Twice in a Lifetime
44 Episodes, 2 Seasons
| S - | Ep - | 1999/08/25 |
| TV Series | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
The inspiring and provocative series taps into the universal fantasy: to be given a second chance to fix an error of the past. Every episode features a guest star playing a flawed person who dies suddenly. Waiting for him on the other side are two celestial figures: a guide, Mr. Smith, and Judge Othniel. The person is given the chance to return to earth and to a time when he went astray. Guided by Mr.Smith, the character has three days to cajole his younger self to not make the same mistake. By changing history, he can alter the future and the course of other lives affected by him. It is not easy as it first appears because the character must overcome deep biases and character flaws. Mr. Smith, who doesn't remember his own life on earth and death, struggles to make sense of human nature and to unravel the mysteries of the Universe. But by guiding others, he hopes to earn his own second chance.
Twice in a Lifetime
Sixteen Candles
| S 1 | Ep 1 | 1999/08/25 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
After falling to sleep drunk and smoking, a woman has a chance to change her life and curb her drinking. Realtor Madeline Strong cares about her young family clients. This care masks the pain she feels in her own family life. She continually dismisses her sixteen year old son, Joshua. Unknown to him, it's because she gave up her first son, Paul, for adoption, Paul who was born on the exact same day as Joshua fourteen years earlier when Madeline herself was only sixteen. Madeline's relationship with her mother, Mary, became estranged over what Madeline saw as callousness in her mother over her teen-aged pregnancy. Othniel sends Madeline back as the adoption agent to thirty years prior just before she is about to give birth to Paul. Beyond trying to convince Mary to let Madeline keep the baby, he gets a chance to see how her mother really felt about the pregnancy. Madeline also learns there are longer term consequences to changing history.
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Death and Taxes
| S 1 | Ep 2 | 1999/09/01 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
An IRS agent gets to change his younger self so he doesn't follow rules so closely and spends more time with his family.
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Healing Touch
| S 1 | Ep 3 | 1999/09/08 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
Sent back as a nurse a former doctor starts to attract her younger husband and wants to go out on a date with him.
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Ashes To Ashes
| S 1 | Ep 4 | 1999/09/15 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A woman must convince her younger self to stop smoking.
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Double Exposure
| S 1 | Ep 5 | 1999/09/22 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
Now a waitress, one woman convinces her younger self to not give up on becoming a photographer.
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The Blame Game
| S 1 | Ep 6 | 1999/09/29 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A man blames his mother for not going to college.
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Blood Brothers
| S 1 | Ep 7 | 1999/10/13 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A man goes back to take the blame for a crime his brother started.
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School's Out
| S 1 | Ep 8 | 1999/10/27 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A teacher hardened by life is given a second chance to go back.
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O'er the Ramparts We Watched
| S 1 | Ep 9 | 1999/11/03 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A lawyer goes back to defend her younger self.
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A Match Made In Heaven
| S 1 | Ep 10 | 1999/11/10 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
Peter Hogan, a mall developer, sold out his architectural career and copped out on the true love of his life for a shot at some real money. When he runs himself to death, he gets a second chance, thanks to Judge Othniel and is sent back to earth as a priest on a mission! The small business community respects architect Peter Hogan, a strip mall developer. His personal life, however, is in shambles. He married the boss' daughter, Susan Hewitt, after he got her pregnant. Peter slept with Susan in part as a self serving measure to further his career. The resulting marriage did lead to Peter becoming President of Hewitt Development. Their resulting two offspring, now adults, ended up being spoiled and generally disrespectful people. At the time of Peter and Susan's wedding, Peter was really in love with Isabel Sanchez, an architecture student from El Salvador who was being persecuted in her homeland for peaceful protests against the government. After Peter's wedding, Isabel was deported back to El Salvador and never heard of again. Judge Othniel sends Peter back to 1974 as Father Daniel Morrissey, the priest at Peter's church where Isabel worked. Father Morrissey is also Peter and Susan's marriage adviser. As Father Morrissey, Peter wants to convince his younger self to follow his true architectural followings, a following that is supported more by Isabel's mentality than Susan's money hungry ways. But as Father Morrissey, he also learns some information that Peter suspected but probably didn't really want to know. It isn't until a grown Peter admits what his younger self wanted that he can accomplish his current mission.
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Quality Of Mercy
| S 1 | Ep 11 | 1999/11/17 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A prejudice lawyer is sent back as a Puerto Rican cop to learn a lesson.
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What She Did For Love
| S 1 | Ep 12 | 1999/11/24 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A singer is sent back to discover what she really wanted out of life.
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Second Service
| S 1 | Ep 13 | 1999/12/01 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
An ex-tennis player is sent back to convince her younger self to find love.
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The Gift of Life
| S 1 | Ep 14 | 1999/12/15 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
As a doctor a woman tries to bring her father back into her life.
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Birds of Paradise
| S 1 | Ep 15 | 2000/01/12 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
A man is sent back to keep his former girlfriend from overdosing and to keep him writing his music.
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Take Two
| S 1 | Ep 16 | 2000/02/02 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
An actress is sent back to an early audition that she thinks affected her whole life.
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For Love and Money
| S 1 | Ep 17 | 2000/02/09 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
Single mother Sophie Price has made a fortune on a cookie recipe and the resulting business. However she was only able to make this fortune because of the fortune she stole. In 1991, her adolescent son, Sean, witnessed a drug take-down and took the briefcase carrying the $200,000 drug money to his mother to turn in. Sophie instead decided to keep the money. Although that decision resulted in her being able to launch her cookie business, she started emotionally neglecting Sean as she was focused on the business and quest for more money. It made Sean depressed and sullen as a child and rebellious as a teenager. Further, Sgt. Selden Nichols, the police officer in charge of the drug take-down, was accused of stealing the money, that accusation which was a cloud over his pristine record. Othniel sends her back as Barbara Nash, Sean's new nanny. However, Othniel doesn't send her back to the time when Sean found the money, but six months afterward. This way, Othniel can see if Barbara/Sophie truly regrets stealing the money as she will now have to convince her younger self to return it after the fact.
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Old Flames
| S 1 | Ep 18 | 2000/02/16 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
Married to Barry Lewis, Edwina Lewis was a philanthropist and faithful to her husband. But she always wondered if their friend, Dr. Hugh Janyk - a man she worked with in Doctors Without Borders - was the one she should have been with. Hugh had always felt the same, ever since the opportunity arose twenty years earlier at a dinner party, when Barry was not present, for the two to begin a romantic liaison. Although Mr. Jones cannot believe that Othniel would sanction adultery, Othniel does send Edwina back to that dinner party as the maid working the party to see if Hugh was indeed the one she should have been with. Othniel believes that Edwina needs to find her true love.
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Pride and Prejudice
| S 1 | Ep 19 | 2000/03/01 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | Canada | |
Straight-laced Ron Taylor is feeling under-appreciated at work, despite his dedication and commitment. He hates his job in part because of the treatment he receives. But his hard work, and that of his wife Tammy, resulted in their daughter, Caitlin, being neglected as she was growing up. Seventeen year old Caitlin, who developed late as a child, is now pregnant, dating a loser named Meat and speaks with a stutter. Ron in part blames Tammy for Caitlin's poor upbringing, as Ron wanted Tammy to be a stay at home mom. But in death, Ron solely wishes that he could have given Caitlin a happier life. Judge Othniel gives Ron a second chance to at least try and carry out his wish. To when Caitlin was five and still not yet speaking, Othniel sends Ron back as Handy Randy, a grungy handyman. As Randy, Ron believes he can achieve his wish by convincing Tammy and his younger self to spend less resulting in Tammy not needing to work. As Randy spends time with Caitlin and sees Tammy at work, he comes to a different conclusion about what is best for Caitlin and the entire family.