Second Chance (1987 TV series)

Second Chance / Boys Will Be Boys
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	David W. Duclon Gary Menteer
Starring	Kiel Martin (1987) Matthew Perry William Gallo Demian Slade Randee Heller Joseph Maher (1987) Terri Ivens (1988) Adam Sadowsky (1988)
Opening theme	"I Gotta Go Back"
Composer(s)	Rik Howard Bob Wirth
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	21
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Lightkeeper Productions 20th Century Fox Television
Distributor	20th Television (current)
Release
Original network	Fox
Original release	September 26, 1987 – May 14, 1988

Second Chance is an American sitcom, created by David W. Duclon and Gary Menteer, which aired on Fox from September 26 to November 28, 1987. The series was then revamped under the new title Boys Will Be Boys, and ran in the new format from January 16 to May 14, 1988.

In its original format, the show starred Kiel Martin as Charles Russell, a deceased man, and Matthew Perry as his younger self, who is nicknamed Chazz. On July 29, 2011, Charles dies in a hovercraft accident, and his soul is promptly sent to the high spiritual palace of Saint Peter (Joseph Maher). It is there that Saint Peter determines that Charles is too good for hell but not good enough to get into heaven; therefore, Charles is sent back to Earth in the year 1987, to re-join his life during the teenage years in order to help himself, through the younger Chazz, make more moral choices.

Charles showed up at his childhood home with a different last name, Time, which he assumed from the magazine of the same name; it was also symbolic of his travel back through time and the extra amount of it he was awarded by Saint Peter. He came to rent out an apartment over the Russell garage when his feisty, sensible mother Helen (Randee Heller) needed a boarder to help make ends meet. Charles was a convenience store proprietor by day in between his efforts to reconnect with Chazz, who from the start had no idea that the new tenant hanging around and becoming buddy-like was in fact his older self. The two did form an instant friendship, and Chazz, who was in dire need of a resident father figure, often found himself turning to Charles (either directly or not) when life's dilemmas got too out of hand. Chazz's two best friends were tough, supercool Francis "Booch" Lottabucci (William Gallo) and awkward, geeky Eugene Blooberman (Demian Slade), the latter of which was tolerated by Chazz but always regularly put down by Booch. As the boys cooked up schemes, encountered teenage romance and got into trouble, Charles was there to be the voice of reason, even if Booch and Eugene never always understood why he was involved. In turn, Saint Peter, grading Charles' progress in his effort to grow into a new man the second time around, watched over him like a hawk. He, however, could only be seen or heard by Charles.

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