Quantum Leap season 1
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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. Season one, a late-season replacement, consists of eight episodes.
The pilot episode, "Genesis (pt. 1)", won the series its first of three consecutive
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Leap details (Name, date & location) | Original air date | Prod. code | Viewers (millions) | |||||||
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1 | 1 | "Genesis" | David Hemmings | Donald P. Bellisario | Tom Stratton September 13, 1956 Edwards Air Force Base, Blockfield, California / Tim Fox Summer 1968 Waco, Texas | March 26, 1989 | 83549[3] | 23.3[4] | |||||||
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Dr. minor league baseball player Tim Fox (Ken Martin) in Texas at the end of the 1968 season, in the middle of a game, where he must make the winning play in order to leap further.
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3 | 3 | "Star-Crossed" | Mark Sobel | Deborah Pratt | Gerald Bryant June 15, 1972 Marion, Ohio | March 31, 1989 | 65003 | 15.7[5] | |||||||
As Gerald Bryant (John Tayloe), a lecherous old professor at a private university, Sam's mission is to stop young student Jamie Lee (Leslie Sachs) from ruining her life by entering into an ill-advised marriage with Sam's host, but along the way, Sam tries to change his own history by reuniting student Donna Eleese (Teri Hatcher), who will be a fellow PhD quantum physicist when she leaves him at the altar when they are 30, with her father before he ships out to Vietnam. Note: Something Sam did in this leap has resulted in Donna Eleese not jilting him at the altar, though he only remembers their marriage when he briefly leaps back to her at Project Quantum Leap, in season 4's "The Leap Back". | |||||||||||||||
4 | 4 | "The Right Hand of God" | Gilbert Shilton | John Hill | Clarence "Kid" Cody October 24, 1974 Sacramento, California | April 7, 1989 | 65002 | 12.0[6] | |||||||
Sam is Clarence "Kid" Cody (Michael Strasser), a crooked boxer who must win the championship in order to win the money that his new managers, nuns Sister Angela (Michelle Joyner) and Sister Sarah (Nancy Kulp) – who received his contract from a deceased parishioner – need to build a new chapel. Sam must achieve this while saving his host from retribution by Jake Edwards (Guy Stockwell), the gangster paying him to cheat, and also keeping the promise to his host's girlfriend, Dixie (Teri Copley), of a better future for them. | |||||||||||||||
5 | 5 | "How the Tess Was Won" | Ivan Dixon | Deborah Arakelian | "Doc" Young August 5, 1956 Texas | April 14, 1989 | 65004 | 14.2[7] | |||||||
Sam leaps into "Doc" Young (Sloan Fischer), a Marshall R. Teague) realize they love each other. As it turns out, Sam does not leap until he helps his host's young assistant, Buddy Holly (Scott Fults), to make a breakthrough on a song he is writing . | |||||||||||||||
6 | 6 | "Double Identity" | Aaron Lipstadt | Donald P. Bellisario | Frankie LaPalma/ Geno Fescotti November 8, 1965 Brooklyn, New York | April 21, 1989 | 65001 | 9.8[8] | |||||||
Sam leaps into Northeast Blackout of 1965 in order to eliminate background signals. This leaps Sam into Geno, just before he kills Frankie; Sam, as Geno, gives his public blessing for Teresa and Frankie to marry and orders Frankie to leave the Mafia business. However, this was not his real mission. | |||||||||||||||
7 | 7 | "The Color of Truth" | Michael Vejar | Deborah Pratt | Jessie Tyler August 8, 1955 Red Dog, Alabama | May 3, 1989 | 65013 | 15.0[9] | |||||||
Sam leaps into Jessie Tyler (Howard Matthew Johnson), an aging black chauffeur in the Governor of Alabama, from dying in a car crash, while also persuading her to play a more active role in the civil rights movement . When the sheriff’s son (Michael Kruger) seriously injures Sam's host's granddaughter, Nell (Kimberly Bailey), by forcing her car off the road, Melny makes the whites-only hospital treat the girl. Al has his first experience being noticed by a human other than Sam, although Melny only perceives him as the ghostly voice of her husband, when Al convinces her to stop before the train incident. | |||||||||||||||
8 | 8 | "Camikazi Kid" | Alan J. Levi | Paul Brown | Cameron "Cam" Wilson June 6, 1961 Los Angeles, California | May 10, 1989 | 65014 | 18.4[10] | |||||||
Sam leaps into Cameron "Cam" Wilson (Scott Menville), a high school nerd who must prevent his sister Cheryl (Romy Windsor) from marrying the abusive alcoholic Bob Thompson (Kevin Blair), an incident that reminds Sam of the fate of his own sister. When Bob lies to Cheryl that they will join the Peace Corps after their wedding, Sam challenges him to a car race for pinks, knowing that Bob will show his true self when beaten. Sam gets help from Jill (Holly Fields), his host's nascent girlfriend and fellow car nerd, in enhancing his car for a successful win that exposes Bob's abuse. Sam does not leap until he (his host) kisses Jill for the first time. | |||||||||||||||
9 | 9 | "Play It Again, Seymour" | Aaron Lipstadt | Story by : Donald P. Bellisario, Scott Shepard & Tom Blomquist Teleplay by : Donald P. Bellisario & Scott Shepard | Nick Allen April 14, 1953 New York City, New York | May 17, 1989 | 65009 | 14.6[11] | |||||||
Sam leaps into New York City private investigator Nick Allen (Tony Heller), who looks like Humphrey Bogart and is looking for the murderer of his partner, Phil Grimsley, in a world akin to a Bogart film. The femme fatale of the piece is his partner's wife, Allison (Claudia Christian). Sam is aided in his efforts by Seymour (Willie Garson), the newsstand boy in his host's office building, which is managed by Lionel (Paul Linke). Sam remembers having read a pulp detective novel about the case, which Ziggy tracks down in order to help Sam out. The book reveals that Sam's host was murdered at LaGuardia Airport, and Al learns that Allison and Seymour disappeared, all in the next 24 hours. At LaGuardia, when an adolescent Woody Allen mistakes Sam for Bogart, Sam spots a delusional Lionel – who killed Phil, believing Allison wants to run off with him. Sam stops Lionel from killing the trio, but does not leap until he inspires Seymour to become a pulp novelist. Note: This is the first of two episodes where Sam leaps into a host after his own conception but before his own birth, revealed in the series finale to be August 8, 1953, four months after the date in this episode. This differs from the two episodes ("The Leap Back" and "The Leap Between The States") which contradicted the show's construct of Sam leaping within his lifetime, though the reasons for those events are explicitly explained in both those episodes. |
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