[1] Based on the Morley Torgov novel The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick and its 1988 film adaptation, the series centred on Maximilian Glick, a young Jewish boy coming-of-age in Beausejour, Manitoba in the 1960s.
[2] Though set in Beausejour, the series was filmed on location in Vancouver and Agassiz, British Columbia.
The series starred Josh Garbe as Max, Alec Willows and Linda Kash as his parents Henry and Sarah, Jan Rubeš and Susan Douglas Rubeš as his grandparents Augustus and Bryna, Melyssa Ade as his classmate and love interest Celia, and Jason Blicker as Rabbi Teitelman.
Jan and Susan Rubeš were the only cast members to reprise their roles from the film;[3] Noam Zylberman, who had played Max in the film, was also originally slated to star in the series, but had undergone puberty and grown too tall to believably play a 13-year-old by the time the series entered production.
[4] The series was created by Stephen Foster and Phil Savath, who had been the producer and screenwriter of the original film.