Now and Again (1999)

Genre

comedy drama, science fiction television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 22 episodes

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A government scientist creates a perfect human body for spy work but needs a brain to go with it. After a family man dies in a train accident, his brain is placed in the new body and he must train as a secret agent while yearning to reunite with his wife and daughter.

bittersweetquirkypoignantlightheartedmelancholicwhimsicalsuspensefulnostalgic

What happens

Now and Again is an American science fiction comedy-drama television series created by Glenn Gordon Caron that aired on CBS from September 24, 1999, until May 5, 2000. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed in a train accident. Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by 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 not all is as it seems with Michael's death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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