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1999 American family drama goggle box series

Once and Again
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Created by	Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz
Starring	Sela Ward Billy Campbell Jeffrey Nordling Susanna Thompson Shane West Julia Whelan Evan Rachel Wood Meredith Deane Todd Field Marin Hinkle Jennifer Crystal Foley David Clennon Ever Carradine Steven Weber
Composers	W.M. Snuffy Walden Joey Newman
Land of origin	The states
Original language	English
No. of seasons	three
No. of episodes	63
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	The Bedford Falls Company Touchstone Goggle box
Benefactor	Buena Vista Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 21, 1999 (1999-09-21) – April 15, 2002 (2002-04-xv)
Chronology
Related shows	thirtysomething

In one case and Again is an American family drama television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999, to April xv, 2002. It depicts the family of a unmarried mother and her romance with a single male parent. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.

One of the testify's unique aspects was the "interview" sequences filmed in black and white and interspersed throughout each episode, where the characters would reveal their innermost thoughts and memories to the camera.

Premise [edit]

Lily Manning (Sela Ward) is a suburban soccer mom in her forties, who lives in Deerfield, Illinois. Recently separated from her philandering husband Jake (Jeffrey Nordling), Lily is raising her two daughters, insecure, anxiety-ridden fourteen-twelvemonth-one-time Grace (Julia Whelan), and precocious nine-twelvemonth-one-time Zoe (Meredith Deane). For back up, she turns to her more free-spirited younger sister, Judy (Marin Hinkle), with whom she works at their bookstore called My Sister's Bookstore (renamed Booklovers subsequently in the serial).

Lily's life changes when, during the pilot episode, she meets Rick Sammler (Billy Campbell) in the principal's office of Grace'due south school, Upton Sinclair High School.

Rick is a unmarried father and co-head of an architectural firm, Sammler/Cassili Associates, which is located in downtown Chicago. Rick has been divorced from his uptight ex-wife Karen (Susanna Thompson) for three years and has two children, Eli (Shane West), a 16-year-old basketball player at Sinclair High who suffers from a learning disability, and sensitive 12-year-sometime Jessie (Evan Rachel Woods), who longs for the days before her family'south disintegration.

Lily and Rick share an immediate common attraction and brainstorm dating. Their budding relationship causes issues in both of their respective families. Grace strongly objects to Lily and Rick'southward relationship as she still hopes to run into her parents get dorsum together. Karen, a public involvement attorney at the downtown constabulary house of Harris, Riegert, and Sammler, is worried near the toll Rick's new human relationship would take on their children, particularly Jessie, who is shy and emotionally fragile. She is as well working through her ain feelings of jealousy that Rick is moving on to a new human relationship.

In add-on to Lily and Rick's relationship, the bear witness also focused to a lesser degree on their exes, Jake and Karen, and their ain struggles to motion on in a mail service-divorce environment.

Plot summary [edit]

Season ane [edit]

Lily is in the process of divorcing her restaurateur married man, Jake. She is reluctant to begin dating once again due to the sensitivities of her daughters, who are still emotional most the divorce. She meets and is instantly attracted to divorced architect Rick Sammler. However, their new human relationship is complicated by Lily's many remaining emotional and financial issues with Jake. Grace and Eli become close when she becomes his tutor. Judy has a relationship with Rick's friend, Sam Blue (Steven Weber) before discovering Sam is married.

Flavour 2 [edit]

Lily and Jake's divorce is finalized and she hopes to spend more time with Rick. However, Rick becomes sidetracked past difficulties at work and has to begin working with unscrupulous developer Miles Drentell (David Clennon, reprising his role from the series thirtysomething). Things go difficult for Lily when Rick's project runs into legal difficulties and his ex-married woman Karen is hired to stand for the opposition. Jessie flirts with an eating disorder and begins to address her problems with the help of a therapist (played by show producer Edward Zwick). Jake's girlfriend Tiffany announces she is meaning. At the end of flavour two, Rick has to dissolve his architectural firm, and Lily and Rick get married.

Season 3 [edit]

Rick resumes his partnership with Sam Blue, now divorced, to design a hotel for a new customer. Sam and Judy try to be friends but eventually resume their romantic human relationship. Jake and Tiffany have a baby girl and somewhen determine to get married. Grace develops a crush on her English language teacher, Mr. Dimitri (Eric Stoltz); although their relationship never became sexual, an investigation eventually forces Mr. Dimitri to exit the school. Meanwhile, Jessie discovers she is attracted to another girl: upperclassman Katie Vocaliser (Mischa Barton), and after Katie acknowledges her own romantic feelings towards Jessie with a love letter, the two girls quietly begin dating while hiding their romance from everyone, in what became the start teen lesbian romance on American network television.^[ane] Karen deals with her depression; only as she is starting to make progress, she is striking past a car, leading to months of painful rehabilitation where she meets concrete therapist Henry Higgins (DB Woodside). Lily faces more painful domestic struggles when her mother begins to show signs of Alzheimer's disease and her brother Aaron (Patrick Dempsey), who is schizophrenic, wants to move in with his girlfriend. Past the end of the flavor, Rick and Lily face big decisions when he is offered a chore in Australia and she is offered a nationally syndicated radio prove. Their decisions are never shown, but in the last moments of the serial finale, Lily reveals she is pregnant and anybody comes together to attend Jake and Tiffany'southward wedding.

Bandage [edit]

Main [edit]

Sela Ward received several awards and nominations for her part every bit Lily Manning.

Sela Ward as Lily Manning: Grace and Zoe's mother, separated from Jake
Billy Campbell equally Rick Sammler: Eli and Jessie's father, divorced from Karen
Jeffrey Nordling as Jake Manning: Lily's estranged married man, Grace and Zoe'due south father
Susanna Thompson as Karen Sammler: Rick's ex-wife, Eli and Jessie's mother
Shane Westward as Eli Sammler: Rick's son
Julia Whelan equally Grace Manning: Lily's elder daughter
Evan Rachel Wood every bit Jessie Sammler: Rick's daughter
Meredith Deane as Zoe Manning: Lily's younger daughter
Marin Hinkle as Judy Brooks: Lily'south younger sister
Todd Field as David Cassilli (season 2;^[a] recurring season 1): Rick'southward business partner and friend
Ever Carradine as Tiffany Porter (seasons 2–3;^[b] recurring season 1): Jake's mistress/girlfriend
Jennifer Crystal Foley equally Christie Parker (season two): Lily'due south dominate at PagesAlive.com
David Clennon equally Miles Drentell (flavour ii^[c]): Rick and David's primary customer
Steven Weber as Samuel Blue (season three; recurring flavour ane): Rick'due south friend and Judy's lover

Recurring [edit]

Kimberly McCullough as Jennifer: Eli'due south girlfriend before Cassidy and earlier Carla
Kelly Coffield as Naomi Porter: Lily and Karen's mutual friend
James Eckhouse equally Lloyd Lloyd: Karen'southward ill-fated date
Paul Mazursky as Phil Brooks: Lily and Judy'due south father
Bonnie Bartlett every bit Barbara Brooks: Lily and Judy's mother
Mark Feuerstein as Leo Fisher: Karen's younger beau
Alexandra Holden every bit Cassidy: Eli's girlfriend after Jennifer
Patrick Dempsey as Aaron Brooks: Lily and Judy'due south schizophrenic brother
Audrey Marie Anderson as Carla Aldrich: Eli's girlfriend
Mark Valley as Volition Gluck: Handyman and Judy's lover
D. B. Sweeney as Graham Rympalski: Lily and Christie's co-worker at PagesAlive.com
Marco Gould every bit Spencer Lewicki: Grace's young man
Eric Stoltz equally August Dimitri: Grace's English language instructor/interim bus/romantic interest
Paul Dooley as Les Creswell: Lily'south dominate at WIPX
Mischa Barton as Katie Vocalist: Jessie's friend/girlfriend
Christina Chang every bit Amanda: Ane of Rick'south employees

Notes [edit]

^ Field was credited in the principal cast for episodes one through 13 of the second season.
^ Carradine was credited in the principal cast starting with episode 14 of the second season.
^ Clennon was credited in the primary cast for episodes ane through 21 of the second flavour.

Episodes [edit]

Flavor one (1999–2000) [edit]

Flavour 2 (2000–01) [edit]

Flavour three (2001–02) [edit]

Product [edit]

The series was filmed at the Century Studio Corporation sound stages in Culver Metropolis, California, and also on location in the Los Angeles area.

DVD releases [edit]

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (formerly Buena Vista Home Entertainment) released Flavour one on November 5, 2002, mere months after the serial finale. However, information technology took iii more years and numerous petition drives for season 2 to exist released, which occurred on August 23, 2005. A little over a month afterward, on September thirty, 2005, news bankrupt about the release of the third and final flavor, which was slated to occur on January 10, 2006. Mock-up photos of the packaging were fifty-fifty released. All the same, by October 2005 the title was delayed indefinitely with no explanation and was never released.

It was almost two years before another official word was uttered on the subject and in July 2007, it was reported that Buena Vista's license on the plan was soon to expire. As a effect, a new visitor could larn the distribution rights to the championship and potentially release the third flavor.^[two]

DVD Proper name	Ep #	Release Date
Season i	22	Nov 5, 2002
Season ii	22	August 23, 2005
Season 3	nineteen

Ratings [edit]

Season	Timeslot (EST/EDT)^[iii]	Flavor Premiere	Season Finale	TV Flavour	Rank	Viewers (in millions)	18–49 Boilerplate
1	Tuesday ten:00 p.g. (September 21 – December 21, 1999) Monday 10:00 p.chiliad. (January 24 – April 24, 2000)	September 21, 1999	April 24, 2000	1999–2000	#51^[4]	10.93	7.ix/13
two	Tuesday 10:00 p.grand. (October 24 – December 19, 2000) Wednesday ten:00 p.g. (January 10 – May 2, 2001)	October 24, 2000	May 2, 2001	2000–2001	#84^[5]	8.5	N/A
3	Friday 10:00 p.m. (September 28, 2001 – January 11, 2002) Mon ten:00 p.m. (March iv – April xv, 2002)	September 28, 2001	Apr 15, 2002	2001–2002	#107^[6]	6.seven	Northward/A

Awards [edit]

References [edit]

^ "Evan Rachel Wood on her queer roles, educating others well-nigh bisexuality and her preference for suits". AfterEllen. February 1, 2013.
^ "Once and Again on DVD, Release Info, News at TVShowsOnDVD.com" Archived 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved on 30 October 2011.
^ "One time and Again – TV.com", Television receiver.com. Retrieved on 30 October 2011.
^ "Usa-Jahrescharts 1999/2000", Quotenmeter.de, 30 May 2002. Retrieved on 30 Oct 2011.
^ "The Bitter End", EW.com, one June 2001. Retrieved on thirty October 2011.
^ "How did your favorite show rate?", Usa Today, 28 May 2002. Retrieved on 30 October 2011.

External links [edit]

Once and Again at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_and_Again