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"Justice" Leap Date: May 11, 1955 Episode
Adopted by: Becky
Synopsis: When Sam leaps into a newly inducted member of the Ku Klux Klan, he must find a way to prevent the lynching of a black community activist. But due to his moral upbringing, it becomes very difficult to act like the person he has leaped into to avoid his own lynching.
TV Guide Synopsis
Production # : 67309
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Sam Trivia: Sam said this is the most confusing person he has
ever leaped into. Sam’s parents were farmers, simple people that cared
about their families and each other. Sam doesn’t have very good aim
with a rifle. Sam remembers that little kids can see Al.
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Miscellaneous Trivia:
Cody is the name of Scott Bakula's son. During the filming of the church explosion, the gas inside built up so much that when the explosion came, it knocked down Diamond Farnsworth (Scott Bakula's stunt double) and burned the hair on the back of his legs! This episode is the only time we do not learn the last name of the Leapee.
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Fran Bennett
graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an M.A. and
subsequently spent twelve years acting and as voice and movement
director with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Her Broadway debut
was a leading role in the short-lived play Mandingo at the Lyceum
Theater in 1961. Thereafter, Bennett concentrated on stage acting and
education, serving for many years on the faculty of the California
Institute of the Arts, latterly as head of acting and director of
performance at the CalArts School of Theater (1996-2003). Her
credentials included a teaching spell at the London Academy of Music
and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and voice production workshops at several
American universities. As an ensemble member of the Los Angeles Women's
Shakespeare Company, her dramatis personae tended to be powerful
individuals (Othello, King Lear, Oberon, and others). Bennett's screen
work has likewise shown a predilection towards sober, resolute
authority figures: doctors, judges, head nurses, community leaders and
family matriarchs, even a Fleet Admiral on Star Trek: The Next
Generation (1987). Her TV debut was as early as 1952 but she did not
become prolific in that medium until the late 70s. From then on, she
regularly guest-starred in episodes of popular fare, ranging from
soapies (The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Dynasty (1981)) to
crime drama (Simon & Simon (1981), Crossing Jordan
(2001), NCIS (2003)) and science fiction (The Twilight Zone
(1985), Quantum Leap (1989)). The Arkansas native was a 2005
inductee into Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. Her honours have included an
NAACP Theatre Award and the inaugural AEA/AFTRA/SAG Diversity Award.
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Personal Review: I
think this is a very serious episode and educational. It makes you want
to learn about the USA's past. It is both disturbing and interesting to
see the KKK characters portrayed as normal everyday folks living normal
everyday lives while belonging to a hate group. How you are raised
definitely shapes your beliefs, right or wrong.
Best
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Scene: "That’s right, that’s right, that’s right, they’re kids, God bless the children." "There’s a ghost! It’s not a ghost, it’s an angel. No way not with those clothes." "It’s the Lord, What??????? No, No, No, No I’m not the Lord. It’s Abraham Lincoln! No it’s not he has a beard. That’s some crazy white man." "Listen, I may be crazy but you got to tell the big ones that you got to get out of the church, out of the church."
Say What? When Al talks about the Voting Rights Act in
1965, he says it was August 6th. It was actually August 3rd.
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