Quantum Leap

Year

1989

Genre

Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Country

USA

Director

Actors

Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Description

Doctor Sam Beckett led a group of top scientists into the desert to research his theory that a man could time travel within his own lifetime. Unfortunately, in order to save his funding, he was forced to enter the accelerator prematurely and vanished. He then found himself in someone else's body with partial amnesia. His only contact from home is Al, a holographic image only he can see and hear. Setting right things which once went wrong, Sam leaps from life to life, hoping each time that this is the final leap home. ------- Although the project isn't ready yet, Sam hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot, Sam finds his memory Swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. Al explains that the project has gone "a little ca-ca" and that the only way Sam can leap out is by flying the X-2 to Mach 3. Instead, Sam leaps after saving Tom's life, wife and child, only to find that rather than leaping home, he's leapt into Tim Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas, at the end of the 1968 season, where he must make the winning play in order to leap. ------- Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the project accelerator... and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brainwave transmissions with Al, the project observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear. Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap would be the leap home." courtesy of: http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/#premise

Episodes

• Season 1: 1. Genesis: Part 1 - September 13, 1956 (1989). Although the Project Quantum Leap isn't ready yet, Sam Beckett doesn't listen to supercomputer Ziggy, hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot about to attempt a dangerous flight. Sam finds his memory Swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. According to Sam's friend and partner Al, who appears to him as a hologram nobody else can see, Al explains that the Project has gone awry and in order to leap out of the pilot's body, Sam must successfully fly the X-2 to Mach 3, which according to ...
• Season 1: 2. Genesis: Part 2 - September 13, 1956 (1989). As Tom Stratton, Sam comforts his (Tom's) wife and prevents her from having a premature birth. This is what he was sent to do, allowing him to leap home (he hopes). But instead of leaping home, he leaps into Tim Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas at the end of the 1968 season, in the middle of a game, where he must make the winning play in order to leap further. Tim Fox makes a home-run, and Sam leaps into Dr. Gerald Bryant as a college professor in the middle of a class.
• Season 1: 3. Star-Crossed - June 15, 1972 (1989). At a small Ohio college, Sam Beckett is a literature professor who must discourage the amorous advances of a student and finds the woman who left him at the altar. Sam hopes that resolving her conflicts with her father will prevent her from deserting him.
• Season 1: 4. Right Hand Of God - October 24, 1974, The (1989). Sam leaps into a boxer that is owned by a convent of nuns who need him to win a boxing match to finance their new chapel.
• Season 1: 5. How The Tess Was Won - August 5, 1956 (1989). Sam finds himself as a veterinarian who has to compete as a cowboy to win the heart of a cowgirl heiress.
• Season 1: 6. Double Identity - November 8, 1965 (1989). Sam leaps into a mafia hit-man who may not live long since he is romancing the godfather's girlfriend. Also an attempt to bring Sam home causes the 1965 east coast blackout.
• Season 1: 7. Color Of Truth - August 8, 1955, The (1989). As the black chauffeur of an elderly southern woman, Sam must overcome prejudice to prevent the death of a black woman.
• Season 1: 8. Camikazi Kid - June 6, 1961 (1989). Sam leaps into the body of a gawky teenager to keep the boy's older sister from marrying an abusive alcoholic. Taking advice from Al, Sam hopes to reveal the young man's true nature by challenging him to a drag race.
• Season 1: 9. Play It Again, Seymour - April 14, 1953 (1989). Sam leaps into a private detective who looks a lot like Humphrey Bogart.
• Season 2: 1. Honeymoon Express - April 26, 1960 (1989). Sam must save himself, while on his honeymoon, from his new bride's ex-husband. Also, Congress wants Sam to change history by stopping the U2 flight that was shot down over Russia in 1960.
• Season 2: 2. Disco Inferno - April 1, 1976 (1989). Sam has to save his host's younger brother from his obsessed father who wants him to go into the family business as a movie stuntman.
• Season 2: 3. Americanization Of Machiko - August 4, 1953, The (1989). As a returning sailor Sam brings home a Japanese wife and must battle the prejudice of his hometown and his own mother.
• Season 2: 4. What Price Gloria? - October 16, 1961 (1989). As a gorgeous secretary Sam must deal with the sexual harassment of his boss and the attempted suicide of his roommate.
• Season 2: 5. Blind Faith - February 6, 1964 (1989). As a blind concert pianist, Sam must save his girlfriend from a serial killer despite the interference with her overbearing mother.
• Season 2: 6. Good Morning, Peoria - September 9, 1959 (1989). Sam is a radio DJ and has to help bring Rock and Roll to Peoria.
• Season 2: 7. Thou Shalt Not... - February 2, 1974 (1989). Sam leaps into a rabbi to prevent his host's sister-in-law from falling for a sleazy author.
• Season 2: 8. Jimmy - October 14, 1964 (1989). Sam leaps into a young retarded man and has to keep him out of an institution.
• Season 2: 9. So Help Me God - July 29, 1957 (1989). Sam must defend a young black woman charged with murdering the son of a powerful Southern political figure.
• Season 2: 10. Catch A Falling Star - May 21, 1979 (1989). Sam must save an alcoholic actor from a fall during a performance of "Man of LaMancha." His old piano teacher is also present and finds Sam's host very attractive.
• Season 2: 11. Portrait For Troian - February 7, 1971, A (1989). Sam must save a young woman who drowns while insisting that she is hearing the calls of her dead husband.
• Season 2: 12. Animal Frat - October 19, 1967 (1990). Finding himself the king of an "Animal House" fraternity, Sam must win the confidence of a beautiful female activist and prevent the bombing of a school building.
• Season 2: 13. Another Mother - September 30, 1981 (1990). Sam must prevent the teen-aged son of his host from disappearing. Al and Sam also find out that very young children can see the real Sam and Al.
• Season 2: 14. All Americans - November 6, 1962 (1990). Sam must prevent a fellow high school football player from throwing the championship game and losing his scholarship.
• Season 2: 15. Her Charm - September 26, 1973 (1990). As an FBI agent Sam has to protect a female witness when the people after her seem to know his every step.
• Season 2: 16. Freedom - November 22, 1970 (1990). As a American Indian, Sam escapes from jail to get his grandfather back to the reservation so he can die at home.
• Season 2: 17. Good Night, Dear Heart - November 9, 1957 (1990). Sam leaps into a coroner who must play detective and prove that a female victim was murdered.
• Season 2: 18. Pool Hall Blues - September 4, 1954 (1990). Sam leaps into an old pool playing acquaintance of Al's and must win a pool game so that his granddaughter doesn't lose her bar.
• Season 2: 19. Leaping In Without A Net - November 18, 1958 (1990). Sam must overcome his fear of heights when he leaps into a trapeze artist whose sister dies doing a stunt without a net.
• Season 2: 20. Maybe Baby - March 11, 1963 (1990). Sam is involved with the kidnapping of a baby while crossing Texas with his stripper accomplice.
• Season 2: 21. Sea Bride - June 3, 1954 (1990). Onboard an ocean liner Sam must prevent the marriage of his host's ex-wife.
• Season 2: 22. M.I.A. - April 1, 1969 (1990). Al tells Sam that he has to convince a Navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive, but Sam keeps getting signals that he has another mission.
• Season 3: 1. Leap Home: Part 1 - November 25, 1969, The (1990). Sam leaps into himself as a teenager to help his high school basketball team win the championship. He also tries to help the other members of his family including his father who died from smoking, his brother who died in Viet Nam and his sister who married a wife abuser.
• Season 3: 2. Leap Home: Part 2 (Vietnam) - April 7, 1970, The (1990). Still involved in his brother's life, Sam leaps into Viet Nam to either save his brother or ensure the success of the team's mission.
• Season 3: 3. Leap Of Faith - August 19, 1963 (1990). As a priest, Sam must save another priest from alcoholism and prevent a murder.
• Season 3: 4. One Strobe Over The Line - June 15, 1965 (1990). Sam leaps into a fashion photographer and must save a model from a drug dependency due to an ambitious agent.
• Season 3: 5. Boogieman - October 31, 1964, The (1990). Everything goes wrong when Sam leaps into a Gothic horror novelist on Halloween.
• Season 3: 6. Miss Deep South - June 7, 1958 (1990). While entered in the "Miss Deep South" beauty pageant, Sam must prevent a fellow contestant from posing for some nude photos and make sure his host comes in third in the contest.
• Season 3: 7. Black On White On Fire - August 11, 1965 (1990). As a black medical student during the 1965 Watts riots, Sam must save his white fiancée.
• Season 3: 8. Great Spontini - May 9, 1974, The (1990). Sam leaps into magician who wants to keep custody of his daughter and save her from an accidental death.
• Season 3: 9. Rebel Without A Clue - September 1, 1958 (1990). As a member of a motorcycle gang Sam has to keep a young woman from going on the road.
• Season 3: 10. Little Miracle - December 24, 1962, A (1990). Sam and Al scare the Dickens out of a rich Scrooge character who wants to tear down a mission and build a high rise.
• Season 3: 11. Runaway - July 4, 1964 (1991). Sam must put up with a bratty older sister and keep the family together while saving his mother who disappears.
• Season 3: 12. 8 1/2 Months - November 15, 1955 (1991). Sam leaps into a very pregnant teenager and must convince her father to help her keep the baby.
• Season 3: 13. Future Boy - October 6, 1957 (1991). As the sidekick on the 1950's children's show "Time Patrol" Sam must prevent the commitment and death of the star of the show.
• Season 3: 14. Private Dancer - October 6, 1979 (1991). As a male stripper, Sam must save a deaf girl from a life of prostitution and get her an audition with a professional dance company.
• Season 3: 15. Piano Man - November 10, 1985 (1991). Sam is a piano player who is on the run from a killer with an ex-girl friend.
• Season 3: 16. Southern Comforts - August 4, 1961 (1991). Sam leaps into the proprietor of a New Orleans brothel and has to prevent the death of a girl who really doesn't belong there.
• Season 3: 17. Glitter Rock - April 12, 1974 (1991). Sam becomes a member of a rock band who is stabbed to death after a concert by one of a long list of suspects.
• Season 3: 18. Hunting Will We Go - June 18, 1976, A (1991). Sam leaps into a bounty hunter who is handcuffed to a female fugitive who will do anything to escape from him.
• Season 3: 19. Last Dance Before An Execution - May 12, 1971 (1991). Sam leaps into a death row convict moments before his execution. A last minute stay of execution order gives him 48 hours to determine his innocence in a leap with an unclear mission.
• Season 3: 20. Heart Of A Champion - July 23, 1955 (1991). Sam leaps into a wrestler who must convince his partner-brother to quit due to a heart problem.
• Season 3: 21. Nuclear Family - October 26, 1962 (1991). Sam must deal with the panic associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis as a Flordia fallout shelter salesman.
• Season 3: 22. Shock Theater - October 3, 1954 (1991). Sam leaps into a patient at a Mental Hospital and undergoes electroshock therapy. The treatment causes Sam to act like other people he's been. It also weakens his link to Al. Al must find a way to get his friend back to normal, and figure a way to carry out Sam's mission.
• Season 4: 1. Leap Back - June 15, 1945, The (1991). Sam and Al have switched places. Now Sam is the hologram, and Al is the leaper. Al must reunite a returning WWII veteran with the woman he left due to the war. Sam and Al must figure a way to communicate with the future, because Al has the comm device, and Sam has no way to contact Ziggy.
• Season 4: 2. Play Ball - August 6, 1961 (1991). Sam is a minor league baseball pitcher who has plenty of female admirers and a porcine team mascot to watch out for.
• Season 4: 3. Hurricane - August 17, 1969 (1991). As a deputy sheriff, Sam must prevent a murder as Hurricane Camile hits the Mississippi gulf coast.
• Season 4: 4. Justice - May 11, 1965 (1991). Sam must save the life of a civil rights worker ironically as a member of the Klu Klux Klan.
• Season 4: 5. Permanent Wave - June 2, 1983 (1991). Sam leaps into a hair dresser to prevent the death of a murder witness.
• Season 4: 6. Raped - June 20, 1980 (1991). Sam leaps into a rape victim and must testify against the attacker who is an outstanding member of the community.
• Season 4: 7. Wrong Stuff - January 24, 1961, The (1991). Sam leaps into a chimpanzee used in the early days of the space program and has to save a fellow chimp from testing that will result in his death.
• Season 4: 8. Dreams - February 28, 1979 (1991). Sam leaps into a detective that is working on a gruesome murder and must deal with flashbacks from the mind of his leapee.
• Season 4: 9. Single Drop Of Rain - September 7, 1953, A (1991). Sam leaps into a rainmaker who returns to his drought-stricken hometown and has to keep his family together.
• Season 4: 10. Unchained - November 2, 1956 (1991). Sam must save a fellow convict from a chain gang in 1956.
• Season 4: 11. Play's The Thing - September 9, 1969, The (1992). Sam finds himself as a young man involved with an older woman who has singing aspirations and needs a confidence boost from Sam.
• Season 4: 12. Running For Honor - June 11, 1964 (1992). At a Naval school Sam must prevent the death of a gay fellow classmate from a gang of other students.
• Season 4: 13. Temptation Eyes - February 1, 1985 (1992). As a television reporter Sam protects a psychic from a serial killer who can tell who Sam Beckett really is.
• Season 4: 14. Last Gunfighter - November 28, 1957, The (1992). Sam leaps into a elderly man who likes his whiskey and tells tall tales. His former partner and fellow gunfighter shows up wanting recognition and revenge.
• Season 4: 15. Song For The Soul - April 7, 1963, A (1992). Singing in a 1960's black girl band, Sam must save one member from an unscrupulous nightclub owner.
• Season 4: 16. Ghost Ship - August 13, 1956 (1992). Flying through the Bermuda Triangle strange things occur as Sam must get a sick passenger to a doctor.
• Season 4: 17. Roberto! - January 27, 1982 (1992). In the role of a "Geraldo" type journalist, Sam and an asthmatic woman try and uncover the truth about what is going on at a local chemical plant.
• Season 4: 18. It's A Wonderful Leap - May 10, 1958 (1992). As a New York City cab driver, Sam has to win a contest to get his own taxi medallion. Sam also has the help of a woman named Angelito who knows about Sam and claims to be an angel.
• Season 4: 19. Moments To Live - May 4, 1985 (1992). Sam is kidnapped by an obsessed soap opera fan.
• Season 4: 20. Curse Of Ptah-Hotep - March 2, 1957, The (1992). At an archaeological dig in Egypt Sam has to deal with an approaching sandstorm and a 3000 year old curse.
• Season 4: 21. Stand Up - April 30, 1959 (1992). As part of a Catskills comedy act trio, Sam has to convince the other two members that they are in love while saving one of them from the mob.
• Season 4: 22. Leap For Lisa - June 25, 1957, A (1992). While trying to save a married woman, Sam changes history and Al is sent to the gas chamber giving Sam a new observer.
• Season 5: 1. Lee Harvey Oswald - Oct 5, 1957-Nov 22, 1963: Part 1 (1992). Sam finds himself leaping back and forth in assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's life while retaining part of his personality.
• Season 5: 2. Lee Harvey Oswald - Oct 5, 1957-Nov 22, 1963: Part 2 (1992). As the date for Dallas draws nearer, Oswald's personality is getting harder to control. Al is finding it harder to connect with Sam. Is Sam supposed to save the President, or unearth the conspiracy?
• Season 5: 3. Leaping Of The Shrew - September 27, 1956 (1992). Sam leaps into a Greek sailor who is stranded on a deserted island with a spoiled rich brat.
• Season 5: 4. Nowhere To Run - August 10, 1968 (1992). As a legless Viet Nam veteran Sam must prevent the suicide of a fellow hospital patient.
• Season 5: 5. Killin' Time - June 18, 1958 (1992). Sam leaps into a hostage situation as a fugitive killer. The real killer breaks out of the Project facility and is on the run in 1999.
• Season 5: 6. Star Light, Star Bright - May 21, 1966 (1992). Sam leaps into a 79-year-old man who claims to have seen UFO's to save his grandson from a drug overdose.
• Season 5: 7. Deliver Us From Evil - March 19, 1966 (1992). Sam discovers another set of leapers who are messing with history.
• Season 5: 8. Trilogy: Part 1 (One Little Heart) - August 8, 1955 (1992). As the sheriff in a Louisiana town, Sam must deal with two strange murders and a girl named Abigail Fuller.
• Season 5: 9. Trilogy: Part 2 (For Your Love) - June 14, 1966 (1992). Sam must save his leapee's fiance Abigail Fuller from a mob after the disappearance of a child in his charge.
• Season 5: 10. Trilogy: Part 3 (The Last Door) - July 28, 1978 (1992). Sam leaps into a lawyer to save Abigail Fuller, mother of Sam's daughter Sammy Jo, from a murder charge.
• Season 5: 11. Promised Land - December 22, 1971 (1992). Sam finds himself back in his hometown at Christmas time to save the farm of a neighbor.
• Season 5: 12. Tale Of Two Sweeties - February 25, 1958, A (1993). Sam must decide between families when he leaps into a salesman with two wives.
• Season 5: 13. Liberation - October 16, 1968 (1993). Leaping into the middle of the woman's liberation movement Sam must prevent the death of a young lady at a sit-in and convince her father to live with a liberated daughter.
• Season 5: 14. Dr. Ruth - April 25, 1985 (1993). Sam leaps into sex doctor Ruth Westheimer, plays matchmaker for a couple on the staff of her radio show and helps a woman with sexual harassment.
• Season 5: 15. Blood Moon - March 10, 1975 (1993). Sam leaps into an English castle where the occupants practice vampire rituals. He must save the young wife of the castle owner.
• Season 5: 16. Return Of The Evil Leaper - October 8, 1956 (1993). Sam leaps into a college fraternity and again meets Alia from the Evil Leaper Project.
• Season 5: 17. Revenge Of The Evil Leaper - September 16, 1987 (1993). After saving Alia from the Evil Leaper Project, they are trapped in a woman's prison with the evil observer Zoey in charge as the prison warden.
• Season 5: 18. Goodbye Norma Jean - April 4, 1960 (1993). As the chauffeur of Marilyn Monroe, Sam saves her life and helps her with her final movie, "The Misfits."
• Season 5: 19. Beast Within - November 6, 1972, The (1993). As a former Viet Nam veteran, Sam is mistaken for Big Foot in rural Washington state.
• Season 5: 20. Leap Between The States - September 20, 1862, The (1993). Sam Beckett leaps into his great-grandfather during the Civil War and must not interfere with his great-grandparents meeting nor get captured behind Confederate lines.
• Season 5: 21. Memphis Melody - July 3, 1954 (1993). While impersonating the King, Elvis Presley, Sam must save a Memphis Belle from a bad marriage.
• Season 5: 22. Mirror Image - August 8, 1953 (1993). Sam leaps into a bar with a bartender that's more than he appears. When Sam looks into a mirror, he sees his own reflection. In the future, they realize that Sam has leaped into himself, they search history for Sam. Sam learns more about Quantum Leap, and who's responsible for his leaps. Before he takes his next leap, he realizes he must correct something that could affect his personal history.

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