a5c7b9f00b Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in the past, &quot;leaping&quot; into the bodies of different people on a regular basis. Although the project isn&#39;t ready yet, Sam hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot, Sam finds his memory Swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. Al explains that the project has gone &quot;a little ca-ca&quot; and that the only way Sam can leap out is by flying the X-2 to Mach 3. Instead, Sam leaps after saving Tom&#39;s life, wife and child, only to find that rather than leaping home, he&#39;s leapt into Tim Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas, at the end of the 1968 season, where he must make the winning play in order to leap. &quot;Theorizing one could time-travel within his own lifetime, DR BECKETT LED AN ELITE GROUP OF SCIENTISTS TO A SECRET DESERT BASE TO FORM PROJECT QUANTUM LEAP. PRESSURED TO PROVE HIS THEORIES CORRECT OR LOSE FUNDING, Dr Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished…&quot;<br/><br/>Since no one else remembers the FULL introduction.<br/><br/>This has to be one of the best shows ever. Scott Bakula proved his acting ability, playing a variety of roles, yet somehow maintaining his main character. Dean Stockwell provided the needed humor and information to keep you on track. Who can forget him singing &quot;Inchworm&quot; or &quot;The Alphabet Rap&quot;… well, if you can call it singing. Scott was Brilliant in the scenes we saw from Man of La Mancha (I would love to see him do the whole musical for real).<br/><br/>The time travel portion, while it had fairly strict rules, it was more a way to set up a plot. It kept the show fresh because the story was new every week, with a rare revisitation to old favorites (Jimmy - to name one).<br/><br/>This was great drama, with a sci-fi twist, but mainly great drama. On top of everything else, you get the rare unexpected twist at the end which shows all the &quot;work&quot; they did was irrelevant when they were really there to fix something else, and that took 5 seconds after all was said and done. It was just rare enough that it would surprise you when they did it.<br/><br/>In the final season, the show declinedthey bowed to network wishes and became a &quot;major history event&quot; revisionist. I would of rather seen SamLee Harvey Oswald save a dog, only to find out one of the puppies it was destined to have was to be named Checkers and given to Nixon than the types of things they did. Marilyn Monroe was another disappointing story. Still, there were great stories still in there.<br/><br/>* *Possible Finale SPOILER* A lot of people pan the finale, but I found it bittersweet and proper for the tone of the show. In fact, for me it closed the arc. What Sam Beckett started in the beginning of the first show, he completed in the final episode. He knew what the costs were, and what risks existed. His foot passed through the door in the first episode, and he finished walking though in the last. *END POSSIBLE SPOILER SECTION* *<br/><br/>This was a show that was never given the proper chance, since it had the &quot;Stigma&quot; of being Sci-Fi, and aside from the minor networks, Sci-Fi is a phrase that kills in the Major networks. I find it sad that Scott never won an Emmy for his performance, especially in the episode &quot;Shock Theater&quot;.<br/><br/>It is incredible, but so much can change in a scene with an edit. Only once have I ever seen in full the episode MIA, and one scene I feel is critical has been cut from all viewings since. It involves Mary Beth, and her initial contact with the lawyer when she has the flat before Sam arrives to help. That little extra scene makes such a big difference in impact later on.<br/><br/>If you get a chance to see this show, do it. It&#39;s one of the few Sci-fi shows that seems to havehuge a female followingit does a male. That&#39;s because good writing attracts everyone.<br/><br/>Can&#39;t vote a rating, but I would give it 10 of 10, in spite of obvious faults, shortcomings, and bad episodes. Overall it was one of the best dramas ever produced bar none! I caught this show well after its run was over. I think I caught most of the episodes on USA or some other cable channel. The premise of the show was that this guy randomly leaps from person to person throughout time. He basically is himself, but every person around him sees himthe person he has leaped into. The show was okay, was not a super fan, but I liked certain episodes a lot. Hated a couple too, it just really depended on where he was or what he had to dohe always seemed to have an objective in the time he went to. The show would try to get a bit cute near the end of its runthey introduced an enemy leaper and then the show would end with a very depressing final show that basically said Sam never got back home again. Did not care for that at all and the implications and such. Still, for most of the show it was funny and suspenseful watching him try to figure out what to do to find out what he had to do to make things right with the person that he was within. Scott Bakula did a good job in the lead role and Dean Stockwell was also gooda kind of guide for Samhe was the one that tried to figure out what needed to be done in the time periods. Interesting show, that I thought was on a bit longer than it was.
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