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Not that it was ever great, but the intelligent design episode was horrible.

This show became obsessed with killing people. It's true! It seems after the seconds season or so, 90% of the plots of redemption required somebody to die or be killed. Daddy's dying, my baby is dying, my husband has AIDS, etc. The point, of course is that God is with you and even through death...you know the rest. Which is true, but holy crap, God can also work miracles without some innocent person having to die! But apparently the writers could not...so they used the instant tear jerking notion of everybody dying in a family at one time.

ok,, i can finally vent- i liked valerie bertinelli.ON ONE DAY AT A TIME. i think she is a great actress. but she did not fit in on TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. she had no chemistry with roma, john and della.

i loved the show until gloria was added. she made no sense. the show had been on the air at least 7 or 8 years without a forth regular cast member, so why add one so late in the game? when they added gloria, i stopped watching..

and one other thing; JOHN DYE...[sighs]
please do another series!!!!!

the real issue was when Monica turned blond - didn't work so well during the "i am an angel"/light up routine

I LOVE THIS SHOW! i watch it always and when i was a little girl. i love the series finale episode. when monica realizes that zack was GOD. i love that. at the end, when she has completed her evaluation, and when gloria tells monica she will be a great supervisor, what does she mean?
i am one of gods greatest creations.

I didn't see very many episodes of Touched By an Angel while it was in its initial run, but the ones I saw I enjoyed...and now have bought seasons 1 through 4 on dvd. Season one had one of my favorite episodes: An Unexpected Snow. Personally, I thought Charles Rocket made a better angel of death than John Dye although they were both very good. The second season produced what is probably my absolute favorite episode in which Hal Linden played the owner of a blues club. The sequence where Hal has died and his spirit is walking out of the club with Della Reese belting out "When The Saints Go Marching In" has go to be one of the most powerful scenes in the entire run of the show! Was the series perfect? No. Was it completely factual? No. Was it always in perfect line with the Bible? No. Was it enlightening? Yes. Was it entertaining? Yes. Was it uplifting? Yes. This is one guy who is hoping against hope that the rest of the seasons will be released on dvd.

If anyone likes to know touched by an angel is on everyday at 11:00 am central time on the Hallmark channel

I couldn't survive more than one episode of this, and all because I couldn't take that mealy-mouthed Roma Downey's voice. Incidentally, I am a Christian, and I like knowing inspirational shows are on television, but not when intercessors to the Father come in the form of sugary, disgustingly conventional angels. How many teens and down-on-their-luck people did this show actually touch? What about those of us who'd like inspirational programs without the chick-flick-y quality? Maybe someday...

This was not a good show; I wouldn't want to see it again.

best show i have ever watched!!!!people need this inspiration!! i love all the actors john dye is hot hot hot !!! i own all of the dvds that have been released and watch them all of the time

Touched by an Angel ran for 9 seasons.

That's a wonderful run for a thoughtful, moral, feel good, God inspired, family show.

We miss ye.'

Four complete seasons are currently available on DVD.

They're a real joy - with many thought provoking episodes.

Top shelf.

Monica is not Irish she is Scottish

If God had a face/What would it look like?/And would you want to see/If seeing meant that you would have to believe/In things like Heaven and Jesus/And the Saints and all the Prophets?. . .--Joan Osbourne, "What If God Was One of Us?"

I only watched the show from 1994-1999, when I lived with my mother. Then I moved out, and went to college. I have only seen *1* post 1999 episode, and it was a rerun on Hallmark: the one in which two brothers were feuding over who their father liked best, when the "bad seed" brother was storming a goverment compond, with Andrew by his side, and the "good seed" brother tried to stop them, and Monica and Gloria showed up with a Catholic priest. . .Geez Louise, was it a confusing episode (especially considering the fact that I haven't watched the show since 1999).

They're trapping Angels by the Potemic/But it's not what you think--you would be surprised/They liberate/ Your dreamscape/Til you can't remember to recall/Where your wings (wings) have gone (gone)/Tell me where they have gone (gone). . .--Tori Amos, "Angels"

OK. . .when did Monica become a Supervisor? Where was all of Andrew's pretty blond hair (like honey in Sunshine)? When did the plots become so freakin' convoluted? This is defiently a case in which the show should have ended at the fifth season (despite Ms Reese's "10 season" prophecy).

"You know who I am," he said/The speaker was an Angel/He closed his eyes and shook his crumpled wings and moved his lips/"It's time we should be going. . ."--David Bowie, "Look Back in Anger"

I'm sorry. . .after reading a lot of the comments, I had to say something.

There was an episode (toward the middle or end of the show's run, before Valeri B appeared, as I recall) with a tiny little blip that confuses me, and nobody I've ever asked recalls having seen this blip...Tess is in the hallway in a school, surrounded by people milling about her, when a figure that looks like someone covered in plaster walks past her like everything is normal, and NO MENTION is ever made of it! Tess doesn't look at him oddly, nobody is staring at him, he doesn't figure anywwhere in the plot---it was like WHAT THE HELL? I TAPED that episode and have watched that few seconds repeatedly, so I know I wasn't imagining it! Does anyone recall that scene and know what I'm talking about?!

This programme was dead on arrival. What with Monica's ANNOYING voice... "I'm an eeengel, and God luhves yeh, verry muhch..." and Tess' STUPID singing, and the sheer cheesy crappiness of the light glowing over their heads when they reveal their secret...oh, and let's not forget the recycled plots and the terribly graphicised pure white dove...

This programme SUCKS. It had no peak. It had no fall. It epitomises 'TV flop.'