NBC (Mon., May 6, 9 p.m. ET)
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A muscular Fred Savage (grown up from The Wonder Years) acts convincingly against type as an abusive teenage boyfriend in this chilling special. Candace Cameron (Full House), touchingly inexperienced as girlfriend Stacy, and Heather McComb, intense and anxious as the friend who knows about the violence but doesn't tell, lift the story above the usual victim-of-the-week charade. Too bad that Sally Jessy Raphaël as the judge drags it back with a heavy-handed moral at the end.
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