7.8/105,523 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
7.8/10899 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
7.5/10866 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
7.0/10817 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
7.2/10755 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
7.4/10723 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
8.4/10843 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
8.0/10783 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
7.2/10716 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
The Best Episodes of Quantum Leap Season 1
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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...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Genesis (1)" is the best rated episode of "Quantum Leap" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 5523 votes. Directed by David Hemmings and written by Donald P. Bellisario, it aired on 3/26/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Genesis (2)".