September 26, 1987 - May 14, 1988
FOX Situation Comedy
21 Filmed Episodes
Cast:
| Charles Russell: | Kiel Martin |
| Charles "Chazz" Russell: | Matthew Perry |
| Helen Russell: | Randee Heller |
| Francis "Booch" Lottabucci: | Billy Gallo |
| Eugene Blooberman: | Demian Slade |
| St. Peter: | Joseph Maher |
| Debbie Miller: | Terri Ivens |
| Alex: | Adam Sadowsky |
When Second Chance premiered in 1987 it was a fantasy
sitcom about a man caught between heaven and hell. Charles
Russell died in the year 2011 in a hovercraft accident. When St.
Peter attempted to determine where Charles's soul should be
sent, he found that Mr. Russell was neither good enough for
heaven or bad enough for hell. To resolve the situation Charles
was given a second chance--returning to earth 24 years earlier
to 1987 to provide moral guidance to his own younger self.
Charles Russell assumed the identity of Charles Time and
rented the room over the garage at the Venice, California
home in which he had grown up. His divorced mother Helen,
who thought he looked familiar, needed the money. The proximity
to his younger self, Chazz, gave him plenty of opportunity
to help the teenager become a more responsible adult than
Charles had turned out to be. Chazz's best friends were Booch,
a worldly wise, black-leather-jacketed womanizer reminiscent
of Happy Days' Fonzie; and Eugene, an incredibly naive nerd.
Unhappy with the original format, the producers dropped the
fantasy element and the original star, Kiel Martin. In January
1988 Second Chance was retitled Boys Will Be Boys and the
focus shifted to the escapades of the three teens--Chazz,
Booch, and Eugene. Though still in high school, Chazz and
Booch, whose alcoholic father had recently died, became
roommates. They were living in that room over Mrs. Russell's
garage previously occupied by Charles. Chazz also had a
new girlfriend in perky, next-door neighbor Debbie Miller.
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