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Will Sam Beckett Return Home? NBC Orders Quantum Leap Reboot Pilot

I like those early episodes, where he was narrating everything. It was more personal and the bridge between episodes was smoother. It almost made the whole thing feel serialized in an era where that was rare. I wish more episodes were like the pilot, with multiple leaps stitched into one episode.
 
Bellisario has said an early idea was there would multiple leaps in every episode. With the option of showing them in any order in reruns.

Closet we got to that was I think was Honeymoon Express where he briefly Leaps into a Fireman. Only to save a Cat and Leap out.

Another example was Lee Harvey Oswald. Same guy but multiple points in his life.

Another rarity - early Mob episode where he Leaps into young mobster but in rare effort to Leap home causes blackout in New York and Leaps into The Godfather. Which makes it easier to accomplish original goal.
 
JD said:
I have a feeling we'll probably being seeing a lot of ranch/farm dramas now that Yellowstone has been such a huge hit.
We've already got this, and they are also working on a contemporary Yellowstone spin-off, to go along with it's two prequels.
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If you go further back than Yellowstone, you also have the Canadian series Heartland, which has 15 seasons.
 
They actually did show Clark working on the farm a fair amount, didn't they? The one example that was stuck with me was him using his super strength to put in fence posts.
Owain Taggart said:
If you go further back than Yellowstone, you also have the Canadian series Heartland, which has 15 seasons.
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Oh yeah, I know Heartland. I'm probably going to be starting Season 3 once I finish one of the other shows I've been watching.
And now to get back on topic.
I kind of hope they get rid of the whole within the main character's life time thing, that's always been one of my least favorite things about the original. One of my favorite things about time travel series is all of the different eras they go to, and that really limited what they could do. I know they worked around it a few times, but more diversity in the settings on a regular basis in the new series would been cool.
If they want to do any follow ups to leaps from the original they're going to have to if the main characters is under 30.
 
It kind of makes me wonder how they'll do the show. Will it be episodic like the previous format or will it go with the serial format? The concept of leaping lends itself the best to an episodic format, and I don't think it's a concept that would work quite as well if they go with a season-long serial, which IMHO would be more limiting.
 
My ideal would be leap of the week A-stories, with a serialized B-story back at Quantum Leap HQ with the rest of the team helping and/or trying to find a way to bring the main character home. That way we can get the best of both worlds.
 
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JD said:
My ideal would be leap of the week A-stories, with a serialized B-story back at Quantum Leap HQ with the rest of the team helping and/or trying to find a way to bring the main character home. That way we can get the best of both worlds.
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I could see that working too. It's similar to the style most shows had been using back in the mid 2000's before the trend started going to fully serialized shows. You'd have a serialized back-end tying things together. White Collar is a great example of that style of show.
 
Gingerbread Demon said:
I don't know if they ever addressed it but what happens if Sam leaps into a baby? I mean it is possible isn't it?
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I doubt it.

Sam's body and mind both leap. It's not his mind leaping into others' bodies. So he'd just be too big to leap in as a baby.

And besides, what could Sam possibly DO as a baby?
 
FreezeC77 said:
I mean he lept into like a 2 foot tall NASA chimp.
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Gingerbread Demon said:
I don't remember that episode
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I recently watched Quantum Leap for the first time and he did indeed.
And even though he had to walk around the whole time in just a diaper, it honestly was not as cringeworthy as it sounds. As often I was truly impressed how he got the whole body language down, the way he was crouching, you could really see the ape in him. And his frustration about not being able to communicate properly with the outside world. And his relationship with the female chimpanzee was also rather cute.

The episode itself was about animal experiments so had a good background too.

 
Yeah that episode gets a lot of jokes but is actually really good if you get over your surprise at the premise
 
The episode were Sam leaped into the monkey was great. It has monkeys in and Sam acting like a monkey and even some NASA stuff. How could it not be a good episode!
 
Just got the box set by Mill Creek.
Isn't there an episode where Sam leaps into the guy that writes the song Peggy Sue only he's singing Piggy Sue to a pig?
 
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