Quantum Leap: Season 1

1989 · 8 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 1 of Quantum Leap

Season 1 of Quantum Leap has 8 episodes and premiered on March 26, 1989. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

8episodes

Mar 26, 1989released

May 17, 1989latest episode

7 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Genesis
Mar 26, 1989 · 90 min · ★ 7.5
September 13, 1956: Sam Beckett wakes up in 1956, disoriented, suffering from amnesia, but he has the awful realization that he does not belong there...
Directing: David Hemmings · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Dennis Wolfberg, Jennifer Runyon, Lydia Cornell, Patrick Cranshaw
1x02 Star-Crossed
Mar 31, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 7.3
June 15, 1972: Sam leaps into the persona of a womanizing college professor in 1972, encounters his lost love and attempts to reshape the past
Directing: Mark Sobel · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: Teri Hatcher, Michael Gregory, Leslie Sachs, Michael McGrady
1x03 The Right Hand of God
Apr 7, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 7.0
October 24, 1974: Sam lands in 1974 as a young boxer caught between fight-fixing gangsters and hopeful nuns who now own his contract.
Directing: Gilbert M. Shilton · Writing: John Hill · Starring: Guy Stockwell, Michelle Joyner, Teri Copley, Lewis Arquette
1x04 How the Tess Was Won
Apr 14, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 6.7
August 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.
Directing: Ivan Dixon · Writing: Deborah Arakelian · Starring: Lance LeGault, Kari Lizer, Marshall R. Teague, Scott Fults
1x05 Double Identity
Apr 21, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 7.1
November 8, 1965: Sam becomes a hit man in 1965 whose romance with the godfather's girlfriend places him in danger.
Directing: Aaron Lipstadt · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Nick Cassavetes, Terri Garber, Joe Santos, Mike Genovese
1x06 The Color of Truth
May 3, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 7.9
August 8, 1955: Sam experiences racism firsthand when he leaps into the body of an elderly black man in the pre-civil rights South of 1955.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: Susan French, Royce D. Applegate, Michael D. Roberts, James Ingersoll
1x07 Camikazi Kid
May 10, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 6.9
June 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: Paul Brown · Starring: Romy Walthall, Robert Costanzo, Kevin Spirtas, Jason Priestley
1x08 Play it Again, Seymour Season Finale
May 17, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 7.0
April 14, 1953: With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is Nick Allen, a private investigator looking for the murderer of his partner and, if he doesn't find the answer in time, himself. The case is solved with a number of Casablanca references as Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.
Directing: Aaron Lipstadt · Writing: Scott Shepherd, Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Paul Linke, Richard Riehle, Don Keith Opper, Claudia Christian