The Choice

Season 2, Episode 22, Aired
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Ryan gets a second chance to return to his teenage years to prevent his father, a successful doctor, from having a heart operation which led to him being brain damaged. He always blamed himself as he had talked his father into having the proceedure.''''Mr. Smith gets to spend time with them and Rachel, Ryan's sister, lets him know who she thinks he really is: their guardian angel.''''Despite Ryan's pleading, his father still goes ahead with the surgery, this time with no complications and Ryan's finds himself not as a doctor - but as a priest, which he had always wanted to be.moreless
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      • In this episode, Rachel Storey asks if she and Mr. Smith have met before. Infact, Tracy Ryan and Paul Popowich were two of the stars of the 1995 Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew TV series and Tracy (as Nancy Drew) had guest starred in two Hardy Boys episodes with Paul Popowich as Joe Hardy. Edit

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      • Note: Al Waxman died on January 18, 2001 at the age of 65, before the final eight episodes of the series were aired. Ironically, he died from complications during heart surgery. Edit
      • Guest star Trevor Blumas also appeared in the episode Curveball as a different character. Edit
      • Al Waxman passed away before this episode aired and it was subsequently dedicated to him in memory. Al Waxman 1935-2001 Edit

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      • Mr Smith: If love is the measure, then this family is perfect. Edit
      • Mr Smith: Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, To venture on wider seas Where storms will show your mastery; Where losing sight of land, We shall find the stars. Edit

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      • Literature Reference: Mr Smith's words at the end of the show are from a prayer called 'Disturb us, Lord' which is attributed to Sir Francis Drake circa 1577. The last verse reads: We ask You to push back The horizons of our hopes; And to push into the future In strength, courage, hope, and love. Edit

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