Quantum Leap: Season 4

Universal Studios (1991)

Action, Adventure, Family
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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  
Dean Stockwell Admiral Al Calavicci
Deborah Pratt Ziggy  

Crew

Director
Rob Bowman
Paul Brown
Producer Robin Bernheim , Harker Wade
Writer Paul Brown , Deborah Pratt
Cinematography Michael W. Watkins , Roy H. Wagner
Musician Mike Post , Velton Ray Bunch

Trailer

Episodes

Disc 01

1
The Leap Back
60 mins  9/18/1991
June 15, 1945: Struck by lightning, Sam and Al find their roles reversed, as Sam returns to the future, and to a long-lost love, while Al leaps back to 1945 to prevent the death of a returning World War II hero and his former girl friend.

Director:  Michael Zinberg 

Writer:  Donald P. Bellisario 

Guest starring: Gigi Rice, Jeanine Jackson,  Deborah Pratt, Robert Prescott,  Amanda Wyss, Mimi Kuzyk, Douglas Roberts, Susan Ann Connor, Dean Denton, Candy Brown Houston

2
Play Ball
60 mins  9/25/1991
August 6, 1961: A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or baby-sit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of the women in his life.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Tommy Thompson 

Guest starring:  Peter Jason, Casey Sander, Maree Cheatham, Royce D. Applegate,  Neal McDonough, Courtney Gebhart,  Don Stroud,  Michael Bellisario, Juan García, Charles Fick, Russel Lunday, Hank Robinson, David B. Maccabee, Owen Rutledge

3
Hurricane
60 mins  10/2/1991
August 17, 1969: Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly hurricane.

Director:  Michael W. Watkins 

Writer:  Chris Ruppenthal 

Guest starring: Marjorie Lovett, Marilyn Jones, Bill Erwin, Richard Grove, Barbara Townsend, Tracy Kolis, James Morrison, Stephanie Shroyer, Bob Hamilton

4
Justice
60 mins  10/9/1991
May 11, 1965: Sam must don the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman in order to save the life of an ambitious young civil rights leader, who is trying to register black voters.

Director:  Rob Bowman 

Writer:  Toni Graphia 

Guest starring: Steve Blackwood, Jacob Gelman,  Glenn Morshower, Dirk Blocker, Fran Bennett,  Noble Willingham, Michael Beach, Lee Weaver, Lisa Waltz, Charlie Holliday, Michael Craig Patterson, Glenn Edden, Jullian Roy Doster, Ashley Woolfolk, Jesshaye Callier

Disc 02

5
Permanent Wave
60 mins  10/16/1991
June 2, 1983: Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the death of a young murder witness and his mother.

Director:  Scott Bakula 

Writer:  Beverly Bridges 

Guest starring:  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lela Ivey,  Harry Groener, Doran Clark, Stephen T. Kay, Christine Cattell, Candi Brough, Randi Brough, Robert Jacobs

6
Raped
60 mins  10/30/1991
June 20, 1980: 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.

Director:  Michael Zinberg 

Writer:  Beverly Bridges 

Guest starring: Liz Vassey,  Amy Ryan, Matthew Sheehan, Penny Peyser, Nancy Lenehan,  Arthur Rosenberg, Cheryl Pollak,  Aaron Lustig, Eugene Lee,  Eric Bruskotter, John Petlock, Michael Griswold, Pat O'Neal, Nora Masterson, Mark Conley

7
The Wrong Stuff
60 mins  11/6/1991
January 24, 1961: The fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Paul Brown (III) 

Guest starring: Peter Murnik,  Kim Robillard, Albert Stratton, Gary Swanson,  Caroline Goodall

8
Dreams
60 mins  11/13/1991
February 28, 1979: It's more like a nightmare when Sam leaps into 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.

Director:  Anita Addison 

Writer:  Deborah Pratt 

Guest starring: Bill Marcus,  Alan Scarfe, Jocelyn O'Brien, Tim Ahern, Noley Thornton, Michael Patrick Carter, Anthony Peña, Wycliffe Young, David Garrison

Disc 03

9
A Single Drop of Rain
60 mins  11/20/1991
September 7, 1953: A devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam, as Billy Beaumont, "purveyor of precipitation and maker of rain," can find a way to make it rain, while keeping his family together in the process.

Director:  Richard Stanley  / Virgil Vogel 

Writer:  Richard C. Okie 

Guest starring: Anne Haney,  Hal Landon Jr., Patrick Massett,  R.G. Armstrong, Carl Anthony Payne II,  Britt Leach, Phyllis Lyons, Lesly Kahn, Ted Baader

10
Unchained
60 mins  11/27/1991
November 2, 1956: Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue his companion from a fifteen-year sentence on a chain gang.

Director:  Michael W. Watkins 

Writer:  Paris Qualles 

Guest starring: Don Sparks, Jed Mills, Basil Wallace, J.C. Quinn, Claude Earl Jones,  Robert V. Barron, Mark Kemble

11
The Play's the Thing
60 mins  1/8/1992
September 9, 1969: May meets December when Sam leaps into a young actor in love with an older woman, who is also an aspiring singer. If he can't boost her confidence and help her get her career on track, she will face a "fate worse than death," returning with her son to Cleveland.

Director:  Eric Laneuville 

Writer:  Beverly Bridges 

Guest starring: Penny Fuller, Anna Gunn,  Daniel Roebuck,  Robert Pine, Craig Richard Nelson, Paul Collins, Eva Loseth, Deem Bristow, Will Schaub

12
Running For Honor
60 mins  1/15/1992
June 11, 1964: 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 is slated to die at the hands of a group of bigoted cadets.

Director:  Bob Hulme 

Writer:  Robert Harris Duncan 

Guest starring: Anthony Palermo,  John Finn, John Roselius, Lisa Lawrence,  Sean O'Bryan, Jack Price, Roz Witt, Martin Hansen, Brian Selbert, Beau Windham

Disc 04

13
Temptation Eyes
60 mins  1/22/1992
February 1, 1985: A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a TV reporter, protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case, from becoming the next victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.

Director:  Christopher Hibler 

Writer:  Paul Brown (III) 

Guest starring: Tamilyn Tomita,  James Handy, Kent Williams,  Rob LaBelle, Harker Wade, Alan Baltes

14
The Last Gunfighter
60 mins  1/29/1992
November 28, 1957: 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.

Director:  Sam Rolfe  / Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Sam Rolfe  / Chris Ruppenthal 

Guest starring: Bonnie Morgan, Jerry Potter, Susan Isaacs, O'Neal Compton, Sean Baca, Kenneth Tigar,  John Anderson, Joseph Burke, Paul Bordman

15
A Song for the Soul
60 mins  2/26/1992
April 7, 1963: As a backup singer in a black, amateur girl group Sam finds between the fifteen year-old lead singer and her father as he attempts to rescue the girl from a sleazy night club owner's clutches.

Director:  Michael W. Watkins 

Writer:  Deborah Pratt 

Guest starring: T'Keyah Keymáh, Harrison Page, Eric LaSalle, Tammy Townsend, Richard McGregor, G. Smokey Campbell, Tiffany Jameson, Clyde Jones, Tommy Morgan, Christopher M. Brown

16
Ghost Ship
60 mins  3/4/1992
August 13, 1956: Flying over the Bermuda Triangle, Sam, as the co-pilot, must prevent the flight from returning to Virginia, to get a seriously ill passenger to a doctor before she dies. Flying through the triangle is riskier than it seems, and Sam, deprived of Al's help when the hologram fades out, must get them through alive.

Director:  Anita Addison 

Writer:  Donald P. Bellisario  / Paris Qualles 

Guest starring:  Carla Gugino, Kurt Deutsch, Scott Hoxby, Kimberly Foster, Mark McPherson

Disc 05

17
Roberto!
60 mins  3/11/1992
January 27, 1982: Sam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery, which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.

Director:  Scott Bakula 

Writer:  Chris Ruppenthal 

Guest starring:  Alan Oppenheimer, Michael Heintzman, Jerry Hardin, DeLane Matthews, Marcus Giamatti, Barbara Tarbuck, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Charles Dougherty, Dennis Fimple, Victor Talmadge, Sherri Lyn Rotham, Gregg Binkley, Paul-Felix Montez, Andrew Roa, Don Gibb

18
It's A Wonderful Leap
60 mins  4/1/1992
May 10, 1958: Sam finds himself behind the wheel of a New York taxicab, in the life of Max Greenman, a driver striving to win his own tag, a license to drive his own cab. His mission is aided with the help of a woman who claims to be a guardian angel.

Director:  Paul Brown  / Danielle Alexandra 

Writer:  Paul Brown (III) 

Guest starring: Ross Partridge, Justin Thomas, Ed Wasser, Frank Girardeau, Doug MacHugh, Milt Kogan, Peter Iacangelo, Jack Orend, Robin Frates, Liz Torres, Vaughn Armstrong, Jerry Adler

19
Moments to Live
60 mins  4/8/1992
May 4, 1985: Sam is a soap opera heart surgeon and the obsession of a love-struck, if somewhat deranged fan. He must escape from the woman and her husband who kidnap him for reproductive purposes

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Tommy Thompson 

Guest starring: Ellen Gerstein,  Frances Bay, Kathleen Wilhoite,  Pruitt Taylor Vince,  Brian George, James Gleason, Krista Tesreau, Julie Lloyd, Mark Fauser, Richard Merson, Patrick Lowe, Matthew Ashford

20
The Curse of Ptah-Hotep
60 mins  4/22/1992
March 2, 1957: It's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.

Director:  Joe Napolitano 

Writer:  Chris Ruppenthal 

Guest starring: Lisa Darr,  John Kapelos, Chaim Girafi, Ali Dean, Rodger LaRue

Disc 06

21
Stand Up
60 mins  5/13/1992
April 30, 1959: Sam, as the singing half of a comedy team, soon finds that trying to convince two people that they're truly in love is no laughing matter, especially when one of them is the object of a sleazy casino owner's desire.

Director:  Michael Zinberg 

Writer:  Deborah Pratt 

Guest starring:  Robert Miranda,  Amy Yasbeck, Tom LaGrua, Mark Lonow, Bob Saget, Wil Albert, Peter Schrum, Jon Melichar, Martha Jane, Rafe Battiste, Rosemary Tarrquino

22
A Leap for Lisa
60 mins  5/20/1992
June 25, 1957: Sam leaps into Al Calavicci to prevent the death of his married 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 disturbingly a whole new situation at Project Quantum Leap.

Director:  James Whitmore Jr. 

Writer:  Donald P. Bellisario 

Guest starring:  Larry Brandenburg, Charles Rocket, Steve Carlisle, Jeff Nowinski, Debbie James, Ivan Gueron, Jack Stauffer, Rich Whiteside, Terry Farrell, Jamie Walters, Jeffrey Corbett, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Peck

Edition Details

Edition Season 4
Series Quantum Leap
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3) Widescreen (1.85:1)
No. of Disks/Tapes 6

Features

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