE CD'S lol.....He never did it again but kept stealing gas until he was nearly caught. The cashier jumped in his car and chased him down the street. The cops were responding and while the cashier was behind him in traffic tried pointing him out to the police as they drove past. Lucky for him the light turned green and he took off and lost the cashier. At that point I don't believe he ever stole anything again. He did it for years from the time I knew him when he was 9 years old all the way up until he was 20. He never got caught as I knew of but after 2 near misses he stopped. I had one friend that got busted stealing a CD and the alarm went off at the front of the store. He had to pay $250.00 plus wash cop cars for 2 weeks. He got arrested and it went on his record.
I got bawled out by my parents when I had sticky fingers as a teen. I've been nice and clean for over 50 years. To get dirty is to do something you shouldn't; I made a very bad decision as a teen when I had sticky fingers
I wasn't going to watch this, but when I saw Kathi Kamhi I was in! I had a big crush on her back then. I never knew she was in anything but AMC and a slasher flick. Oh! I almost forgot... She was in one of the PBS American Playhouse episodes too. Jean Shepard's The Star Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski. She played Josephine. The story is Shepard's continued story of "Ralph" from the famous A Christmas Story.
The early 80s. When no one had a cell phone and people actually talked to one another. Relationships were real. I remember seeing "Shoplifters will be prosecuted" signs everywhere back then. Most stores were serious about their customers not stealing from their business. Those signs were serious as I always took it seriously after learning to read.
"She'll have a police record for the rest of her life." "My parents didn't even allow me to wear make-up when I was in the 11th grade." So, she's in the 11th grade. Age can't be more than 17 unless she flunked (unlikely). So, how is it that she's being tried as an adult for shoplifting?
Look, I'm not advocating for shoplifting. But don't try to make it worse than a bank robbery. People get shot and injured or killed during bank robberies. Robbing a bank is a Federal offense. What this girl did was barely a violation and no one was hurt. If this girl demanded a jury trial, guess what? No judge, jury, or Prosecuting Attorney would want to be bothered with her petty crime. This program is so devastatingly misleading it's laughable to anyone who studied law.
Being under 18 years of age, she would be tried as a juvenile for such a petty offense. In juvenile court, she would not have the right to jury trial. But, she would however under the 1967 Gault Decision, have the right to a defense lawyer at her hearing in juvenile court. Hopefully, she would learn her lesson and never break the law again.
very likely the point of this film was to deter young people from shoplifting so they punched up the consequences/a repeat offender would have more to worry about than a first-timer
Yea. You're probably right. There's always the official story you learn, and then the reality story. Ha ha. When I learned to be a church organist, you are taught to be ready to do almost any song. And then the reality is you learn your church likes a small handful of songs.
Karen Joslyn When I heard that line: "She was just shoplifting." I was like, "Just shoplifting" my @$&! Shoplifting is NOT an innocent game, it's a serious #*@%in' offense.😒😒😒😒😒
This is total CRAP! She would not go to jail for lifting a bracelet (unless it was over $300 in Calif.) and she's a minor and when she turned 18 it's not on her record any longer. Good scare tacit for 1981.
Thank you! This is SO fake! No judge, Distric Attorney, or jury would want to be tied up with something so petty! At worst, she would have spent a night in jail and be told to not do it again. As a juror, I saw someone tried for shoplifting. But that was a $2,000. TV! And yes. Even if this went on her record (which is doubtful), it would have been off her record so soon seeing it was so petty. Thank you for being a voice of reality here Denise.
Yes this is a movie..i once shoplifted ,i stole an alarm clock long ago and tiny biscuits but i never got caught.There weren't any video surveillance systems in the store i went into so it was easy to put stuff in one's bag..i stole twice but i was so scared each time that i stopped very quickly.I'm not proud of that but in the eighties it was VERY EASY to steal.The emprisonment is a bit ridiculous whereas She is supposed to be a minor even if she was in her twenties..
Now this is was good wholesome tv was for kids in 80s you couldn’t even get tv shows for kids like this now ever again tv and music in thing back in these times now it’s just a classic tv fade-away I was 6 years old in 1981 I love coming home after school and watching each episodes well in this case the title spoke for itself really abc after school special childhood memories are still alive up until this day and age love the 80s
Those of you who miss these wonderful dramas of long ago, raise your hand.
Absolutely.
Be sure to vote.
Me me me!
you mean raise your thumb
@@psalm5175 Very much. They were just wholesome and smut-free dramas.
🙋🙋
I love these classic tv finds. No sexual content , vulgar language. Great! Always witta positive message behind it.
After school specials are supposed to be like that…
Im just happy that they got the noise that happens everytime someone shoplifts correct
Amen!!
Naw they're were too many innuendos still
If it has none of these things, why mention them??
The Afternoon Specials always had this sort of cheesy but endearing quality to them.
Sort of?
Well said actually.
@@helierhefortuneteller
dont be jelly now, in 60years your grandkids will be nostalgic for the 2020s when you were a child.
❤️ Best Wishes helie xo
@@user-sj7xv1er1u jelly of what? Go sit in the corner somewhere and ponder life.
@@user-sj7xv1er1u I'm a Gen xer btw. Ty for the compliment, but I'm not interested in reliving my youth. Those days are behind me.
Aside from the lesson about shoplifting, it’s really lovely to see two 30 year olds have a realistic relationship ;) Thanks for the upload!!
What two thirty years olds are you referring to ?
Maureen Teefy is a great actress! She did a great job in "Grease 2!"
Don't forget 'Fame' (the 1980 film, that is).
Joseph Pratt wasn't she in Supergirl
Maureen Teefy played the role as Lisa in the movie "Scavenger Hunt" (1979).
Shes ok
Thought I recognized her
I so remember This! I was 12 yrs old babysitting a neighbor's 3 kids (ages 3-7) in the Summer of 1984 when this came on HBO (a rerun I guess..). We were all sitting on the couch watching it and really getting into it when at 25:20, the 2 smaller children started crying insisting they wanted to watch Fraggle Rock instead, so we had to turn the channel. I was ticked off and always wanted to know what happens at the end. Fast forward to 2019, I FINALLY get to see it! Hey it took 35 years, but better late than never...😃
I'm glad you got to see the whole movie, too.😀
@@paulpallott8302 Fraggle Rock? I remember that show.
@@paulpallott8302 In the U.S.🇺🇸
@@danacarter9147 what state Dana ??
@@paulpallott8302 Illinois.
Saw this when it first aired in Dec 1981. I was 10 and it scared the hell out of me. Ofcourse back then I misinterpreted what the officer was saying thinking he meant she would be jailed the rest of her life. But a criminal record that would always follow her is still severe.
yes and they should of done whips on her back with razor blades so to make her bleed. This or chop off her hands that what they do to thief in other countries I believe. I am not sure what the punishment was for this time period for theivery.
... Go to New york , calaforina you can get away with shop lifting if you get caught ... No jail time , no bail at all .. 😝..
@anmaz8006 sounds like a real theif talking. Or, or, now hear me out...have you ever thought about getting a job and contributing to society, as opposed to theivung from it? SMDH
At first, I thought it was an old commercial with the little girl saying this is really neat, where’d you get all this stuff? Then I realized it was the preview to the movie.
Such a cautionary tale! I remember seeing this in class in the 80’s 🤣😅
I remember seeing on the wall of a fitting room, a teenage mugshot captioned, "Pictures your family will treasure."
Yet another good after school special that still stands today.
Informative, better yet.
The sound effect when they stole...perfection...
😱
What's really twisted is that in the beginning, we can keep thinking that it's so wrong what she's doing. But in the end where we know she's going to be caught, we can easily find ourselves hoping she'll make it out safely, but we know she won't.
The shopkeeper's hair in the scene where the girl steals the pants is amazing 😍
Maureen Teefy was born in 1953 meaning she was nearly thirty years old when cast in this film. To draw a comparison some of her contemporaries would’ve been Jamie Lee Curtis, Geena Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Beverly D’Angelo, Susan Dey, Bo Derek and Carrie Fisher. So an odd casting to play a sixteen year old.
She killed it in Grease 2!!! Another high school role
... and Fame!!
Most teenagers in movies or TV are played by adults. Kevin Bacon was 27 when he played Ren in Footloose.
Wow, this makes me feel old. I was a senior in 81! 😮
Lol
Ha i was 3 lol
Thank you so much for uploading. This was my favorite of all the School Break Specials.
What a great special right here. This may not have had a “happy” ending, but it sends an incredible message to those who consider committing any kind of crime. Even those one may consider “not so bad” can still be a serious offense and lead to severe consequences.
I'll go even further with that argument. The parents should have stepped in and been proactive as soon as they became suspicious. They should have tried to stop it. This story shouldn't have a happy ending. It leaves a good lesson.
Yeah. Consequences for one's actions is SOOOOO 20th century.
Actually, if this girl is under 18, the record will be expunged....even back then
I remember this special in 1981 it was filmed in Paramus N.J it was the story of a young woman who was shoplifting at the mall stealing clothes and jewelry without paying I haven't seen this in a long time It was the best afterschool special. Allen Fawcett and Maureen Teefy from Fame was cool!!! Thanks for posting this Timmy!!!!
Shaheed Turner New Jersey is close where my state is in Maryland not far at all.
Jersey Represent! 🙌🏼 lol
Ah shucks
Paramus Park!
Paramus NJ just passed a law saying teenagers must be accompanied by chaperones in malls on Friday and Saturday evenings. But that wouldn't have stopped Karen.
Wow! Haven't seen this since I was a kid!! Great cheesy classic! Thanks for the upload!
Dizziemiss Lizzie This movie is not anywhere near cheesy.
How's dizzie ??
I'm fine, thanks
@@danacarter9147 I would say that it's campy...nothing wrong with that!
@danacarter9147 Parents befuddled by teenage girl's obsession with boys, clothes, & make-up. "You talk to her" "But she tells me I'm butting in." LOL, would hate to see _your_ idea if cheese if you think this isn't.
Guitar riffs while they were stealing makeup - awesome.
I love all these “Portrait of a Teen something-or-other”. I guess having been born after this era I didn’t realize how it was actually all over the place.
My stress level was at 100 watching this no joke...
I live that rainbow up there on the wall, I had one except it was fabric, and a had colored balloons and hearts... I miss that 😢
Maureen Teefy and her 'Fame' castmate Laura Dean (not Dern)---what a reunion.
To the person who posted this----THANK YOU.
Oh yes! The days when nobody had any cameras in the stores. now they got cameras all over the place. eyes in the sky is everywhere LOL! You can't fart wrong without somebody knowing
But people still steal. Idiots!
👍🤣🤣🤣
LMAO yup
@@larissiadouglas3651 Big Brother is watching
@@kachoo2135 Better believe it, my friend!!!⚠️
Maureen Teefy also played Sharon Cooper in the Pink Ladies In Grease II.
Boy did this age horribly. No way she would go to jail in 2023.
That is the problem with today. They should still go to jail
27m40sec... ooohhhh my goodness its Joe Spinell /Frank Zito.. THE MANIAC as the security guard!!! If anyone has seen this film this cameo will send tge biggest chill down your spine!! HAHA!
Yuppp. I love it. Did you get maniac 2 from severin? I got the joe spineli plush and I'm so excited😊😊😊
Thank you for posting these.
LMAO what is UP with those cheerleaders!!?? And that one....who standing-lap-danced that guy......I laughed so hard, I needed this!! Thank you for posting.......at 49 now, were we really like that in the early 80's?? All she does is yell through the whole movie....and that headband thing....tell me is isn't so....
Yeah the cheerleader shuffling around the guy while everyone watched was so tacky! Did girls really do that in high school back then?
Girls today act much more tackier than the girls did back then.
@@aprilmurray1080 yep.....they do!! And they're much more nasty. Sad.
@@altheaharrisno
The ending music sounds right cheery in spite of the ending of the story!
You mean, in the end credits?
It's so cool to be able to watch these after school specials again! I'm 48 now and remember this fondly. And I can say that I've never shoplifted in my entire life! I was way too scared to try it, but my bff back then was a major klepto, I couldn't believe what she got away with! She finally got busted for stealing vodka when we were 16!
What happened to her? Did she get convicted?
@@brianpomeroy9624 They just left us hanging.
I'm 47. I use to shoplift all the time till I gt caught. I was so embarrassed lucky I ws 18 so thy didn't call my mom. Never did it again. I make good money now so I can just go in a store and buy it! Back thn we were poor n cldnt afford anything!😮
These were cheesy, but effective in their purpose. Scaring kids straight and improving outcomes.
love the jazzy music
@@maurissiorodriguez8795 😆
Wish I knew the names of the tracks throughout, they're so catchy.
Omg the scenes of the cheerleader dancing and practically giving the basketball player his own lap dance in front of everyone is just sooooo unrealistically 80’s!!!
I remember watching this back in the day
@Veronica A. I remember that part, too.
Miss the afterschool movies these were really good and learning movies
The two shoplifters were in Fame...1980
Ed Reid I knew them from something! Thanks.
Maureen Teefy also played Sharon Cooper in the Pink Ladies In Grease II.
The ☝️ who played Becky of the three friends 👭 (the good girl ) looks really familiar to me...but I can’t remember what from 🤔..
Oh I remember now!! She played Meg in “Sleepaway Camp!” Lol 😂 And she wasn’t a good girl in that movie 🎥 lol
@@beckystarrski
All My Children
during the early 80's
She played the daughter of one of Erica's (Susan Lucci) "Men friends"
I remember watching this back in the 7th grade in my marketing class
My mom used to babysit Maureen Teefy when she was a kid 😊
Holy ?#*$. She did?
Dana Carter yep she lived down the street
I share the same birthday with Maureen Teefy she is so cool I love her.
@@jenniferfoxhoven5480 I didn't know that.
Cool Jennifer Foxhoven. I bet your mother really liked "Grease" 2.
These shows used to make me feel depressed in the 1980’s as the parents were so reasonable, calm and decent. My parents would’ve physically harmed me simply if I answered them in a manner they didn’t like.
Thanks so much for posting! I've waited so long for this!!! 💕
The cheesy “touch dancing” 😅😂(31.33). I can’t recall dancing like this.
Miss those eighties clothings.
Its the girls from Fame!
@4:46 it’s the fountains at Paramus Park in NJ!!!! Gone now apparently.
And now in 2022 NYC, she'll be out the next day and shoplifting up to $900 and nothing will happen.
Awww the 80s
I agree, I miss the 80s.
I was twelve when this film came out. While I’m nostalgic as anyone over much of this era, for the life of me I never understood the hairstyles some men embraced during the late seventies and early eighties. It was almost as if once the “hippie era” went out all the guys chopped off their hair and tried to maintain hairstyles that emulated beautiful women with perms and feathered tresses. Its almost as if they wanted a male counterpart to “The Farrah”. I’m so glad that style didn’t last.
I kind of like the feathered look on men. Can't say the same thing about the perms!
Lucy from SuperGirl movie
I don't know if she would have had a police record. No one has a police record if there's no conviction. If it was her first time and she'd had a good lawyer, she probably could've gotten probation.
Plus she was under 18.
29:01 "I want to know where that sweater came from" Probably Vietnam or Thailand.
big lol
These days in CA it's ok to steal $950 worth of merchandise. The store staff is forbidden from stopping the shoplifter. Happy times.
The other day I saw a freight train coming fro. L a. With all the cargo containwr doors busted open swinging in the wind. You could see the boxes and stuff inside.
It was erie.
What's happened to our country?
. It's democratic democrats. Like biden
35 year old looking teenagers
Devon A 😂😂😂
just posted "30 year old high schoolers", then I saw your comment
You're not far off, man.
Maureen Teefy, the actress who played Karen, was 29 years old at the time this special aired.
👏👏😂😂
I was thinking far out they look in there 30s
This is classic high school drama. I’m glad I didn’t do that stuff when I was a teenager.
Same!
@@shelldotshell Copy that. Would you believe that this play is--are you ready--40 years old?
These comments are hilarious. The kind of people who think Reefer Madness was a documentary.
It was a documentary. Stealing causes Satan to call your name in dreams and smoking pot makes you want to kill your friends.
Ty for posting this;.))))
The boyfriend looks like the greatest American hero and vecna had a 30 yr old baby
Oooh, "Portrait!" Sounds classy!
😂
Face it nothing in any store is worth risking stealing!! In this case it looks like this person had deeper issues that were leading her to this behavior! Sometimes this can be an attention-seeking device or an escape mechanism??
Karen Joslyn Not only the combo of the two, some teenagers shoplift in order to fit in with the clique, or mainly, because of peer pressure.
Skint
Right! Sometimes you steal to seek attention or to get what you' ve lost or what you believe youve been stolen or deprived : Attention
Well some things are worth stealing, like jewelrys or maybe a car
27:22 😂😂😂 best moment of the whole episode.
don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time
haven't seen this in 35 years.
😂
Her hairstyle reminds me of those girls who appeared in late 70’s/ early 80’s tampon ads!!😂
This a great after school special. This is showing that if you keep stealing that it will lead to jail or dead. This girl had to learn the hard way. Great!! movie.
I agree
They were in Fame!
Maureen Teefy and my dad were both born in 1953, Maureen being six months younger. DAMN! me and Ivanka were just born in October 1981.
I share the same birthday with Maureen Teefy on October 26 that is cool she played in Grease 2 as Sharon Cooper and Fame as Doris Fensecker my mom grew up watching that as a little girl one of her favorite movies same born day and we both the same height 5'4”.
their mistake was hitting the same place more than once. everyone knows you hit a spot once and never come back
That does seem to be how con artists work.
But was it the same place?
I lol everything she steals something and they make that funny guitar noise. 😂
Did you see a video clip of a New Jersey bride- to- be/mother who was shoplifting for a bridal gown?
Dana Carter no I have to look that one one
Dana Carter where can I find that? Is it from say yes to the dress?
@@Day1lamb No, the video is from ABC News. Type in WEDDING DRESS THIEF CAUGHT ON VIDEO: BRIDE TRIES ON DRESS, THEN, WALKS OUT OF BRIDAL STORE.
Dana Carter thank you 😊
Loved this
Great
You can't get away with shit anymore, with cameras watching us constantly (including now).
Mr Edward’s daughter ❤️ from little house on the prairie
The school dance looked like Carrie's prom. The guy resembles the original Tommy Ross
Thought that WAS William Katt at first! Whoops.
This was hysterically cheesy. The ending is laughable considering what is going on with shoplifting now. 😂😂😂
Looks like us all
Watching this made me thank the Lord Jesus that I have STOPPED stealing.
In a funny way, this reminds me of the "Bosom Buddies' episode where Peter and Tom got in trouble for throwing water balloons on a car. And Tom over-corrected his behavior. "From now on, we're going to be textbook Americans. It's time for us to grow up." And then the agent who arrested them smiled and gave Tom a thumbs up. :)
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It's pretty much impossible to shoplift nowadays with all of the high tech cameras, scanners and door alarms. I had friends back in the early 90's that did this on a regular basis, stole gas, cd's and cassettes. One friend of mine made a lot of money stealing from Kmart. He would take a cart, put some clothes in it, go back to the music section and just start throwing CD's in the cart covering them up when he was done with the clothes. He'd take the cart back to the gardening section and go to the outside section. He'd throw the cd's over the fence and have his buddys waiting there with his car. He'd climb the fence, throw the CD's in the car and take off. He'd go to used record stores and sell them for 3 bucks a pop. Sometimes he'd make a couple hundred dollars a week. But it inevitably failed because he'd gone to every Kmart within a 50 mile radius. He went to some of them 2 or 3 times. One of them got wise and called the cops. Just as he was climbing the fence the manager appeared and said "There's a cop waiting for you on the other side just stay there. He took off running, jumped in his car and pulled out of the lot just as the police were pulling in AND HE HAD THE CD'S lol.....He never did it again but kept stealing gas until he was nearly caught. The cashier jumped in his car and chased him down the street. The cops were responding and while the cashier was behind him in traffic tried pointing him out to the police as they drove past. Lucky for him the light turned green and he took off and lost the cashier. At that point I don't believe he ever stole anything again. He did it for years from the time I knew him when he was 9 years old all the way up until he was 20. He never got caught as I knew of but after 2 near misses he stopped. I had one friend that got busted stealing a CD and the alarm went off at the front of the store. He had to pay $250.00 plus wash cop cars for 2 weeks. He got arrested and it went on his record.
@Carol ZieglerMe, neither, but don't start. You don't want to risk your future.
@@mojorisen74 That sounds %£?@ed up.
Solid Gold!
I remember that show, I watched that, when I was a kid! That show featured Marilyn McCoo!😀
Wow, booked and arraigned for shoplifting, this store security staff don't play around.
#*@%in' straight, they don't. And neither, do cops and judges.
I got bawled out by my parents when I had sticky fingers as a teen. I've been nice and clean for over 50 years. To get dirty is to do something you shouldn't; I made a very bad decision as a teen when I had sticky fingers
Well, these days, people steal through computers. Stealing sadly didn't go away. The methods just changed.
I got caught back in middle school and thankfully they just took me to the security office and called my parents
@@yummylemons172 You didn't get in trouble, did you?😟
It can't be 40 years--where did they go?
I wasn't going to watch this, but when I saw Kathi Kamhi I was in!
I had a big crush on her back then.
I never knew she was in anything but AMC and a slasher flick.
Oh! I almost forgot...
She was in one of the PBS American Playhouse episodes too.
Jean Shepard's The Star Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski.
She played Josephine.
The story is Shepard's continued story of "Ralph" from the famous A Christmas Story.
I liked Katherine Kahmi myself as she played Pamela Kingsley on AMC
pete is nothing but a cheater and karen needs to stay away, she stole all those clothes for nothing
I think I had most of the giant skirts..😂
The early 80s. When no one had a cell phone and people actually talked to one another. Relationships were real. I remember seeing "Shoplifters will be prosecuted" signs everywhere back then. Most stores were serious about their customers not stealing from their business. Those signs were serious as I always took it seriously after learning to read.
AHHHHHH.... the world before surveillance cameras and cell phones every where! 😜
True
ALSO, the world before physical theft became obsolete and most of the stealing is done by computer.
@@eternalhalloween1 You mean, online shoplifting? I've read up on something like that, and I've also read up on chargeback fraud (credit card fraud).
I didn't know that the girl from Sleepaway Camp and All My Children played a role in this movie.
Which girl is it?
@@raymondsolisjr.1262 Katherine Kamhi.
That looked like a fun dance!
That bracelet had to be super expensive and classified as a felony for all that to happened.
Sadly we’ll never know what had happened to Karen at the end whether she ended up with a jail sentence or even probation.
@@DannyM-xe5wc or gets raped real hard and good by a fellow inmate in jail
@@DannyM-xe5wc or if she gets raped real hard and good by a fellow inmate in jail
"She'll have a police record for the rest of her life."
"My parents didn't even allow me to wear make-up when I was in the 11th grade."
So, she's in the 11th grade. Age can't be more than 17 unless she flunked (unlikely).
So, how is it that she's being tried as an adult for shoplifting?
Casting director for this was like "we need someone to play a 17 year old, quick find me the nearest 32 year old actress stat!"
Lol, I thought the same thing!😂😅
This reminds me of when Winona Ryder AKA Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice shoplifted back in 2001.
that stiff dancing at 16:35 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Mr Gazzo, the Money Lender that Rocky worked for, was the security guard, when she wore the Jeans out of the store...
Look, I'm not advocating for shoplifting. But don't try to make it worse than a bank robbery. People get shot and injured or killed during bank robberies. Robbing a bank is a Federal offense. What this girl did was barely a violation and no one was hurt. If this girl demanded a jury trial, guess what? No judge, jury, or Prosecuting Attorney would want to be bothered with her petty crime. This program is so devastatingly misleading it's laughable to anyone who studied law.
Being under 18 years of age, she would be tried as a juvenile for such a petty offense. In juvenile court, she would not have the right to jury trial. But, she would however under the 1967 Gault Decision, have the right to a defense lawyer at her hearing in juvenile court. Hopefully, she would learn her lesson and never break the law again.
I was at a jury selection once for shoplifting. But that involved a $2,000. tv.
very likely the point of this film was to deter young people from shoplifting so they punched up the consequences/a repeat offender would have more to worry about than a first-timer
Yea. You're probably right. There's always the official story you learn, and then the reality story. Ha ha. When I learned to be a church organist, you are taught to be ready to do almost any song. And then the reality is you learn your church likes a small handful of songs.
Karen Joslyn When I heard that line: "She was just shoplifting." I was like, "Just shoplifting" my @$&! Shoplifting is NOT an innocent game, it's a serious #*@%in' offense.😒😒😒😒😒
One time in 1984, I forgot to pay for a 99-cent keychain at Walmart, and I still think the feds are coming after me. lol.
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This is total CRAP! She would not go to jail for lifting a bracelet (unless it was over $300 in Calif.) and she's a minor and when she turned 18 it's not on her record any longer. Good scare tacit for 1981.
Thank you! This is SO fake! No judge, Distric Attorney, or jury would want to be tied up with something so petty! At worst, she would have spent a night in jail and be told to not do it again. As a juror, I saw someone tried for shoplifting. But that was a $2,000. TV! And yes. Even if this went on her record (which is doubtful), it would have been off her record so soon seeing it was so petty. Thank you for being a voice of reality here Denise.
probably have to do community service and court-ordered counseling
Typical 1980's: a zero tolerance for a crime whose biggest victim is - "the economy, stupid!"
And..would ANY retail establishment put a really expensive bracelet out where any light-fingers could pinch it??
Yes this is a movie..i once shoplifted ,i stole an alarm clock long ago and tiny biscuits but i never got caught.There weren't any video surveillance systems in the store i went into so it was easy to put stuff in one's bag..i stole twice but i was so scared each time that i stopped very quickly.I'm not proud of that but in the eighties it was VERY EASY to steal.The emprisonment is a bit ridiculous whereas She is supposed to be a minor even if she was in her twenties..
LOL@ the music when she’s caught!
That’s the same actress who played Lucy Lane in Supergirl, and one of the pink ladies in Grease 2.
You're right about that.
16 billion dollars?
A strip search?
This is hilarious and just a complete farce.
A strip search is the most humiliating part of being arrested for shoplifting.
Damn! They stripped search her for shoplifting??? Whooo child times were rough back then.
Now this is was good wholesome tv was for kids in 80s you couldn’t even get tv shows for kids like this now ever again tv and music in thing back in these times now it’s just a classic tv fade-away I was 6 years old in 1981 I love coming home after school and watching each episodes well in this case the title spoke for itself really abc after school special childhood memories are still alive up until this day and age love the 80s