Quantum Leap

Original title : Lee Harvey Oswald (1/2)
First Aired : 22.09.1992 (USA) - 22.11.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Donald P. Bellisario
Cast : Reni Stanton, Willie Garson, Natasha Pavlova, Elya Baskin, Donna Magnani, Dennis Wolfberg (Gooshie)

The Story : As a result of leaping again before he had a chance to complete his original mission, Sam finds himself leaping back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Following the sole assassin theory, Sam and Al attempt to prevent Oswald's attack on John F. Kennedy. But, with each leap giving Oswald more control over Sam's body, history seems doomed to repeat itself.
Note : Quantum Date October 5, 1957 - Quantum Date November 22, 1963

Original title : Lee Harvey Oswald (2/2)
First Aired : 22.09.1992 (USA) - 23.11.1993 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Donald P. Bellisario
Cast : Reni Stanton, Willie Garson, Natasha Pavlova, Elya Baskin, Donna Magnani, Dennis Wolfberg (Gooshie)

The Story : As a result of leaping again before he had a chance to complete his original mission, Sam finds himself leaping back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Following the sole assassin theory, Sam and Al attempt to prevent Oswald's attack on John F. Kennedy. But, with each leap giving Oswald more control over Sam's body, history seems doomed to repeat itself.
Note : Quantum Date October 5, 1957 - Quantum Date November 22, 1963

Original title : Leaping of the Shrew
First Aired : 29.09.1992 (USA) - 07.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Richard Okie & Robin Jill Bernheim
Cast : Brooke Shields

The Story : It's Robinson Crusoe with a twist when Sam leaps into a Greek sailor stranded on a deserted island with a beautiful young rich woman who appears to be less than fond of both him and their stranded situation.
Note : This episode is almost a parody of Brooke Shield's movie "The Blue Lagoon".
Quantum Date September 27, 1956

Original title : Nowhere to Run
First Aired : 06.10.1992 (USA) - 10.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Tommy Thompson
Cast : Michael Boatman, Jennifer Aniston, Norman Snow, Gene Lythgow, Judith Hoag

The Story : As a Marine captain whose legs were amputated after a mishap in Vietnam, Sam finds himself in a veteran's hospital, where he must prevent the suicide of a fellow patient who would rather be dead than face life paralyzed from the neck down. Making matters worse, his wife seems incapable of accepting the fact that she and Sam's host can still lead a normal life, in spite of his condition.
Note : Quantum Date August 10, 1968

Original title : Killin' Time
First Aired : 20.10.1992 (USA) - 11.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Watkins
Writing credits : Tommy Thompson
Cast : Connie Ray, Cameron Dye, Jim Haynie, Joseph Malone, Dennis Wolfberg (Gooshie)

The Story : Sam leaps into a tricky situation as an escaped killer holed up in a house with a mother and daughter as hostages. Escape isn't going to be easy for either Sam or his hostages, when the real killer breaks out of the waiting room, stranding Sam in the past, destined to die at the hands of a vengeful sheriff.
Note : Quantum Date June 18, 1958

Original title : Star Light, Star Bright
First Aired : 27.10.1992 (USA) - 12.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Christopher Hibler
Writing credits : Richard C. Okie
Cast : Morgan Weisser, H. Richard Greene, Michael L. Maquire, Anne Lockhart, Guy Boyd

The Story : Sam leaps into a 79-year-old man whose son wants to have him committed when he claims to have seen UFO's. Sam is kept busy as he tries to keep the family together, prevent the future drug overdose of "his" grandson, and avoid the sinister plans of the military, all before the next anticipated UFO sighting.
Note : Quantum Date May 21, 1966

Original title : Deliver Us From Evil
First Aired : 10.11.1992 (USA) - 13.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Bob Hulme
Writing credits : Robin Jill Bernheim, Tommy Thompson & Deborah Pratt
Cast : Carolyn Seymour (Zoe), John D'Aquino (Frank LaMotta), Renee Coleman (Alia), Laura Harrington (Connie), Kristen Cloke, Ryan McWhorter (Jimmy LaMotta)

The Story : Things are already on there way downhill when Sam leaps back into Jimmy LaMotta. Despite Sam's inaction, history continues to change for the worst. The cause is unknown until Sam discovers another time traveler on the scene, one who's determined to destroy Jimmy's family, as well as Sam.
Note : Quantum Date March 19, 1966

Original title : Trilogy Part One
First Aired : 17.11.1992 (USA) - 14.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Deborah Pratt
Cast : Mary Gordon Murry (Leta Aider), Max Wright (Doc Kinman), Kimberly Cullum (Abigail Fuller, as a girl), Stephen Lee (Deputy Sheriff Bo Loman), Fran Bennett (Marie Billings), Travis Fine (Will Kinman), Meg Foster (Laura Fuller), W.K. Stratton (Lawrence "Larry" Stanton III), James Whitmore Jr. (Clayton Fuller/mirror)

The Story : A pair of unsolved murders marks just the tip of the iceberg when Sam leaps into a sheriff in a small Louisiana town. Rumors of a history of family insanity, the suspicions surrounding his daughter Abigail's involvement in the murders, and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make matters worse.
Note : Quantum Date August 8, 1955

Original title : Trilogy Part II
First Aired : 24.11.1992 (USA) - 17.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Deborah Pratt
Cast : Melora Hardin (Abigail Fuller), Mary Gordon Murry (Leta Aider), Wendy Robie (Mrs. Takin), Christopher Curry (Mr. Takin), Stephen Lee (Sheriff Bo Loman), Fran Bennett (Marie Billings), Meg Foster (Laura Fuller), Travis Fine (Will Kinman/mirror), W.K. Stratton (Lawrence "Larry" Stanton III), Beth Peters (townswoman), R. Leo Schreiber (townswoman)

The Story : Finding himself back in the same small Louisiana town, in the arms of Abigail, now twenty-one, Sam must prevent an angry crowd of townspeople from lynching his fiancée, following the disappearance of a young boy whom she had been babysitting.
Note : Quantum Date June 14, 1966

Original title : Trilogy Part III
First Aired : 24.11.1992 (USA) - 18.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Deborah Pratt
Cast : Melora Hardin (Abigail Fuller), James Greene (Denton Waters), Parley Baer (Judge Shiner), Stephen Lee (Sheriff Bo Loman), Fran Bennett (Marie Billings), Diana Bellamy (Mrs. Sherilyn Stanton), Meg Foster (Laura Fuller), W.K. Stratton (Lawrence "Larry" Stanton III/mirror), Kimberly Cullum (Sammy Jo Fuller), Lanier Edwards (Bailiff), Heather Lauren Olson (Violet Aider)

The Story : Sam is an aging lawyer, recruited by Abigail, now thirty-three, to defend her when she is put on trial for the murder of Leta Aider, the woman whose daughter Abigail was accused of killing almost twenty-five years earlier.
Note : Quantum Date July 28, 1978

Original title : Promised Land
First Aired : 15.12.1992 (USA) - 19.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Scott Bakula
Writing credits : Gillian Horvath & Tommy Thompson
Cast : Dwier Brown, Arlen Dean Snyder, Chris Stacy, Jonathan Hogan, Elizabeth Dennehy, Kellie Overbey, Lorinne Dills-Vozoff, Elizabeth Rainey

The Story : Sam leaps back to Elk Ridge, Indiana to help save the lives of the Walters boys as they try to save their farm from a banker with designs on getting rich from foreclosure.
Note : Quantum Date December 22, 1971

Original title : A Tale of Two Sweeties
First Aired : 05.01.1993 (USA) - 20.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Christopher Hibler
Writing credits : Robin Jill Bernheim
Cast : Mary Lou Childs, Jill Tracy, Ashley Peldon, J. D. Daniels, Shay Astar, Michael Bellisario, Larry Manetti

The Story : As a horse-playing, traveling brush salesman, Sam finds himself with two wives and two families. Although Ziggy predicts that Sam's mission is to choose between the two lives, the choice is made more difficult by the fact that there's only a 50/50 chance that he'll choose the right one. As if things weren't bad enough, Sam finds that his penniless host owes a pair of bookies some big bucks.
Note : Quantum Date February 25, 1958

Original title : Liberation
First Aired : 12.01.1993 (USA) - 21.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Bob Hulme
Writing credits : Chris Abbott & Deborah Pratt
Cast : Max Gail, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Stephen Mills, Bill Calvert, Megyn Price

The Story : Leaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib, Sam must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in, while convincing the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and daughter.
Note : Quantum Date October 16, 1968

Original title : Dr. Ruth
First Aired : 19.01.1993 (USA) - 24.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Stuart Margolin
Writing credits : Robin Jill Bernheim
Cast : Peter Spears, Anita Barone, James McDonnell, Robyn Lively, Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Herself)

The Story : While Sam is in 1985, running her radio talk show, playing matchmaker to her producers, and trying to help a young secretary who's being sexually harassed by her boss, Dr. Ruth Westheimer spends her time in the Waiting Room, counseling Al on his feelings towards his five wives, as well as his relationship with Tina.
Note : Quantum Date April 25, 1985

Original title : Blood Moon
First Aired : 09.02.1993 (USA) - 25.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Tommy Thompson
Cast : Ian Buchanan, Deborah Maria Moore, Shae D'Lyn, Rod Loomis

The Story : As an eccentric, possibly vampiric, artist just outside of London, Sam must bear with Al's superstitions, while trying to prevent the death of his host's young wife, at the hands of a couple who are taking a sacrificial ceremony in honor of the "blood moon."
Note : Quantum Date March 10, 1975

Original title : Return of the Evil Leaper
First Aired : 23.02.1993 (USA) - 26.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Harvey Laidman
Writing credits : Richard C. Okie
Cast : Renee Coleman (Alia), Carolyn Seymour (Zoe), Tristan Tait, Paul Scherrer, Bojesse Christopher, Michael Manasseri Michael Manasseri, Neil Patrick Harris

The Story : As Arnold Watkins, better known as The Midnight Marauder, Sam has to persuade a fraternity to stop using chicken races as a part of their hazing ceremonies, while Al tries to convince Arnold to stop trying to get himself killed in retaliation for his parents' deaths twelve years earlier. When Alia, the evil leaper, appears on the scene, Sam becomes determined to take her with him when he leaps.
Note : Quantum Date October 8, 1956

Original title : Revenge of the Evil Leaper
First Aired : 23.02.1993 (USA) - 27.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Debbie Allen
Writing credits : Deborah Pratt
Cast : Renee Coleman (Alia), Carolyn Seymour (Zoe), Hinton Battle, Rosana DeSoto, Katherine Cortez, Maggie Roswell, Sam Scarber, Barbara Montgomery

The Story : Having simu-leaped, both Sam and Alia find themselves trapped in a women's prison, accused of murdering a fellow inmate. Their efforts to unmask the real killer are not their top priority as the two attempt to keep Alia's location hidden from her observer, Zoey, who leaps into the same place and time, determined to make Alia pay for her betrayal.
Note : Quantum Date September 16, 1987

Original title : Goodbye Norma Jean
First Aired : 02.03.1993 (USA) - 28.01.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Christopher Hibler
Writing credits : Richard C. Okie
Cast : Susan Griffiths, Liz Vassey, Joris Stuyck, Stephen Root

The Story : As chauffeur to Marilyn Monroe, Sam must try to prevent Marilyn's tragic death. But when a well-meaning plan backfires, it could mean the end of Marilyn's career, even if her life is saved.
Note : Quantum Date April 4, 1960

Original title : The Beast Within
First Aired : 16.03.1993 (USA) - 01.02.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : Gus Trikonis
Writing credits : John D'Aquino
Cast : Pat Skipper, Eileen Seeley, Sean Gregory Sullivan, David Tom

The Story : Sam leaps into Henry Adams, one of a trio of friends who fought in Vietnam and came home each with their own personal scars and the memory of a lost buddy. He has to save the life of a friend, Roy, as well as of a young boy, Daniel, who ventures into the woods of Washington looking for proof of Bigfoot.
Note : Quantum Date November 6, 1972

Original title : The Leap Between the States
First Aired : 30.03.1993 (USA) - 02.02.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : David Hemmings
Writing credits : Richard C. Okie
Cast : Kate McNeil, Geoffrey Lower, Michael D. Roberts, Neil Giuntoli

The Story : In a bizarre twist of a genetic coil, Sam leaps into his great-grandfather, Captain John Beckett, during the Civil War. He must not interfere with his ancestor's romance with a riled southern belle named Olivia. He must also avoid being hanged as a Yankee dog by some home guard Confederate soldiers.
Note : Quantum Date September 20, 1862

Original title : Memphis Melody
First Aired : 20.04.1993 (USA) - 03.02.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Robin Jill Bernheim
Cast : Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, John Scott Clough, Lisa Jane Persky, Garn Stephans, Gregory Itzin, John Boyd West, Eric Bruskotter, Frazer Smith, Melissa Bernheim, Stephanie Scott

The Story : Sam swivels his hips into Elvis Presley, mere days before he is discovered. Along with making sure that Elvis does become the King, Sam must help Sue Anne, a local songbird, from being trapped in a not-so-gilded cage of marriage.
Note : Quantum Date July 3, 1954

Original title : Mirror Image
First Aired : 05.05.1993 (USA) - 04.02.1994 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits : Donald P. Bellisario
Cast : Bruce McGill (Bartender Al), John D'Aquino, Richard Herd, W. Morgan Sheppard, Stephen McHattie, Mike Genovese, Susan Diol (Beth Calavicci), Dan Butler, Dennis Wolfberg (Gooshie), Kevin McDermott, Ferdinand Carangelo, Brad Silverman, J. D. Daniels, Michael Bellisario

The Story : Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and familiar people don't know him. With the help of another Al, he still has something to set right ... or is there more than one thing he needs to change?
Note : At the end of the episode, Sam backs to the house Al's first wife, Beth, and tells her that Al is alive (more info in episode #31). This was the last episode of the series.
Quantum Date August 8, 1953