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'Pilot':Transported back to 1956 in the body of Tom Stratton,
an Air Force pilot, Sam Beckett encounters swiss-chesse brain, a bizarre
hologram, and a feeling od being completely out of his depth. When Al tells him
it was a success, he wonders what, 'it' was. The project works, but one
problem, they can't retreive Sam, and it's all gone a bit 'ca-ca'! Once he
convices Sam that he's not a ghost, Al helps Sam to fly so that he can leap.
In the second part, Sam is a baseball player and, whilst managing to save
the game, remembers his surname.
'So it begins...'
'Star-Crossed': In 1972, Sam is reunited with his
long-lost love, Donna, who abanded him at the alter. The only thing is, he's
there as her professor. Whilst having to stop the professor launching into a
disasterous marriage to one his student, he tries to change Donna's future so
that she will go ahead and marry a man she hasn't yet met.
'The Right hand Of God': Sam leaps into a boxer working
for a group of nuns in 1974. Fighting a promoter who wants him to throw the
match, a worried girl-friend and the usual interferring hologram helper, he
also has to win the Championship to pay for a new chapel for the nuns.
'How The Tess Was Won': The first episode in which QL
touched on 'real' history. Sam is back in 1956 as a Texas vet. Entering into a
challenge with local cowgirl, Tess, he has to win to stop her marrying a loser.
However, he's also there to help the farmhand Buddy write a little ditty
entitled 'Piggy Sue'!
'Double Indentity': In 1965 Sam leps into a Mafia hitman. Unfortunately, he's a hit-man who's boss has just cought him with his girlfriend. Whilst he's trying to his life, and break up the relationship, Al is having a few little problems with Ziggy.
'The Color Of Truth': A very powerful episode, very
cleverfully made. Sam becomes a black man in 1955 Southern USA. He has to save
the life of the widow he works for as well as attempt to deal with racial
predujice. Of course, he also wants to try and get the town's whites to change
their treatment of black people. Easier said than done.
'The Camikazi Kid': Sterotypical 60's fashions gallore as
Sam leaps into the life of an all-American teenager in 1961. Whilst trying to
stop the boy's sister's impending marriage to an abusive drunk, he is sadly
reminded of his own sister.
Watch out for ex-Beverley Hills 90210 Star
Jason Priestley in this one!
Personal Faves!
'M.I.A.': Sam leaps into a San Diego policeman in 1969,
with a mission to convince a woman from remarrying when her husband is MIA in
Vietnam. But is it? Al says one thing, and his head another. He has to choose
between his best friend, and the true mission, when he discovers that the
woman's name is Beth Callavicci.
'The Leap Home': Sam's overjoyed when he leaps into
himself at age 16. He's back home, after God knows how many years. Of course,
it's home 30 years ago, but it's still home. Determined to save his brother's
and his father's untimely deaths, he tries to convince his family that he knows
the future. He finally succeeds when he sings a heart-rendering version of John
Lennon's 'Imagine', several years before Lennon wrote it. However, he's
unsuccessful in changing his family's past, and instead does what is was really
there to do - win his high-school basketball championship.
'The Leap Home Part Two: Vietnam': Back with his brother
Tom again, Sam finds himself as a member of his SEAL unit in Vietnam, on the
very day that Tom dies in action. Is he really there to save Tom's life this
time? But how exactly does he die? And at what cost if Sam is successful? And
what about a very familiar POW Navy man?
'The Boogieman': A very funny and very strange episode,
which also touches on 'real' history. It's Halloween, 1964. Sam leaps into a
horror writer, and encounters a string of murders. Is it the writer's
girlfriend? But something very strange is going on. What's up with Al? What's
the importance of a goat? And, who's this kid called Stephen? Who knows, but it
would make a great horror story, wouldn't it?!
'Leap Of Faith': When Sam leaps into the life of a
Catholic Priest in 1963, we learn a little more about Al's life, including his
Catholic upbringing. As Sam tries to help a fellow priest regain his faith, he
learns that the other man was a murder witness and may become a victim.
Succeeding in saving the priest's life, Sam himself gets caught in the
crossfire. Al has to overcome his own dislike of religion to help his best
friend.
'Future Boy': What the hell? It's Sam's life, or is it?
But, that is his time-travel theory, isn't it? As an actor in 1957, Sam has a
very 'interesting' time stopping a fellow actor from landing in a mental
institution because he believes in time-travel.
'Shock Theatre': Sam gets a very scary leap into a mental
institution in 1954. After receiving a dose of electric shock treatment, he
begins to lose sight of who he really is. Personalities from past leaps emerge,
and Al is danger of loosing contact with him. Can he save him in time?
'The Leap Back': A quirk of nature has bought Sam back home to
the project. Unfortunately, the freak lightening responsible has stranded Al in
the past instead of him. Whilst enjoying playing hologram, Sam is forced to
leap again in order to save Al's life.
'The Wrong Stuff': Another very funny and original episode. In 1961, Sam finds himself in the body of a space cadet. Only one problem - he's a chimpanze! To save the chimps he must get into the space programme. Add a loved-up female chimp, a hologram who won't take him seriously, and the small problem of not being understood by any humans, and there's nothing to it!
'Tempation Eyes': A rather moving episode. In the guise of
a TV reporter in 1985, Sam tries to stop a series of murders. When he is teamed
up with a psychic who is helping the police, she sees that there is more to him
than meets the eye. As Sam starts to fall in love with her, he also has to
ensure that she isn't the next murder victim.
'A Leap For Lisa': Another insight into Al's past, when
Sam leaps into the 1957 version of his best friend, who is facing a murder
charge. As they attempt to unravel the mystery of what really happened and who
the real murderer is, both men worry about the affect on the future and on the
project. It all becomes a bit too close for comfort when Al is temporarily
replaced by another Observer.
'Lee Harvy Osward': 'Real' history again as a succession
of leaps brings Sam into the life Lee Harvy Osward, the man accused of
murdering John F Kennedy. Unfortunately, the two minds become tangled and
overlap so much that Sam finally finds himself with his finger on the trigger.
How is Al ever going to get him out this one?!
'Killin' Time': For the first time we get to see the
inside of the Project. Sam leaps into a serial killer holding a woman and her
daughter hostage, in 1958. As Sam attempts to reassure them that they are in no
danger, Al has more pressing problems. The killer escapes to begin to terrorise
the future.
'Deliver Us From Evil': The first leap to feature the
infamous 'evil leaper', Alia. Sam is back in the life of Jimmy, a man with
Down's Syndrome who he had helped in an earlier leap. There's more trouble here
though. Sam discovers another leaper, and while at first feels a connection to
her, he and Al realise that her missions are less-honourable than their own.
'Trilogy': A series of three very moving leaps - 'One
little heart', 'For your love', and 'The last door'. In the first, in 1955, Sam
encounters a young girl named Abagail Fuller. Leaping in as her father, he
manages to save her life when the house is set on fire, and tries to protect
her from accusations of being cursed, and of murder.
Next, in 1966, Sam
returns, in the life of Abagail's fiance. He is attracted to her, and again has
to save her from accusations - and worse.
The accusations from 1955 return
once more in 1978. So does Sam, this time as the lawyer defending Abagail's
murder case. There is another effect from his last leap - Abagail has a
daughter - named Samantha Josephine. She has an IQ of 194, and her father is
Sam Beckett.
'Evil Leaper II: Return': The return of Alia. This time,
as Alia tries to destroy Sam's good intentions at every turn, Sam realises that
Alia feels just as trapped as he does, and attempts to free her from her own
project and Lothos, the computer behind it, forever.
'Evil Leaper II: Revenge': Having leapt together in the
previous leap, Sam and Alia are still together in this one. Sam and Al work to
hide Alia from lothos and from Zoey, Alia's hologram but who has now leapt into
the women's prison where Sam and Alia are.
'Goodbye, Norma Jean': Another fun one, when Sam leaps
into Marliyn Monroe's driver in 1960. Althoough he fails in saving her life, he
manages to convince her to make one last film.
'The Leap Between The States': More unusual going-ons, as
the impossible happens - again. In 1862, finds he has leapt outside of his own
lifetime and into that of his great-grandfather, at the time of the American
Civil War. He is there is help the Underground Railroad save one more enemy
family. But what about his own future, and that of his grandfather?
'Memphasis Melody': It's Elvis! Never!? Well, yes, it is,
but for one day ion 1954, he's actually Sam Beckett, time traveller and
rock-and-roller extrodinare! Sam leaps in two days before Elvis is discovered.
Whilst stopping his future career from finishing before it has begun, Sam has
to also help a woman pursue her own singing career.
'Mirror Image': Although hated because it's the last
episode, I also like this because of the originality and cleverness of it. Sam
leaps into 1953. More specifically, into a bar on August 8, 1953. The day he
was born. But it is his own face that looks back at him from the mirror! And,
where's Al? Who is the mysterious barman? And, why is the bar full of people
from his leaps, who look different? Meanwhile, Al is having problems of his
own. Why is there no body in the waiting room? Why can't Ziggy locate Sam? Just
as Al catches up with Sam, though, Sam gets a chance to go and change a major
wrong in Al and Beth's life - in 1969. Is Sam now lost forever?!