Quantum Leap
NBC (ended 1993)
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Season 5
- Ep 22Mirror Image5/5/93
August 8, 1953: 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? - Ep 22Mirror Image: August 8, 19535/5/93
- Ep 21Memphis Melody4/20/93
July 3, 1954: 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. - Ep 21Memphis Melody: July 3, 19544/20/93
- Ep 20The Leap Between The States3/30/93
September 20, 1862: In 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.moreless - Ep 20Leap Between the States: September 20, 19623/30/93
- Ep 19The Beast Within3/16/93
November 6, 1972: Sam 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.moreless - Ep 19The Beast Within: November 6, 19723/16/93
- Ep 18Goodbye Norma Jean3/2/93
April 4, 1960: As 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. - Ep 18Goodbye, Norma Jean: April 4, 19603/2/93
- Ep 17Revenge of the Evil Leaper2/23/93
September 16, 1987: Having 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.moreless - Ep 17Revenge of the Evil Leaper: September 16, 19872/23/93
- Ep 16Return of the Evil Leaper2/23/93
October 8, 1956: As 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.moreless - Ep 16Return of the Evil Leaper: October 8, 19562/23/93
- Ep 15Blood Moon2/9/93
March 10, 1975: As 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." - Ep 15Blood Moon: March 10, 19752/9/93
- Ep 14Dr. Ruth1/19/93
April 25, 1985: While 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.moreless - Ep 14Dr. Ruth: April 25, 19851/19/93
- Ep 13Liberation1/12/93
October 16, 1968: Leaping 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. - Ep 13Liberation: October 16, 19681/12/93
- Ep 12A Tale of Two Sweeties1/5/93
February 25, 1958: As 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.moreless - Ep 12A Tale of Two Sweeties: February 25, 19581/5/93
- Ep 11Promised Land12/15/92
December 22, 1971: 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. - Ep 11Promised Land: December 22, 197112/15/92
- Ep 10The Last Door; Trilogy, Part 311/24/92
July 28, 1978: 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. - Ep 10Trilogy, Part 3: July 28, 197811/24/92
- Ep 9For Your Love; Trilogy, Part 211/24/92
June 14, 1966: 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. - Ep 9Trilogy, Part 2: June 14, 196611/24/92
- Ep 8One Little Heart; Trilogy, Part 111/17/92
August 8, 1955: A 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.moreless - Ep 8Trilogy, Part 1: August 8, 195511/17/92
- Ep 7Deliver Us From Evil11/10/92
March 19, 1966: Things are already on their 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.moreless - Ep 7Deliver Us from Evil: March 19, 196611/10/92
- Ep 6Star Light, Star Bright10/27/92
May 21, 1966: Sam leaps into a 79-year-old man whose son wants to have him committed when he claims to have seen UFOs. 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.moreless - Ep 6Star Light, Star Bright: May 21, 196610/27/92
- Ep 5Killin' Time10/20/92
June 18, 1958: Sam 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.moreless - Ep 5Killin' Time: June 18, 195810/20/92
- Ep 4Nowhere to Run10/6/92
August 10, 1968: As a Marine captain whose legs were amputated due to a war injury 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.moreless - Ep 3Leaping of the Shrew9/29/92
September 27, 1956: 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. - Ep 3Leaping of the Shrew: September 27, 19569/29/92
- Ep 2Lee Harvey Oswald (2)9/22/92
October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963: 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.moreless - Ep 1Lee Harvey Oswald (1)9/22/92
October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963: 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.moreless
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Season 4
- Ep 22A Leap for Lisa5/20/92
June 25, 1957: Sam leaps into Al 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 disturbingly different situation at Project Quantum Leap. - Ep 21Stand Up5/13/92
April 30, 1959: Sam, 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. - Ep 20The Curse of Ptah-Hotep4/22/92
March 2, 1957: It'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.moreless - Ep 19Moments to Live4/8/92
May 4, 1985: 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. - Ep 18It's A Wonderful Leap4/1/92
May 10, 1958: Sam 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.moreless - Ep 17Roberto!3/11/92
January 27, 1982: Sam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo. Roberto tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery may prove to be deadly for his asthmatic rival and co-worker. - Ep 16Ghost Ship3/4/92
August 13, 1956: Flying 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.moreless - Ep 15A Song for the Soul2/26/92
April 7, 1963: As 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. - Ep 14The Last Gunfighter1/29/92
November 28, 1957: Sam 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. - Ep 13Temptation Eyes1/22/92
February 1, 1985: A 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. - Ep 12Running For Honor1/15/92
June 11, 1964: As 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. - Ep 11The Play's the Thing1/8/92
September 9, 1969: May 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.moreless - Ep 10Unchained11/27/91
November 2, 1956: Sam 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. - Ep 9A Single Drop of Rain11/20/91
September 7, 1953: A 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. - Ep 8Dreams11/13/91
February 28, 1979: It'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.moreless - Ep 7The Wrong Stuff11/6/91
January 24, 1961: The 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. - Ep 6Raped10/30/91
June 20, 1980: 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. - Ep 5Permanent Wave10/16/91
June 2, 1983: Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the death of a young murder witness and his mother. - Ep 4Justice10/9/91
May 11, 1965: Sam 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. - Ep 3Hurricane10/2/91
August 17, 1969: Sam meets Cissy, and an unknown killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly Hurricane Camille. - Ep 2Play Ball9/25/91
August 6, 1961: A 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. - Ep 1The Leap Back9/18/91
June 15, 1945: 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 girlfriend.
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Season 3
- Ep 22Shock Theater5/22/91
October 3, 1954: Leaping into Sam Beederman, 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, all of which occurred on future dates. 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.moreless - Ep 22Shock Theater: October 3, 19545/22/91
- Ep 21Nuclear Family5/15/91
October 26, 1962: Sam 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. - Ep 20Heart of a Champion5/8/91
July 23, 1955: The 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.moreless - Ep 19Last Dance Before Execution5/1/91
- Ep 19Last Dance Before An Execution5/1/91
May 12, 1971: "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, but the hardest part of this mission will be figuring out the real reason for his leap.moreless - Ep 18A Hunting We Will Go4/18/91
- Ep 18A Hunting Will We Go4/18/91
June 18, 1976: 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. - Ep 17Glitter Rock4/10/91
April 12, 1974: Sam 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. - Ep 17Glitter Rock: April 12, 19744/10/91
- Ep 16Southern Comforts4/3/91
August 4, 1961: 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. - Ep 16Southern Comforts: August 4, 19614/3/91
- Ep 15Piano Man3/27/91
November 10, 1985: Joey Dinardo is a lounge lizard on the run from mob hitmen. When Sam leaps in, his ex-girlfriend and former musical partner has found him, and now both are on a run for their lives from a killer who seems to know their every move. - Ep 15Piano Man: November 10, 19853/27/91
- Ep 14Private Dancer3/20/91
October 6, 1979: An 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, because she's deaf, the choreographer doesn't believe she has the time to give the talented young lady the attention she'll need.moreless - Ep 13Future Boy3/13/91
October 6, 1957: Sam leaps Kenny Sharp, better known as "Future Boy", sidekick to Moe Stein's "Captain Galaxy", 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.moreless - Ep 13Future Boy: October 6, 19573/13/91
- Ep 128 1/2 Months3/6/91
November 15, 1955: Billie 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. - Ep 128 1/2 Months: November 15, 19553/6/91
- Ep 11Runaway1/4/91
July 4, 1964: On 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 what "could have been". - Ep 11Runaway: July 4, 19641/4/91
- Ep 10A Little Miracle12/21/90
December 24, 1962: On Christmas Eve, Sam leap into Reginald Pierson, valet to a wealthy, heartless contractor, who is in danger of losing his soul in an attempt to demolish a Salvation Army mission, so he can build "Blake's Plaza". Seeing a similarity to the Dickens character, Sam and Al decide to use Al and some holographic tricks to "Scrooge" the greed out of the man.moreless - Ep 9Rebel Without a Clue11/30/90
September 1, 1958: 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. - Ep 8The Great Spontini11/16/90
May 9, 1974: Leaping 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. He also learns that he must save his beloved daughter from a grisly fate. - Ep 8The Great Spontini: May 9, 197411/16/90
- Ep 7Black and White on Fire11/9/90
- Ep 7Black on White on Fire11/9/90
August 11, 1965: Sam leaps into a black medical student engaged to a white woman, where he must ensure that he and his fiancée survive the Watts Riot together. - Ep 6Miss Deep South11/2/90
June 7, 1958: 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 allows a sleazy pageant photographer to take nude photos of her with the promise of a huge future. He must also save Darlene's future by ensuring that she finishes third in the pageant, which provides the scholarship she'll use to become a doctor.moreless - Ep 6Miss Deep South: June 7, 195811/2/90
- Ep 5The Boogieman10/26/90
October 31, 1964: Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Rey, a horror novelist, on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the death of a church deacon, things go awry when a string of people connected to Joshua suddenly begin to die under very strange circumstances.moreless - Ep 5The Boogieman: October 31, 196410/26/90
- Ep 4One Strobe Over the Line10/19/90
June 15, 1965: Sam is a photographer who must save a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory manager's own ambitions. - Ep 3Leap of Faith10/12/90
August 19, 1963: Sam finds himself in one holy mess as a priest in Philadelphia, trying to help an alcoholic priest deal with his own demons while searching for the murderer of a young parishioner. - Ep 2The Leap Home Part II - Vietnam10/5/90
April 7, 1970: As 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. Sam also finds that he could have changed another life closer to home, if only he'd known...moreless - Ep 2The Leap Home, Part II (Vietnam) - April 7, 197010/5/90
- Ep 1The Leap Home (Part 1)9/28/90
- Ep 1The Leap Home9/28/90
November 25, 1969: As himself at the age of 16, Sam experiences an emotional leap when has the opportunity to both win the high school basketball championship and save his family from their sad fates.
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Season 2
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Season 1
