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The Best Episodes of Quantum Leap

Every episode of Quantum Leap ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Quantum Leap!

The Best Episodes of Quantum Leap

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find...

Seasons5

  1. Background image for Mirror Image
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Mirror Image

    S5:E22

    August 8, 1953: Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and familiar people don't know him. With the help of another Al, he still has something to set right ... or is there more than one thing he needs to change?

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  2. Background image for So Help Me God
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #2 - So Help Me God

    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Andy Cadiff
  3. Background image for The Leap Home (1)
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #3 - The Leap Home (1)

    S3:E1

    November 25, 1969: As himself at the age of 16, Sam has the opportunity to both win the high school basketball championship and save his family from their sad fates.

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    8.1/10(8 votes)

    #4 - M.I.A.

    S2:E22

    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.

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  5. Background image for The Color of Truth
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #5 - The Color of Truth

    S1:E7

    August 8, 1955: Sam experiences racism firsthand when he leaps into the body of an elderly black man in the pre-civil rights South of 1955.

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    7.8/10(9 votes)

    #6 - Jimmy

    S2:E8

    October 14, 1964: Since mainstreaming the mentally disabled 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 co-workers' acceptance, to prevent his brother from returning Jimmy to the institution.

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  8. Background image for Another Mother
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Another Mother

    S2:E13

    September 30, 1981: As a divorced mother of three, Sam's job of preventing his teenage son from running away, never to be seen again, is made more interesting by the fact that his youngest daughter can see both him and Al.

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  9. Background image for Shock Theater
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #8 - Shock Theater

    S3:E22

    October 3, 1954: Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes his Swiss-cheesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps. Al, finding himself visible to the mentally absent, must try to complete Sam's mission, and convince him to take another shock treatment, in order to leap Sam out before contact is lost forever.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #9 - Justice

    S4:E4

    May 11, 1965: Sam must don the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman in order to save the life of an ambitious young civil rights leader, who is trying to register black voters.

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    Director:Rob Bowman
  11. Background image for Genesis (2)
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Genesis (2)

    S1:E2

    September 13, 1956: After Tom Stratton comforts his wife and prevents her from having a premature birth, instead of leaping to save his wife and child. He instead realizes that instead of leaping home, he's lept into Ken Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas at the end of the 1968 season, in the middle of a game, where he must make the winning play in order to leap further. Ken Fox makes a home-run, and Sam leaps into Dr. Gerald Bryant as a school teacher in the middle of a class.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Honeymoon Express
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #11 - Honeymoon Express

    S2:E1

    April 27, 1960: As Tom McBride, a New York City cop on his honeymoon, Sam must save himself from a jealous, and sociopath, 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.

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  13. Background image for The Leap Home (2): Vietnam
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The Leap Home (2): Vietnam

    S3:E2

    April 7, 1970: As a Navy SEAL in his own brother's squad, Sam must determine whether he is there to save Tom's life or ensure the success of the mission on which his brother was killed. Also Al from 1970 was a P.O.W.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Miss Deep South

    S3:E6

    June 7, 1958: As Darlene Monte, a contestant in the "Miss Deep South" beauty pageant, Sam must come to the aid of an innocent contender who faces disgrace when she poses for naughty pictures taken by a sleazy pageant photographer. As if things weren't bad enough, Sam must ensure that Darlene finishes third, so that she'll go on to become a doctor.

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  15. Background image for Black on White on Fire
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Black on White on Fire

    S3:E7

    August 11, 1965: Sam leaps into a black med. student engaged to a white woman in order to ensure that he and his fiancée survive the Watts Riot together.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Rebel without a Clue

    S3:E9

    September 1, 1958: As "Bones," a member of a motorcycle gang, Sam is an uneasy rider who has to prevent a Jack Kerouac-inspired young woman from meeting her death on the road.

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  17. Background image for Runaway
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Runaway

    S3:E11

    July 4, 1964: On a cross-country car trip, Sam, as 13-year-old Butchie, must contend with a sadistic older sister and a mother on the verge of running away from an unfulfilling marriage, in search of the feminine mystique.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Future Boy

    S3:E13

    October 6, 1957: Sam leaps Kenny Sharp, better known as "Future Boy," sidekick to Moe Stein, host of the kid's show, "Time Patrol," who also happens to be building a time machine in his basement. Unless Sam can prevent Moe's daughter from attempting to have her father committed, Moe is destined to be killed as he tries to hop a freight train.

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  19. Background image for Piano Man
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Piano Man

    S3:E15

    November 10, 1985: Joey Dinardo is a lounge lizard on the run from mob hitmen. When Sam leaps in, his ex-girlfriend, and former musical partner have found him, and now both are on a run for their lives from a killer who seems to know their every move.

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  20. Background image for A Hunting We Will Go
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #19 - A Hunting We Will Go

    S3:E18

    June 18, 1976: It's the leap from hell as Sam, a bounty hunter handcuffed to a wily embezzler who will stop at nothing to get away from him, has to deal with his captive, as well as his attraction towards her, despite her countless attacks on him.

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  21. Background image for Last Dance Before an Execution
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Last Dance Before an Execution

    S3:E19

    May 12, 1971: "Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled

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  22. Background image for Nuclear Family
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Nuclear Family

    S3:E21

    October 26, 1962: Sam finds himself the brother of a fallout shelter salesman during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where he must defuse a potentially explosive situation as panic sets in on the night of John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation.

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  23. Background image for Permanent Wave
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Permanent Wave

    S4:E5

    June 2, 1983: Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the death of a young murder witness and his mother.

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  24. Background image for Raped
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Raped

    S4:E6

    June 20, 1980: It's up to Sam to try to bring a rapist to justice when he leaps into the perp's victim, a young woman who may have been unwilling to press charges against the young man - the son of the pillar of the community.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Unchained

    S4:E10

    November 2, 1956: Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue his companion from a fifteen-year sentence on a chain gang.

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  26. Background image for Temptation Eyes
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Temptation Eyes

    S4:E13

    February 1, 1985: A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a TV reporter, protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case, from becoming the next victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Mirror Image" is the best rated episode of "Quantum Leap". It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by James Whitmore Jr. and written by Donald P. Bellisario, it aired on 5/5/1993. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "So Help Me God".