Touched By an Angel: The Complete First Season [4 Discs] [DVD]

Newly promoted from apprentice angel to celestial caseworker, heavenly heroine Monica (Roma Downey) welcomes the challenge as Touched By an Angel launches its first season. No longer an invisible presence, Monica can now be seen and heard by her earthly charges, enabling her to help them make the right decisions in their lives in a more direct and intimate manner. Occasionally, however, Monica gets in over her head, and in those odd moments she requires the considerable aid of her angelic supervisor Tess (Della Reese). Other times, it is clear that Monica's assistance is needed to help her mortal client make an easy and rapid transition from this world to the next, and that is where the third member of the team, Angel of Death Adam (Charles Rocket), comes in. As the season rolls on, Adam will gradually fade away to be replaced by the soft-spoken Andrew (John Dye) for the duration of the series. Monica's first assignment is to help a young boy cope with a family crisis borne of his mother's making. Later on, she urges a self-destructive alcoholic to confront her problem, breaks up a potentially disastrous romantic triangle, compels a wealthy and snobbish doctor to acknowledge his humble upbringing, and forces a man to face the guilt of living a lie -- and seek redemption in the process. Not that Monica has a perfect success record during season one; in fact, for unfairly passing judgment on a homeless person, she herself is forced to do some heavy penance!