Quantum Leap Episodes Ranked Best to Worst
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- 1989–199348mTV-PG9.2 (924)TV EpisodeDirectorJoe NapolitanoStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellDavid NewsomSam leaps into himself as a 16-year-old boy to help his high school basketball team win the championship. He also tries to help the other members of his family including his father who died from smoking, his brother who was killed in Vietnam and his sister who married an abusive alcoholic.S3.E1
- 1989–199347mTV-PG9.0 (850)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael ZinbergStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellDavid NewsomStill involved in his brother Tom's life, Sam leaps into Vietnam to either save his brother or ensure the success of the team's mission.S3.E2
- DirectorJames Whitmore Jr.StarsScott BakulaDean StockwellBruce McGillOn 8 August 1953, Sam leaps into himself in a tavern in the middle of a coal-mining town filled with familiar faces, and gets an opportunity to change Al's life.S5.E22
- DirectorMichael ZinbergStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellJason BegheAl tells Sam that he has to convince a Navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive, but Sam keeps getting signals that he has another mission.S2.E22
- DirectorMichael ZinbergStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellMimi KuzykSam and Al have switched places. Now Sam is the hologram, and Al is the leaper. Al must reunite a returning WWII veteran with the woman he left due to the war. Sam and Al must figure a way to communicate with the future, because Al has the comm device, and Sam has no way to contact Ziggy.S4.E1
- DirectorJoe NapolitanoStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellDavid ProvalSam leaps into a patient at a Mental Hospital and undergoes electroshock therapy. The treatment causes Sam to act like other people he's been. It also weakens his link to Al. Al must find a way to get his friend back to normal, and figure a way to carry out Sam's mission.S3.E22
- 1989–199348mTV-PG8.4 (808)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael VejarStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellSusan FrenchAs the black chauffeur of an elderly southern woman, Sam must overcome prejudice to prevent the death of a black woman.S1.E7
- DirectorJames Whitmore Jr.StarsScott BakulaDean StockwellJohn D'AquinoSam leaps into a young intellectually disabled man and has to keep him out of an institution.S2.E8
- DirectorJames Whitmore Jr.StarsScott BakulaDean StockwellCharles RocketWhile trying to save a married woman, Sam changes history and Al is sent to the gas chamber giving Sam a new observer.S4.E22
- 1989–199347mTV-PG8.3 (471)TV EpisodeDirectorPaul BrownStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellLiz TorresAs a New York City cab driver, Sam has to win a contest to get his own taxi medallion. Sam also has the help of a woman named Angelita who knows about Sam and claims to be an angel.S4.E18
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellLisa WaltzHaving leaped into a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sam must save the life of a civil rights worker.
- 1989–19931hTV-PG8.1 (660)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael ZinbergStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellPatricia RichardsonSam is a radio DJ and has to help bring Rock and Roll to Peoria.
- DirectorMichael SwitzerStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellRichard HerdAs the sidekick on the 1950s children's science fiction series "Time Patrol", Sam must prevent the death of the star of the show.S3.E13
- DirectorMichael ZinbergStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellPenny PeyserSam leaps into a rape victim and must testify against the attacker who is an outstanding member of the community.
- 1989–199346mTV-PG8.1 (430)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid HemmingsStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellKate McNeilSam Beckett leaps into his great-grandfather during the Civil War and must not interfere with his great-grandparents meeting nor get captured behind Confederate lines.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellRomy WalthallSam leaps into the body of a gawky teenager to keep the boy's older sister from marrying an abusive alcoholic. Taking advice from Al, Sam hopes to reveal the young man's true nature by challenging him to a drag race.
- DirectorJoe NapolitanoStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellValerie MahaffeyEverything goes wrong when Sam leaps into a Gothic horror novelist on Halloween.
- DirectorAndy CadiffStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellByrne PivenSam must defend a young black woman charged with murdering the son of a powerful Southern political figure.
- 1989–19931hTV-PG8.0 (484)TV EpisodeDirectorBob HulmeStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellCarolyn SeymourSam discovers another set of leapers who are messing with history.
- 1989–199348mTV-PG8.0 (454)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellJenny GagoSam leaps into a death row convict moments before his execution. A last minute stay of execution order gives him 48 hours to determine his innocence in a leap with an unclear mission.
- 1989–199348mTV-PG8.0 (599)TV EpisodeDirectorJoseph L. ScanlanStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellMichael StoyanovAfter leaping into a single mother, Sam must prevent the 15-year-old son of his host from disappearing. Al and Sam also find out that very young children can see them as they really are.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellMichael BoatmanAs a double amputee Vietnam veteran, Sam must prevent the suicide of a fellow hospital patient.
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellConnie RaySam leaps into a hostage situation as a fugitive killer. The real killer breaks out of the Project facility and is on the run in 1999.
- 1989–199344mTV-PG7.8 (5.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid HemmingsStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellJennifer RunyonAlthough the Project Quantum Leap isn't ready yet, Sam Beckett doesn't listen to supercomputer Ziggy, hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot about to attempt a dangerous flight. Sam finds his memory Swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. According to Sam's friend and partner Al, who appears to him as a hologram nobody else can see, Al explains that the Project has gone awry and in order to leap out of the pilot's body, Sam must successfully fly the X-2 to Mach 3, which according to historical records, ended in a fatal crash.S1.E1
- 1989–199345mTV-PG7.8 (856)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid HemmingsStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellBrent ChalemAs Tom Stratton, Sam comforts his (Tom's) wife and prevents her from having a premature birth. This is what he was sent to do, allowing him to leap home (he hopes). But instead of leaping home, he leaps into Tim Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas at the end of the 1968 season, in the middle of a game, where he must make the winning play in order to leap further. Aided by errors, Tim Fox, after a dropped third strike on a wild pitch, rounds the bases for the winning score, and Sam leaps into Dr. Gerald Bryant as a college professor in the middle of a class.S1.E2