Twice in a Lifetime
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1. Sixteen Candles
First aired: 8/25/1999A 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.
Director: Graeme Campbell
Guest star: Gwynyth Walsh (Madeline Strong), Brenda Devine (Mary), Janaya Stephens (Mrs. John Paul O"Brien), Austin Strugnell (Ryan), Brad Austin (John Paul O'Brien), Alexa Gilmour (Young Woman), Robert Tinkler (Young Man), Kerry Dorey (Mr. O'Brien), Vickie Papavs (Mrs. O'Brien), Lili Francks (OB Nurse), John Robinson (Pete), Alexandra Lai (Katie O'Brien), Peter Snider (Doctor), Amos Crawley (Josh Strong)
2. Death and Taxes
Community Score
| 8.1 Great |
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...
Director: Allan King
Guest star: Corbin Bernsen (IRS Agent Roger Stovall), Hardee T. Lineham (Robby Turner), Diana Reis (Eliane Stovall), Carolyn Scott (Business Woman), Jezebel Farias (Angelic Babe #1), Barbara Singfield (Angelic Babe #2), Lisa Hynes (IRS Secretary), Bill Lake (Sheriff), Patrick Galligan (Agent Citrano), Russell Yuen (Agent Hoye), Emmanuel Mark (George DiPietro), Michael Seater (Steven Stovall), Todd Schroeder (Traffic Cop), Evan Caravela (Young Steven), Nancy McAlear (Forest Ranger)
3. The Healing Touch
Community Score
| 7.9 Good |
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...
Director: Allan King
Guest star: Jonelle Allen (Dr Grace Grant), Janet Bailey (Young Grace), David Eisner (Dr Dan Brickner), Maurice Dean Wint (Dr. Samuel Heistings), Jennifer Gould (Lisa Rudinsky), Christine Oddy (Rachel), Chris Adams (Intern Miller), Anne Louise Bannon (Maggie the Waitress), Janet Van De Graff (Nurse #1), Christina Collins (Nurse #2), Lea Weir (Amy), Andrew Meikle (Tommy), Geoffrey Miller (Truck Owner)
4. Ashes to Ashes
Community Score
| 4.4 Poor |
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.
Director: Graeme Campbell
Guest star: Melody Johnson (Young Dana), Stephanie Zimbalist (Dana Hancock), Patrice Goodman (Lauren), Ardon Bess (Dr Harold Roth), Linda Griffiths (Margie), Erica Lancaster (Suzy), Mark Wilson (Steve), David Frisch (Ben), Balazs Kods (Adam), Rob McClure (Jon), Christiane MacKenzie (Cary), Graham Losee (David), Dean Armstrong (Bruce Bennetts), Melanie Ouanounou (Francine), Serena Lea (Tracy), Jim Codrington (Coach Cronin), David Sparrow (Vendor), Lee Taylor (Sheila Wolfson)
5. Double Exposure
Community Score
| 9.0 Superb |
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.
Director: Graeme Campbell
Guest star: Kate Jackson (Julie Smith), Richard Eden, Kelly Ivey, Alycia Purrott (Callie), Amy Stewart (I) (Kimberly Banks), Diahann Carroll (Jael), Steven Ferguson (Young Man), Jordy Benattar (Young Kimberly Banks), Lori Hallier (Julie's Mom), Olaf Szester (Richard Banks), Kathryn Zenna (Annie), Lynn Vogt (Jan Meshkoff), Linlyn Liu (Young Police Woman), Simon Cotter (Driver), Ben Mayer Goodman (Young Axel), Ari Cohen (Adult Axel), Heidi Von Palleske (Sonja), Sam Malkin (Cook / Owner), Rufus Crawford (Office Perez), Marty Morgan (Paramedic), Ralph Small (Police Officer), Albert S. Waxman (M.C.)
6. The Blame Game
Community Score
| 8.5 Great |
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.
Director: Eleanore Lindo
Guest star: Ron Glass (Charlie Winters), Merwin Mondesir (Young Charlie Winters), Polly Bergen (Deborah), L.J. Vasilantonakis (Biker), Marcus Bruce (Plumber), Michael Cera (Skateboarder #2), Liam Titcomb (Teenage), Cle Bennett (Charlie Jr.), Scott Henderson (Skateboarder #1), Zach Smith (Skateboarder #3), Jack Mather (Sammy)
7. Blood Brothers
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
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.
Director: Manfred Guthe
Guest star: Brooke Nevin (Young Katie), Christopher Jacot (Young Ray), Frank McAnulty (Coach Duane), Joe Penny (Flash Jerico/David Lazarus), Kevin Zegars, Catherine Swung (Adult Katie), Kenneth McGregor (Adult Ray), Jake Goldsbie (Mickey), Egidio Tari (Officer Moline), Chuck Shamata (Coach Rybeck), Mary-Lu Zahalan (Louise), Kim Roberts (Brenda), Polly Bergan (Deborah)
8. School's Out
Community Score
| 7.3 Good |
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.
Director: Allan King
Guest star: Tim Progosh (Gary Ray), Nicholas Kilbertus (Mr. Powell), Marion Day (Ms. Lane), Carolyn Meehan (Waitress), Tony Curtis Blondell (Clerk), Jesse Nilsson (Young Eric Lee), James Downing (Adult Eric Lee), Natalie Radford (Young Eloise Hawke), Cedric Smith (Dr Eldrige Hawke), Roberta Maxwell (Eloise Hawke), Bree Williamson (Carol Anne)
9. O'er the Ramparts We Watched
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
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.
Director: Holly Dale
Guest star: Diahann Carroll (Jael), Mariette Hartley (Brooke Canby/Janet Bryant), Megan Falhenbock (Younger Brooke), David Hewlett (Mr. Green), Jack Duffy (Samuel Gold), Scot Denton (Governor Stanton), Barry Flatman (Nathaniel Canby), Dave Nichols (Older Stryker), Tim Burd (Man / Robber), David Fraser (City Attorney), Caley Wilson (Clerk), David Rosser (Court Bailiff)
10. A Match Made in Heaven
Community Score
| 7.9 Good |
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?
Director: David Winning
Guest star: Patrick Duffy (Pete Hogan), Grant Nickalls (Young Pete Hogan), Leila Johnson (Susan Hewitt), Anais Granovsky (Isabel Sanchez), Ross Petty (Jim Hewitt), Steve Cumyn (Duncan Price), Kevin Frank (MC), Addison Bell (Judge Mooney), Nancy Cser (Adult Susan), Brad Austin (Brad), Michelle Nolden (Melanie), Paulino Nunes (Agent Metcalfe), Glen Gaston (Wayne), Tara Samuel (Young Mother)
11. The Quality of Mercy
Community Score
| 8.4 Great |
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.
Director: Eleanore Linda
Guest star: Heather Brown (Heather McCleary), Joanna Cassidy (Meg McCleary), Carly Street (Young Megan McCleary), Andrew Airlie (Detective David Hayes), Patrick Stevenson (Graphia), Rogue Johnston (Michael Johnson), Tim Burton (Ben), Heather Brown (Heather), Phillip Jarrett (Station Owner), David Mackay (Assistant D.A. Knelman), Guilio Kukrugya (Judge), Noam Jenkins (Hector Soto), Nicholas Pasco (Lieutenant Waxman), Duane Murray (Mantee), Henry Alessandroni (Martinez), Beatriz Pizano (Graciela), Anthony McLean (Derrick)
12. What She Did for Love
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
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.
Director: Allan King
Guest star: Donna Mills (Linda Mackenzie), Anne Openshaw (Aliandra Dunne), R.D. Reid (Ernie Slate), Kim Schraner (Young Linda), Polly Shannon (Vicky Sue), Debbie Fleming (Singing Louise), Bradley Garrick (Kent), Larry Day (Director), Cameron Graham (Stage Manager 1999), Lee MacDougall (Stage Manager 1979), Eddie Glen (Window Washer), Thomas Mitchell (Tom Miller), Jordan Allison (Kurt)
13. Second Service
Community Score
| 9.3 Superb |
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.
Director: Holly Dale
Guest star: Susan Blakely (Tory Van Dyke), Nicole Crozier (Young Tory Van Dyke), Paul Miller (III) (Adult Randy), Jeff Roop (Young Randy), David Ferry (Jerry), Alexandra Stapley (Young Tina), Tanya Henley (Adult Tina), Alex Amini (Emily), Sunday Muse (June), Karen Glave (Senior Nurse), Larisa Gomes (Young Nurse), Julie Watson (Nurse), Jessie Farb (Peter at 14), Sarah Bolstridge (Robin at 14), Tony Holme (Umpire)
14. The Gift of Life
Community Score
| 8.1 Great |
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.
Director: Eleanore Lindo
Guest star: Michele Greene (Jenny Parnell), Brenda Bazinet (Pauline Parnell), Kevin Hare (Mike Soroko), Adrian Hough, Ron Payne (Minister), Alison Reid (Jenny Stunt Double), Patrick Mark (Bellboy Stunt), Adam Bramble (Butler), Lee Taylor (Florence Russell), Alexandra Stapley (Young Jenny Parnell), Erin McMurtry (Older Wendy), Holly Stapley (Young Wendy), James Loxley (Dr. Levine)
15. Birds Of Paradise
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
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.
Director: Holly Dale
Guest star: Reagan Pasternak (Ramona), Steve Landesberg (Barry Kirkbride), Tamara Gorski (Young Louise), Christian Potenza (Young Barry), Tamara Levitt (Charlotte McKnight), Lynda Mason Green (Older Louise), Elizabeth Loewen (Babs), Garrett Bennett (Mark), Howard Jerome (Nate), Trent McMullen (Stan), Taylor Petit (Teenage Girl), John Dewey (John), Brad Hopkins (Carlton)
16. Take Two
Community Score
| 6.2 Fair |
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...
Director: Manfred Guthe
Guest star: Daniel Hugh Kelly (Rex Stanford), William Hutt (Lionel), Josh Peace (Young Rex Stanford), Gema Zamprogna (Young Sarah), Lauren Lipson (Victoria), Frank Zotter (Frank Zotter), Shelly Peterson (Sarah), Samantha Reynolds (1st AD), James Thomas (Rex's Son)
17. For Love and Money
Community Score
| 5.2 Mediocre |
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...
Director: Holly Dale
Guest star: Julia Duffy (Sophie Price), Jayne Eastwood (Emma), Matthew Lemche (Sean), David Nerman (Young / Old Selden), Sarah Maude Campbell (Artie), Darren Hynes (Joe), Ned Vulkovic (Mr. Ladenheim), Blair Johannes (Sam Logan), Peter Cox (Dealer #1), Ed Queffelec (Dealer #2), Jayne Eastwood
18. Old Flames
Community Score
| 8.5 Great |
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...
Director: David Winning
Guest star: Michelle Phillips (Edwina Lewis), Amy Price-Francis (Young Edwina Lewis), Jason Knight (Young Barry), Anthony Lemke (Young Hugh), Neil Foster (Brad), Jack Manchester (Walker)
19. Pride and Prejudice
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
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...
Director: David Winning
Guest star: Lindy Booth (Caitlin), Lance Kinsey (Ron / Handy Randy), Tracey Cook (Tammy Taylor), Noah Klar (Michael / Meat / Speed), Roger Dunn (Mr. Kingsley), Maxine Guess (Ellen), Mark Cameron Fraser (Ron's Photo Double), Donald Carrier (Roger), Judy Marshak (Iris), Lisa Yamanaka (Georgia)
20. Party Girls
Community Score
| 8.3 Great |
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...
Director: Manfred Guthe
Guest star: Tracey Gold (Blair Wilson), Maria Ricossa (Olympia), Stacy Grant (Veronica Rydell), Brooke Johnson (Mrs Wilson), Emily Hampshire (Young Blair Wilson)
21. The Trouble with Harry
Community Score
| 6.3 Fair |
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"?
Director: David Winning
Guest star: Fiona Reid (Head Nurse Fiske), Brent Carver (Harry), Jere Burns (Tom Lasky), Jennifer Phipps (Bess Lasky)
22. Sins of Our Father
Community Score
| 8.5 Great |
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?
Director: Holly Dale
Guest star: Torri Higginson (Becca Curtis), Asia Vieira (Angel Ryder - age 14), Thomas Ian Nicholas (Sam Ryder), Danielle Bouffard (Angel Bryson - age 5), Aidan Devine (Phil Ryder), Patricia Gage (Mrs Gerson), Mung-Ling Tsui (Mrs Brady), Stephanie Mills (II) (Lisa), Robbie Bugbee (Baby Sam)
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