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Quantum Leap S5

Season 5

Sam Beckett takes part in the Quantum Leap experiment in 1956 and ends up 'quantum leaping' back and forth in time with the hope of returning to his own present.

Show Guide

About The Show

Sam Beckett, a brilliant scientist, takes part in the Quantum Leap experiment which lands him in 1956 as a test pilot. With the help of his holographic 'Observer,' Sam remembers the experiment and learns that his fate is to 'quantum leap' back and forth in time with the hope of returning to his own present.

Meet the Characters

Episodes

  1. Episode

    Episode 21: Mirror Image

    Sam leaps into a tavern in Cokeburg, Pennsylvania, as himself on his day of birth. He befriends a wise bartender, Alberto Bellisario and a group of coal miners.

  2. Episode

    Episode 20: Revenge of the Leaper

    Sam leaps into the body of Liz Tate who has been accused of murdering Carol Benning while they were both in jail. Alia, another leaper, has also leapt with Sam, and her observer, Zoey, has become a leaper herself.

  3. Episode

    Episode 19: Return of the Evil Leaper

    Sam leaps into the body of Arnold Watkins, a wimpy college freshman who has been disguising himself as the 'Midnight marauder' and protecting the innocent from evil. Sam is there to save Arnold from attempting death defying feats as well as making certain that Alia, the evil leaper, leaps out with his.

  4. Episode

    Episode 18: Memphis Melody

    Sam leaps into Elvis Presley two days before he is signed by Mr Phillips, of Sun Records. He is there to make certain that not only Elvis but Sue Anne Winters gets a recording contract as well so they can both follow their dreams.

  5. Episode

    Episode 17: The Beast Within

    Same leaps into Henry Akers, a homeless Vietnam veteran, to save the lives of Roy Brown, a high school buddy and fellow veteran, and Daniel Burke, the 13-year-old son of a high school classmate.

  6. Episode

    Episode 16: The Leap Between the States

    Sam leaps into the body of Captain John Beckett, his great grandfather, a union infantry officer shot by confederate soldiers in the middle of the Civil War. Sam's mission is to save Isaac, a slave, from being killed and also to make sure his great grandfather marries Olivia, a Southern aristocrat so they can have children.

  7. Episode

    Episode 15: The Tale of Two Sweeties

    Sam leaps into the body of Marty Ellroy who is married to two women and has two children from each marriage. Sam must make Marty select one wife over the other and must stop Marty from his excessive gambling problem.

  8. Episode

    Episode 14: Blood Moon

    Sam leaps into the body of Nigel Covington, a vampire, he must stop his wife, Alexandria from being sacrificed for her blood at the Blood Moon ritual.

  9. Episode

    Episode 13: Goodbye Norma Jean

    Sam leaps into the body of Dennis Boardman, Marilyn Munroe's chauffeur and must save her from killing herself before she completes her present picture.

  10. Episode

    Episode 12: The Last Door

    Sam leaps into the body of Lawrence Stanton, an attorney, who must prove Abagail's innocence in the trial for murdering Leta Aider.

  11. Episode

    Episode 11: For your Love

    Sam leaps into Will Kinman, the teenager from Part 1, who is now a dputy. He and Abagail are about to marry when the young boy she has been babysitting disappears, and she is once again accused of murder.

  12. Episode

    Episode 10: Promised Land

    Sam returns to his hometown as Bill Walters who, with his two brothers, hold up the town's bank for money owed by the Walters farm.

  13. Episode

    Episode 9: Deliver us from Evil

    Sam Beckett leaps into the body of jimmy La Matta and realises the leap is very familiar. He meets Alia, another time traveller but is unaware that she is evil. Sam/Jimmy must stop his brother Frank from leaving his wife Connie because there is an abiding love, even though they are not aware of it.

  14. Episode

    Episode 8: Liberation

    Sam leaps into the body of Margaret Sanders, a housewife who joins her daughter in the fight for equal rights for women. Sam must save Margaret's marriage to George and stop their daughter Suzi, and her associate Diana, from being killed at a sit-in.

  15. Episode

    Episode 7: Killin' time

    Sam Beckett leaps into the body of mass murderer Leon Stiles who has escaped custody and taken a mother and her daughter hostage.

  16. Episode

    Episode 6: One Little Heart Part 1

    Sam takes the first leap, as Louisiana Sheriff, Clayton Fuller, in a trilogy concerning the tribulations of Fuller's daughter Abagail who is accused of two murders.

  17. Episode

    Episode 5: Leaping of the Shrew

    Sam Beckett leaps into a Greek sailor's body who is shipwrecked with a beautiful debutante, and teaches her to follow her heart.

  18. Episode

    Episode 4: Nowhere to Run

    Sam leaps into the body of handicapped war veteran Ron Miller, who is trying to adjust to life back home in the U.S.A.

  19. Episode

    Episode 2 & 3: Lee Harvey Oswald

    Sam leaps in and out of Lee Harvey Oswald, taking on Oswald's personality and volatile emotions, while changing key events in the killer's life, until the fated assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

  20. Episode

    Episode 1: Star Light, Star Bright

    Sam Beckett leaps into the body of Max Stoddard, 79 years old, who must prove he has seen a UFO so his family does not have him committed to a mental institution.

Characters

  • Business classes at the University of Kansa bored Bakula, who returned to St. Louis after a year to work in community theatre and then moved to New York to try his luck and soon was cast in 'Shenandoah.' His off-Broadway credits include 'Accentuate the Positive' and 'Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down,' and he debuted on Broadway as Joe DiMaggio in ' Marilyn: An American Fable.'

    Bakula moved to Los Angeles in 1986 to star on stage in 'Nite Club Confidential.' He won guest-starring roles in such television series as 'On Our Own' and 'My Sister Sam' and starred in the TV movies 'The Last Fling' and 'The Infiltrator' and in the Disney Sunday Night Movie 'I-Man.'

  • After graduating from high school at 16, Stockwell left Hollywood. 'I cut my hair off, changed my name and disappeared into the countryside. I took odd jobs for five year; then when I ran out of things to do, I went back into the business to try again.'

    Successful again, he starred in the film classics 'Compulsion,' 'Sons and Lovers' and 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' before quitting show business a second time. 'In the '60s, when we had hippies and Haight-Ashbury, I dropped out of my career and just went with that,' he says. 'I found it fulfilling because didn't have much of a childhood.'

    The next time back in Hollywood, there were occasional roles, but it wasn't until Stockwell married his wife Joy, started a family and moved to new Mexico, that he found himself in demand. 'I think I have my best work ahead of me,' he says, 'and now I can enjoy it.'

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  • what an unusual look at history but beleivable

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