Quantum Leap

1988 • NBC

4.7

396 reviews

TV-PG

Rating

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Season 4 episodes (22)

1 The Leap Back - June 15, 1945

9/18/91

A lightning bolt strikes Sam (Scott Bakula) and Al (Dean Stockwell), causing them to trade places and personalities: Al (Dean Stockwell) becomes a World War II ex-POW just returned home in 1945; Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps ``home'' to the Q.L. control center in 1999.

2 Play Ball - August 6, 1961

9/25/91

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lester "Doc" Fuller, pitcher for the Galveston "Mustangs," a minor league baseball team. Sam (Scott Bakula) is here to get Doc from the minors to the majors and to prevent his premature death.

3 Hurricane - August 17, 1969

10/2/91

For the duration of Hurricane Camille, Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) becomes Sheriff Archie Necaise in order to save nurse Cissy Davis, Archie's girlfriend, from getting killed by the storm.

4 Justice - May 11, 1965

10/9/91

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Clyde, who works in the voter's registration office at the county courthouse and has just been inducted into the KKK. Sam (Scott Bakula) is there to prevent the hanging of a black rights activist.

5 Permanent Wave - June 2, 1983

10/16/91

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into Frank Bianca during a hectic day at Frank's Beverly Hills hair salon. He must save the lives of Frank's girlfriend Laura and her young crippled son Kyle, who is witness to a murder.

6 Raped - June 20, 1980

10/30/91

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into Katie McBain right after she is examined at the hospital following a brutal date rape, and he figures out that he must file charges and testify against the young man to get him convicted.

7 The Wrong Stuff - January 24, 1961

11/6/91

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Bobo, a chimp, who is in a special program to select three chimps to be sent into space.

8 Dreams - February 28, 1979

11/13/91

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lt. Jack Stone as he investigates the murder of a woman in her Malibu Colony home, and Sam (Scott Bakula) is strangely affected by something horrible that happened to Jack Stone, which he must overcome in order to identify the killer and save himself.

9 A Single Drop of Rain - September 7, 1953

11/20/91

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Billy Beaumont, a 27-year-old traveling meteorologist and climatologist. He travels from town to town-convincing people to pay him to make it rain and then runs away with their money.

10 Unchained Melody - November 2, 1956

11/27/91

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) finds himself in the body of Chance Cole, a 40-year old prisoner sentenced to 9 months on a county prison road gang, for passing bad checks.

11 The Play's The Thing - September 9, 1969

1/8/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of New York actor Joe Thurlow, 25, living with Jane Lindhurst, who is 50 years old. Sam must persuade Jane to stay in New York and follow her dream to become a singer.

12 Running For Honor - June 11, 1964

1/15/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into 18-year-old Cadet Commander Tommy York, a brilliant student at Prescott Naval Academy and their star sprinter. Sam (Scott Bakula) must save Tommy's career and the life of Phillip Ashcroft, Tommy's ex-roommate, who has been run out of the Academy by a "gay bashing" clique.

13 Temptation Eyes - February 1, 1985

1/22/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Dylan Powell, a TV newsman who is receiving a tip-off from a serial killer after each murder. A beautiful psychic, Tamlyn Matsuda, identifies a man connected with the latest murder.

14 The Last Gunfighter - November 28, 1957

1/29/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of 82-year old Tyler Mean as he re-enacts a shootout for tourists in the town of Coffin, Arizona.

15 A Song for the Soul - April 7, 1963

2/26/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Cheree, a member of the Lovettes singing group, and he must stop Lynell, one of the young women in the trio, from leaving school and running away, trying to make it as a singer.

16 Ghost Ship - August 13, 1956

3/4/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Eddie Brackett, co-pilot of a private plane in order to get the plane through the Bermuda Triangle and reach Bermuda before one of the passengers dies of a burst appendix.

17 Roberto - January 27, 1982

3/11/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Roberto Gutierrez, a TV talk show host in New Mexico. As an investigative reporter, Roberto seeks to uncover the source of deadly gases being produced at a nearby pesticide plant.

18 It's a Wonderful Leap - May 10, 1958

4/1/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of New York City cab driver Max Greenman who accidentally runs over his guardian angel.

19 Moments to Live May 4, 1985

4/8/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lyle Hart, a soap opera super star who portrays a doctor on a very popular show. A woman who won a date with him kidnaps him, and the woman has fantasized about having his child.

20 The Curse of Ptah-hotep - March 2, 1957

4/22/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Dale Conway, a professor of archaeology at Kansas State University. He is exploring the tomb of Ptah-hotep in Egypt with Ginny Will, an attractive 32-year old professor.

21 Stand Up - April 30, 1959

5/13/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) becomes singer Davey Parker to funny man Mack MacKay. The nightclub performers find themselves booked into Las Vegas when a powerful club owner takes a liking to Mack's girlfriend Frankie. Sam must save Mack from being killed over Frankie.

22 A Leap for Lisa - June 25, 1957

5/19/92

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of young Naval pilot Al Calavicci, then known as Bingo, and he must prove that he did not kill the wife of his commander.

About this show

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) is a brilliant scientist with six doctorates, whose efforts to return to the present following a flawed time-travel experiment keep him bouncing back and forth in time replacing people he never knew or heard of. His partner on the Quantum Leap experiment, The Observer (Dean Stockwell), appears as a hologram only Sam can see or hear. The Observer is an eccentric quantum physicist, ex-astronaut, ex-Golden Gloves boxing champion and womanizer, who assists Sam in adapting to the different time periods and personas. This proves both challenging and amusing, providing high drama as the perplexed hero valiantly tries to live each life he's been forced to assume without any of that person's skills or knowledge. Quantum Leap is the promise of a second chance. With each leap, Sam is given the opportunity to make things right -- change the lives of the people he becomes for the better and in the end, hopefully, make the world a better place.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

396 reviews

Krisztina Kreidl

February 23, 2014

This show is cute and interesting a way only older shows can be. Its like story time for adults. .lots of adventure and and fun with time traveling but also just a hint of a lessln in morality we all can relate to as the main character stands up against violence and bullying and tries puts right what once went wrong in the world. .

22 people found this review helpful

Carolyn Collins

October 30, 2017

I absolutely loved the show.itwas so interesting,full of history with some comedy thrown in.You never knew what to expect next,and if it came on with new shows ,I'd watch them too. Oh and his holographic Observer aka Dean Stockwell,he was great in this too. I really like Scott Bacula in every thing he's been in .

Carol Mahan

July 2, 2016

A constant time travel. You never know where you're going to end up show You never knew how Scott Bakula was going to be a man or a woman.You never knew what he was going to be and constantly waiting for his iconic man to to show up to tell him who he was and why. It was a good show back then and it's good to see the reruns now umm when I was younger I never missed the show because I am a total time travel person so you might find it interesting you might be insulted you might love it you might not.

21 people found this review helpful

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