Play It Again (Quantum Leap anthology)

Play It Again is a gen Quantum Leap anthology with 6 issues. 
Fans often mistakenly refer to it as "Play It Again, Sam."
==Issue 1==
Play It Again 1 was published in 1991 and is 165 pages long. 
Artwork by Linda Fairbanks, Sheila Paulson and Kate Nuernberg. It was a 1992 FanQ winner - Best QL Zine). Kate also won 1992 Fan Q awards as best QL artist and best editor. 
"This zine is dedicated to Ziggy the meglomaniac, Gus the janitor, and the Big C.E. And to everyone everywhere who wrote NBC to get the show moved back to Wednesday night."
* Wild Winds of Fortune by Signe Hovde ("Professional pressures push Sam Beckett into prematurely priming the Accelerator.") (8 pages)
* From a Certain Point of View by Claudia Rufus ("Sam leaps Into Tom Stratton -- but no one at the Project knows what's going on as Al, Gooshle, and Verbena struggle to help Sam and keep the experiment running.") (43 pages) 
* After the Boogieman by Marcia Brin (Halloween poem)
* If I Should Die Before I Leap by Sheila Paulson (14 pages)
* Futureshock by Marcia Brin--Post-ep to "The Boogieman." (2 pages)
* Eagle Feathers by Debra Hicks (War of the Worlds crossover) (reprinted in Green Floating Weirdness #9 and Leap of the Worlds) (12 pages)
* A Little Glitch by Sheila Paulson (also in Author's Choice) (4 pages)
* Where the Hell is Poughkeepsie by Elizabeth Carpenter (An Elfquest crossover) ("Sam has to learn how to ride a wolf, eat raw meat, and hunt the Menace, as he leaps into a civilization very different from his own.") (32 pages)
* Imagine by Kate Nuernberg ("It's 2001 and Sam is home from leaping. But his memories aren't the same as everyone else's - including Tom's.") (36 pages)
* Sunday in the Park with Sam ("And Al. But Al seems to have a problem.")
File:Playitagain1-1.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Kate Nuernberg, Sam Beckett as an elf
File:Playitagain1-7.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Kate Nuernberg, Sam Beckett as an elf
File:Playitagain1-2.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Linda Fairbanks
File:Playitagain1-3.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Linda Fairbanks
File:Playitagain1-4.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Linda Fairbanks
File:Playitagain1-5.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Kate Nuernberg
File:Playitagain1-6.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Kate Nuernberg
File:Playitagain1-8.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Sheila Paulson
File:Playitagain1-9.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Sheila Paulson
File:Playitagain1-10.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Kate Nuernberg
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Play It Again 2 was published in May 1992 and contains 380 pages. 
The artwork is by Kate Nuernberg, Sheila Paulson, Linda Fairbanks, and Terri Librande. The cover art is by Kate Nuernberg. 
 
""Rise Again" is based on "The Mary Ellen Carter," a song by the late Canadian folk artist Stan Rogers. It is dedicated to his memory and his music. Credit for the closing song in There But for Fortune goes to Tcm Dundee for "A Delicate Balance," published by Jack of Hearts Music. Gary Larson's cartoons are included as a scholarly comment on how much Quantum Leap material is present (unintentionally, we're sure) in "The Far Side.""
"PIA#2 is dedicated to fannish writers' groups everywhere, but especially ours."
The editor explained to a fan who had mentioned the high cost of this issue that the zine was almost 400 pages, and that she should think of it as buying two zines at the same time. from MPH's notes 
* Is There a Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor in the House? by Linda F. ("Al is in the throes of his latest divorce, hiding in a bottle, and resisting the newest young genius assigned to Star Bright. Winner of the Fan Q for best QL story of the year.") (43 pages)
* Ally by Marcia Brin (A crossover with Shades of L.A.) (17 pages)
* After the Last Dance, poem by Jane Mailander (1993 FanQ winner - Poet of the Year) 
* Out of Time by Ann Raymont (12 pages)
* There But For Fortune by Mary Schmidt ("Sam leaps into a folk singer of the 1960's and has to save a coffeehouse from closing down and a new group from splitting up.") (32 pages)
* A Debt Unpayable, poem by Jane Mailander (1993 FanQ winner - Poet of the Year) 
* As It Fell Upon a Day by Terri Librande ("Kent State during the Vietnam War ~ two days before the students were shot. Sam doesn't remember what happened and Al won't tell him ~ the Admiral has his own point of view about the events of those days.") (20 pages)
* Outside Influences by Mary Robertson (18 pages)
* Destiny's Game by Becky C. (crossover with Star Trek: TNG) ("Sam leaps into Data as the Enterprise travels back In time ~ to stop Dr. Beckett stepping into the Accelerator.") (34 pages)
* Rise Again by Signe Hovde (24 pages)
* Predestined Evil by Gary Himes ("Earth in 1997 is about to be destroyed by a ring of maverick satellites ~ set in motion by a mad genius who is 15 years old In the year Sam is now. Can he influence the boy enough to change his path, or will he have to kill him?") (20 pages)
* The Other Side of the Coin by Rebecca Reeves (29 pages)
* Love, Donna, poem by Elaine Batterby 
* Steele Leaping by Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby (crossover with Remington Steele) (13 pages)
* cartoon by Jane Mailander
* Ghost of a Chance by Sheila Paulson (crossover with Real Ghostbusters) (17 pages)
* The Leap, poem by Candace Nathanson-Goldstein
* Accident by Pat Dunn and Diana Smith ("Sam leaps into a desert hermit who lives on the grounds of his present-day Project Quantum Leap. Is he there to save Al's life? How can he without information and predictions from Ziggy?") (25 pages)
* Before I Forget, poem by Anne Batterby 
* Message in a Bottle by Kate Nuernberg ("Sam is an actor in a mental institution who is having increasing difficulty remembering his own identity because he becomes emerged in the personalities of the characters he plays. Sam needs to protect the existence of the man he leapt into and figure out the reason he is here - then he discovers he needs the psychotherapist himself.") (52 pages)
 
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File:Playitagain2-3.jpg|page from issue #2, Kate Nuernberg, illo for "After the Last Dance", poem by Jane Mailander (1993 FanQ winner - Poet of the Year)
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File:Playitagain2-7.jpg|page from issue #2, Kate Nuernberg, from the Star Trek: TNG leap
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File:Playitagain2-10.jpg|page from issue #2, Kate Nuernberg, from the Remington Steele leap
File:Playitagain2-11.jpg|page from issue #2, Sheila Paulson, from the Real Ghostbusters leap
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===Issue 2: Quantum Lapse===
This issue contains a two-page parody of the fanfiction in the second issue. 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
 
==Issue 3==
Play It Again 3 was published in 1993 and is 250 pages long. Kate Nuernberg is the cover artist. It won a 1993 FanQ. Artwork by Kate Nuernberg, Linda Fairbanks, Todd Bridges, Anna Oliwa, Judy Breuer, and Terri Librande.
"Many thanks to individual authors who sent disks, and especially to Carol Davis who sent a formatted printout when the disk didn't work."
* Montana Moon by Leah S. (9 pages)
* Another Saturday Night, filk "with apologies to Sam Cooke" by Laurel Meulendyk (1 pages)
* Cause and Effect by Jill Harvey ("Everyone at Project Quantum Leap has been having weird dreams since Sam's last leap ~ when he leapt into Bingo Calavicci. Just what did Sam do in the past?") (13 pages)
* Home Again!! (filk) by Stan Rogers & the Buddmeister (1 page)
* Angels in the Architecture by Elizabeth Carpenter ("Sam leaps into a comatose woman who will stay that way for 15 years - or more. An exhausted Al tries to convince Sam her suicide is not the answer. Especially since they don't know what it will do to Sam.") (22 pages)
* To Feel the Fog by Lawence N. & Robin K. ("Sam is in Vietnam again ~ and changes Al's future. But does he want to?") (18 pages)
* Pink Slip by Marcia Brin (1 page)
* Cartoon by Jane Mailander (1 page)
* Aftershock by Sheila Paulson (14 pages)
* The Train by Rebecca Reeves ("Sam leaps into a doctor with cancer and helps him to die for a reason.") (27 pages)
* Gifts, poems by Candyce Nathanson-Goldstein (1 page)
* Well Enough by Donna E. Hutt-Stapfer ("Al is the only chance for a young woman dying from leukemia. But it is 1979 and Al is disillusioned, embittered, and newly returned from Vietnam.") (31 pages)
* Sonnets from the Witnesses, poems about the Kennedy assassination by Jane Mailander (1 page)
* Ripples by D.J. Walters ("Al finds himself leaping ~ married to the wrong woman and with a baby that looks an awful lot like himself.") (32 pages)
* Call Waiting by Terri Librande (5 pages)
* Through the Blue Door, filk "(With a little help from CCR "Lookin' Out My Back Door")" by The Buddmeister (1 page)
* My Brother's Keeper by Carol Davis ("Sam is a homeless person, finding it difficult to cope, too proud to ask for help. And when his hologrammic observer appears, it isn't Al!") (40 pages)
* Cartoon by Jane Mailander (1 page)
File:Playitagain3-1.jpg|from issue #3, Linda Fairbanks
File:Playitagain3-2.jpg|from issue #3, Terri Librande
File:Playitagain3-3.jpg|from issue #3, Kate Nuernberg for "Home Again"
File:Playitagain3-5.jpg|from issue #3, Anna Oliwa
File:Playitagain3-4.jpg|from issue #3, Todd Bridges
File:Playitagain3-6.jpg|from issue #3, Kate Nuernberg
File:Playitagain3-7.jpg|from issue #3, Anna Oliwa
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3==
==Issue 4==
Play It Again 4 was published in fall 1994 and contains 220 pages.
From a flyer: 
From another flyer: 
From the editorial: 
* The Photograph by Carol Davis ("As Black Magic Walters in 1954 Chicago, Sam cant help but wonder why.") (5)
* A New Face to Reality by Tracy E. Finifter ("It's 1930 and Tom is still alive, home from Viet Nam. But he's in the Waiting Room and Sam's back to fix another wrong for his brother.") (13)
* Limerick by Jan Suchomel (29)
* Time's Invitation to the Traveler by K.A. Marshall (30)
* '00 by Jessica Ross (31)
* Parenthood by Diana Smith & Pat Dunn ("Sam's the father of three and a half children, with a pregnant wife, a huge dog, and a camper in the middle of nowhere.") (37)
* After Viet Nam We are Reduced to the Tide Alone by Jessica Ross (54)
* The Leap Home III by L.A. Carr (57)
* Many Happy Returns by Meg Garrett (61) 
* Sam Leaps into... by Bill Nuernberg (72) (cartoon by Kate's dad)
* A Special Kind of Freedom by Mindy Peterman & Judy Roberts ("A victim of emotional abuse needs Sam's help to boost her self-confidence ~ and survive the day.") (73) 
* Centerfold by Terri Librande & Kate Nuernberg (95)
* No Promise but Shadows by Robin K. (105)
* Where am I, Al?/Where are You, Sam? by Melanie Athene (118)
* Words Unspoken by Leah S. (119)
* Filks by Cicatrice du Veritas (124)
* Kidnapped by Diana Smith & Pat Dunn (127) 
* Cartoon by Jane Mailander (138)
* Contact by Patricia Poole ("Sam waits for permission from the Committee to publish his results from Project Quantum Leap, then the unimaginable happens and he makes a few more discoveries.") (139)
* Dr. Sam Beckett Never Returned Home by Jane Mailander (160)
* Fear of Frying by Mary Robertson ("Sam's at a family reunion, with a domineering matriarch, a jealous brother, cheek-pinching aunts, back-slapping uncles ~ and how many hundred people he's supposed to know by name?") (161)
* Parzival's Return by Melinda Young ("Sam's back, but it's the night before he leapt, and he's locked out of his own project.") (171)
* Heroes by Jan Suchomel (206)
* Contributor's Comments (208)
* Artwork: Kate Nuernberg (front cover), Judy Breuer, Laura Dames, Linda Fairbanks , Terri Librande, <=minds-i-view=>, Anna Oliwa, Jane Mailander, and Bill Nuernberg
File:Play4art1.jpg|from issue #4, Terri Librande
File:Play4art2.jpg|from issue #4, <=minds-i-view=>
File:Play4art3.jpg|from issue #4, Kate Nuernberg
File:Play4art4.jpg|from issue #4, Judy Breuer
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4==
==Issue 5==
Play It Again 5 was published in 1995 and contains 230 pages. 
The art is by Kate Nuernberg, [minds-i-view], Linda Fairbanks, Anna Oliwa, Terri Librande, and Judy Breuer. There is a cartoon by the editor's dad, Bill Neurnberg. 
It came with a letter of comment supplement: 
The editor includes this warning: 
Also from the editor: 
* ...For a Friend by Patricia Dunna & Diana Smith ("Sam always changes lives for the better - but what has he done to Al?") (1)
* Free Will (Quantum Accelerators, and the Viet Cong), poem by Robin Kwong (12)
* Mr. Wisherman by Mindy Peterman ("A young boy thinks Al looks just like his favorite children's show host from the 50s — but Sam is there for darker reasons.") (12)
* The Definition of Freedom by Tracy E. Finifter ("Sam has leapt into the same person just twice, and one of them is Al Calavicci - this time in 1970.") (43)
* Sam (the Stick Man) Leaps Again by Bill Neurnberg (cartoon by Kate's dad)
* Promise Me a Carousel by Leah S. ("Sam is a mental patient again, locked in a bedroom, and talking to people who aren't there.") (69)
* Going West by Lorraine Anderson (81)
* Sam Shows by Lorraine Anderson (sequel to Going West) (83)
* Admiral Al, filk by Lorraine Anderson (90) 
* River of Hope by Melinda Young ("In the San Francisco of 1973, Sam discovers a new lifestyle and the reality of AIDS.") (93)
* The Wanderer, poem by Robin Kwong (122) 
* Band of Silver, Band of Gold by Jessica Ross ("Sam is lost in time and Beth learns what that means to her.") (123)
* Sam's Oh, Boy, filk by Lorraine Anderson (132) k)
* My Brother, the Beauty Queen by Kim Smith & Judi Toth ("Sam is home and there are tales to tell - and Al has a few of his own.") (133)
* For Donna, poem by Mary Robertson (138)
* The Letter by Sheila Paulson ("Sam meets a lawyer he's encountered before, and touches Al in a special way.") (139)
* Superstition by Dana Rae Pugh ("A teenage boy is missing, his mother thinks Sam is a psychic who can help her, and Sam is in contact -- somehow.") (153)
* A Stitch in Time by Jane Mailander ("Sam is leaping on his own, but finds he has to return to the Project and Al.") (177)
* Bad to the Bone, filk by Lorraine Anderson (188)
* Eggbeater by Patricia Poole (Sequel to "Contact" in issue #4 - "Sam and Al have to determine whither goest the Project - and how to get there.") (189)
* The Sea-Wife, poem by Jane Mailander (208) 
* Natural Father by Mary Schmidt ("Sam is an Episcopalian priest who has to figure out which of his flock has an invisible problem.") (209)
* After Having Danced Once More, in San Diego, poem by Robin Kwong (242) 
* Contributor's Comments Authors (243)
* Cartoon by Jane Mailander (246)
 
File:Play5art1.jpg|from issue #5, Judy Breuer
File:Play5art2.jpg|from issue #5, Linda Fairbanks
File:Play5art3.jpg|from issue #5, Kate Nuernberg
File:Play5art4.jpg|from issue #5, minds-i-view
File:Play5art5.jpg|from issue #5, minds-i-view
File:Play5art6.jpg|from issue #5, minds-i-view
File:Play5art7.jpg|from issue #5, Linda Fairbanks
File:Play5art8.jpg|from issue #5, Terri Librande
File:Play5art9.jpg|from issue #5, Judy Breuer
File:Play5art10.jpg|from issue #5, Kate Nuernberg
File:Play5art11.jpg|from issue #5, Terri Librande
File:Play5art12.jpg|from issue #5, poem about Donna, with Donna herself in a vague ghost illo 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5==
==Issue 6==
Play It Again 6 was published in 1996. It contains two novels.
* Shakedown by Pat Poole
* An Innocent Man by Kate Nuernberg (See the author's comments about this story (which she described as the longest WIP in the fandom) on the cover of the previous issue.)
==References==
 
Category:Quantum Leap Zines
Category:1991 Zines
Category:1990s Zines