''Angela's Eyes'' is an American

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series that aired from July 16 until October 15, 2006 on Lifetime, running for 13 episodes on Sunday evenings. Lifetime announced that the show would not be picked up for a second season due to lower than expected ratings.

Premise

''Angela's Eyes'' followed Angela Henson Anderson, an

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agent who had a gift for knowing when people were

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by reading their

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. Her imprisoned parents Colin and Lydia Anderson were the two most notorious spies in the U.S. After an adolescence haunted by their mistakes, Angela decided to put her gift of seeing liars to good use and spend her time putting away the "bad guys".

Cast

Abigail Spencer Abigail Leigh Spencer (born August 4, 1981) is an American actress. She began her career playing Rebecca Tyree on the ABC daytime television soap opera ''All My Children'' (1999–2001) before going on to star in the Lifetime crime drama serie ...

as Angela Anderson Henson *

Lyriq Bent Lyriq Bent (born Martin Lyriq Bent) is a Jamaican-Canadian actor. He is known for his roles in the ''Saw'' films, the television series ''Rookie Blue'', and '' The Book of Negroes''. Bent portrays Jamie Overstreet in the Netflix series ''She's ...

as Leo Jenkins *

Joe Cobden Joe Cobden (born October 7, 1978 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He started performing at age 10 as a street vaudevillian, touring festivals worldwide. In 1996, at age 17, Cobden enrolled at Concordia University's Theat ...

as Dozer * Rick Roberts as Gene Taylor *

Paul Popowich Paul Popowich is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Mr. Smith, an angel who helps people change their pasts, in season two of '' Twice in a Lifetime''."Toronto doubles as Harlem in the '30s; A visit to the set of the Canadia ...

as Jerry Anderson *

Boyd Gaines Boyd Payne Gaines (born May 11, 1953) is an American actor. During his career, he has won four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. Gaines is best known for playing Mark Royer on ''One Day at a Time (1975 TV series), One Day at a Time'' (1981 ...

as Colin Anderson *

Alberta Watson Faith Susan Alberta Watson (March 6, 1955 – March 21, 2015), better known as Alberta Watson, was a Canadian film and television actress. Early life Watson was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1955.Rita Zekas. , Toronto Star, August 5, 1994. She gr ...

as Lydia Anderson

Episodes

Every title of the episodes contains the word "

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" excluding "Pilot".

References

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* {{Lifetime Shows 2000s American drama television series 2006 American television series debuts 2006 American television series endings American spy television series Lifetime (TV channel) television dramas Television series by Universal Television Television shows filmed in Toronto