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"Star-Crossed"


Leap Date:

June 15, 1972


Episode adopted by: R. Joy Helvie
Additional info provided by: Brian Greene


Synopsis:

Sam leaps into Dr. Gerald Bryant, an english teacher who is having a fling with a student named Jamie.

Sam meets the woman who stood him up at the altar in his own life - Donna Elesee - but she has not yet met him in the future. Al tells Sam he is there to keep Dr. Bryant and Jamie Lee apart, but Sam thinks he is there to get another chance with Donna. He believes that if he can get Donna back together with her father, that she may marry Sam after all. But Al warns that she might marry the first guy she was engaged to instead, if he pulls it off.

While conflicting with Oscar, the boy wrestler who is in love with Jamie Lee...Sam, Donna, Oscar, and Jamie Lee all head to Washington to reunite Donna and her father at the Watergate hotel.

 

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TV Guide Synopsis
Place
Leap Date

Name of the Person Leaped Into
Music

Project Trivia
Sam Trivia
Al's Women
Kiss with History
Al's Outfits Worn in the Episode
Miscellaneous Trivia
Writers
Director
Producers

Crew
Broadcast Date
Guest Stars
Guest Cast Notes
Say What?
Quotable Quotes

 



Production # 65003


TV Guide Synopsis:
As a professor in 1972, Sam (Scott Bakula) meets a young woman who will break his heart in the future, unless he can alter it. Donna: Teri Hatcher. Jamie Lee: Leslie Sachs. Col. Wojohowitz: Michael Gregory. Oscar: Michael McGrady. Harry: Ken Gibbel.



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Place:
Lawrence College in Marion, Ohio



Leap Date:
June 15, 1972



Leapee:
Dr. Gerald Bryant



Broadcast Date:
March 31, 1989 - Friday



Music:
"American Pie" by Don McClean
"Betcha By Golly Wow" by The Stylistics
"In-da-Godda-da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly
"We Live on Borrowed Time" by Barry Manilow

 

Kiss With History:
Sam enters the Watergate Hotel through a door found unlocked with tape on the latch just before the Nixon scandal. 

The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continual attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building. After the five perpetrators were arrested, the press and the U.S. Justice Department connected the cash found on them at the time to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Further investigations, along with revelations during subsequent trials of the burglars, led the U.S. House of Representatives to grant the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary additional investigative authority -to probe into "certain matters within its jurisdiction" and led the U.S. Senate to create the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee. The resulting Senate Watergate hearings were broadcast "gavel-to-gavel" nationwide by PBS, and they aroused public interest.[5] Witnesses testified that Nixon had approved plans to cover up his administration’s involvement in the break-in, and that there was a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office. Throughout the investigation, Nixon’s administration resisted its probes, and this led to a constitutional crisis.

 

Project Trivia:
Handlink: 1/4 inch thick/flat, transparent black plastic, black data screens, few buttons

Imaging Chamber Door: invisible, manually opened/closed

#1 Rule: "The Time Traveler shall not take advantage of his position to improve or alter his life."

Weitzman--senator heading PQL funding committee; tall, skinny, has Lincoln fixation; wants Sam declared non compos mentis

Black lights cause Al’s holographic image to glow transparent blue

 

Sam Trivia:
Donna turned 30 in 1984 when leaving Star-Bright; this is when Sam met her.

Wedding held on June 5 at Old Mission Chapel--it was hot. Donna left Sam at the altar.

Donna’s father left when she was 8 years old.

Donna was engaged once before Sam.

Sam’s doctorates: Ancient Languages, Medicine, Quantum Physics, no psychiatry



Al's Women:
Al checks out Jamie Lee.

Al comments that Bartlett's wife is a woman to get fired over.

Al sets up Tina with Weitzman in order to blackmail him into letting him back into the Project.

 

Al's Outfits:
1) Black shirt
, gray slacks, black shoes w/silver tips, Project Star-Bright button/pin which lights up.

2) Turquoise metallic shirt, gray slacks, silver tie, white robe/tunic, large white sash with hieroglyphics.


Miscellaneous Trivia:
Deborah Pratt's sister is named Donna.

The very first sage-sell was introduced here featuring a voice-over by Scott Bakula explaining a bit about the premise of the show with background music used in "Genesis."

Aside from the two times in "Genesis", the tense sound effect just before the leap effect is used one final time here as Sam leaps out.

Press reviews for the episode were not great despite this later becoming a fan classic.

 

Guest Cast:
Teri Hatcher as Donna Elesee
Leslie Sachs as Jamie Lee
Michael Gregory as Colonel Wojiehowitz
Michael McGrady as Oscar
Charles Walker as Frank
Ken Gibbel as Harry
Stacey Adams as
Space Cadet Student
Tonya D. Pullum as Afro Student
Mary Boessow as Pragmatic Student
Lisa Meddin as Headband Student
Anne Leyden as Waitress
John Tayloe as
Dr. Gerald Bryant (Mirror image)
Kort Falkenburg as Gas Station Attendant



Guest Cast Notes:
After the show wrapped, the cast and crew went bowling and had a Christmas Party.

Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress best known for her portrayals of Lois Lane on the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997); Paris Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997); and Susan Mayer on the television series Desperate Housewives (2004–2012), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy and three Screen Actors Guild Awards (one as lead female actor, two as part of Best Ensemble), and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

 

Executive Producer:
Donald P. Bellisario

Written by:
Deborah Pratt

Directed by:
Mark Sobel

Music by:
Mike Post

Edited by:
N. Mario DiGregorio

Art Director:
Cameron Birnie

Director of Photography:
Roy H. Wagner a.s.c.

Supervising Producer:
John Hill

Co-producer:
Deborah Pratt

Produced by:
Harker Wade

Associate Producer:
David Bellisario

Unit Production Manager:
Paul Cajero

1st Assistant Director:
Tom Connors

2nd Assistant Director:
Roberto Villar

Casting:
Melissa Skoff, c.s.a.

Casting Associate:
Debi Manwiller

Set Director:
Robert L. Zilliox

Executive Story Consultant:
Deborah Arakelian

Costume Designer:
Jean-Pierre Dorleac

Costume Supervisors:
David Rawley
Donna Roberts-Orme

Sound Mixer:
Ron L. Collins

Sound Editor:
Vic Lackey

Music Editor:
Susan Mick



Say What?
Sam and Dr. Bryant in the mirror have slightly different shirts. Also, Bryant moves the wallet down as he looks up at himself, and Sam doesn't.

The Deep Purple poster on the wall at the Rathskeller is from the band's 1984 tour.

How does Al see the "kinky stuff" in the dark when he goes into the armoire?

Why didn't Sam and the group leave earlier instead of what presumably is the middle of the night?



Quotable Quotes:
Break-in?  Nixon?  Impeachment?  I don't remember.
Oh boy, the Republicans would love you.
-- Al and Sam, "Star-Crossed"

No offense Al, but this time I'm going to make Ziggy my best man.
-- Sam, "Star-Crossed"

You would shoot that magnificent creature?
It was a buck!
BAMBI was a buck!
-- Jamie Lee and Oscar, "Star-Crossed"

Wanna bet?
Yeah, I've got connections.
-- Al and Sam, "Star-Crossed"

She knew how I liked my burger.  Shove that up your gauge circuits, Ziggy.
-- Sam, "Star-Crossed"

If you look into my eyes, you'll see another soul.
-- Sam to Donna, "Star-Crossed"