Quantum Leap, The Complete Series

On the premiere episode of "Quantum Leap," Sam Beckett wakes up in 1956, disoriented, suffering from amnesia, but he has the awful realization that he does not belong there. He is Captain Hank Stratton, Air Force Pilot. He has a pregnant wife named Peg and a son named Mikey. When Sam goes up in the B-50 aircraft with Hank's best friend Capt. "Bird Dog" Birdell and Capt. Tony LaMott, they think he is joking when he insists he does not know how to fly. Part 1 of 2.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula), a brilliant scientist, takes part in the Quantum Leap experiment which lands him in 1956 as a test pilot. With the help of his holographic "Observer" (Dean Stockwell), Sam remembers the experiment and learns that his fate is to "quantum leap" back and forth in time with the hope of returning to his own present in the conclusion of the premiere episode written by series executive producer Donald P. Bellisario and directed by David Hemmings. Part 2 of 2.

Poised with chalk in hand, Sam is Dr. Gerald Bryant, an English Literature professor, who faces a classroom filled with ‘adoring’ mini-skirted college co-eds. The Observer informs Sam that he has become Bryant to steer Jamie Lee, who is hopelessly in love with him, back to her boyfriend Oscar, a football player from Ohio State University. Apparently, Dr. Bryant and Jamie Lee were married in a shotgun wedding that ruined their lives. However, Sam is solely interested in rekindling a relationship with Donna (guest star Teri Hatcher) -- the girl who left him at the altar.

Sam Beckett looks into the mirror and sees the face of "Kid Cody," a boxer who has won the majority of his 37 fights but bears scar tissue on his face and his soul. He learns from Sister Sarah and Sister Angela that his previous owner willed his contract to Saint Mary's Church. The good Sisters and Father Muldooney transform their bingo parlor into a workout room to prepare for Cody's upcoming championship fight. Sister Angela hopes that with the $20,000 winnings from Cody's match they will build a new chapel to help the poor.

Sam finds himself tending to a sick piglet, knee-deep in muck on the formidable 50,000 acre ranch known as Riata. He overhears Tess tell her father Chance McGill she will not marry any man who cannot keep up with her. Tess bets her father if any man she picks can keep up with her for one week -- she will marry him; if not, Chance will drop the word marriage altogether. She scans the ranch hands' faces, settling on handsome Wayne...but to everyone's surprise, chooses Doc/Sam whose name is actually Patrick Young.

Following a quantum leap, Sam is in a dusty attic and Teresa is telling Frankie he is a terrific lover. He tidies up his tuxedo and rejoins the wedding reception for Primo, Frankie's brother and Angela, the Godfather's daughter. Sam is treated like royalty despite the fact he does not understand or speak Italian. While his wife is busy with the reception, Don Geno wants his men to find out who is 'messing' with his girlfriend Teresa. Sam is even coaxed into singing 'Volare' and is relieved when the Observer/Albert prompts him with the lyrics. The Observer has little information on Frankie, except for the fact that he is a hit man and the son of Tony, a small-time Mafia hood who took a bullet meant for Geno.

Sam leaps into the body of Jessie Tyler, a 70 year old black man who lives in Red Dog, Alabama, and works for Miz Melny, the 75 year old widow of the one-time Governor of Alabama. Sam/Jessie drives her to the cemetery where she visits her husband's grave. Albert informs him that Miz Melny will be killed tomorrow when a train hits her car at a crossing. Sam/Jessie brings Miz Melny home and is chastised by Clayton, Miz Melny's son, for sitting at the lunch counter at Miz Patty's diner. Sam/Jessie becomes livid when Clayton tells his mother to keep her "negro" in line. Albert, who participated in the Civil Rights marches, orders Sam to stay out of politics, but Sam begs to differ, hoping that his reason for the quantum leap is to initiate the Civil Rights movement.

Sam becomes Cameron Wilson, an awkward 17-year-old high school student, with a penchant for junk food and the acne to prove it. Cam's car, the 'Nomad' is the subject of ridicule by the cool car club members, and he himself is the object of first love by Jill, a tomboy. Cheryl, Cam's sister, excitedly announces that she and her fiance, Bob Thompson, have been accepted to the Peace Corps. Albert, the Observer, informs Sam that according to Ziggy, Bob ended up selling used cars for his father and was arrested for drunk driving; Cheryl, who never joined the Peace Corps, was a battered wife. Sam must stop the wedding.

Sam quantum leaps to find himself gun in hand looking at a dead man's body. He is now Nick Allen, private investigator, and the dead man was his partner Phil Grimsley. Nick bears a striking resemblance to Humphrey Bogart. Sam fights the feeling of deja vu because he knows beforehand that he is going to meet...Seymour, who works at the magazine stand and reveres Nick. Seymour tells Nick the word is that Phil was killed by a man called the "Klapper". Sam enters Nick's office and is met by a drop-dead, gorgeous redhead named Allison, who also happens to be Phil's widow and Nick's platonic love interest. In the office desk, Nick finds a manuscript. He realizes he is not experiencing deja vu...he read the book!

In order to convince a Senate Committee to renew funding for the Quantum Leap project, Albert must have Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) prove his existence in the past by altering a historical event, and Sam (Scott Bakula) is also a busy newlywed faced with his bride's ex-husband who is intent on killing him.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the life of a stuntman on a low-budget disaster movie who must prevent his frail brother from emulating him. With Dean Stockwell.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps back to Ohio in 1953 and becomes a Navy man with a Japanese wife, who must make his family, as well as the townspeople, accept her and their marriage to change the course of events.

In a flash of light, Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a gorgeous woman named Samantha who is languishing in a bubble bath. Samantha's roommate Gloria reminds her that it is her first day on the job as the youngest executive secretary in their company. Sam/Samantha (Scott Bakula) and Gloria arrive at National Motor Company, and they find out that Samantha's new boss is Buddy Wright, who has just been promoted to Vice President. Sam (Scott Bakula) prays for help when Wright calls her into the office and chases her around the desk. Samantha does not date married men, but Wright points out that he is responsible for her promotion. Sam (Scott Bakula) tells Wright this is a case of sexual harassment, but of course, this is a moot issue in 1961.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body Andrew Ross, a brilliant, blind pianist, who must save his assistant Michele from being murdered in Central Park.

It is 1959 and Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) has quantum leaped into Howlin' Chick Howell, a disc jockey who must save the radio station from its demise when rock 'n' roll is banned.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a Rabbi who must help his brother's family resolve their anger and guilt over the death of their son, which drove his brother's wife into an affair, and ruined their marriage and their lives.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) is given the difficult task of "mainstreaming" a mentally retarded man into the everyday world, or he will live out his days in an institution.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into a courtroom as a defense attorney, and by pleading his client, a lovely black woman innocent of murder, must win her case despite the bigoted courtroom atmosphere and fixed trial, or she will be sentenced to the electric chair.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes an actor in a Broadway production, who must save the lead, a brilliant performer with a drinking problem, from falling on stage and ruining his life and is given the opportunity to court his piano teacher who was his first love when he was fourteen.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes Dr. Timothy Mintz, a parapsychologist from a California university who is helping expose the ghost of Troian Claridge's dead husband Julian. Sam (Scott Baula) meets first the stern housekeeper, Miss Stoltz and Jimmy, Troian's brother, who does not like Dr. Mintz' involvement with his sister. Albert informs Sam (Scott Bakula) that historically, all the Claridges died violent and unnatural deaths -- for instance, in 1840, Nathaniel Claridge found his wife and butler together and drowned them in the lake behind the mansion.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps to 1968 into Knut Wileton, the wildest brother on fraternity row, but he has a purpose beyond guzzling beer; he must prevent an anti-war radical from making a fatal mistake by blowing up the chemistry building.

Sam (Scott Bakula) learns about single parenthood when he becomes a newly-divorced mother of three, who must keep her son from running away from home after being humiliated by his friends, not learning until the last minute that a third party has turned the boy's disappearance into an abduction.

Sam (Scott Bakula) touches down as a high school quarterback whose goal is to prevent his best friend, a sure-handed wide receiver, from throwing the city championship game.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of an FBI agent assigned to protect a feisty but fearful woman from the murderous crook she used to work for.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a native American who helped his grandfather escape from a nursing home, but now he has to help find a way for him to die with dignity.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a mortician's body who becomes obsessed with preserving the memory of a young German woman by proving that she did not commit suicide, but was murdered.

Sam (Scott Bakula) picks up the cue of a 1950's Chicago pool shark, and finds himself committed to a winner-take-all game that will determine his granddaughter's future.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a trapeze artist with the greatest of ease, but things get difficult very quickly when he must prevent his sister from having a fatal fall in a death-defying stunt.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the formidable body of a bouncer who helps Bunny O'Hare, a stripper, kidnap a beautiful baby girl, and for the first time he does not heed Al's computer read-outs but trusts his instincts, knowing that if he is wrong, he could spend the next twenty years in jail.

Sam (Scott Bakula) drops anchor as a debonair globe-trotter aboard a cruise ship where he must capsize the wedding plans of his aristocratic ex-wife and a venomous hood.

Sam's (Scott Bakula) latest leap lands close to home for Albert when he becomes a detective, torn between helping his partner and helping a young woman who believes her husband, listed M.I.A., is dead.

Sam (Scott Bakula) realizes a leap-long wish and becomes himself in 1969, tempted to change the course of his family's future. David Newsom guest stars. With Dean Stockwell.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the life of an American soldier in Vietnam whose field officer is Tom Beckett (David Newsom) -Sam's brother.

Sam (Scott Bakula) takes his own life into his hands when he leaps into the body of Father Pistano, a young priest who must stop Father Mac from avenging Pistano's murder.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a high-fashion photographer who must keep a model, to whom he is attracted, from overdosing on pills and alcohol.

The date is Halloween 1964 and Sam (Scott Bakula) as Joshua Rey, a second-rate horror novelist, witnesses three bizarre, unexplainable murders which lead him into a deadly battle of wills with the devil himself.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a contestant in the Miss Deep South Beauty Pageant with the double task of insuring that he places third in the contest, while keeping a beautiful young girl from destroying her life by posing nude for a photographer.

The year is 1965 in Los Angeles, the time of Malcolm X and black awareness---and Sam (Scott Bakula), a black pre-med student, must keep his love for a white girl alive, despite the prejudice and anger surrounding them on the eve of the Watts riots.

Sam (Scott Bakula) must perform a different kind of magic when he becomes Harry Spontini, and he must fight his estranged wife who wants to take custody of their daughter.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a member of a biker gang in the 1950's to stop the tragic and senseless death of a beautiful young girl obsessed with experiencing life and the ideologies expressed in Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road".

It is the night before Christmas, and Sam (Scott Bakula) is working for Michael Blake, one of the richest men in the country, and he re-enacts Dickens' "Scrooge" to remind his boss that there is more to life than material wealth, before a Salvation Army mission for the poor and destitute is demolished to make room for Blake Plaza.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of thirteen year old Butchie Rickett, who must keep his mother from running out on her family.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) must labor to make things right when he leaps into the body of an unwed, pregnant teenager, and he must find a way for her to keep the baby.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes sidekick to Captain Galaxy, a popular 1957 children’s TV character, in order to keep the actor who plays the Captain out of a mental institution due to his obsession with a time travel machine, which is curiously based on Sam’s Quantum Leap theory.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the life of an "exotic" dancer who must help a talented, deaf dancer avoid falling into a tragic life.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a piano-lounge player who finds himself on the run, together with his former music partner, from a mob killer who wants the lounge lizard eliminated.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a pimp running a New Orleans bordello, and he is called on to save one of the women in the house from an unseemly demise.

When Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Geoffrey 'Tonic' Mole, the lead singer of the 70’s English rock band named King Thunder, Sam’s mission is to prevent the brutal stabbing of "Tonic" by an unknown assailant.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of bounty hunter Gordon O’Reilly who has prisoner (Diane Frost) in his custody, wrongly accused of embezzling a million dollars.

Sam Beckett’s (Scott Bakula) mission is to be Jesus Ortega, who, along with his accomplice Raul Casta, is held on Florida’s death row for the robbery and murder of a priest, Father Torrelli. Enlisting the help of a powerhouse new female attorney, Tearsa Lorrea, Jesus Ortega attempts to clear himself of the murder charges.

Sam (Scott Bakula) finds himself up against two-300 lb. wrestlers, known as the Shiloh Boys.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a nineteen year old college student in Oklahoma to stop his older brother from shooting their neighbor for breaking into their atom bomb shelter.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a mental institution and is soon electro-shocked into manifesting multiple personalities from his previous personas.

A lightning bolt strikes Sam (Scott Bakula) and Al (Dean Stockwell), causing them to trade places and personalities: Al (Dean Stockwell) becomes a World War II ex-POW just returned home in 1945; Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps ''home'' to the Q.L. control center in 1999.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lester "Doc" Fuller, pitcher for the Galveston "Mustangs," a minor league baseball team. Sam (Scott Bakula) is here to get Doc from the minors to the majors and to prevent his premature death.

For the duration of Hurricane Camille, Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) becomes Sheriff Archie Necaise in order to save nurse Cissy Davis, Archie’s girlfriend, from getting killed by the storm.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Clyde, who works in the voter’s registration office at the county courthouse and has just been inducted into the KKK. Sam (Scott Bakula) is there to prevent the hanging of a black rights activist.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into Frank Bianca during a hectic day at Frank’s Beverly Hills hair salon. He must save the lives of Frank’s girlfriend Laura and her young crippled son Kyle, who is witness to a murder.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into Katie McBain right after she is examined at the hospital following a brutal date rape, and he figures out that he must file charges and testify against the young man to get him convicted.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Bobo, a chimp, who is in a special program to select three chimps to be sent into space.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lt. Jack Stone as he investigates the murder of a woman in her Malibu Colony home, and Sam (Scott Bakula) is strangely affected by something horrible that happened to Jack Stone, which he must overcome in order to identify the killer and save himself.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Billy Beaumont, a 27-year-old traveling meteorologist and climatologist. He travels from town to town-convincing people to pay him to make it rain and then runs away with their money.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) finds himself in the body of Chance Cole, a 40-year old prisoner sentenced to 9 months on a county prison road gang, for passing bad checks.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of New York actor Joe Thurlow, 25, living with Jane Lindhurst, who is 50 years old. Sam must persuade Jane to stay in New York and follow her dream to become a singer.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into 18-year-old Cadet Commander Tommy York, a brilliant student at Prescott Naval Academy and their star sprinter. Sam (Scott Bakula) must save Tommy's career and the life of Phillip Ashcroft, Tommy's ex-roommate, who has been run out of the Academy by a "gay bashing" clique.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Dylan Powell, a TV newsman who is receiving a tip-off from a serial killer after each murder. A beautiful psychic, Tamlyn Matsuda, identifies a man connected with the latest murder.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of 82-year old Tyler Mean as he re-enacts a shootout for tourists in the town of Coffin, Arizona.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Cheree, a member of the Lovettes singing group, and he must stop Lynell, one of the young women in the trio, from leaving school and running away, trying to make it as a singer.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Eddie Brackett, co-pilot of a private plane in order to get the plane through the Bermuda Triangle and reach Bermuda before one of the passengers dies of a burst appendix.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Roberto Gutierrez, a TV talk show host in New Mexico. As an investigative reporter, Roberto seeks to uncover the source of deadly gases being produced at a nearby pesticide plant.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of New York City cab driver Max Greenman who accidentally runs over his guardian angel.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lyle Hart, a soap opera super star who portrays a doctor on a very popular show. A woman who won a date with him kidnaps him, and the woman has fantasized about having his child.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Dale Conway, a professor of archaeology at Kansas State University. He is exploring the tomb of Ptah-hotep in Egypt with Ginny Will, an attractive 32-year old professor.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) becomes singer Davey Parker to funny man Mack MacKay. The nightclub performers find themselves booked into Las Vegas when a powerful club owner takes a liking to Mack’s girlfriend Frankie. Sam must save Mack from being killed over Frankie.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of young Naval pilot Al Calavicci, then known as Bingo, and he must prove that he did not kill the wife of his commander.

Part 1 of 2. Sam (Scott Bakula) has an opportunity to change history forever when he leaps into the body of Lee Harvey Oswald on several occasions, including the day of JFK's assassination. With Dean Stockwell.

Part 2 of 2. Sam (Scott Bakula) has an opportunity to change history forever when he leaps into the body of Lee Harvey Oswald on several occasions, including the day of JFK's assassination. With Dean Stockwell.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into a Greek sailor’s body that is shipwrecked with a beautiful debutante, and teaches her to follow her heart.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of handicapped war veteran Ron Miller, who is trying to adjust to life back home in the U.S.A.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of mass murderer (Leon Stiles) who has escaped custody and taken a mother and her daughter hostage.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Max Stoddard, 79 years old, who must prove he has seen a UFO so his family does not have him committed to a mental institution.

Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Jimmy La Matta and realizes the leap is very familiar. He meet Alia, another time traveler but is unaware that she is evil. Sam (Scott Bakula), Jimmy, must stop his brother Frank from leaving his wife Connie because there is an abiding love, even though they are not aware of it.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes a Louisiana sheriff who is investigating a murder that the townspeople believe was committed by his 10-year-old daughter (Kimberly Cullum). Guest star: Mary Gordon Murray. With Dean Stockwell.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of a deputy sheriff 11 years after his previous leap and finds himself engaged to Abigail (Melora Hardin). With Dean Stockwell.

Sam (Scott Bakula) returns to Abigail's (Melora Hardin) life 12 years later as a lawyer to defend her against murder charges. With Dean Stockwell.

Sam (Scott Bakula) returns to his hometown as Bill Walter, who, with his two brothers, hold up the town’s bank for money owed by the Walters farm.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Marty Ellroy who is married to two women and has two children from each marriage. Sam (Scott Bakula) must make Marty select one wife over the other and must stop Marty from his excessive gambling problem.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Margaret Sanders, a housewife who joins her daughter in the fight for equal rights for women. Sam (Scott Bakula) must save Margaret’s marriage to George and stop their daughter Suzi, and her associate Diana, from being killed at a sit-in.

Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes Dr. Ruth Westheimer to help a girl fight sexual harassment and to keep a couple together, but also the jump places the doctor in the Imaging Chamber so she can help Al (Dean Stockwell) with his love life.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Nigel Covington, a vampire, he must stop his wife, Alexandria from being sacrificed for her blood at the Blood Moon ritual.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Arnold Watkins, a wimpy college freshman who has been disguising himself as the "Midnight Marauder" and protecting the innocent from evil. Sam (Scott Bakula) is there to save Arnold from attempting death-defying feats as well as making certain that Alia, the evil leaper, leaps out with him.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Liz Tate who has been accused of murdering Carol Benning while they were both in jail. Alia, another leaper, has also leapt with Sam (Scott Bakula), and her observer, Zoey, has become a leaper herself.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Dennis Boardman, Marilyn Monroe’s chauffeur and must save her from killing herself before she completes her present picture.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Henry Akers, a homeless Vietnam veteran, to save the lives of Roy Brown, a high school buddy and fellow veteran, and Daniel Burke, the 13-year-old son of a high school classmate.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Captain John Beckett, his great grandfather, a union infantry officer shot by confederate soldiers in the middle of the Civil War. Sam’s (Scott Bakula) mission is to save Isaac, a slave, from being killed and also to make sure his great grandfather marries Olivia, a Southern aristocrat so they can have children.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Elvis Presley two days before he is signed by Mr. Phillips, of Sun Records. He is there to make certain that not only Elvis but also Sue Anne Winters gets a recording contract as well so they can both follow their dreams.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a tavern in Cokeburg, Pennsylvania, as himself on his day of birth. He befriends a wise bartender, Alberto Bellisario and a group of coal miners, on the series finale.