Now and Again

TV Series
1999–2000
TV-14
45m

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Eric Close, Margaret Colin, and Dennis Haysbert in Now and Again (1999)

After a subway accident, a man awakes with his brain in a new body, but the successful experiment means he must give up his past and family.After a subway accident, a man awakes with his brain in a new body, but the successful experiment means he must give up his past and family.After a subway accident, a man awakes with his brain in a new body, but the successful experiment means he must give up his past and family.

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8.1/10

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 3 wins & 7 nominations total

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Trivia
CBS canceled the show after one season, and the first season ended in a cliffhanger.

Quotes
Michael Wiseman: Can I fly?
Dr. Theodore Morris: What?
Michael Wiseman: Can I fly? You know, like, uh, Superman?
Dr. Theodore Morris: Mr. Wiseman, over the past 6 months we've performed a complicated series of operations. I'm tempted to call them transplants, but in truth, there is no "you" to transplant them to. Let's call them operations. In fact, let's agree that you have been the recipient of some of the most sophisticated surgical thinking and practice in the history of medicine. In addition, you have been inoculated with and intravenously fed over 700 highly experimental and, I believe extraordinarily promising hormones, steroids and vaccines that also were developed uniquely for you in this project. Now I mention all that because, and I'm embarrassed to admit it, that in the midst of all those surgeries, all those implant procedures, all the beta trials, tests, failures and successes... it just never occurred to any of us to shove a rocket up your ass.

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Referenced in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Richard/Chris/John/Jeff (2000)

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9/10

7 years later and I'm still frustrated

Network suits! Why can't we get rid of these people. Along the same line as those wise souls that said "Oh, and Mr. Rodenberry, get rid of the guy with the ears." This show wasn't just science fiction. It was an view of love existing past death. Along the line of "Damn Yankees", it poses the question, if you got everything you wanted, would you give up everything you loved? OK Wiseman is a middle aged insurance exec. Passed over for a promotion, he gets soused and is accidentally/ on purpose? knocked into the path of a subway. Recovering consciousness, he is offered a proposition: he is legally dead, but his brain was able to be recovered intact. Now would he like to be allowed to die for good, or participate in a secret government program to inhabit an artificially created body of the perfect soldier?

I would still like to see a movie to wrap up the story like Firefly/Serenity, but that would require someone with vision, sadly lacking in Hollywood.