Quantum Leap: Season 2

1989 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.1

What Season 2 of Quantum Leap

The season kicks off at a top-secret U.S. government base in New Mexico, around 1999. Physicist Sam Beckett wants to prove that time behaves differently within atoms, while the pressure to produce results keeps mounting. When he steps into the machine, he disappears and wakes up in someone else's body with no memory of who he is. Al Calavicci, a Navy admiral only Sam can see, keeps him company, and the computer Ziggy lends a hand from the lab. In each episode he leaps into a different life, from a honeymoon cop to a blind pianist, correcting whatever went wrong and hoping to return home.

22episodes

Sep 20, 1989premiered

May 9, 1990latest episode

17.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Honeymoon Express
Sep 20, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 7.5
April 27, 1960: As Tom McBride, a New York City cop on his honeymoon, Sam must save himself from a jealous, and sociopath, ex-husband. To make matters worse, the Project's funding will be cut off, stranding Sam alone in the past, unless he can prevent the U2 flight from being shot down over Russia.
Directing: Aaron Lipstadt · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Alice Adair, Mathieu Carrière, Hank Rolike, James Mastrantonio
2x02 Disco Inferno
Sep 27, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 7.2
April 1, 1976: As a stuntman, Sam is to save the life of his younger brother, while trying to convince the pair's obsessive father to let the younger son go his own way, even if it means going into country-western music, rather than following the family tradition of stunt work.
Directing: Gilbert M. Shilton · Writing: Paul Brown · Starring: Kelli Williams, Peter Onorati, Arnetia Walker, Kris Kamm
2x03 The Americanization of Machiko
Oct 11, 1989 · 46 min · ★ 7.5
August 4, 1953: As a sailor returning from Japan, Sam brings a foreign wife to a small town. He then has to fight against the prejudice of both a scheming ex-girlfriend, as well as his mother, in order to gain acceptance of his new bride.
Directing: Gilbert M. Shilton · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: K Callan, Elena Wohl, Patrick Massett, Leila Lee Olsen
2x04 What Price Gloria?
Oct 25, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 5.5
October 16, 1961: Sam is shocked when he learns he's leaped into a woman, Samantha Stormer. As a gorgeous secretary for an automobile company, Sam has to cope with sexual harassment by the boss, a suicide attempt by a roommate, and the effect his looks have on Al's lecherous tendencies.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: Jean Sagal, Liz Sagal, John Calvin, Gregg Berger
2x05 Blind Faith
Nov 1, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 6.9
February 6, 1964: Although the concert pianist he leaps into is blind, a fact, which bothers his girlfriend's disapproving mother, Sam can still see. At least until an exploding flashbulb blinds him at the crucial moment: when he must rescue his girlfriend from a serial killer.
Directing: David G. Phinney · Writing: Scott Shepherd · Starring: Cynthia Bain, Jennifer Rhodes, Kevin Skousen, Judy Kain
2x06 Good Morning, Peoria
Nov 8, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 7.2
September 9, 1959: Rock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal, Michael Zinberg · Starring: Patricia Richardson, Richard McKenzie, Todd Merrill, Chubby Checker
2x07 Thou Shalt Not...
Nov 15, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 7.4
February 2, 1974: Sam's task as a rabbi is to keep his sister-in-law from falling for a sleazy author and ruining her life. In the process he also helps the family recover from the year-old death of their son.
Directing: Randy Roberts · Writing: Tammy Ader · Starring: James Sutorius, Terri Hanauer, Lindsay Fischer, Russ Tamblyn
2x08 Jimmy
Nov 22, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 7.7
October 14, 1964: Since mainstreaming the mentally disabled is not yet a popular concept, Sam must help Jimmy LaMotta, the "slow" young man he's leaped into, get a job and gain his co-workers' acceptance, to prevent his brother from returning Jimmy to the institution.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Robert Wolterstorff, Paul M. Belous · Starring: Laura Harrington, Michael Søren Madsen, Michael Alldredge, John D'Aquino
2x09 So Help Me God
Nov 29, 1989 · 47 min · ★ 8.1
July 29, 1957: Though he can't remember much more than habeas corpus, Sam finds himself the defense attorney for a young black woman accused of murdering the son of the most powerful man in a small Louisiana town.
Directing: Andy Cadiff · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: Byrne Piven, Tyra Ferrell, William Schallert, Kathleen Noone
2x10 Catch A Falling Star
Dec 6, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 6.8
May 21, 1979: Sam leaps into Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes just seconds before curtain time. His mission: prevent the drunken star from falling and seriously injuring himself during a benefit performance of "Man of La Mancha." Sam isn't helped by the presence of his former piano teacher, on whom he once had a crush, and who now appears to have caught the star's eye as well.
Directing: Donald P. Bellisario · Writing: Paul Brown · Starring: John Cullum, Michele Pawk, Janine Turner, Ernie Sabella
2x11 A Portrait for Troian
Dec 13, 1989 · 46 min · ★ 6.8
February 7, 1971: Sam leaps into a renowned parapsychologist where he must prevent a young widow from joining her husband at the bottom of a lake, while proving that she's not crazy, despite her claims of hearing her dead husband calling to her.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Scott Shepherd, Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Deborah Pratt, Robert Torti, Carolyn Seymour, Bill McLaughlin
2x12 Animal Frat
Jan 3, 1990 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
October 19, 1967: Trapped in the body of Knut Wileton, better known as "Wild Thing," the typical frat jock, Sam must win the confidence of an attractive campus radical before she bombs the college's chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.
Directing: Gilbert M. Shilton · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal · Starring: Brian Haley, Hope Marie Carlton, Stacy Edwards, Stuart Fratkin
2x13 Another Mother
Jan 10, 1990 · 47 min · ★ 7.7
September 30, 1981: As a divorced mother of three, Sam's job of preventing his teenage son from running away, never to be seen again, is made more interesting by the fact that his youngest daughter can see both him and Al.
Directing: Joseph L. Scanlan · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: Olivia Burnette, Terrence Evans, Michael Stoyanov, Troian Bellisario
2x14 All-Americans
Jan 17, 1990 · 48 min · ★ 7.2
November 6, 1962: Keeping his best friend from throwing the high school championship football game, costing both of them their scholarship offers, Sam must also get their families to consolidate.
Directing: John Cullum · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario, Paul Brown · Starring: Pepe Serna, Richard Coca, Ruth Britt, Fausto Bara
2x15 Her Charm
Feb 7, 1990 · 48 min · ★ 7.2
September 26, 1973: Protecting a female member of the witness protection program from a mafia hitman proves difficult for Sam, since the FBI appears to have an informant confounding his attempts to hide her.
Directing: Christopher T. Welch · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario, Deborah Pratt · Starring: Teri Austin, Stanley Brock, John Snyder, René Assa
2x16 Freedom
Feb 14, 1990 · 47 min · ★ 6.9
November 22, 1970: Rather than saving his grandfather's life, Sam has to escape from jail and elude the police long enough to get them both to the reservation, where the old man can die in peace, at home.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal · Starring: Tom Everett, Leon Rippy, Frank Salsedo, Gloria Hayes
2x17 Good Night, Dear Heart
Mar 7, 1990 · 48 min · ★ 5.9
November 9, 1957: Rather than saving the damsel of the episode, who supposedly committed suicide, Sam is the coroner trying to prove that she was murdered, and find out by whom.
Directing: Christopher T. Welch · Writing: Paul Brown · Starring: Robert Duncan McNeill, William Cain, Marcia Cross, Deborah Strang
2x18 Pool Hall Blues
Mar 14, 1990 · 48 min · ★ 7.2
September 4, 1954: In order to help his granddaughter save a small bar from the slimy loan shark holding a note on the place, Sam has to play pool like a pro...with a little help from Al and Ziggy.
Directing: Joe Napolitano · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Ken Foree, Shari Headley, J.W. Smith, Teddy Wilson
2x19 Leaping in Without a Net
Mar 28, 1990 · 48 min · ★ 7.1
November 18, 1958: Sam remembers he's afraid of heights when he leaps into a trapeze artist, whose sister wants him to catch her as she does a triple without a net. Dad is less than pleased, since his wife died a few years earlier while attempting the same stunt.
Directing: Christopher T. Welch · Writing: Tommy Thompson · Starring: Jan Tříska, Fabiana Udenio, Richard Riehle, Phil Fondacaro
2x20 Maybe Baby
Apr 4, 1990 · 48 min · ★ 6.0
March 11, 1963: Babysitting a kidnapped tot and a flaky, compulsively lying stripper keeps Sam busy as they cross Texas, on the run from the legal father and a squad of cops.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Paul Brown, Julie Brown · Starring: Carmen Filpi, Julie Brown, Charles Frank, Jimmie Ray Weeks
2x21 Sea Bride
May 2, 1990 · 47 min · ★ 6.7
June 3, 1954: Aboard an ocean liner, Sam must stop the marriage of a young man's ex-wife to a mobster. In the process, he finds himself in one heck of a mess in the ship's garbage compartment.
Directing: Joe Napolitano · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: J.G. Hertzler, Louis Guss, Beverly Leech, James Harper
2x22 M.I.A. Season Finale
May 9, 1990 · 48 min · ★ 8.3
April 1, 1969: When Sam leaps into the life of an undercover cop, Al explains that his mission is to convince a navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive, and to prevent her from marrying a lawyer she meets on the day Sam leaps in. But a series of coincidences causes Sam to wonder about the true nature of his mission.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Jason Beghe, Norman Large, Sierra Pecheur, Dan Ziskie