[guttridge]

Quantum Leap was a great show it was really good i think but in the end i think it got to silly does anyone know how it ended what happen in the last show can you buy any good dvds or vidoes or books thanks

[James]

Yes, I loved that show. The last episode was slightly surreal if I remember rightly. Sam leaped into a bar in a coal-mining town and the barman there seemed to know all about him.

I think Sam found out at the end that he could go home whenever he wanted (a bit like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz being able to go home just by clicking her heals together) but he would have to give up helping other people. But he didn't and it said at the end that he never made it home.

I had a look on Amazon.co.uk for DVDs and it looks like only Series 1 and 2 are released on DVD with Series 3 on US Region 1 DVDs.

[Foebane100]

I didn't like the end much it was too religious with god and everything, but that is from Donald P. Bellisario he likes to stick god and religion into most things he does.

Without Al how will Sam know how and who to help? So the next jump Sam messes up and is stuck in the body of thet person. Just my thoughts.

[easypeasy]

its repeatead on itv 3 each night at 5.30pm.

[Ella]

I think that show was a bit before my time hehe...was the main guy in that also in knightrider or is that someone else

[Foebane100]

The main guy Dr. Sam Beckett also played Captain Jonathon Archer in Star Trek Enterprise. Also known as actor Scott Bakula.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000836/

[Benjamin]

Just wondering how many of you used to watch this show and loved it. I remember having to beg my mum to let me stay up past my bed time to watch this when I was younger.

An absolute classic.

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[andyman]

zigi?...

Did he ever become a woman and had sex just to know what its like?? I would never do that! il be a rug muncher..

[Tom4784]

I remember my mum used to watch this all the time. She loved it, had all the episodes on video and everything.

[SiaSiaSia]

i LOVE the theme music :]

[hanny08]

Yeah I loved it!!! bought the complete series recently. I'm a sucker for the old shows!!!

[Scarlett.]

Brilliant show
Loved the dude he saw too

[Benjamin]

I'm gonna have a Quantum Leap marathon

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[Ammi]

..Sam Beckett.....

[Vanessa]

It's a great show.

[James]

Sadly, Dean Stockwell has died.

Dean Stockwell, the US actor known for playing Al in the sci-fi series Quantum Leap, has died aged 85.

During a 70-year career, Stockwell won a Golden Globe award for his best-known role and was also nominated for an Oscar for Married to the Mob.

Aside from Quantum Leap, he also appeared in Air Force One, as well as the David Lynch films Blue Velvet and Dune.

His representatives told the BBC he died peacefully at home on Sunday.

'Streetwise and cocky'

Quantum Leap originally aired on NBC in the US for five seasons, from 1989 to 1993, and soon became popular with UK audiences too.

It starred Scott Bakula as Dr Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily leaps through space time using other people's bodies as vessels in order to correct historical mistakes. Stockwell co-starred as Admiral Al Calavicci, Dr Beckett's cigar-smoking and womanising best friend who appears to him in hologram form to offer guidance as the experiments unfold.

"I have a particular fondness for Admiral Al Calavicci," Stockwell said in a 1994 interview. "I guess people say that actors take a little bit of the part away with them, but if I really was as streetwise and cocky as Al, I'd probably have been a bigger star."

He won a Golden Globe award for the role in 1990 - for best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a TV series - and later received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Last year, NBC announced it was considering a reboot of the show for its streaming service.



Born into a family of entertainers in Los Angeles, Stockwell started his career as a child actor and made his first film appearance in 1945's Valley of Decision, before featuring alongside Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh.

He then appeared in Broadway stage productions such as Compulsion, later reprising his role in the screen adaptation of the same name.

'Drugs and love-ins'

In the mid-1960s though, Stockwell dropped out of showbusiness to join the Topanga Canyon hippie community, where members included the musician Neil Young.

"I did some drugs and went to some love-ins," Stockwell later said of the experience. "The experience of those days provided me with a huge, panoramic view of my existence that I didn't have before. I have no regrets."

He returned to Hollywood with roles in Paris, Texas, Dune and To Live and Die in L.A, before putting in a memorable cameo as the crooner Ben in the neo-noir mystery thriller Blue Velvet, where he performed a rendition of Roy Orbison's Dreams for Dennis Hopper and co.


In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance as Mafia boss Tony "the Tiger" Russo in the comedy Married to the Mob. Stockwell called it "the favourite part I've ever had in a film". He said: "I just felt that that part was just perfect for me and I had a way to approach it that I thought was just right and it turned out that way."

He also appeared in Francis Ford Coppella's The Rainmaker, as well as Robert Altman's The Player, and went on to have recurring TV roles in the Battlestar Galactica series and The Tony Danza Show.

Stockwell was twice married - once to the actress Millie Perkins - and had two children.

A statement from his publicity team read: "Dean spent a lifetime yo-yoing back and forth between fame and anonymity. Because of that, when he had a job, he was grateful. He never took the business for granted. He was a rebel, wildly talented and always a breath of fresh air. He loved to act, to laugh, smoke cigars and play golf."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59217820

[Calderyon]

Great show.

[GoldHeart]

Aww I didn't know Dean Stockwell died R.I. P , but anyway folks have all the dvds and we sometimes watch the reruns on sci fi channel, was a classic show and i enjoyed it .

I was a bit disappointed in the ending , i remember thinking how it's ashame Sam never got to go home, he never wanted to stop helping people so basically that means Sam will just die in someone else's body then? bit sad really .

The guy in the bar seemed like some sort of angel if i remember.

[Mystic Mock]

I really enjoyed Dean Stockwell's performance in Battlestar Galactica, I've been meaning to check Quantum Leap out as I like both actors but have just never got around to it.

R.I.P, and condolences to his family.

[James]

There's a new version of Quantum Leap starting. Seems to be continuation of the original story.

In January 2022, NBC greenlit a pilot episode of a Quantum Leap sixth season revival. Bellisario is involved, while the showrunners include Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, with Deborah Pratt and Martin Gero as executive producers. The pilot will take place 30 years after the conclusion of the original series, with a new team reviving Project Quantum Leap to understand both it and the fate of Sam Beckett.[37] Raymond Lee was signed to star in the pilot in the role of Dr. Ben Song, the person that ends up traveling back in time through the Quantum Leap project.[38] Ernie Hudson was cast as Herbert "Magic" Williams, the lead of the new Quantum Leap program and a Vietnam War veteran who Sam leaped into in the season three episode "The Leap Home (Part 2) – Vietnam".[39] NBC gave the green light for a full season order in May 2022.[40] In July 2022, it was announced that Dean Georgaris joined as showrunner.[41] It is set to premiere on September 19, 2022, airing on Monday nights.[42][43]

In September 2022, Bakula confirmed that he had been asked by producers to reprise his role as Sam Beckett in the revival, but ultimately decided to not to be involved with the new series, saying in a statement on Instagram, "As the show has always been near and dear to my heart, it was a very difficult decision to pass on the project".[44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap#Revival

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[Calderyon]

It won't beat the original and i can see it ending up like Young MacGyver.

[James]

I'm quite interested to watch this, but it is not available on any service in the UK.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by James

I'm quite interested to watch this, but it is not available on any service in the UK.

Is there not a dvd boxset you can buy?