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Quantum Leap
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
- Created by:
- Donald P. Bellisario
- Cast:
- Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- NBC
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Season 4
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E01
Episode 1
★ 7.4The Leap Back
1991-09-18 · 44mJune 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 girl friend.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 7.0Play Ball
1991-09-25 · 45mAugust 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.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 7.2Hurricane
1991-10-02 · 44mAugust 17, 1969: Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly hurricane.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.8Justice
1991-10-09 · 44mMay 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.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 7.5Permanent Wave
1991-10-16 · 44mJune 2, 1983: Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the death of a young murder witness and his mother.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 7.5Raped
1991-10-30 · 44mJune 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.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 7.2The Wrong Stuff
1991-11-06 · 44mJanuary 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.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 7.2Dreams
1991-11-13 · 44mFebruary 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.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 7.2A Single Drop of Rain
1991-11-20 · 44mSeptember 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.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.5Unchained
1991-11-27 · 44mNovember 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.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 5.5The Play's the Thing
1992-01-08 · 45mSeptember 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.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 5.0Running for Honor
1992-01-15 · 45mJune 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.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 7.5Temptation Eyes
1992-01-22 · 45mFebruary 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.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 7.5The Last Gunfighter
1992-01-29 · 45mNovember 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.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 7.2A Song for the Soul
1992-02-26 · 45mApril 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.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 7.6Ghost Ship
1992-03-04 · 45mAugust 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.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 7.5Roberto!
1992-03-11 · 44mJanuary 27, 1982: Sam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery, which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 7.5It's A Wonderful Leap
1992-04-01 · 44mMay 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.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 7.5Moments to Live
1992-04-08 · 45mMay 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
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E20
Episode 20
★ 7.5The Curse of Ptah-Hotep
1992-04-22 · 45mMarch 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.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 7.2Stand Up
1992-05-13 · 45mApril 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.
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E22
Episode 22
★ 8.0A Leap for Lisa
1992-05-20 · 45mJune 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 disturbingly a whole new situation at Project Quantum Leap.
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Scott Bakula
Sam Beckett
Dean Stockwell
Al Calavicci
