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"What
Price Gloria?"
Leap
Date:
October
16, 1961
Episode
Adopted by: Missy
<aka> mrsbeckett
Additional info provided by:
Brian Greene
Synopsis:
Sam
is a woman! And Al is in love. In this second season, we discover that
Al sees Sam as the person he leaps into (which changes in later
episodes) and Al has to see Dr. Beeks the project shrink to cope with
seeing his best friend as a beautiful woman.
Sam
and his best friend Gloria are secretaries. Sam is being stalked by
every man in the office, especially his boss Buddy Wright, who is
married but promising Gloria that he will divorce the wife and marry
her. But it's not meant to be, and unless Sam can intervene, Gloria
will
commit suicide.
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Guide Synopsis
Place
Leap Date
Name of the Person
Leaped Into
Songs
Music Artists
Project Trivia
Al's
Women
Al's
Outfits Worn in
the Episode
Miscellaneous
Trivia
Kiss With History
Writers
Director
Producers
Crew
Broadcast Date
Guest Stars
Guest
Cast Notes
Guests
who appeared in other Quantum Leap episodes
Personal Review
Best
Scenes
Say what?
Quotable Quotes
Production # 65017
TV
Guide Synopsis:
As
a woman, Sam tries to convince a husband-hungry secretary that she's
got more to live for than a married executive. Gloria: Jean Sagal.
Buddy: John Calvin. Parker: Gregg Barber. Richard: Matt Landers. Sam:
Scott Bakula. Al: Dean Stockwell.
Leap Date:
October
16, 1961
Place:
Detroit, Michigan
Leapee:
Samantha Stormer-
"Youngest Executive Secretary" for Buddy Wright, at National Motors
Corporation.
Broadcast Date:
October 25, 1989 (Wednesday)
Songs:
"Venus" by Frankie Avalon
Music:
Mike Post
Project Trivia:
Al turns to Verbeena Beeks, the project psychiatrist, to deal with his
issues with Sam being a woman.
Ziggy is a male
persona.
Al sees Sam as the
Leapee. This would change in later seasons, perhaps due to a
programming upgrade.
The Imaging
Chanber door is first seen in its illuminated form, and would remain
this way until the series conclusion.
Al’s
outfits worn in the episode:
1. White
shirt, black vest with white polka-dots, of course a cigar. Sungasses pin.
2. Orange long
sleeved shirt, black buttons, and black suspenders. Dark gray pants,
3. Teal suit jacket with peach colored shirt and
black and gray tie with criss-cross pattern. Black wristwatch. Gold pin.
Al's
Women:
Al
says he used to think Dr. Verbeena Beeks, the project psychiatrist was
cute.
Al is unable to
perform with Tina because of his infatuation with Samantha/Sam.
Miscellaneous
Trivia:
The
1926 silent film "What Price Glory" is the basis for this episode title.
When Gloria gets dressed
alongside Sam in the mirror, Jean Sagal’s twin sister Liz Sagal is
playing opposite Jean so that they can both be in the scene! According to Sam in "Shock Theater", Samantha is 26 years old.
Kiss With History:
Buddy Wright mentions Christine Jorgensen (born George), the first
person to become widely known in the United States for having a
successful gender reassignment. Lili
Elbe,
from Denmark, a Danish
painter who was assigned male at birth, experienced what is now called
gender dysphoria, and underwent the world's first documented sex
reassignment surgery.
Crew:
Writer:
Deborah Pratt
Co-Producer:
Deborah
Pratt
Producer:
Harker Wade
Supervising Producer:
Scott Shepherd
Director:
Alan J. Levi
Guest stars:
Jean
Sagal as Gloria Collins
John Calvin as Buddy Wright
La Reine
Chabut as Samantha Stormer (Mirror image)
Gregg Berger as Parker (the guy Gloria will marry in the
future)
Matt Landers as Richard (Sam’s blind date)
Jack Armstrong as
Johnny (mail room guy who hits on Sam)
Laurel Schaefer as Gail Wright (Buddy’s
wife)
Ryan
MacDonald as Ted Hartman
Liz Sagal as Gloria Collins (Mirror image)
Joy Stockwell as Disapproving Secretary
Guest Cast Notes:
Jean Sagel has a twin sister, Liz.
They starred in the TV show "Double Trouble" in the 80’s.
La Reine Chabut guest starred in an
episode of "Murder She Wrote" with Guy Stockwell, brother of Dean
Stockwell.
Gregg Berger was the voice of
Cornfed the Pig, Duckman’s partner. He does many cartoon voices and can
also be heard on dozens of television commercials
Laurel Schaefer played Helen Whitaker on
Falcon Crest
Joy Stockwell (Dean
Stockwell's wife) appears in an uncredited appearance as the
disapproving secretary.
Guests
who appeared in other Quantum Leap episodes:
LaReine Chabut also
appeared as Samantha Stormer's mirror image in "Shock Theater."
Best
scene:
Sam telling Buddy that he is really a man and then punching him
out.
Personal Review:
Sam
leaps into Samantha Stormer, an executive secretary at a car
manufacturer in Detroit, MI in 1961. He has to deal with the male
chauvinism of the time and a boss - Buddy Wright, who wants to have his
way with every woman he meets.
Sam’s
roommate, Gloria is involved with
Buddy and he has her convinced that he is going to leave his wife and
marry her. Ziggy has let Al know that Buddy is not going to leave his
wife and that when she finds out, Gloria commits suicide. Of course it
is Sam’s job to make sure that Gloria lives.
Gloria
and Sam go on a
double blind date and, after Sam hits his date with his purse, and goes
to talk to Al, Gloria sees Buddy’s wife (Gail) and confronts her. Once
Gloria has talked to Gail, she knows that he isn’t going to marry her,
so she leaves the restaurant and proceeds to climb out on the ledge of
their apartment to jump.
Sam
has had to battle his sleazy boss, high
heels and tights skirts, but of course he is up to the challenge of
talking Gloria off the ledge. It’s raining and they both almost fall,
but when all is said and done, Gloria realizes that she is better off
without Buddy. Sam convinces her to join the design department at the
car manufacturer, and as always, everything turns out great.
In
this
episode Sam seems to be in some control of his leap, he stays around
until the next day. He pretends to want to fool around with Buddy, and
then, once he is on his lap, Sam tells him that he is really a man.
This is one of the best things about the episode. After explaining to
him things that only a man would know, he punches him and then says
"I’m ready to leap, now" and, naturally, he does.
This
is one of my favorite episodes, mostly due to the humor. Any time an
episode shows Sam’s bare chest, it makes it a favorite for me. Al’s
"crush" on Sam and his inability to perform with Tina add to the fun. I
love the ending scene where Sam sits on Buddy’s lap and tells him that
he is really a man.
Say What?
A mistake in
dates: Sam leaps in on October 16, but after a couple of days pass,
Gloria tries to commit suicide. Al tells Sam that in the original
history, Gloria died on October 16. If Sam leaped in on the 16th,
then Gloria actually tried to commit suicide on the 18th.
Scott Bakula's reflects in the
glass table top in Buddy's office at the end of the episode.
Quotable
Quotes:
I'm gonna call you 'dead' if you don't get out of my face!
-- Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
I'm a woman!
And I'm in love.
-- Sam and Al, "What Price Gloria?"
You have a wonderful sense of humor.
-- Sam (glancing heavenward), "What Price Gloria?"
Two hours as Samantha and I knew that the lyrics to "I Enjoy Being a
Girl" were not written by a woman.
-- Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
Whatever I did, I'm sorry!
-- Sam (glancing heavenward), "What Price Gloria?"
How's the girl of my dreams?
-- Al to Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
It's like someone designed a modern day torture rack you can wear, from
the bra, to the stockings, the tight skirts and the shoes from hell.
-- Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
Hi cutie, you look great in powder blue.
I'm gonna tie a bell around your neck.
-- Al and Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
Sam? At last I'm going to be called by my own name.
-- Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
I told you, you should have worn a girdle.
I'm not into bondage.
-- Gloria and Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
No stockings, you're such a bohemian.
-- Gloria, "What Price Gloria?"
Time has packaged my best friend into a goddess of love.
-- Al, "What Price Gloria?"
Don't start unless you want to eat your teeth for lunch.
-- Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
I hope when the right guy comes along he realizes what a good woman you
are.
-- Gloria to Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
You shouldn't need a man to make you feel complete.
-- Sam, "What Price Gloria?"
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