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{{Infobox television
{{Infobox television
| image         = Once and Again logo.svg
| image               = Once and Again logo.svg
| caption       =  
| caption             =  
| runtime       = 60 minutes
| runtime             = 60 minutes
| creator       = {{plainlist|
| genre                = [[Drama (film and television)|Drama]]
| creator             = {{plainlist|
* [[Edward Zwick]]
* [[Edward Zwick]]
* [[Marshall Herskovitz]]
* [[Marshall Herskovitz]]
}}
}}
| composer     = {{plainlist|
| composer             = {{plainlist|
* [[W. G. Snuffy Walden]]
* [[W. G. Snuffy Walden]]
* [[Joey Newman]]
* [[Joey Newman]]
}}
}}
| starring     = {{plainlist|
| starring             = {{plainlist|
* [[Sela Ward]]
* [[Sela Ward]]
* [[Billy Campbell]]
* [[Billy Campbell]]
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* [[Steven Weber (actor)|Steven Weber]]
* [[Steven Weber (actor)|Steven Weber]]
}}
}}
| country       = United States
| country             = United States
| language     = English
| language             = English
| num_seasons   = 3
| num_seasons         = 3
| num_episodes = 63
| num_episodes         = 63
| list_episodes =
| list_episodes       =  
| company       = [[The Bedford Falls Company]]<br>[[ABC Signature|Touchstone Television]]
| company             = {{plainlist|
| network       = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
* [[The Bedford Falls Company]]
| first_aired   = {{Start date|1999|9|21}}
* [[ABC Signature|Touchstone Television]]
| last_aired   = {{End date|2002|4|15}}
}}
| related       = ''[[thirtysomething]]''  
| network             = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| first_aired         = {{Start date|1999|9|21}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|2002|4|15}}
| related             = ''[[thirtysomething]]''
}}
}}


'''''Once and Again''''' is an American family drama television series that aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from September 21, 1999, to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father. It was created by [[Marshall Herskovitz]] and [[Edward Zwick]].
'''''Once and Again''''' is an American family drama television series, created by [[Marshall Herskovitz]] and [[Edward Zwick]], which aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from September 21, 1999, to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother, played by [[Sela Ward]], and her romance with a single father, played by [[Billy Campbell]].


One of the show's then-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.
One of the show's then-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.
Ward won a [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama]] for her performance.


==Premise==
==Premise==
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| Title = Boy Meets Girl
| Title = Boy Meets Girl
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|9|21}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|9|21}}
| WrittenBy = [[Marshall Herskovitz]]
| WrittenBy = {{WritingCredits|order=t|s=Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick|t=Marshall Herskovitz}}
| DirectedBy = [[Marshall Herskovitz]]
| DirectedBy = Marshall Herskovitz
| ShortSummary = Lily Manning is separated with two daughters, Grace and Zoe. Rick Sammler has been divorced for three years with a teenage boy Eli and a daughter Jessie. They meet by chance one day when Grace is injured during a soccer game at their kids' school. Rick decides to ask Lily out and the two start dating while juggling their family problems. After a few dates, they end up at Lily's house but are surprised by her children and her ex walking in on them making out on the couch.
| ShortSummary = Lily Manning is separated with two daughters, Grace and Zoe. Rick Sammler has been divorced for three years with a teenage boy Eli and a daughter Jessie. They meet by chance one day when Grace is injured during a soccer game at their kids' school. Rick decides to ask Lily out and the two start dating while juggling their family problems. After a few dates, they end up at Lily's house but are surprised by her children and her ex walking in on them making out on the couch.
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| Title = The Gingerbread House
| Title = The Gingerbread House
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|12|21}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|12|21}}
| WrittenBy = [[Pamela Gray]] and [[Winnie Holzman]]
| WrittenBy = {{WritingCredits|order=t|s=Pamela Gray|t=Pamela Gray & Winnie Holzman}}
| DirectedBy = Dan Lerner
| DirectedBy = Dan Lerner
| ShortSummary = After sleeping with Jake, Lily is uncomfortable around Rick and tries to hide it from him. Rick figures out something is wrong and tries to learn the truth. Grace, who saw her parents together, think Lily and Jake are getting back together.
| ShortSummary = After sleeping with Jake, Lily is uncomfortable around Rick and tries to hide it from him. Rick figures out something is wrong and tries to learn the truth. Grace, who saw her parents together, think Lily and Jake are getting back together.
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| Title = Sneaky Feelings
| Title = Sneaky Feelings
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|31}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|31}}
| WrittenBy = [[Daniel Paige]] and [[Sue Paige]]
| WrittenBy = Sue Paige & Daniel Paige
| DirectedBy = [[Claudia Weill]]
| DirectedBy = [[Claudia Weill]]
| ShortSummary = Karen has a new client, Leo Fischer, whom she's attracted to. Eli wants some space from Jennifer and starts to hang out with another girl, Cassidy. Jessie, who likes Jennifer, is uncomfortable with her brother's actions.
| ShortSummary = Karen has a new client, Leo Fischer, whom she's attracted to. Eli wants some space from Jennifer and starts to hang out with another girl, Cassidy. Jessie, who likes Jennifer, is uncomfortable with her brother's actions.
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| Title = The Mystery Dance
| Title = The Mystery Dance
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|7}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|7}}
| WrittenBy = [[Daniel Paige]] and [[Sue Paige]]
| WrittenBy = Sue Paige & Daniel Paige
| DirectedBy = Dan Lerner
| DirectedBy = Dan Lerner
| ShortSummary = Judy goes on a dating spree. At an art gallery, she meets Sam Blue, a sculptor working on a project for Miles Drentell with Rick. Lily and Rick try to mend their relationship but Rick has trouble letting go of her infidelity.
| ShortSummary = Judy goes on a dating spree. At an art gallery, she meets Sam Blue, a sculptor working on a project for Miles Drentell with Rick. Lily and Rick try to mend their relationship but Rick has trouble letting go of her infidelity.
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| Title = Unfinished Business
| Title = Unfinished Business
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|6}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|6}}
| WrittenBy = [[Marshall Herskovitz]] and [[Edward Zwick]]
| WrittenBy = [[Marshall Herskovitz]] & [[Edward Zwick]]
| DirectedBy = [[Edward Zwick]]
| DirectedBy = Edward Zwick
| ShortSummary = Lily applies for a job in a magazine. Lily's father, Phil has a car accident with Grace. Recovering from minor injuries at Lily's house, he collapses on the floor. The family gathers in the hospital to face his difficult health predicament.
| ShortSummary = Lily applies for a job in a magazine. Lily's father, Phil has a car accident with Grace. Recovering from minor injuries at Lily's house, he collapses on the floor. The family gathers in the hospital to face his difficult health predicament.
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  |Title=Forgive Us Our Trespasses  
  |Title=Forgive Us Our Trespasses  
  |DirectedBy=Dan Lerner  
  |DirectedBy=Dan Lerner  
  |WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s= Lynn Siefert|t= Lynn Siefert and Winnie Holzman}}
  |WrittenBy={{WritingCredits|first=s|s=Lynn Siefert|t=Lynn Siefert and Winnie Holzman}}
  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|3|28}}
  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|3|28}}
  |ShortSummary=  
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==Production==
==Production==
The series was filmed at the Century Studio Corporation sound stages in [[Culver City]], [[California]], and also on location in the [[Los Angeles]] area.
The series was filmed at the Century Studio Corporation sound stages in [[Culver City]], California, and also on location in the [[Los Angeles]] area.


==DVD releases==
==DVD releases==
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{| class="wikitable"
!DVD Name
!DVD name
!Ep #
!Ep #
!Release Date
!Release date
|-
|-
| Season 1
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! Season
! Season
! Timeslot (EST/EDT)<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/once-and-again/ "Once and Again – TV.com"], [[TV.com]]. Retrieved on October 30, 2011.</ref>
! Timeslot (EST/EDT)<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/once-and-again/ "Once and Again – TV.com"], [[TV.com]]. Retrieved on October 30, 2011.</ref>
! Season Premiere
! Season premiere
! Season Finale
! Season finale
! TV Season
! TV season
! Rank
! Rank
! Viewers<br />(in millions)
! Viewers {{nowrap|(in millions)}}
! 18–49 Average
! 18–49 average
|-
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! style="background:#F9F9F9;text-align:center" | '''1'''
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| style="text-align:center" |10.93   
| style="text-align:center" |10.93   
| style="text-align:center"|7.9/13  
| style="text-align:center"|7.9/13  
|-
|- style="background-color:#F9F9F9"
|- style="background-color:#F9F9F9"
! style="background:#F9F9F9;text-align:center" | '''2'''
! style="background:#F9F9F9;text-align:center" | '''2'''
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| style="text-align:center" | 8.5
| style="text-align:center" | 8.5
| style="text-align:center"| N/A
| style="text-align:center"| N/A
|-
|- style="background-color:#F9F9F9"
|- style="background-color:#F9F9F9"
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! style="background:#F9F9F9;text-align:center" | '''3'''
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| style="text-align:center" | 6.7
| style="text-align:center" | 6.7
| style="text-align:center"| N/A
| style="text-align:center"| N/A
|-
|}
|}


==Awards==
==Awards==
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Once and Again}}
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Once and Again{{!}}List of awards and nominations received by ''Once and Again''}}


==References==
==References==

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Once and Again is an American family drama television series, created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, which aired on ABC from September 21, 1999, to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother, played by Sela Ward, and her romance with a single father, played by Billy Campbell.

One of the show's then-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.

Ward won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her performance.

Premise

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 14-year-old Grace (Julia Whelan) and precocious nine-year-old Zoe (Meredith Deane). For support, 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 later in the series).

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

Rick is a single 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-old Jessie (Evan Rachel Wood), who longs for the days before her family's disintegration.

Lily and Rick share an immediate mutual attraction and begin dating. Their budding relationship causes problems in both of their respective families. Grace strongly objects to Lily and Rick's relationship as she still hopes to see her parents get back together. Karen, a public interest attorney at the downtown law firm of Harris, Riegert, and Sammler, is worried about the toll Rick's new relationship would take on their children, particularly Jessie, who is shy and emotionally fragile. She is also working through her own feelings of jealousy that Rick is moving on to a new relationship.

In addition to Lily and Rick's relationship, the show also focused to a lesser degree on their exes, Jake and Karen, and their own struggles to move on in a post-divorce environment.

Plot summary

Season 1

Lily is in the process of divorcing her restaurateur husband, Jake. She is reluctant to begin dating again due to the sensitivities of her daughters, who are still emotional about the divorce. She meets and is instantly attracted to divorced architect Rick Sammler. However, their new relationship is complicated by Lily's many remaining emotional and financial issues with Jake. Lily must navigate the complicated worlds of divorce, finding herself in midlife, and reentering the workforce. She is able to find strength and resilience as she affirms her marriage to Jake is over, starts a new job as a publishing assistant at the magazine Pages Alive, and grows in her relationship with Rick. 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.

Season 2

Lily and Jake's divorce is finalized and she hopes to spend more time with Rick. However, Rick becomes sidetracked by difficulties at work and has to begin working with unscrupulous developer Miles Drentell (David Clennon, reprising his role from the series thirtysomething). Things become difficult for Lily when Rick's project runs into legal difficulties and his ex-wife Karen is hired to represent 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 pregnant. At the end of season two, Rick has to dissolve his architectural firm, and Lily and Rick get married.

Season 3

Rick resumes his partnership with Sam Blue, now divorced, to design a hotel for a new client. Sam and Judy try to be friends but eventually resume their romantic relationship. Jake and Tiffany have a baby girl and eventually decide to get married. Grace develops a crush on her English teacher, Mr. Dimitri (Eric Stoltz); although their relationship never became sexual, an investigation eventually forces Mr. Dimitri to leave the school. Meanwhile, Jessie discovers she is attracted to another girl: upperclassman Katie Singer (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 first teen lesbian romance on American network television.[1] Karen deals with her depression; just as she is starting to make progress, she is hit by a car, leading to months of painful rehabilitation where she meets physical therapist Henry Higgins (D. B. 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. By the end of the season, Rick and Lily face big decisions when he is offered a job in Australia and she is offered a nationally syndicated radio show. Their decisions are never shown, but in the last moments of the series finale, Lily reveals she is pregnant and everyone comes together to attend Jake and Tiffany's wedding.

Cast

Main

File:Sela Ward.jpg
Sela Ward received several awards and nominations for her role as Lily Manning.

Recurring

Notes

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Episodes

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Season 1 (1999–2000)

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Season 2 (2000–01)

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Season 3 (2001–02)

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Production

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

DVD releases

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (formerly Buena Vista Home Entertainment) released Season 1 on November 5, 2002, mere months after the series finale. However, it took three more years and numerous petition drives for season two to be released, which occurred on August 23, 2005. A little over a month later, on September 30, 2005, news broke about the release of the third and final season, which was slated to occur on January 10, 2006. Mock-up photos of the packaging were even released. However, 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 program was soon to expire. As a result, a new company could acquire the distribution rights to the title and potentially release the third season.[2]

DVD name Ep # Release date
Season 1 22 November 5, 2002
Season 2 22 August 23, 2005
Season 3 19

Ratings

Season Timeslot (EST/EDT)[3] Season premiere Season finale TV season Rank Viewers (in millions) 18–49 average
1 Tuesday 10:00 p.m.
(September 21 – December 21, 1999)
Monday 10:00 p.m.
(January 24 – April 24, 2000) 		September 21, 1999 April 24, 2000 1999–2000 #51[4] 10.93 7.9/13
2 Tuesday 10:00 p.m.
(October 24 – December 19, 2000)
Wednesday 10:00 p.m.
(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)
Monday 10:00 p.m.
(March 4 – April 15, 2002) 		September 28, 2001 April 15, 2002 2001–2002 #107[6] 6.7 N/A

Awards

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References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ "Once and Again on DVD, Release Info, News at TVShowsOnDVD.com" Template:Webarchive, TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved on October 30, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Once and Again – TV.com", TV.com. Retrieved on October 30, 2011.
  4. ↑ "US-Jahrescharts 1999/2000", Quotenmeter.de, May 30, 2002. Retrieved on October 30, 2011.
  5. ↑ "The Bitter End", EW.com, June 1, 2001. Retrieved on October 30, 2011.
  6. ↑ "How did your favorite show rate?", USA Today, May 28, 2002. Retrieved on October 30, 2011.

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