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Dr. Samuel John Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the 1989-1993 science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Scott Bakula. [1]Initially, the audience knows very little about Beckett, much as he knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the "Swiss cheese effect"—a side effect from the time travel (an effective trope to allow the writers to ...
The series follows the exploits of Dr. Sam Beckett and his Project Quantum Leap, through which he involuntarily leaps through spacetime, temporarily taking over a host in order to correct historical mistakes. Season five consists of 22 episodes (when counting "Lee Harvey Oswald" as two separate episodes).
This allows Sam to return home to his wife, Dr. Donna Eleese – whom he had forgotten, as a side effect of leaping. Al leaps into Captain Tom Jarrett (Dean Denton), returned after three years in a Nazi P.O.W. camp, and is set to be killed by the jealous ex-fiancé ( Robert Prescott ) of his hometown sweetheart, Suzanne ( Amanda Wyss ).
The original sci-fi show, which ran from 1989 to 1993, starred Scott Bakula as a physicist named Dr. Sam Beckett who accidentally leaps through time and temporarily takes the place of a person ...
Dr. Sam Beckett's (Scott Bakula) been drifting through time and space since the early 1990s, when the final episode of the beloved sci-fi series Quantum Leap left him voyaging solo across realms ...
Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series, created by Donald P. Bellisario, that aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who, believing he has invented a way to travel through time, voluntarily subjects himself to an experiment that he believes will prove the validity of his ...
Bakula played time-traveling scientist Dr. Sam Beckett, who dropped in and out of various situations throughout history, each time landing to help fix a specific problem the universe wanted solved.
"The Leap Home (Part 1)" Joe Napolitano: Donald P. Bellisario: Sam Beckett November 25, 1969 Elk Ridge, Indiana: September 28, 1990 () 66401: 12.1 [32] 33: 2 "The Leap Home (Part 2) – Vietnam" Michael Zinberg: Donald P. Bellisario: Herbert "Magic" Williams April 7, 1970 Vietnam: October 5, 1990 () 66402: 12.9 [33] 34: 3 "Leap of Faith" James ...