Character
Biography

Captain Albert Calavicci
Project 1st Assistant Director

United States Navy

Warning:
May Contain Spoilers

• Albert Calavicci's Age Information
  
  1984: age 50
  1985: age 51
  1986: age 52
  1987: age 53
  1988: age 54
  1989: age 55
  1990: age 56

• Vital Statistics
  
  -Born: June 15, 1934
  
  -After the death of his father, Al holds a grudge against the church.
  
  -He can pick locks, shoot pool, was a Golden Gloves champion at the age of 16, joined the circus at age 17, and did several theater projects in his younger years.
  
  -Joined the Naval Academy in 1952 and went to college at MIT from 1952 to 1955 on his naval scholadship. He was the Annapolis starting pitcher in baseball. In 1957 he became an Ensign and was stationed as a fighter pilot in Pensacola.
  
  -Stationed in Japan for six months in 1959.
  
  -From 1962 to 1966, Al was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base under the command of Major Thomas Collins. He began to learn the basics of space travel and had plans to join the space program, but was sent to Vietnam in 1967.
  
  -During Vietnam, Al's plane went down over the highlands in 1967. He was held as a POW until 1975.
  
  -The next two years were spent recuperating and doing light duty in Washington, D.C.
  
  -From 1977 to 1981, Al worked as an astronaut for NASA. He circled the moon 10 times during a secret mission never released to the public onboard Apollo 21. He earned the rank of Commander in 1978.
  
  -In 1982, Al was reassigned to assist leading a top secret project codenamed the Starbright Project, which was based in New Mexico. He was then promoted to Captain.
  
  -One year later in November of 1983, Al's drinking habit was brought to the attention of the project oversight committee. The committee then assigned CIA Agent Ross Adams to recruit new blood and to replace the old.
  
  -Al met Sam Beckett in the12th floor research laboratory about three days after Sam joined the project in January 1984. Al was drunk and angry and taking his aggressions out on a vending machine that ate one dime of the forty-five cents he had inserted into it.
  
  -In 1988, Al is promoted to Rear Admiral.
  
  -In May of 1990, the Starbright Project was shut down by the government on Dr. Beckett's recommendation.
  
  -Events for Al after the closing of the Starbright Project which lead to the creation of Project Quantum Leap can be read in the Quantum Leap novels titled "Too Close for Comfort" and it's follow-up, "Prelude."
  
  
  
  
• Al's Wives
  
  -Married Beth Calavicci, his first wife in 1961. They were married for eight years but only saw each other for about two of those years due to stationing conflicts and Al's two tours in Vietnam. Beth declared Al dead after being MIA for two years. She married a man named Dirk Simon five months after meeting him in April, 1969.
  
  -Al married a Hungarian woman in 1976. They were divorced 8 months later.
  
  -Al married his third wife, Ruthie, in 1978. They divorced two years later in 1980.
  
  -In 1981, Al married his fourth wife, Sharon. They divorced one year later in 1982 because she didn't want to move to New Mexico when Al was assigned to the Starbright Project and because Al had started to drink heavily.
  
  -Finally in January 1983, Al married his fifth wife Maxine. They met at a tattoo parlor in Jersey City. She had dreams of skating in the roller derby. He divorced her 5 months later because he thought she was cheating on him. He found out later that she was not.
  
  -Al met Tina Martinez-O'Farrell in September 1983 during a poker game while visiting Las Vegas. Al had a flush and she had a pair. He brought her onboard the Starbright Project.

• Father
  
  Renzo Calavicci
  
  -Worked as a construction worker and travelled frequently, so he placed Al in an orphanage and Al's sister Trudy in an institution because she had Down Syndrome.
  
  -Came back home after making money in the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and brought Al and Trudy to live with him in a new home for a brief time before his death.
  
  -Died in 1945 from cancer.

• Mother
  
  Candelora Jillian Calavicci
  
  -Left the family for an encyclopedia salesman in 1940.
  
  -Died in July, 1982

• Sister
  
  Trudy Calavicci
  
  -Had Down Syndrome and was mentally retarded.
  
  -Died in 1952 at age sixteen from pneumonia.