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Episodes

Season 1, 10 episodes

Episode 1: Pilot
- Now playing
- Nov 25, 1993
The married couple George and Felicity return home to Santa Rita - his first vacation in 20 years. They are apalled that their son, Kevin, plans to marry Melinda in 14 days. Melinda is a Mexican-American waitress at the local Country Club, and her father hates to see her marry an 'anglo'. At the same time Kevin asks Dianne, a young defense attorney, to run against Judge Stinson at the upcoming election. Dianne's old 'flame', Mike Chulack, returns from 10 years in prison to the very deep dismay of her husband, Bruce. A criminal gets away from robbing a drugstore.
Episode 2: Coincidence or Conspiracy
- Dec 9, 1993
Mike Chulack and Dianne's younger sister, Kate, visit 'Herb's Auto Repair' where he gets a job, and they date. Soon she hires him as a driver for her 'Party Magic' business. Dianne discovers that Bruce buys and uses condoms and a divorce seems inevitable. Changes happen quickly now, and alone with Mike in Party Magic's business car they kiss passionately. The night before his wedding Kevin is totally drunk, and is apparently having sex with a stripper. Next morning Melinda finds some photoes showing the escapade and that makes her say *I do .. have reservatiions abhout this marriage'. To her father's endless joy the marriage is cancelled and her last dance is saved for him.
Episode 3: Living in Between
- Dec 16, 1993
Dianne leaves the frying-pan and walks into the fire as Bruce is found dead by gunshot at Kate's office. Bruce's secretary Joanna is busy deleting files and Dianne finds both her own and Bruce's money vanished without trace. Mike is taken by the police for the murder because he keeps his silent about the affair with Dianne and the alibi. Felicity demands that Kwevin makes Melinda return her engagement ring, and George confronts the stripper and gets some answers he did not expect.
Episode 4: I Can't Get No Satisfaction
- Dec 23, 1993
The 8 year old Brian teaches his mother Dianne, Kate and Melinda how to recover superficially deleted files, and Joanna is discovered as Bruce's lover. When her registrated gun is found she spitefully confesses the murder. On her father Sal's initiative Melinda starts dating Toly, and Kevin is despaired. Kevin sees faxes with death threats to Dianne and makes the police give her protection.
Episode 5: I Can't Get No Satisfaxion
- Dec 23, 1993
Tests from the autopsy proves Bruce regularly abused cocaine, and Dianne looses hope of ever finding any of the vanished money. However George and Felicity admit that they have handled Bruce's insurance money unsufficiently, and they fire their accountant. The technical investigations proves that he was not killed by his secretary, Joanna, as her bullet hit nothing but the wall. After some comic setbacks the police succeeds in tracing the person who faxes death threats to Dianne.
Episode 6: If the Truth Be Told
- Jan 13, 1994
Detective Jerry Kuntz who is the leader of the police investigation of the Bruce Christenson murder has elbowed his way into this position, and he seems very eager to let Tommy Simmons out of the scope. Some very special sunglasses were found beside the dead body, Kuntz delivers them back to the owner, Tommy, but a photo from the night of the murder shows Tommy wearing them on his forehead - in Mike Chulack'z presence. Again the investigation is focused upon Mike.
Episode 7: Down Looks Like Up
- Jan 20, 1994
Salvatore Lopez reports Tommy Simmons dead and that leads to the solution of the Bruce Christenson murder case. Melinda is forgiving Kevin his drinking the night before their originally planned wedding and takes him with her to get married. DO they succeed this time??
Episode 8: Miss Friendly Santa Rita
- Jan 27, 1994
Dianne Benedict still has a debt to Bruce's creditors of $12.300, and Pete Dyson, an electric contractor, shows her a bill of $38.000 dollars. Her sister Kate seems to solve it by selling her Classic car to a mortuary, but the cautious Dianne lets Pete make a merger with Bruce's construction company. Dianne loses the election and Jim Stenson stays as judge, who inherits a lot of money from a presumably dead Emilie Howell. Prior to that Mrs. Howell has given Kate Benedict the assignment to keep a birthday party for her dog Pretty Boy. Melinda decides to take part in a beauty pageant called 'Miss Friendly Santa Rita', and again her father is horrified.
Episode 9: Miss Friendly Santa Rita
- Jan 27, 1994
Miss Friendly Santa Rita 1981 Lara Peterson is guest judge at the present beauty pageant. 'Cook Insurance' sponsors the event the 7th year in a row, so George is a judge, too, while Jim Stinson is the third. To his amusement Lara flirts with George, and Stinson is busy making passes on Melinda. Mike proposes to Dianne, and a rivalry between Kevin and Richard seems certain to occur, but Kate is intensely focused on finding Emily who is alive, indeed.
Episode 10: Justifiable Jealousy
- Feb 10, 1994
Emily May Howell's brother, dr. Ruben L. May, is found dead by Kate who suspects Judge Stinson to have murdered him. Mike wants to have lunch with Dianne, but Pete is more lucky and Mike is very jealous.

Second Chances

1993 to 1994
Rated NR
1 season
45m per episode
Soap
Drama

5.5TMDB(4)

Overview

Second Chances is an American television series created and written by producers Bernard Lechowick and Lynn Marie Latham. The series premiered December 2, 1993, on CBS. Its cast includes Jennifer Lopez, Connie Sellecca, Megan Follows, Michelle Phillips, and Matt Salinger. The two-hour pilot episode was directed by Sharron Miller. The series last episode ran on February 10, 1994 as part of CBS's Crimetime After Primetime. This show marked a reunion, however short-lived, between actors Ronny Cox and Frances Lee McCain, who last worked together on the series Apple's Way in the mid-1970s. Produced a spin-off, Hotel Malibu.

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Episodes
Ran for 1 season and 10 episodes (1993 to 1994)
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Setting
Set in California and Los Angeles
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Details

Created by: Lynn Marie Latham
Bernard Lechowick
Status: Ended
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
First aired: November 25, 1993
Last aired: February 10, 1994
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America

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Production

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Episodes

Season 1, 10 episodes

Episode 1: Pilot
- Now playing
- Nov 25, 1993
The married couple George and Felicity return home to Santa Rita - his first vacation in 20 years. They are apalled that their son, Kevin, plans to marry Melinda in 14 days. Melinda is a Mexican-American waitress at the local Country Club, and her father hates to see her marry an 'anglo'. At the same time Kevin asks Dianne, a young defense attorney, to run against Judge Stinson at the upcoming election. Dianne's old 'flame', Mike Chulack, returns from 10 years in prison to the very deep dismay of her husband, Bruce. A criminal gets away from robbing a drugstore.
Episode 2: Coincidence or Conspiracy
- Dec 9, 1993
Mike Chulack and Dianne's younger sister, Kate, visit 'Herb's Auto Repair' where he gets a job, and they date. Soon she hires him as a driver for her 'Party Magic' business. Dianne discovers that Bruce buys and uses condoms and a divorce seems inevitable. Changes happen quickly now, and alone with Mike in Party Magic's business car they kiss passionately. The night before his wedding Kevin is totally drunk, and is apparently having sex with a stripper. Next morning Melinda finds some photoes showing the escapade and that makes her say *I do .. have reservatiions abhout this marriage'. To her father's endless joy the marriage is cancelled and her last dance is saved for him.
Episode 3: Living in Between
- Dec 16, 1993
Dianne leaves the frying-pan and walks into the fire as Bruce is found dead by gunshot at Kate's office. Bruce's secretary Joanna is busy deleting files and Dianne finds both her own and Bruce's money vanished without trace. Mike is taken by the police for the murder because he keeps his silent about the affair with Dianne and the alibi. Felicity demands that Kwevin makes Melinda return her engagement ring, and George confronts the stripper and gets some answers he did not expect.
Episode 4: I Can't Get No Satisfaction
- Dec 23, 1993
The 8 year old Brian teaches his mother Dianne, Kate and Melinda how to recover superficially deleted files, and Joanna is discovered as Bruce's lover. When her registrated gun is found she spitefully confesses the murder. On her father Sal's initiative Melinda starts dating Toly, and Kevin is despaired. Kevin sees faxes with death threats to Dianne and makes the police give her protection.
Episode 5: I Can't Get No Satisfaxion
- Dec 23, 1993
Tests from the autopsy proves Bruce regularly abused cocaine, and Dianne looses hope of ever finding any of the vanished money. However George and Felicity admit that they have handled Bruce's insurance money unsufficiently, and they fire their accountant. The technical investigations proves that he was not killed by his secretary, Joanna, as her bullet hit nothing but the wall. After some comic setbacks the police succeeds in tracing the person who faxes death threats to Dianne.
Episode 6: If the Truth Be Told
- Jan 13, 1994
Detective Jerry Kuntz who is the leader of the police investigation of the Bruce Christenson murder has elbowed his way into this position, and he seems very eager to let Tommy Simmons out of the scope. Some very special sunglasses were found beside the dead body, Kuntz delivers them back to the owner, Tommy, but a photo from the night of the murder shows Tommy wearing them on his forehead - in Mike Chulack'z presence. Again the investigation is focused upon Mike.
Episode 7: Down Looks Like Up
- Jan 20, 1994
Salvatore Lopez reports Tommy Simmons dead and that leads to the solution of the Bruce Christenson murder case. Melinda is forgiving Kevin his drinking the night before their originally planned wedding and takes him with her to get married. DO they succeed this time??
Episode 8: Miss Friendly Santa Rita
- Jan 27, 1994
Dianne Benedict still has a debt to Bruce's creditors of $12.300, and Pete Dyson, an electric contractor, shows her a bill of $38.000 dollars. Her sister Kate seems to solve it by selling her Classic car to a mortuary, but the cautious Dianne lets Pete make a merger with Bruce's construction company. Dianne loses the election and Jim Stenson stays as judge, who inherits a lot of money from a presumably dead Emilie Howell. Prior to that Mrs. Howell has given Kate Benedict the assignment to keep a birthday party for her dog Pretty Boy. Melinda decides to take part in a beauty pageant called 'Miss Friendly Santa Rita', and again her father is horrified.
Episode 9: Miss Friendly Santa Rita
- Jan 27, 1994
Miss Friendly Santa Rita 1981 Lara Peterson is guest judge at the present beauty pageant. 'Cook Insurance' sponsors the event the 7th year in a row, so George is a judge, too, while Jim Stinson is the third. To his amusement Lara flirts with George, and Stinson is busy making passes on Melinda. Mike proposes to Dianne, and a rivalry between Kevin and Richard seems certain to occur, but Kate is intensely focused on finding Emily who is alive, indeed.
Episode 10: Justifiable Jealousy
- Feb 10, 1994
Emily May Howell's brother, dr. Ruben L. May, is found dead by Kate who suspects Judge Stinson to have murdered him. Mike wants to have lunch with Dianne, but Pete is more lucky and Mike is very jealous.

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Pilot

E2 Episode 2: Coincidence or Conspiracy

E3 Episode 3: Living in Between

E4 Episode 4: I Can't Get No Satisfaction

E5 Episode 5: I Can't Get No Satisfaxion

E6 Episode 6: If the Truth Be Told

E7 Episode 7: Down Looks Like Up

E8 Episode 8: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

E9 Episode 9: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

E10 Episode 10: Justifiable Jealousy

Overview

Fun facts

Details

Network

Production

Cast

More like this

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Pilot

E2 Episode 2: Coincidence or Conspiracy

E3 Episode 3: Living in Between

E4 Episode 4: I Can't Get No Satisfaction

E5 Episode 5: I Can't Get No Satisfaxion

E6 Episode 6: If the Truth Be Told

E7 Episode 7: Down Looks Like Up

E8 Episode 8: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

E9 Episode 9: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

E10 Episode 10: Justifiable Jealousy

Fun facts

Episode 1: Pilot

Episode 2: Coincidence or Conspiracy

Episode 3: Living in Between

Episode 4: I Can't Get No Satisfaction

Episode 5: I Can't Get No Satisfaxion

Episode 6: If the Truth Be Told

Episode 7: Down Looks Like Up

Episode 8: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

Episode 9: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

Episode 10: Justifiable Jealousy

Episode 1: Pilot

Episode 2: Coincidence or Conspiracy

Episode 3: Living in Between

Episode 4: I Can't Get No Satisfaction

Episode 5: I Can't Get No Satisfaxion

Episode 6: If the Truth Be Told

Episode 7: Down Looks Like Up

Episode 8: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

Episode 9: Miss Friendly Santa Rita

Episode 10: Justifiable Jealousy