From: dzembj@jec306.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Subject:  QL Episode Guide 
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:24:33 GMT

With the new season starting on September 22 and USA starting syndication
with the 2-hour pilot episode on September 13, now is a good time to make
the tri-annual posting of the Quantum Leap Episode Guide.  It can also be
obtained via anonymous ftp to ziggy.3com.com, where other exciting sounds,
texts and graphics can be found.  Enjoy!

						Respectfully Submitted,
						Jason E. Dzembo
						(net.chronologer)


		Quantum Leap episode guide

Originated by Kitty Woldow in "The Imaging Chamber" 
updated and maintained by Debbie Brown (dmb7229@ultb.isc.rit.edu)
	and Jason E. Dzembo, net.chronologer (dzembj@rpi.edu)

Questions, comments, criticisms (and, of course, monetary contributions ;-)
	should be sent to dzembj@rpi.edu


First year:

Pilot Movie (aka "Genesis")
September 13, 1956

Air Date: March 26, 1989
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: David Hemmings
Guest Cast: Jennifer Runyon, John Allen Nelson, W.K. Stratton, Newell Alexander,
Lee DeBroux, Larry Poindexter, Bruce McGill

Although the project isn't ready yet, Sam hops into the Accelerator and leaps.
When he wakes up, his memory is almost completely gone, with only enough shreds
left to tell him he is not where or when he belongs.  Al informs him that he's
part of a time travel experiment that went "a little caca" in that they can't
retrieve Sam.  By surviving flying the X-2 to mach 3, he should accomplish what
is required to return.  Instead, he saves the pilot's wife and child, and ends
up on a baseball team in Texas.  After some spectacular emotional stuff, he
makes the winning play to leap.


Star Crossed
June 15, 1972

Air Date: March 31, 1989
Writer:Deborah Pratt
Director: Mark Sobel
Guest Cast: Teri Hatcher, Leslie Sachs, Michael Gregory, Michael McGrady

As Dr. Bryant, a sleazy literature professor at the college attended by his one
true love, Sam must prevent a coed from attaching to him and ruining her life.
The Project committee tries to remove Al for giving Sam the background he needs
to hopefully save his own love life by reuniting his ex-fiancee with her
father.


The Right Hand of God
October 24, 1974

Air Date: April 7, 1989 
Writer: John Hill
Director: Gilbert Shilton
Guest Cast: Guy Stockwell, Michelle Joyner, Teri Copley, Alex Colon, Nancy Culp

Having leaped into a boxer on the take, Sam has to win the championship to fund
a new church for his trainers, a group of nuns.  Al is battling a neighbor's
late-night engine repair, and Sam faces the bookie who counts on him to
take a dive in the final bout.  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. 

 
How the Tess Was Won
August 5, 1956

Air Date: April 14, 1989 
Writer: Deborah Arakelian
Director: Ivan Dixon
Guest Cast: Lance DeGault, Kari Lizer, Marshall R. Teague, Scott Fults

A veterinarian in rural Texas, Sam has to save the life of a piglet and contest
for the hand in marriage of the heiress to a large ranch.  Sabotaged by a 
jealous ranch hand, he doesn't succeed in capturing the female, although he 
saves the pig, and leaps when he assists another character with a task they are
performing.


Double Identity
November 8, 1965

Air Date: April 21, 1989 
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Guest Cast: Terri Garber, Michael Genovese, Joe Santos, Tom Silardi, Page 
Moseley, Nick Cassavetes

As a mafia hitman named Frankie, Sam's goal is unclear.  Ziggy provides a list
of instructions to be followed which result in the Great East Coast Blackout.
Sam believes he knows why he's there when he leaps into the body of the
mafia don who has been jealously keeping Frankie's girlfriend from seeing anyone
but himself.  Setting up the marriage to Frankie and publicly announcing it at
a local church puts him in position to call the correct number in a bingo game,
his cue to leap.


The Color of Truth
August 8, 1955

Air Date: May 3, 1989 
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Michael Vijar
Guest Cast: Susan French, Royce D. Applegate, Michael D. Roberts, James
Ingersoll, Kimberly Bailey

In the body of an aging black man, Sam faces discrimination in the South.  His
unconscious actions motivated by his own belief in equality cause a violent
reaction and force one of the pillars of the community to change her own views
on racism and the futility of trying to change what's wrong.


Camikazi Kid
June 6, 1961

Air Date: May 10, 1989 
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Alan J. Levi
Guest Cast: Romy Windsor, Kevin Blair, Robert Costanzo, Holly Fields, Jason
Priestly, Richard McGonagle, Janet Carroll

A high school nerd, Sam's new persona is required to stop the marriage of his 
sister to an abusive drinker, with the wedding only three days away.  He 
succeeds by drag racing the prospective husband, beating him with a car that
couldn't have won without nitrous oxide and showing the slimeball's true
tendencies.


Play It Again, Seymour
April 14, 1953

Air Date: May 17, 1989 
Writer: Teleplay - Scott Shepard & Donald P. Bellisario
	Story - Tom Blomquist, Scott Shepard, Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Guest Cast: Claudia Christian, Wilie Garson, Paul Linke

With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is 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 great deal of Casablanca references,
but Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.


Second Year:

(Pilot episode was trimmed to 90 minutes and repeated on September 13, 1989)

Honeymoon Express
April 27, 1960

Air Date: September 20, 1989
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Guest Cast: Alice Adair, Mathieu Carriere, Hank Rolike, Warren Frost, James
Mastrantanio

A cop on his honeymoon, Sam is to save his own life from the jealous
ex-husband, a true sociopath.  At the same time, the Project's funding request
is in jeopardy from the future and Sam's inability to stop the U2 flight from
being shot down seems to spell the end of Al's visits.


Disco Inferno
April 1, 1976

Air Date: September 27, 1989
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Gilbert Shilton
Guest Cast: Michael Greene, Kris Kamm, Kelli Williams, Peter Onorato, Arnetia
Walker

As a stuntman, Sam is to save the life of his persona's younger brother, and
he also has to influence the obsessive father of the pair to allow the 
younger son to go his own way, into c&w music rather than stuntwork.


The Americanization of Machiko
August 4, 1953

Air Date: October 11, 1989
Writer: Charlie Coffey
Director: Gilbert Shilton
Guest Cast: K Callan, Wayne Tippit, Leila Hee Olsen, Elena Stiteler,
Patrick Massett

As a sailor returning from Japan, Sam brings a foreign wife to a small town,
then has to fight against the predjudice of both a scheming former lover and
his "mother" to gain acceptance for the Japanese bride.


What Price Gloria?
October 16, 1961

Air Date: October 25, 1989
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Alan J. Levi
Guest Cast: Jean Sagal, John Calvin

In his first sojourn as a female, Sam is a gorgeous secretary and has to cope
with sexual harassment by the boss, a suicide attempt by the roommate, and the
effect his looks have on Al's natural tendencies.


Blind Faith
February 6, 1964

Air Date: November 1, 1989
Writer: Scott Shepherd
Director: David J. Phinney
Guest Cast: Cynthia Bain, Jennifer Rhodes, Kevin Skousen

Although Sam can still see, the concert pianist he leaps into is blind.  An
exploding flashbulb ruins Sam's sight just when he has to save his girlfriend
from a serial killer.


Good Morning, Peoria
September 9, 1959

Air Date: November 8, 1989
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Patricia Richardson, Richard McKenzie, Todd Merrill, Chubby
Checker

Rock 'n' roll is just about to become very big, but not in Peoria, unless
the DJ Sam leaps into can keep the station he's employed at from being shut
down by overly conservative town elders.


Thou Shalt Not...
February 2, 1974

Air Date: November 15, 1989
Writer: Tammy Ader
Director: Randy Roberts
Guest Cast: James Sutorius, Terri Hanauer, Lindsay Fisher, Russ Tamblyn
Jill Jacobson

Sam's task as a rabbi is to keep his brother's wife from ruining her life
by falling for a sleazoid author's seduction, and then to help the family
begin getting over the year-old death of their son.


Jimmy
October 14, 1964

Air Date: November 22, 1989
Writer: Paul M. Belous & Robert Wolterstorff
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast: John DiAquino, Laura Harrington, Michael Alldredge, Ryan McWhorter,
Michael Madsen

Mainstreaming the mentally retarded isn't a popular concept yet, and Sam's job
is to gain acceptance for Jimmy, the "slow' young man he's leaped into, so that
he doesn't end up back in the institution.


So Help Me God
July 29, 1957

Air Date: November 29, 1989
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Andy Cadiff
Guest Cast: Byrne Piven, Tyra Ferrell, Kathleen Noone, Ketty Lester, John
Apicella, Stacy Ray, John Shepard, William Schallert

While he can't even remember much of Perry Mason, Sam finds himself the lawyer
defending a young woman accused of killing the son of the most powerful man in a
small Louisiana town.


Catch A Falling Star
May 21, 1979

Air Date: December 6, 1989
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Guest Case: John Cullum, Michele Pawk, Janine Turner, Ernie Sabella, Paul Sand

Sam leaps into, Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes seconds
before curtain time.  His mission: prevent the drunken star from falling and
seriously injuring himself during one of the performances of Man of LaMancha.
Sam isn't helped by the fact that he meets his old piano teacher he had a crush
on at the age of fifteen, and that the star also has his eye on her.


A Portrait for Troian
February 7, 1971

Air Date: December 13, 1989
Writer: Teleplay: Scott Shepherd & Donald P. Bellisario
	Story: John Hill & Scott Shepherd
Director:Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Deborah Pratt, Robert Torto, Carolyn Seymour

Sam goes totally Johnathan MacKenzie as he tries to keep a beautiful young
widow from joining her husband at the bottom of a lake, and proving she's being
gaslighted by her younger brother who's been spending her money.


Animal Frat
October 19, 1967

Air Date: January 3, 1990
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Gilbert Shilton
Guest Cast: Stacy Edwards, Raphael Sbarge, Darren Dalton, Brian Haley,
Stuart Fratkin, Robert Petkoff, Edward Edwards

Trapped in the body of "Wild Thing", a typical frat jock, Sam still has to
win the confidence of a campus radical in time to stop her from blowing
up the chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.


Another Mother
September 30, 1981

Air Date: January 10, 1990
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Guest Cast: Michael Stoyanov, Olivia Burnette, Troian Bellisario, Allison
Barron, Andrew Held, Larron Tate, Kevin Telles, Eric Welch, Terrence Evans
Michael Kemmerling

Playing the divorced mother of three, Sam's job of keeping the teenage son
from disappearing, supposedly as a runaway, is made more interesting by the
youngest daughter being able to see both him as he really is, and Al.


All-Americans
November 6, 1962

Air Date: January 17, 1990
Writer: Paul Brown & Donald P. Bellisario
Director: John Cullum
Guest Cast: Richard Cocoa, Ruth Britt, Pepe Serna, Fausto Bara, Robert
Benedetti

Keeping his best friend from throwing the high school championship football
game, which would lose them both their scholarship offers, Sam also gets the
two families to consolidate.

Her Charm
September 26, 1973

Air Date: February 7, 1990
Writer: Teleplay: Deborah Pratt & Donald P Bellisario
	Story: Paul M. Belous, Robert Wolterstorff, Deborah Pratt, Donald
	P Bellisario
Director: Chris Welch
Guest Cast: Teri Austin, Stanely Brock, John Snyder, Rene Assa, John Shepherd,

Trying to protect a woman witness from a mob hit is not so easy for G-man Sam
when the FBI seems to have an informant confounding his attempts to hide her.


Freedom
November 22, 1970

Air Date: February 14, 1990
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Alan J. Levi
Guest Cast: Frank Sotonoma Salsedo, Leon Rippy, Gloria Hayes, Tom Everett

Rather than saving his grandfather's life, Sam has to escape from jail and elude
the sheriffs long enough to get them both to the reservation so the old man can
die at home.


Good Night, Dear Heart
November 9, 1957

Air Date: March 7, 1990
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Christopher T. Welch
Guest Cast: William Cain, Marcia Cross, Robert Duncan McNeill, Deborah Strang,
W.K. Stratton

Rather than saving the damsel of the episode, who supposedly committed suicide,
Sam is the coroner trying to prove that she was murdered and find out by whom.


Pool Hall Blues
September 4, 1954

Air Date: March 14, 1990
Writer: Randy Holland
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Shari Headley, J.W. Smith, Teddy Wilson, Ken Force, Robert Gossett

To save the small bar run by his granddaughter, as well as keep her from a fate 
worse than death at the hands of the loan shark holding a note on the place, 
Sam has to play professional pool.


Leaping In Without a Net
November 18, 1958

Air Date: March 28, 1990
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Director: Christopher T. Welch
Guest Cast: Jan Triska, Fabiana Udenio, Richard Riehle, Phil Fondacaro

Sam remembers he's afraid of heights when he leaps into a trapeze artist whose 
sister wants him to catch her when she does a triple without a net.  Dad is not
enthused, as this is exactly how mom bought it some years back.


Maybe Baby
March 11, 1963

Air Date: April 4, 1990
Writer: Paul Brown, Julie Brown
Director: Michale Zinberg
Guest Cast: Julie Brown, Jimmy Ray Weeks, Travis McKenna, Cathy McAuley, Charles
Frank

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


Sea Bride
June 3, 1954

Air Date: May 2, 1990
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Beverly Leech, John Hertzler, James Harper, Patricia Harty, Juliet
Sorcey, Tony Maggio, Louis Guss

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.


M.I.A.
April 1, 1969

Air Date: May 9. 1990
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Jason Beghe, Susan Diol, Norman Large, Pat Skipper, William 
Shockley, Sierra Pecheur, Letitia Vasquez, Dan Ziskie

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


Third Year:

The Leap Home
November 25, 1969

Air Date: September 28, 1990 
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Scott Bakula, David Newsom, Olivia Burnette, Hannah Cutrona,
Mai-Lis Kuniholm, Caroline Kava

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.


The Leap Home, Part II (Vietnam)
April 7, 1970

Air Date: October 5, 1990
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: David Newsom, Andrea Thompson, Ernie Lively, David Hayward, Tia
Carrere, Adam Nelson, Patrick Warburton, Ryan Reid, Rich Whiteside

Finding himself as a Navy SEAL in his brother Tom's squad, Sam has to determine
whether he is to save his brother or ensure the success of the mission on
which his brother was killed.


Leap of Faith
August 19, 1963

Air Date: October 12, 1990
Writer: Teleplay: Tommy Thompson
	Story: Nick Harding & Karen Hall and Tommy Thompson
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast: Sandy McPeak, Danny Nucci, Davey Roberts, Erica Yohn, Penny
Stanton

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 
parishoner.


One Strobe Over the Line
June 15, 1965

Air Date: October 19, 1990
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Marjorie Monaghan, Susan Anton, Kristoffer Tabori, David Sheinkompf,
Robert Trumbull

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


The Boogieman  *
October 31, 1964

Air Date: October 26, 1990
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Valerie Mahaffey, Paul Linke, Fran Ryan, David Kriegel, Donald
Hotton

Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a
horror novelist on Halloween.  Ziggy is no help in figuring out why he's there
and things get stranger and stranger.  

(* It should be pointed out that the B-word is spelled out here in order to
make the Guide as accurate as possible.  Please remember that we are trained
professionals.  The editors of the Guide do not take any responsibilty for
the horrible consequences that may befall anyone who says this word out loud.)


Miss Deep South
June 7, 1958

Air Date: November 2, 1990
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Director: Christopher Welch
Guest Cast: Heather McAdam, Nancy Stafford, David A. Brooks, Julie Ann Lowery,
Hugh Gillin 

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 after posing
for naughty pictures taken by a sleazy pageant photographer.


Black On White On Fire
August 11, 1965

Air Date: November 9, 1990
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Gregory Millar, Corie Henninger, Sami Chester, Ron Taylor, Marc
Alaimo, Laverne Anderson, CCH Pounder

Sam leaps into a black med student engaged to a white woman in order to ensure
that he and his fiancee survive the Watts riot together.
 

The Great Spontini
May 9, 1974

Air Date: November 16, 1990
Writer: Christy Dawson, Beverly Bridges
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast: Amy Steel, Erich Anderson, Lauren Woodland, Michael Fairman

When he leaps into amateur magician Harry Spontini, Sam has to prevent
Spontini's long lost wife from taking his daughter away from him and possibly
effect a reconciliation.


Rebel Without a Clue
September 1, 1958

Air Date: November 30, 1990
Writer: Teleplay by Randy Holland and Paul Brown, Story by Nick Harding and
Paul Brown
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast: Josie Bissett, Dietrich Bader, Teddy Wilson, Michael Bryan French,
Scott Kraft, Mark Boone Junior, Joshua Cadman

As a motorcycle gang member named "Bones", Sam finds himself an uneasy rider
who has to prevent a Kerouac-inspired young woman from meeting her death on
the road.


A Little Miracle
December 24, 1962

Air Date: December 21, 1990
Writer: Teleplay: Sandy Fries and Robert A. Wolterstorff
	Story: Sandy Fries
Director: MIchael Watkins
Guest Cast: Charles Rocket, Melinda McGraw, Robert Lesser, Tom McTigue

It's Christmas Eve, and Sam has to play valet Pierson to a wealthy developer 
who is in danger of losing his soul if he succeeds in demolishing a mission
to build his "Blake's Plaza".  Seeing the similarity to the character, Sam 
and Al decide to "Scrooge" the greed out of him.

 
Runaway
July 4, 1964

Air Date: January 4, 1991
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Michael Katelman
Guest Cast: Sandy Faison, Sherman Howard, Joeseph Hacker, Ami Foster

On a cross-country car trip, Sam, as 13-year-old Butchie must contend with
a sadistic older sister and a mother who may run away from an unfulfilling 
marriage in search of "The Feminine Mystique".


8 1/2 Months
November 15, 1955

Air Date: March 6, 1991
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast: Dotty: Lana Schwab, Bob: James Whitmore Jr., Keeter: Hunter von 
	Leer, Effy: Tasha Scott, Mrs. Thailer: Anne Haney, Dr. Rogers: Parley
	Baer, Willis: Philip Linton, Nurse Denton: Peggy Walton-Walker


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


Future Boy
October 6, 1957

Air Date: March 13, 1991
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Director: Michael Switzer
Guest Cast: Richard Herd, Debra Sticklin, George Wyner, Alan Fudge, David Sage

Sam leaps back to the future as the sidekick to Moe Stein, the eccentric star
of the kid's show, "Captain Galaxy and the Time Troopers", who is building a
time machine in his basement.  Unless Sam can prevent Moe's daughter from
trying to have him committed, Moe will be killed while trying to catch a
freight train. 


Private Dancer
October 6, 1979

Air Date: March 20, 1991
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Debbie Allen
Guest Cast: Debbie Allen, Louis Mustillo, Heidi Swedberg, Robert Schuch,
Marguerite Pomerhn-Derricks, Rhondee Beriault

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 
that she is good enough to audition for a spot in a professional dance group.  
Unfortunately, she's deaf, and the choreographer doesn't think she has time to
give the young lady the attention she thinks she'll need.


Piano Man
November 10, 1985

Air Date: March 27, 1991
Writer: Ed Scharlach
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast: Marietta DePrima, Angelo Tiffe, John Oldach, Denise Gentile, Frank
Roman, Cherry Davis

Joey Dinardo is a lounge lizard on the run from mob hitmen.  When Sam leaps in,
he has been discovered by his ex-partner/girlfriend and now both are on a run
for their lives.


Southern Comforts
August 4, 1961

Air Date: April 3, 1991
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Director: Chris Ruppenthal
Guest Cast: Rita Taggart, David Graf, Georgia Emelin, Dan Butler, Lauren Tom,
Minnie Summers Lindsey, Diane Delano

It's the best little cat-house in New Orleans.  No, it's the Gilbert Labonte
Sewin' & Quiltin' Academy.  Sam finds himself the proprietor of this worthy
establishment, having to prevent the mysterious death of a resident who doesn't
belong there.


Glitter Rock
April 12, 1974

Air Date: April 10, 1991
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Andy Cadiff
Guest Cast: Jonathan Gries, Peter Noone, Christian Hoff, Michael Cerveris,
Robert Bauer, Liza Whitcraft

Sam is a glitter rock star in danger of being killed after a performance
unless Sam can find out who the killer is.  


A Hunting We Will Go
June 18, 1976

Air Date: April 18, 1991
Writer: Beverly Bridges
Director: Andy Cadiff
Guest Cast: Jane Sibbett, Ken Marshall, Cliff Bemis

It's the leap from hell as Sam, a bounty hunter handcuffed to a wiley embezzler
who will stop at nothing to get away from him, has to deal with his captive as
well as his heart, which feels rather warm towards his prisoner.


Last Dance Before An Execution
May 12, 1971

Air Date: May 1, 1991
Writer: Teleplay: Deborah Pratt
	Story: Bill Bigelow & Donald P. Bellisario & Deborah Pratt
Director: Michael Watkins
Guest Cast: Jenny Gago, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Christopher Allport, James Sloyan

"Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps in to 
Jesus Ortega, a young Cuban-American who is being strapped into an electric 
chair.  A last second stay of execution gives Sam just 48 hours to try to 
either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission in order to leap before
the Big Switch is pulled.


Heart of a Champion
July 23, 1955

Air Date: May 8, 1991
Written by: Tommy Thompson
Directed by: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Jerry Bossard, Don Hood, Deborah Wakeham, Angela Paton, Rance 
Howard

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 partner Terry, 
must convince him of his hidden health problem while dodging his own health
problem - the jealous wrestler-husband of a woman who has taken an amorous 
interest in him.


Nuclear Family
October 26, 1962

Air Date: May 15, 1991	
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast: Timothy Carhart, Kurt Fuller, Kim Flowers, Robert Hy Gorman, Candy
Hutson

Sam finds himself the brother of a fallout shelter salesman during the Cuban
Missile Crisis and has to try to defuse a potentially explosive situation when
panic sets in on the night of John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation.


Shock Theater
October 2, 1954

Air Date: May 22,1991
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: David Proval, Bruce A. Young, Scott Lawrence, Robert Symonds,
Candy Ann Brown, Nick Brooks, Lee Garlington

After suffering an overloaded electroshock treatment, Sam loses track of who 
he is.  Al must try to complete Sam's mission in order to leap him out before 
contact is lost forever.  


 
Fourth Year:

The Leap Back
June 15, 1945

Air Date: September 18, 1991
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Mimi Kuzyk, Amanda Wyss, Douglas Roberts, Robert Prescott, Candy
Ann Brown, Jeanine Jackson, Dennis Wolfberg

It's a leap back in more ways than one when Sam returns to the future - and
to his long-lost love - while Al leaps into 1945 to prevent a double su...a
double su...icide.

Play Ball
August 6, 1961

Air Date: September 25, 1991
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Neal McDonough, Maree Cheatham, Don Stroud, Courtney Gebhart,
Peter Jason, Casey Sander, Royce D. Applegate

A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to
help a fellow team member, get the leapee back into the majors or babysit
the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of
the women in his life.


Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Michael Watkins
Guest Cast: Marilyn Jones, Tracy Kolis, James Morrison, Bill Erwin, Barbara
Townsend, Richard Grove, Marjorie Lovett

Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer when he leaps into a deputy sheriff
in a small Mississippi town, which lies in the path of a major hurricane. 


Justice
May 11, 1965

Air Date: October 9, 1991
Writer: Toni Graphia
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest Cast: List Waltz, Michael Beach, Fran Bennett, Dirk Blocker, Glenn
Morshower, Lee Weaver, Jacob Gelman, Noble Willingham

Sam must don the robe of a Klansman in order to save the life of a young civil
rights leader who is trying to register black voters.


Permanent Wave
June 2, 1983

Air Date: October 16, 1991
Writer: Beverly Bridges
Director: Scott Bakula
Guest Cast: Doran Clark, Lela Ivy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Harry Groener

Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the 
death of a young murder witness and his mother. Scott Bakula's directorial
debut.	

Raped
June 20, 1980

Air Date: October 30, 1991
Writer: Beverly Bridges
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Penny Peyser, Nancy Lenehan, Arthur Rosenburg Matthew Sheehan, 
Amy Ryan, Cheryl Pollak

It's up to Sam to try to bring a rapist to justice when he leaps into the
perp's victim, a young woman who may have been unwilling to press charges
against the young man - the son of the pillar of the community.


The Wrong Stuff
January 24, 1961

Air Date: November 6, 1991
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Carolin Goodall, Gary Swanson, Albert Stratton, Kim Robillard,
Peter Murnik

The fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astrochimp
who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.


Dreams
February 28, 1979

Air Date: November 13, 1991
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Anita Addison
Guest Cast: Jowcelyn O'Brien, Alan Scarfe, Bill Marcus

Sam leaps into a nightmare when he finds himself a detective investigating
a gruesome murder.  He may be next if he doesn't find out who eviscerated
the victim and his only hope is the victim's catatonic son and her husband's
psychiatrist.  The horrific flashbacks he's experiencing don't help matters
much either.


A Single Drop of Rain
September 7, 1953

Air Date: November 20, 1991
Writer: Teleplay: Richard C. Okie
        Story: Richard C. Okie and Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Guest Cast: Phyllis Lyons, Patrick Massett, Carl Anthony Payne II, Britt
Leach, R. G. Armstrong, Anne Haney, Hal Landon, Jr.

A devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam can 
live up to the claims of Billy Beaumont, the rainmaker he leaps into.  He must
not only try to make it rain, he must keep 'his' family together in the process.


Unchained
November 2, 1956

Air Date: November 27, 1991
Writer: Paris Qualles
Director: Michael Watkins
Guest Cast: Basil Wallace, J. C. Quinn, Claude Earl Jones, Don Sparks, 
Robert V. Barron, Jed Mills

Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to
rescue his companion from a 15 year sentence on a chain gang.

The Play's the Thing
September 9, 1969

Air Date: January 8, 1992
Writer: Beverly Bridges
Director: Eric Laneuville
Guest Cast: Penny Fuller, Robert Pine, Daniel Roebuck, Anna Gunn, Craig
Richard Nelson

May meets December when Sam leaps into a young actor in love with an older,
aspiring singer.  If he can't boost her confidence in herself and help her
get her career on track, she will face a 'fate worse than death' - returning
with her son to Cleveland.  Hamlet never looked so good. :-)


Running For Honor
June 11, 1964

Air Date: January 15, 1992
Writer: Robert Harris Duncan
Director: Bob Hulme
Guest Cast: John Finn, Sean O'Bryan, Anthony Palermo, John Roselius, Lisa
Lawrence

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 plans to expose
fellow homosexuals in revenge for brutal treatment by a group of bigoted cadets.


Temptation Eyes
February 1, 1985

Air Date: January 22, 1992
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Christopher Hibler
Guest Cast: Tamilyn Tomita, Kent Williams, James Handy

A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a tv reporter
protects a beautiful psychic working on the case from being the next victim.
The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.


The Last Gunfighter
November 28, 1957

Air Date: January 29, 1992
Writer: Teleplay: Sam Rolfe and Chris Ruppenthal
        Story: Sam Rolfe
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: John Anderson, Susan Isaacs, Kenneth Tigar, Sean Baca, O'Neal
Compton, Jerry Potter

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.


A Song for the Soul
April 7, 1963

Air Date: February 26, 1992
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Michael Watkins
Guest Cast: Harrison Page, Tamara Townsend, T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah,
Eric LaSalle (Note: the spelling according to TV Guide is Eriq LaSalle)

As a backup singer in a black, amateur girl group in the 60's, Sam finds
himself between the 15 year-old lead singer and her father as Sam attempts
to prevent the girl's dissolution at the hands of a sleazy night club owner.


Ghost Ship
August 13, 1956

Air Date: March 4, 1992
Writer: Paris Qualles, Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Anita Addison
Guest Cast: Scott Hoxby, Kimberly Foster, Kurt Deutsch, Carla Gugino

They're flying over the Bermuda Triangle and it's up to co-pilot Sam to get 
a seriously ill passenger to a doctor and get them all back alive. 


Roberto!
January 27, 1982

Air Date: March 11, 1992
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Scott Bakula
Guest Cast: DeLane Matthews, Alan Oppenheimer, Jerry Hardin, Michael 
Heintzman, Marcus Giamatti, Don Gibb

Sam, as Roberto! is a tabloid show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic 
rival/coworker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical company.


It's A Wonderful Leap
May 10, 1958

Air Date: April 1, 1992
Writer: Teleplay: Paul Brown
        Story By: Danielle Alexandra and Paul Brown
Director: Paul Brown
Guest Cast: Liz Torres Jerry Adler Peter, Iacangelo, Robin Frates, Jack R.
Orend 

Sam finds himself behind the wheel of a taxi in New York in the life of Max 
Greenman, a driver striving to earn the money to buy his own tag, a licence
to drive his own cab, with the help of a woman who claims to be his guardian
angel.


Moments to Live
May 4, 1985

Air Date: April 8, 1992
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Kathleen Wilhoite, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Frances Bay, Brian George,
Matthew Ashford

Sam is a soap opera heart surgeon who is the obsession of a love-struck, 
deranged fan.  He must escape from the woman and her husband who have kidnapped
him for reproductive purposes.


The Curse of Ptah-Hotep
March 2, 1957

Air Date: April 22, 1992
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: Joe Napolitano
Guest Cast: Lisa Darr, John Kapelos

As Dale Conway, an Egyptologist currently on a dig, Sam seems to almost be on
a vacation from normal leaps:  reading hieroglyphics, searching lost tombs
and, of course, visiting Egypt.  But, between an encroaching sandstorm, 
computer glitches back at the project, and a 3000 year old curse, Sam has
very little time to play in the sand.  


Stand Up
April 30, 1959

Air Date: May 13, 1992
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Bob Saget, Amy Yasbeck, Robert Miranda, Tom LaGrua, Mark Lonow

No, it's not the infamous "missing leap," but Sam is indeed a stand up comic.
He soon finds that trying to get two people who are constantly arguing to 
fall in love - especially when one of them is the object of a sleazy casino
owner's desire - is no laughing matter.


A Leap For Lisa
June 25, 1957

Air Date: May 20, 1992
Writer:  Donald P. Bellisario 
Director:  James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Cast:  Charles Rocket, Jeffrey Corbett, Larry Brandenburg, James Walters,
Terry Farrell, Anthony Peck, Roddy McDowall

Sam leaps into one Al "Bingo" Calavicci to prevent the death of his 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 a whole new
situation at the Project.   







Potential Spoilers For The Upcoming Fifth Season:















































Fifth Year:

Leaping On A String

Writer:  Donald P. Bellisario
Director:  James Whitmore, Jr.

Sam leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald....


Nowhere To Run

Writer:  Tommy Thompson
Director:  Alan J. Levi

Sam leaps into a disabled Vietnam vet....


When Venus Smiles

Guest Cast:  Brooke Shields

Sam leaps in a Greek sailor stranded on a deserted island with a spoiled rich
woman...


Star Light, Star Bright

Writer:  Richard C. Okie
Director:  Christopher Hibler

Sam leaps into an old man who claims to have seen a UFO...


Deliver Us From Evil

Writer:  Tommy Thompson

The infamous "evil leaper" episode...