Quantum Leap: Season 4

1991 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 4 of Quantum Leap

Season 4 of Quantum Leap Has 22 episodes and premiered on September 18, 1991. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

22episodes

Sep 18, 1991premiered

May 20, 1992latest episode

16.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 The Leap Back
Sep 18, 1991 · 44 min · ★ 7.4
June 15, 1945: Struck by lightning, Sam and Al find their roles reversed, as Sam returns to the future, and to a long-lost love, while Al leaps back to 1945 to prevent the death of a returning World War II hero and his former girl friend.
Directed by Michael Zinberg · Written by Donald P. Bellisario · Starring Dennis Wolfberg, Gigi Rice, Amanda Wyss, Mimi Kuzyk
4x02 Play Ball
Sep 25, 1991 · 45 min
August 6, 1961: A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or baby-sit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of the women in his life.
Directed by Joe Napolitano · Written by Tommy Thompson · Starring Maree Cheatham, Casey Sander, Neal McDonough, Don Stroud
4x03 Hurricane
Oct 2, 1991 · 44 min
August 17, 1969: Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly hurricane.
Directing: Michael W. Watkins · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal · Starring: Bill Erwin, Tracy Kolis, Marilyn Jones, James Morrison
4x04 Justice
Oct 9, 1991 · 44 min
May 11, 1965: Sam must don the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman in order to save the life of an ambitious young civil rights leader, who is trying to register black voters.
Directed by Rob Bowman · Written by Toni Graphia · Starring Dirk Blocker, Noble Willingham, Lee Weaver, Glenn Morshower
4x05 Permanent Wave
Oct 16, 1991 · 44 min
June 2, 1983: Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the death of a young murder witness and his mother.
Directed by Scott Bakula · Written by Beverly Bridges · Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Harry Groener, Doran Clark, Lela Ivey
4x06 Raped
Oct 30, 1991 · 44 min
June 20, 1980: It's up to Sam to try to bring a rapist to justice when he leaps into the perp's victim, a young woman who may have been unwilling to press charges against the young man - the son of the pillar of the community.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Beverly Bridges · Starring: Liz Vassey, Aaron Lustig, Eric Bruskotter, Nancy Lenehan
4x07 The Wrong Stuff
Nov 6, 1991 · 44 min
January 24, 1961: The fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.
Directing: Joe Napolitano · Writing: Paul Brown · Starring: Caroline Goodall, Peter Murnik, Gary Swanson, Albert Stratton
4x08 Dreams
Nov 13, 1991 · 44 min
February 28, 1979: It's more like a nightmare when Sam leaps into a detective, investigating a gruesome murder. He may be next if he doesn't find out who eviscerated the victim and his only hope is the victim's catatonic son and her husband's psychiatrist. The horrific flashbacks he's experiencing don't help matters much either.
Directed by Anita W. Addison · Written by Deborah Pratt · Starring Alan Scarfe, Joycelyn O'Brien, Bill Marcus, Tim Ahern
4x09 A Single Drop of Rain
Nov 20, 1991 · 44 min
September 7, 1953: A devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam, as Billy Beaumont, "purveyor of precipitation and maker of rain," can find a way to make it rain, while keeping his family together in the process.
Directed by Virgil W. Vogel · Written by Richard C. Okie · Starring Britt Leach, R.G. Armstrong, Hal Landon Jr., Phyllis Lyons
4x10 Unchained
Nov 27, 1991 · 44 min
November 2, 1956: Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue his companion from a fifteen-year sentence on a chain gang.
Directed by Michael W. Watkins · Written by Paris Qualles · Starring Jed Mills, Robert V. Barron, J.C. Quinn, Basil Wallace
4x11 The Play's the Thing
Jan 8, 1992 · 45 min · ★ 5.5
September 9, 1969: May meets December when Sam leaps into a young actor in love with an older woman, who is also an aspiring singer. If he can't boost her confidence and help her get her career on track, she will face a "fate worse than death," returning with her son to Cleveland.
Directing: Eric Laneuville · Writing: Beverly Bridges · Starring: Paul Collins, Deem Bristow, Penny Fuller, Anna Gunn
4x12 Running for Honor
Jan 15, 1992 · 45 min · ★ 5.0
June 11, 1964: As a track star in a Navy college, Sam must prevent the death of his ex- roommate, who was expelled because he was gay, and who is slated to die at the hands of a group of bigoted cadets.
Directed by Bob Hulme · Written by Bobby Duncan · Starring Sean O'Bryan, John Finn, Stephen Brown, Anthony Palermo
4x13 Temptation Eyes
Jan 22, 1992 · 45 min
February 1, 1985: A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a TV reporter, protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case, from becoming the next victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.
Directed by Christopher Hibler · Written by Paul Brown · Starring Kent Williams, Tamlyn Tomita, James Handy, Rob LaBelle
4x14 The Last Gunfighter
Jan 29, 1992 · 45 min
November 28, 1957: Sam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.
Directing: Joe Napolitano · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal, Sam Rolfe · Starring: O'Neal Compton, John Anderson, Kenneth Tigar, Susan Isaacs
4x15 A Song for the Soul
Feb 26, 1992 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
April 7, 1963: As a backup singer in a black, amateur girl group Sam finds between the fifteen year-old lead singer and her father as he attempts to rescue the girl from a sleazy night club owner's clutches.
Directing: Michael W. Watkins · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, Eriq La Salle, Tammy Townsend, Harrison Page
4x16 Ghost Ship
Mar 4, 1992 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
August 13, 1956: Flying over the Bermuda Triangle, Sam, as the co-pilot, must prevent the flight from returning to Virginia, to get a seriously ill passenger to a doctor before she dies. Flying through the triangle is riskier than it seems, and Sam, deprived of Al's help when the hologram fades out, must get them through alive.
Directed by Anita W. Addison · Written by Donald P. Bellisario, Paris Qualles · Starring Kimberly Foster, Carla Gugino, Scott Hoxby, Kurt Deutsch
4x17 Roberto!
Mar 11, 1992 · 44 min
January 27, 1982: Sam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery, which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.
Directed by Scott Bakula · Written by Chris Ruppenthal · Starring Delane Matthews, Marcus Giamatti, Barbara Tarbuck, Jerry Hardin
4x18 It's A Wonderful Leap
Apr 1, 1992 · 44 min
May 10, 1958: Sam finds himself behind the wheel of a New York taxicab, in the life of Max Greenman, a driver striving to win his own tag, a license to drive his own cab. His mission is aided with the help of a woman who claims to be a guardian angel.
Directing: Paul Brown · Writing: Danielle Alexandra, Paul Brown · Starring: Jerry Adler, Vaughn Armstrong, Liz Torres, Frank Girardeau
4x19 Moments to Live
Apr 8, 1992 · 45 min
May 4, 1985: Sam is a soap opera heart surgeon and the obsession of a love-struck, if somewhat deranged fan. He must escape from the woman and her husband who kidnap him for reproductive purposes
Directed by Joe Napolitano · Written by Tommy Thompson · Starring Matthew Ashford, Frances Bay, Krista Tesreau, Pruitt Taylor Vince
4x20 The Curse of Ptah-Hotep
Apr 22, 1992 · 45 min
March 2, 1957: It's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.
Directing: Joe Napolitano · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal · Starring: John Kapelos, Lisa Darr, Rodger LaRue, Chaim Jeraffi
4x21 Stand Up
May 13, 1992 · 45 min
April 30, 1959: Sam, as the singing half of a comedy team, soon finds that trying to convince two people that they're truly in love is no laughing matter, especially when one of them is the object of a sleazy casino owner's desire.
Directed by Michael Zinberg · Written by Deborah Pratt · Starring Bob Saget, Amy Yasbeck, Robert Miranda, Tom La Grua
4x22 A Leap for Lisa Season Finale
May 20, 1992 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
June 25, 1957: Sam leaps into Al Calavicci to prevent the death of his married lover. But when Sam accidentally alters history, and finds out too late about her untimely demise, it could mean the gas chamber for Al and disturbingly a whole new situation at Project Quantum Leap.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Charles Rocket, Jeff Corbett, Larry Brandenburg, Jamie Walters