Quantum Leap

Original title : The Leap Back
First Aired : 18.09.1991 (USA) - 08.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Zinberg
Writing credits : Donald P. Bellisario
Cast : Mimi Kuzyk, Amanda Wyss, Douglas Roberts, Robert Prescott, Candy Ann Brown, Jeanine Jackson, Dennis Wolfberg (Gooshie), Deborah Pratt

The Story : Struck by lightning, Sam and Al find their roles reversed, as Sam returns to the future, and to a long-lost love, while Al leaps back to 1945 to prevent the death of a returning World War II hero and his former girl friend.
Note : Quantum Date June 15, 1945

Original title : Play Ball
First Aired : 25.09.1991 (USA) - 09.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Joe Napolitano
Writing credits : Tommy Thompson
Cast : Neal McDonough, Maree Cheatham, Don Stroud, Courtney Gebhart, Peter Jason, Casey Sander, Royce D. Applegate

The Story : A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or baby-sit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of the women in his life.
Note : Quantum Date August 6, 1961

Original title : Hurricane
First Aired : 02.10.1991 (USA) - 10.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Watkins
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Marilyn Jones, Tracy Kolis, James Morrison, Bill Erwin, Barbara Townsend, Richard Grove, Marjorie Lovett

The Story : Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly hurricane.
Note : Quantum Date August 17, 1969

Original title : Justice
First Aired : 09.10.1991 (USA) - 13.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Rob Bowman
Writing credits : Toni Graphia
Cast : Lisa Waltz, Michael Beach, Fran Bennett, Dirk Blocker, Glenn Morshower, Lee Weaver, Jacob Gelman, Noble Willingham

The Story : Sam must don the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman in order to save the life of an ambitious young civil rights leader, who is trying to register black voters.
Note : Quantum Date May 11, 1965

Original title : Permanent Wave
First Aired : 16.10.1991 (USA) - 14.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Scott Bakula
Writing credits : Beverly Bridges
Cast : Doran Clark, Lela Ivey (Luey), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Harry Groener

The Story : Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the death of a young murder witness and his mother.
Note : This is the first episode Scott Bakula was the director.
Quantum Date June 2, 1983

Original title : Raped
First Aired : 30.10.1991 (USA) - 15.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Zinberg
Writing credits : Beverly Bridges
Cast : Penny Peyser, Nancy Lenehan, Arthur Rosenburg, Matthew Sheehan, Amy Ryan, Cheryl Pollak

The Story : It's up to Sam to try to bring a rapist to justice when he leaps into the perp's victim, a young woman who may have been unwilling to press charges against the young man - the son of the pillar of the community.
Note : Quantum Date June 20, 1980

Original title : The Wrong Stuff
First Aired : 06.11.1991 (USA) - 16.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Joe Napolitano
Writing credits : Paul Brown
Cast : Caroline Goodall, Gary Swanson, Albert Stratton, Kim Robillard, Peter Murnik

The Story : The fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.
Note : Quantum Date January 24, 1961

Original title : Dreams
First Aired : 13.11.1991 (USA) - 17.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Anita Addison
Writing credits : Deborah Pratt
Cast : Jocelyn O'Brien, Alan Scarfe, Bill Marcus

The Story : It's more like a nightmare when Sam leaps into a detective, investigating a gruesome murder. He may be next if he doesn't find out who eviscerated the victim and his only hope is the victim's catatonic son and her husband's psychiatrist. The horrific flashbacks he's experiencing don't help matters much either.
Note : Quantum Date February 28, 1979

Original title : A Single Drop of Rain
First Aired : 20.11.1991 (USA) - 20.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Virgil W. Vogel
Writing credits : Richard C. Okie & Donald P. Bellisario
Cast : Phyllis Lyons, Patrick Massett, Carl Anthony Payne, Britt Leach, R. G. Armstrong, Anne Haney, Hal Landon Jr.

The Story : A devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam, as Billy Beaumont, "purveyor of precipitation and maker of rain," can find a way to make it rain, while keeping his family together in the process.
Note : Quantum Date September 7, 1953

Original title : Unchained
First Aired : 27.11.1991 (USA) - 21.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Watkins
Writing credits : Paris Qualles
Cast : Basil Wallace, J. C. Quinn, Claude Earl Jones, Don Sparks, Robert V. Barron, Jed Mills

The Story : Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue his companion from a fifteen-year sentence on a chain gang.
Note : Quantum Date November 2, 1956

Original title : The Play's the Thing
First Aired : 08.01.1992 (USA) - 22.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Eric Laneuville
Writing credits : Beverly Bridges
Cast : Penny Fuller, Robert Pine, Daniel Roebuck, Anna Gunn, Craig Richard Nelson

The Story : May meets December when Sam leaps into a young actor in love with an older woman, who is also an aspiring singer. If he can't boost her confidence and help her get her career on track, she will face a "fate worse than death," returning with her son to Cleveland.
Note : Quantum Date September 9, 1969

Original title : Running for Honor
First Aired : 15.01.1992 (USA) - 23.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Bob Hulme
Writing credits : Robert Harris Duncan
Cast : John Finn, Sean O'Bryan, Anthony Palermo, John Roselius, Lisa Lawrence

The Story : As a track star in a Navy college, Sam must prevent the death of his ex- roommate, who was expelled because he was gay, and who is slated to die at the hands of a group of bigoted cadets.
Note : Quantum Date June 11, 1964

Original title : Temptation eyes
First Aired : 22.01.1992 (USA) - 24.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Christopher Hibler
Writing credits : Paul Brown
Cast : Tamilyn Tomita, Kent Williams, James Handy

The Story : A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a TV reporter, protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case, from becoming the next victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.
Note : Quantum Date February 1, 1985

Original title : The Last Gunfighter
First Aired : 29.01.1992 (USA) - 27.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Joe Napolitano
Writing credits : Sam Rolfe
Cast : John Anderson, Susan Isaacs, Kenneth Tigar, Sean Baca, O'Neal Compton, Jerry Potter

The Story : Sam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.
Note : Quantum Date November 28, 1957

Original title : A Song For The Soul
First Aired : 26.02.1992 (USA) - 28.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Watkins
Writing credits : Deborah Pratt
Cast : Harrison Page, Tamara Townsend, T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah, Eric LaSalle

The Story : As a backup singer in a black, amateur girl group Sam finds between the fifteen year-old lead singer and her father as he attempts to rescue the girl from a sleazy night club owner's clutches.
Note : Quantum Date April 7, 1963

Original title : Ghost Ship
First Aired : 04.03.1992 (USA) - 29.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Bellisario d: Anita Addison
Writing credits : Paris Qualles & Donald
Cast : Scott Hoxby, Kimberly Foster, Kurt Deutsch, Carla Gugino

The Story : Flying over the Bermuda Triangle, Sam, as the co-pilot, must prevent the flight from returning to Virginia, to get a seriously ill passenger to a doctor before she dies. Flying through the triangle is riskier than it seems, and Sam, deprived of Al's help when the hologram fades out, must get them through alive.
Note : Quantum Date August 13, 1956

Original title : Roberto !
First Aired : 11.03.1992 (USA) - 30.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Scott Bakula
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : DeLane Matthews, Alan Oppenheimer, Jerry Hardin, Michael Heintzman, Marcus Giamatti, Don Gibb

The Story : Sam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery, which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.
Note : Quantum Date January 27, 1982

Original title : It's a Wonderful Leap
First Aired : 01.04.1992 (USA) - 31.12.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Brown
Writing credits : Danielle Alexandra & Paul Brown
Cast : Liz Torres, Jerry Adler, Peter Iacangelo, Robin Frates, Jack R. Orend

The Story : Sam finds himself behind the wheel of a New York taxicab, in the life of Max Greenman, a driver striving to win his own tag, a license to drive his own cab. His mission is aided with the help of a woman who claims to be a guardian angel.
Note : Quantum Date May 10, 1958

Original title : Moments to Live
First Aired : 08.04.1992 (USA) - 03.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Joe Napolitano
Writing credits : Tommy Thompson
Cast : Kathleen Wilhoite, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Frances Bay, Brian George, Matthew Ashford

The Story : Sam is a soap opera heart surgeon and the obsession of a love-struck, if somewhat deranged fan. He must escape from the woman and her husband who kidnap him for reproductive purposes.
Note : Quantum Date May 4, 1985

Original title : The Curse of Ptah Hotep
First Aired : 22.04.1992 (USA) - 04.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Joe Napolitano
Writing credits : Chris Ruppenthal
Cast : Lisa Darr, John Kapelos

The Story : It's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.
Note : Quantum Date March 2, 1957

Original title : Stand Up
First Aired : 13.05.1992 (USA) - 05.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Zinberg
Writing credits : Deborah Pratt
Cast : Bob Saget, Amy Yasbeck, Robert Miranda, Tom LaGrua, Mark Lonow

The Story : Sam, as the singing half of a comedy team, soon finds that trying to convince two people that they're truly in love is no laughing matter, especially when one of them is the object of a sleazy casino owner's desire.
Note : Quantum Date April 30, 1959

Original title : A Leap for Lisa
First Aired : 20.05.1992 (USA) - 06.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Donald P. Bellisario
Cast : Charles Rocket, Jeffrey Corbett, Larry Brandenburg, Jamie Walters, Terry Farrell, Anthony Peck, Roddy McDowall

The Story : Sam leaps into one Al "Bingo" Calavicci to prevent the death of his married lover. But when Sam accidentally alters history, and finds out too late about her untimely demise, it could mean the gas chamber for Al ... and a whole new situation at the Project.
Note : Quantum Date June 25, 1957