Quantum Leap Season 5

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 1

Episode 1 - [Lee Harvey Oswald Part 1]
Details : October 5 1957 - November 22 1963: As a result of leaping again before he had a chance to complete his original mission Sam finds himself leaping back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Following the sole assassin theory Sam and Al attempt to prevent Oswald's attack on John F. Kennedy. But with each leap giving Oswald more control over Sam's body history seems doomed to repeat itself.
Guest Cast and Crew : Reni Santoni | Elya Baskin | Patty Toy | Director : James Whitmore Jr. |
Air Date : Sep. 22, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [Lee Harvey Oswald Part 2]
Details : October 5 1957 - November 22 1963: As a result of leaping again before he had a chance to complete his original mission Sam finds himself leaping back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Following the sole assassin theory Sam and Al attempt to prevent Oswald's attack on John F. Kennedy. But with each leap giving Oswald more control over Sam's body history seems doomed to repeat itself.
Guest Cast and Crew : Reni Santoni | Elya Baskin | Patty Toy | Director : James Whitmore Jr. |
Air Date : Sep. 22, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [Leaping Of The Shrew]
Details : September 27 1956: It's Robinson Crusoe with a twist when Sam leaps into a Greek sailor stranded on a deserted island with a beautiful young rich woman who appears to be less than fond of both him and their stranded situation.
Guest Cast and Crew : Brooke Shields as Vanessa Foster | Director : Alan J. Levi |
Air Date : Sep. 29, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [Nowhere To Run]
Details : August 10 1968: As a Marine captain whose legs were amputated after a mishap in Vietnam Sam finds himself in a veteran's hospital where he must prevent the suicide of a fellow patient who would rather be dead than face life paralyzed from the neck down. Making matters worse his wife seems incapable of accepting the fact that she and Sam's host can still lead a normal life in spite of his condition.
Guest Cast and Crew : Judith Hoag | Michael Boatman | Jennifer Aniston | Director : Alan J. Levi | Writer : Tommy Thompson |
Air Date : Oct. 06, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [Killin' Time]
Details : June 18 1958: Sam leaps into a tricky situation as an escaped killer holed up in a house with a mother and daughter as hostages. Escape isn't going to be easy for either Sam or his hostages when the real killer breaks out of the waiting room stranding Sam in the past destined to die at the hands of a vengeful sheriff.
Guest Cast and Crew : Joseph Malone as Deputy Grimes | Beverley Mitchell as Becky Pruitt | Cameron Dye as Leon Stiles | Connie Ray as Carol Pruitt | Jim Haynie as John Hoyt | Director : Michael W. Watkins | Writer : Tommy Thompson |
Air Date : Oct. 20, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [Star Light Star Bright]
Details : May 21 1966: Sam leaps into a 79-year-old man whose son wants to have him committed when he claims to have seen UFO's. Sam is kept busy as he tries to keep the family together prevent the future drug overdose of his grandson and avoid the sinister plans of the military all before the next anticipated UFO sighting.
Guest Cast and Crew : Anne Lockhart | Morgan Weisser | Joshua Cox | Director : Christopher Hibler |
Air Date : Oct. 27, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Deliver US From Evil]
Details : March 19 1966: Things are already on there way downhill when Sam leaps back into Jimmy LaMotta. Despite Sam's inaction history continues to change for the worst. The cause is unknown until Sam discovers another time traveler on the scene one who's determined to destroy Jimmy's family as well as Sam.
Guest Cast and Crew : Laura Harrington | Michael Alldredge | Kristen Cloke | John D'Aquino | Carolyn Seymour | Brad Silverman | Ryan McWhorter | Writer : Tommy Thompson |
Air Date : Nov. 10, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [Trilogy Part 1 (One Little Heart)]
Details : August 8 1955: A pair of unsolved murders marks just the tip of the iceberg when Sam leaps into a sheriff in a small Louisiana town. Rumors of a history of family insanity the suspicions surrounding his daughter Abigail's involvement in the murders and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make matters worse.
Guest Cast and Crew : Meg Foster | Max Wright | James Whitmore Jr. | Travis Fine | Kimberly Cullum | Stephen Lee | Fran Bennett | Director : James Whitmore Jr. |
Air Date : Nov. 17, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 9

Episode 9 - [Trilogy Part 2 (For Your Love)]
Details : June 14 1966: Finding himself back in the same small Louisiana town in the arms of Abigail now twenty-one Sam must prevent an angry crowd of townspeople from lynching his fiancée following the disappearance of a young boy whom she had been babysitting.
Guest Cast and Crew : Travis Fine | Wendy Robie | Melora Hardin | Stephen Lee | Fran Bennett | Director : James Whitmore Jr. |
Air Date : Nov. 24, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 10

Episode 10 - [Trilogy Part 3 (The Last Door)]
Details : July 28 1978: Sam is an aging lawyer recruited by Abigail now thirty-three to defend her when she is put on trial for the murder of Leta Aider the woman whose daughter Abigail was accused of killing almost twenty-five years earlier.
Guest Cast and Crew : Heather Lauren Olson | Max Wright | Parley Baer | Melora Hardin | James Greene | Kimberly Cullum | Stephen Lee | Fran Bennett | Diana Bellamy | Director : James Whitmore Jr. |
Air Date : Nov. 24, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 11

Episode 11 - [Promised Land]
Details : December 22 1971: Sam leaps back to Elk Ridge Indiana to help save the lives of the Walters boys as they try to save their farm from a banker with designs on getting rich from foreclosure.
Guest Cast and Crew : Elizabeth Dennehy | Dwier Brown | Charles Dugan | Jonathan Hogan | Director : Scott Bakula | Writer : Tommy Thompson |
Air Date : Dec. 15, 1992

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 12

Episode 12 - [A Tale Of Two Sweeties]
Details : February 25 1958: As a horse-playing traveling brush salesman Sam finds himself with two wives and two families. Although Ziggy predicts that Sam's mission is to choose between the two lives the choice is made more difficult by the fact that there's only a 50 50 chance that he'll choose the right one. As if things weren't bad enough Sam finds that his penniless host owes a pair of bookies some big bucks.
Guest Cast and Crew : Larry Manetti | Michael Bellisario | Shay Astar | J. D. Daniels | Director : Christopher Hibler |
Air Date : Jan. 05, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 13

Episode 13 - [Liberation]
Details : October 16 1968: Leaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib Sam must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in while convincing the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and daughter.
Guest Cast and Crew : Deborah Van Valkenburgh | Eric Bruskotter | Megyn Price | Max Gail | William Cort | Writer : Chris Abbott |
Air Date : Jan. 12, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 14

Episode 14 - [DrRuth]
Details : April 25 1985: While Sam is in 1985 running her radio talk show playing matchmaker to her producers and trying to help a young secretary who's being sexually harassed by her boss Dr. Ruth Westheimer spends her time in the Waiting Room counseling Al on his feelings towards his five wives as well as his relationship with Tina.
Guest Cast and Crew : Anita Barone | Ellen Albertini Dow | Mary Scheer | Robyn Lively | Ruth Westheimer | Director : Stuart Margolin |
Air Date : Jan. 19, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 15

Episode 15 - [Blood Moon]
Details : March 10 1975: As an eccentric possibly vampiric artist just outside of London Sam must bear with Al's superstitions while trying to prevent the death of his host's young wife at the hands of a couple who are taking a sacrificial ceremony in honor of the blood moon.
Guest Cast and Crew : Shae D'Lyn as Lady Alexandra Corrington | Deborah Moore as Claudia | Rod Loomis as Horace the Butler | Ian Buchanan as Victor Drake | Garth Wilton | Director : Alan J. Levi | Writer : Tommy Thompson |
Air Date : Feb. 09, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 16

Episode 16 - [Return Of The Evil Leaper]
Details : October 8 1956: As Arnold Watkins better known as The Midnight Marauder Sam has to persuade a fraternity to stop using chicken races as a part of their hazing ceremonies while Al tries to convince Arnold to stop trying to get himself killed in retaliation for his parents' deaths twelve years earlier. When Alia the evil leaper appears on the scene Sam becomes determined to take her with him when he leaps.
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Manasseri | Neil Patrick Harris | Tristan Tait | Carolyn Seymour | BoJesse Christopher |
Air Date : Feb. 23, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 17

Episode 17 - [Revenge Of The Evil Leaper]
Details : September 16 1987: Having simu-leaped both Sam and Alia find themselves trapped in a women's prison accused of murdering a fellow inmate. Their efforts to unmask the real killer are not their top priority as the two attempt to keep Alia's location hidden from her observer Zoey who leaps into the same place and time determined to make Alia pay for her betrayal.
Guest Cast and Crew : Barbara Montgomery | Rosanna DeSoto | Hinton Battle | Maggie Roswell | Carolyn Seymour | Sam Scarber | Director : Debbie Allen |
Air Date : Feb. 23, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 18

Episode 18 - [Goodbye Norma Jean]
Details : April 4 1960: As chauffeur to Marilyn Monroe Sam must try to prevent Marilyn's tragic death. But when a well-meaning plan backfires it could mean the end of Marilyn's career even if her life is saved.
Guest Cast and Crew : Liz Vassey | Larry Pennell | Stephen Root | Susan Griffiths | Director : Christopher Hibler |
Air Date : Mar. 02, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 19

Episode 19 - [The Beast Within]
Details : November 6 1972: Sam leaps into Henry Adams one of a trio of friends who fought in Vietnam and came home each with their own personal scars and the memory of a lost buddy. He has to save the life of a friend Roy as well as of a young boy Daniel who ventures into the woods of Washington looking for proof of Bigfoot.
Guest Cast and Crew : David Tom | Mike Jolly | Writer : John D'Aquino | Director : Gus Trikonis |
Air Date : Mar. 16, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 20

Episode 20 - [The Leap Between The States]
Details : September 20 1862: In a bizarre twist of a genetic coil Sam leaps into his great-grandfather Captain John Beckett during the Civil War. He must not interfere with his ancestor's romance with a riled southern belle named Olivia. He must also avoid being hanged as a Yankee dog by some home guard Confederate soldiers.
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael D. Roberts as Willis Tyler | Kate McNeil | Director : David Hemmings |
Air Date : Mar. 30, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 21

Episode 21 - [Memphis Melody]
Details : July 3 1954: Sam swivels his hips into Elvis Presley mere days before he is discovered. Along with making sure that Elvis does become the King Sam must help Sue Anne a local songbird from being trapped in a not-so-gilded cage of marriage.
Guest Cast and Crew : Gregory Itzin | Eric Bruskotter | Mary Elizabeth McGlynn | Michael St. Gerard | Garn Stephens | Director : James Whitmore Jr. |
Air Date : Apr. 20, 1993

Quantum Leap Season 5 Episode 22

Episode 22 - [Mirror Image]
Details : August 8 1953: Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town where strange things are happening and familiar people don't know him. With the help of another Al he still has something to set right ... or is there more than one thing he needs to change?
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Bellisario | Dan Butler | James Whitmore Jr. | Richard Herd | J. D. Daniels | Stephen McHattie | John D'Aquino | Brad Silverman | Bruce McGill | Director : James Whitmore Jr. |
Air Date : May. 05, 1993 | Rating ★★★★★★★★★★