Sam leaps into the body of a hairdresser just in time to almost witness the shooting of the local pharmacist. The final episode here is Permanent Wave. The racist South is always a horrific and compelling source of drama, and Quantum Leap is usually fairly sensitive.īBC Genome: BBC Two – 30th March 1993 – 21:00 This was a way more dramatic episode than the previous two, just because of the setting. Permanent Wave - Sam leaps into a haircutter who has to save his. I would presume that all the Klansmen’s parents taught them all to be racists. In the blank of a cosmic clock I went from Quantum Physicist to Air Force test Pilot. “This stands for everything my parents taught me to fight against” says Sam, which seems a strange way of expressing his revulsion. This isn’t really expanded upon, as the story plays out as a hurricane rescue as the background to a love triangle between Sam and two women, one of whom starts wielding a knife, just add a bit of jeopardy.īBC Genome: BBC Two – 23rd March 1993 – 21:00Īnd just when I thought Quantum Leap was falling into a bit of a dull rut, the next episode is Justice which opens with Sam leaping into a man being inducted into the Ku Klux Klan. And people seem to be able to see him as Sam Beckett sometimes rather than as the person he’s leaped into. Sam is a sherrif, while a hurricane is threatening a town.
And I still can’t fathom the sport.īBC Genome: BBC Two – 16th March 1993 – 21:00 The plot basically revolves around players sleeping with the wrong women. This episode is Play Ball, and Sam is a washed up baseball player playing in the bush league. “Hoping against hope that each leap… would be the leap home.” I’m always impressed at the depth of emotion achieved by the woman doing the opening narration. I wonder when someone will do a gritty reboot of this.
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