Quantum Leap

[donk70]

It comes on Ion around like 4 or 5.

It was a great show. It didn't last that long because TV networks have no real vision.

No, that's not it

It's just that most people aren't dorky nerds like we are........

 

[redmarvel]

Loved the show

What channel is it on?

It plays in Canada on Rogers Cable "Vision" channel on Tuesday nights. This week's episode he was in a mental institution.

 

[BlackLantern]

Jimmy....and he leapt into Jimmy again when the evil leaper showed up

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

This show needs to be brought back with the original actors...

 

[<(o_o)>]

This show needs to be brought back with the original actors...

Would love a revival of this show, theres just so much ground to cover in the 19 years since it ended.

 

[Thundarr]

It comes on Ion around like 4 or 5.

It was a great show. It didn't last that long because TV networks have no real vision.

Five seasons is actually pretty damn good. There have been some pretty good series out there that only lasted one season.

Take the live action Conan series starring Ralf Moeller and Danny Woodburn for example. The earlier episodes weren't that great, due mostly to low production values (seriously, I think most of their weapons and armor were purchased from toy stores). But by the end of the season, the quality of the episodes had improved drastically.

With most shows, regardless of if they last one season, five seasons, or fifteen seasons, if they get cancelled it's usually due to low ratings. And as good as Quantum Leap is, after five seasons people just lost interest and started tuning in to other shows that were on in that time slot. It's the nature of the beast I'm afraid.

Incidentally, I'm currently rewatching the entire series on Shomi (pronounced "Show Me", which is a Canadian streaming site kinda like Netflix). I just finished the Halloween episode from Season 3, where Sam gives a young Steven King the ideas for Carrie and Christine. That's one of my favorites.

 

[Marz69]

This show was awesome. I love this type of sci-fi (sliders was another one). The scenes where sam was a female were just so funny.

I don't remember how it all ended. But I kinda recall something about two women who were like the opposite of him... doing bad things. Can't recall how that all started or ended.

 

[runawayboulder]

God I used to love this show as a kid. My all time favorite episode when he leaped into his brother's squad in Vietnam and saw Al as a POW at the end. Those were my first TV feels ever.

 

[Marz69]

Yeah, the AL POW scene was the best episode. I gasped. The feels were definitely there

 

[X-Ray]

This show was awesome. I love this type of sci-fi (sliders was another one). The scenes where sam was a female were just so funny.

I don't remember how it all ended. But I kinda recall something about two women who were like the opposite of him... doing bad things. Can't recall how that all started or ended.

The evil leapers. That arc ran for 4 episodes if I recall correctly. I remember that Sam leaped back into a character he had saved before. Whatever good he did never happened because the evil leaper undid it. I think they were from a further future. As for the finale, read my old post....

At the end. The bartender tells Sam that he's (as in Sam), & always has been, in control of the leaps. He can go home anytime he wanted too. But there's so much out there that needs fixing that Sam realizes he can never go home. The bartender tells him "God bless you" for making this sacrifice and Sam leaps back to ...



............................................................................



Sam's body, mind & soul made the leap. Before it would be just the mind & soul. His body would remain in the present day 1999 time chamber. When he leaped into a person's life. That person's mind & soul leaped back to Sam's body in 1999. In the finale, Sam's body goes missing which made it harder for Al & company to track him. So in the end. It seems that Sam can leap as himself to whenever without actually taking over a person's life. So of like Journeyman. Damn you NBC!

The finale airs next Wednesday on the Ion channel.

 

[Marz69]

Thanks @X-Ray. I really need to rewatch this.

 

[LostSon88]

If there was ever a show that could be rebooted successfully in present times, it'd be this one...

I absolutely loved this series as a kid.

 

[superhero]

Quantum leap is my all time favorite show right behind the wonder years. my favorite is the pilot I also liked when he leaps in to this teenager then he sticks up for his sister who was about to going to marry a drunk. I also like the leap home were sam leaps into him self at age 16 then part 2 were he leaps into this solider named magic then he try's to save his brothers life. . I heard that sci fi channel were going to make an quantum leap movie about Sam's daughter leaping in time trying to find Sam becket but they deiced to do Battle star Galactica instead of an quantum leap movie

 

[Thundarr]

I think Season 3 is my favorite season overall. There are just so many great episodes. The one where he leaps into the soldier from his brother's platoon (the season premier). The Halloween episode I mentioned earlier. The Christmas episode where Sam & Al "Scrooge" a greedy billionaire. The one where he leaps into an actor on a kids' Sci-Fi TV series. The one where he leaps into the body of a pro wrestler (guest starring wrestling's Hardcore Legend, Terry Funk). The season finale where he leaps into the body of a mental patient right before an abusive orderly gives him electroshock treatment with the juice cranked up to max, causing him to take on the personalities of all the people he had leaped into before. Without a doubt, Season 3 probably had more memorable episodes than all the other seasons put together.

 

[LostSon88]

So many great ones but "The Leap Home" was/is my favorite story arc.

 

[X-Ray]

^ That is right there up with the JFK arc as one of my all time favorites.

 

[runawayboulder]

I think Season 3 is my favorite season overall. There are just so many great episodes. The one where he leaps into the soldier from his brother's platoon (the season premier). The Halloween episode I mentioned earlier. The Christmas episode where Sam & Al "Scrooge" a greedy billionaire. The one where he leaps into an actor on a kids' Sci-Fi TV series. The one where he leaps into the body of a pro wrestler (guest starring wrestling's Hardcore Legend, Terry Funk). The season finale where he leaps into the body of a mental patient right before an abusive orderly gives him electroshock treatment with the juice cranked up to max, causing him to take on the personalities of all the people he had leaped into before. Without a doubt, Season 3 probably had more memorable episodes than all the other seasons put together.

I agree. There was an episode later on where he leaped into a male stripper in early 80's NYC where he had to save a deaf ballet dancer from being murdered. That was a great episode too. It was unique because that was the closest the show came to present day while it was airing. The entire series was very heavy in the 60's-70's.

 

[BH/HHH]

Sam's still leaping

 

[LostSon88]

^ That is right there up with the JFK arc as one of my all time favorites.

Oh man that was a great one too. I loved the 'twist' where Al reveals to Sam that in the original timeline, Jackie O was also killed.

 

[Golgo-13]

Love this show. Although, i hated the finale.

Favorite eps, were when Al and Sam swapped places and Sam was actually the hologram, and Al was the time traveller. Also the Halloween one where the devil was posed as Al, and when Sam was leaping within different points of his own life&#8230;.too many good ones to choose from. s1 was so, so but from s2 on, the show really found it's groove.

Could work as a movie that would have to be a franchise.

I also didn't like the religious hints that god or a hgher force was moving him around. I'd prefer it if it was based solely on science&#8230;

If there was ever a show that could be rebooted successfully in present times, it'd be this one...

I think they attempted it..somewhat, with Kevin McKidd and Journey Man.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

I also didn't like the religious hints that god or a hgher force was moving him around. I'd prefer it if it was based solely on science…

How would that work on a purely scientific level? Sam was not only time traveling into other people's bodies but he had to accomplish a specific task before he could travel to somewhere/someone else and it was out of his control beyond that.

 

[Thundarr]

I agree. There was an episode later on where he leaped into a male stripper in early 80's NYC where he had to save a deaf ballet dancer from being murdered. That was a great episode too. It was unique because that was the closest the show came to present day while it was airing. The entire series was very heavy in the 60's-70's.

I just watched that episode the other day. Actually it was set in the late 1970's, and he was trying to stop the deaf girl from becoming a prostitute so she wouldn't die of AIDS in the 1980's.

But you're right, that was a great episode.

 

[runawayboulder]

I just watched that episode the other day. Actually it was set in the late 1970's, and he was trying to stop the deaf girl from becoming a prostitute so she wouldn't die of AIDS in the 1980's.

But you're right, that was a great episode.

Yeah, it's been a really long time since I've seen it but thanks for the refresher.

 

[LostSon88]

The Elvis episode was great purely because Scott Bacula is an awesome singer...

His rendition of "Imagine" in 'The Leap Home' is fantastic.

 

[danoyse]

I loved the episodes where Sam got to sing. The Man of La Mancha episode is one of my favorites.