Creator: Donald BellisarioStars: Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell
I have an idea! Let's make a show where we can do anything and everything. Let's make it span decades and even centuries! Let's make it about "changing history for the better", with a time-travelling Superman-like character, who knows basically everything. This will be a show without limits!
Great idea! But it's been done before. The show was Quantum Leap, and I don't mean to actually poke fun at it in the paragraph above- this is one of my favorite tv shows of ALL TIME! (No pun intended. You know, because it's about time-travel...) The only thing this show lacked was a large cast. The only characters in every episode were the two guys above. And the only other regular characters were the ones in the future that we only hear about, and very rarely, if ever, see (Gushi, one of the workers on Project Quantum Leap; various women Al dates, especially Tina, but also many others; and the super-computer with all of history recorded in its data banks, Ziggy.)
"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."
I did not write that little summary; it comes directly from the show, in the beginning of every episode. I did write it from memory just now though, which just proves that I am a nerd. In one episode, Sam "leaps" into a blind pianist in 1964 (but of course, Sam can actually see) and must save his girlfriend from a serial killer. In the very next episode, he is a dj in 1959 whose mission is to save a radio station, and begin a romance with the station's owner. (One of my favorites!) In another, Sam is a veterinarian in 1954, involved in a cowboy competition- the prize? A woman! At the end of season one, Sam leaps into 1953, as a private detective resembling Humphrey Bogart. In very fascinating (and at times, emotional) episodes, Sam leaps into himself as young man, a chimpanzee, Lee Harvey Oswald, Elvis Presley (yes, the King, himself!), Sam's own great-grandfather, Al, and in season 2, Sam even leaps into a woman for the first time!
Like I said, this show has everything: comedy, romance, drama, mystery, and, of course, time-travel. My bet is, you'll love it.
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