| Quantum Leap | |
|---|---|
| Season 4 | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 18, 1991 – May 20, 1992 |
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| List of episodes | |
- Sam Beckett wakes up in 1956, disoriented, suffering from amnesia, but he has the awful realization that he does not belong there.
- Leap Information Chronological Information Justice was the 4th episode of Season 4 of the Quantum Leap TV series, also the 57th overall series episode. Directed by Rob Bowman, and written by Toni Graphia, the episode originally aired on NBC-TV on October 9, 1991. Sam must save the life of a civil rights worker ironically as a member of the Klu Klux Klan. May 11, 1965 - Alabama, Sam leaps into.
- 8 Sad Truths You Realize When Re-Watching Quantum Leap. It is hard to hate Quantum Leap, the NBC sci-fi series which debuted in 1989 and was canceled in 1993 after completing its fifth season. The show is so utterly well-meaning, following the lovably gee-whiz Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) as a scientist whose experiment “leaves him leaping from.
- In 1997, the episode 'Grace Under Pressure' was ranked number 49 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. When the list was revised in 2009, 'Freedom's Last Stand' was ranked number 57. In 2002, Hill Street Blues was ranked number 14 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #1 in its list of The 60.
Leap Information Chronological Information Raped was the sixth episode of Season 4 of the Quantum Leap TV series, also the 59th overall episode. Directed by Michael Zinberg, the episode, which was written by Beverly Bridges, originally aired on NBC-TV on October 30, 1991. 1 Synopsis 2 Storyline 3 The Science of Leaping 4 Notes 5 Errors in Episode Description Sam leaps into a rape victim.
Season four of Quantum Leap ran on NBC from September 18, 1991 to May 20, 1992. It consists of twenty-two episodes.
Episodes[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Leap location & date | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 54 | 1 | 'The Leap Back' | Michael Zinberg | Donald P. Bellisario | Crown Point, Indiana June 15, 1945 | September 18, 1991 | 67303 |
| Sam and Al switch roles after a lightning strike. This allows Sam to return home to his wife, but when Al leaps into Captain Tom Jarrett (played by Dean Denton), he is set to be killed by his lover's jealous ex-fiance, Sam must act as his hologram in order to save Al and continue to leap through time. | |||||||
| 55 | 2 | 'Play Ball' | Joe Napolitano | Tommy Thompson | Galveston, Texas August 6, 1961 | September 25, 1991 | 67305 |
Sam is a washed-out baseball player named Lester 'Doc' Fuller (played by Owen Rutledge) who has to help a younger and angrier player get into the major leagues, the player reminding him of Al when they first met. Note: Neal McDonough also guest stars. | |||||||
| 56 | 3 | 'Hurricane' | Michael Watkins | Chris Ruppenthal | Jackson Point, Mississippi August 17, 1969 | October 2, 1991 | 67306 |
| Sam leaps into Archie Necaise (played by Bob Hamilton), a small-town sheriff in the middle of Hurricane Camille. He must keep his host's girlfriend from being killed in the storm... or by anyone else. | |||||||
| 57 | 4 | 'Justice' | Rob Bowman | Toni Graphia | Alabama May 11, 1965 | October 9, 1991 | 67309 |
Sam leaps into a man named Clyde (played by Glenn Edden) just as he is about to join the KKK, out of respect for the racist family he has married into. He must prevent Black civil rights leader Nathaniel from being lynched by the Klan, as well as trying to explain to his host's son the evils of racism. Due to Sam's upbringing, he finds it very difficult to act like the person he has leaped into to avoid his own lynching. Note: Michael Beach and Glenn Morshower also guest star. | |||||||
| 58 | 5 | 'Permanent Wave' | Scott Bakula | Beverly Bridges | Beverly Hills, California June 2, 1983 | October 16, 1991 | 67302 |
Sam is Frank Bianca (played by Robert Jacobs), a male hair stylist living with his girlfriend, a single mother. When her child witnesses a murder of a mall drugstore clerk just as Sam leaps in, the boy's mother won't let him tell the police what he saw, and the killer is getting closer and closer to make sure that he never will. Notes: 1) Joseph Gordon-Levitt also guest stars. 2) This is Scott Bakula's directorial debut. He later directed two other episodes, this season's 'Roberto' and season 5's 'Promised Land'. | |||||||
| 59 | 6 | 'Raped' | Michael Zinberg | Beverly Bridges | Mill Valley, California June 20, 1980 | October 30, 1991 | 67312 |
Sam leaps into Katie McBain (played by Cheryl Pollak), a woman who has just been raped by the town's All-American boy. He must make sure that justice is done, resulting in the woman herself being brought into the Imaging Chamber to testify at the rapist's trial. Note: Unlike most episodes, the cast member who plays the 'leapee' (Cheryl Pollak) has an ongoing role, and thus is included in the opening credits. | |||||||
| 60 | 7 | 'The Wrong Stuff' | Joe Napolitano | Paul Brown | Cape Canaveral, Florida January 24, 1961 | November 6, 1991 | 67308 |
In a very bizarre out-of-the-human host, Sam leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp whom he must get into the space program – or he'll disappear forever due to unethical helmet testing methods. Note: This is the only episode where Sam does not leap into a human being. | |||||||
| 61 | 8 | 'Dreams' | Anita W. Addison | Deborah Pratt | Malibu, California February 28, 1979 | November 13, 1991 | 67320 |
| Sam leaps into a cop named Jack Stone (played by David Garrison) just as he finds a man accused of murdering his wife, before killing himself and emotionally crippling their children. He must uncover a childhood trauma of the man he leaped into (which has unfortunately remained in Sam's head throughout this leap) and catch a murderer before his host becomes the next victim. | |||||||
| 62 | 9 | 'A Single Drop of Rain' | Virgil W. Vogel | Story by : Richard C. Okie & Donald P. Bellisario & Ralph Meyering, Jr. Teleplay by : Richard C. Okie | Clover Bend, Texas September 7, 1953 | November 20, 1991 | 67317 |
| Sam is William 'Billy' Beaumont (played by Ted Baader), a traveling rainmaker returning home to a farming community suffering from a drought, who has to make it rain while preventing his host's brother's wife from running away with him. | |||||||
| 63 | 10 | 'Unchained' | Michael Watkins | Paris Qualles | Talawaga County, Mississippi November 2, 1956 | November 27, 1991 | 67314 |
| Sam is Chance Cole (played by Mark Kemble), an escaped convict who is chained to a wrongly accused black man named Jasper who escape together only to be recaptured again. Sam must find a way to prove Jasper's innocence to the corrupt warden as the string of robberies continue. | |||||||
| 64 | 11 | 'The Play's the Thing' | Eric Laneuville | Beverly Bridges | New York City September 9, 1969 | January 8, 1992 | 67301 |
Sam leaps into a man named Joseph 'Joe' Thurlow (played by Will Schaub) who's dating a much, much older woman and must convince her not to move back to Cleveland with her straight-arrow son and his wife. And somehow he also has to get through a nude version of Hamlet. Note: Robert Pine, Daniel Roebuck, and Anna Gunn also guest star. | |||||||
| 65 | 12 | 'Running For Honor' | Bob Hulme | Bobby Duncan | Near Lakeside, Macomb County, Michigan June 11, 1964 | January 15, 1992 | 67319 |
| Sam leaps into Thomas 'Tommy' York (played by Beau Windham), an honor-roll cadet at the Naval Academy who might be gay. His roommate was kicked out of the Naval Academy for being gay and Sam must stop his former roommate from being killed by a bigoted gang of midshipmen. | |||||||
| 66 | 13 | 'Temptation Eyes' | Christopher Hibler | Paul Brown | San Francisco, California February 1, 1985 | January 22, 1992 | 67322 |
As a rash of serial murders take place in San Francisco, Sam leaps into a television reporter named Dylan Powell (played by Harker Wade) who must prevent a psychic who is helping the police from becoming the next victim. But when she discovers who Sam really is, they fall for each other and the ordeal becomes very personal. Note: The song that was played when the episode originally aired, 'I Want to Know What Love Is' by Foreigner, topped the Billboard Hot 100 during early February 1985, when it was set. | |||||||
| 67 | 14 | 'The Last Gunfighter' | Joe Napolitano | Story by : Sam Rolfe Teleplay by : Sam Rolfe & Chris Ruppenthal | Coffin, Arizona November 28, 1957 | January 29, 1992 | 67318 |
| Sam is a retired gunfighter named Tyler Means (played by Paul Bordman) who's living with his family in an Old West town that is used for tourism and films. He must face his former partner, who wants to kill Sam because his host stole his heroic antics for his own, while also preventing his host's grandson from ruining his life after his image of his grandfather is ruined. | |||||||
| 68 | 15 | 'A Song for the Soul' | Michael Watkins | Deborah Pratt | Chicago, Illinois April 7, 1963 | February 26, 1992 | 67304 |
Sam leaps into Cheree (played by Tiffany Jameson), a member of an all-girl teenage R&B trio, and must prevent one of the singers from signing a cheap contract and ruining their lives. Note: Tamara Townsend and Eriq La Salle also guest star. | |||||||
| 69 | 16 | 'Ghost Ship' | Anita W. Addison | Donald P. Bellisario & Paris Qualles | Bermuda Triangle August 13, 1956 | March 4, 1992 | 67307 |
| Sam leaps into Eddie Brackett (played by Mark McPherson), co-pilot of an air taxi that is transporting two young newlyweds, one of whom is very sick with appendicitis, while also helping the pilot overcome PTSD. But that is the least of his worries when the plane flies into the Bermuda Triangle and he loses contact with Al and Quantum Leap. | |||||||
| 70 | 17 | 'Roberto!' | Scott Bakula | Chris Ruppenthal | Destiny, New Mexico January 27, 1982 | March 11, 1992 | 67326 |
| Sam is Roberto Gutierrez (played by Andrew Roa), a Geraldo Rivera-inspired talk-show host who works with his co-worker to unmask a local fertilizer and pesticide plant that is researching and producing chemical weapons before they're silenced. | |||||||
| 71 | 18 | 'It's A Wonderful Leap' | Paul Brown | Story by : Danielle Alexandra Teleplay by : Danielle Alexandra & Paul Brown | New York City May 10, 1958 | April 1, 1992 | 67324 |
Sam is a New York City taxicab driver named Max Greenman (played by Ross Partridge) who's trying to earn enough money to get his father his own medallion. Along the way, he meets a woman (played by Liz Torres) who claims to be an angel and can see Al, pretending to believe him to be the devil. Note: Scott Bakula's future Star Trek: Enterprise costar, Vaughn Armstrong, has a cameo role as Fred Trump. | |||||||
| 72 | 19 | 'Moments to Live' | Joe Napolitano | Tommy Thompson | Los Angeles, California May 4, 1985 | April 8, 1992 | 67325 |
| Sam leaps into Kyle Hart (played by Patrick Lowe), a soap opera actor who is kidnapped by an obsessed fan (Kathleen Wilhoite) who wants him to father her baby and, in the original history, his host ended up wandering the countryside with a gunshot wound to the head that rendered him a total amnesiac. | |||||||
| 73 | 20 | 'The Curse of Ptah-Hotep' | Joe Napolitano | Chris Ruppenthal | Saqqara, Egypt March 2, 1957 | April 22, 1992 | 67328 |
| Sam leaps into Dr. Dale Conway (played by Rodger LaRue), a member of an archeology team that has just unearthed the tomb of the Pharaoh Ptah-Hotep, but the find carries a terrible curse. | |||||||
| 74 | 21 | 'Stand Up' | Michael Zinberg | Deborah Pratt | Glendale, Arizona April 30, 1959 | May 13, 1992 | 67315 |
Sam leaps into a man named Davey Parker (played by Rafe Battiste) who's part of a trio comedy act, with his male and female partner so in love with each other that they cannot face it. Sam must get the couple to see that they love each other, and prevent one of the comedians from being killed by the Mafia. Note: Bob Saget and Amy Yasbeck also guest star. | |||||||
| 75 | 22 | 'A Leap for Lisa' | James Whitmore, Jr. | Donald P. Bellisario | San Diego Naval Air Station, California June 25, 1957 | May 20, 1992 | 67329 |
Sam leaps into a younger Al 'Bingo' Calavicci (played by Jamie Walters) who is on trial for the murder and rape of his commander's wife. But when Sam's actions unintentionally prevent the witness whose testimony cleared Al in the real history from testifying before she dies, Sam discovers that Project Quantum Leap now exists in an alternate future in which Al was executed in the gas chamber. Note: Roddy McDowall guest stars as the alternate timeline's holographic project observer. | |||||||
Quantum Leap met its small-screen end decades ago, but the ambiguous fate of its hero has kept love alive for the series in the years since.
The show, which ran for 5 seasons on NBC between 1989 and 1993, was created by TV auteur Donald P. Bellisario, who revealed in a 2012 interview that it sprang from his plans to write a time-traveling anthology series. Starring Scott Bakula (NCIS: New Orleans) and Dean Stockwell (Battlestar Galactica), it became a near-instant cult-classic, and today is still recognized as one of the best-ever TV shows about time travel.
Its story began after the U.S. government threatened to pull funding from physicist Dr. Sam Beckett's (Bakula) 'Quantum Leap' project. In an attempt to save his work, he tested his project's accelerator, but made a small miscalculation that threw him back in time. He arrived with partial amnesia to find not only that he 'leaped' through history, but into someone else's body. His real self was only visible to a hologram of his friend Admiral Al Calavicci (Stockwell), who, along with supercomputer Ziggy (voiced by Deborah Pratt), worked to help him get back home. As they discovered, the ordeal required Beckett to identify the problem that connected him to that person in time and solve it, or get trapped in their body forever.
The show was rooted in science fiction, but it leaned heavily into the historical while tackling timely social issues. A hit with genre fans, Quantum Leap earned its fan-favorite status through a combination of Bakula and Stockwell's chemistry, and the veteran storytelling chops of Battlestar Galactica and Magnum P.I. writer Bellisario. Its distinct blend of procedural drama and sci-fi also made it a hit among critics, with the series and its stars earning countless Emmy nominations and two Golden Globes during its run. But if it was so loved, what was the real reason Beckett never leaped again after the fifth season?
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Quantum Leap was cancelled due to declining viewership
While the series had earned a dedicated fan base, season 5 saw a significant ratings drop, according to the Los Angeles Times. With not enough people watching, NBC was forced to pull the plug — but the show's road was a bumpy one that nearly ended much sooner.
NBC officially canceled Quantum Leap in 1993, but low viewership nearly did it in after its third season. The series' passionate watchers — or 'leapers' — saved it the first time. Viewers launched fan clubs, hosted conventions, and even footed the $30,000 bill for Stockwell's Hollywood Walk of Fame star (via Time), and also carried out a letter-writing campaign that convinced NBC to propel Beckett through time for two more years. Yet, even the details around the iconic TV ending — and one of TV's most frustrating cliffhangers — prove that the series finale wasn't so final either.
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When Bellisario was mapping out Quantum Leap's end, NBC hadn't decided whether to cancel or renew. So, he wrote an ending with Beckett choosing not to return home and instead continuing to jump and right wrongs. 'I wasn't going to write a this-is-it kind of episode because I don't think that Quantum Leap is finished,' Bellisario told the Times in 1993. 'So I wrote a show that gives some of the reasons that he's been leaping around... but at the end, it's wide open as to what he's going on to next.'
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That wasn't the only ending Bellisario wrote. Redditor u/Leaper1953 posted footage of a long-rumored alternate ending featuring Al weighing whether to follow Beckett after an eerily similar alternate ending script popped up on fansite Al's Place. The series may have met a premature end, but rumors of NBC streamer Peacock's interest in a Quantum Leap revival (via SlashFilm) coupled with Bellasario's vision means that Beckett and Sam may one day leap again.