Second Chances

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

S01E01 Pilot

November 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...

S01E02 Coincidence or Conspiracy

December 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...

S01E03 Living in Between

December 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...

S01E04 I Can't Get No Satisfaction

December 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...

S01E05 I Can't Get No Satisfaxion

December 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...

S01E06 If the Truth Be Told

January 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...

S01E07 Down Looks Like Up

January 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...

S01E08 Miss Friendly Santa Rita

January 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...

S01E09 Miss Friendly Santa Rita

January 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...

S01E10 Justifiable Jealousy

February 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...

Cast

Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Melinda Lopez
Michelle Phillips
Michelle Phillips
Joanna Russell
Connie Sellecca
Connie Sellecca
Dianne Benedict
Matt Salinger
Matt Salinger
Mike Chulack
Megan Follows
Megan Follows
Kate Benedict
Justin Lazard
Justin Lazard
Kevin Cook
Pepe Serna
Pepe Serna
Salvador Lopez
Ray Wise
Ray Wise
Judge Jim Stinson
Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox
George Cook
Frances Lee McCain
Frances Lee McCain
Felicity Cook
Ramy Zada
Ramy Zada
Det. Jerry Kuntz

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