Second Chance(a.k.a. Boys Will Be Boys): Kiel Martin and Matthew Perry

Second Chance ( aka Boys Will Be Boys) aired from September 1987 until July 1988 on FOX.

When Second Chance premiered it was a fantasy about a man caught between heaven and hell. Charles Russell ( Kiel Martin) died in the year 2011 in a hovercraft accident. When St. Peter ( Joseph Maher) attempted to determine where Charles's soul should be sent , he found that Mr. Russell was not 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 provide moral guidance to his own younger self under the watchful eye of St. Peter. Hopefully he could earn his way into heaven.

Charles assumed the last name Time ( from the magazine) and rented the room over the garage at the Venice, California, home in which he had grown up. His divorced mother Helen (Randee Heller), who thought he looked familiar, needed the money. The proximity to his younger self, Chazz ( Matthew Perry), 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 ( William Gallo), a worldly wise, black-leather-jacketed womanizer reminiscent of Happy Days' Fonzie; and Eugene ( Demian Slade), an incredibly naive nerd.

Unhappy with the original format, the producers dropped the fantasy element and the original star, Kiel Martin. In January 1988 the series 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 ( more shades of Happy Days) that Charles had lived in. Chazz also had a new girlfriend in perky, next-door neighbor Debbie Miller ( Terri Ivens)

Here is Kiel Martin's Obituary

Kiel Martin, an Actor, Dies at 46; Played a Detective on 'Hill Street'

AP
Published: January 2, 1991
Kiel Martin, who played the wheeler-dealer detective J. D. LaRue on the television series "Hill Street Blues," died here on Friday. He was 46 years old.

Mr. Martin died of cardiovascular collapse caused by lung cancer, said Michael Werk, a Riverside County deputy coroner.

Mr. Martin, who worked at different times as a musician, stand-up comedian and soap-opera actor, was best known for his portrayal of LaRue, who tried to interest his fellow officers in get-rich-quick schemes that invariably failed.

He said the character grew out of conversations he had with many real-life police officers.

Mr. Martin's acting career began when his father urged him to try out for a bit part in a high school production of "Finian's Rainbow." That led to repertory theater work in Florida, where he grew up.

He was a regular on the daytime drama "The Edge of Night" before joining "Hill Street Blues." After "Hill Street" left the air in 1987, he appeared briefly as a dead man given a new shot at life in "Second Chance," a short-lived Fox television series.

His film credits included "The Panic in Needle Park" in 1971 and "The Lolly-Madonna War" in 1973.

For a Website dedicated to Matthew Perry go to http://www.imaginingmatthew.com/

For another Matthew Perry Website go to http://matthewperry.one-breath.org/

For a Page dedicated to Matthew Perry go to http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3142/perry.htm

For a WEbsite dedicated to Terri Ivens go to http://www.terriivens.net/