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| Newell Alexander as John Samuel Beckett - Sam's Father (1968) |
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| Scott Bakula as John Samuel Beckett - Sam's Father (1969) |
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| Biography Sam's father, John Samuel Beckett, is a recurring character in which Scott Bakula takes on dual roles in the two appearances he makes of John with son Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap. Newell Alexender appears as John in part two of the series pilot story arc "Genesis: Part 2". John is a kind, hard-working, and honest man who never degrades or belittles his wife. He smoked, and claimed he was healthy because he worked hard, slept good, and ate plenty of dairy products. He worked on the dairy farm, sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. Despite his hard work, the farm was initially taken away from him. The sequence changes in one of Sam's leaps to his hometown in 1969. Named after his grandfather John Beckett, who was a Union Army officer who served in the American Civil War, John was a dairy farmer and was married to Thelma Louise Beckett. John and wife Thelma are the parents of Sam, Tom and Katie. He died due to a fatal heart attack, mostly because he smoked too many cigarettes daily. In the episode The Leap Home, Part I, Sam tries to make his father stop smoking cigarettes but couldn't convince him to change his diet, start exercising and give the cigarettes up. John, Sam's dad, again appears in the Season 5 episode Promised Land, as Sam, who leaped into William "Willie" Walters, Jr., an acquaintance of Sam whose family is acquainted with the Beckett family in Elk Ridge, IN in 1971, also, one of three brothers who are robbing the town bank in order to pay off a loan, runs into John beforehand, as he's headed from the bank, as he asks how Willie's family is doing, as Sam, who almost slipped and tried to introduce himself as his son before getting reminded by Al that his dad can only see he as his leapee Willie, as he then wishes John and his family a "Very Merry Christmas". Appearances Genesis: Part 2 - Played by Newell Alexender The Leap Home, Part I - Scott Bakula in dual role, also appearing as Dr. Samuel Beckett Promised Land - Played again by Bakula, again in dual role The novel Independence is where we learn that John was named after his Civil War ancestor. |
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| Scott Bakula as John Samuel Beckett - Sam's Father (1971) |
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| Caroline Kava as Thelma Louise Beckett - Sam's Mom (1969) |
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| Biography Sam's mother, Thelma Louise Beckett was married to John Samuel Beckett and had three children with him: Sam, Katie and Tom. According to Sam, Thelma is a great cook and her and John's marriage is strong and their relations are great. She was a very patient and loving woman, and a nurturing mother who thinks that Women's Lib was probably a good thing - for other women. As of the timeset for the Quantum Leap project, the late 1990s, Thelma was residing in Hawaii with still alive and retired husband John. Appearances The Leap Home, Part I Promised Land (Mentioned Only) |
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| David Newsom as Tom Beckett - Sam's Brother (1969-1970) |
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| Biography Thomas "Tom" Andrew Beckett is Sam Beckett's older brother. In the original sequence of events in the two episode Season 3 opening story arc, The Leap Home, Part I and The Leap Home, Part II (Vietnam), Tom was killed in the Vietnam War, but during the leap; However, Sam was able to save him from death in leaping into an enlisted Signalman 2nd Class and buddy in his SEALS unit Herbert "Magic" Williams. By leaping into "Magic", Sam manages to save his life by figuring out that the Vietnamese woman who was supposed to be helping the soldiers was actually a spy, giving information to Charlie. Sam as Magic, shoots and kills the woman just as she was about to kill Tom. In the end, he does not die, and seems to have realized that Magic was Sam. Instead of Tom dying on the dangerous mission he originally dies in, an ambitious photojournalist by the name of Maggie Dawson (Andrea Thompson) who accompanies the unit on the mission loses her life after she gets caught in a booby trap. Appearances Disco Inferno (First Mentioned) Leaping Without A Net (Mentioned Only) The Leap Home, Part I The Leap Home, Part II (Vietnam) Rebel Without A Clue (Hinted Only) Promised Land (Mentioned Only) |
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| Olivia Burnette as Catherine "Katie" Beckett - Sam's Sister (1969) |
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| Biography Katherine "Katie" Elizabeth Beckett is the youngest child of John Samuel Beckett and Thelma Louise Beckett, also the sister of Tom Beckett and Sam Beckett in the Beckett family. She grew up in Elk Ridge, Indiana, on the Beckett dairy farm. Katie wound up marrying a man named Chuck, a future high school classmate, when she was 17 years old. Her husband became an alcoholic and turned physically abusive towards her and their kids, a fact that haunts Sam and affects his actions during several leaps. The part of Katie is played by Olivia Burnette. Sam tried to prevent Katie from marrying Chuck by talking to her about it during The Leap Home, as his 16 year old self. He was unsuccessful in changing her fate. Later, she married Jim Bonnick, moved to Hawaii, and had two children. Appearances Genesis: Part 1 (Mentioned Only) Camikazi Kid (Mentioned Only) The Leap Home, Part I Miss Deep South (Mentioned Only) How Tess Was Won (Mentioned Only) |
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| Kimberly
Cullum as Sammi Jo Fuller - Sam's Daughter (1978) |
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| Biography Samantha Josephine "Sammy Jo" Fuller is the biological daughter of Samuel Beckett and Abagail Fuller, who conceived her in Part 2 of the trilogy. When Sam leapt into Will Kinman, Abagail knew something was different about him and Sam also knew it was himself not Will that was with Abagail. In Trilogy Part III: The Last Door, Sammy Jo is played by Kimberly Cullum, who also played her preteen mother Abagail in Trilogy Part I: One Little Heart. In the Trilogy III episode, Al informed Sam through Ziggy that there was a 91.9% chance that Sammy Jo was his biological daughter. She has a high IQ and a photographic memory just like Sam. After Sam helped clear Abigail, Al told Sam that Sammy Jo is doing fine and that she is working on Project Quantum Leap as a Project Technician and is finding a way to bring Sam home. Sammy Jo does not know Sam is her biological father, but Sam told Al that he will never forget her. A Bold Leap Forward (Script) A Leap To Di For (FFan Film) |
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| Melora Hardin as Abagail Fuller - Mother of Sam's Daughter |
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| Biography Abigail Fuller is the daughter of Sheriff Clayton Fuller and Laura Fuller and the mother of Sammi Jo Fuller, whom she conceived with Samuel Beckett, while Sam was leaping as Will Kinman, Abigail's fiancée in the episode For Your Love. Abigail is played by actress Kimberly Cullum as a child and actress Melora Hardin as an adult. Sam has to save Abigail not once, but three different times (first into a leap as her father, Clayton Fuller, second as her fiancée, Will Kinman and third as her lawyer, Lawrence "Larry" Stanton III – "Trilogy", parts 1, 2, & 3 respectively). When he leaps into the man she is set to marry, he falls in love with her himself and fathers a daughter, which turns out to be Sammi Jo. Sammi Jo would have high IQ and a photographic memory, just like Sam. Later, Al reveals that Sammi Jo is to become a part of Project Quantum Leap in order to find a way to bring him back. The part of Abagail as an adult is played by actress Melora Hardin in For Your Love: Part II and The Last Door: Part III. The part of Abagail as a child is played by actress Kimberly Cullum (who also plays daughter Sammy Jo in Part III) in Trilogy: Part I. Appearances Trilogy: Part II - For Your Love Trilogy: Part III - The Last Door |
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| Rob Hyland as Cpt. John Beckett - Sam's Great-Grandfather (1862) |
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| Biography Captain John Beckett (played in cameo look-in-the mirror appearance by bit actor Rob Hyland), of the Union Army. In the Season 5 episode The Leap Between The States, Dr. Samuel Beckett, as his ancestor, Capt. Beckett, while helping the underground railroad smuggle a family to freedom in 1862 Virginia, must also win the heart of who turns out to be his future great-grandmother Olivia Barrett Covington (played by Kate McNeil), or he may be erased from existence. The episode The Leap Between the States was one of only two episodes of the show where the perpetual time-traveler Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaped out of his lifetime, this time jumping into the American Civil War in 1862. Here he assumes the identity of John, his great-grandfather and must woo his great grandmother Olivia, deal with the slavery issue, protect the Covington servant/slave Issac King (played by Michael D. Roberts, and who in the storyline is the great grandfather of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.) and fend off a Confederate officer, Lt. Montgomery (Geoffrey Lower) who attempts to force himself on Olivia, against her wishes. Appearances The Leap Between The States |
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| Kate McNeil as Olivia Barrett Covington Beckett - Sam's Great-Grandmother (1862) |
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| Biography Olivia Barrett Covington is Sam Beckett's great-grandmother, and a widowed Southern war bride and Northern sympathizer and helped escaped slaves reach the Union lines near link to The Underground Railroad. She appears in the episode of Quantum Leap titled The Leap Between the States in the fifth season of the series. The role of Olivia is played by actress Kate McNeil. Olivia, while she was the owner and heiress of the family cotton plantation, where she also owned several slaves at the time the Civil War broke out, actually deplored slavery, and sympathized with the abolitionist cause. Even with this, she looked upon some of the Union soldiers that were pillaging the Virginia town where she lived as "filthy animals". Thus, Sam, who leaps into John Beckett, his great-grandfather, must win the heart of his great-grandmother Olivia, or he may be erased from existence. Sam leaps into John, his great grandfather, in order to help keep alive the sequences which bring about the relationship between John and the twice-widowed war bride Olivia, who wasn't very impressed with John upon their first meeting in her barn, as she says to him (or Sam as John, conversing with hologram Al) "Not only do I have to get a Union soldier, but a crazy one to boot!". Sam, as John, also has to protect her and John from the wrath of a Conferderate officer, the lecherous Lieutenant Montgomery (Geoffrey Lower) who, in pursuit of John, a Union officer, wounds him in battle, as well as Covington servant slave Issac King, who was secretly, without Olivia's knowledge, was harboring escaped slaves and aiding them in a trek to the North via The Underground Railroad. Yet, Olivia secretly sympathizes with the cause of escaped slaves who are trying to venture north via The Underground Railroad. Sam, as John, his grandfather, must try to keep intact the relationship which develops between John and Olivia, who, in the original storyline, was to fall in love with John and move North, marry, with Olivia eventually becoming Sam's great grandmother. Appearances The Leap Between The States |
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