Quantum Leap

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...

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

August 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.

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.

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 doesnt 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.

April 1, 1976: As a stuntman, Sam is to save the life of his younger brother, while trying to convince the pairs obsessive father to let the younger son go his own way, even if it means going into country-western music, rather than following the family tradition of stunt work.

October 16, 1961: Sam is shocked when he learns hes leaped into a woman, Samantha Stormer. As a gorgeous secretary for an automobile company, Sam has to cope with sexual harassment by the boss, a suicide attempt by a roommate, and the effect his looks have on Als lecherous tendencies.

September 9, 1959: Rock n roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where hes employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.

October 14, 1964: Since mainstreaming the mentally ill is not yet a popular concept, Sam must help Jimmy LaMotta, the "slow" young man hes leaped into, get a job and gain his co-workers acceptance, to prevent his brother from returning Jimmy to the institution.

May 21, 1979: Sam leaps into Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes just seconds before curtain time. His mission: prevent the drunken star from falling and seriously injuring himself during a benefit performance of "Man of La Mancha." Sam isnt helped by the presence of his former piano teacher, on whom he once had a crush, and who now appears to have caught the stars eye as well.

October 19, 1967: Trapped in the body of Knut Wileton, better known as "Wild Thing," the typical frat jock, Sam must win the confidence of an attractive campus radical before she bombs the colleges chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.

November 6, 1962: Keeping his best friend from throwing the high school championship football game, costing both of them their scholarship offers, Sam must also get their families to consolidate.

November 22, 1970: Rather than saving his grandfathers life, Sam has to escape from jail and elude the police long enough to get them both to the reservation, where the old man can die in peace, at home.

September 4, 1954: In order to help his granddaughter save a small bar from the slimy loan shark holding a note on the place, Sam has to play pool like a pro...with a little help from Al and Ziggy.

March 11, 1963: Babysitting a kidnapped tot and a flaky, compulsively lying stripper keeps Sam busy as they cross Texas, on the run from the legal father and a squad of cops.

April 1, 1969: When Sam leaps into the life of an undercover cop, Al explains that his mission is to convince a navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive, and to prevent her from marrying a lawyer she meets on the day Sam leaps in. But a series of coincidences causes Sam to wonder about the true nature of his mission.

April 7, 1970: As a Navy SEAL in his own brothers squad, Sam must determine whether he is there to save Toms life or ensure the success of the mission on which his brother was killed. Also Al from 1970 was a P.O.W.

June 15, 1965: Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory managers ambitions.

June 7, 1958: As Darlene Monte, a contestant in the "Miss Deep South" beauty pageant, Sam must come to the aid of an innocent contender who faces disgrace when she poses for naughty pictures taken by a sleazy pageant photographer. As if things werent bad enough, Sam must ensure that Darlene finishes third, so that shell go on to become a doctor.

May 9, 1974: Leaping into magician Harry Spontini, Sam has to prevent his estranged wife from taking their daughter away from him as she files for divorce, so she can marry her sleazy divorce attorney.

December 24, 1962: On Christmas Eve, Sam leap into Reginald Pierson, valet to a wealthy contractor, who is in danger of losing his soul in an attempt to demolish a Salvation Army mission, so he can build his "Blakes Plaza." Seeing a similarity to the Dickenss character, Sam and Al decide to "Scrooge" the greed out of the man.

November 15, 1955: Billie Jean Crockett is a pregnant teenager who will make the second biggest mistake of her life - giving her baby up for adoption - unless Sam, as Billie Jean, can convince someone to help her raise her child... before he goes into labor himself

October 6, 1979: An aspiring dancer working as a waitress in a strip club is in danger of being led into a life of prostitution unless Sam, as "Rod the Bod," can convince her to audition for a spot in a professional dance group. But, since shes deaf, the choreographer doesnt believe she has the time to give the young lady the attention shell need.

August 4, 1961: Its the best little cathouse in New Orleans. No, its the Gilbert Labonte Sewin & Quiltin Academy. As the proprietor of this worthy establishment, Sam must prevent the mysterious death of a resident who doesnt belong there.

June 18, 1976: Its the leap from hell as Sam, a bounty hunter handcuffed to a wily embezzler who will stop at nothing to get away from him, has to deal with his captive, as well as his attraction towards her, despite her countless attacks on him.

July 23, 1955: The heart of a champion belongs to Ronnie, a professional wrestler, who will die if he competes in the title match. Sam, as his brother and new partner Terry, must convince him of his hidden health problem, while avoiding his own health problem - the jealous wrestler-husband of a woman who has taken an amorous interest in Sam.

October 3, 1954: Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes his Swiss-cheesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps. Al, finding himself visible to the mentally absent, must try to complete Sams mission, and convince him to take another shock treatment, in order to leap Sam out before contact is lost forever.

August 6, 1961: A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if hes there to help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or baby-sit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of the women in his life.

May 11, 1965: Sam must don the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman in order to save the life of an ambitious young civil rights leader, who is trying to register black voters.

June 20, 1980: Its up to Sam to try to bring a rapist to justice when he leaps into the perps victim, a young woman who may have been unwilling to press charges against the young man - the son of the pillar of the community.

February 28, 1979: Its more like a nightmare when Sam leaps into a detective, investigating a gruesome murder. He may be next if he doesnt find out who eviscerated the victim and his only hope is the victims catatonic son and her husbands psychiatrist. The horrific flashbacks hes experiencing dont help matters much either.

November 2, 1956: Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue his companion from a fifteen-year sentence on a chain gang.

June 11, 1964: As a track star in a Navy college, Sam must prevent the death of his ex- roommate, who was expelled because he was gay, and who is slated to die at the hands of a group of bigoted cadets.

November 28, 1957: Sam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.

August 13, 1956: Flying over the Bermuda Triangle, Sam, as the co-pilot, must prevent the flight from returning to Virginia, to get a seriously ill passenger to a doctor before she dies. Flying through the triangle is riskier than it seems, and Sam, deprived of Als help when the hologram fades out, must get them through alive.

May 10, 1958: Sam finds himself behind the wheel of a New York taxicab, in the life of Max Greenman, a driver striving to win his own tag, a license to drive his own cab. His mission is aided with the help of a woman who claims to be a guardian angel.

March 2, 1957: Its almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.

June 25, 1957: Sam leaps into Al Calavicci to prevent the death of his married lover. But when Sam accidentally alters history, and finds out too late about her untimely demise, it could mean the gas chamber for Al and disturbingly a whole new situation at Project Quantum Leap.

October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963: 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 Oswalds attack on John F. Kennedy. But, with each leap giving Oswald more control over Sams body, history seems doomed to repeat itself.

August 10, 1968: As a Marine captain whose legs were amputated after a mishap in Vietnam, Sam finds himself in a veterans 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 Sams host can still lead a normal life, in spite of his condition.

May 21, 1966: Sam leaps into a 79-year-old man whose son wants to have him committed when he claims to have seen UFOs. 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.

August 8, 1955: 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 Abigails involvement in the murders, and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make matters worse.

July 28, 1978: 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.

February 25, 1958: As a horse-playing, traveling brush salesman, Sam finds himself with two wives and two families. Although Ziggy predicts that Sams mission is to choose between the two lives, the choice is made more difficult by the fact that theres only a 50/50 chance that hell choose the right one. As if things werent bad enough, Sam finds that his penniless host owes a pair of bookies some big bucks.

April 25, 1985: While Sam is in 1985, running her radio talk show, playing matchmaker to her producers, and trying to help a young secretary whos 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.

October 8, 1956: 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.

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

September 20, 1862: 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 ancestors romance with a riled southern belle named Olivia. He must also avoid being hanged as a Yankee dog by some home guard Confederate soldiers.

August 8, 1953: Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and familiar people dont 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?