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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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Sam Beckett can only leap within his own lifetime, but what about those he leaps into?

It's clear from many episodes that the leapee does not have to survive to 1999. The most evident example of this is the time that Sam leapt into Lee Harvey Oswald. Since Oswald was killed by Jack Ru …
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Was Sam Beckett A Vegetarian?

Probably not. In the third episode, "Star-Crossed" Sam meets Donna, a woman who would go on to be the love of his life (although when he leaped, he remembered her as having left him, a few seasons la …
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Do the leap subjects on Quantum Leap remember their time in the waiting room?

Generally speaking, the leapee doesn't remember anything of their experience in the waiting room. The only time we directly see a leapee after a leap occurs in the episode "Double Identity." In this …
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After Sam didn't return home in the end, were he and Al still friends?

While a question like this is inherently speculative, they probably would have still been friends. There's long existed a script of an alternate ending in which, after the final leap-out, Al discusse …
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How come Sam's clothes always fit after every Leap?

The series itself was sometimes inconsistent on this fact (as well as other things about how leaping works), and there was no answer given in the show itself to my knowledge, so any answer is likely t …
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