Quantum Leap
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^ I LOVED that sketch. I even emailed it to my husband.
"There's a crowbar in the trunk and the East River is right over there......"
"There's a crowbar in the trunk and the East River is right over there......"
My son and I started a complete watch of Quantum Leap, once we figured out the Netflix situation. They didn't have the first two episodes for some stupid reason, so we bought those on Amazon. Then the very next day, they added them to Netflix.
It also seems to me the beginning is different from the one I remember. It used to have a female voice narrating. Now it's Sam talking to us. Weird.
Anyway, we've just barely started. Last one we saw was where Sam slept with the mob boss' girlfriend, then leapt into the mob boss in the same episode.
It also seems to me the beginning is different from the one I remember. It used to have a female voice narrating. Now it's Sam talking to us. Weird.
Anyway, we've just barely started. Last one we saw was where Sam slept with the mob boss' girlfriend, then leapt into the mob boss in the same episode.
My son and I started a complete watch of Quantum Leap, once we figured out the Netflix situation. They didn't have the first two episodes for some stupid reason, so we bought those on Amazon. Then the very next day, they added them to Netflix.
It also seems to me the beginning is different from the one I remember. It used to have a female voice narrating. Now it's Sam talking to us. Weird.
Anyway, we've just barely started. Last one we saw was where Sam slept with the mob boss' girlfriend, then leapt into the mob boss in the same episode.
For awhile I went crazy over the last episode.
I could have sworn there were bits of dialogue in the last few minutes.
Sam talks to Al about his Uncle/leaper and Al says something "Why are you laughing? It's not funny!"
Future airings omitted this part I guess for time.
For your issue I wonder if it's Doctor Who on BBC America using an Amy Pond version of the credits.
I showed my kids a few intro episodes and then we watched "The Leap Home" which they both enjoyed.
There is a scene of Sam laughing when he finds out about Al's uncle who was "all twisted up like a pretzel", since he too is duplicated in the bar. Al admonishes Sam, saying that it is not funny, to which Sam replies "but it is Al, it is". Al then thinks Sam has had a dose of the crazies and departs. The bartender then remarks that he too has always found coincidence amusing.
Is that the scene?
Yeah. The first times it aired on SciFi they did show it uncut but future airing cut it for time
yeah the original narration was Ziggy voiced by Deborah Pratt who was at the time Mrs Donald Bellisario. Given they've since divorced the opening narration might have been a victim of the separation i.e he didn't want to have to pay her royalties.
Not true. The Pratt saga sell didn't come about until later. Sam delivered his own intro in the earlier eps. (And there was also a third version voiced by Lance LeGault, which didn't get used for very long.)
I'll keep an eye out for the change. I have no memory of this Sam intro from the original watch. I guess it was a long time ago!
We watched the Driving Miss Daisy one last night. It was great for my son to see. I think it was still very effective, and sparked some questions from him.
He's taking to this show more than I thought he would.
Oh, and what's with Al's doohickey? The one I remember looks like a bunch of skittles glued together. The one he's using now is flat and mostly black. I guess that's something that changes later too?
Gotta say I can't recall any QL introduces where Sam did opening narration where the narrator gives the premise (theorising that one that one could time travel within his own lifetime.......) as opposed to Sam's comments as he leaped in to some-one new.
Also can't find any mention that Lance LeGault did a narration for QL (not mentioned on his IMDB) page. He did appear in one episode.
however it he did do a narration for some episodes of Airwolf (IMDB lists 6).
Sam introduced the show for season one, but not on every single episode.
At first, Sam kept introducing himself in season two but not as a saga sell, just the "Here's what I think about some stuff" style voice over. Lance did the first version of the well-known saga sell on the episode "Another Mother".
It was replaced with the Deborah Pratt version in the very next episode, "All-American". (She also re-recorded it for the following episode, "Her Charm".) Then came the final version, the shorter more well-known one, which first appeared on the season 3 opener, "The Leap Home".
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okay now that's ringing a bell or two.
I would love a crossover where Sam leaps into a certain morgue attendant who has her own experiences with time travel, of a sort. (Tru Calling, for the uninitiated.) Some of the scenes just write themselves, Al leching over Tru, Sam interacting with Harrison or Jack. His "mission", not only to save the "victim of the week", but Tru herself.
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