Quantum Leap
an Episode Guide
by Anita Kilgour & Andrés Martínez
Last updated:
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Quantum Leapan Episode Guide
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| aired from: Mar 1989 to: May 1993 | 97 eps | NBC | 60 min | stereo | closed captioned |
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In some episodes the story is based around the time of real historical events and sometimes is about a famous person.
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Production Credits
Executive producer: Donald P. Bellisario
Co-executive producers: Chris Ruppenthal
Created by: Donald P. Bellisario
Supervising producer: Tommy Thompson
Producers: Scott Ejercito
Although the Project Quantum Leap (PQL) isn't ready yet, and doesn't listen his supercomputer Ziggy, 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 awry and that the only way Sam can leap out is by flying the X-2 to Mach 3. Instead, Sam leaps after saving his wife and child, only to find that rather than leaping home, he's leapt into Ken 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.
b: 26 Mar 89 pc: _________ w: Donald P. Bellisario d: David HemmingsAlthough 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 awry and that the only way Sam can leap out is by flying the X-2 to Mach 3. Instead, Sam leaps after saving his wife and child, only to find that rather than leaping home, he's leapt into Ken 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.
b: 26 Mar 89 pc: _________ w: Donald P. Bellisario d: David HemmingsAs Dr. Gerald Bryant, a literature professor at the Ohio College attended by his one-time fiancée, Sam has to prevent an amorous co-ed from attaching to him and ruining her life. Despite threats to his job, Al gives Sam the information he needs to reunite his star-crossed lover with her father and, maybe, give himself a second shot at marriage
b: 31 Mar 89 pc: 65003 w: Deborah Pratt d: Mark Sobel NOTE: Watergate.Having leaped into Kid Cody, a boxer on the take, Sam has to win the championship to fund a new church for his trainers, a group of nuns. Sam must face the bookie who counts on him to take a dive in the final bout, and, with the help of several trainers, streaking, and Al's appearance in the ring to guide his punches, Sam wins the bout and finances the chapel.
b: 7 Apr 89 pc: 65002 w: John Hill d: Gilbert ShiltonAs a veterinarian in rural Texas, Sam's mission appears to be winning the love of an heiress to a large ranch. Sabotaged by another suitor, Sam fails and finds that his true goal was to save the life of a sick piglet, and to help an unnamed cohort with a task he's performing.
b: 14 Apr 89 pc: 65004 w: Deborah Arakelian d: Ivan Dixon NOTE: Buddy Holly.Though his goal as a Mafia hitman named Frankie is unclear, Sam follows a list of instructions, supplied by Ziggy in an effort to bring Sam back to the Project. These instructions result in the Great East Coast Blackout and, rather than leaping home, Sam finds himself in the life of the Mafia don who's been jealously preventing a romance between Frankie and the don's girlfriend. Sam believes he knows his mission, and publicly announces Frankie's marriage to the girlfriend, putting himself in a position to call a winning Bingo number.
b: 21 Apr 89 pc: 65001 w: Donald P. Bellisario d: Aaron Lipstadt NOTE: Great NE Blackout.In the life of Jesse Tyler, an aging black chauffeur, Sam must face discrimination in the South while trying to prevent the death of an elderly white woman. Actions motivated by his own belief in equality cause violent reactions, as Sam tries to convince one of the pillars of the community to change her views on racism and the futility of trying to change a society for the better.
b: 3 May 89 pc: 65013 w: Deborah Pratt d: Michael VejarAs a high school nerd, Sam is required to prevent the marriage of his sister to an abusive drinker, with the wedding only three days away. By drag racing the prospective husband, beating him with a car that couldn't have won without nitrous oxide, Sam shows the groom's true tendencies.
b: 10 May 89 pc: 65014 w: Paul Brown d: Alan J. Levi NOTE: Michael Jackson.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.
b: 17 May 89 pc: 65009 w: Scott Shepard & Donald P. Bellisario d: Aaron Lipstadt NOTE: Woody Allen.| Back to TOP of Page |
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As Tom McBride, a New York City cop on his honeymoon, Sam must save himself from a jealous, and sociopath, ex-husband. To make matters worse, the Project's funding will be cut off, stranding Sam alone in the past, unless he can prevent the U2 flight from being shot down over Russia.
b: 20 Sep 89 pc: 65411 w: Donald P. Bellisario d: Aaron LipstadtAs a stuntman, Sam is to save the life of his younger brother, while trying to convince the pair's obsessive father to let the younger son go his own way, even if it means going into country-western music, rather than following the family tradition of stunt work.
b: 27 Sep 89 pc: 65401 w: Paul Brown d: Gilbert Shilton NOTE: Movie set of the 70's classic disaster movie "Earthquake".As a sailor returning from Japan, Sam brings a foreign wife to a small town. He then has to fight against the prejudice of both a scheming ex- girlfriend, as well as his mother, in order to gain acceptance of his new bride
b: 11 Oct 89 pc: 65406 w: Charlie Coffey d: Gilbert Shilton NOTE: Guest Callan is regular in Lois & ClarkSam is shocked when he learns he's leaped into a woman, Samantha Stormer. As a gorgeous secretary for an automobile company, Sam has to cope with sexual harassment by the boss, a suicide attempt by a roommate, and the effect his looks have on Al's lecherous tendencies.
b: 25 Oct 89 pc: 65017 w: Deborah Pratt d: Alan J. LeviAlthough the concert pianist he leaps into is blind, a fact, which bothers his girlfriend's disapproving mother, Sam can still see. At least until an exploding flashbulb blinds him at the crucial moment: when he must rescue his girlfriend from a serial killer.
b: 1 Nov 89 pc: 65402 w: Scott Sheperd d: David J. FinneyRock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.
b: 8 Nov 89 pc: 65408 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Michael ZinbergSam's task as a rabbi is to keep his sister-in-law from falling for a sleazy author and ruining her life. In the process he also helps the family recover from the year-old death of their son.
b: 15 Nov 89 pc: 65409 w: Tammy Ader d: Randy Roberts NOTE: Dr. Heimlich.Since mainstreaming the mentally retarded is not yet a popular concept, Sam must help Jimmy LaMotta, the "slow" young man he's leaped into, get a job and gain his coworkers' acceptance, to prevent his brother from returning Jimmy to the institution.
b: 22 Nov 89 pc: 65407 w: Paul M. Belous & Robert Wolterstorff d: James Whitmore Jr.Though he can't remember much more than habeas corpus, Sam finds himself the defense attorney for a young black woman accused of murdering the son of the most powerful man in a small Louisiana town.
b: 29 Nov 89 pc: 65410 w: Deborah Pratt d: Andy CadiffSam leaps into Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes just seconds before curtain time. His mission: prevent the drunken star from falling and seriously injuring himself during a benefit performance of "Man of La Mancha". Sam isn't helped by the presence of his former piano teacher, on whom he once had a crush, and who now appears to have caught the star's eye as well.
b: 6 Dec 89 pc: 65413 w: Paul Brown d: Donald P. Bellisario NOTE: Guests Cullum and Turner would later appear together as regulars in Northern Exposure.Sam leaps into a renowned parapsychologist where he must prevent a young widow from joining her husband at the bottom of a lake, while proving that she's not crazy, despite her claims of hearing her dead husband calling to her.
b: 13 Dec 89 pc: 65019 w: John Hill & Scott Sheperd d: Michael ZinbergTrapped in the body of Knut Wileton, better known as "Wild Thing", the typical frat jock, Sam must win the confidence of an attractive campus radical before she bombs the college's chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.
b: 3 Jan 90 pc: 65417 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Gilbert ShiltonAs a divorced mother of three, Sam's job of preventing his teenage son from running away, never to be seen again, is made more interesting by the fact that his youngest daughter can see both him and Al.
b: 10 Jan 90 pc: 65415 w: Deborah Pratt d: Joseph L. Scanlan NOTE: Guest Stoyanov and Burnett are regulars in Blossom and The Torkelsons respectively.Keeping his best friend from throwing the high school championship football game, costing both of them their scholarship offers, Sam must also get their families to consolidate.
b: 17 Jan 90 pc: 65418 w: Paul Brown & Donald P. Bellisario d: John CullumProtecting a female member of the witness protection program from a mafia hitman proves difficult for Sam, since the FBI appears to have an informant confounding his attempts to hide her.
b: 7 Feb 90 pc: 65416 w: Deborah Pratt & Donald P. Bellisario d: Chris WelchRather than saving his grandfather's life, Sam has to escape from jail and elude the police long enough to get them both to the reservation, where the old man can die in peace, at home.
b: 14 Feb 90 pc: 65423 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Alan J. LeviRather than saving the damsel of the episode, who supposedly committed suicide, Sam is the coroner trying to prove that she was murdered, and find out by whom.
b: 7 Mar 90 pc: 65424 w: Paul Brown d: Christopher T. WelchIn order to help his granddaughter save a small bar from the slimy loan shark holding a note on the place, Sam has to play pool like a pro...with a little help from Al and Ziggy.
b: 14 Mar 90 pc: 65422 w: Randy Holland d: Joe NapolitanoSam remembers he's afraid of heights when he leaps into a trapeze artist, whose sister wants him to catch her as she does a triple without a net. Dad is less than pleased, since his wife died a few years earlier while attempting the same stunt.
b: 28 Mar 90 pc: 65421 w: Tommy Thompson d: Christopher T. WelchBabysitting a kidnapped tot and a flaky, compulsively lying stripper keeps Sam busy as they cross Texas, on the run from the legal father and a squad of cops.
b: 4 Apr 90 pc: 65428 w: Paul Brown & Julie Brown d: Michael ZinbergAboard an ocean liner, Sam must stop the marriage of a young man's ex- wife to a mobster. In the process, he finds himself in one heck of a mess in the ship's garbage compartment.
b: 2 May 90 pc: 65430 w: Deborah Pratt d: Joe NapolitanoWhen Sam leaps into the life of an undercover cop, Al explains that his mission is to convince a navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive, and to prevent her from marrying a lawyer she meets on the day Sam leaps in. But a series of coincidences causes Sam to wonder about the true nature of his mission.
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As himself at the age of 16, Sam has the opportunity to both win the high school basketball championship and save his family from their sad fates.
b: 28 Sep 90 pc: 66401 w: Donald P. Bellisario d: Joe NapolitanoAs a Navy SEAL in his own brother's squad, Sam must determine whether he is there to save Tom's life or ensure the success of the mission on which his brother was killed. Also Al from 1970 was a P.O.W.
b: 5 Oct 90 pc: 66402 w: Donald P. Bellisario d: Michael ZinbergSam finds himself in one holy mess as a priest in Philadelphia, trying to help an alcoholic priest deal with a killer and the death of a young parishioner.
b: 12 Oct 90 pc: 66408 w: Tommy Thompson d: James Whitmore Jr. NOTE: Sylvester Stallone.Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory manager's ambitions.
b: 19 Oct 90 pc: 66409 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Michael ZinbergThings do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a horror novelist on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the death of a church deacon, things get even stranger when two more people die without warning.
b: 26 Oct 90 pc: 66410 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Joe Napolitano NOTE: Stephen King.As Darlene Monte, a contestant in the "Miss Deep South" beauty pageant, Sam must come to the aid of an innocent contender who faces disgrace when she poses for naughty pictures taken by a sleazy pageant photographer. As if things weren't bad enough, Sam must ensure that Darlene finishes third, so that she'll go on to become a doctor.
b: 2 Nov 90 pc: 66406 w: Tommy Thompson d: Christopher WelchSam leaps into a black med. student engaged to a white woman in order to ensure that he and his fiancée survive the Watts Riot together.
b: 9 Nov 90 pc: 66403 w: Deborah Pratt d: Joe NapolitanoLeaping into magician Harry Spontini, Sam has to prevent his estranged wife from taking their daughter away from him as she files for divorce, so she can marry her sleazy divorce attorney.
b: 16 Nov 90 pc: 66412 w: Christy Dawson & Beverly Bridges d: James Whitmore Jr.As "Bones," a member of a motorcycle gang, Sam is an uneasy rider who has to prevent a Jack Kerouac-inspired young woman from meeting her death on the road.
b: 30 Nov 90 pc: 66407 w: Nick Harding & Paul Brown d: James Whitmore Jr.On Christmas Eve, Sam leap into Reginald Pierson, valet to a wealthy contractor, who is in danger of losing his soul in an attempt to demolish a Salvation Army mission, so he can build his "Blake's Plaza." Seeing a similarity to the Dickens's character, Sam and Al decide to "Scrooge" the greed out of the man.
b: 21 Dec 90 pc: 66414 w: Sandy Fries d: Michael WatkinsOn a cross-country car trip, Sam, as 13-year-old Butchie, must contend with a sadistic older sister and a mother on the verge of running away from an unfulfilling marriage, in search of the feminine mystique.
b: 4 Jan 91 pc: 66405 w: Paul Brown d: Michael KatelmanBillie Jean Crockett is a pregnant teenager who will make the second biggest mistake of her life - giving her baby up for adoption - unless Sam, as Billie Jean, can convince someone to help her raise her child... before he goes into labor himself
b: 6 Mar 91 pc: 66421 w: Deborah Pratt d: James Whitmore Jr.Sam leaps Kenny Sharp, better known as "Future Boy", sidekick to Moe Stein, host of the kid's show, "Time Patrol," who also happens to be building a time machine in his basement. Unless Sam can prevent Moe's daughter from attempting to have her father committed, Moe is destined to be killed as he tries to hop a freight train.
b: 13 Mar 91 pc: 66417 w: Tommy Thompson d: Michael SwitzerAn aspiring dancer working as a waitress in a strip club is in danger of being led into a life of prostitution unless Sam, as "Rod the Bod," can convince her to audition for a spot in a professional dance group. But, since she's deaf, the choreographer doesn't believe she has the time to give the young lady the attention she'll need.
b: 20 Mar 91 pc: 66416 w: Paul Brown d: Debbie Allen NOTE: Guest and Director Allen was a regular in the movie and television series "Fame".Joey Dinardo is a lounge lizard on the run from mob hitmen. When Sam leaps in, his ex-girlfriend, and former musical partner have found him, and now both are on a run for their lives from a killer who seems to know their every move.
b: 27 Mar 91 pc: 66419 w: Ed Scharlach d: James Whitmore Jr. NOTE: Scott Bakula's lyrical debut: "Somewhere in the Night".It's the best little cathouse in New Orleans. No, it's the Gilbert Labonte Sewin' & Quiltin' Academy. As the proprietor of this worthy establishment, Sam must prevent the mysterious death of a resident who doesn't belong there.
b: 3 Apr 91 pc: 66422 w: Tommy Thompson d: Chris RuppenthalSam is a glitter rock star in danger of being stabbed to death after a performance, unless Sam can determine who, from a growing list of people, the real killer is.
b: 10 Apr 91 pc: 66404 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Andy Cadiff NOTE: The group's make-up is similar to the makeup work by the rock group KISS.It's the leap from hell as Sam, a bounty hunter handcuffed to a wily embezzler who will stop at nothing to get away from him, has to deal with his captive, as well as his attraction towards her, despite her countless attacks on him.
b: 18 Apr 91 pc: 66424 w: Beverly Bridges d: Andy Cadiff"Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled
b: 1 May 91 pc: 66423 w: Deborah Pratt d: Michael WatkinsThe heart of a champion belongs to Ronnie, a professional wrestler, who will die if he competes in the title match. Sam, as his brother and new partner Terry, must convince him of his hidden health problem, while avoiding his own health problem - the jealous wrestler-husband of a woman who has taken an amorous interest in Sam.
b: 8 May 91 pc: 66425 w: Tommy Thompson d: Joe NapolitanoSam finds himself the brother of a fallout shelter salesman during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where he must defuse a potentially explosive situation as panic sets in on the night of John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation.
b: 15 May 91 pc: 66426 w: Paul Brown d: James Whitmore Jr.Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes his Swiss-cheesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps. Al, finding himself visible to the mentally absent, must try to complete Sam's mission, and convince him to take another shock treatment, in order to leap Sam out before contact is lost forever.
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Struck by lightning, Sam and Al find their roles reversed, as Sam returns to the future, and to a long-lost love, while Al leaps back to 1945 to prevent the death of a returning World War II hero and his former girl friend.
b: 18 Sep 91 pc: 67303 w: Donald P. Bellisario d: Michael ZinbergA pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or baby-sit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of the women in his life.
b: 25 Sep 91 pc: 67305 w: Tommy Thompson d: Joe NapolitanoSam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly hurricane.
b: 2 Oct 91 pc: 67306 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Michael WatkinsSam must don the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman in order to save the life of an ambitious young civil rights leader, who is trying to register black voters.
b: 9 Oct 91 pc: 67309 w: Toni Graphia d: Rob BowmanSam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the death of a young murder witness and his mother.
b: 16 Oct 91 pc: 67302 w: Beverly Bridges d: Scott Bakula NOTE: Scott Bakula's directorial debut.It's up to Sam to try to bring a rapist to justice when he leaps into the perp's victim, a young woman who may have been unwilling to press charges against the young man - the son of the pillar of the community.
b: 30 Oct 91 pc: 67312 w: Beverly Bridges d: Michael ZinbergThe fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.
b: 6 Nov 91 pc: 67308 w: Paul Brown d: Joe NapolitanoIt's more like a nightmare when Sam leaps into a detective, investigating a gruesome murder. He may be next if he doesn't find out who eviscerated the victim and his only hope is the victim's catatonic son and her husband's psychiatrist. The horrific flashbacks he's experiencing don't help matters much either.
b: 13 Nov 91 pc: 67320 w: Deborah Pratt d: Anita AddisonA devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam, as Billy Beaumont, "purveyor of precipitation and maker of rain," can find a way to make it rain, while keeping his family together in the process.
b: 20 Nov 91 pc: 67317 w: Richard C. Okie & Donald P. Bellisario d: Virgil W. VogelSam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue his companion from a fifteen-year sentence on a chain gang.
b: 27 Nov 91 pc: 67314 w: Paris Qualles d: Michael WatkinsMay meets December when Sam leaps into a young actor in love with an older woman, who is also an aspiring singer. If he can't boost her confidence and help her get her career on track, she will face a "fate worse than death," returning with her son to Cleveland.
b: 8 Jan 92 pc: 67301 w: Beverly Bridges d: Eric LaneuvilleAs a track star in a Navy college, Sam must prevent the death of his ex- roommate, who was expelled because he was gay, and who is slated to die at the hands of a group of bigoted cadets.
b: 15 Jan 92 pc: 67319 w: Robert Harris Duncan d: Bob HulmeA serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a TV reporter, protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case, from becoming the next victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.
b: 22 Jan 92 pc: 67322 w: Paul Brown d: Christopher HiblerSam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.
b: 29 Jan 92 pc: 67318 w: Sam Rolfe d: Joe NapolitanoAs a backup singer in a black, amateur girl group Sam finds between the fifteen year-old lead singer and her father as he attempts to rescue the girl from a sleazy night club owner's clutches.
b: 26 Feb 92 pc: 67304 w: Deborah Pratt d: Michael WatkinsFlying over the Bermuda Triangle, Sam, as the co-pilot, must prevent the flight from returning to Virginia, to get a seriously ill passenger to a doctor before she dies. Flying through the triangle is riskier than it seems, and Sam, deprived of Al's help when the hologram fades out, must get them through alive.
b: 4 Mar 92 pc: 67307 w: Paris Qualles & Donald P. Bellisario d: Anita AddisonSam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery, which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.
b: 11 Mar 92 pc: 67326 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Scott BakulaSam finds himself behind the wheel of a New York taxicab, in the life of Max Greenman, a driver striving to win his own tag, a license to drive his own cab. His mission is aided with the help of a woman who claims to be a guardian angel.
b: 1 Apr 92 pc: 67324 w: Danielle Alexandra & Paul Brown d: Paul Brown NOTE: Donald Trump.Sam is a soap opera heart surgeon and the obsession of a love-struck, if somewhat deranged fan. He must escape from the woman and her husband who kidnap him for reproductive purposes
b: 8 Apr 92 pc: 67325 w: Tommy Thompson d: Joe NapolitanoIt's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.
b: 22 Apr 92 pc: 67328 w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Joe NapolitanoSam, as the singing half of a comedy team, soon finds that trying to convince two people that they're truly in love is no laughing matter, especially when one of them is the object of a sleazy casino owner's desire.
b: 13 May 92 pc: 67315 w: Deborah Pratt d: Michael ZinbergSam leaps into one Al "Bingo" Calavicci to prevent the death of his married lover. But when Sam accidentally alters history, and finds out too late about her untimely demise, it could mean the gas chamber for Al ... and a whole new situation at the Project.
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As a result of leaping again before he had a chance to complete his original mission, Sam finds himself leaping back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Following the sole assassin theory, Sam and Al attempt to prevent Oswald's attack on John F. Kennedy. But, with each leap giving Oswald more control over Sam's body, history seems doomed to repeat itself.
b: 22 Sep 92 pc: 68102A w: Donald P. Bellisario d: James Whitmore Jr.As a result of leaping again before he had a chance to complete his original mission, Sam finds himself leaping back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Following the sole assassin theory, Sam and Al attempt to prevent Oswald's attack on John F. Kennedy. But, with each leap giving Oswald more control over Sam's body, history seems doomed to repeat itself.
b: 22 Sep 92 pc: 68102B w: Donald P. Bellisario d: James Whitmore Jr.It's Robinson Crusoe with a twist when Sam leaps into a Greek sailor stranded on a deserted island with a beautiful young rich woman who appears to be less than fond of both him and their stranded situation.
b: 29 Sep 92 pc: 68104 w: Richard Okie & Robin Jill Bernheim d: Alan J. Levi NOTE: This episode is almost a parody of Brooke Shield's movie "The Blue Lagoon".As a Marine captain whose legs were amputated after a mishap in Vietnam, Sam finds himself in a veteran's hospital, where he must prevent the suicide of a fellow patient who would rather be dead than face life paralyzed from the neck down. Making matters worse, his wife seems incapable of accepting the fact that she and Sam's host can still lead a normal life, in spite of his condition.
b: 6 Oct 92 pc: 68103 w: Tommy Thompson d: Alan J. LeviSam leaps into a tricky situation as an escaped killer holed up in a house with a mother and daughter as hostages. Escape isn't going to be easy for either Sam or his hostages, when the real killer breaks out of the waiting room, stranding Sam in the past, destined to die at the hands of a vengeful sheriff.
b: 20 Oct 92 pc: 68016 w: Tommy Thompson d: Michael WatkinsSam leaps into a 79-year-old man whose son wants to have him committed when he claims to have seen UFO's. Sam is kept busy as he tries to keep the family together, prevent the future drug overdose of "his" grandson, and avoid the sinister plans of the military, all before the next anticipated UFO sighting.
b: 27 Oct 92 pc: 68101 w: Richard C. Okie d: Christopher HiblerThings are already on there way downhill when Sam leaps back into Jimmy LaMotta. Despite Sam's inaction, history continues to change for the worst. The cause is unknown until Sam discovers another time traveler on the scene, one who's determined to destroy Jimmy's family, as well as Sam.
b: 10 Nov 92 pc: 68109 w: Robin Jill Bernheim, Tommy Thompson & Deborah Pratt d: Bob HulmeA pair of unsolved murders marks just the tip of the iceberg when Sam leaps into a sheriff in a small Louisiana town. Rumors of a history of family insanity, the suspicions surrounding his daughter Abigail's involvement in the murders, and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make matters worse.
b: 17 Nov 92 pc: 68105 w: Deborah Pratt d: James Whitmore Jr.Finding himself back in the same small Louisiana town, in the arms of Abigail, now twenty-one, Sam must prevent an angry crowd of townspeople from lynching his fiancée, following the disappearance of a young boy whom she had been babysitting.
b: 24 Nov 92 pc: 68112 w: Deborah Pratt d: James Whitmore Jr.Sam is an aging lawyer, recruited by Abigail, now thirty-three, to defend her when she is put on trial for the murder of Leta Aider, the woman whose daughter Abigail was accused of killing almost twenty-five years earlier.
b: 24 Nov 92 pc: 68113 w: Deborah Pratt d: James Whitmore Jr. NOTE: Abigail's daughter, Sammy Jo, it's genetically Sam's and she works in the Project in the future.Sam leaps back to Elk Ridge, Indiana to help save the lives of the Walters boys as they try to save their farm from a banker with designs on getting rich from foreclosure.
b: 15 Dec 92 pc: 68110 w: Gillian Horvath & Tommy Thompson d: Scott BakulaAs a horse-playing, traveling brush salesman, Sam finds himself with two wives and two families. Although Ziggy predicts that Sam's mission is to choose between the two lives, the choice is made more difficult by the fact that there's only a 50/50 chance that he'll choose the right one. As if things weren't bad enough, Sam finds that his penniless host owes a pair of bookies some big bucks.
b: 5 Jan 93 pc: 68118 w: Robin Jill Bernheim d: Christopher HiblerLeaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib, Sam must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in, while convincing the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and daughter.
b: 12 Jan 93 pc: 68108 w: Chris Abbott & Deborah Pratt d: Bob HulmeWhile Sam is in 1985, running her radio talk show, playing matchmaker to her producers, and trying to help a young secretary who's being sexually harassed by her boss, Dr. Ruth Westheimer spends her time in the Waiting Room, counseling Al on his feelings towards his five wives, as well as his relationship with Tina.
b: 19 Jan 93 pc: 68114 w: Robin Jill Bernheim d: Stuart Margolin NOTE: Anita HillAs an eccentric, possibly vampiric, artist just outside of London, Sam must bear with Al's superstitions, while trying to prevent the death of his host's young wife, at the hands of a couple who are taking a sacrificial ceremony in honor of the "blood moon."
b: 9 Feb 93 pc: 68117 w: Tommy Thompson d: Alan J. LeviAs Arnold Watkins, better known as The Midnight Marauder, Sam has to persuade a fraternity to stop using chicken races as a part of their hazing ceremonies, while Al tries to convince Arnold to stop trying to get himself killed in retaliation for his parents' deaths twelve years earlier. When Alia, the evil leaper, appears on the scene, Sam becomes determined to take her with him when he leaps.
b: 23 Feb 93 pc: 68124 w: Richard C. Okie d: Harvey LaidmanHaving simu-leaped, both Sam and Alia find themselves trapped in a women's prison, accused of murdering a fellow inmate. Their efforts to unmask the real killer are not their top priority as the two attempt to keep Alia's location hidden from her observer, Zoey, who leaps into the same place and time, determined to make Alia pay for her betrayal.
b: 23 Feb 93 pc: 68125 w: Deborah Pratt d: Debbie AllenAs chauffeur to Marilyn Monroe, Sam must try to prevent Marilyn's tragic death. But when a well-meaning plan backfires, it could mean the end of Marilyn's career, even if her life is saved.
b: 2 Mar 93 pc: 68115 w: Richard C. Okie d: Christopher HiblerSam leaps into Henry Adams, one of a trio of friends who fought in Vietnam and came home each with their own personal scars and the memory of a lost buddy. He has to save the life of a friend, Roy, as well as of a young boy, Daniel, who ventures into the woods of Washington looking for proof of Bigfoot.
b: 16 Mar 93 pc: 68122 w: John D'Aquino d: Gus TrikonisIn a bizarre twist of a genetic coil, Sam leaps into his great-grandfather, Captain John Beckett, during the Civil War. He must not interfere with his ancestor's romance with a riled southern belle named Olivia. He must also avoid being hanged as a Yankee dog by some home guard Confederate soldiers.
b: 30 Mar 93 pc: 68121 w: Richard C. Okie d: David Hemmings NOTE: Olivia's slave was an ancestor of Martin Luther King Jr.Sam swivels his hips into Elvis Presley, mere days before he is discovered. Along with making sure that Elvis does become the King, Sam must help Sue Anne, a local songbird, from being trapped in a not-so-gilded cage of marriage.
b: 20 Apr 93 pc: 68123 w: Robin Jill Bernheim d: James Whitmore Jr. NOTE: Bill Clinton.Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and familiar people don't know him. With the help of another Al, he still has something to set right ... or is there more than one thing he needs to change?
b: 5 May 93 pc: 68126 w: Donald P. Bellisario d: James Whitmore Jr. NOTE: At the end of the episode, Sam backs to the house Al's first wife, Beth, and tells her that Al is alive (more info in episode #31). This was the last episode of the series.| Back to TOP of Page |
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Thanks to Vinicio Pérez for the production numbers and airdate corrections and Daniel Dey for some of the missing character information.