Season 2 - Episode Guide

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