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Because of the time-travel aspect, many episodes allude to famous people or incidents indirectly, such as Sam suggesting to young Donald Trump that New York real estate will be valuable in the future, suggesting the lyrics of " Peggy Sue " to a teenaged Buddy Holly , showing young Michael Jackson his signature moonwalk dance for the first time, giving Dr.

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Henry Heimlich the idea for his namesake maneuver by saving him from choking, [3] and setting in place actions that lead to the discovery of the Watergate scandal. Two notable episodes place Sam directly at the center of significant historical events, one being the leap into Oswald. Other episodes explore the past of the main characters, such as Sam saving his brother from being killed in the Vietnam War , and saving Al's marriage to Beth.

In the final episode, "Mirror Image", Sam leaps through spacetime as himself without replacing another person , arriving at the exact time of his birth, where he meets a mysterious barkeep Bruce McGill , who also appeared in the first episode in a different role. The barkeep is aware of Sam's situation and assures him that Sam himself controls the very nature and destinations of his leaps "to make the world a better place" , and that Sam is always able to return home at any time he truly wants.

In the final episode's epilogue, Sam is shown to leap back to visit Al's wife Beth as himself again, assuring her that her husband who was a prisoner of war at the time will return home to her; this results in Al and Beth remaining happily married in the future, [3] while Sam continues leaping, never returning home.

In each episode, a different cast of guest characters appears, mostly the ones whom Sam replaces with his leaps. Several other characters are referred to regularly throughout the series, but are mostly unseen. Bellisario [3] [6] saw its concept as a way of developing an original anthology series , as anthologies were unpopular with the networks. The theme for the series was written by Mike Post.

Scores for the episodes were composed by Post and Velton Ray Bunch. The Quantum Leap series was initially moved from Friday nights to Wednesdays.

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It was later moved twice away from Wednesdays to Fridays in late , and to Tuesdays in late The series finale aired in its Wednesday slot in May The final episode was scheduled to be aired on June 14, , but altered schedules after the death of British dramatist Dennis Potter earlier that month delayed the airing until June 21, Repeat episodes continued on the channel at various times until December 28, [3].

It has since aired several times on satellite and cable television, rerunning late at night on television channel Cozi TV. Stephen Colbert makes reference to an episode where Sam Beckett has leapt into the body of a s New York cab driver, whose comment about investing in New York real estate is heard by a young Donald Trump. Using a handset to talk to Ziggy, Stephen Colbert leaps back as a hologram to help Sam Beckett attempt to change the future. On April 13, , it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series and re-released the first two seasons on DVD on June 7, Despite its struggling start with poor broadcast timings, [3] the series had gained a large 18—49 demographics of viewers.

Along with 43 nominations, Quantum Leap received 17 awards listed below. Innovation Publishing produced a series of comic books which ran for thirteen issues from September through August As with the television series, each issue ended with a teaser preview of the following issue and Sam's exclamation of "Oh, boy. Few of the comic stories referenced episodes of the television series, with the exception of the ninth issue, "Up Against a Stonewall.

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There have been occasional announcements of plans to revisit or restart the series. In July , the Sci-Fi Channel announced its development of a two-hour television film based on Quantum Leap , which it was airing in reruns at the time, that would have served as a backdoor pilot for a possible new series, with Bellisario as executive producer. Comic Con that he has finished a script for a feature film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the event related to subatomic physics, see Atomic electron transition.

For a fundamental shift in a scientific discipline, see paradigm shift. For the sculpture, see The Quantum Leap. This section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.

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Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding or removing subheadings. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brainwave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Beckett could see and hear.

Trapped in the past, Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home. List of Quantum Leap characters. List of Quantum Leap episodes. Archive of American Television.

Published in the article on April 12, The New York Times. Uploaded 16 June The Complete Series Region 1 ". Archived from the original on Based on the original citation. Archived from the original on July 9, Is Quantum Leaping to the Megaplex? Two main protagonists emerge: Against all odds and most of the evidence, Grace refuses to believe that Cathy is the killer. She believes there's someone else behind it all, someone working very hard to make Cathy appear to be the guilty one.

Sam, the detective, isn't quite so sure. After all, the evidence is overwhelming. They are tops, every one of them -- they have fascinating, tense plots, interesting characters, lots of local flavor -- they're just long, juicy good reads, in every sense. At one point, this one was so tense I had to stop reading, and go do something else. An amazingly scary book -- I have little doubt that at that one critical juncture, every reader was standing up shouting "For crying out loud, don't get in that boat!

The fact that Norman's books are not widely available in the US is even more curious, since Brit Norman sets many of them in US settings. This one takes place in Florida, in Miama and the Keys. I'm no judge of accuracy on the Florida details, but the local flavor is at least as intriguing as that of Edna Buchanan, James Grippando and other Florida greats. If publisher Judy Piatkus in London had half as much sense as her star author, she'd get these books into the US market -- fast.

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