This page lists all of the episodes which were aired in Season 4 of the NBC-TV series Quantum Leap. A total of twenty-two were aired from the series opeining episode "The Leap Back", which premiered on September 18, 1991, to the season finale episode, "A Leap For Lisa" which aired on May 20, 1992.
Season 4 (1991-1992)[]
Season 4 episodes | ||||||||
Image | # in Series | # in Season | Title | Written by | Directed by | Leap details (Name, date & location) |
Original air date | Prod.code |
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54 | 1 | "The Leap Back" | Donald P. Bellisario | Michael Zinberg | Tom Jarrett June 15, 1945 Crown Point, Indiana / Himself September 18, 1999 Stallions Gate, New Mexico |
September 18, 1991 | 67303 (4x01) | |
Sam and Al switch roles after a lightning strike. This allows Sam to return home to his wife, but when Al leaps into Captain Tom Jarrett (played by Dean Denton), he is set to be killed by his lover's jealous ex-fiancé, Sam must act as his hologram in order to save Al and continue to leap through time. | ||||||||
55 | 2 | "Play Ball" | Tommy Thompson | Joe Napolitano | "Doc" Fuller August 6, 1961 Galveston, Texas |
September 25, 1991 | 67305 (4x02) | |
Sam is a washed-out baseball player named Lester "Doc" Fuller (played by Owen Rutledge) who has to help a younger and angrier player get into the major leagues, the player reminding him of Al when they first met. Neal McDonough also guest stars. | ||||||||
55 | 2 | "Hurricane" | Chris Ruppenthal | Michael Watkins | Archie Necaise August 17, 1969 Jackson Point, Mississippi |
September 25, 1991 | 67306 (4x03) | |
Sam leaps into Archie Necaise, a small-town sheriff in the middle of Hurricane Camille. He must keep his host's girlfriend from being killed in the storm... or by anyone else. | ||||||||
57 | 4 | "Justice" | Chris Ruppenthal | Michael Watkins | Clyde May 11, 1965 Alabama |
October 3, 1991 | 67309 (4x04) | |
Sam leaps into a man named Clyde (played by Glenn Edden) just as he is about to join the Ku Klux Klan, out of respect for the racist family he has married into. Sam must prevent black civil rights leader Nathaniel Simpson, a pastor of a local Baptist church, from being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan while trying to explain to his host's son the evils of racism, but due to Sam's upbringing, it becomes very difficult to act like the person he has leaped into to avoid his own lynching. Michael Beach and Glenn Morshower also guest star. | ||||||||
58 | 5 | "Permanent Wave"' | Beverly Bridges | Scott Bakula | Frank Bianca June 2, 1983 Beverly Hills, California |
October 16, 1991 | 67302 (4x05) | |
Sam is Frank Bianca (leapee played by Robert Jacobs), a male hair stylist living with his girlfriend, a single mother Lela Ivey. When her child witnesses a murder of a mall drugstore clerk just as Sam leaps in, the boy's mother won't let him tell the police what he saw, and the killer is getting closer and closer to make sure that he never will. Joseph Gordon-Levitt also guest stars. | ||||||||
59 | 6 | "Raped" | Beverly Bridges | Michael Zinberg | Katie McBain June 20, 1980 Mill Valley, California |
October 30, 1991 | 67312 (4x06) | |
Sam leaps into Katie McBain (played by Cheryl Pollak), a woman who has just been raped by the town's All-American boy. He must make sure that justice is done, resulting in the woman herself being brought into the Imaging Chamber to testify at her trial.
Note: Unlike most episodes, the cast member who plays the "leapee" (Cheryl Pollak) is spotlighted in the opening credits. | ||||||||
60 | 7 | "The Wrong Stuff" | Paul Brown | Joe Napolitano | Bobo the chimp January 24, 1961 Cape Canaveral, Florida |
November 6, 1991 | 67308 (4x07) | |
In a very bizarre out-of-the-human host, Sam leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp whom he must get into the space program – or he'll disappear forever due to unethical helmet testing methods.
Note: This is the only episode where Sam does not leap into a human being. | ||||||||
61 | 8 | "Dreams" | Deborah Pratt | Anita W. Addison | Jack Stone February 28, 1979 Malibu, California |
November 13, 1991 | 67320 (4x08) | |
Sam leaps into a cop named Jack Stone (played by David Garrison) just as he finds a man accused of murdering his wife, before killing himself and emotionally crippling their children. He must uncover a childhood trauma of the man he leaped into (which has unfortunately remained in Sam's head after the Leap) and catch a murderer before his host becomes the next victim. | ||||||||
62 | 9 | "A Single Drop of Rain" | Story by: Donald Bellisario, Ralph Meyering, Jr. & Richard C. Okie Teleplay by: Richard C. Okie |
Virgil W. Vogel | William "Billy" Beaumont Clover Bend, Texas September 7, 1953 |
November 20, 1991 | 67317 (4x09) | |
Sam is William "Billy" Beaumont (played by Ted Baader), a traveling rainmaker returning home to a farming community suffering from a drought, who has to make it rain while preventing his host's brother's wife from running away with him. | ||||||||
63 | 10 | "Unchained" | Paris Qualles | Michael Watkins | Chance Cole November 2, 1956 Talawaga County, Mississippi |
November 27, 1991 | 67314 (4x10) | |
Sam is Chance Cole (played by Mark Kemble), an escaped convict who is chained to a wrongly accused black man named Jasper who escape together only to be recaptured again. Sam must find a way to prove Jasper's innocence to the corrupt warden as the string of robberies continue. | ||||||||
64 | 11 | "The Play's The Thing" | Beverly Bridges | Eric Laneuville | Joseph "Joe" Thurlow September 9, 1969 New York City |
January 8, 1992 | 67301 (4x11) | |
Sam leaps into a man named Joseph "Joe" Thurlow (played by Will Schaub) who's dating a much, much older woman and must convince her not to move back to Cleveland with her straight-arrow son and his wife. And somehow he also has to get through a nude version of Hamlet. Robert Pine, Daniel Roebuck, and Anna Gunn also guest star. | ||||||||
65 | 12 | "Running For Honor" | Bobby Duncan | Bob Hulme | Thomas "Tommy" York June 11, 1964 Near Lakeside, Macomb County, Michigan |
January 15, 1992 | 67319 (4x12) | |
Sam leaps into Thomas "Tommy" York (played by Beau Windham), an honor-roll cadet at the Naval Academy who might be gay. His roommate was kicked out of the Naval Academy for being gay and Sam must stop his former roommate from being killed by a bigoted gang of midshipmen. | ||||||||
66 | 13 | "Temptation Eyes | Paul Brown | Christopher Hibler | Dylan Powell February 1, 1985 San Francisco, California |
January 22, 1992 | 67322 (4x13) | |
As a rash of serial murders take place in San Francisco, Sam leaps into a television reporter named Dylan Powell who must prevent a psychic who is helping the police from becoming the next victim. But when she discovers who Sam really is, they fall for each other and the ordeal becomes very personal.
Note: The song that was played when the episode originally aired, I Want to Know What Love Is, topped the Billboard Hot 100 during early February 1985, when it was set. | ||||||||
67 | 14 | "The Last Gunfighter" | Story by: Sam Rolfe Teleplay by: Sam Rolfe & Chris Ruppenthal |
Joe Napolitano | Tyler Means November 28, 1957 Coffin, Arizona |
January 29, 1992 | 67318 (4x14) | |
Sam is a retired gunfighter named Tyler Means (played by Paul Bordman) who's living with his family in an Old West town that is used for tourism and films. He must face his former partner, who wants to kill Sam because his host stole his heroic antics for his own, while also preventing his host's grandson from ruining his life after his image of his grandfather is ruined. | ||||||||
68 | 15 | "A Song For The Soul" | Deborah Pratt | Michael Watkins | Cherea April 7, 1963 Chicago, Illinois |
February 26, 1992 | 67304 (4x15) | |
Sam leaps into Cheree, a member of an all-girl teenage R&B trio, and must prevent one of the singers from signing a cheap contract and ruining their lives. | ||||||||
69 | 16 | "Ghost Ship" | Donald P. Bellisario | Anita W. Addison & Paris Qualles | Eddie Brackett August 13, 1956 Bermuda Triangle |
March 4, 1992 | 67307 (4x16) | |
Sam leaps into Eddie Brackett (played by Mark McPherson), co-pilot of an air taxi that is transporting two young newlyweds, one of whom is very sick with appendicitis. But that is the least of his worries when the plane flies into the Bermuda Triangle and he loses contact with Al and Quantum Leap. | ||||||||
70 | 17 | "Roberto!!" | Chris Ruppenthal | Scott Bakula | Roberto Gutierrez January 27, 1982 Destiny, New Mexico |
March 11, 1992 | 67326 (4x17) | |
Sam is Roberto Gutierrez (played by Andrew Roa), a Geraldo Rivera-inspired talk-show host who works with his co-worker to unmask a local fertilizer and pesticide plant that is researching and producing chemical weapons before they're silenced. | ||||||||
71 | 18 | "It's A Wonderful Leap" | Story by: Danielle Alexandra & Paul Brown Teleplay by: Paul Brown |
Paul Brown | Max Greenman May 10, 1958 New York City |
April 1, 1992 | 67324 (4x18) | |
Sam is a New York City taxicab driver named Max Greenman (played by Ross Partridge) who's trying to earn enough money to get his father his own medallion. Along the way, he meets a woman who claims to be an angel and can see Al, pretending to believe him to be the devil. | ||||||||
72 | 19 | "Moments To Live" | Tommy Thompson | Joe Napolitano | Kyle Hart May 4, 1985 Los Angeles, California |
April 8, 1992 | 67325 (4x19) | |
Sam leaps into Kyle Hart, a soap opera actor who is kidnapped by an obsessed fan who wants him to father her baby and, in the original history, his host ended up wandering the countryside with a gunshot wound to the head that rendered him a total amnesiac. | ||||||||
73 | 20 | "The Curse of Ptah-Hotep" | Chris Ruppenthal | Joe Napolitano | Dr. Dale Conway March 2, 1957 Saqqara, Egypt |
April 22, 1992 | 67328 (4x20) | |
Sam leaps into Dr. Dale Conway (played by Rodger LaRue), a member of an archeology team that has just unearthed the tomb of the Pharaoh Ptah-Hotep, but the find carries a terrible curse. | ||||||||
74 | 21 | "Stand Up" | Bill Richmond & Deborah Pratt | Michael Zinberg | Davey Parker April 30, 1959 Glendale, Arizona |
May 13, 1992 | 67315 (4x21) | |
Sam leaps into a man named Davey Parker (played by Rafe Battiste) who's part of a trio comedy act, with his male and female partner so in love with each other that they cannot face it. Sam must get the couple to see that they love each other, and prevent one of the comedians from being killed by the Mafia.
Note:Bob Saget guest stars as one of Sam's comic partners. Amy Yasbeck also guest stars. | ||||||||
75 | 22 | "A Leap For Lisa" | Donald P. Belllisario | James Whitmore, Jr. | Al "Bingo" Calavicci June 25, 1957 San Diego Naval Air Station, California |
May 20, 1992 | 67329 (4x22) | |
Sam leaps into a younger Al "Bingo" Calavicci (played by Jamie Walters) who is on trial for the murder and rape of his commander's wife. But when Sam's actions unintentionally prevent the witness whose testimony cleared Al in the real history from testifying before she dies, Sam discovers that Project Quantum Leap now exists in an alternate future in which Al was executed in the gas chamber. Roddy McDowall guest stars as the alternate timeline's holographic project Observer. |
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