Second Noah is a television drama that was broadcast in the United States on ABC television from February 5, 1996 to June 8, 1997. The series stars Daniel Hugh Kelly as Noah Beckett, whose wife Jesse (Betsy Brantley) is a veterinarian at Busch Gardens in Florida. Noah is a former basketball coachwho is now a writer working on a second book, to be entitled The Ark, after his first effort has sold over 2,000,000 copies. Noah and Jesse have a tendency to take in both stray animals and stray children, having adopted eight.