8.645 minSeason 5 • Episode 22
LatestAugust 8, 1953: Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and familiar people don't know him. With the help of another Al, he still has something to set right ... or is there more than one thing he needs to change?
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Acting
Bakula playing 96 different people while staying fundamentally Sam.
Production
Period-accurate sets spanning 1953-1987 on a network budget.
Writing
Standalone episodes that somehow built devastating serialized longing.
Creator
Donald P. Bellisario
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Scott Bakula ad-libbed the 'Oh boy' catchphrase in the pilot; it became the series signature.
The show quietly became one of TV's most progressive 80s series, tackling racism, homophobia, and ableism through literal walking-in-another's-shoes.
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