About this season
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Episodes (8)
1. Genesis
7.5Aired 26 March 1989 • 90 min
September 13, 1956: Sam Beckett wakes up in 1956, disoriented, suffering from amnesia, but he has the awful realization that he does not belong there...
2. Star-Crossed
7.3Aired 31 March 1989 • 45 min
June 15, 1972: Sam leaps into the persona of a womanizing college professor in 1972, encounters his lost love and attempts to reshape the past
3. The Right Hand of God
6.8Aired 7 April 1989 • 46 min
October 24, 1974: Sam lands in 1974 as a young boxer caught between fight-fixing gangsters and hopeful nuns who now own his contract.
4. How the Tess Was Won
6.4Aired 14 April 1989 • 45 min
August 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.
5. Double Identity
6.9Aired 21 April 1989 • 45 min
November 8, 1965: Sam becomes a hit man in 1965 whose romance with the godfather's girlfriend places him in danger.
6. The Color of Truth
7.9Aired 3 May 1989 • 45 min
August 8, 1955: Sam experiences racism firsthand when he leaps into the body of an elderly black man in the pre-civil rights South of 1955.
7. Camikazi Kid
6.6Aired 10 May 1989 • 45 min
June 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.
8. Play it Again, Seymour
6.8Aired 17 May 1989 • 45 min
April 14, 1953: With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is Nick Allen, a private investigator looking for the murderer of his partner and, if he doesn't find the answer in time, himself. The case is solved with a number of Casablanca references as Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.