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"Nuclear Family"
Leap
Date:
October
26, 1962
Episode
adopted by: MikeKraken
Additional info provided by:
Brian Greene
Synopsis:
In
the body of a bomb shelter salesman during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
Sam has to stop the killing of a neighbor during an air raid alarm
which results in the conviction of his brother.
Audio from this
episode
TV Guide Synopsis
Place
Leap Date
Name of the
Person Leaped Into
Songs
Music Artists
Project Trivia
Al Trivia
Al's
Outfits Worn in the Episode
Miscellaneous
Trivia
Kiss with
History
Writers
Director
Producers
Crew
Broadcast Date
Guest Stars
Guest Cast Notes
Personal Review
Best Lines
Best Scenes
Say What?
Quotable Quotes
Production
# 66426
TV
Guide Synopsis:
Sam
must prevent a fateful killing when he falls into the brother of a
fallout-shelter salesman (Timothy Carhart), whose family's tensions
escalate during the Cuban missile crisis. Burt: Kurt Fuller. Kate: Kim
Flowers. Stevie: Robert Hy Gorman. Sam: Scott Bakula.
Broadcast
Date:
May 15, 1991
(Wednesday)
Leap
Date:
October 26, 1962
Place:
Homestead, Florida
Name
of the Person Leaped Into:
Eddie Ellroy, a junior student at Oklahoma State, currently working for
his older brother selling bomb shelters to make extra money.
Songs/Music:
Theme by Mike Post
Score by Velton Ray Bunch
Project
Trivia:
Handlink: Colored Cubes / Gummy Bear
Al
Trivia:
Al flew reconnaisance flights over Cuba during the crisis in a F-4
Phantom Escort, in the squadron that went in right after a U2 was shot
down while photographing missile bases.
Al's
Outfits Worn in the Episode:
First
appearance: White dress coat and pants; white shoes,
orange
dress shirt; zebra-striped tie; some kind of circular pin on the right
breast of
his coat; lit cigar. Appears and leaves through the Imaging Chamber
Door.
Second, third, and
fourth
appearance: Multi-coloured scaly purple and
silver dress
coat; wide, gold belt; white dress shirt; gray pants;
black-and-white-striped tie; black shoes; cigar. (no Imaging Chamber
Door)
Fifth appearance:
Light brown vest;
patterend orange dress shirt; gold tie; same
pin from before, but on left breast; unlit cigar. (no Imaging Chamber
Door)
Miscellaneous Trivia:
While
"Duck and Cover" may seem futile during an atomic blast, doing it
further away from the blast could protect you from being impaled by
flying pieces of bursting windows and debris. Good advice!
A sketch of the bomb shelter is
included in "The Complete Quantum Leap Book."
Kiss With History:
This
episode takes place during the final days of the Cuban Missile Crisis,
a situation that occurred between Russia and the United States October
16-28, 1962.
Regular Cast:
Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett
Dean Stockwell as Al Calavicci
Guest Stars:
Timothy Carhart as Mac Ellroy
Kurt Fuller as Burt "the Turtle" Rosencranz
Kim Flowers as Kate Ellroy
Robert Hy Gorman as Stevie Ellroy
Candy Hutson as Kimberly Ellroy
Delia Salvi as Mrs. Klingman
Celia Lovsky as Piano Teacher
Patrick
M. Bruneau as Eddie (Mirror image)
Guest
Cast Notes:
Candy Hutson did the voice of Cera in three of the "The Land Before
Time" movies.
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Timothy Carhart (born
December 24, 1953) is an American actor. He starred in
the CBS drama Island Son (1989–90)
and has had recurring roles in CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation (2000–03) and 24 (2002). He
also starred in the 1992 Broadway revival
of A
Streetcar Named Desire. His film appearances
include Ghostbusters (1984), Pink
Cadillac (1989), Thelma
& Louise (1991), and Beverly
Hills Cop III (1994).
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Kurt Fuller is frequently cast as
a weaselly executive, a smarmy authority
figure, a law enforcement officer or overprotective father.[citation
needed] He may be recognized as nerdy television
director Russell in Wayne's
World; a spiteful mayoral aide in Ghostbusters
II; the sleazy television executive and mastermind of the
"Battle of the Tough Guys", Mr. Brell, in No
Holds Barred; a seedy real estate agent in Elvira:
Mistress of the Dark; and the power-abusing, egotistical
NSC Director Robert Lindsey in the third season of Alias.
Usually cast in comedic roles, Fuller played real-life figures Werner
Klemperer (in Paul
Schrader's Auto
Focus) and Karl
Rove (on the TV satire That's
My Bush!). He also portrayed Pacific Bell Retirement Fund
Executive Walter Ribbon in The
Pursuit of Happyness.
Fuller has also appeared in many
television shows, including Knight
Rider, Timecop, Quantum
Leap, L.A.
Law, Murder,
She Wrote, Ally
McBeal, Felicity, Malcolm
in the Middle, The
West Wing, Boston
Legal, Boston
Public, House, Monk, Desperate
Housewives, the live-action version of The
Tick, Charmed, Carnivàle, My
Name Is Earl, Ugly
Betty, Glee, Drop
Dead Diva and the pilot
episode of NewsRadio.
He has had a recurring role as Woody
the Coroner on Psych and
another on Supernatural,
depicting a malevolent angel called Zachariah.[1] Fuller
later reprised the role for Supernatural's 300th
episode "Lebanon." He also acted as a Senior Police Officer in the 2000
comedy Scary
Movie, who is the commanding officer of Doofy.
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Kim Flowers is best known for her
supporting roles in the films Alien:
Resurrection and Another
Day in Paradise and for her supporting roles in
the TV series Pensacola:
Wings of Gold and H.E.L.P..
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Celia
Lovsky (born Cäcilia Josefina Lvovsky, February 21,
1897 – October 12, 1979) was
an Austrian-American actress. She was born
in Vienna, daughter of Břetislav Lvovsky (1857–1910), a
minor Czech opera composer. She studied theater,
dance, and languages at the Austrian Royal Academy of Arts and
Music. She is best known to fans of Star
Trek as the original T'Pau, and to fans
of The Twilight Zone as the aged daughter of an
eternally youthful Hollywood.
Crew:
Writers:
Paul Brown
Director:
James Whitmore, Jr.
Producers:
Deborah Pratt
Michael Zinberg
Harker Wade
Paul Brown
Jeff Gourson
Chris Ruppenthal
Theme by - Mike Post
Music by - Velton Ray Bunch
Co-executive Producers - Deborah
Pratt, Michael Zinberg
Supervising Producers - Harker Wade
Co-Producers - Paul Brown, Jeff
Gourson
Produced by - Chris Ruppenthal
Written by - Paul Brown
Directed by - James Whitmore, Jr.
Executive Producer - Donald P.
Bellisario
Associate Producer - James S. Giritlian
Executive Story Editor - Tommy Thompson
Director of Photography - Michael
Watkins A.S.C.
Production Designer - Cameron Birnie
Edited by - Jerry U. Frizell
A.C.E., Ken Denisoff
Unit Production Manager - Ron Grow
First Assistant Director - Ryan
Gordon
Second Assistant Director - Kate
Yurka
Casting by - Ellen Lubin Sanitsky
Set Decorator - Robert L. Zilliox
Costume Designer - Jean-Pierre
Dorleac
Costume Supervisors - David
Rawley, Donna Roberts-Orme
Sound Mixer - Barry D. Thomas
Stunt Co-ordinator - Diamond
Farnsworth
Panaflex® Camera and Lenses by
PANAVISION®
Supervising Sound Editor - Paul Clay
Music Editor - Donald Woods
This motion picture is protected under laws of the United States and
other countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution, or exhibition
may result in in civil liability and criminal prosocution
Copyright © 1991 by Universal City Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.
Country of first publication: United States of Amercia. Univeral City
Studios, Inc. is the author of this motion picture for purposes of the
Berne Convention and all national laws giving effect thereto.
The charcters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious, and
any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely
coincidental.
Personal
Review & Synopsis:
The era of "duck and cover" and air raid
sirens: Sam leaps into the
height of the Cuban Missle Crisis as the brother of a bomb-shelter
salesman. It's up to him to prevent a neighbour from being shot by one
of the host's family members. "It's World War III!"
I would have to say this is one of
Sam's easier leaps. Simple mission:
stop Bert from getting shot, which Ziggy gave a 99% probability. The
only real obsticle was keeping the kids from being so scared and Mac
happy with Eddie's salesmanship. It's a pretty good episode that delves
into the psyche of the people at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Very intruiging!
Best
Line:
Sam: "Let's just pretend that you can travel into the future and look
back at this time right now. You'll see that the Russians never hurt
you or your family, and you'll see that you were spending a lot of your
time and energy being afraid of something bad that never happened."
Best
Scene:
Sam is giving Mrs. Klingman a tour of the bomb shelter, and what he
says triggers her memory of the Holocaust.
Say
What?
The actual leap
date is October 26 and last a couple of days. However, the Presidential
address seen on the TV was from November 2nd. Sam apparently stuck
around a few extra days simply to give Mac the idea to sell swimming
pools?
Similarly, the
Presidential address shown before the blackout was from September 13th.
Mac says he's been
trying to sell Burt a shelter for three years. A few moments later, he
says it's been two years.
Sam states he was
eight years old during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but he was actually
nine years old.
The "Mr. Ed"
episode seen on TV was actually aired in January of 1961. It was the
first episode.
The Woody
Woodpecker cartoon was from 1969, seven years after the setting of this
episode.
Quotable Quotes:
Sam: "Then why waste your money on a shelter?"
Mrs. Klingman: "You're right! You're not much of a salesman!"
Al: "Long enough to see that you are a real mensh."
Sam: "Mensh?"
Al: "Mensh. It's means 'good guy'. It's a word that my fourth wife...
third... third or fourth wife, Ruthie, used to use. She never used it
about me, though."
Stevie: "Whatcha doin'?"
Sam: "Nothin'. What are you doing?"
Stevie: "Nothin'. Wanna join me?"
Sam: "Maybe later."
Al: "Annuals or perennials?" (pops up behind Sam burying shotgun
shells)
Sam: "Do you have to sneak up on me?"
Al: "Well, I'm sorry, do you expect a hologram to knock?"
Al: "Oh, 'Duck and Cover', I remember that. Isn't like an air-raid
show for kids to duck and..."
Sam: "Yeah, it teaches them that if they hide under a picnic blanket,
it works wonders against atom bombs."
What do you
expect, a hologram to knock?
-- Al, "Nuclear Family"
Survive in style!
-- Motto of Ellroy Atom Bomb Shelters, "Nuclear Family"
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