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The Best Episodes of Twice in a Lifetime

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 7 - Blood Brothers
    9.3/10(17 votes)

    S1:E7

    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
    Writer:James Kramer

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  2. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 2 - It's a Hard Knock Life
    9.2/10(14 votes)

    S2:E2

    Bitter recluse Nancy, who cares more about her cats than about people, ironically dies from being hit in the head by a cat statue. Othniel wants to give her a second chance to learn to like people, and takes her back to the orphanarium, where she used to dream about being adopted by the perfect mom from her favourite movie. Instead she had this harsh adoption board attendant, who hates cats. While her guide Mr Smith is taught a lesson in humility, and maybe something about himself, Nancy tries her best at getting her younger self adopted by the seemingly perfect woman. But things aren't always the way they seem... or how we remember them.

    Director:David Winning
    Writer:Marcy Vosburgh

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  3. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 10 - A Match Made in Heaven
    9.0/10(15 votes)

    S1:E10

    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 Pete's sent back by Othniel (as a priest), he soon has to come to terms with his younger self's problems - he loves one girl, but another claims that he's the father of her unborn child, and that's 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
    Writer:Bernie Kukoff

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  4. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 21 - The Trouble with Harry
    9.0/10(11 votes)

    S1:E21

    Musical composer Tom Lasky is constantly bothered by his neighbour Harry, and doesn't notice that the gas oven doesn't work properly. After he is gassed to death, Tom finds himself at Othniel, who shows him that Harry dies without Tom's 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 ""brother's keeper""?

    Director:David Winning
    Writers:Pamela K. Long, Stephen Brackley

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  5. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 5 - Double Exposure
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    S1:E5

    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
    Writers:Chris Abbott, Steve Sohmer

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  6. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 5 - My Blue Heaven
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    S2:E5

    All his life, Dan Patello aspired to be a cop like his father and grandfather. But Dan wasn't prepared for the rampant corruption within the police department, which included bribery and planting evidence. When Dan is killed during an illicit traffic stop, Mr. Smith doesn't have any symopthy for this 'dirty cop' and doesn't want to defend him. But Othniel see's Dan's promise and sends the due back to prevent Dan's younger self (10 years before) from accepting his first bribe. Along the way Dan discovers his father's secret, a secret he may not be able to accept.

    Director:Allan King
    Writers:Mike Scott, Robert Wolterstorff

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  7. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 4 - Ashes to Ashes
    8.8/10(10 votes)

    S1:E4

    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
    Writers:Steve Sohmer, Liz Coe

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  8. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 20 - Mama Mia
    8.6/10(10 votes)

    S2:E20

    Camilla has spent her life looking after her daughter and granddaughter, but all comes to an end when a wayward piano kills her. She gets to go back and try to fix her daughter marriage and make her daughter take responsibility to look after her own daughter (who ran away after Camilla's death). She also gets the chance to pursue a career of her own as a hairdresser.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 1 - Fallen Angel
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    S2:E1

    Ray, a firefighter with an outstanding record dies at the hand of his own son Richie. Ray's problems with his son began when Richie beat up another boy and Ray then covered it up. Mr Smith, who had died in a fire Ray had fought, is his newly appointed guide - and not a very willing one.

    Director:David Winning
    Writer:Pamela K. Long

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  10. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 9 - Some Like It ... Not
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    S2:E9

    Celebrity dentist Sandy is interviwing a new receptionist and hits on her constantly. Finally she agrees to go to the opera, but Sandy has no intention of going to the opera - he's ordered a luxurious dinner instead. Ironically, he chokes on an oyster. Othniel explains how he's refused to see women as thinking persons, and how he needs to walk a mile in their shoes, and since Mr Smith defends him sends him along for the ride - as Mandy and Lorraine. They are promptly hired by a younger Sandy in 1986, and Lorraine/Mr Smith decide that Mandy could learn a lot from Sandy's shy longtime nurse, Kirsten. Under Mandy and Lorraine's guidance, Kirsten's love for Sandy matures, but so does Sandy, up to the point where he asks Kirsten out to opera - for real. But knowing himself, Mandy goes to the opera, and when he doesn't find Sandy and Kirsten there, Mandy suspects that Sandy has put the moves on Kirsten, quite wrongly as it happens, but the result is that Mandy and Kirsten are fired. But Mr S

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 14 - The Frat Pack
    8.4/10(22 votes)

    S2:E14

    When Reese O'Malley visit his and his brother Ethan's bar, the old conflict between the siblings result in a threat to sell the bar, and Reese's death... Othniel accuses Reese with causing Ethan to fail the fraternity hazing, but Reese feels that it's Ethan that should be taught a lesson. Sent back to the days of the hazing, Reese (now called Chip) sees how harsch he is to Ethan, but still maintains that Ethan always got the attention from their dying mom, even if he didn't seem to care about her at all. Chip tries to convince Ethan to let Reese have this frat club to himself, when he learns that Ethan's sole motive is to have his brother's love. But will young Reese believe that?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 4 - Curveball
    8.3/10(14 votes)

    S2:E4

    Ben is an overbearing father. He only wants his son, Max, to do his best and that means winning. After an accident, both Ben and Max are in hospital and to Mr Smith's displeasure it is Max that dies. Instead of being sent back to Max's childhood - his is afterall only 14 - he and Smith are sent to Ben's childhood. Where Max learns the truth about his grandfather and the reasons behind his father's pressure. Ultimately, Max is able to convince Ben that he doesn't have to be the same as his father.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writer:Randy Brown

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  13. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 7 - The Escape Artist
    8.3/10(12 votes)

    S2:E7

    Stage magician Tony is executed in the electric chair after being found guilty of the murder of his sister, Vicki. Othniel says that if Tony had only relied more on his girlfriend after the murder, he could have been freed. Tony protests, showing anger towards God. Sent back as a security guard, he starts looking for the real killer among the other talents at the theatre. Soon the rivalry between Vicki and Tony's girlfriend Dee Dee is apparent - Dee Dee wants to get out of the small town, while Vicki is content to stay there - as well as fellow magician Jacques' infatuation with Vicki. But in the commotion during one of Tony's tricks, the killer strikes and Tony is once again arrested. Even more angry with God, security guard-Tony has a hard convincing his younger self to accept that he wasn't sent back to stop the murder, and not to shut Dee Dee out.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writer:Neil Landau

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  14. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 12 - What She Did for Love
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    S1:E12

    After taking a job as a singing waitress, she accidently 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
    Writer:Marcy Vosburgh

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  15. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 21 - Final Flight
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    S2:E21

    Luke is flying to France where his wife and son are planning to live after the marriage had failed. Mr Smith, a flight attendant, helps an eldery woman named Anne to prevent her from taking her own life. Also, a young boy who lost his leg when he was younger believes he can hear his dog, Willy, barking, they find out the dog has been placed into the wrong compartment and if the plane doesn't turn around the dog will die. Luke has to make the decision whether the dog and his family are really the most important things in his life.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 9 - O'er the Ramparts We Watched
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    S1:E9

    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 examplary 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 didn't 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
    Writer:Michael Ray Rhodes

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  17. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 22 - The Choice
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    S2:E22

    Ryan gets a second chance to return to his teenage years to prevent his father, a successful doctor, from having a heart operation which led to him being brain damaged. He always blamed himself as he had talked his father into having the proceedure. Mr. Smith gets to spend time with them and Rachel, Ryan's sister, lets him know who she thinks he really is: their guardian angel. Despite Ryan's pleading, his father still goes ahead with the surgery, this time with no complications and Ryan's finds himself not as a doctor - but as a priest, which he had always wanted to be.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 13 - The Night Before Christmas
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    S2:E13

    Delia has hated Christmas for 19 years when after an argument with her twin sister Amanda over Jake (a member of their band). Amanda had taken off on a motorcycle and never come back. She gets a second chance in life with family and gets a second chance in love as well.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 1 - Sixteen Candles
    6.5/10(11 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Graeme Campbell
    Writer:Pamela K. Long

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  20. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 8 - School's Out
    6.1/10(13 votes)

    S1:E8

    Teacher, hardened by a Life with out Male/Female companionship & Love, has no compassion or understanding for her students... Specifically a sincere young athlete, Eric, who would do any number of make-up assignments just to able to go to college. She refuses Eric a 2nd 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. After Jones sponsers her 2nd chance, things of course change for the Ultimate Better. And we, the audience, even find out the Father has a very human side and his manipulation came from his own lonliness.

    Director:Allan King
    Writer:Brenda Lilly

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  21. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 10 - Whistle Blower
    6.1/10(15 votes)

    S2:E10

    David gets a second chance to go back and change a decision he made and the regret of allowing his son to live. When he was younger toxic waste was being dumped, the first sign being dead frogs turning up in the water. David has to decide which is more important - people or his career. At the same time his wife is pregnant with their first child, Jeremy. Mr. Smith shows him how much of a miracle Jeremy is and that just because he has down syndome doesn't mean he isn't special, and the perfect son.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 18 - The Knockout
    5.9/10(14 votes)

    S2:E18

    A former champion boxer, Jimmy, gives up on life after he challenges his brother to a fight. The fight being rigged ends up in his brother dying. He gets the second chance to return and save the life of his brother, but he is still determined to win the fight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Randy Brown

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  23. Twice in a Lifetime Season 2 Episode 16 - Moonshine Over Harlem
    5.2/10(22 votes)

    S2:E16

    After a brief appearence at a school, Charlie - a gang member in the 1930s and 1940s - is killed. Othniel tells him that he has redeemed his bad ways ever since, but that he can get a second chance anyway, to solve his conflict with the love of his life, Rose. Mr Smith follows Charlie back to Harlem during the Prohibition era, where Charlies interracial relationship to Rose is something strange and frowned upon. But the real problem is that Rose's father is with the FBI, and that Rose will turn Charlie in. Now Charlie must somehow convince himself to get out before the deal that will be raided by the FBI, or get Rose to not turn him in.

    Director:David Winning
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 6 - The Blame Game
    5.0/10(14 votes)

    S1:E6

    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
    Writers:Allen Estrin, Joseph Telushkin

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  25. Twice in a Lifetime Season 1 Episode 2 - Death and Taxes
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E2

    Roger Stovall's 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 day's 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 man's dog shelter, but it's 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 didn't prevent it... and Roger blames Mr Jones...

    Director:Allan King
    Writer:Babs Greyhosky

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Best Episodes Summary

"Blood Brothers" is the best rated episode of "Twice in a Lifetime". It scored 9.3/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Manfred Guthe and written by James Kramer, it aired on 10/13/1999. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "It's a Hard Knock Life".