Now and Again 1999 Season 1 Episode 2 Full Episode

Not to be confused with Once and Once more, which premiered the same week.

Now and Once more
Genre	Science fiction Comedy drama
Created by	Glenn Gordon Caron
Starring	Eric Shut Dennis Haysbert Margaret Colin Heather Matarazzo John Goodman
Opening theme	Gimme a Sign performed by Ariel Ryder
Composer	Douglas J. Cuomo
Country of origin	United States
Original linguistic communication	English
No. of seasons	i
No. of episodes	22
Product
Executive producers	Glenn Gordon Caron Ronald L. Schwary
Producer	Henry Bronchtein
Running time	hr
Production companies	Picturemaker Productions CBS Productions Paramount Network Idiot box
Benefactor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24) – May 5, 2000 (2000-05-05)

Now and Again is an American science fiction comedy-drama tv series created past Glenn Gordon Caron^[one] that aired from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States regime engineering the perfect human body for apply in espionage, but non being able to perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project upwardly and running, they have the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed in a train blow.

Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained past government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that non all is as it seems with Michael's decease.

Plot [edit]

Michael Wiseman (John Goodman in the pilot and flashbacks, and subsequently Eric Close) lives in suburban New York with his married woman Lisa (Margaret Colin) and daughter Heather (Heather Matarazzo) and works equally an executive at an insurance company. When passed over for a promotion, Michael and his friend and co-worker Roger (Gerrit Graham) go out drinking afterward work. While continuing on the subway platform heading home that nighttime, Michael is accidentally knocked off the platform directly into the path of an oncoming train. When he awakes, he sees Dr. Theodore Morris (Dennis Haysbert), the head of a top hole-and-corner regime project to artificially engineer the perfect human trunk. Unable to create a brain from scratch, Dr. Morris has rescued Michael's brain from his dead body and implanted it in the engineered body. The process allows Michael Wiseman to keep to live, but also forces him to work every bit an experiment for Dr. Morris and occasionally help fight terrorists. Considering of the top secret nature of the project, Michael is told he may never have contact again with his married woman or daughter, under penalization of his own death and the death of anyone he tells of his beingness. Despite the threat, Michael finds means to contact his family while keeping his true identity a undercover.

Over the form of the serial, Dr. Morris continues to experiment on Michael, testing the limits of his abilities and force. Michael is occasionally used to complete surreptitious missions or foil criminal activity. Lisa and Heather discover themselves running out of coin because the insurance visitor refuses to pay on Michael's policy leading Lisa to get a realtor.

Characters [edit]

Main [edit]

• Michael Wiseman (Eric Shut), an insurance executive who was killed in an blow; his brain has been implanted into a genetically-engineered body.
  • John Goodman plays Michael in both pilot and flashbacks
• Dr. Theodore Morris (Dennis Haysbert), the head of the superlative secret government project to engineer a human being
• Lisa Wiseman (née Slegermelge) (Margaret Colin), Michael's housewife widow who must larn to motion on with life afterwards her hubby'southward death
• Heather Wiseman (Heather Matarazzo), Michael's teenage girl
• Roger Bender (Gerrit Graham), Michael's best friend and fellow executive at the insurance visitor

Recurring [edit]

• The Eggman (Kim Chan), a terrorist who uses eggs to contain a deadly poisonous gas
• Gerald Misenbach (Scrap Zien), a lawyer who represents Lisa in dealing with Michael'south insurance company, and later a potential suitor
• Craig Spence (Chad Lowe), Michael's scheming and corrupt boss at the insurance company who is dead-set confronting paying on Michael's policy
• Special Agent #one (Mike Henry), Dr. Morris' right-mitt man
• Ruth Bender (Christine Baranski), Roger's never-seen wife

Notable guest stars [edit]

• In the first episode and flashback scenes in afterward episodes, John Goodman played Michael Wiseman in his original body.
• Reiko Aylesworth appeared as Dr. Taylor, a physical therapist for Michael Wiseman, sent to test his romantic attachment to his one-time wife.
• Mick Foley appeared in the final episode as the Eggman's cellmate, and assists in the Eggman's escape from prison.
• Ian Somerhalder appeared as Brian in the episode "A Girl's Life".
• Mark Margolis appeared as Nicky Vordogov in the episode "Lurid Turkey".

In improver, beginning with episode 10, Charles Durning was heard reading a brief narration at the get-go of each episode summarizing the show'south backstory.

Production and broadcast [edit]

The show ran for ane flavor. Airing on Friday nights, the evidence garnered only fair ratings. The reasons cited by CBS for its cancellation included the unjustifiable expense of the program and the low ratings.

Episodes [edit]

Home media [edit]

In 2014, CBS DVD released Now and Once again: The DVD Edition on region one DVD in the U.s..^[2] The 5-disc set features all 22 episodes of the series, two featurettes and a nearly two-hour long retrospective documentary. These include interviews and full participation from almost all of the leading cast and coiffure, bar John Goodman. According to the packaging the "music has been changed for this home entertainment version."

In 2016, an identical set was released on region 4 DVD in Australia by Via Vision Entertainment (VVE), though it was slightly retitled Now and Again: The Complete Serial.

Awards [edit]

In 2000 Now and Once again won iii Saturn Awards for:

• "Best Genre Boob tube Actress" – Margaret Colin
• "Best Genre Boob tube Supporting Player" – Dennis Haysbert
• "Best Network Television Series"

Now and Again was also nominated for an Emmy in 2000 for Outstanding Main Championship Pattern.

References [edit]

1. ^ Tomashoff, Craig (Dec 12, 1999). "Cover STORY; Just a Regular Guy, Who Tin can Outrun a Car". The New York Times.
2. ^ "Finalized Date, Bonus Material for DVDs of the Tardily-'90s Sci-Fi Thriller!". Tvshowsondvd.com. 2014-05-27. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2017-05-19 .

External links [edit]

• At present and Once again at IMDb

mcdougaldbegicke.blogspot.com

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

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