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Quantum Leap

^ 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......" :lol:
 
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.

:scream:

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.

:scream:

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.

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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.
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?
 
Heathens!
But seriously, how overly long is an episode of QL that they felt the need to do this?
 
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.

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.
 
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.)
 
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!

:lol:

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?

:shrug:
 
Yeah, he hits it too hard and breaks it in one episode, necessitating him to scurry off mid scene and secure the jellybean replacement.
 
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!

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.
"It all started when a time travel experiment I was conducting went... a little ka-ka. In the blink of a cosmic clock I went from quantum physicist to air force test pilot. Which could have been fun...if I knew how to fly. Fortunately, I had help. An observer from the project named Al. Unfortunately, Al's a hologram, so all he can lend is moral support. Anyway, here I am. Bouncing around in time, putting things right which once went wrong. A sort of...time traveling Lone Ranger, with Al as my Tonto. And I don't even need a mask. Oh boy."
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".
"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brainwave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Beckett can see and hear. Trapped in the past, Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next leap will be the leap home."
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".
"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home."
 
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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".

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.
 
My son and I are halfway through Season 3. He absolutely loves it!

One thing I had forgotten: Al is basically the prototype for Glen Quagmire!

:lol:

Giggidy!
 
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