Quantum Leap

1988
4.5
31 reviews
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Season 2 episodes (20)

1 Honeymoon Express - April 27, 1960
9/20/89
Season-only
In order to convince a Senate Committee to renew funding for the Quantum Leap project, Albert must have Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) prove his existence in the past by altering a historical event, and Sam (Scott Bakula) is also a busy newlywed faced with his bride's ex-husband who is intent on killing him.
2 Disco Inferno - April 1, 1976
9/27/89
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the life of a stuntman on a low-budget disaster movie who must prevent his frail brother from emulating him. With Dean Stockwell.
3 The Americanization of Machiko - August 4, 1953
10/11/89
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps back to Ohio in 1953 and becomes a Navy man with a Japanese wife, who must make his family, as well as the townspeople, accept her and their marriage to change the course of events.
4 Blind Faith - February 6, 1964
11/1/89
Season-only
Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body Andrew Ross, a brilliant, blind pianist, who must save his assistant Michele from being murdered in Central Park.
5 Good Morning, Peoria - September 9, 1959
11/8/89
Season-only
It is 1959 and Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) has quantum leaped into Howlin' Chick Howell, a disc jockey who must save the radio station from its demise when rock 'n' roll is banned.
6 Thou Shalt Not.... February 2, 1974
11/15/89
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a Rabbi who must help his brother's family resolve their anger and guilt over the death of their son, which drove his brother's wife into an affair, and ruined their marriage and their lives.
7 Jimmy - October 14, 1964
11/22/89
Season-only
Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) is given the difficult task of "mainstreaming" a mentally retarded man into the everyday world, or he will live out his days in an institution.
8 So Help Me, God... July 29, 1957
11/29/89
Season-only
Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into a courtroom as a defense attorney, and by pleading his client, a lovely black woman innocent of murder, must win her case despite the bigoted courtroom atmosphere and fixed trial, or she will be sentenced to the electric chair.
9 Catch a Falling Star - May 21, 1979
12/6/89
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes an actor in a Broadway production, who must save the lead, a brilliant performer with a drinking problem, from falling on stage and ruining his life and is given the opportunity to court his piano teacher who was his first love when he was fourteen.
10 Animal Frat - October 19, 1967
1/3/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps to 1968 into Knut Wileton, the wildest brother on fraternity row, but he has a purpose beyond guzzling beer; he must prevent an anti-war radical from making a fatal mistake by blowing up the chemistry building.
11 Another Mother - September 30, 1981
1/10/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) learns about single parenthood when he becomes a newly-divorced mother of three, who must keep her son from running away from home after being humiliated by his friends, not learning until the last minute that a third party has turned the boy's disappearance into an abduction.
12 All-Americans - November 6, 1962
1/17/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) touches down as a high school quarterback whose goal is to prevent his best friend, a sure-handed wide receiver, from throwing the city championship game.
13 Her Charm - September 26, 1973
2/7/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of an FBI agent assigned to protect a feisty but fearful woman from the murderous crook she used to work for.
14 Freedom - November 22, 1970
2/14/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a native American who helped his grandfather escape from a nursing home, but now he has to help find a way for him to die with dignity.
15 Goodnight, Dear Heart - November 9, 1957
3/7/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a mortician's body who becomes obsessed with preserving the memory of a young German woman by proving that she did not commit suicide, but was murdered.
16 Pool Hall Blues - September 4, 1954
3/14/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) picks up the cue of a 1950's Chicago pool shark, and finds himself committed to a winner-take-all game that will determine his granddaughter's future.
17 Leaping in Without a Net - November 18, 1958
3/28/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a trapeze artist with the greatest of ease, but things get difficult very quickly when he must prevent his sister from having a fatal fall in a death-defying stunt.
18 Maybe Baby - March 11, 1963
4/4/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the formidable body of a bouncer who helps Bunny O'Hare, a stripper, kidnap a beautiful baby girl, and for the first time he does not heed Al's computer read-outs but trusts his instincts, knowing that if he is wrong, he could spend the next twenty years in jail.
19 Sea Bride - June 3, 1954
5/2/90
Season-only
Sam (Scott Bakula) drops anchor as a debonair globe-trotter aboard a cruise ship where he must capsize the wedding plans of his aristocratic ex-wife and a venomous hood.
20 MIA - April 1, 1969
5/9/90
Season-only
Sam's (Scott Bakula) latest leap lands close to home for Albert when he becomes a detective, torn between helping his partner and helping a young woman who believes her husband, listed M.I.A., is dead.

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

4.5
31 reviews
VictoriaGooner
September 16, 2015
An amazing show, was hooked from series premiere to series finale. One thing I always hoped that they would have a tv movie or even a theatre movie of the actual final adventure of Sam. Alberto did say the leaps would get harder. I still believe that to this day Sam is leaping and making an impact on people's lives and creating the ripple effect.
Jon Lawrence
April 10, 2020
Price is too high per season. Should offer a package for the entire series for $30. Then I'd buy it. It's an older show, why charge a $1.99 per episode? Get real!
Jennifer Bruce
March 10, 2019
Science fiction and time travel.