Being Erica

Erica Strange has tons of regrets in her young life - so many she's started a list. But when she shares her list with her therapist, he undertakes an unusual course of treatment: she is transported back in time and given the chance to make different decisions at pivotal moments in her life, based on her knowledge of the here and now.

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Seasons

1. Dr. Tom

Air Date: 2009-01-05

Down and out, Erica Strange is desperate to change her life and takes up an offer from a mysterious therapist, Dr. Thom, who sends her back in time to relive a high school regret.

2. What I Am Is What I Am

Air Date: 2009-01-12

Erica settles for a dead-end job that can pay the bills. She is sent back to her university days, to join an exclusive secret society that she originally passed on, with the hope that doing so will finally set her on to the "right" path.

3. Plenty of Fish

Air Date: 2009-01-19

Eternally-single Erica brings best friend Ethan to pose as her boyfriend at her high school reunion. She begins to understand the source of her relationship with men by revisiting the loss of her virginity.

4. The Secret of Now

Air Date: 2009-01-26

In order to conquer her fear of confrontation with her new bully of a boss, Erica is sent back to her first semester of University where she learns to finally stand up for herself against the daunting Professor Lozar.

5. Adultescence

Air Date: 2009-02-02

Tired of being treated like a child, Erica confronts the source of her reputation by returning to her Bat-Mitzvah - only this time she will prove herself as a woman.

6. Til Death

Air Date: 2009-02-09

Erica is worried that her sister Samantha is marrying the wrong man in Josh. When she goes back to prevent Sam and Josh from ever getting together, Erica learns a big secret - one that threatens her relationship with her sister.

7. Such A Perfect Day

Air Date: 2009-02-18

With the stress of work and family life weighing heavily on Erica's shoulders, Dr. Tom decides to give her a break and sends Erica back to a "perfect day."

8. This Be The Verse

Air Date: 2009-02-25

Erica's long-simmering relationship with her mother reaches a boiling point. going back into the distant past, opens up Erica's eyes to who Barbara Strange really is.

9. Everything She Wants

Air Date: 2009-03-04

Erica explores her feelings for Ryan by reliving an unusual love affair from her university days.

10. Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma

Air Date: 2009-03-11

Erica's "friendship" with Katie reaches a new low when Katie maneuvers her way into a book deal with River Rock.

11. She's Lost Control

Air Date: 2009-03-18

Charged with supervising the launch of Katie's new book, Erica turns into a complete control-freak. She soon realizes that her need to control might be contributing to the downfall of her relationship with Ethan.

12. Erica the Vampire Slayer

Air Date: 2009-03-25

Unnerved in her new position at River Rock Publishing. Erica must learn to step outside her shell, challenge her inhibitions and learn that her abilities are not nearly as confined as she had believed them to be.

13. Leo

Air Date: 2009-04-01

Though Dr. Tom warned her not to try and prevent Leo's death, Erica does so anyway, resulting in dire consequences.

1. Being Dr. Tom

Air Date: 2010-01-20

After Erica quits therapy, Dr. Naadiah sends her back to a bar in 1998, where she meets a younger, troubled Dr. Tom. A glimpse into his past, and Erica realizes it is her turn now to lend a helping hand.

2. Battle Royale

Air Date: 2009-09-29

An argument with Ethan triggers a time travel journey back to camp for Erica.

3. Mamma Mia

Air Date: 2009-10-06

Erica demonstrates less than inspiring parenting skills when she babysits Judith's son Max for the first time.

4. Cultural Revolution

Air Date: 2009-10-13

A significant career opportunity transports Erica back to a summer spent in Taipei.

5. Yes We Can

Air Date: 2009-10-20

Erica receives a special gift from Dr. Tom -- a do-over day.

6. Shhh… Don't Tell

Air Date: 2009-10-27

Secrets are popping up everywhere, and when Erica gets caught in the middle, she learns of the damage keeping them can truly cause.

7. The Unkindest Cut

Air Date: 2009-11-03

When Erica faints at a family Bris, she is propelled into the future, where she discovers Kai's true identity. Struggling to help her father in the present, and Kai in the future, Erica begins to realize the only problems she can fix are her own.

8. Under My Thumb

Air Date: 2009-11-10

When trying to cope with everyone else's problems, Erica looks forward to an escape to her past. Dr. Tom, however, is changing things up... and to Erica's surprise, so is everyone else... or so it seems.

9. A River Runs Through It...It Being Egypt

Air Date: 2009-11-17

Erica receives a new perspective on her brother and returns from the past ready to deal with Kai.

10. Papa Can You Hear Me?

Air Date: 2009-11-24

It's Dr. Tom's turn for a session as he revisits the last time he saw his daughter.

11. What Goes Up Must Come Down

Air Date: 2009-12-01

After a shocking turn of events at River Rock Publishing, Erica discovers the value of setbacks when Dr. Tom sends her to an alternate reality, supposedly setback free.

12. The Importance of Being Erica

Air Date: 2009-12-08

Erica struggles with some big decisions, and she's desperate for a little direction. After some hide and seek in the past and present, the last place she looks to is the closest to her heart, and it opens up a world of possibility.

1. The Rabbit Hole

Air Date: 2010-09-21

At the end of Season Two, Erica walks through a door, her door, ready to face whatever is on the other side. Now everything in Erica’s life - her job, her love life, even her therapy with Dr. Tom - starts anew, and gets turned upside down in the process.

2. Moving On Up

Air Date: 2010-09-28

Weeks after her break-up with Ethan, Erica is determined to pick herself up. Dr. Tom knows someone from Erica’s past who knows exactly how she feels… Claire! But she and Erica have never seen eye-to-eye.

3. Two Wrongs

Air Date: 2010-10-05

When the future of Erica and Julianne’s new company is threatened, Erica is faced with a choice: “Kill, or be killed”. Erica returns to the site of Leo’s fraternity pledge, where she learns that taking the low road often leads to a dark place.

4. Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Air Date: 2010-10-12

When Kai returns to give Erica a glimpse of her own mortality, it throws Erica for a loop. If Erica is to escape her own personal “Groundhog Day”, she must learn to embrace the present.

5. Being Adam

Air Date: 2010-10-20

Adam gets the chance to alter the regret that led him to a life of violence and crime. It’s a path that Adam is sure he cannot change - that is, until he winds up in a surprising new present.

6. Bear Breasts

Air Date: 2010-10-27

Cassidy has returned for Pride weekend in Toronto. With everyone in the city letting loose, and things with Adam heating up, Erica is instructed by Dr. Tom to embrace her 'id' and let her impulses guide her.

7. Jenny From the Block

Air Date: 2010-11-03

Jenny returns, and needs help getting her life on the right track. Erica is eager to help her estranged friend, but a trip back to a day at Black Creek Pioneer Village shows Erica that the helping hand Jenny needs is her own, and not Erica's.

8. Physician, Heal Thyself

Air Date: 2010-11-10

The surprising return of someone from Dr. Tom's past forces him to face old demons. Meanwhile Kai returns to 2010 on a regret, and Erica must make a decision that could affect both their futures.

9. Gettin' Wiggy Wit' It

Air Date: 2010-11-17

Erica's latest therapy session has uncovered a shocking secret that could mean the end of 50/50 Press. Erica is caught between a rock and a hard place. Dr. Tom has a time-altering solution for her... but will Dr. Arthur allow it?

10. The Tribe Has Spoken

Air Date: 2010-11-24

Erica is offered an incredible career opportunity, which presents her with a difficult choice. To help her make this seemingly impossible decision, Dr. Tom sends Erica and Adam to a deserted island, to learn new ways of 'survival'.

11. Adam's Family

Air Date: 2010-12-01

Erica and Adam must both confront their true feelings once and for all. For Adam, it leads to a journey into his family’s dark past, where he discovers a startling memory that he has locked away.

12. Erica, interrupted

Air Date: 2010-12-08

After three years of time-travel therapy with Dr. Tom, Erica has visited the past, jumped to the future, side-stepped to alternate realities, and changed her life in the process - But now, Erica has arrived in a place she never thought she would see again: Right back where she started.

13. Fa La Erica

Air Date: 2010-12-15

Erica is helping ho-ho-host 50/50 Press' first holiday party, much to the disappointment of her Rabbi father. In her effort to give Adam the perfect Christmas, Erica learns the true meaning of the holidays with visits to her friends' Christmases past, and one particularly memorable Hanukkah of her own.

1. Doctor Who?

Air Date: 2011-09-26

After last season's cliff-hanger, Erica begins the final stage of her therapy as a doctor in training, and she is shocked when her first patient is revealed to be someone she knows.

2. Osso Barko

Air Date: 2011-10-03

50/50 Press' new assistant, Rachel is struggling under Julianne's particular management style, while Erica tries to get to the root of Julianne's bullying.

3. Baby Mama

Air Date: 2011-10-10

Erica reels from Sam's shocking news. Barbara struggles to bury the past.

4. Born This Way

Air Date: 2011-10-17

Brent is failing to jive with the new River Rock. Erica returns to her high school days in order to help an exchange student fit in.

5. Sins of the Father

Air Date: 2011-10-24

Outside the office, Dr. Tom is repeating an old pattern. Erica and Adam hit a rough patch. Kai is back from the future.

6. If I Could Turn Back Time

Air Date: 2011-10-31

Erica wishes for more control, and gets it when Dr. Tom grants her time-travel powers.

7. Being Ethan

Air Date: 2011-11-07

Erica runs into Ethan, and they bond in both the present and past. Meanwhile, Brent and Julianne share a revelation.

8. Please, Please Tell Me Now

Air Date: 2011-11-14

Erica grapples with life's biggest secret.

9. Erica's Adventures in Wonderland

Air Date: 2011-11-28

Erica lives her relationship fantasies on Dave and Ivan's wedding day.

10. Purim

Air Date: 2011-12-05

Erica is sent back to her family's 1992 Purim party, after Erica gets an unwelcomed birthday surprise from Julianne.

11. Dr. Erica

Air Date: 2011-12-12

Four years ago Erica Strange was single, barely making enough money to get by, and had a long list of regrets. Thanks to her time-travel therapist Dr. Tom, Erica has turned her life around, but nothing can prepare her for her most difficult challenge yet - saying goodbye.

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Rating

6.5/10

Release Date

2009-01-05

Episodes

49 (4 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

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Production Companies

Temple Street Productions