Quantum Leap: Season 3

Universal Studios (1990)

Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Science Fiction
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Plot

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.

Cast

Scott Bakula Dr. Sam Beckett/John Beckett
Dean Stockwell Rear Admiral Albert Calavicci
Deborah Pratt Ziggy
Jennifer Runyon Peggy Stratton
W.K. Stratton Dr. Berger
Newell Alexander John Beckett
Lela Ivey Lucy

Crew

Director
Scott Bakula
David Hemmings
Producer Donald P. Bellisario , Harker Wade
Writer Donald P. Bellisario

Episodes

Disc 01

1
The Leap Home
60 mins  9/28/1990
November 25, 1969: 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.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Donald P. Bellisario 

Guest starring: David Newsom,  Olivia Burnette, Caroline Kava,  Scott Bakula, Mik Scriba, Niles Brewster, Matthew John Graeser, Ethan Wilson, John Tuell, Hannah Cutrona, Mai-Lis Kuniholm, Adam Affonso

2
The Leap Home Part II - Vietnam
60 mins  10/5/1990
April 7, 1970: As a Navy SEAL in his own brother's squad, Sam must determine whether he is there to save Tom's life or ensure the success of the mission on which his brother was killed. Also Al from 1970 was a P.O.W.

Director:  Michael Zinberg 

Writer:  Donald P. Bellisario 

Guest starring: Andrea Thompson, David Newsom, Ernie Lively, David Hayward,  Tia Carrere, Adam Nelson, Ryan Reid, Rich Whiteside,  Patrick Warburton, Rodney Kageyama, Christopher Kirby

3
Leap of Faith
60 mins  10/12/1990
August 19, 1963: 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 parishioner.

Director:  Tommy Thompson  / Karen Hall 

Writer:  Tommy Thompson 

Guest starring: Sandy McPeak,  Danny Nucci, Davey Roberts, Erica Yohn, Penny Stanton, Pat Crawford Brown, Todd Raderman, Bo Sabato, Dominic Oliver, Lisa Passero, Kane Picoy, Amy Tritico, Bud Sabatino, Robert Beecher

4
One Strobe over the Line
60 mins  10/19/1990
June 15, 1965: Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory manager's ambitions.

Director:  Michael Zinberg 

Writer:  Chris Ruppenthal 

Guest starring: Marjorie Monaghan, Susan Anton, Kristoffer Tabori, David Sheinkopf, Robert Trumbull, John Achorn,  Nigel Gibbs, Danny McCoy Jr., Lawrence McNeil III, Elizabeth Gast

Disc 02

5
The Boogieman
60 mins  10/26/1990
October 31, 1964: Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a horror novelist on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the death of a church deacon, things get even stranger when two more people die without warning.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Chris Ruppenthal 

Guest starring: Chris Ruppenthal, Donald Hotton,  David Kriegel, Paul Linke,  Fran Ryan,  Valerie Mahaffey

6
Miss Deep South
60 mins  11/2/1990
June 7, 1958: 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 when she poses for naughty pictures taken by a sleazy pageant photographer. As if things weren't bad enough, Sam must ensure that Darlene finishes third, so that she'll go on to become a doctor.

Director:  Christopher T. Welch 

Writer:  Tommy Thompson 

Guest starring: Heather McAdam, Nancy Stafford, Julie Ann Lowery, David Allen Brooks, Linda Hoy, Hugh Gillin, Marte Boyle Stout, Martin Clark, Karen Moore, Janeen Rae Heller, Theresa Ring

7
Black on White on Fire
60 mins  11/9/1990
August 11, 1965: Sam leaps into a black med. student engaged to a white woman in order to ensure that he and his fiancée survive the Watts Riot together.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Deborah Pratt 

Guest starring: Gregory Millar, Corie Henninger, SaMi Chester,  Tiny Ron, Marc Alaimo, Laverne Anderson,  CCH Pounder, Cheryl Francis Harrington, Montrose Hagins, Jon Berry, Garon Grigsby

8
The Great Spontini
60 mins  11/16/1990
May 9, 1974: Leaping into magician Harry Spontini, Sam has to prevent his estranged wife from taking their daughter away from him as she files for divorce, so she can marry her sleazy divorce attorney.

Director:  James Whitmore Jr. 

Writer:  Beverly Bridges  / Christy Dawson 

Guest starring: Amy Steel, Erich Anderson, Lauren Woodland, Michael Fairman, Robin Greer, Jean Adams, Dan Birch

Disc 03

9
Rebel without a Clue
60 mins  11/30/1990
September 1, 1958: As "Bones," a member of a motorcycle gang, Sam is an uneasy rider who has to prevent a Jack Kerouac-inspired young woman from meeting her death on the road.

Director:  James Whitmore Jr.  / Paul Brown (III) 

Writer:  Paul Brown (III)  / Randy Holland 

Guest starring:  Diedrich Bader, Josie Bissett, Teddy Wilson, Michael Bryan French, Scott Kraft, Mark Boone Jr., Joshua Cadman, Kristopher Logan

10
A Little Miracle
60 mins  12/21/1990
December 24, 1962: On Christmas Eve, Sam leap into Reginald Pierson, valet to a wealthy contractor, who is in danger of losing his soul in an attempt to demolish a Salvation Army mission, so he can build his "Blake's Plaza." Seeing a similarity to the Dickens's character, Sam and Al decide to "Scrooge" the greed out of the man.

Director:  Michael W. Watkins  / Sandy Fries 

Writer:  Sandy Fries  / Robert Wolterstorff 

Guest starring: Charles Rocket, Melinda McGraw, Robert Lesser, Tom McTigue, Michael Dan Wagner, Dale Harimoto, Christopher Fleming, Jarrett Lennon, Dylan Brown, Duane Whitaker, Milan Nicksic

11
Runaway
60 mins  1/4/1991
July 4, 1964: On a cross-country car trip, Sam, as 13-year-old Butchie, must contend with a sadistic older sister and a mother on the verge of running away from an unfulfilling marriage, in search of the feminine mystique.

Director:  Michael Katelman 

Writer:  Paul Brown  / Paul Brown (III) 

Guest starring: Sandy Faison, Sherman Howard, Joseph Hacker, Ami Foster, Amber Susa, Buff Borin

12
8 1/2 Months
60 mins  3/6/1991
November 15, 1955: Billie Jean Crockett is a pregnant teenager who will make the second biggest mistake of her life - giving her baby up for adoption - unless Sam, as Billie Jean, can convince someone to help her raise her child... before he goes into labor himself

Director:  James Whitmore Jr. 

Writer:  Deborah Pratt 

Guest starring: Lana Schwab, James Whitmore Jr., Hunter Von Leer, Tasha Scott, Anne Haney,  Parley Baer, Philip Linton, Peggy Walton-Walker, Molly McClure, Priscilla Weems

Disc 04

13
Future Boy
60 mins  3/13/1991
October 6, 1957: Sam leaps Kenny Sharp, better known as "Future Boy," sidekick to Moe Stein, host of the kid's show, "Time Patrol," who also happens to be building a time machine in his basement. Unless Sam can prevent Moe's daughter from attempting to have her father committed, Moe is destined to be killed as he tries to hop a freight train.

Director:  Michael Switzer 

Writer:  Tommy Thompson 

Guest starring: Richard Herd, Debra Stricklin,  George Wyner, Alan Fudge, David Sage, Nicholas Shaffer, Jason Kincaid, John Christian Graas, Jesse Switzer, Matt Marfoglia

14
Private Dancer
60 mins  3/20/1991
October 6, 1979: 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 to audition for a spot in a professional dance group. But, since she's deaf, the choreographer doesn't believe she has the time to give the young lady the attention she'll need.

Director:  Debbie Allen 

Writer:  Paul Brown (III) 

Guest starring: Debbie Allen, Louis Mustillo,  Heidi Swedberg, Robert Schuch, Marguerite Pomerhn-Derricks, Rhondee Beriault, Henry Woronicz, Melinda Cordell, Charles Emmett, Frank Novak, Harry Cohn, Christopher Solari

15
Piano Man
60 mins  3/27/1991
November 10, 1985: Joey Dinardo is a lounge lizard on the run from mob hitmen. When Sam leaps in, his ex-girlfriend, and former musical partner have found him, and now both are on a run for their lives from a killer who seems to know their every move.

Director:  James Whitmore Jr. 

Writer:  Ed Scharlach 

Guest starring: Marietta DePrima, Angelo Tiffe, John Oldach, Denise Gentile, Frank Roman, Cherry Davis, Sam Clay

16
Southern Comforts
60 mins  4/3/1991
August 4, 1961: It's the best little cathouse in New Orleans. No, it's the Gilbert Labonte Sewin' & Quiltin' Academy. As the proprietor of this worthy establishment, Sam must prevent the mysterious death of a resident who doesn't belong there.

Director:  Chris Ruppenthal 

Writer:  Tommy Thompson 

Guest starring: Rita Taggart,  David Graf, Georgia Emelin,  Dan Butler,  Lauren Tom, David Powledge, Walter Sylvest, J. Marvin Campbell, Stacey Cortez, Monica McMurty, Jeffrey Conklin, David Alan Graf, Minnie Summers Lindsey,  Diane Delano, Richard White

Disc 05

17
Glitter Rock
60 mins  4/10/1991
April 12, 1974: Sam is a glitter rock star in danger of being stabbed to death after a performance, unless Sam can determine who, from a growing list of people, the real killer is.

Director:  Andy Cadiff 

Writer:  Chris Ruppenthal 

Guest starring:  Jon Gries, Peter Noone, Christian Hoff, Michael Cerveris, Robert Bauer, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Jan Eddy, Sharon Martin, Dorrie Krum, Bob Cady, Bruce Michael Paine

18
A Hunting We Will Go
60 mins  4/18/1991
June 18, 1976: It's the leap from hell as Sam, a bounty hunter handcuffed to a wily embezzler who will stop at nothing to get away from him, has to deal with his captive, as well as his attraction towards her, despite her countless attacks on him.

Director:  Andy Cadiff 

Writer:  Beverly Bridges 

Guest starring: Jane Sibbett, Ken Marshall, Cliff Bemis, Michael McCarty, Dale Swann, Jeffrey King, Warren Barrington, Maxine Elliott, Dorothy Blass, Ken Kells

19
Last Dance Before an Execution
60 mins  5/1/1991
May 12, 1971: "Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled

Director:  Deborah Pratt  / Michael W. Watkins 

Writer:  Deborah Pratt 

Guest starring: Jenny Gago,  Julio Oscar Mechoso, Christopher Allport,  James Sloyan, Leonard Lightfoot, Jack Jozefson, Michael Holden, Krista Muscare, Charles Woolf, Irene Olga López, A.J. Freeman, Wendy Gordon, Andrew Amador, Harry Fleer, Neil Barton

20
Heart of a Champion
60 mins  5/8/1991
July 23, 1955: 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 new partner Terry, must convince him of his hidden health problem, while avoiding his own health problem - the jealous wrestler-husband of a woman who has taken an amorous interest in Sam.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Tommy Thompson 

Guest starring: Jerry Bossard, Don Hood, Deborah Wakeham, Angela Paton, Rance Howard, Susan Isaacs, Tim deZarn, Don Dolan, Terry Funk, Jay S. York, John Kidwell, Jeff Hochendoner

Disc 06

21
Nuclear Family
60 mins  5/15/1991
October 26, 1962: Sam finds himself the brother of a fallout shelter salesman during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where he must defuse a potentially explosive situation as panic sets in on the night of John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation.

Director:  James Whitmore Jr. 

Writer:  Paul Brown (III) 

Guest starring:  Timothy Carhart,  Kurt Fuller,  Kim Flowers, Robert Hy Gorman, Candy Hutson, Delia Salvi, Patrick M. Bruneau

22
Shock Theater
60 mins  5/22/1991
October 3, 1954: Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes his Swiss-cheesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps. Al, finding himself visible to the mentally absent, must try to complete Sam's mission, and convince him to take another shock treatment, in order to leap Sam out before contact is lost forever.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Deborah Pratt 

Guest starring:  David Proval,  Bruce A. Young, Scott Lawrence, Robert Symonds, Nick Brooks,  Lee Garlington,  Frank Collison, Ralph Marrero, Kevin Page, Harry Pugh, Howard Matthew Johnson, LaReine Chabut,  Brad Silverman, Jean-Pierre Dorléac, Candy Brown Houston

Edition Details

Edition 6 Disc Series
Series Quantum Leap
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
No. of Disks/Tapes 6

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