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Season 1

1. Sixteen Candles  

Community Score

8.6 Great 1
review
First aired: 8/25/1999

A woman falls asleep after drinking and dies from smoke inhalation. She gets a second chance to change her life of alcohol, help her marriage and become closer to her son.

2. Death and Taxes  

Community Score

8.1 Great
First aired: 9/1/1999

Roger Stovallīs son Steven disappears during a fishing trip and Roger lets everyone, from the sheriff down to his wife know what he thinks of their search. But after a hard dayīs work at the IRS, he sees his son, runs after him, and is killed by a car. Othniel tries to tell him about caring for other people, such as an IRS case where Roger cold-heartedly closed a manīs dog shelter, but itīs only when Roger is sent back and sees how he treats his family that he truly understands and gets his younger, rule-following self to change. But when Roger is returned to the present, he has to relive the disappearence of his son - his kindness didnīt prevent it... and Roger blames Mr Jones...

3. The Healing Touch  

Community Score

7.9 Good
First aired: 9/8/1999

Grace, an ambitious OB/GYN doctor who never stop doing what it takes for her to get ahead in life, dies when she fails to stop her car at a railway crossing. Othniel accuses her of being self-centered, to the point of competing with her loving husband, Sam, and ending his career at the hospital. Sent back as a nurse, Grace (now known as Daisy) immediately get on her younger selfīs nerves - and at the same time attract the attention of Sam. Samīs wandering eyes makes young Grace even more cold, and Jones has his problems trying to talk Grace/Daisy out of taking her last chance at a real date with her husband...

4. Ashes to Ashes  

Community Score

4.4 Poor
First aired: 9/15/1999

Mr Jones has trouble convincing a chain-smoking woman that she must somehow persuade her younger self to stop smoke. In the process, she finally comes closer to her own mother, whose absence in her teens now becomes painfully clear.

5. Double Exposure  

Community Score

9.0 Superb
First aired: 9/22/1999

Young Julie listens too ardently when her single embittered mother says to forget her dreams of becoming a photographer. Until Jones gets her a second chance and she works hard as a waitress where her younger self comes in to eat regularly. She has her younger self take pictures at a birthday party in the park and entices her to stand up to her mother and go to art school after all.

6. The Blame Game  

Community Score

8.5 Great
First aired: 9/29/1999

Charlie, a Vietnam veteran, still blames his mother for not being able to go to college, 30 years ago. But when his mother slips into a coma, things take a turn for the worse.

7. Blood Brothers  

Community Score

8.9 Great
First aired: 10/13/1999

Joe Penny as a young boy who cannot forgive himself for turning his brother in for a crime. His brother is vindictive and adds to his guilt by expressing his hatred of Joe Penny's character. Joe Penny becomes an alcoholic and can only get a job doing school yard work when he had a real chance of becoming an excellent coach prior to the crime events. He also ignores a young woman who would have been a great support system. As His 2nd chance, he is willing to take the blame for the crime his brother initiated, but instead of ending with any of the previous bitterness by the brother, it turns out, as all 2nd chances should. For the betterment of the Whole.

8. School's Out  

Community Score

7.3 Good
First aired: 10/27/1999

Teacher, hardened by life without companionship & love, has no compassion or understanding for her students. A young, sincere athlete, Eric, would do any number of make-up assignments just to able to go to college. She refuses Eric a second chance. She has no idea that the father she is a relative servant to, has manipulated the man she loved out of her life. She is shot during a burglary of a grocery store where Eric is begging with a cup outside the store. She is granted a second chance.

9. O'er the Ramparts We Watched  

Community Score

8.9 Great
First aired: 11/3/1999

A female lawyer is killed by a mugger on the way to a date with the man she has always loved. Jones argues that she has led an exemplary life, and Othniel seems to go with his feeling, but she argues for going back, and Othniel agrees. Her job becomes to defend her younger self and the man she loves for a small crime, which they didnīt do. But soon the younger self once again becomes stuck between the two men in her life - the conservative father and the radical boyfriend. And the repercussions of her actions are perhaps so severe that it is impossible for her older self to change her life.

10. A Match Made in Heaven  

Community Score

7.9 Good
First aired: 11/10/1999

At a fancy banquet, a successfull man, Pete, is verbally attacked by his drunk son. And it seems his entire family are having one complaint or another. Later, he dies during a jogging trip. When Peteīs sent back by Othniel (as a priest), he soon has to come to terms with his younger selfīs problems - he loves one girl, but another claims that heīs the father of her unborn child, and thatīs who he married in the future he knows. But can he convince his younger self to marry the other girl, a poor Latin girl, with other means than disclosing the terrible secret he has been hiding for himself all these years?

11. The Quality of Mercy  

Community Score

8.4 Great
First aired: 11/17/1999

Meg McCleary is a great lawyer and has just finished her closing argument to convict a black man. At home, she denies her daughter to date her new boyfriend, because he is black. Heather drives off, Meg follows and her heart gives out. She gets a second chance to over come her prejudice as a young Puertican cop.

12. What She Did for Love  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 11/24/1999

After taking a job as a singing waitress, she accidentally electrocutes herself and gets a second chance in life.

She gave up everything for her career and was left with nothing, now she can find what she really wanted.

13. Second Service  

Community Score

9.3 Superb
First aired: 12/1/1999

Tory, a former tennis player, is bitter since a car crashed ended her career, her relationship and - she thinks - her life. But just before the wedding of her niece, she dies for real. And Othniel doesnīt buy her story about the accident ruining her life, so he sends her back to try to convince her younger self to accept the love from her boyfriend instead of sending him away.

14. The Gift of Life  

Community Score

8.1 Great
First aired: 12/15/1999

A bride dies at her own wedding still bitter that her father hasn't been part of her life. She gets a second chance and returns as a doctor with the chance to save her sister and gets to meet her father - who reveals something shocking to her.

15. Birds Of Paradise  

Community Score

8.9 Great
First aired: 1/12/2000

Barry, a teacher not really celebrating his 50th birthday, dies while hindering his pupils from playing a piece he wrote in his youth. In Othnielīs court it turns out that Barry stopped write music when his girlfriend ODīd. But Othniel reveals that Barry really didnīt care about her, he only cared about fame, and that heīs been ridden with guilt ever since her death. Mr Jones accompanies Barry to three days prior to the bandīs big audition, to stop Charlotte from dying. But the band doesnīt want to see Charlotteīs addiction. And then Barry makes the mistake of telling the band that heīs dead and used to be Barry... Now they think heīs crazy and timeīs running out.

16. Take Two  

Community Score

6.2 Fair
First aired: 2/2/2000

An old actress who never had her break and is on her way downward is electrocuted by a neon sign. Othniel charges her with having blamed everything on a rival at a casting session many years ago, who cheated her way in. When Mr Jones accompanies her back, she becomes a make-up artist to her younger self. Her first strategy is to hinder her competitor wrong, but somehow she finds out anyway. And her idol has some startling news for her...

17. For Love and Money  

Community Score

5.2 Mediocre
First aired: 2/9/2000

Sophie Price, a rich woman with a nearly deaf mother and a son who rebels against her through stealing, dies in a sauna accident. Othniel charges her with ignoring her son, ever since the day when he found $200.000 from a drug bust and she decided that they should keep it. She gets a second chance to set it straight, but to her surprise sheīs not sent to the time where her son found the money, but two months afterwards. Sheīs hired as the new nanny, and soon she discovers that Othniel was right - and that it was worse than she ever thought. Her six year old son has become bitter and wets his bed. But when she confronts herself, sheīs fired. And even her own mother doesnīt want anything to do with her. So she kidnaps the boy and takes him fishing...

18. Old Flames  

Community Score

8.5 Great
First aired: 2/16/2000

Mrs Edwina Lewis is filled with joy when Othniel sends her back, so that she can satisfy her curiosity about a man she once had the chance to have an affair with - and didnīt. Jones isnīt equally thrilled. But perhaps her marriage was better than she thought...

19. Pride and Prejudice  

Community Score

7.0 Good
First aired: 3/1/2000

Ron, clerk at a publishing house, has a hard time at his job, and on top of this, his own daughter, Kaitlin, wonīt give up her unborn child so that she can continue study, but instead wants to live in her boyfriendīs garage. Ron blames this on his wife, Tammy, who he thinks should have stayed at home with Kaitlin, while she was a baby. Soon however, Ron trips on a book and dies. Othniel sees that Ron is serious in his regrets and sends him back in time, as a handy-man, a joiner. It doesnīt take long for Ron (now Randy) to try to get Tammy to be a stay-at-home mom, but before he has a chance he discovers the reason why Kaitlin is so shy - because nobody cares about her, not even her nanny. So Randy spends some time with her. When itīs time to leave her with Tammy he discovers that she is very good at her job, and that sheīs up for a promotion. The only problem now is to convince himself that, in spite of what people might think, perhaps it better for him to stay home with Kaitlin...

20. Party Girls  

Community Score

8.3 Great
First aired: 5/3/2000

After Blair Wilson, a young mother, once again loses her battle for custody of her daughter, Chloe, because she has been drinking, she goes to a bar to forget everything, but ends up dying from hitting her head on a railing. Othniel argues that Blair still lives in denial about her drinking problem, and that she still blames her mother for the death of her boyfriend, Kevin. But since Blair shows more care for her daughter than for herself, Othniel sends her back, as a social worker. Her first case is her own alcoholic mother, and Blair tries to get her stop drinking so that the car crash that killed Kevin would never happen. But she doesnīt want to see that her younger self is also drinking, and that will have disasterous results...

21. The Trouble with Harry  

Community Score

6.3 Fair
First aired: 5/10/2000

Musical composer Tom Lasky is constantly bothered by his neighbour Harry, and doesnīt notice that the gas oven doesnīt work properly. After he is gassed to death, Tom finds himself at Othniel, who shows him that Harry dies without Tomīs help. Tom is returned as a hobo, only one hour before he dies, but Harry disturbs the rescue attempt, and they are put in a mental institution together. Tom gets in two uncomfortable positions: advocating Harry in front of himself, and living beyond his first death. But can he persuade himself to turn into his "brotherīs keeper"?

22. Sins of Our Father  

Community Score

8.5 Great
First aired: 5/17/2000

Sam, a 17 year old boy, finds out that his mother is looking for him and his sister. This makes him question his fatherīs story of the mother as a dangerous drug addict. He however says nothing to his sister, but sheīs having visions of her mother. When Sam refuses to tell her whatīs up, she accidentally shoots him. Othniel sends Sam back in order to convince himself to tell his sister Angel about the mother. But his old self has trouble believing a green-haired punk-rocker he just met. Soon after, the new Sam meets a sick woman at the boarding house, where he lives, who turns out to be his mother. But can he control his anger and blame when he finds out why sheīs on drugs?

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