![]() ![]() From the moment I read it, I thought it was perfect, that it was going to be a success.” I had been told I had no TV-Q, and now it didn’t matter. “I had done television for years, but nobody was interested in me,” Stockwell told Emmy magazine. Dean Stockwell's film career helped land him his role on Quantum Leap.ĭean Stockwell had toiled in movies and television for years, but his star was burning brightly after he appeared in David Lynch's Blue Velvet in 1986 and received an Oscar nomination for 1988’s Married to the Mob. ![]() I never explained who was leaping Sam-was it God, fate?" 2. And the quantum leap is a physical thing that happens that you can’t explain. “I was reading a book called Coming of Age in the Milky Way and it took man from when he looked up at stars and all the way to quantum physics, and it gave the history of everything. Bellisario explained the provenance of the show’s title to Emmy TV Legends. The show's title came from a physics books. Here are some facts about the series, on the 30th anniversary of its debut. ![]() In 1993, the show met its demise when NBC abruptly canceled it. As a result, the show gained a cult status, and fans-who called themselves Leapers-held conventions throughout the years and even funded Stockwell’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star. Though it wasn’t a ratings juggernaut, for two summers in a row NBC aired episodes five nights a week to get more people watching. Also, Beckett could only see the person he possessed when he looked in a mirror, and it was up to him to figure out the problem that needed to be fixed. (It was.) There were rules to Beckett’s time travel, though: He was born in 1953 and wasn’t allowed to travel outside of his age-though one episode did see him leaping into his great-grandfather’s body to experience the American Civil War. Bellisario pitched the show because he wanted to do an anthology with two characters and felt the time travel element would be attractive to legendary NBC president Brandon Tartikoff. The show highlighted social issues and occasionally aired divisive episodes. Beckett’s snarky hologram sidekick, Al (Dean Stockwell), helped the doctor navigate the historical sequences. Scott Bakula starred as Beckett, and in each episode he ended up inside a different person, ranging from a pregnant woman to Lee Harvey Oswald. Sam Beckett “leaped” from person to person to right epic wrongs and change the course of world history in Quantum Leap. For five seasons between 19, physicist Dr. ![]()
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