Season 10

Welcome to the Fifth Virtual Season of Quantum Leap!

(2003 - 2004)

Total Episodes: 32

Please check back often to see how this season will play out.

1001 The Final Solution	1012 The Buck Stops	1023 The Curling Shuffle
1002 The Final Solution II	1013 Second Genesis	1024 Four Minute's Warning I
1003 Quake	1014 Second Genesis II	1025 Four Minute's Warning II
1004 A Flying Leap	1015 To Say Goodbye	1026 Leap To The Rescue I
1005 Full Circle	1016 Grand Dame Of The Sea	1027 Leap To The Rescue II
1006 Remember Me	1017 Fire And Ice	1028 Leap To The Rescue III
1007 Sam Does Castle Dracula	1018 The Picnic	1029 The Little Things
1008 Leap For The Truth	1019 Guinea Pig I	1030 Touch "Em All
1009 A Time To Remember	1020 Guinea Pig II	1031 Lifetime: Future's End
1010 Eeny Meany Miny Mo	1021 Hawaii Blues	1032 Lifetime: Past's Prologue
1011 Eeny Meany Miny Mo II	1022 Along A Shining Path

1001 The Final Solution

Written by: Sue Johnson

Episode Information:

Tuesday, April 11, 1961 & Friday, November 17, 1941
Warsaw and Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland

Sam leaps into a German man in 1961, and finds that he is on trial for war crimes during W. W. II. During the leap Sam is taken to visit one of the concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. During his time there, Sam leaps further back in time, (November 1941) and into one of Al's relatives to experience the horrors first hand.

Rating: 9.04

Aired: 09-25-03

Archived: 09-25-03

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1002 The Final Solution II

Written by: Sue Johnson

Episode Information:

Tuesday, April 11, 1961 & Friday, November 17, 1941
Warsaw and Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland

Sam leaps into a German man in 1961, and finds that he is on trial for war crimes during W. W. II. During the leap Sam is taken to visit one of the concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. During his time there, Sam leaps further back in time, (November 1941) and into one of Al's relatives to experience the horrors first hand.

Rating: 9.25

Aired: 10-02-03

Archived: 10-02-03

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1003 Quake

Written by: Douglas Laird

Episode Information:

August 23, 1957
Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

Four college students have a rendezvous with death unless Sam can change their course through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Rating: 8

Aired: 10-09-03

Archived: 10-09-03

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1004 A Flying Leap

Written by: A. J. Burfield

Episode Information:

October 12, 1956

Area 51, Nevada

Sam leaps into a harrowing situation with the mission to save the reputation of a Naval aviator that Al admires.

Rating: 9.0

Aired: 10-16-03

Archived: 10-16-03

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1005 Full Circle

Written by: Douglas Laird

Episode Information:

July 23, 1966
Windsor, Minnesota

A persistent tabloid reporter shows up at Stallion's Gate New Mexico demanding to meet with Dr. Beckett.

Rating: 8.0

Aired: 10-23-03

Archived: 10-23-03

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1006 Remember Me

Written by: A. J. Burfield and M. J. Cogburn

Episode Information:

December 29, 1984

Wellsburg, West Virginia

Leaping into a loving family was one thing, but leaping in to find out that someone isn’t who they claim to be is totally something different.

Rating: 8.6

Aired: 10-30-03

Archived: 10-30-03

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1007 Sam Does Castle Dracula

Written by: M. J. Cogburn, Katherine Freymuth, and C. E. Krawiec

Episode Information:

None given; assumed late 1970s
Las Vegas, Nevada

Sam leaps into Veronica LaTuffe, a high-profile porn actress with a life partner who has a tendency towards violent jealousy. While trying to cope with being a porn star and a lesbian, Sam learned from Al and Ziggy that he has two goals for his leap: prevent a seventeen year old girl from making a career mistake and prevent Veronica from dying in a plane crash – a crash in which her body is never found.

Rating: 7

Aired: 11-06-03

Archived: 11-06-03

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1008 Leap For The Truth

Written by: A. J. Burfield

Episode Information:

September 1983

Caldwell, Idaho

Sam’s leap goes from bizarre to frightening when he tries to uncover the motives behind the actions of a renegade Deputy Sheriff and clear the Visitor's name of murder.

Rating: 8.75

Aired: 11-13-03

Archived: 11-13-03

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1009 A Time To Remember

Written by: M. J. Cogburn

Episode Information:

May 12, 2003

Temple Texas

Sam leaps into a teacher who is facing certain death, keeping her alive and on an upward path is not only Sam’s quest but Al’s quest as well.

Rating: 9.5

Aired: 11-20-03

Archived: 11-20-03

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1010 Eeny Meany Miny Mo

Written by: Sue Johnson

Episode Information:

May 16, 1969

Outside Hot Springs, South Dakota

Stephen has been at it again, inventing being his specialty. As soon as Sam leaps in he is on the receiving end of Al's sarcastic witticisms. Sam is there to stop triplet sisters from poisoning their future stepfather but things go drastically wrong when Sam starts asking the wrong questions.

Rating: 8.9

Aired: 12-04-03

Archived: 12-04-03

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1011 Eeny Meany Miny Mo II

Written by: Sue Johnson

Episode Information:

May 16, 1969

Outside Hot Springs, South Dakota

Stephen has been at it again, inventing being his specialty. As soon as Sam leaps in he is on the receiving end of Al's sarcastic witticisms. Sam is there to stop triplet sisters from poisoning their future stepfather but things go drastically wrong when Sam starts asking the wrong questions.

Rating: 8.89

Aired: 12-11-03

Archived: 12-11-03

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1012 The Buck Stops

Written by: Helen Earl

Episode Information:

April 29 1991
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Sam finds himself running for his life, not fast enough, for he is immediately shot. As he fights for his life, he must persuade George, his leapee’s partner, to accept responsibility for the choices that led to this situation.

Rating: 9.0

Aired: 12-18-03

Archived: 12-18-03

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1013 Second Genesis

Written by: Damon C. Sugameli

Episode Information:

February 29, 2004
Second Genesis Project

As the assistant to a quantum physicist named Maxwell Connors, Sam must prevent a cataclysmic explosion from occurring that will result in the deaths of nearly 150 people. However, when Sam discovers eerie similarities between his String Theory and the research that Connors is conducting, he realizes that it may take more than Al’s guidance to help him accomplish his mission.

Rating: 9.64

Aired: 01-08-04

Archived: 01-08-04

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1014 Second Genesis II

Written by: Damon C. Sugameli

Episode Information:

September 14, 1956
Edward’s Air Force Base, Kern County, CA

Timelines collide when Sam finds himself reliving a previous leap and is now joined by another leaper, unlike any he has faced before – a ‘rogue,’ who sees Sam’s presence in time as a threat to human history. Can the Project find a way to prevent a time paradox that could unravel Sam’s past?

Rating: 9.8

Aired: 01-15-04

Archived: 01-15-04

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1015 To Say Goodbye

Written by: A. J. Burfield and R. L. Cole

Episode Information:

December 1, 1974
Elk Ridge, Indiana

Sam gets the chance to say a proper goodbye to his father, but needs a little help in figuring out what to say. He then passes on his lesson learned to the rest of his family in the guise of a hospital doctor.

Rating: 9.8

Aired: 01-22-04

Archived: 01-22-04

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1016 Grand Dame Of The Sea

Written by: Douglas Laird

Episode Information:

Northwestern Atlantic Ocean
April 22, 2004

Sam must save a woman traveling on the last voyage of the Italian liner Andrea Doria.

Rating: 8.15

Aired: 01-29-04

Archived: 01-29-04

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1017 Fire And Ice

Written by: C. E. Krawiec

Episode Information:

June 23, 1988

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming/by Shoshone Lake

Sam leaps into Gary Webster, a horseback-camping guide who works in Yellowstone National Park…and he’s surrounded by a massive forest fire. The good news…he’s saved the life of little Tonya Mandelle; originally she died in the fire. But the visitor in the Waiting Room is hiding something. Can Al discover what the ‘something’ is in time for Sam to save the child and himself from being burned to death?

Rating: 8.65

Aired: 02-05-04

Archived: 02-05-04

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1018 The Picnic

Written by: M. J. Cogburn and C. E. Krawiec

Episode Information:

Date: Unknown

Location: A Meadow

It's a beautiful day. The sun's shining and a soft breeze is blowing... there's even a brook nearby. And there's also a very pretty woman with a picnic basket in on hand and a blanket over her arm. So what is Sam there to fix?

Rating: 8.45

Aired: 02-12-04

Archived: 02-12-04

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1019 Guinea Pig I

Written by: G. Carey

Episode Information:

In 2004, the U.S. Military needs to shut down all Level 1 Top Secret projects that are not weapons related. The cost of maintaining an operation in Iraq after 9/11 plus the rekindling of the Space Program by President Bush have forced costs to be cut. In short, PQL will be dismantled, Ziggy terminated, and the PQL reassigned to other projects. Al must find a way to convince a 4-star general to give them more time to get Dr. Beckett back, or try to convince him that the project works. Sam, in 1959, must figure out his objective without information from a dying Ziggy or from Al while having Leaped into a dying man whose medical records are classified with no listing of date of death. Sam breaks some rules in helping a Quantum Physics specialist finish his Time Displacer Unit so that Sam can use it to get Home.

Rating: 8.6

Aired: 02-19-04

Archived: 02-19-04

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1020 Guinea Pig II

Written by: G. Carey

Episode Information:

In 2004, the U.S. Military needs to shut down all Level 1 Top Secret projects that are not weapons related. The cost of maintaining an operation in Iraq after 9/11 plus the rekindling of the Space Program by President Bush have forced costs to be cut. In short, PQL will be dismantled, Ziggy terminated, and the PQL reassigned to other projects. Al must find a way to convince a 4-star general to give them more time to get Dr. Beckett back, or try to convince him that the project works. Sam, in 1959, must figure out his objective without information from a dying Ziggy or from Al while having Leaped into a dying man whose medical records are classified with no listing of date of death. Sam breaks some rules in helping a Quantum Physics specialist finish his Time Displacer Unit so that Sam can use it to get Home.

Rating: 8.95

Aired: 02-26-04

Archived: 02-26-04

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1021 Hawaii Blues

Written by: Douglas Laird

Episode Information:

Fantasy becomes reality when Tom Selleck (a.k.a. Sam Beckett) gets to be a real detective help out a mentally challenged teenaged girl find her mother.

Rating: 8.0

Aired: 03-04-04

Archived: 03-04-04

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1022 Along A Shining Path

Written by: Shawn P. Deal

Episode Information:

Brief summary of episode. Sam leaps into Paul Wendle, a crusader in his own eyes, a terrorist in the Peruvian government's. It seems obvious to Sam that he is there to stop Paul's actions. Yet Paul is completed devoted to his cause even if it comes to murder. How can Sam help someone who complete believes that what he is doing is the best thing for the people of Peru?

Rating: 8.25

Aired: 03-11-04

Archived: 03-11-04

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1023 The Curlling Shuffle

Written by: Mike Bloxam

Episode Information:

Sam leaps into a Jerry McCormick, a university student who plays on the school’s curling team. A rivalry in the team has sparked up and Sam becomes even more concerned when Al mentioned the M word: murder.

Rating: 7.85

Aired: 03-18-04

Archived: 03-18-04

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1024 Four Minute's Warning I

Written by: Sue Johnson

Episode Information:

When Sam Leaps in, he discovers that he has a very strange bedfellow. He soon ascertains that his 'partner' is an abusive alcoholic with the strength of an ox and consequently suffers numerous repugnant violations upon his person as well as violent attacks. Can Sam overcome his powerful adversary, or is he destined for the same fate as his host?

Rating: 8.70

Aired: 03-25-04

Archived: 03-25-04

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1025 Four Minutes Warning II

Written by: Sue Johnson

Episode Information:

Sam has Leapt again but this time further towards his own time than ever before, in fact only minutes before his own time in the future. His beloved project is in ruins and all of his friends and colleagues are presumed dead, Sam attempts a rescue. Thinking he is alone he is surprised when another from the project joins him and does everything in his power to get Sam away from Stallion's Gate.

Rating: 9.19

Aired: 04-01-04

Archived: 04-01-04

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1026 Leap To The Rescue I

Written by: Helen Earl

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When Sam leaps into a Welsh student at South Illinois University, it is a long way from being all beer and skittles! What sounds in theory like ‘a walk in the park’ turns into one of Sam’s most arduous leaps.

Rating: 8.5

Aired: 04-08-04

Archived: 04-08-04

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1027 Leap To The Rescue II

Written by: Helen Earl

Episode Information:

When Sam leaps into a Welsh student at South Illinois University, it is a long way from being all beer and skittles! What sounds in theory like ‘a walk in the park’ turns into one of Sam’s most arduous leaps.

Rating: 8.9

Aired: 04-15-04

Archived: 04-15-04

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1028 Leap To The Rescue III

Written by: Helen Earl

Episode Information:

When Sam leaps into a Welsh student at South Illinois University, it is a long way from being all beer and skittles! What sounds in theory like ‘a walk in the park’ turns into one of Sam’s most arduous leaps.

Rating: 9.5

Aired: 04-22-04

Archived: 04-22-04

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1029 The Little Things

Written by: Shawn P. Deal

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Sam leaps into a young boy who lives with his single father. There seems to be no immediate problem until inexplicably Sam begins to hit his head repeatedly against a wall. Sam comes to realize what life is like as an autistic special needs child. Al has a problem, there is a kid in the Waiting Room and for the first time in his life is not affected by his autism, now that he knows what life could be like he doesn’t want to go back to his old self. He wants to stay.

Rating: 9.7

Aired: 04-29-04

Archived: 04-29-04

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1030 Touch 'Em All

Written by: Greg Carey

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Sam must make sure that an injury plagued pitcher who is five years removed from the game "makes" the Florida Marlins baseball team. What Sam does will affect his nephew, other teammates, and World Series history.

Rating: 8.2

Aired: 05-06-04

Archived: 05-06-04

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1031 Lifetime: Future's End

Written by: Damon Sugameli

Episode Information:

In the first of a trilogy of leaps, Sam leaps as himself into his own future – a future in which he never returned home. When a woman named Isabella finds him and leads him to the remnants of what was once PQL, Sam discovers the existence of a fanatical cult devoted to his legacy being led by a group of religious zealots. Is it truly peace they are after or something diabolical? And through it all, can Sam find a way to change the tragic fates of his family and friends after such a long absence? (1 of 3)

Rating: 9.75

Aired: 05-13-04

Archived: 05-13-04

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1032 Lifetime: Past's Prologue

Written by: Damon Sugameli

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The memory of a long-lost friend comes back to haunt Sam as he comes face-to-face with his reflection in the mirror. With his return home just a leap away, Sam must travel to the place where Quantum Leap’s origins had its conception – the Star Bright Project. Along the way, he’s shocked when he encounters another familiar face he had never expected to see again – Alia, who has become a drifter, struggling to survive on the streets. What is her connection to the coming events that threaten to plague PQL? And does she truly wish for redemption? (2 of 3)

Rating: 9.75

Aired: 05-20-04

Archived: 05-20-04

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