The Best Episodes of Quantum Leap Season 1
Every episode of Quantum Leap Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Quantum Leap Season 1!
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 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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Quantum Leap" season 1 is "Genesis (1)", rated 7.8/10 from 5505 user votes. It was directed by David Hemmings and written by Donald P. Bellisario. "Genesis (1)" aired on 3/26/1989 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Genesis (2)".
7.8/10 5,505 votes#1 - Genesis (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/1989
September 13, 1956: Sam Beckett wakes up in 1956, disoriented, suffering from amnesia, but he has the awful realization that he does not belong there...
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.8/10 885 votes#2 - Genesis (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 854 votes#3 - Star-Crossed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/31/1989
June 15, 1972: Sam leaps into the persona of a womanizing college professor in 1972, encounters his lost love and attempts to reshape the past
Director: Mark Sobel
Writer: Deborah Pratt
7.0/10 807 votes#4 - The Right Hand of God
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/7/1989
October 24, 1974: Sam lands in 1974 as a young boxer caught between fight-fixing gangsters and hopeful nuns who now own his contract.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: John Hill
7.2/10 744 votes#5 - How the Tess Was Won
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/14/1989
August 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: Deborah Arakelian
7.4/10 714 votes#6 - Double Identity
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/21/1989
November 8, 1965: Sam becomes a hit man in 1965 whose romance with the godfather's girlfriend places him in danger.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
8.4/10 831 votes#7 - The Color of Truth
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/3/1989
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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Deborah Pratt
8.0/10 770 votes#8 - Camikazi Kid
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/10/1989
June 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Paul Brown
7.2/10 707 votes#9 - Play it Again, Seymour
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/17/1989
April 14, 1953: With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is Nick Allen, a private investigator looking for the murderer of his partner and, if he doesn't find the answer in time, himself. The case is solved with a number of Casablanca references as Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: N/A