Quantum Leap

1988 • NBC
4.7
396 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 3 episodes (22)

1 The Leap Home, Pt. I - November 25, 1969
9/28/90
Sam (Scott Bakula) realizes a leap-long wish and becomes himself in 1969, tempted to change the course of his family's future. David Newsom guest stars. With Dean Stockwell.
2 The Leap Home, Pt. II - April 7, 1970
10/5/90
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the life of an American soldier in Vietnam whose field officer is Tom Beckett (David Newsom) -Sam's brother.
3 Leap of Faith - August 19, 1963
10/12/90
Sam (Scott Bakula) takes his own life into his hands when he leaps into the body of Father Pistano, a young priest who must stop Father Mac from avenging Pistano's murder.
4 One Strobe Over the Line - June 15, 1965
10/19/90
Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a high-fashion photographer who must keep a model, to whom he is attracted, from overdosing on pills and alcohol.
5 The Boogieman - October 31, 1964
10/26/90
The date is Halloween 1964 and Sam (Scott Bakula) as Joshua Rey, a second-rate horror novelist, witnesses three bizarre, unexplainable murders which lead him into a deadly battle of wills with the devil himself.
6 Miss Deep South - June 7, 1958
11/2/90
Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a contestant in the Miss Deep South Beauty Pageant with the double task of insuring that he places third in the contest, while keeping a beautiful young girl from destroying her life by posing nude for a photographer.
7 Black on White on Fire - August 11, 1965
11/9/90
The year is 1965 in Los Angeles, the time of Malcolm X and black awareness---and Sam (Scott Bakula), a black pre-med student, must keep his love for a white girl alive, despite the prejudice and anger surrounding them on the eve of the Watts riots.
8 Great Spontini - May 9, 1974
11/16/90
Sam (Scott Bakula) must perform a different kind of magic when he becomes Harry Spontini, and he must fight his estranged wife who wants to take custody of their daughter.
9 Rebel Without A Clue - September 1, 1958
11/30/90
Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a member of a biker gang in the 1950's to stop the tragic and senseless death of a beautiful young girl obsessed with experiencing life and the ideologies expressed in Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road".
10 A Little Miracle - December 24, 1962
12/21/90
It is the night before Christmas, and Sam (Scott Bakula) is working for Michael Blake, one of the richest men in the country, and he re-enacts Dickens' "Scrooge" to remind his boss that there is more to life than material wealth, before a Salvation Army mission for the poor and destitute is demolished to make room for Blake Plaza.
11 Runaway - July 3, 1964
1/4/91
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of thirteen year old Butchie Rickett, who must keep his mother from running out on her family.
12 8-1/2 Months - November 15, 1955
3/6/91
Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) must labor to make things right when he leaps into the body of an unwed, pregnant teenager, and he must find a way for her to keep the baby.
13 Future Boy - October 6, 1957
3/13/91
Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes sidekick to Captain Galaxy, a popular 1957 children's TV character, in order to keep the actor who plays the Captain out of a mental institution due to his obsession with a time travel machine, which is curiously based on Sam's Quantum Leap theory.
14 Private Dancer - October 6, 1979
3/20/91
Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the life of an "exotic" dancer who must help a talented, deaf dancer avoid falling into a tragic life.
15 Piano Man - November 10, 1985
3/27/91
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a piano-lounge player who finds himself on the run, together with his former music partner, from a mob killer who wants the lounge lizard eliminated.
16 Southern Comforts - August 4, 1961
4/3/91
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a pimp running a New Orleans bordello, and he is called on to save one of the women in the house from an unseemly demise.
17 Glitter Rock - April 12, 1974
4/10/91
When Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Geoffrey 'Tonic' Mole, the lead singer of the 70's English rock band named King Thunder, Sam's mission is to prevent the brutal stabbing of "Tonic" by an unknown assailant.
18 A Hunting We Will Go - June 18, 1976
4/18/91
Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of bounty hunter Gordon O'Reilly who has prisoner (Diane Frost) in his custody, wrongly accused of embezzling a million dollars.
19 Last Dance Before an Execution - May 12, 1971
5/1/91
Sam Beckett's (Scott Bakula) mission is to be Jesus Ortega, who, along with his accomplice Raul Casta, is held on Florida's death row for the robbery and murder of a priest, Father Torrelli. Enlisting the help of a powerhouse new female attorney, Tearsa Lorrea, Jesus Ortega attempts to clear himself of the murder charges.
20 Heart of a Champion - July 23, 1955
5/8/91
Sam (Scott Bakula) finds himself up against two-300 lb. wrestlers, known as the Shiloh Boys.
21 Nuclear Family - October 26, 1962
5/15/91
Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a nineteen year old college student in Oklahoma to stop his older brother from shooting their neighbor for breaking into their atom bomb shelter.
22 Shock Theater - October 3, 1954
5/22/91
Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a mental institution and is soon electro-shocked into manifesting multiple personalities from his previous personas.

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
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.
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chris Kijek
May 6, 2021
HOW COME I CAN NOT BUY THE COMPLETE SEASON 2 IT ONLY HAS THE OPTION TO PURCHASER 1 EPISODE AT A TIME??? GREAT SHOW I PURCHASED ALL THE SEASON EXCEPT SEASON 2 FOR THE REASON AND ONLY GIVING A 3 STAR RATING BECAUSE OF THAT
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Tammi Odden
September 10, 2017
One of my absolute favorite television shows of all time! With each episode, you never know where or when it was going to take place! A completely different story each episode and I never found any of them boring. Excellent storytelling and character development. Oh and I just love Al's wardrobe and wish I could get some of it for myself! lol
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