A quantum leap revival series is being eyed for nbcs. By clicking any of the links below, you can access the text or audio version of each channel shoud. Comet is a new free network dedicated to science fiction programming. It won two emmys for outstanding variety series in 20 and 2014. He depended on his closest friend al calavicci from the start of his leaping. 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.
Get ready for an adventure of many lifetimes with the groundbreaking scifi classic, quantum leap. There are no tv airings of quantum leap in the next 14 days. The series followed sam beckett bakula, a quantum physicist in the year 1999 who becomes stuck in the past when his time travel experiment goes haywire. When you re in a series for a long time, youre looking for ways to find. Bakula is 58 and stockwell is 74, so i think they are not really willing to step in as a fulltime cast member. Quantum leap star scott bakula says theres lots to do. Quantum leap star scott bakula says theres lots to do if series. Quantum leap is the revival genre television desperately. The only way for him to move on from any time period he lands in is to change the lives of people there for the better. Quantum leap ruined me, but it also prepared me for a life of television disappointments. There were discussions with the scifi channel in 2002 about bellisario creating a pilot movie for a new series. Scott bakula on quantum leaps 30th anniversary vulture. Bakula is 58 and stockwell is 74, so i think they are not really willing to step in as a fulltime cast.
Despite this newfound understanding, the final scene of the series indicated that. A novel series based on nbcs classic 90s tv series. Sam beckett, who goes into the quantum leap accelerator and time travels within the years of his natural life. The show is so utterly wellmeaning, following the lovably geewhiz sam beckett scott bakula as a scientist whose experiment leaves him leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping that his next leap will be the leap home. For quantum leap, he received four emmy award nominations and a golden globe award. What was the explanation for the ending of quantum leap. Especially bakula who was in 95% of the scenes shot, making this show qu.
With the only recurring elements being the two main characters and bakulas bewildered catchphrase oh boy. Although in the original history, al was acquitted, sams actions cause the case to begin turning against al when he prevents a key witness from testifying because he believes he is there to stop her from ruining her life since. Sam beckett, a physicist who gains the ability to leap. The series finale was viewed by more than double the average audience numbers for that entire season, and throughout its original run, quantum leap earned 17 television awards out of 43 nominations, including six emmys and two golden globes for the shows two lead actors, scott bakula and dean stockwell.
Quantum leap was an american television series that was broadcast on nbc from march 26, 1989 to may 5, 1993, for a total of five seasons. Martin drops dead, and hbo slaps an ending together that makes theon greyjoy the new. In one episode, sam leaps into al himself at an earlier period, when al is on trial for the rape and murder of a commanders wife. Quantum leap returns with scott bakula as sam beckett youtube. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Enjoy all 97 thrilling episodes from 5 seasons of the series as you leap through backtoback and uninterrupted on bluray for the first time ever. Sam beckett as he tries to find his final leap home on quantum leap.
Although the project quantum leap pql isnt ready yet, sam doesnt listen his supercomputer, ziggy, and hops into. Are there any plans for a new series of quantum leap. Thursday on the talk, bakula speculated on what a reboot of his cult series quantum. Quantum leap tv listings, tv schedule and episode guide. Nbc may revive quantum leap for its peacock streaming. Quantum leap star scott bakula says theres lots to do if series is. In 2009, syfy considered a reboot of quantum leap with a new cast. Samuel sam beckett scott bakula, a quantum physicist from the near future who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the. Sam beckett scott bakula, caught in a malfunctioning time travel experiment that bounces him back and forth into the roles of different people in the past. Quantum leap is an american sciencefiction television series created by donald p. New orleans scott bakula teases the quantum leap reunion.
This week, bakula appeared on the talk for a new interview, and. The complete series the complete series all 97 episodes 5 seasons quantum leap has the distinction of being unpredictablejohn j. A look back at the disappointing quantum leap finale. In addition to some other series revivals, nbcs streaming service the. Scott bakula has broken down what a 2020 reboot of the popular show, quantum leap, would look like, particularly in todays modern climate. Find out where quantum leap is streaming, if quantum leap is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Despite starring in numerous television series over his 34year career, one show he keeps gets asked about returning is quantum leap. It is hard to hate quantum leap, the nbc scifi series which debuted in 1989 and was canceled in 1993 after completing its fifth season. During a government experiment into time travel, a scientist finds himself trapped in the past, leaping into the bodies of different people on a regular basis and sorting out their problems whilst trying to get back home to his own time. Sam finds his memory swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. Quantum leap 19891993 is a nbc cult classic series. Sliders, battlestar galactica, quantum leap and night gallery. This is the ultimate quantum leap intro available because its high quality, and more importantly because i edited out the episode clip, which changed from show to show, and just left the part you. Scott bakula explains what a 2020 quantum leap reboot.
The complete series bluray disc, 2017, 18disc set at the best online. Sci fi will develop a twohour movie based on the tv series quantum leap, which will also serve as a backdoor pilot for a possible series. With each leap, he trades bodies living as his subject. If a quantum leap reboot were to happen in 2020, scott bakula feels dr. In 2002, there was talk of the scifi channel now syfy wanting to do a new pilot movie. Sam beckett, a physicist from the then future year of 1999, who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other. Scott bakula talks about the 30th anniversary of quantum leap, his favorite. Nbcs streaming service eyeing quantum leap revival series. Did a fan just find proof of quantum leaps secret lost. Watching sam leap into new experiences over and over, repeatedly. As tom stratton, an air force test pilot about to attempt a dangerous flight. The series finale of quantum leap was bleak to put it mildly, with the final title card confirming that scott bakulas character, sam beckett, remained lost in time. In mirror image, sam beckett chooses to continue leaping through time without ever returning.
With scott bakula, dean stockwell, deborah pratt, dennis wolfberg. He is known for his roles in two sciencefiction television series. It only had two cast members, scott bakula and dean stockwell. Sam beckett travel through time to right historical. The quantum leap series was presented and recorded at the crimson circle monthly meetings between august 2007 and july 2008. Bellisario is responsible for so many hit tv shows. Acknowledging that he knows fans would love to see the show rebooted, bakula noted how several things are going wrong right now that the show could address. Program strategy head jeff bader told slashfilm that the broadcaster is considering a revival of quantum leap, the series that saw scientist dr. Scott bakula explains what a 2020 quantum leap reboot would. But, as scifi aficionados know, nothing ever tends to go right when time travel is involved. The series was created by donald bellisario, and starred scott bakula as dr. This multidisc release collects every episode of quantum leap the longrunning series about a timetravel experiment that goes wrong, sending physicist sam beckett scott bakula back in time, where he assumes other peoples identities and helps to resolve the crises of his new hosts. In the original series, sam could only leap within his own lifetime, so the episodes from the shows fiveseason run were limited to stories that took place between the 50s and the 80s. In each episode, sam leaps into a different person, and in order to make the next leap, he has to fix something that went wrong in the past.
The second episode of hulus new original miniseries reminds us of quantum leap. It also revealed he had finally learned how to control his leaps. Will there be a new quantum leap series or tv movie before. Deborah pratt, the character has always been the logical place to take any new film or series. The complete series bluray collection with the promise that the vast majority of the original music has been restored. Scott bakula may be ready to leap if a producer is ready to look. Quantum leaps are real and now we can control them new. As quantum leap fans are well aware, there have been various projects in the works over the past decade. Listen online or download the files to your computer. This would have revolved around a female doing the leaping. Will there be a new quantum leap series or tv movie before 2020. Bellisario, quantum leap lasted five seasons 19891993 on nbc and became one of the most popular science fiction shows of the 90s. In 2017, mill creek entertainment debuted the quantum leap. The complete series dvd collection was released, this time on single sided discs, but the music omissions remained.
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