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Quantum Leap is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from March 26, 1989 to May 5, 1993, for a total of five seasons. The series was created by Donald Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to "put right what once went wrong".
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Did Sam Beckett (from “Quantum Leap”) ever jump into a period between 1993 and 1999?
In the original Quantum Leap, Sam Beckett comes from the year 1999 and leaps back through his own lifetime. Apart from the actual premise, the show features very few sci-fi elements and episodes are ...
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How exactly does the "body swapping" aspect of time travel work in "Quantum Leap"?
In Quantum Leap, Sam's theory of time travel explicitly put forth that one could "travel within their lifetime," but it doesn't explain how he "jumps" into other people's bodies/existences in that ...
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After Sam didn't return home in the end, were he and Al still friends?
Because since Sam changed Al's future, would he still be friends with him/be his hologram? Or would there be no Quantum Leap, and Sam be by himself?
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Was Sam Beckett A Vegetarian?
I need to know if Dr. Sam Beckett was a vegetarian or not. Is it possible that he is a vegetarian, but he eats meat while in other people's bodies, just so he doesn't seem strange? I know he made ...
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What are Sam Beckett's educational qualifications?
What six (or is it seven?) doctorates does Sam Beckett hold? Are they ever listed in full in the show or anywhere else?
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Do the leap subjects on Quantum Leap remember their time in the waiting room?
On Quantum Leap, when Sam leaped into someone's body, that person remained (conscious and lucid) in the "waiting room" in 1999 for the duration. What happened when that person went back to his/her ...
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Are there any plans for a new series of Quantum Leap?
I think that Quantum Leap is one of the best TV series ever.
My question is, will there be a remake/reboot? Will we get to see the effects that Sam's leaping had on his life prior to the first leap
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In Quantum Leap, Why Not Send the Displaced Leaper Back?
In the Quantum Leap series, Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator then vanished and you know the rest of the story, but in episode "The Leap Back - June 15, 1945" Sam and Al switch ...
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What's the significance of the old photo of a plane at the end of "Mirror Image"?
On the series finale "Mirror Image", after Sam's final leap, slow music plays in a reminiscing fashion and a black-and-white photograph of an old plane on a field is shown (possibly a biplane). The ...
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Sam Beckett can only leap within his own lifetime, but what about those he leaps into?
It has been pointed out in several episodes of Quantum Leap that Sam Beckett can only travel through time within his own lifetime. But what about those he leaps into?
When he leaps into someone else,...
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How come Sam's clothes always fit after every Leap?
In the TV series of "Quantum Leap", the official line was that Sam's physical body leaped from life to life, with only an "aura" of the person he'd replaced remaining behind to "fool" the people ...
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Why was the main character in Quantum Leap named "Sam Beckett"?
It seems very strange to me that the main character in Quantum Leap is named Sam Beckett, given that there was already a very famous playwright with that name. They even acknowledge it in one episode (...
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Why did Dr. Sam Becket never return home?
At the end of the finale of Quantum leap, a title card was shown that read:
Why not?
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In Quantum Leap, why are there no episodes taking place in the future?
This has always bothered me. In Quantum Leap, the string theory they explain in the show suggests that one can travel to random points in time within their own lifetime.
The Quantum Leap project ...
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How did the displaced persons know how to carry on once Sam Beckett jumped out of their bodies? [duplicate]
In Quantum Leap, Sam Beckett switched into other peoples bodies and changed, or restored, or ensured history that was guided to the history as it was known in Sam's own timeline. These people seemed ...
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What would happen if Sam were to die?
In Quantum Leap the character Sam Beckett frequently leaps into the place of people who are in dangerous, life threatening situations. What would happen if he were to be killed? Would he leap to a new ...
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Did Sam's memories transfer to the displacee when he leaped?
In the TV show Quantum Leap Sam Beckett would travel history and "right" wrongs, temporarily displacing someone native to that timeline in the process. Would the memories of what Sam did transfer to ...
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Who was leaping Sam Beckett in Time? Was it "God"....?
I was a huge fan of Quantum Leap. I'm sure you were too. But was it ever established who or what was leaping Sam around in time? I saw the last episode and remember him talking to a fat man at the bar....
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Which episodes deal with the "Dark" jumper in Quantum Leap?
I vaguely recall a series of episodes (perhaps not all consecutive?) in Quantum Leap that dealt with a "dark" (i.e. bad, evil) equivalent to Sam.
Which episodes of which seasons did this dark jumper ...
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