"Miss Deep South"
Leap
Date:
June
7, 1958
Episode
adopted by: RoseAnn Erks
Additional info provided by: Brian Greene
Synopsis:
As
a beauty contest finalist competing for the title of "Miss Deep South",
Sam must uncover the reason that his pageant roommate - a
beautiful, sweet girl with a lot of promise - disappears off the face
of the earth before the pageant ends.
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TV Guide Synopsis
Place
Leap Date
Name of
the Person Leaped Into
Music
Project Trivia
Sam Trivia
Al Trivia
Al's Women
Al's
Outfits Worn in the Episode
Miscellaneous
Trivia
Writers
Director
Producers
Crew
Broadcast Date
Guest Stars
Guest Cast Notes
Guests Who Appeared in
Other Episodes of Quantum Leap:
Personal Review
Best Lines
Best Scenes
Say what?
Quotable Quotes
Awards
Production
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TV Guide Synopsis
(TVGuide.com):
Sam
(Scott Bakula) gets himself into a real beaut: he's a pageant
contestant who must keep a competitor from making a tragic decision.
Connie: Heather McAdam. Peg Myers: Nancy Stafford. Clint: David A.
Brooks. Vicky: Julie Ann Lowery. Judge: Hugh Gillin.
TV
Guide Synopsis (Original):
Sam
(Scott Bakula) gets himself into a real beauty as Miss Sugar Belle in a
Southern pageant, he must prevent a fellow contestant from making a
tragic decision that will send her into oblivion.
Place:
Miss Deep
South Pageant, somewhere in Alabama
Leap Date:
June 7, 1958
Name of the Person
Leaped Into:
Darlene Monte (or Monty)
Broadcast
Date:
November
2, 1990 - Friday
Music:
"Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis and performed by Scott Bakula
"Cuanta
La Gusta"
performed by Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell
"I’m
Walkin’" by Ricky Nelson
"Splish
Splash" by Bobby Darin
Project Trivia:
The gummi bear handlink is seen again before it's proper introduction
in "The Great Spontini."
An
elevator appears to be used in the Imaging Chamber to move Al up and
down. Or perhaps it's just Ziggy projecting his image vertically.
Sam
Trivia:
Sam says he hasn’t seem a black and white television like this since he
was a little boy.
Sam
doesn’t know who Carmen Miranda is.
Sam
plays
"Great Balls of Fire" on the piano.
Sam
remembers his little sister
Katie.
Al Trivia:
Al knows the lyrics to "Cuanta La Gusta" and helps Sam with the words
and dance.
Al
appears in the episode 9 times. The
imaging chamber door opens once.
Al’s Outfits Worn
in the Episode:
Al’s first outfit is a silver jacket, blue shirt, grey pants, and a
black tie.
The
second outfit is black pants, a black vest with silver
dots, green, brown, orange, white colored shirt, and a shiny bronze tie.
Al's Women:
All beauty pageant contestants, especially the one going into the elevator!
When
Al was in flight school, he had a fling with a beauty queen.
Miscellaneous
Trivia:
A TV Guide ad superimposed Bakula's head onto a woman's body.
It
is the 35th annual Miss Deep South pageant.
Pageant
contestant Cheryl Birch was named for Universal’s Director of Business
Affairs.
Most
of the episode was filmed at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel, which
closed in 1989. It has since been demolished.
Crew:
Writer:
Tommy
Thompson
Director:
Christopher
T. Welch
Producers:
Donald P. Bellisario - Executive Producer Jimmy Giritlian - Associate Producer (as James S. Giritlian) Paul Brown - Co-producer Jeff Gourson - Co-Producer Deborah Pratt - Co-executive producer Chris Ruppenthal - Producer Robert A. Wolterstorff - Supervising producer Harker Wade - Supervising producer Michael Zinberg - Co-executive Producer
Tom Boyd - Oboe soloist
Velton Ray Bunch - Musical Score
Donald Woods - Music editor
Mike Post - Music by/Music supervisor, Composer (theme music)
Michael Watkins - Director of Photography
Jerry Temple - Film editor
Peter Gulla - Assistant camera
Mark Abbott - Gaffer
Eldon Hansen - Rigging technichian
Ellen Lubin Sanitsky - Casting
Robert L. Zilliox - Set decorator
Jean-Pierre Dorléac - Costume designer
Ronald R. Grow - unit production manager
Cameron Birnie - Production designer
Ryan Gordon - First assistant director
Robert Brooks Mendel - Second assistant director
Rick Bozeat - Sound effects editor
Paul B. Clay - Supervising Sound Editor
Mark Hopkins McNabb - Sound mixer
Diamond Farnsworth - Stunt Coordinator
David Rawley - Costume supervisor
Donna Roberts- Costume supervisor
Tommy Thompson - Executive story editor
Bobby Duncan - Choreographer
Regular
Cast:
Scott Bakula
Dean Stockwell
Guest
Stars:
Heather McAdam as Connie Duncan (or Douglas)
Nancy Stafford as Peg Myers
David A.
Brooks as Clint Beaumont
Julie Ann Lowery as Vicky Jenkins
Hugh Gillin as Contest Judge
Linda Hoy as Arlene
Marte Boyle Slout as Thelma (female judge)
Martin Clark as Master of Ceremonies
Karen Moore as Cheryl Lynn Birch
Janeen
Rae Heller as Beauty Contestant Sawyer
Cynthia Windham as Missy
Luann Lee as Girl at Elevator
Theresa
Ring as Darlene Monte (Mirror image)
Guest
Cast Notes:
Hugh Gillin played Howard on "The Facts of Life."
Nancy
Stafford played Joan on "St. Elsewhere" and Michelle Thomas on "Matlock."
Guests
Who Appeared in Other Episodes of Quantum Leap: Robert
Harris Duncan, the choreographer for this episode, wrote "Running for Honor."
Cynthia Windham played Sister in "Hurricane."
Julie
Ann Lowery played Ellie LaForge in "Lee Harvey Oswald"
Personal Review:
This episode is very good. It is very humorous. It gives you an insight
on how much stuff a woman goes through when they are getting ready for
a beauty pageant. It shows how much work it takes to do things and
makes an important statement about who you are.
Best Line:
"Where’d you learn to… Um, the 4-H club."
Best Scene:
The best scene is where Sam beats up Clint in Clint’s hotel room. He
does this to protect Connie by getting the film back. He gets Clint to
tell him where the film is by holding him out of the window.
Say What?
The episode of "Leave It To Beaver" showing on the television did not
actually air until several months later.
The
photos used to find out Connie had posed for nude photos was developed
seemingly too quickly. The one-hour photo process didn't begin until
the 1970's.
The
Jerry Lee Lewis tour poster that out points out is "next week" says
June 24th on it - over two weeks after the leap date.
Stock
footage from the 1980's era movie "Streets of Fire" was used during the
episode. The hairstyles are very 70's/80's and the fact that multiple
races were dancing together would not have happened in the 1950's.
Quotable Quotes:
This isn't on the program! What the heck is
she doing up there?
Oh lighten up, Harlan, it's rock and roll, and I like it!
-- the pageant judges describing Sam's performance in the talent
contest, "Miss Deep South"
You shake my nerves, and you rattle my brain...
That kind of love drives a....er, WOMAN insane.
You broke my will, oh what a thrill
Goodness, gracious, Great balls of fire!
-- Sam, "Miss Deep South"
Smile!
-- Al, "Miss Deep South"
She had a major league set of gun turrets. ... That was a complement!
On what planet?
-- Al and Sam, "Miss Deep South"
I haven't seen a black and white set like this since I was a little ...
girl.
-- Sam, "Miss Deep South"
You know, you're really a prude!
-- Al to Sam, "Miss Deep South"
Zippers were a brilliant invention.
-- Al, "Miss Deep South"
You see that, even as a hologram I'VE GOT IT.
-- Al, "Miss Deep South"
Don't tell me, let me guess, Scarlett O'Hara on steroids.
-- Al, "Miss Deep South"
Where did you learn to ...
4H club.
-- Connie and Sam, "Miss Deep South"
I felt alive - like I had electricity shootin' all through my body . .
. you ever felt that way?
Yeah, once or twice.
-- Connie and Sam, "Miss Deep South"
So ... what are you measurements?
Why?
-- The pageant judge and Sam, "Miss Deep South"
That was the most humiliating experience of my life.
-- Sam, on the 'talent' contest, "Miss Deep South"
Just hang in there Connie, the cavalry's coming.
-- Al, "Miss Deep South"
I'm sorry, was that your foot? ... Watch your head! ... I'm sorry ...
-- Sam to Clint, "Miss Deep South"
Stay with her Al.
Like white on rice lil darlin'.
-- Sam and Al, "Miss Deep South"
"I
just wish Katie could be here to see this."
-- Sam, "Miss Deep South"
Awards:
Jean-Pierre Dorléac had considered submitting this episode for an Emmy
consideration. However, due to the inappropriate stock footage inserted
(possibly from the 1970's), he chose not to submit.
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