7.4/10650 votes#1 - Honeymoon Express
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1989
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.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.4/10627 votes#2 - Disco Inferno
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1989
April 1, 1976: As a stuntman, Sam is to save the life of his younger brother, while trying to convince the pair's obsessive father to let the younger son go his own way, even if it means going into country-western music, rather than following the family tradition of stunt work.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Paul Brown
7.8/10662 votes#3 - The Americanization of Machiko
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1989
August 4, 1953: As a sailor returning from Japan, Sam brings a foreign wife to a small town. He then has to fight against the prejudice of both a scheming ex-girlfriend, as well as his mother, in order to gain acceptance of his new bride.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.7/10670 votes#4 - What Price Gloria?
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1989
October 16, 1961: Sam is shocked when he learns he's leaped into a woman, Samantha Stormer. As a gorgeous secretary for an automobile company, Sam has to cope with sexual harassment by the boss, a suicide attempt by a roommate, and the effect his looks have on Al's lecherous tendencies.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Deborah Pratt
7.3/10621 votes#5 - Blind Faith
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1989
February 6, 1964: Although the concert pianist he leaps into is blind, a fact, which bothers his girlfriend's disapproving mother, Sam can still see. At least until an exploding flashbulb blinds him at the crucial moment: when he must rescue his girlfriend from a serial killer.
Director: David G. Phinney
Writer: Scott Shepherd
8.1/10682 votes#6 - Good Morning, Peoria
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1989
September 9, 1959: Rock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal, Michael Zinberg
7.1/10578 votes#7 - Thou Shalt Not...
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1989
February 2, 1974: Sam's task as a rabbi is to keep his sister-in-law from falling for a sleazy author and ruining her life. In the process he also helps the family recover from the year-old death of their son.
Director: Randy Roberts
Writer: Tammy Ader
8.5/10741 votes#8 - Jimmy
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1989
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.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Paul M. Belous, Robert Wolterstorff
8.0/10616 votes#9 - So Help Me God
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1989
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.
Director: Andy Cadiff
Writer: Deborah Pratt
7.6/10708 votes#10 - Catch A Falling Star
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1989
May 21, 1979: Sam leaps into Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes just seconds before curtain time. His mission: prevent the drunken star from falling and seriously injuring himself during a benefit performance of "Man of La Mancha." Sam isn't helped by the presence of his former piano teacher, on whom he once had a crush, and who now appears to have caught the star's eye as well.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Paul Brown
6.9/10569 votes#11 - A Portrait for Troian
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1989
February 7, 1971: Sam leaps into a renowned parapsychologist where he must prevent a young widow from joining her husband at the bottom of a lake, while proving that she's not crazy, despite her claims of hearing her dead husband calling to her.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
7.2/10541 votes#12 - Animal Frat
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1990
October 19, 1967: Trapped in the body of Knut Wileton, better known as "Wild Thing," the typical frat jock, Sam must win the confidence of an attractive campus radical before she bombs the college's chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
8.0/10625 votes#13 - Another Mother
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1990
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.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: Deborah Pratt
7.2/10519 votes#14 - All-Americans
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1990
November 6, 1962: Keeping his best friend from throwing the high school championship football game, costing both of them their scholarship offers, Sam must also get their families to consolidate.
Director: John Cullum
Writer: Paul Brown, Donald P. Bellisario
7.0/10517 votes#15 - Her Charm
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1990
September 26, 1973: Protecting a female member of the witness protection program from a mafia hitman proves difficult for Sam, since the FBI appears to have an informant confounding his attempts to hide her.
Director: Christopher T. Welch
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario, Deborah Pratt
7.5/10536 votes#16 - Freedom
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/1990
November 22, 1970: Rather than saving his grandfather's life, Sam has to escape from jail and elude the police long enough to get them both to the reservation, where the old man can die in peace, at home.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
7.6/10542 votes#17 - Good Night, Dear Heart
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1990
November 9, 1957: Rather than saving the damsel of the episode, who supposedly committed suicide, Sam is the coroner trying to prove that she was murdered, and find out by whom.
Director: Christopher T. Welch
Writer: Paul Brown
7.6/10530 votes#18 - Pool Hall Blues
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/1990
September 4, 1954: In order to help his granddaughter save a small bar from the slimy loan shark holding a note on the place, Sam has to play pool like a pro...with a little help from Al and Ziggy.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.1/10513 votes#19 - Leaping in Without a Net
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/28/1990
November 18, 1958: Sam remembers he's afraid of heights when he leaps into a trapeze artist, whose sister wants him to catch her as she does a triple without a net. Dad is less than pleased, since his wife died a few years earlier while attempting the same stunt.
Director: Christopher T. Welch
Writer: Tommy Thompson
7.0/10503 votes#20 - Maybe Baby
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/4/1990
March 11, 1963: Babysitting a kidnapped tot and a flaky, compulsively lying stripper keeps Sam busy as they cross Texas, on the run from the legal father and a squad of cops.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Paul Brown, Julie Brown
7.0/10504 votes#21 - Sea Bride
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/1990
June 3, 1954: Aboard an ocean liner, Sam must stop the marriage of a young man's ex-wife to a mobster. In the process, he finds himself in one heck of a mess in the ship's garbage compartment.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Deborah Pratt
8.9/10783 votes#22 - M.I.A.
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/9/1990
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.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
The Best Episodes of Quantum Leap Season 2
Every episode of Quantum Leap Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Quantum Leap Season 2!
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 2 Ratings Summary
"Honeymoon Express" is the best rated episode of "Quantum Leap" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 650 votes. Directed by Aaron Lipstadt and written by Donald P. Bellisario, it aired on 9/20/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Disco Inferno".