once and again

He’d played Patrick Dempsey’s father on the TV show “Once and Again,” and while his character was a shadowy figure, Bell’s potent, piercing voice cut through.

The “Once and Again” alum said that she did not meet nor communicate with Smithline before that comment, nor did she know who Smithline was.

Flynn had been familiar with Whelan because she had been a fan of “Once and Again.”

A former child actress, Whelan was 15 when she was cast in the ABC drama “Once and Again,” Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz’s follow-up to “Thirtysomething.”

In 1999, she auditioned for the “Once and Again” creators Herskovitz and Zwick.