Season five of Quantum Leap ran on NBC from September 22, 1992 to May 5, 1993.

This episode; it does not matter how many times I watch it. Sam leaps into Margaret Sanders, a housewife who must convince her husband that the family can survive and even thrive with feminism. It consists of twenty-two episodes.

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Pledge £25 or more About US$ 33 Project Quantum Leap One copy of the hardback book. When Sam looks into a mirror, he sees his own reflection. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Catch up with her on her blog here. August 8, 1953 Sam leaps into a bar in Cokeburg, PA, a coal mining town, at the exact moment of his birth, when he looks into a mirror he sees his own image looking back.

Since he didn't leap into anyone but himself in this episode, the clothes he's wearing, including his wallet with his (expired) driver's license, must have materialized from storage or somewhere, since his persona is wearing a Fermi Suit. Sam must uncover the reason the bank lent money to these farmers who could not possibly pay it back, while trying to prevent the brothers from being killed when they try to escape. And I’m probably not the only one who remembers a Tweetstorm of outrage and disappointment over the last episode of LOST.

As the surreal scenes in the bar play out, the real Al and Gooshie are trying to locate Sam. While trying to figure things out, Sam has to help save some trapped miners and is told that he controls his leaps and could return home whenever he wants. The final caption reveals that Doctor Sam Beckett never returned home.

Sam leaps into a bar with a bartender that's more than he appears.

Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. He must prevent his teenage grandson from running away and getting caught up in the drug culture while also preventing the grandfather from being sent to a mental institution for his wild stories about UFOs. Jesse Sanchez. Sam says he wants to return home, but first he feels he needs to fix one more thing, for his friend Al. Mirror Image was the 22nd and final episode of Season 5 of Quantum Leap, also the 97th and final episode of the series. Seem harsh? Is Sam supposed to save the President, or unearth the conspiracy? (as W. Morgan Sheppard). Hide Spoilers. Nearly all the actors in this episode appeared in previous episodes. Sam leaps into a bar with a bartender that's more than he appears. As he begins to believe that Bartender Al represents the agency jumping him around his lifetime—God, Fate or Time, as they sometimes call it—Sam is asked to accept responsibility for what has befallen him. Furthermore, in many episodes he is looking at or standing next to Sam when he leaps. Sam theorizes that the bartender might be God, Fate, or Time. Our Privacy Notice has been updated to explain how we use cookies, which you accept by continuing to use this website.

By this I mean there are lots more event episodes, as well as a sense of the show trying to do more than just deliver one episode after another with a soapy plot. In the way of all finales, though, “Mirror Image” does wrap up a critical storyline or two. He has time to order a beer and be visibly relieved that he’s not in a fight, standing over a dead body, in a dress, under arrest, naked, or kissing a stranger.

Patrons of the town bar look familiar from past leaps, but with different names, other patrons seem to be leapers, and Al the bartender (played by Bruce McGill) takes everything in his stride, even when one of the miners who frequents the bar leaps out.

To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. As Elvis Presley (played by Michael St. Gerard), Sam must help a struggling female musician named Sue Anne Winters (played by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn), but at the same time must ensure that he does not prevent the king of rock 'n' roll from being discovered.

It will always have me weeping like a schoolgirl by the end. He has only a few hours to save his wife from a grisly death, supposedly at the hands of a vampire (. In the future, they realize that Sam has leaped into himself, they search history for Sam.

View production, box office, & company info. Neither of them knows it, but it will be the last time they see each other. Quantum Leap: Beyond the Mirror Image Burgess Hill, UK Nonfiction £3,048. Mirror Image - August 8, 1953 In the future, they realize that Sam has leaped into himself, ... 4 of 4 people found this review helpful. Leaping into Elizabeth Tate (played by Cynthia Steele) in a women's prison (accompanied by Alia), Sam must keep the reformed Evil Leaper from being caught by her former Observer while also trying to keep his host from being executed for the murder of a fellow inmate. Here are the 25 most promising TV and... Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by. pledged of £1,400 goal 79 backers Support. His confusion about the people he meets there and how they look like people he had meet on his travels but with names like Gooshie, Ziggy and even Al is very convincing - even I was confused especially when he saw their reflections they were totally different. It’s character actor Bruce McGill, who also guest-starred in the QL opener, “Genesis.”. 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, Captain John Beckett (played by Rob Hyland), of the Union Army.

Watch Mirror-Image-4 - HanTheMan on Dailymotion. The pinball machine in the front corner of the bar is a Gottlieb 'Baseball' which was first released in June 1970, 17 years after the episode takes place. ", Search for "Mirror Image - August 8, 1953" on Amazon.in, Title: As he converses with the bar's owner and bartender Al (Bruce McGill), viewers soon learn that it was Sam who wanted to put right what once went wrong; that's why he created Project Quantum Leap. Another episode that I can't understand having such a high rating. Get a detailed look at every new and returning show coming to broadcast... 2012 Fall TV Preview: Our Night-by-Night Guide.

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Then, having caught his breath, he gets to work. He is amazed to see his own image when he looks into the mirror behind the bar. See the TV shows set to premiere in the rest of 2020, including "Utopia" and Season 2 of "The Mandalorian. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 10 /10. The episode ends with captions that state Al and Beth never divorced but instead had four daughters. As the famous sex doctor Ruth Westheimer, Sam must help a woman stand up to the sexual harassment of her boss and get his coworkers together, while the real Dr. Ruth (played by herself) helps Al deal with his fear of abandonment and his inability to tell a woman that he loves her. Post Mirror Image. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. | Awards Sam leaps into an eccentric artist named Lord Nigel Corrington who lives a strange, Gothic lifestyle.

“Mirror Image”: August 8, 1953 Original airdate: May 5, 1993 Visit the Quantum Leap Rewatch index.

The episode is peculiar, opaque, and at times almost operatic. Sam leaps into Larry Stanton III (played by W.K. Written by Bartender Al offers Sam the choice of 'regular or schooner' glasses.

Sam is given a choice to return home or continue leaping.

While helping the underground railroad smuggle a family to freedom, Sam must also win the heart of his great-grandmother, or he may be erased from existence. A third, simpler alternate ending was also produced showing a family photo of Al and Beth with their four daughters instead of the ending title cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quantum_Leap_(season_5)&oldid=979457323#ep97, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, As the date for Dallas draws nearer, Oswald's personality is getting harder to control. Our fall TV preview concludes with a comprehensive guide to the new and... 2013 Fall TV Preview: Our Comprehensive Guide to the Season's New and Returning Shows. They don’t remember him, though, and their names are different. Sam does right a wrong in Cokesburg—preventing a number of mine-related fatalities—but he does it in a peripheral, almost drive-by fashion. (If you are looking for a beautiful example, Suzy McKee Charnas’s Beauty of the Opera or the Phantom Beast comes immediately to mind). This FAQ is empty.

In the usual course of things, critics will have had a sneak peek at a show’s first episode, and may be generating buzz even before it airs. August 8, 1953 Sam leaps into a bar in Cokeburg, PA, a coal mining town, at the exact moment of his birth, when he looks into a mirror he sees his own image looking back. August 8, 1953: Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and familiar people don't know him.

It was hoped that it would end a season, not the whole run of the show, and it shows—there was no groundwork laid for a more permanent ending in the weeks before it aired. Quantum Leap Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. In the end, Al and his wife remain together and have four daughters. In the series finale, Sam arrives at a mining town as himself on the date and exact hour he was born.

The wrap-up of Quantum Leap is a chaotic unfolding of almost random events. When Sam looks into a mirror, he sees his own reflection. Al is finding it harder to connect with Sam. Am I perfectly satisfied with it? Select this reward. Sam starts to believe he is Oswald. They barely connect, they don’t discuss Beth and they don’t get a proper farewell. Through five years of leaping, Sam comes close to death on countless occasions, and more than once his fragile mental link with Al threatens to break. However, it makes a certain amount of sense.

Sam soon finds out that that day's date is August 8, 1953-the very day he was born.

Use the HTML below. The first episode of a new TV series is usually the one that come under the closest scrutiny from reviewers; at that early stage in a show’s life, everyone is wide-eyed and ready to be blown away. Looking for some great streaming picks? 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 would have done very well as a season closer, I think. He is a casualty of the war between good and evil, no less than Lord of the Rings’ Frodo.

Warning: Spoilers. Before he takes his next leap, he realizes he must correct something that could affect his personal history.

Sam doesn't accept that he controls the leaps and consequently never returns home. Perhaps. Quantum Leap Season show reviews & Metacritic score: August 8, 1953: Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and … Check box if your review contains spoilers. In the future, they realize that Sam has leaped into himself, they search history for Sam. Did it leap into a closet somewhere?

In the end, Oswald is revealed to be the lone assassin of JFK (Al speculating that people made up the idea of a conspiracy rather than face the idea that we are all still so vulnerable that one man could kill the President that easily). come to an end?

Directed by James Whitmore Jr.. With Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Bruce McGill, John D'Aquino. This is not to say that series finales aren’t events in their own right—remember how many people watched M.A.S.H. It set up the prospect of interesting new leaps: Al the Bartender hinted that everything was going to get much more challenging for Sam.