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"The Special Treat from Margaret, Phil, and Karly, Sr." is a three-part 2023 episode of the American television series Caprice & Ella, which is slated to air on March 9, 2023. It is the first anthology show in the series' history as Caprice, Ella, Breeanna, Karly, and Ava remake after shcool specials that aired from the 1970's through 1990's on ABC, CBS, and NBC. The episode features special guest stars long-time WHOO-FTV Indianapolis news anchorwoman and mother of producer Karly Jameson, Karly Ryder; retired WTOR Fort Wayne sports director and father of Breeanna Sorensen, Phil; and the late mother of series creator and executive producer Ava Zinn, Margaret via an age-progressed hologram. The episode marks the first apperance of Ava's grandchildren, Alisan, Michael, and Leah.

Plot

Three afterschool specials are retold and narrated by Phil Sorensen, Karly Ryder, and Margaret Zinn as Ava and Breeanna tells three bedtime stories to Ava's three grandchildren (Alisan, Michael, and Leah) with Caprice and Ella in tow as Alisan, Michael, and Leah are spending the weekend while Tiffani's widow, Jenna and Samantha's widow, Martin, are out of town on a business trip.

The first retelling comes from Caprice and Ella from the 1985 NBC Special Treat episode "Out of Time," two farm children portrayed by Caprice and Ella are hurled back in time to get the truth about Ava's father, Willis. The second retelling comes from Ava as this relates to her own gender transition as she tries to describe it as a grandfather to three grandchildren the best she can. That comes from the 1994 CBS Schoolbreak Special "My Summer as a Girl," as a teenage boy (Ava) desperate for a summer job, masquerades as a girl to land a chambermaid job at a swanky hotel. And finally, the third comes from the 1988 ABC Afterschool Special "A Family Again". In the third retelling and recollection of Ordinary People, a family (Caprice, Ella, and Ava) must come to grips with the deaths of both of Ava's remaining child (Tiffani) after Ava's only son with Mandy Davidson, Thomas, died in a vehicular hit-and-run on November 29, 2006; daughter with Elisa Everman, Sheryl, died from stage 4 lukemia on May 24, 2009; daughter with Angie Nieves, Tabitha, died on July 17, 2018 as well as son with Kymberly Alvaraz, Kenneth "Baby Kenny" on that date; and eldest daughter with Mandy Davidson, Samantha, died on November 30, 2020.

Part 1

While two siblings, Briget (Caprice) and Martina (Ella) are transported back to the 1920's in Fort Wayne, they find a mother (identified as Esther Black, Ava's paternal grandmother) who had just given birth to a boy (identified as Willis Zinn, Ava's father) at what was then Saint Joseph Hospital.

Part 2

Part 3

Production and devlopment

The episode was revealed in a tweet by series creator and executive producer Ava Zinn on October 10, 2022.

Cultural refrences

In the opening credits, instead of the usual theme song, a sequence similar to that of the original 1985 NBC series Amazing Stories, of which stock footage was used.

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