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Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series, created by Donald P. Bellisario, that aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993.
Quantum Leap: Created by Donald P. Bellisario. With Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Deborah Pratt, Dennis Wolfberg. During an experiment into time travel, a scientist finds himself trapped in the past, "leaping" into the lives of different people, sorting out their problems and changing history in hopes of getting back to his own life in the present.
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Although the Project Quantum Leap isn't ready yet, Sam Beckett doesn't listen to supercomputer Ziggy, hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot about to attempt a dangerous flight.
Quantum Leap is an American television series that first aired on NBC from March 26, 1989 to May 5, 1993. The series was created by Donald P. Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. This list is in chronological order of broadcasts with 97 episodes produced.
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- Development and production
- Reboot
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was an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from March 26, 1989 to May 5, 1993, for a total of five seasons. The series was created by Donald P. Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from the (then future) year of 1999, who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to "put right what once went wrong". Dean Stockwell co-starred as Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking sidekick and best friend, who appeared as a hologram that only Sam, animals, and young children could see and hear. The series featured a mix of comedy, drama and melodrama, social commentary, nostalgia and science fiction, which won it a broad range of fans. One of its trademarks is that at the end of each episode, Sam "leaps" into the setting for the next episode, usually uttering a dismayed "Oh, boy!"
The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction, and was named one of TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever."
The show's premise and the pattern of each episode is established in the first episode. Sam appears in the past with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Referred to frequently throughout the series as a "swiss-cheesed brain", Sam's partial amnesia prevents him from remembering most of the details of his own life; all he knows is that he's not who everyone in the past seems to think he is. Rear Admiral Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell), a senior naval officer, Naval Aviator and Sam's best friend, appears to him as a hologram and explains that Sam is the victim of a time travel experiment that went "a little kaka." Now Sam is lost in time, and his colleagues are unable to bring him back to his own time. Series creator Donald P. Bellisario once said in an interview that he got the idea for the series from movies like Heaven Can Wait (1978), a remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Bellisario felt the premise, if handled correctly and put in a science fiction setting, could work.
In the series premiere, Sam has theorized the ability to travel in one's own lifetime and is the lead of the government-funded Project Quantum Leap, operating from a secret laboratory in New Mexico; Al oversees the project for the government. When Al learns that funding for the project is in danger of being pulled because no demonstrable results have come from the project, Sam takes it upon himself to step into the Quantum Leap Accelerator to prove the project works and is sent into the past. When Sam gains consciousnesses, he finds himself suffering from partial amnesia, and more surprised to find that his appearance to others, including what he sees in the mirror, is not his own face. He finds that Al has come to his aid as a hologram that only Sam can see and hear, as it is tuned to his brainwaves.
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•Dr. Samuel "Sam" Beckett (played by Scott Bakula) is a quantum scientist with six doctoral degrees. He grew up on his parents' farm, with an older brother and a younger sister. Sam's idol is Albert Einstein.
•Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci, USN (played by Dean Stockwell) is a womanizing U.S. Navy rear admiral and Sam's best friend, who grew up in an orphanage and was later active in the Civil Rights Movement. At the time of Sam's leaps, Al spends his free time with his lover and the project's medical technician Tina Martinez (played by Gigi Rice), who appears in the fourth-season episode "The Leap Back".
•Ziggy (voiced by the narrator and co-executive producer Deborah Pratt) is the self-aware artificial intelligence "parallel hybrid computer with an ego" that runs the Project Quantum Leap, and helps Sam throughout his leaps; appearing in the Season 4 episode "The Leap Back".
•Irving "Gooshie" Gushman" (played by Dennis Wolfberg) is the project's often-mentioned head programmer, who is said to have bad breath. He appears in five episodes, including the finale.
•Dr. Verbena Beeks (played by Candy Ann Brown) is often mentioned as the project's psychiatrist. She appears in two episodes throughout the series.
Season 1
1."Genesis: Part 1" 2."Genesis: Part 2" 3."Star-Crossed" 4."The Right Hand of God" 5."How The Tess Was Won" 6."Double Identity" 7."The Color of Truth" 8."Camikazi Kid" 9."Play It Again, Seymour"
Season 2
1."Honeymoon Express" 2."Disco Inferno" 3."The Americanization of Machiko" 4."What Price Gloria?" 5."Blind Faith" 6."Good Morning, Peoria" 7."Thou Shalt Not..." 8."Jimmy" 9."So Help Me God" 10."Catch a Falling Star" 11."A Portrait for Troian" 12."Animal Frat" 13."Another Mother" 14."All-Americans" 15."Her Charm" 16."Freedom" 17."Good Night, Dear Heart" 18."Pool Hall Blues" 19."Leaping in Without a Net" 20."Maybe Baby" 21."Sea Bride" 22."M.I.A."
Season 3
1."The Leap Home, Part I" 2."One Strobe Over The Line" 3."Leap of Faith" 4."One Strobe Over The Line" 5."The Boogieman" 6."Miss Deep South" 7."Black On White On Fire" 8."The Great Spontini" 9."Rebel Without A Clue" 10."A Little Miracle" 11."Runaway" 12."8 1/2 Months" 13."Future Boy" 14."Private Dancer" 15."Piano Man" 16."Southern Comforts" 17."Glitter Rock" 18."A Hunting We Will Go" 19."Last Dance Before An Execution" 20."Heart of A Champion" 21."Nuclear Family" 22."Shock Theater"
The main premise for Quantum Leap was inspired by such movies as Heaven Can Wait, and Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Series creator Donald P. Bellisario saw its concept as a way of developing an original anthology series, as anthologies were unpopular with the networks.
The series ran on NBC for five seasons, from March 1989 through May 1993.
In January 2020, Jeff Bader, NBC's head of program planning and strategy, announced that the network was considering a reboot of Quantum Leap for the launch of its Peacock streaming service.
NBC greenlit a pilot episode of a Quantum Leap continuation-reboot in January 2022. Bellisario is involved, while the showrunners include Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, with Deborah Pratt and Martin Gero as executive producers. The show would produced by Universal Television for consideration in the 2022–23 television season. Bakula's involvement is unclear, while Stockwell had died in November 2021. The pilot takes place 30 years after the conclusion of the original series, with a new team reviving the Quantum Leap project to understand it and the fate of Sam Beckett.
Helen Shaver was also announced to be executive producing the pilot episode.
On May 5, 2022, it was announced that the reboot has been picked up straight to series.
Quantum Leap - Show Trailer : NBC Classics
Quantum Leap - Original Show Intro : NBC Classics
Quantum Leap - Dean Stockwell Mashup : NBC Classics
Quantum Leap - Pool Hall Blues : NBC Classics
Quantum Leap - The Longest Leap : NBC Classics
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6."Quantum Leap" Reboot Set At NBC With Pilot Order
The first season of Quantum Leap ran on NBC from March 26 to May 17, 1989. The series follows the exploits of Dr. Sam Beckett and his Project Quantum Leap (PQL), through which he involuntarily leaps through spacetime , temporarily taking over a host in order to correct historical mistakes.
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.
