Quantum Leap
Season 2
22 episodes
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S02E01 Honeymoon Express - April 27, 1960
As Tom McBride, a New York City cop on his honeymoon, Sam must save himself from a jealous and sociopathic 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. Leap Details: Unnamed Firefighter, 1957, Unknown Location / Tom McBride, April 27, 1960, New York, New York
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S02E02 Disco Inferno - April 1, 1976
Sam has to save his host's younger brother from his obsessed father who wants him to go into the family business as a movie stuntman. Leap Details: Chad Stone, April 1, 1976, Burbank, California
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S02E03 The Americanization of Machiko - August 4, 1953
As a sailor returning from Japan, Sam brings home a Japanese wife and must battle the prejudice of his hometown and his own mother. Leap Details: Charles Lee MacKenzie, August 4, 1953, Oak Creek, Ohio
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S02E04 What Price Gloria? - 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. Leap Details: Samantha Stormer, October 16, 1961, Detroit, Michigan
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S02E05 Blind Faith - February 6, 1964
As a blind concert pianist, Sam must save his girlfriend from a serial killer despite the interference of her overbearing mother. Leap Details: Andrew Ross, February 6, 1964, New York City
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S02E06 Good Morning, Peoria - 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. Leap Details: Howlin' Chick Howell, September 9, 1959, Peoria, Illinois
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S02E07 Thou Shalt Not... - 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. Leap Details: Rabbi David Basch, February 2, 1974, Los Angeles, California
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S02E08 Jimmy - October 14, 1964
Since mainstreaming the mentally retarded 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 coworkers' acceptance, to prevent his brother from returning Jimmy to the institution. Leap Details: Jimmy LaMotta, October 14, 1964, Oakland, California
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S02E09 So Help Me God - 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. Leap Details: Leonard Dancey, July 29, 1957, Louisiana
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S02E10 Catch a Falling Star - 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. Leap Details: Ray Hutton, May 21, 1979, Syracuse, New York
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S02E11 A Portrait for Troian - 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. Leap Details: Timothy Mintz, February 7, 1971, Near Los Angeles, California
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S02E12 Animal Frat - 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. Leap Details: Knut "Wild Thing" Wileton, October 19, 1967, Meeks College in California
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S02E13 Another Mother - September 30, 1981
After leaping into a single mother, Sam must prevent the 15-year-old son of his host from disappearing. Al and Sam also find out that very young children can see them as they really are. Leap Details: Linda Bruckner, September 30, 1981, Scottsdale, Arizona
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S02E14 All-Americans - November 6, 1962
Sam must prevent a fellow high school football player from throwing the championship game and losing his scholarship. Leap Details: Eddie Vega, November 6, 1962, Woodland Hills, California
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S02E15 Her Charm - 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. Leap Details: Peter Langly, September 26, 1973, Boston, Massachusetts
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S02E16 Freedom - November 22, 1970
Sam becomes an American Indian who takes his ailing grandfather from a nursing home to die on a reservation. Leap Details: George Washaki, November 22, 1970, Nevada
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S02E17 Good Night, Dear Heart - November 9, 1957
Sam becomes a mortician in 1958 who is strangely obsessed with investigating the suicide of a teenage German girl. Leap Details: Melvin Spooner, November 9, 1957, Riven Rock, Massachusetts
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S02E18 Pool Hall Blues - September 4, 1954
Sam leaps into an old pool playing acquaintance of Al's and must win a pool game so that his granddaughter doesn't lose her bar. Leap Details: Charlie "Black Magic" Walters, September 4, 1954, Chicago, Illinois
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S02E19 Leaping in Without a Net - 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. Leap Details: Victor Panzini, November 18, 1958, Near Denver, Colorado
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S02E20 Maybe Baby - 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. Leap Details: Buster, March 11, 1963, Texas
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S02E21 Sea Bride - 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. Leap Details: Phillip Dumont, June 3, 1954, RMS Queen Mary in the Upper New York Bay
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S02E22 M.I.A. - 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. Leap Details: Jake Rawlins, April 1, 1969, San Diego, California
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