Quantum Leap Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Quantum Leap: Season 5 (1992 - 1993)

• Season 5 Episode 22: Mirror Image: August 8, 1953

  Last-ever episode. Sam materialises as himself and realises he has the chance to bestow the ultimate gift on Al. Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell star

• Season 5 Episode 21: Memphis Melody: July 3, 1954

  As a young Elvis, Sam risks his career by helping another aspiring singer (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) escape her abusive fiance.

• Season 5 Episode 20: The Leap Between the States: Sept. 20, 1862

  Sam leaps out of his own lifetime when he arrives in the midst of the American Civil War. Time-hopping, body-swapping adventures, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 5 Episode 19: The Beast Within: Nov. 6, 1972

  As a mountain recluse, Sam must help his disabled Vietnam veteran pal overcome his past.

• Season 5 Episode 18: Goodbye Norma Jean: April 4, 1960

  Sam lands in the body of Marilyn Monroe's chauffeur, and finds himself battling to keep the screen idol alive. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 5 Episode 17: Revenge of the Evil Leaper: Sept. 6, 1987

  Sam and Alia (Renée Coleman) both leap into prison, then discover that Zoey is another leaper.

• Season 5 Episode 16: Return of the Evil Leaper: Oct. 9, 1957

  As a 1957 campus do-gooder, Sam draws the ire of macho fraternity guy (Neil Patrick Harris), then meets the evil leaper (Renée Coleman).

• Season 5 Episode 15: Blood Moon: March 10, 1975

  Things get decidedly spooky as Sam swaps places with a vampire to stop the supernatural creature's wife being sacrificed and drained of her blood during a deadly ritual

• Season 5 Episode 14: Dr. Ruth: April 25, 1985

  Sam becomes a relationship expert and sets about offering marriage guidance, helping a girl fight sexual harassment. Guest starring Dr Ruth Westheimer as herself

• Season 5 Episode 13: Liberation: Oct. 16, 1968

  Sam becomes a housewife who follows her daughter into the women's liberation movement in an attempt to prevent her death during a sit-in. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 5 Episode 12: A Tale of Two Sweeties: Feb. 25, 1958

  Sam jumps into the body of a bigamist who has to choose one wife over the other and cure a serious gambling problem. Scott Bakula stars as the scientist trapped in time, with Dean Stockwell as his holographic guide

• Season 5 Episode 11: Promised Land: Dec. 22, 1971

  Sam materialises as a desperate farmer who resorts to robbery to keep his land out of a crooked bank manager's clutches

• Season 5 Episode 10: Trilogy : Part Three

  Part three of three. Returning to the same town, Sam occupies the body of an elderly lawyer attempting to save a woman from the death sentence

• Season 5 Episode 9: Trilogy : Part Two

  Part two of three. Sam returns to the same town, this time in 1966, and gets caught up in the events surrounding a boy's disappearance

• Season 5 Episode 8: Trilogy : Part One

  Time-travelling adventurer Sam Beckett is thrown into a terrifying cycle of violence, involving a ten-year-old girl who may have witnessed murder

• Season 5 Episode 7: Deliver Us From Evil: March 19, 1966

  Sam travels back to the 1960s and finds himself in the body of teenager Jimmy La Matta, who has learning difficulties. Time-travel adventure, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 5 Episode 6: Star Light, Star Bright: May 21, 1966

  Sam travels back to 1966, where he materialises in the body of a UFO enthusiast and quickly learns his stories are not all pie in the sky. Unfortunately, his family are considering committing him to an asylum. Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell star

• Season 5 Episode 5: Killin' Time: June 18, 1961

  Sam swaps places with a murderer who has escaped custody and taken a woman and child hostage. Meanwhile, panic ensues at the Imaging Chamber as the confused killer forces Al to release him

• Season 5 Episode 4: Nowhere to Run: August 10, 1968

  Sam materialises as a handicapped Vietnam veteran struggling to adjust to life back home, and learns he must save a fellow hospital patient

• Season 5 Episode 3: Leaping of the Shrew: Sept. 27, 1956

  Sam finds himself shipwrecked on a deserted island in the company of a spoilt debutante, but soon realises his companion's blinkered perception of the outside world is not of her own making. Brooke Shields guest stars

• Season 5 Episode 2: Lee Harvey Oswald -- Oct. 5, 1957-Nov. 22, 1963

  Part two of two. Sam learns the reason for his current transformation but realises he is trapped in the body of Lee Harvey Oswald. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 5 Episode 1: Lee Harvey Oswald -- Oct. 5, 1957-Nov. 22, 1963

  Part one of two. Sam leaps into the body of JFK's alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Scott Bakula stars

Quantum Leap: Season 4 (1991 - 1992)

• Season 4 Episode 22: A Leap for Lisa: June 25, 1957

  Sam occupies the body of a Navy pilot in an attempt to prevent the death of his lover, but instead inadvertently causes him to be falsely accused of murder

• Season 4 Episode 21: Stand-Up: April 30, 1959

  Sam sings for his supper and faces a race against time to save a nightclub comedian from an untimely death

• Season 4 Episode 20: The Curse of Ptah-Hotep: March 2, 1957

  Sam travels back to 1957, where he becomes a professor of archaeology and finds himself charged with saving two people from the horrors of an ancient Egyptian curse. Sci-fi adventure, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 4 Episode 19: Moments to Live: May 4, 1985

  Sam leaps into the body of a soap opera star kidnapped by a fan who has trouble distinguishing fact from fiction : will she expect him to fulfil her fantasy?

• Season 4 Episode 18: It's a Wonderful Leap: May 10, 1958

  Body-hopping Sam runs down a woman and is astonished to discover she is a guardian angel assigned to protect a hard-working New York cabbie from a gang of armed robbers - and she can see Al. Liz Torres stars alongside Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 4 Episode 17: Roberto!: January 27, 1982

  Sam becomes an investigative journalist whose inquiries into a spate of weird incidents, including vanishing sheep and alien sightings, lead him to uncover a sinister operation at a pesticide plant. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 4 Episode 16: Ghost Ship: August 13, 1956

  Sam leaps into the body of a pilot flying a plane through the infamous Bermuda Triangle and must get his passengers safely to the Caribbean island

• Season 4 Episode 15: A Song for the Soul: April 7, 1963

  Time-traveller Scott Bakula joins a female singing group, where he tries to prevent the lead vocalist from going solo and ending up working for a callous pimp

• Season 4 Episode 14: The Last Gunfighter: November 28, 1957

  Sam becomes an ageing gunfighter and finds himself facing a shoot-out with the man's former partner - a situation with potentially deadly repercussions for everyone concerned

• Season 4 Episode 13: Temptation Eyes: February 1, 1985

  The time-traveller leaps into the body of a TV newsman and becomes romantically involved with a beautiful psychic who holds the key to a killer's identity, but is at risk from him herself

• Season 4 Episode 12: Running for Honor: June 11, 1964

  Sam occupies the body of a Navy cadet faced with the task of saving his best friend - a homosexual driven out of the academy by a hate campaign. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 4 Episode 11: The Play's the Thing: September 9, 1969

  Sam takes over the body of a struggling New York actor and gets involved in the life of an ageing singer. Time-travelling drama, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 4 Episode 10: Unchained: November 2, 1956

  Sam joins a chain gang and has to help prove a fellow prisoner's innocence - but when the felon in question goes on the run, he finds his troubles are only just beginning

• Season 4 Episode 9: A Single Drop of Rain: September 7, 1953

  Sam is cast as an unscrupulous rain-maker with an eye for the ladies - but his mission is to save another man's failing marriage

• Season 4 Episode 8: Dreams: February 28, 1979

  As a cop in 1979, Sam is haunted by the frozen facial expression of a woman murder victim; Al learns Sam is the next target.

• Season 4 Episode 7: The Wrong Stuff: January 24, 1961

  In one of his more offbeat excursions, Sam trades bodies with a chimp. Unfortunately, it's about to take part in a space-bound experiment to test a crash helmet. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 4 Episode 6: Raped: June 20, 1980

  Sam steps in to save the life of a persecuted rape victim whose wealthy and powerful attacker has driven her to contemplate suicide

• Season 4 Episode 5: Permanent Wave: June 2, 1983

  As a Beverly Hills hairstylist in 1983, Sam must save his girlfriend's son (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who witnessed a pharmacist's murder next door.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Justice: May 11, 1965

  Sam tries to prevent the murder of a civil rights leader while occupying the body of a Ku Klux Klansman in the Deep South. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 4 Episode 3: Hurricane: August 17, 1969

  Sam materialises in the path of a hurricane and is charged with the task of saving a girl's life. Time-hopping adventures, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 4 Episode 2: Play Ball: August 6, 1961

  Sam becomes a pitcher for a small-town baseball team and has to convince major league scouts he is worthy of a chance at the big time. Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell star

• Season 4 Episode 1: The Leap Back: June 15, 1999

  A lightning strike causes Al to switch roles and seals Sam in the Project's Imaging Chamber - leaving him frantic to escape in time to stop a war hero and his fiancee committing suicide. Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell star

Quantum Leap: Season 3 (1990 - 1991)

• Season 3 Episode 22: Shock Theater: October 3, 1954

  Sam ends up in a mental institution and finds himself undergoing extensive electro-shock treatment which threatens his very existence - leaving Al to pull him through the trauma

• Season 3 Episode 21: Nuclear Family: October 26, 1962

  Sam becomes the brother of a fallout shelter salesman during the Cuban missile crisis, and finds himself trying to stop a murder caused by mass hysteria

• Season 3 Episode 20: Heart of a Champion: July 23, 1955

  Sam must save the life of a wrestler who will die if he competes in a title match, and avoid a jealous husband intent on doing him harm. Drama, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 3 Episode 19: Last Dance Before an Execution: May 12, 1971

  Sam leaps into the body of a convicted killer held on death row and faces a race against time to convince his female attorney of his innocence before he goes to the electric chair

• Season 3 Episode 18: A Hunting We Will Go: June 18, 1976

  Sam becomes a bounty hunter escorting a prisoner across country : but is his glamorous charge guilty of the crime of which she's accused?

• Season 3 Episode 17: Glitter Rock: April 12, 1974

  Sam finds himself fronting a Seventies British rock band and trying to avoid a mystery assailant's knife

• Season 3 Episode 16: Southern Comfort: August 4, 1961

  As a New Orleans brothel owner, Sam must prevent the murder of a mysterious resident.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Piano Man: November 10, 1985

  As a lounge piano player, Sam is spotted by an ex-partner (Marietta DePrima) he deserted after witnessing a mobster's murder.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Private Dancer: October 6, 1979

  A dancer struggles to make ends meet and is in danger of falling into prostitution, until Sam persuades her to audition for a professional dancing job

• Season 3 Episode 13: Future Boy: October 6, 1957

  Sam becomes a TV actor and finds himself taking a back seat to a children's entertainer with a fixation on time-travel. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 3 Episode 12: 8 1/2 Months: November 15, 1955

  Sam exchanges bodies with a teenager and discovers she is about to give birth. To make matters worse, the girl's father announces he wants her to give the baby up for adoption, bringing Sam's new-found maternal instincts to the fore. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 3 Episode 11: Runaway: July 3, 1964

  On a cross-country car trip, Sam, as 13-year-old Butchie, must contend with a sadistic older sister and a mother on the verge of running away from an unfulfilling marriage, in search of the feminine mystique

• Season 3 Episode 10: A Little Miracle: December 24, 1962

  Sam sets out on Christmas Eve to save a Salvation Army mission due for demolition, using hologram Al as an unlikely ally. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 3 Episode 9: Rebel Without a Clue: September 1, 1958

  As a member of a motorcycle gang in 1958, Sam tries to prevent the death of a girl (Josie Bissett) obsessed with life on the road.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Great Spontini: May 9, 1974

  Sam materialises as a magician locked in a custody battle with his estranged wife. Time-travelling adventure, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 3 Episode 7: Black on White on Fire: August 11, 1965

  Sam battles racial prejudice when he materialises as a lovesick medical student in 1965 Los Angeles on the eve of the Watts riots. With Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 3 Episode 6: Miss Deep South: June 7, 1958

  Sam materialises as a contestant in a 1959 beauty pageant, where he is charged with saving one of his rivals' reputations from the schemes of an unscrupulous photographer

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Boogieman: October 31, 1964

  Sam leaps into the body of a second-rate horror novelist who becomes a witness to a series of bizarre accidents

• Season 3 Episode 4: One Strobe Over the Line: June 15, 1965

  Sam becomes a fashion photographer to save a glamorous model who is in danger of taking a fatal overdose. Time-travelling drama, starring Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell and Susan Anton

• Season 3 Episode 3: Leap of Faith: August 19, 1963

  Sam leaps into the body of a priest : and is asked to prevent the death of a fellow man of the cloth. Time-travelling drama, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Leap Home : Part Two

  Sam leaps into a soldier serving under his brother Tom's command in Vietnam : a day before he was killed in mysterious circumstances. Sci-fi drama, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 3 Episode 1: The Leap Home : Part One

  Part one of two. Sam leaps into his teenage self, and attempts to win a high-school basketball championship - but also sees the opportunity to avert a series of disasters about to strike his family. Sci-fi drama, starring Scott Bakula

Quantum Leap: Season 2 (1989 - 1990)

• Season 2 Episode 22: M.I.A.: April 1, 1969

  When Sam materialises as an undercover cop in 1969, Al instructs him to ensure a widow does not remarry because her husband is still alive

• Season 2 Episode 21: Sea Bride: June 3, 1954

  Sam occupies the body of a man who is headed for suicide if he cannot prevent his ex-wife going through with her planned remarriage to a ruthless mobster

• Season 2 Episode 20: Maybe Baby: March 11, 1963

  Sam aids a stripper who has kidnapped a baby : but for very good reasons. Starring and written by Julie Brown, with Scott Bakula

• Season 2 Episode 19: Leaping in Without a Net: November 18, 1958

  Sam materialises in the body of a famous trapeze artist, and learns he must act quickly to prevent a tragedy

• Season 2 Episode 18: Pool Hall Blues: September 4, 1954

  Sam occupies the body of a legendary pool player who has just been challenged to a winner-takes-all game against an unscrupulous contender

• Season 2 Episode 17: Good Night, Dear Heart: November 9, 1957

  Sam becomes a mortuary attendant who is obsessed with discovering the truth about a girl's untimely death. Time-travel drama, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 2 Episode 16: Freedom: November 22, 1970

  Sam becomes an American Indian who takes his ailing grandfather (Frank Sotonoma Salsedo) from a nursing home to die on a reservation.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Her Charm: September 26, 1973

  Sam jumps into the body of an FBI agent to protect a star witness from the wrath of the Mob. Time-travelling drama, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 2 Episode 14: All-Americans: November 6, 1962

  Sam occupies the body of a high-school quarterback whose goal is to prevent his best friend from throwing a game and ruining a promising career as a doctor. Time-travelling drama, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 2 Episode 13: Another Mother: September 30, 1981

  Sam materialises as a mother and discovers the problems of looking after a teenage son, while Al finds he isn't quite as invisible as he thought

• Season 2 Episode 12: Animal Frat: October 19, 1968

  Sam becomes a fraternity member in 1967 and faces the challenge of mending his loose-living ways to prevent a fellow student from starting a potentially fatal anti-war demonstration. Starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 2 Episode 11: A Portrait for Troian: February 7, 1971

  Sam becomes a parapsychologist charged with exorcising the spirit of a novelist whose voice torments his widow (Deborah Pratt).

• Season 2 Episode 10: Catch a Falling Star: March 21, 1979

  The time-travelling scientist is transported back to 1979 and occupies the body of an understudy in a top Broadway production. Sci-fi drama, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 2 Episode 9: So Help Me God: July 29, 1957

  As a Southern lawyer in 1957, Sam defends a black housekeeper (Tyra Ferrell) accused of killing her employer and lover.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Jimmy: October 14, 1964

  Sam leaps into the body of a mentally disturbed man struggling to live independently in the 1960s. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 2 Episode 7: Thou Shalt Not ...: February 2, 1974

  Sam becomes embroiled in a struggle to prevent the break-up of a family unable to come to terms with the death of a child

• Season 2 Episode 6: Good Morning, Peoria: September 9, 1959

  Sam stands up for rock 'n' roll when he materialises as a Fifties DJ whose radio station is under threat of closure from councillors with puritanical ideas about morality

• Season 2 Episode 5: Blind Faith: February 6, 1964

  Sam Beckett assumes the body of a blind concert pianist in the 1960s and must save his assistant from being murdered by her stalker

• Season 2 Episode 4: What Price Gloria?: October 16, 1961

  Sam materialises as a beautiful woman suffering sexual harassment and has to cope with knowing her room-mate is about to commit suicide

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Americanisation of Machiko

  Sam occupies the body of a sailor who returns from overseas with a Japanese wife. Time-travelling adventure, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 2 Episode 2: Disco Inferno: April 1, 1976

  Sam leaps into the body of a macho stuntman on the set of a low-budget disaster movie. Time-travelling drama, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 2 Episode 1: Honeymoon Express: April 27, 1960

  Sam is hounded by his new bride's jealous ex-husband as he tries to help Al persuade the authorities to maintain government funding for his time-travel project

Quantum Leap: Season 1 (1989)

• Season 1 Episode 9: Play It Again, Seymour: April 14, 1953

  Sam turns into a private eye investigating the murder of his ex-partner : can he find the culprit before his next leap? Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell star

• Season 1 Episode 8: Camikazi Kid: June 6, 1961

  Sam hops into the body of an acne-ridden student and sets out to save the youth's sister from a disastrous marriage

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Color of Truth: August 8, 1955

  Sam materialises as a black man in the Deep South, where racism is rife : and his mission is to overcome his employer's prejudices

• Season 1 Episode 6: Double Identity: November 8, 1965

  Sam occcupies the body of Frankie, a Mafia hitman involved with another mobster's girlfriend, and subsequently leaps into the body of the woman's boyfriend. Scott Bakula stars

• Season 1 Episode 5: How the Tess Was Won: September 28, 1956

  Sam helps a headstrong rancher's daughter follow her heart. Sci-fi drama, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Right Hand of God: October 24, 1974

  Part two. Sam leaps into the body of a boxer whose career is managed by two nuns aiming to finance a chapel for the poor. Time-travelling antics, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 1 Episode 3: Star-Crossed: June 15, 1972

  Sam is given the task of halting a shotgun wedding between an English professor and one of his students, but complications soon arise. Time-travelling adventure, starring Scott Bakula

• Season 1 Episode 2: Genesis: September 13, 1956

  Part two of two. Continuing the time-travelling adventure, which finds a scientist catapulted through time to 1956 and into the body of a test pilot. Starring Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell and guest starring Jennifer Runyon

• Season 1 Episode 1: Genesis - Part One

  First in a two-part pilot episode, which introduced audiences to the adventures of Sam Beckett. Scott Bakula stars as the scientist, who finds himself taking the place of a test pilot after an experiment into time travel goes wrong