From: ns@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Nancy M. Schnepp)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: What happened to the regular people?
Keywords: QL episode/who Sam leaped into included.
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:50:10 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

In article <jhitch.717752859@crash> jhitch@crash.cts.com 
(Jeffrey Hitchin) writes:
>	I just don't know about where QL is going.  All these new
>episodes devoted to historical figures.  Sam as Lee Harvey Oswald.
>Sam leaping into Marilyn Monroe's last hours....  
>	What happened to the reason for watching QL in the first place?
>Regular people?  

Sam has certainly helped a lot of "regular" people.
The list down below proves that.  We have had over 70 episodes
of Sam helping "regular people".  Where was it ever stated
that Sam's mission was only to help "regular people"?
"All these episodes"?  I count 2.  LHO and MM.  There was a
rumor of Nixon, so make it 3.  Saying there are usually 20
episodes a season, that's only 3 famous people out of 20 shows. 

>...what truly got to me were that these people were nothing special.  They
>weren't intriguing historical figures.  They weren't rich and powerful.
>They were down-to-earth people who had feelings and problems.

Are you saying that famous people don't have feelings and
problems?  EVERYONE has feelings and problems.
 
>	Are there going to be any more episodes like the early ones with
>just a good old-fashioned story and no "let's see how clever we are with
>leap technology?  If there aren't, and they're going to try and pull
>more tricks with us, I'm not going to watch it anymore.

I like the variety.  I like the change! If you don't watch,
you may just miss another one of those "good old-fashioned stories".
Enjoy the list.


QUANTUM LEAP EPISODES           Who Sam leaped into:

Genesis                         (pilot) (baseball player) 
Star Crossed                    (professor)
The Right Hand of God           (boxer)
How the Tess Was Won            (veterinarian) 
Double Identity                 (mafia hitman)
The Color of Truth              (aging black man)
Camikazi Kid                    (high school nerd)
Play It Again, Seymour          (private investigator)
Honeymoon Express               (cop)
Disco Inferno                   (stuntman)
The Americanization of Machiko  (sailor)
What Price Gloria?              (female secretary) 
Blind Faith                     (blind concert pianist)
Good Morning, Peoria            (disc jockey)
Thou Shalt Not                  (rabbi) 
Jimmy                           (boy with Down's syndrome)
So Help Me God                  (lawyer)
Catch a Falling Star            (understudy)
A Portrait for Troian
Animal Frat                     (college student) 
Another Mother                  (divorced mother)
All-Americans 
Her Charm                       (FBI agent)
Freedom                         (native American)
Good Night, Dear Heart          (coroner)
Pool Hall Blues                 (professional pool player)
Leaping in Without a Net        (trapeze artist)
Maybe Baby               
Sea Bride               
M.I.A.                          (undercover cop)
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The Leap Home                   (Sam at 16 years)
The Leap Home, Part 2 (Vietnam) (navy SEAL)
Leap of Faith                   (priest)
One Strobe Over the Line        (photographer)
The Boogieman                   (horror novelist) 
Miss Deep South                 (beauty pageant contestant)
Black on White on Fire          (black doctor)
The Great Spontini              (magician)
Rebel Without a Clue            (motorcycle gang member)
A Little Miracle                (valet) 
Runaway                         (13 year old boy)
8 1/2 months                    (pregnant teenager)
Future Boy                      (sidekick on kid's tv show) 
Private Dancer                  (dancer)
Piano Man                       (lounge lizard)
Southern Comforts            
Glitter Rock                    (rock musician)
A Hunting We Will Go            (bounty hunter)
Last Dance Before an Execution  (convict) 
Heart of a Champion             (wrestler)
Nuclear Family                  (salesman)
Shock Theater                   (mental patient) 
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The Leap Back                   (Al leaps)
Play Ball                       (pitcher)
Hurricane                       (deputy sheriff)
Justice                         (Klansman)
Permanent Wave                  (hairstylist)
Raped                           (rape victim)
The Wrong Stuff                 (astrochimp)
Dreams                          (detective) 
A Single Drop of Rain           (rainmaker)
Unchained                       (convict)
The Play's the Thing            (young actor) 
Running for Honor               (track star) 
Temptation Eyes                 (tv reporter)
The Last Gunfighter             (old gunfighter)
A Song for the Soul             (female backup singer) 
Ghost Ship                      (co-pilot)
Roberto!                        (talk show host) 
It's A Wonderful Leap           (taxi cab driver)
Moments to Live                 (soap opera star)
The Curse of Ptah-Hotep         (Egyptologist)
Stand Up                        (comedian)
A Leap for Lisa                 (young Al)
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Lee Harvey Oswald               (Oswald) (secret service man)
When Venus Smiles               (Greek sailor)
Nowhere to Run                  (disabled Vietnam Vet)
Star Light, Star Bright         (old man)
Deliver Us From Evil            (?)