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Submitted by Elizabeth H
Watching Dr. Sam Beckett travel through time and save people’s lives was so epic. Each week we’d get a different sample of the lives of people from around the world, often so foreign from our own lives that we’d learn something new about culture, people, and life.
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Oh Boy!
Or girl
Damnit Ziggy!
I remember watching it when i was a kid back in early 90s i guess.It was the most awesome tv series known to me at that time!
Quantum Leap is why I thought I thought Enterprise would rock. And they made it suck:(
But QL still rocks!
Eh, I thought that to. But then I realized the pussy-whiney future-man thing that was awesome about QL doesn’t quite work when you add space ships to the equation.
Still the prison episode wher Dean Stockwell guest stared as the alien prison director . . . It was weird seeing those two together. I just waited fo him to go all: “I don’t know what the hell happened here Sam but we’re going to get you out.” EVERY time those two were alone in a room.
Did you ever see the shot of the Ql convention on an episode of JAG? (same producer)
Scoot Bakula was about the only thing that kept me watching Enterprise. The ear-stabbingly horrible theme song made me want to turn it off before it started, and then the fact that nearly every episode revolved around time travel and they did a horrible job dealing with temporal mechanics and causality.
Quantum Leap at least did a good work-around with temporal causality by having Sam only deal with events in individual lives, rather than world changing events. In the few instances that he did alter events that would have a direct impact his future life or those he knew (like Al) then Sam was the only one who retained a memory of the original timeline, because he was outside of the time stream.
I have a different view of the show as I worked on it the last 2 seasons.
It is one of the few shows I have worked on in that not only was everyone (OK, most) great to work with, but I was proud to see it on the air. Scott and Dean are 2 of the nicest people I have ever met.
Why have there been so few shows of this quality?
you actually met them?? i am SOOOOO envious!!
Me, too!
“Why have there been so few shows of this quality?”
Simple… because there are so few Don Belisarus-es and even fewer Kenneth Johnsons.
my mother was the cute japanese chick in the episode ‘the americanization of Michiko’
i loved this show!
OMG, I loved that episode! Lucky!
I had SUCH a crush on Scott back in the day. When they canceled the show I actually went into a minor depression. Lousy teenage hormones.
i STILL think scott is cute, i guess he just gets better with age, like a fine wine hehe
I still love Quantum Leap… Although they never really say/show if he made it home permanently.
The only thing I can remember of the ‘final episode’ was an old guy in the back of the bar showing that same Leap aura just before the end of the episode.
They ought to have made Scott sing more, The Man from La Mancha was a great episode
IIRC, at the end of the last episode, it said, “Dr. Beckett never returned home.”
They did that because the show was cancelled prematurely.
QL was the first “grownup” show that I begged my parents to let me stay up late to watch.
I just loved this series. If I was rich, I’d buy every single DVD. One of my fave episodes is the one where they do the Man of La Mancha musical.
*wanders off to Amazon*
BEST. SHOW. EVER! Does anyone know if it is showing on cable/satellite?
It is on the ION TV network.
also you can check out surfthechannel.com, they have almost every episode of quantum leap (just in case you don’t get ION)
I LOVED the first two seasons of this show; third season was iffy, some of the best and some of the worst eps mixed together; then they jumped the shark big time in the fourth season. I still remember the interview where Scott said, “You will never see me on the grassy knoll in Dallas”, referring to the core idea that things that happen to ordinary folks can be just as important as the ones that happen to famous folks. What happens in the fourth season? He leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald …. And yeah, that last bit of Dr. Beckett NEVER goes home … sigh. A concept that ended up failing, but what a rush when it worked! And side note to the person that got to meet Scott and Dean — I am positively emerald with envy right now!
my parents and I both got into the habit of saying “oh boy” after watching reruns for a while. took us a while to figure where it had come from. great show. i loved the episode where Sam has to choose between saving his brother, or a younger Al during the war. such a powerful episode.
There was always talk of revisiting the series. For example her had a daughter from the trilogy episodes and they were thinking about having her trying to find him,etc. But it was the most real I wanted life back in the day. And yet the series finale at the end sucked but if I remember correctly they didn’t know until the last minute if they were going to be renewed or not.And when it wasn’t renewed they tweeked the ending to what it became. And note to future tv show producers..obtain the rights for the show and any future dvd/media releases. This is one of those series where other music is used instead of what was shown on tv. The episode where Al gets to be with his only love Beth one final time and they’re dancing. The song is supposed to be Georgia by Ray Charles however in the dvd release this is not the case. Anyway was such a great show and it’s theme of one man CAN make a difference is one we should all take to heart.
There was rumor or speculation floating around recently (like two years ago or maybe more) of the SciFi network making a movie about QL, in which Sammie Jo goes back to rescue Sam. I’ve no idea if they ever made it (I doubt it, as I’d have seen it).
I’m wondering if anyone went to the QL convention earlier this year in LA? 20th anniversary!!
To this day, I still carry a POW/MIA Never forgotten sticker on my car, just because of the Admiral.
note to future tv show producers..obtain the rights for the show and any future dvd/media releases. This is one of those series where other music is used instead of what was shown on tv. The episode where Al gets to be with his only love Beth one final time and they’re dancing. The song is supposed to be Georgia by Ray Charles however in the dvd release this is not the case.
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Sigh. Really?
Makes me glad I taped them every week (and later transferred them to DVD… I have the original music then
Just FYI, the whole first season is available to watch on hulu. =)
Taped it when it was first on =P
The best thing about QL was that the concept allowed it to be ANY genre it wanted. The Sci-Fi was merely a delivery system. Brilliant. The same could have been done with ‘24′, but I guess that was foolish hoping.
One of my favorite shows of ALL TIME.
Ive seen scott bakula in a few other series, but lets face he will ALWAYS AND FOREVER be dr sam beckett. epic win indeed