Susan Diol as
Beth Calavicci

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Susan Diol as
Beth Calavicci in 1969













About Beth and Al

Beth Calavicci (played by Susan Diol) is Al Calavicci's wife/widow, and the only woman Al has ever really loved. Beth was a US Navy nursing officer while Al was a pilot. They married in 1961, but due to their differing duty assignments they only cohabited for a total of 2 years before the end of the decade.

On Al's second tour of duty in Vietnam, he was shot down and taken captive; Beth had no way of knowing if he was still alive. While serving at the Naval Hospital in San Diego in April 1969, a very lonely Beth met Dirk Simon and fell in love.

In the original history, Dirk, a lawyer, convinced Beth to declare her (presumed) lost husband legally dead and file for a divorce from him. A few months later, the two marry.

Beth's abandonment of her relationship with Al sent Al's life into a downward emotional spiral. Though he would marry several more times, he never forgot Beth, and considered her the one who got away.

Before leaping into the unknown in the series finale, Dr. Sam Beckett re-leaped back to 1969 as himself to inform Beth that Al was not dead, but was indeed coming home. As a result, Beth never remarried. Instead, she and Al stayed together, had four daughters, and celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary in June 2000.

Beth became a widow when Al died in 2021 and subsequently lost touch with her daughter Janis. She was on good terms with Herbert "Magic" Williams, the head of the revived Quantum Leap project. They began seeing each other romantically while working on Quantum Leap around 2025.

Appearances

M.I.A.
Mirror Image
Atlantis
Somebody Up There Likes Ben
Ben, Interrupted
One Night In Koreatown
Against Time










Al Kisses Beth as Sam Leaps









Beth and Al Calavicci circa 1999









Al & Beth Calavicci with their four daughters
2024 A.I. Upscale Photo

Daughter #1
Alexis
Daughter #2
Ella
Daughter #3
Samantha
Daughter #4
Janis
Note: On an early wikipedia page for Al Calvicci, (which no longer exists in that form), names were given to the daughters by an unknown source. The 2022 revival series used Janis's name from that wikipedia page. The names of the other three daughters are provided above in the same manner, and are unofficial. Janis is assumed to be the youngest daughter due to the timeline that would have to be maintained in canon.





Beth Circa 1999







Beth Calavicci in 2022 & 2023








Beth Calavicci in 2026







Georgina Reilly as Al & Beth's daughter
J
anis Calavicci in 2022-2026







Janis Calavicci is one of the four daughters of Al and Beth Calavicci, possibly their youngest. She was not part of the revived Quantum Leap project because her emotional ties to the original project were considered a liability.

As a Ph.D. student a couple of years before Ben leaped, Janis published a paper on time loops.

In 2022, she met with Dr. Ben Song and the two of them conspired to have Ben leap prematurely to save Addison Augustine from Richard Martinez who planned to kill her to prevent an apocalyptic future.

At some point between 2023 and the three years between season one and two (2026), Janis was released and began working for the NSA in Hawai'i.

Janis’s own name was given to her by the fandom after the series finale of the original Quantum Leap on her father’s Wikipedia page. Her three sisters were given the names Alexis, Ella and Samantha also on that same page however only Janis was confirmed as the 2022 Quantum Leap honored this unique Ascended Fanon.

Appearances

July 13, 1985
Atlantis
Somebody Up There Likes Ben
Oh Ye Of Little Faith
Stand By Ben
Fellow Travelers
Paging Dr. Song
Leap. Die. Repeat.
Ben, Interrupted
Judgement Day
Against Time