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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!

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...

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  1. Background image for The Color of Truth
    8.4/10(860 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Camikazi Kid
    8.0/10(797 votes)

    #2 - Camikazi Kid

    S1:E8

    June 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.

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    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Paul Brown
  3. Background image for Genesis (1)
    7.8/10(5.5k votes)

    #3 - Genesis (1)

    S1:E1

    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...

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    7.8/10(924 votes)

    #4 - 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:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  5. Background image for Star-Crossed
    7.5/10(885 votes)

    #5 - Star-Crossed

    S1:E3

    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

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    Director:Mark Sobel
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    7.4/10(741 votes)

    #6 - Double Identity

    S1:E6

    November 8, 1965: Sam becomes a hit man in 1965 whose romance with the godfather's girlfriend places him in danger.

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  8. Background image for How the Tess Was Won
    7.2/10(769 votes)

    #7 - How the Tess Was Won

    S1:E5

    August 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.

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    7.2/10(727 votes)

    #8 - Play it Again, Seymour

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  10. Background image for The Right Hand of God
    7.0/10(829 votes)

    #9 - The Right Hand of God

    S1:E4

    October 24, 1974: Sam lands in 1974 as a young boxer caught between fight-fixing gangsters and hopeful nuns who now own his contract.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Color of Truth" is the best rated episode of "Quantum Leap" season 1. It scored 8.4/10 based on 860 votes. Directed by Michael Vejar and written by Deborah Pratt, it aired on 5/3/1989. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Camikazi Kid".