Quantum Leap

Season 1

TV-PG
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During a time travel experiment, a scientist becomes lost in time, swapping lives with a variety of different people during different time periods. To return to his present, he must solve their problems and change history for the better.

9 Episodes

  • Genesis (1)
    E1
    Genesis (1)September 13, 1956: Although the Project Quantum Leap (PQL) isn't ready yet, Sam doesn't listen his supercomputer, Ziggy, and 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 "a little caca" 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.
  • Genesis (2)
    E2
    Genesis (2)September 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.
  • Star-Crossed
    E3
    Star-CrossedAt a small Ohio college, Sam Beckett is a literature professor who must discourage the amorous advances of a student and finds the woman who left him at the altar. Sam hopes that resolving her conflicts with her father will prevent her from deserting him.
  • The Right Hand of God
    E4
    The Right Hand of GodOctober 24, 1974: Sam lands in 1974 as a young boxer caught between fight-fixing gangsters and hopeful nuns who now own his contract.
  • How the Tess Was Won
    E5
    How the Tess Was WonAugust 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.
  • Double Identity
    E6
    Double IdentityNovember 8, 1965: Sam becomes a hit man in 1965 whose romance with the godfather's girlfriend places him in danger.
  • The Color of Truth
    E7
    The Color of TruthAugust 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.
  • Camikazi Kid
    E8
    Camikazi KidSam leaps into the body of a gawky teenager to keep the boy's older sister from marrying an abusive alcoholic. Taking advice from Al, Sam hopes to reveal the young man's true nature by challenging him to a drag race.
  • Play it Again, Seymour
    E9
    Play it Again, SeymourApril 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.

Cast of Season 1

  • Scott BakulaSam Beckett
  • Dean StockwellAl Calavicci
  • Harker WadeProducer

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