1. Genesis (1)
Mar 26, 1989 70 minSeptember 13, 1956: Sam Beckett wakes up in 1956, disoriented, suffering from amnesia, but he has the awful realization that he does not belong there...
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Quantum Leap
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Synopsis
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Episodes
Seasons & episodes
5 seasons
2. Genesis (2)
Mar 26, 1989 19 minSeptember 13, 1956: After Tom Stratton comforts his wife and prevents her from having a premature birth, instead of leaping to save his wife and child. He instead realizes that instead of leaping home, he's lept into Ken 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. Ken Fox makes a home-run, and Sam leaps into Dr. Gerald Bryant as a school teacher in the middle of a class.
3. Star-Crossed
Mar 31, 1989 45 minJune 15, 1972: Sam leaps into the persona of a womanizing college professor in 1972, encounters his lost love and attempts to reshape the past
4. The Right Hand of God
Apr 7, 1989 46 minOctober 24, 1974: Sam lands in 1974 as a young boxer caught between fight-fixing gangsters and hopeful nuns who now own his contract.
5. How the Tess Was Won
Apr 14, 1989 45 minAugust 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.
6. Double Identity
Apr 21, 1989 45 minNovember 8, 1965: Sam becomes a hit man in 1965 whose romance with the godfather's girlfriend places him in danger.
7. The Color of Truth
May 3, 1989 45 minAugust 8, 1955: Sam experiences racism firsthand when he leaps into the body of an elderly black man in the pre-civil rights South of 1955.
8. Camikazi Kid
May 10, 1989 45 minJune 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.
9. Play it Again, Seymour
May 17, 1989 45 minApril 14, 1953: With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is Nick Allen, a private investigator looking for the murderer of his partner and, if he doesn't find the answer in time, himself. The case is solved with a number of Casablanca references as Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.
Ensemble
Cast
Scott Bakula
Sam Beckett
Dean Stockwell
Al Calavicci
Production
The details
Release
1989
Seasons
5 seasons
Country
United States of America
Studio
Universal Television, Belisarius Productions
Spoken languages: English
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