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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 ...
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 ...
Dr. Sam Beckett, desperate to prove his time travel theory before his top secret Project Quantum Leap (PQL) runs out of funds, leaps before the kinks are worked out of the machine. He ends up leaping into Tom Stratton (Layne Beamer), a pilot of the experimental Bell X-2 aircraft, trying to act as Tom while dealing with his own "Swiss cheese ...
Scott Stewart Bakula (/ ˈ b æ k j ʊ l ə /; born October 9, 1954) [1] is an American actor. He is known for his roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap – for which he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards (winning one) – and as Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise.
Sam is given a chance to put this right, and then assures Beth that her husband Al is alive and is trying to get back to her. Sammy Jo Fuller – Sam's daughter due to his leaping. See 'Project Quantum Leap' above. Captain John Beckett (Scott Bakula) – Captain John Beckett is a civil war officer and Sam's great-great grandfather. Sam leaps ...
Breaking all the rules of Quantum Leaping, Sam leaps along his genetic line and finds himself in the American Civil War as his great-grandfather, Union Army Captain John Beckett (Rob Hyland). Sam must win the heart of his great-grandmother, southerner Olivia Barrett Covington ( Kate McNeil ), or he may be erased from existence.
Dana catches Sam talking to the unseen Al on a number of occasions, which helps when Dana realizes that Sam's host is working for Nick and Sam is able to convince her that he is not Peter. Sam kills Nick just as he fires at Dana, but does not leap out until he meets his former professor, revealing that he is Sam Beckett and that their "string ...
Season four of Quantum Leap ran on NBC from September 18, 1991 to May 20, 1992. The series follows the exploits of Dr. Sam Beckett and his Project Quantum Leap (PQL), through which he involuntarily leaps through spacetime, temporarily taking over a host in order to correct historical mistakes.