Quantum Leap
Created | Updated Jan 12, 2003
On the 26th of March 1989, the American television network NBC aired the pilot for the television show Quantum Leap. Over the next 4 years and 95 episodes the story Dr Sam Beckett and he travelled through time, putting right what one went wrong. Captivating a large audience due to its upbeat ideals of spreading hope to people by making their lives better, insured that Quantum Leap gained a cult following. Although the show was cancelled in 1993 the show is still watched by millons of people around the world and this is a testement to how popular the show was.
What was Quantum Leap?
"...Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished .... He woke to find himself trapped inthe past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home..."
The Premise
In the year 1995 Dr Sam Beckett designed Project Quantum Leap, a time travelling experiment designed to enable the viewer to relive any time and place in his own lifetime, based upon his own string theory of time1he made great breakthroughs in physics. However, pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator, leaping himself back in time. However, once there, the retrival program that would bring Sam home refused to work. At that point Sam and the other members at the project believed that the project had been taken over by God, and that to be able to leap out, he would have to change history to put a right where there was a wrong. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brain wave transmissions with Al Calavicci, a member of the project and Sams best friend. Al assisted Sam through the use of Ziggy,2 a hybrid computer, who would try and find out why Sam was in a certain situation. Throughout the series, the one goal of the project was to somehow get Sam home.
When Sam leaps into a host, he replaces them, and the they get transported back to modern day, and placed in the waiting room.A big blue spacy room somewhere in the project During the leap the two people swap auras. This means that Sam looks like the host to everyone else except himself, and vise versa.
