The last screenshot said Sam never returned home. Directed by Harvey S. Laidman. [40], For the event related to subatomic physics, see, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's official, Music Replacement in Quantum Leap – Quantum Leap Podcast, Quantum Leap on DVD: The Missing Music List (Seasons 1-4) - Al's Place Quantum Leap Online Community, "TV Guide Names the Top Cult Shows Ever | TV Guide", "Review/Television; Comeback for Wimps in New Series", "Review/Television; An Actor's 'Quantum Leap' Through Times and Roles", "Quantum Leap: The Complete Series (Region 1)", "Quantum Leap - The Complete Collection (Region 2)", "Quantum Leap DVD news: Re-Release for Seasons 1 & 2 - TVShowsOnDVD.com", "Quantum Leap DVD news: Announcement for The Complete Series - TVShowsOnDVD.com", "The Series Finale That Helped Us Cope With The 'Lost' Finale And Every Other Disappointing Finale Since", "Greatest Series Finales: Quantum Leap's "Mirror Image" a beautiful, metaphysical swan song", "Did a Fan Just Find Proof of Quantum Leap's Secret Lost Ending? In each episode, a different cast of guest characters appears, mostly the ones who would have interacted with the person Sam replaces with his leaps. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. It implied that Al, through encouragement of his wife Beth, would become a leaper to go after Sam and that they would be leaping into the future.

Bellissario has said no script exists and that he does not know where this idea came from. Jones said in reading its script that he was reminded of Quantum Leap and as a reference to the show, cast Bakula in a voice cameo role, including giving him one line of "Oh, boy" in the script. After saving Alia from the Evil Leaper Project, Sam is trapped with her in a women's prison with the evil observer Zoey in charge as the prison warden.

You know, Lothos is not too pleased with your prior performance concerning Dr. Beckett. But this group is evil, and they leap, as part of their objective, in order to try to put wrong what once went right, often in opposition to the work of the Quantum Leap project. When Alia, the evil leaper, appears on the scene, Sam becomes determined to take her with him when he leaps. [37], The show is referenced in Avengers: Endgame, when Scott Lang and James Rhodes try to explain time travel to Bruce Banner through the many times it's brought up in pop culture. Sam and former "Evil Leaper" Alia leap together into inmates at a women's prison in Ohio in 1987 in the episode "Revenge of the Evil Leaper" in Season 5. It starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who leaps through spacetime during an experiment in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct historical mistakes. We lost her!"

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"Quantum Leap" Revenge of the Evil Leaper - September 16, 1987 (TV Episode 1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. [17][18][19], A few years after the airing of the finale, a script for an alternate ending was leaked on the internet. As with the television series, each issue ended with a teaser preview of the following issue and Sam's exclamation of "Oh, boy."

She will return to play "evil observer" Zoey in three episodes, starting "Deliver Us From Evil" where she will be Al evil alter ego. Action, Adventure, Drama. Richard C. Okie. You can help the Quantum Leap Wiki by expanding it.

In their attempt to keep the Evil Leapers from tracking the whereabouts of Alia, Sam, with Al's help, is able to hypnotize Alia into believing she is her leapee Angela, which throws off Zoey, Thames and Lothos ability to track her brain waves, at least, for a while. For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. At the end of season five, Bellisario was told to write an episode that could serve as a season finale or series finale, as whether Quantum Leap would be renewed was unclear. Al is able to manipulate it as to where Ziggy is able to use the electric fence in the prison to block Zoey from finding Alia. With that, Sam leaps to his next mission. This episode also features an opening theme similar to Quantum Leap. The show was ranked number 19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever" in 2007. But this group is evil, and they leap, as part of their objective, in order to try to put wrong what once went right,often in opposition to the work of the Quantum Leap project. [34] In "The Kiss Seen Around the World", Al the hologram is shown entering a scene as he would on Quantum Leap and character Neil Goldman asks, "Al, why haven't I leaped? Quantum Leap Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. The most frequent time slot for the series is indicated by italics: In the United Kingdom, the show began on BBC Two on February 13, 1990,[10] airing Tuesday evenings at 9:00 pm. Zoey: Zoey (played by Carolyn Seymour), another evil leaper who was sent leaping to kill her (unsuccessfully), had been the Hologram of the project, Formerly working as Al's evil counterpart, when Zoey attempts to kill Alia in the episode Revenge of The Evil Leaper by leaping into a women's prison, where Alia and Sam leaped, the Evil Leapers sent her replacement. Sam asks, "How long have you known Liz?" Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The theme for the series was written by Mike Post.

The series ran on NBC[8] for five seasons, from March 1989 through May 1993. Outstanding Individual Achievement in Editing for a Series, "First There Was a Mountain, Then There Was No Mountain, Then There Was", High school teacher named Karen Connors in, "He Knows If You've Been Bad or Good ...", Student at MIT named Matt Randall, who is researching, Newspaper reporter/columnist, who responds to a girl seeing a, Bank robber, while the leapee tours the project with Al, Stand-up comedian, who befriends a fading silent movie star, Gas-station attendant with a lot of time on his hands, Sunday at 9:00–11:00 pm on NBC: March 26, 1989, Friday at 9:00–10:00 pm on NBC: March 31, 1989 – April 21, 1989, Friday at 8:00–9:00 pm on NBC: September 28, 1990 – January 4, 1991, Tuesday at 8:00–9:00 pm on NBC: September 22, 1992 – April 20, 1993, Wednesday at 9:00–10:00 pm on NBC: May 4, 1993, This page was last edited on 2 September 2020, at 17:05. [36], On June 16, 2016, Scott Bakula made a brief reprise of his role as Sam Beckett on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz", Peter Griffin is shown going door-to-door as a Jehovah's witness and says that Jesus, "would travel from place to place putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap would be the leap home"; then the show cuts away to an animated Jesus 'leaping' into a scene. When Vivian replys "A long time", he responds "Would she make up a story like this? Few of the comic stories referenced episodes of the television series, with the exception of the ninth issue, "Up Against a Stonewall". Dr. Beckett meets the evil leaper Zoey for the first time. Sam leaps into a college fraternity and again meets Alia from the Evil Leaper Project. Quantum Leap Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. With Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Carolyn Seymour, John D'Aquino. Revenge of the Evil Leaper is the third episode featuring Alia, another Leaper, and her observer Zoey; it was the 17th episode in Season 5 of Quantum Leap, and the 92nd episode in the series overall.Written by Deborah Pratt, the episode, which was directed by Debbie Allen, originally aired on NBC-TV on February 23, 1993 alongside "Return of The Evil Leaper" as a special two hour episode.

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It starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who leaps through spacetime during an experiment in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct historical mistakes.

The episode contained some answers to long-standing questions about the show, but contained enough ambiguity for a season six. A hologram of his friend, Admiral Al Calavicci (Stockwell), appears, visible and audible only to Sam, and helps to explain to Sam that he must correct something that went wrong in the past, aided with the resources of the project's supercomputer Ziggy (voiced by Pratt), as once that is corrected, he should be able to leap back to the present.