Quantum Leap - Episode Guide

Although the Project Quantum Leap (PQL) isn't ready yet, Sam doesn't listen to supercomputer Ziggy and hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot, Sam finds his memory Swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. Al explains that the Project has gone "a little caca" and that the only way Sam can leap out is by flying the X-2 to Mach 3. Instead, Sam leaps after saving his wife and child, only to find that rather than leaping home, he's leapt into Ken Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas, at the end of the 1968 season, where he must make the winning play in order to leap.

Leap Details: Tom Stratton, September 13, 1956, Edwards Air Force Base, Blockfield, California / Tim Fox, Summer 1968, Waco, Texas

As Dr. Gerald Bryant, a literature professor at the Ohio College attended by his one time fiancée, Sam has to prevent an amorous coed from attaching to him and ruining her life. Despite threats to the job, Al gives Sam the information he needs to reunite his star-crossed lover with her father and maybe, give himself a second shot at marriage.

Leap Details: Gerald R. Bryant, June 15, 1972, Lawrence College, Marion, Ohio

Having leapt into Kid Cody, a boxer on the take, Sam has to win the championship to fund a new church for his trainers, a group of nuns. 
Sam must face the bookie who counts on him to take a dive in the final bout, and, with the help of several trainers, streaking, and Al's appearance in the ring to guide his punches, Sam wins the bout and finances the chapel.

Leap Details: Clarence "Kid" Cody, October 24, 1974, Sacramento, California

As a veterinarian in rural Texas, Sam's mission appears to be winning the love of an heiress to a large ranch. Sabotaged by another suitor, Sam fails and finds that his true goal was to save the life of a sick piglet, and to help an unnamed cohort with a task he's performing.

Leap Details: Daniel "Doc" Young, August 5, 1956, Texas

Sam leaps into a Mafia hit man who may not live long since he is romancing the godfather's girlfriend. Also an attempt to bring Sam home causes the 1965 East Coast blackout.

Leap Details: Frankie LaPalma / Geno Frascotti, November 8, 1965, Brooklyn, New York

In the life of Jesse Tyler, an aging black chauffeur, Sam must face discrimination in the South while trying to prevent the death of an elderly white woman. Actions motivated by his own belief in equality cause violent reactions, as Sam tries to convince one of the pillars of the community to change her views on racism and the futility of trying to change a society for the better.

Leap Details: Jessie Tyler, August 8, 1955, Red Dog, Alabama

As a high school nerd, Sam is required to prevent the marriage of his sister to an abusive drinker, with the wedding only three days away. By drag racing the prospective husband, beating him with a car that couldn't have won without nitrous oxide, Sam shows the groom's true tendencies.

Leap Details: Cameron "Cam" Wilson, June 6, 1961, Los Angeles, California

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.

Leap Details: Nick Allen, April 14, 1953, New York City, New York

As Tom McBride, a New York City cop on his honeymoon, Sam must save himself from a jealous and sociopathic ex-husband. To make matters worse, the Project's funding will be cut off, stranding Sam alone in the past unless he can prevent the U2 flight from being shot down over Russia.

Leap Details: Unnamed Firefighter, 1957, Unknown Location / Tom McBride, April 27, 1960, New York, New York

Sam has to save his host's younger brother from his obsessed father who wants him to go into the family business as a movie stuntman.

Leap Details: Chad Stone, April 1, 1976, Burbank, California

As a sailor returning from Japan, Sam brings home a Japanese wife and must battle the prejudice of his hometown and his own mother.

Leap Details: Charles Lee MacKenzie, August 4, 1953, Oak Creek, Ohio

Sam is shocked when he learns he's 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 Al's lecherous tendencies.

Leap Details: Samantha Stormer, October 16, 1961, Detroit, Michigan

As a blind concert pianist, Sam must save his girlfriend from a serial killer despite the interference of her overbearing mother.

Leap Details: Andrew Ross, February 6, 1964, New York City

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 he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.

Leap Details: Howlin' Chick Howell, September 9, 1959, Peoria, Illinois

Sam's task as a rabbi is to keep his sister-in-law from falling for a sleazy author and ruining her life. In the process he also helps the family recover from the year old death of their son. 

Leap Details: Rabbi David Basch, February 2, 1974, Los Angeles, California

Since mainstreaming the mentally retarded is not yet a popular concept, Sam must help Jimmy LaMotta, the "slow" young man he's leaped into, get a job and gain his coworkers' acceptance, to prevent his brother from returning Jimmy to the institution.

Leap Details: Jimmy LaMotta, October 14, 1964, Oakland, California

Though he can't remember much more than habeas corpus, Sam finds himself the defense attorney for a young black woman accused of murdering the son of the most powerful man in a small Louisiana town.

Leap Details: Leonard Dancey, July 29, 1957, Louisiana

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 isn't helped by the presence of his former piano teacher, on whom he once had a crush, and who now appears to have caught the star's eye as well.

Leap Details: Ray Hutton, May 21, 1979, Syracuse, New York

Sam leaps into a renowned parapsychologist where he must prevent a young widow from joining her husband at the bottom of a lake, while proving that she's not crazy, despite her claims of hearing her dead husband calling to her.

Leap Details: Timothy Mintz, February 7, 1971, Near Los Angeles, California

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 college's chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.

Leap Details: Knut "Wild Thing" Wileton, October 19, 1967, Meeks College in California

After leaping into a single mother, Sam must prevent the 15-year-old son of his host from disappearing. Al and Sam also find out that very young children can see them as they really are.

Leap Details: Linda Bruckner, September 30, 1981, Scottsdale, Arizona

Sam must prevent a fellow high school football player from throwing the championship game and losing his scholarship.

Leap Details: Eddie Vega, November 6, 1962, Woodland Hills, California

Protecting a female member of the witness protection program from a mafia hitman proves difficult for Sam, since the FBI appears to have an informant confounding his attempts to hide her.

Leap Details: Peter Langly, September 26, 1973, Boston, Massachusetts

Sam becomes an American Indian who takes his ailing grandfather from a nursing home to die on a reservation.

Leap Details: George Washaki, November 22, 1970, Nevada

Sam becomes a mortician in 1958 who is strangely obsessed with investigating the suicide of a teenage German girl.

Leap Details: Melvin Spooner, November 9, 1957, Riven Rock, Massachusetts

Sam leaps into an old pool playing acquaintance of Al's and must win a pool game so that his granddaughter doesn't lose her bar.

Leap Details: Charlie "Black Magic" Walters, September 4, 1954, Chicago, Illinois

Sam remembers he's afraid of heights when he leaps into a trapeze artist, whose sister wants him to catch her as she does a triple without a net. Dad is less than pleased, since his wife died a few years earlier while attempting the same stunt.

Leap Details: Victor Panzini, November 18, 1958, Near Denver, Colorado

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.

Leap Details: Buster, March 11, 1963, Texas

Aboard an ocean liner, Sam must stop the marriage of a young man's ex-wife to a mobster. In the process, he finds himself in one heck of a mess in the ship's garbage compartment.

Leap Details: Phillip Dumont, June 3, 1954, RMS Queen Mary in the Upper New York Bay

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.

Leap Details: Jake Rawlins, April 1, 1969, San Diego, California

As himself at the age of 16, Sam has the opportunity to both win the high school basketball championship and save his family from their sad fates.

Leap Details: Sam Beckett, November 25, 1969, Elk Ridge, Indiana

Sam tries to prevent his brother's death in Vietnam by stepping into the life of a soldier under his command. 

Leap Details: Herbert "Magic" Williams, April 7, 1970, Vietnam

Sam finds himself in one holy mess as a priest in Philadelphia, trying to help an alcoholic priest deal with a killer and the death of a young parishioner.

Leap Details: Francis "Frank" Pistano, August 19, 1963, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory manager's ambitions.

Leap Details: Karl Granson, June 15, 1965, New York City

Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a horror novelist on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the death of a church deacon, things get even stranger when two more people die without warning.

Leap Details: Joshua Rey, October 31, 1964, Coventry, Maine

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.

Leap Details: Darlene Monty, June 7, 1958, Louisiana

Sam becomes a black medical student during the Watts riots, torn between his white fiancée and loyalty to his community.

Leap Details: Ray Harper, August 11, 1965, Watts, Los Angeles, California

Sam becomes a nightclub magician battling his ex-wife for custody of their 12-year-old daughter.

Leap Details: Harry Spontini, May 9, 1974, Oakland, California

As a member of a motorcycle gang, Sam is an uneasy rider who has to prevent a Jack Kerouac inspired young woman from meeting her death on the road.

Leap Details: Shane "Funny Bone" Thomas, September 1, 1958, Near Big Sur, California

Sam becomes valet to a ruthless developer who plans to demolish a shelter for the homeless.

Leap Details: Reginald Pearson, December 24, 1962, New York, New York

Sam must contend with a sadistic older sister and a mother on the verge of running away from an unfulfilling marriage in search of the feminine mystique, all while on a cross country trip.

Leap Details: Butchie Rickett, July 4, 1964, Carbon County, Wyoming

Sam leaps into a very pregnant teenager and must convince her father to help her keep the baby.

Leap Details: Billie Jean Crockett, November 15, 1955, Claremore, Oklahoma

Sam leaps into the life of an actor who fears for his television partner's well being at the hands of the partner's daughter.

Leap Details: Kenny "Future Boy" Sharp, October 6, 1957, St. Louis, Missouri

An aspiring dancer working as a waitress in a strip club is in danger of being led into a life of prostitution unless Sam can convince her to audition for a spot in a professional dance group. But since she's deaf, the choreographer doesn't believe she has the time to give the young lady the attention she'll need.

Leap Details: Rod "Rod the Bod" McCarty, October 6, 1979, New York City

Joey Dinardo is a lounge lizard on the run from mob hitmen. When Sam leaps in, his ex-girlfriend, and former musical partner have found him, and now both are on a run for their lives from a killer who seems to know their every move.

Leap Details: Joey DeNardo, November 10, 1985, Tularosa, New Mexico

Sam becomes the owner of a house of ill repute in New Orleans, where he must avert the murder of a mysterious young woman who lives there.

Leap Details: Gilbert LaBonte, August 4, 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana

Sam is a glitter rock star in danger of being stabbed to death after a performance unless Sam can determine who, from a growing list of people, the real killer is.

Leap Details: Geoffrey "Tonic" Mole, April 12, 1974, Detroit, Michigan

Sam assumes the existence of a bounty hunter who falls for the pretty fugitive handcuffed to him.

Leap Details: Gordon O'Reilly, June 18, 1976, Arkansas

Sam becomes a convict in the electric chair moments before receiving a last minute stay of execution, which gives him 48 hours to prove his innocence.

Leap Details: Jesus Ortega, May 12, 1971, Tallahassee, Florida

Sam becomes a wrestler who must prevent his brother from going down for the count permanently when their title match poses a threat to the man's life.

Leap Details: Terry Sammis, ("Nikolai Russkie"), July 23, 1955, Atlanta, Georgia

Sam becomes a college student working in the family bomb shelter business on the eve of the Cuban missile crisis.

Leap Details: Eddie Ellroy, October 26, 1962, Homestead, Florida

In a mental institution, Sam undergoes electroshock therapy which results in his having multiple personalities -- from past leaps -- and Al loses contact.

Leap Details: Sam Beiderman, October 3, 1954, Havenwell, Pennsylvania

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

Leap Details: Tom Jarrett, June 15, 1945, Crown Point, Indiana / Himself, September 18, 1999, Stallions Gate, New Mexico

Sam leaps into the life of a once great baseball player struggling to make it back to the major leagues.

Leap Details: Lester "Doc" Fuller, August 6, 1961, Galveston, Texas

As Hurricane Camille threatens the Mississippi Gulf area, Sam becomes a deputy sheriff evacuating the residents, aided by a Red Cross nurse.

Leap Details: Archie Necaise, August 17, 1969, Jackson Point, Mississippi

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.

Leap Details: Clyde, May 11, 1965, Alabama

Sam leaps into a hair dresser to prevent the death of a murder witness.

Leap Details: Frank Bianca, June 2, 1983, Beverly Hills, California

Sam leaps into a rape victim and must testify against the attacker who is an outstanding member of the community.

Leap Details: Katie McBain, June 20, 1980, Mill Valley, California

Sam leaps into a chimpanzee used in the early days of the space program and has to save a fellow chimp from testing that will result in his death.

Leap Details: Bobo the chimp, January 24, 1961, Cape Canaveral, Florida

Sam leaps into a detective that is working on a gruesome murder and must deal with flashbacks from the mind of his leapee.

Leap Details: Jack Stone, February 28, 1979, Malibu, California

Sam leaps into a rainmaker who returns to his drought stricken hometown and has to keep his family together.

Leap Details: William "Billy" Beaumont, September 7, 1953, Clover Bend, Texas

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.

Leap Details: Chance Cole, November 2, 1956, Talawaga County, Mississippi

Sam finds himself as a young man involved with an older woman who has singing aspirations and needs a confidence boost from Sam.

Leap Details: Joseph "Joe" Thurlow, September 9, 1969, New York City

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.

Leap Details: Thomas "Tommy" York, June 11, 1964, Near Lakeside, Macomb County, Michigan

A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as a TV reporter, protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case from becoming the next victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.

Leap Details: Dylan Powell, February 1, 1985, San Francisco, California

Sam leaps into an elderly man who likes his whiskey and tells tall tales. His former partner and fellow gunfighter shows up wanting recognition and revenge.

Leap Details: Tyler Means, November 28, 1957, Coffin, Arizona

As part of a '60s all-girl group, Sam must prevent a fellow singer from signing with a sleazy manager.

Leap Details: Cherea, April 7, 1963, Chicago, Illinois

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 Al's help when the hologram fades out, must get them through alive.

Leap Details: Eddie Brackett, August 13, 1956, Bermuda Triangle

In the role of a "Geraldo" type journalist, Sam and an asthmatic woman try and uncover the truth about what is going on at a local chemical plant.

Leap Details: Roberto Gutierrez, January 27, 1982, Destiny, New Mexico

As a New York City cab driver, Sam has to win a contest to get his own taxi medallion. Sam also has the help of a woman named Angelita who knows about Sam and claims to be an angel.

Leap Details: Max Greenman, May 10, 1958, New York City

Sam is a soap opera actor pursued by an obsessed fan who wants to bear his child.

Leap Details: Kyle Hart, May 4, 1985, Los Angeles, California

At an archaeological dig in Egypt Sam has to deal with an approaching sandstorm and a 3000 year old curse.

Leap Details: Dr. Dale Conway, March 2, 1957, Saqqara, Egypt

As part of a comedy act trio, Sam has to convince the other two members that they are in love while saving one of them from the mob.

Leap Details: Davey Parker, April 30, 1959, Glendale, Arizona

Sam leaps into Al's life as a young Navy pilot and must prevent his execution after he is wrongly accused of rape and murder.

Leap Details: Al "Bingo" Calavicci, June 25, 1957, San Diego Naval Air Station, California

Sam is in an unusual circumstance when he finds himself leaping into various points of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. To make the situation more complicated is that Sam finds his mind being taken over by Oswald as he leaps closer to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Leap Details: Lee Harvey Oswald, March 21, 1963, Dallas, Texas / October 5–7, 1957, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan / January 6, 1959, Tustin, California / October 21, 1959, Lubyanka in Moscow, USSR / April 10, 1963, Dallas, Texas / August 9, 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana / November 21–22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

Sam is a Greek sailor lost at sea with a bratty debutante, who was on what was supposed to be a honeymoon cruise.

Leap Details: Nikos Stathatos, September 27, 1956, Aegean Sea

As a double amputee Vietnam veteran, Sam must prevent the suicide of a fellow hospital patient while preserving his own marriage.

Leap Details: Ronald Miller, August 10, 1968, San Diego, California

Sam leaps into a tricky situation as an escaped killer holed up in a house with a mother and daughter as hostages. Escape isn't going to be easy for either Sam or his hostages, when the real killer breaks out of the waiting room, stranding Sam in the past, destined to die at the hands of a vengeful sheriff.

Leap Details: Leon Stiles, June 18, 1958, Pine County, Oklahoma

Sam leaps into a 79-year-old man whose son wants to have him committed when he claims to have seen UFO's. 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.

Leap Details: Maxwell Stoddard, May 21, 1966, Charlemont, Massachusetts

Sam finds himself leaping again into Jimmy LaMotta, this time to help mend Connie and Frank's marriage. But Sam's efforts seem in vain, and he quickly discovers he is not the only Leaper around.

Leap Details: Jimmy LaMotta, March 19, 1966, Oakland, California

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 Abigail's involvement in the murders, and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make matters worse.

Leap Details: Sheriff Clayton Fuller, August 8, 1955, Pottersville, Louisiana

Sam leaps back into the life of Abigail Fuller, this time as her fiancé, who must save her when she again is suspected of a killing.

Leap Details: Will Kinman, June 14, 1966, Pottersville, Louisiana

Sam leaps 12 years into the future into an attorney who must save Abigail from a murder charge. Abigail, now thirty three, is put on trial for the murder of Leta Aider, the woman whose daughter Abigail was accused of killing almost twenty five years earlier.

Leap Details: Larry Stanton III, July 28, 1978, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Sam leaps back to Elk Ridge, Indiana to help save the lives of the Walters boys as they try to save their farm from a banker with designs on getting rich from foreclosure.

Leap Details: Willie Walters, December 22, 1971, Elk Ridge, Indiana

Sam becomes a sleazy traveling salesman and discovers that he has more than just business contacts in Florida and New York -- he also has two wives.

Leap Details: Marty Elroy, February 25, 1958, Pompano Beach Airpark, Florida

Leaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib, Sam must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in while convincing the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and daughter.

Leap Details: Margaret Sanders, October 16, 1968, Connecticut

Sam leaps into sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, plays matchmaker for a couple on the staff of her radio show and helps a woman deal with sexual harassment. Meanwhile, Dr. Ruth spends her time in the Waiting Room, counseling Al on his feelings towards his five wives as well as his relationship with Tina.

Leap Details: Ruth Westheimer, April 25, 1985, Manhattan, New York

Sam leaps into an English castle where the occupants practice vampire rituals. He must save the young wife of the castle owner.

Leap Details: Lord Nigel Corrington, March 10, 1975, Outside of London, England

Sam leaps into a college fraternity and again meets Alia from the Evil Leaper Project.

Leap Details: Arnold Watkins, October 8, 1956, North Falls, New York

After saving Alia from the Evil Leaper Project, Sam is trapped with her in a women's prison with the evil observer Zoey in charge as the prison warden.

Leap Details: Elizabeth Tate, September 16, 1987, Mallard, Ohio

As the chauffeur of Marilyn Monroe, Sam must save her life and help her to make one final film. Things are complicated when new live in assistant Barbara Whitmore uses Marilyn to further her own acting career by trying to steal her final role.

Leap Details: Dennis Boardman, April 4, 1960, Hollywood, California

Sam leaps into one of a trio of friends who fought in Vietnam and came home with their own personal scars and the memory of a lost buddy. He has to save the life of a friend as well as of a young boy who ventures into the woods of Washington looking for proof of Bigfoot.

Leap Details: Henry Adams, November 6, 1972, Washington state

Sam Beckett leaps into his great-grandfather during the Civil War and must not interfere with his great-grandparents meeting nor get captured behind Confederate lines.

Leap Details: John Beckett, September 20, 1862, Mansfield County, Virginia

As a young Elvis, Sam risks his career by helping another aspiring singer escape her abusive fiancé.

Leap Details: Elvis Presley, July 3, 1954, Memphis, Tennessee

Sam leaps into himself in a 1953 Pennsylvania coal mining town, where he encounters what seem to be familiar faces from people he helped in prior leaps, while learning more about his mission and why he leaps from one point in time to another.

Leap Details: Himself, August 8, 1953, Cokeburg, Pennsylvania / April 3, 1969, San Diego, California