The Best Episodes of Quantum Leap Season 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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