"The
Leap Back"
Leap Dates:
June 15, 1945
September 18, 1999
Episode adopted by: R. Joy Helvie
Synopsis:
After a lightening strike, Sam and Al have
switched places, with Al stuck in the year 1945 as an ex-POW returning from WWII and Sam
confined to the Imaging Chamber which has been locked by mistake. Al must find a way to
keep his host's old girlfriend from marrying someone else and Sam must get the Imaging
Chamber door open so that he can save Al...and return to his lost love.
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Project Trivia
Sam Trivia
Al Trivia
Al's Women
Al's Outfits Worn in the Episode
Miscellaneous Trivia
Kiss with History
Writers
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Broadcast Date
Guest Stars
Guest Cast Notes
Guests who appeared in other Quantum Leap episodes
Cast members who have passed away
Personal Review
Best Lines
Best Scenes
Say what? (things in the episode that make no sense)
Quotable Quotes
Awards
Deleted Scene
BROADCAST DATE: September 18, 1991
PROJECT DATE:
In the episode, Al remembers the Project's date as being September 18, 1999. Coincidence?
PLACE: Crown Point, Indiana
DATE: June 15, 1945
LEAPEE: Captain Tom Jarrett (US Army)
SONGS:
"Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?"
MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA:
**In this episode, Al is the Leaper and Sam is the Observer.
**Al and Sam's neurons and mesons merged during the simo-leap, which allowed Sam to Leap
before his birth. It also caused problems by making Al prude and Sam rude.
PROJECT TRIVIA:
**Ziggy will seal the Imaging Chamber door if she detects a catastrophic collapse of the
radium accelerator ring surrounding the Imaging Chamber. Once the door is sealed, it can't
be opened until the radiation half-life of the radium ring has expired. The length of the
half-life is 1,600 years.
**There is enough air in the Imaging Chamber to sustain a single person for 6 months.
**Sam still calls Ziggy "him", even after Ziggy speaks with a female voice.
SAM TRIVIA:
**Following Sam's actions in "Star Crossed", Donna Elesee ended up marrying him.
**Sam Leaps home, but he ultimately sacrifices his freedom to save Al.
AL TRIVIA:
**At the point of "The Leap Back", Al has saved Sam's life 23 times, according
to Ziggy.
AL'S OUTFITS:
1) brown WWII US Army uniform
2) black dress shirt
silver tie
bronze jacket
AL'S WOMEN:
Al has an "encounter" with Suzanne Elsinga.
GUESTS IN OTHER QL EPS:
Candy Ann Brown plays Verbena Beeks in "Shock Theatre".
Dennis Wolfberg plays Gooshie in "Genesis, Part I", "Lee Harvey
Oswald", "Killin' Time", and "Mirror Image".
PERSONAL REVIEW:
Let's just say this... After initially watching this episode during an MLK Jr. Day
marathon a few years back (so, this was on a Monday), I watched it once a day, every day,
for the next week.... Basically, I love it.
SAM'S BEST LINE:
MIKE: Are you forgetting who slips you an extra pound of butter every now and then?
KELLY: I didn't know I was swappin' sugar for it.
SAM: If a pound of butter's all it takes, then I got me a dairy farm that I---
AL'S BEST LINE:
(gorgeous woman walks by)
AL: This isn't fair. Sa-am... A beautiful body like that, and I'm just thinking pure
thoughts? Dammit!
BEST SCENE:
I love the scene when Al and Suzanne are... "you know", because with all of Al's
talk throughout the series, this is the only episode in which we actually see Al get any
"action".
However, I'd probably have to say the best scene would be the very end, when Al and Donna
are talking.
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
SAM: Revenge is mine, thus sayeth the hologram!
***
SAM: Do you have any data on Admiral Calavicci?
ZIGGY: He'll kiss the girls and make them cry.
TINA: (sighs) Ain't that the truth.
LOST
SCRIPT:
"The Leap Back" -- Sam
sounds just like Al
One after another the team greets their leader. When he reaches Dr. Virbina, [and again
that is the spelling in the script] he kisses her on both cheeks.
DR. BEEKS
I don't recall you leaping into any Frenchman.
SAM
I think I picked that up from an actor.
DR. BEEKS
I want to be sure you haven't picked anything else up. My office in twenty minutes for a
physical.
Donna slips her arm protectively around Sam.
DONNA
Your office, tomorrow. (beat) Tonight, he's mine.
FEMALE ADMIRAL
He has to be debriefed, Doctor.
SAM
(Al la Groucho) I'm not wearing briefs, but don't let that stop you.
Everyone is a bit taken aback at Sam's line except Tina who smiles wistfully as she turns
to Gushie.
TINA
Gee...he sounds just like Al.
(Taken from http://www.sethargabright.com/qleap/cutting.htm)
AWARDS:
Emmy Nomination: Dean Stockwell for "Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series;
1992"
Emmy Nomination: Quantum Leap for "Outstanding Drama Series; 1992"
GUEST STARS THAT HAVE PASSED ON SINCE
Dennis Wolfberg, who played "Gooshie", passed on in Culver City, California, on
October 3, 1994 from melanoma.
GUEST CAST:
Donna Elesee-Beckett: Mimi Kuzyk
Suzanne Elsinga: Amanda Wyss
Mike: Douglas Roberts
Clifford Whiteside: Robert Prescott
Verbena Beeks: Candy Ann Brown
Kelly: Jeanine Jackson
Gooshie: Dennis Wolfberg
Tina: Gigi Rice
Naval Admiral: Susan Ann Connor
Captain Tom Jarrett (mirror): Dean Denton
CREW:
Executive Producer:
Donald P. Bellisario
Written By:
Donald P. Bellisario
Directed By:
Michael Zinberg
Theme By:
Mike Post
Music By:
Velton Ray Bunch
Co-Executive Producers:
Deborah Pratt
Michael Zinberg
Supervising Producer:
Harker Wade
Produced By:
Jeff Gourson
Tommy Thompson
Chris Ruppenthal
Paul Brown
Associate Producer:
James S. Giritlian
Coordinating Producer:
David Bellisario
Story Editor:
Paris Qualles
Director of Photography:
Michael Watkins, A.S.C.
Production Designer:
Cameron Birnie
Edited By:
Jon Koslowsky
Unit Production Manager:
Ron Grow
1st Assistant Director:
Ryan Gordon
2nd Assistant Director:
Kate Yurka
Casting By:
Ellen Lubin Sanitsky
Set Director:
Robert L. Zilliox
Costume Designer:
Jean-Pierre Dorleac
Costume Supervisor:
David Rawley
Art Director:
Ellen Dambros-Williams
Sound Mixer:
Barry D. Thomas
Stunt Coordinator:
Diamond Farnsworth
Sound Editor:
Greg Schorer
Music Editor:
Bruce Frazier
Panaflex camera and lenses by PANAVISION
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