Quantum Leap
One Strobe Over The Line
| S 3 | Ep 4 | 1990/10/19 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into a fashion photographer and must save a model from a drug dependency due to an ambitious agent. Sam leaps into the body of high-fashion photographer Karl Granson. According to Al, Sam's job is to keep up and coming model Edie Landsdale from dying of an overdose of drugs and alcohol. Modeling is a tough job and Edie's agent, Helen Le Baron, is giving her pills to make it through the day. Edie is a down home type of girl who would like nothing better than to make a little money and then return home to take care of her family and perhaps become a vet. When she crashes at a photo shoot, Sam has to move quickly to save her life.
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The Boogieman
| S 3 | Ep 5 | 1990/10/26 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Everything goes wrong when Sam leaps into a Gothic horror novelist on Halloween. Sam leaps into the body of a second-rate horror writer, Joshua Ray just before Halloween 1964. Ziggy confirms that Sam is there because of Ray's fiance Mary Neely. A series of bizarre events lead to the death of a handyman and then an elderly neighbor and Al is convinced that she is responsible somehow. The local Sheriff suspects Ray and Sam is sure that the Sheriff is the guilty party. Sam constantly sees a goat at the site of the deaths and soon realizes that he is combating and evil force, perhaps the Devil himself.
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Miss Deep South
| S 3 | Ep 6 | 1990/11/02 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
While entered in the "Miss Deep South" beauty pageant, Sam must prevent a fellow contestant from posing for some nude photos and make sure his host comes in third in the contest.
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Black On White On Fire
| S 3 | Ep 7 | 1990/11/09 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
As a black medical student during the 1965 Watts riots, Sam must save his white fiance. Sam leaps into the body of Ray Harper, a promising African-American medical student who has the opportunity at an internship at a Boston hospital. Ray currently lives in Watts and it's the eve of the 1965 race riots. He's engaged to Susan, a white girl, and faces not only her father's wrath but that of his brother Lonnie and his friends. Al tells him that his purpose is to keep Ray and Susan together but there is a chance that Susan might die in the riots. As the violence and race hatred grows, both Ray and Susan must face the challenge of each communities prejudice.
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The Great Spontini
| S 3 | Ep 8 | 1990/11/16 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into a magician who wants to keep custody of his daughter and save her from an accidental death. Sam leaps into the body of Harry Spontini who, as The Great Spontini, performs as a magician in cheap nightclubs. His assistant is his precocious 12 year-old daughter Jamie who has great hopes for the act. His wife Maggie, who left Harry three years before, suddenly reappears asking for a divorce. Sam decides that he's there to reunite the family but has to re-think this idea when he learns - in a Judge's chambers - that she's actually out to get custody of Jamie as well. Al tells him that unless he can change what happened, Jamie will become a runaway living on the street. Sam's main obstacle to reuniting the family is Maggie's lawyer-boyfriend Steve.
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Rebel Without A Clue
| S 3 | Ep 9 | 1990/11/30 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
As a member of a motorcycle gang Sam has to keep a young woman from going on the road. Sam leaps into the body of Shane 'Funny Bone' Thomas, a biker and member of a gang, The Cobras, circa 1958. Al tells him that he's there to prevent the murder of Becky, a young idealist who shows great potential as a writer. Sometime in the next 24 hours she will be stabbed, but Al doesn't know by who. Despite Sam's several attempts to convince her to leave she refuses to do so. She's inspired by Jack Kerouac's On The Road and wants to experience life. Sam decides there's only one person who can convince her otherwise - Jack Kerouac himself.
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A Little Miracle
| S 3 | Ep 10 | 1990/12/21 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam and Al scare the Dickens out of a rich Scrooge character who wants to tear down a mission and build a high rise. Sam leaps into the body of Reginald Pearson, valet to millionaire Michael Blake a hard-nosed businessman. It's Christmas-time and his business plans are to tear down the 4th Street Mission so he can build a new office plaza. Al tells Sam that his mission is to save Blake from his own bah humbug ways. Sam takes him on a trip down memory lane by visiting his old neighborhood where he meets old friends and learns what happened to some of his old friends. Blake also takes an interest in the pretty Salvation Army Captain who runs the Mission. Despite progress, Sam can't quite get Blake to take the final step so he and Al decide the time has come to show him his future.
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Runaway
| S 3 | Ep 11 | 1991/01/04 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam must put up with a bratty older sister and keep the family together while saving his mother who disappears. Sam leaps into the body of 13 year-old Butchie Rickett. It's July 4, 1964 and the Ricketts are on a 9000 mile trip across America. Butchie is a typical 13 year-old. He's regularly bullied by his older sister and can't quite seem to live up to his father's expectations. Al tells him that unless Sam intervenes, Butchie's mother Emma will disappear later that day and never be seen again. When Emma meets Billy, an old high school friend who is now a widower, Sam assumes that she's run off with him. Her disappearance is related to something completely different however.
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8 1/2 Months
| S 3 | Ep 12 | 1991/03/06 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into a very pregnant teenager and must convince her father to help her keep the baby. It's 1955 and Sam leaps into the body of 16 year old Billie Jean Crockett who is also 8 and a half months pregnant. Her mother is dead and her father wants nothing much to do with her. Her boyfriend, who got her pregnant, is off to college soon and wanted her to have a termination. Al tells Sam that she will have her baby within a day and give it up for adoption leading to a lifetime of regret and searching for the child. The solution is that Sam may have to give birth to the baby before he can leap again.
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Future Boy
| S 3 | Ep 13 | 1991/03/13 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
As the sidekick on the 1950's children's show "Time Patrol" Sam must prevent the commitment and death of the star of the show.
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Private Dancer
| S 3 | Ep 14 | 1991/03/20 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
As a male stripper, Sam must save a deaf girl from a life of prostitution and get her an audition with a professional dance company. Sam leaps into the body of Rod "the Bod" McCarty a male dancer at a strip club. According to Al, he's there to prevent a waitress and aspiring ballet dancer, Diana Quinna, from turning to prostitution to make ends meet. Diana is quite innocent in many ways. She would love to be a professional dancer but is hearing disabled and lacks the self esteem to make it on her own. Despite Sam's best efforts, she resists his interventions on her behalf but he nonetheless arranges an audition for her with professional choreographer Joanna Chapman who is recruiting for her dance company
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Piano Man
| S 3 | Ep 15 | 1991/03/27 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam is a piano player who is on the run from a killer with an ex-girl friend. Sam leaps into the body of Chuck Danner, a piano-playing lounge singer. Al tells Sam he's there to keep Chuck, whose real name is Joey Di Nardo, from being killed. It turns out that he witnessed a mob killing so he's changed his name and has been on the run ever since. Now re-united with his old girlfriend, klutzy Lorraine, he's again on the run from a mob hit man. Lorraine is still in love with Joey but she is convinced that she is a jinx and all of this is her fault. Lorraine's new boyfriend had encouraged her to find Joey and get rid of any ghosts that may still be around but when he hears that there's a hit man after them he comes to get her. Turns out he had his own reasons for wanting Lorraine to find Joey.
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Southern Comforts
| S 3 | Ep 16 | 1991/04/03 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into the proprietor of a New Orleans brothel and has to prevent the death of a girl who really doesn't belong there. Sam leaps in to the body of Gilbert LaBonte who runs the family's hundred year-old business: the finest brothel in New Orleans. He's there to help out Gina, a college student who clearly shouldn't be there. Al tells him that if he's not successful, Gina will disappear sometime in the next 24 hours and subsequently be found beaten to death.It turns out that she is running away from Jake Dorleac who has his own reasons for wanting her to return home. She on the other hand is afraid for someone other than herself. Sam sets up Dorleac for a fall.
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Glitter Rock
| S 3 | Ep 17 | 1991/04/10 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam becomes a member of a rock band who is stabbed to death after a concert by one of a long list of suspects. Sam leaps into the body of Jeffrey Mole, a 1970s rock musician and member of a band that has as its trademark heavy makeup. Al tells him that in two nights time, a crazed fan will stab and kill him. The fan in question, 16 year-old Philip Silbart, is emotionally disturbed and has run away from several foster homes. Strange things begin to happen however - like a stage prop falling on his head - which leaves Al and Sam wondering if someone other than Philip may be out to get him. Sam begins to suspect the band's business manager of fiddling the books but it also turns out that Jeffrey is probably Philip's father.
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A Hunting We Will Go
| S 3 | Ep 18 | 1991/04/18 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into a bounty hunter who is handcuffed to a female fugitive who will do anything to escape from him. Sam leaps into the body of Gordon O'Reilly, a bounty hunter trying to return his prisoner to the Sheriff in Decatur. He's arrested Diane Frost who was charged with forging her boss' signature on a million dollars' worth of checks and then skipped bail before going to court. According to Al however, Sam and Diane will be killed that very night. According to the information he has, Diane will shoot Gordon and will then herself be shot trying to run away. She proves to be quite a handful and tries to escape at every opportunity. The truth is that Sam is becoming quite attracted to her and when she reveals why she stole the money, he realizes that he may have put her in danger by turning her over to the local Sheriff.
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Last Dance Before An Execution
| S 3 | Ep 19 | 1991/05/01 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into a death row convict moments before his execution. A last minute stay of execution order gives him 48 hours to determine his innocence in a leap with an unclear mission. Sam leaps into the body of Jesus Ortega, a death row prisoner who is about to be executed. A last minute stay of execution gives Sam 48 hours to prove that Ortega is innocent. With the secret assistance of an Assistant District Attorney, Margerita Lorrea Tearsa, who thinks he's innocent, he's submitted an appeal to Governor. All of this doesn't sit well with Theodore Moody, the DA who convicted him who is also now a candidate for Governor. Ortega was convicted of robbing a church and killing a priest but he and his accomplices deny having anything to do with the killing. Unless Sam can figure it out, not only will Ortega die in the electric chair but Tearsa will be disbarred. The key is that there is someone else Sam is supposed to save.
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Heart Of A Champion
| S 3 | Ep 20 | 1991/05/08 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into a wrestler who must convince his partner-brother to quit due to a heart problem. It's 1955 and the middle of the cold war when Sam leaps into the body of Terry Sammis, a professional wrestler who, along with his brother Ronnie, form a tag team. They're from Arkansas but their ring persona is that of Soviets and they taunt the crowd with their pro-Russian rants. Al tells Sam that Terry is new to the wrestling game having just replaced an older brother who died in a car crash. He also tells him Ronnie will die in the big title match they have scheduled for the next day. Sam tries to convince Ronnie to pass upon the big match but wrestling is in their blood and Ronnie has no intention of giving up their big chance. There's only one thing Sam can do: fight the entire match by himself and make sure Ronnie never enters the ring.
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Nuclear Family
| S 3 | Ep 21 | 1991/05/15 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam must deal with the panic associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis as a Florida fallout shelter salesman. Sam leaps into the body of Eddie Elroy, a college student who is visiting his brother in South Florida during the height of the October missile crisis in 1962. Eddie's brother Mac sells bomb shelters for a living and the crisis is proving to be good fodder for increasing sales. Al tells Sam that that evening the Elroys' neighbor, Burt Rosencranz, will be shot as he tries in a panic to force himself into the bunker during what they all think is a nuclear attack. As a result Mac goes to jail and the family is destroyed. Sam tries to allay everyone's fears by suggesting it will all blow over but they are all genuinely scared and preparing for the worse. Just as President Kennedy goes on television to announce a resolution to the confrontation, there is a power blackout leading them all to believe they are under attack.
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Shock Theater
| S 3 | Ep 22 | 1991/05/22 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam leaps into a patient at a Mental Hospital and undergoes electroshock therapy. The treatment causes Sam to act like other people he's been. It also weakens his link to Al. Al must find a way to get his friend back to normal, and figure a way to carry out Sam's mission. Sam leaps into the body of Sam Biederman, a mental hospital patient being treated for severe depression. Unfortunately, he's been administered shock treatment and it has fried his brain so that he now thinks he various characters he has previously leaped into. Al is there but Sam doesn't recognize him and the attending psychiatrist thinks he's suffering from multiple personality disorder. Sam is actually there to help a fellow patient, Tibby, who will end up living on the street unless Sam can change the future. Al tells him that the only way to get his own personality back however is to undergo another shock treatment.
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The Leap Back
| S 4 | Ep 1 | 1991/09/18 |
| TV Series Episode | 48 min TV-PG | |
| ACT ADV DRA | USA | |
Sam and Al have switched places. Now Sam is the hologram, and Al is the leaper. Al must reunite a returning WWII veteran with the woman he left due to the war. Sam and Al must figure a way to communicate with the future, because Al has the comm device, and Sam has no way to contact Ziggy.