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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/JamesonParker, who worked with [=McRaney=] on ''Series/SimonAndSimon'', appeared in ''Take Back the Night''.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The premise of "Baptism By Fire" is based on the then-recent string of arsons targeting predominantly black churches, including a Knoxville church where UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague great Reggie White served as an associate pastor.
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The show aired for three seasons, from September 1996 to May 20, 1999.
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The show aired for three seasons, seasons from September 1996 to May 20, 1999.
1999.
Not to be confused with the 2022 series of the same name.
Not to be confused with the 2022 series of the same name.
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* DeathOfAChild: Claire contracts an infection late in her pregnancy, causing her to go into premature labor. Sadly, their daughter doesn't survive.
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* TragicStillbirth: Claire contracts an infection late in her pregnancy, causing her to go into premature labor. Sadly, their daughter doesn't survive.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: A social worker takes Nathan away from the Greenes after he gets into a fight, feeling that their nomadic lifestyle is harmful to him, as well as being concerned by his talking about the family being guided by angels, etc. The viewer knows that the Greenes aren't abusive or neglectful, but this ''would'' sound odd to an outsider.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: A social worker takes Nathan Nathaniel away from the Greenes after he gets into a fight, feeling that their nomadic lifestyle is harmful to him, as well as being concerned by his talking about the family being guided by angels, etc. The viewer knows that the Greenes aren't abusive or neglectful, but this ''would'' sound odd to an outsider.
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* {{Nephewism}}: The Greenes have custody of their nephew Nathan while his father, Russell's brother Joe, is in prison.
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* {{Nephewism}}: The Greenes have custody of their nephew Nathan Nathaniel while his father, Russell's brother Joe, is in prison.
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* NWordPrivileges: Nathan hears LT using the word with one of his friends and assumes it's okay for him to do so, only to learn that it's ''not''.
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* NWordPrivileges: Nathan Nathaniel hears LT using the word with one of his friends and assumes it's okay for him to do so, only to learn that it's ''not''.
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* GoodParents: Claire and Russell Greene. Even as parental substitutes to their nephew.
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* RoadTripPlot: The entire premise of the series. Having been told by Tess that God wants him and his family to travel the country helping people, Russell Greene packs them up and they set out to do just that.
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* RoadTripPlot: The entire premise of the series. Having been told by Tess of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' that God wants him and his family to travel the country helping people, Russell Greene packs them up and they set out to do just that.
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* SpinOff: Of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'', with a BackDoorPilot on its parent show that concluded with Tess telling Russell that God wanted him and his family to travel around the country helping people.
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* WhiteSavior: In "Baptism By Fire", the Greenes pitch in to help African-American friends of theirs whose church was torched by racists, but the story focuses far more on the Caucasian Greenes are affected as the racists target them too.
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* WhiteSavior: In "Baptism By Fire", the Greenes pitch in to help African-American friends of theirs whose church was torched by racists, but the story focuses far more on how the Caucasian Greenes are affected as the racists target them too.
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* BluffTheImpostor: In one episode, a photography teacher becomes suspicious of the quality of the project LT has handed in and proceeds to ask him several questions in photographer lingo. Bristling at the implication, the student proceeds to not only answer him fluently, but even offer answers that he didn't ask for, thus proving that he alone worked on the portfolio.
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* BluffTheImpostor: In one episode, a photography teacher becomes suspicious of the quality of the project LT has handed in and proceeds to ask him several questions in photographer lingo. Bristling at the implication, the student LT proceeds to not only answer him fluently, but even offer answers that he didn't ask for, thus proving that he alone worked on the portfolio.
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* TeenPregnancy: In one episode, the family must help a girl afraid to tell her father that she had a miscarriage and in the third season, Josh dates a teen mother.
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* TeenPregnancy: In one episode, the family must help a girl afraid to tell her father that she had a miscarriage and in the third season, Josh dates a teen mother.mother.
* WhiteSavior: In "Baptism By Fire", the Greenes pitch in to help African-American friends of theirs whose church was torched by racists, but the story focuses far more on the Caucasian Greenes are affected as the racists target them too.
* WhiteSavior: In "Baptism By Fire", the Greenes pitch in to help African-American friends of theirs whose church was torched by racists, but the story focuses far more on the Caucasian Greenes are affected as the racists target them too.
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* BluffTheImpostor: In one episode, a photography teacher becomes suspicious of the quality of the project a student has handed in and proceeds to ask him several questions in photographer lingo. Bristling at the implication, the student proceeds to not only answer him fluently, but even offer answers that he didn't ask for, thus proving that he alone worked on the portfolio.
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* AttemptedRape: In the episode "Take Back The Night", Dinah is assaulted when walking home from her hospital volunteer job. She manages to get away before he can complete the assault, but she's still badly affected anyway --taking a ShowerOfAngst and having SurvivorGuilt upon learning that another woman was attacked that night, likely because the assailant was frustrated by his failure to rape her.
* BluffTheImpostor: In one episode, a photography teacher becomes suspicious of the quality of the projecta student LT has handed in and proceeds to ask him several questions in photographer lingo. Bristling at the implication, the student proceeds to not only answer him fluently, but even offer answers that he didn't ask for, thus proving that he alone worked on the portfolio.portfolio.
* CoolOldLady: Hattie.
* {{Crossover}}: Several with ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' and one with ''Series/DiagnosisMurder''.
* BluffTheImpostor: In one episode, a photography teacher becomes suspicious of the quality of the project
* CoolOldLady: Hattie.
* {{Crossover}}: Several with ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' and one with ''Series/DiagnosisMurder''.
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* TheGamblingAddict: An episode has the Greene family trying to help someone with this problem, whose problem has become so severe that his car had been repossessed, his life being threatened by bookies, and he was bordering on becoming abusive to his daughter when she refused to give him the money he had given her to save to pay the rent.
* RevealingInjury: Middle daughter Dinah is attacked while walking home from her hospital volunteer job. She gets away after biting her assailant's hand. The next day, her father jumps one of their neighbors after seeing that his hand is injured, but the man's wife confirms his story of being bitten by a ''dog''. Later in the episode, Dinah realizes she's [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with her would-be rapist]] when she sees the bite mark on ''his'' hand.
* RevealingInjury: Middle daughter Dinah is attacked while walking home from her hospital volunteer job. She gets away after biting her assailant's hand. The next day, her father jumps one of their neighbors after seeing that his hand is injured, but the man's wife confirms his story of being bitten by a ''dog''. Later in the episode, Dinah realizes she's [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with her would-be rapist]] when she sees the bite mark on ''his'' hand.
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* DeathOfAChild: Claire contracts an infection late in her pregnancy, causing her to go into premature labor. Sadly, their daughter doesn't survive.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Hattie dates quite a bit throughout the series and the finale is her wedding.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: A social worker takes Nathan away from the Greenes after he gets into a fight, feeling that their nomadic lifestyle is harmful to him, as well as being concerned by his talking about the family being guided by angels, etc. The viewer knows that the Greenes aren't abusive or neglectful, but this ''would'' sound odd to an outsider.
* DomesticAbuse: The episode "The Getaway" has the Greenes helping a woman and her daughter escape this situation.
* HappilyMarried: Claire and Russell Greene.
* TheGamblingAddict:An episode "The Winter" has the Greene family trying to help someone with this problem, whose problem which has become so severe that his car had been repossessed, his life is being threatened by bookies, and he was he's bordering on becoming abusive to his daughter when she refused refuses to give him the money he had given her to save to pay the rent.
* HomeschooledKids: The Greene kids, out of necessity, given the family's lifestyle. Fortunately, Claire was a teacher.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Despite the "road trip" premise of the show, in the final season, the family moved into and fixed up an old house, settling into the community after everyone admitted that (a) They liked it there and (b) were actually getting tired of the constant traveling.
* MalcolmXerox: LT, who had a tendency to see racism as the reason behind everything and often accused various members of the Greene family of being so, even Josh, despite the two of them quickly becoming friends.
* {{Nephewism}}: The Greenes have custody of their nephew Nathan while his father, Russell's brother Joe, is in prison.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Claire discovers this about a student and his father in "The Bookworm".
* NWordPrivileges: Nathan hears LT using the word with one of his friends and assumes it's okay for him to do so, only to learn that it's ''not''.
* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: The angels from its parent show up often. To the point that Andrew's presence actually frightens Dinah, as she knows he's the angel of death.
* RevealingInjury: Middle daughter Dinah is attacked while walking home from her hospital volunteer job. She gets away after biting her assailant's hand. The next day, her father jumps one of their neighbors after seeing that his hand is injured, but the man's wife confirms his story of being bitten by a ''dog''. Later in the episode, Dinah realizes she's [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with her would-be rapist]] when she sees the bite mark on ''his''hand.hand.
* RoadTripPlot: The entire premise of the series. Having been told by Tess that God wants him and his family to travel the country helping people, Russell Greene packs them up and they set out to do just that.
* RogueJuror: Claire is this during the trial of a woman accused of negligence--her son had wandered out into the street while she was asleep and been hit by a car. After much discussion, the jury acquits her, but Claire is stunned when she goes to the woman's home afterwards and finds that she is indeed a negligent mother and that her other two children are in danger as well.
* TeenPregnancy: In one episode, the family must help a girl afraid to tell her father that she had a miscarriage and in the third season, Josh dates a teen mother.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Hattie dates quite a bit throughout the series and the finale is her wedding.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: A social worker takes Nathan away from the Greenes after he gets into a fight, feeling that their nomadic lifestyle is harmful to him, as well as being concerned by his talking about the family being guided by angels, etc. The viewer knows that the Greenes aren't abusive or neglectful, but this ''would'' sound odd to an outsider.
* DomesticAbuse: The episode "The Getaway" has the Greenes helping a woman and her daughter escape this situation.
* HappilyMarried: Claire and Russell Greene.
* TheGamblingAddict:
* HomeschooledKids: The Greene kids, out of necessity, given the family's lifestyle. Fortunately, Claire was a teacher.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Despite the "road trip" premise of the show, in the final season, the family moved into and fixed up an old house, settling into the community after everyone admitted that (a) They liked it there and (b) were actually getting tired of the constant traveling.
* MalcolmXerox: LT, who had a tendency to see racism as the reason behind everything and often accused various members of the Greene family of being so, even Josh, despite the two of them quickly becoming friends.
* {{Nephewism}}: The Greenes have custody of their nephew Nathan while his father, Russell's brother Joe, is in prison.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Claire discovers this about a student and his father in "The Bookworm".
* NWordPrivileges: Nathan hears LT using the word with one of his friends and assumes it's okay for him to do so, only to learn that it's ''not''.
* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: The angels from its parent show up often. To the point that Andrew's presence actually frightens Dinah, as she knows he's the angel of death.
* RevealingInjury: Middle daughter Dinah is attacked while walking home from her hospital volunteer job. She gets away after biting her assailant's hand. The next day, her father jumps one of their neighbors after seeing that his hand is injured, but the man's wife confirms his story of being bitten by a ''dog''. Later in the episode, Dinah realizes she's [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with her would-be rapist]] when she sees the bite mark on ''his''
* RoadTripPlot: The entire premise of the series. Having been told by Tess that God wants him and his family to travel the country helping people, Russell Greene packs them up and they set out to do just that.
* RogueJuror: Claire is this during the trial of a woman accused of negligence--her son had wandered out into the street while she was asleep and been hit by a car. After much discussion, the jury acquits her, but Claire is stunned when she goes to the woman's home afterwards and finds that she is indeed a negligent mother and that her other two children are in danger as well.
* TeenPregnancy: In one episode, the family must help a girl afraid to tell her father that she had a miscarriage and in the third season, Josh dates a teen mother.
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A 1996 American Creator/{{CBS}} Drama SpinOff of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' about the Greene family (Creator/GeraldMcRaney, Creator/WendyPhillips, Creator/AustinOBrien, Creator/SarahSchaub, Creator/CelesteHolm, and Creator/EddieKarr) traveling around the country to help those in need.
The show aired for three seasons, from September 1996 to May 20, 1999.
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* BluffTheImpostor: In one episode, a photography teacher becomes suspicious of the quality of the project a student has handed in and proceeds to ask him several questions in photographer lingo. Bristling at the implication, the student proceeds to not only answer him fluently, but even offer answers that he didn't ask for, thus proving that he alone worked on the portfolio.
* DadTheVeteran: Russell Greene, who is a Vietnam veteran.
* TheGamblingAddict: An episode has the Greene family trying to help someone with this problem, whose problem has become so severe that his car had been repossessed, his life being threatened by bookies, and he was bordering on becoming abusive to his daughter when she refused to give him the money he had given her to save to pay the rent.
* RevealingInjury: Middle daughter Dinah is attacked while walking home from her hospital volunteer job. She gets away after biting her assailant's hand. The next day, her father jumps one of their neighbors after seeing that his hand is injured, but the man's wife confirms his story of being bitten by a ''dog''. Later in the episode, Dinah realizes she's [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with her would-be rapist]] when she sees the bite mark on ''his'' hand.
The show aired for three seasons, from September 1996 to May 20, 1999.
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!Tropes for the series:
* BluffTheImpostor: In one episode, a photography teacher becomes suspicious of the quality of the project a student has handed in and proceeds to ask him several questions in photographer lingo. Bristling at the implication, the student proceeds to not only answer him fluently, but even offer answers that he didn't ask for, thus proving that he alone worked on the portfolio.
* DadTheVeteran: Russell Greene, who is a Vietnam veteran.
* TheGamblingAddict: An episode has the Greene family trying to help someone with this problem, whose problem has become so severe that his car had been repossessed, his life being threatened by bookies, and he was bordering on becoming abusive to his daughter when she refused to give him the money he had given her to save to pay the rent.
* RevealingInjury: Middle daughter Dinah is attacked while walking home from her hospital volunteer job. She gets away after biting her assailant's hand. The next day, her father jumps one of their neighbors after seeing that his hand is injured, but the man's wife confirms his story of being bitten by a ''dog''. Later in the episode, Dinah realizes she's [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with her would-be rapist]] when she sees the bite mark on ''his'' hand.
