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The Worst Episodes of Quantum Leap

Every episode of Quantum Leap ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Quantum Leap!

The Worst Episodes of Quantum Leap

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 What Price Gloria?
    5.3/10(12 votes)

    #1 - What Price Gloria?

    S2:E4

    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.

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  2. Background image for Running for Honor
    5.8/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Running for Honor

    S4:E12

    June 11, 1964: As a track star in a Navy college, Sam must prevent the death of his ex- roommate, who was expelled because he was gay, and who is slated to die at the hands of a group of bigoted cadets.

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    Director:Bob Hulme
  3. Background image for Good Night, Dear Heart
    5.9/10(10 votes)

    #3 - Good Night, Dear Heart

    S2:E17

    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.

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  4. Background image for Maybe Baby
    6.1/10(10 votes)

    #4 - Maybe Baby

    S2:E20

    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.

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  5. Background image for Blood Moon
    6.1/10(447 votes)

    #5 - Blood Moon

    S5:E15

    March 10, 1975: As an eccentric, possibly vampiric, artist just outside of London, Sam must bear with Al's superstitions, while trying to prevent the death of his host's young wife, at the hands of a couple who are taking a sacrificial ceremony in honor of the "blood moon."

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  6. Background image for The Play's the Thing
    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #6 - The Play's the Thing

    S4:E11

    September 9, 1969: May meets December when Sam leaps into a young actor in love with an older woman, who is also an aspiring singer. If he can't boost her confidence and help her get her career on track, she will face a "fate worse than death," returning with her son to Cleveland.

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  8. Background image for Sea Bride
    6.3/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Sea Bride

    S2:E21

    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.

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  9. Background image for Catch A Falling Star
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #8 - Catch A Falling Star

    S2:E10

    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.

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  10. Background image for Good Morning, Peoria
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #9 - Good Morning, Peoria

    S2:E6

    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.

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  11. Background image for A Portrait for Troian
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #10 - A Portrait for Troian

    S2:E11

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Freedom
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Freedom

    S2:E16

    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.

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  13. Background image for Animal Frat
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Animal Frat

    S2:E12

    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.

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  14. Background image for Leaping in Without a Net
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Leaping in Without a Net

    S2:E19

    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.

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  15. Background image for Liberation
    6.8/10(420 votes)

    #14 - Liberation

    S5:E13

    October 16, 1968: Leaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib, Sam must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in, while convincing the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and daughter.

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  16. Background image for Dr. Ruth
    6.8/10(434 votes)

    #15 - Dr. Ruth

    S5:E14

    April 25, 1985: While Sam is in 1985, running her radio talk show, playing matchmaker to her producers, and trying to help a young secretary who's being sexually harassed by her boss, Dr. Ruth Westheimer spends her time in the Waiting Room, counseling Al on his feelings towards his five wives, as well as his relationship with Tina.

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  17. Background image for Blind Faith
    6.9/10(9 votes)

    #16 - Blind Faith

    S2:E5

    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.

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  18. Background image for Thou Shalt Not...
    6.9/10(9 votes)

    #17 - Thou Shalt Not...

    S2:E7

    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.

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    Director:Randy Roberts
    Writer:Tammy Ader
  19. Background image for All-Americans
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #18 - All-Americans

    S2:E14

    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.

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  20. Background image for Her Charm
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Her Charm

    S2:E15

    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.

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  21. Background image for Pool Hall Blues
    6.9/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Pool Hall Blues

    S2:E18

    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.

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  22. Background image for A Tale of Two Sweeties
    6.9/10(414 votes)

    #21 - A Tale of Two Sweeties

    S5:E12

    February 25, 1958: As a horse-playing, traveling brush salesman, Sam finds himself with two wives and two families. Although Ziggy predicts that Sam's mission is to choose between the two lives, the choice is made more difficult by the fact that there's only a 50/50 chance that he'll choose the right one. As if things weren't bad enough, Sam finds that his penniless host owes a pair of bookies some big bucks.

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  23. Background image for The Right Hand of God
    7.0/10(838 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for One Strobe Over the Line
    7.0/10(493 votes)

    #23 - One Strobe Over the Line

    S3:E4

    June 15, 1965: Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory manager's ambitions.

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  25. Background image for Heart of a Champion
    7.0/10(443 votes)

    #24 - Heart of a Champion

    S3:E20

    July 23, 1955: The heart of a champion belongs to Ronnie, a professional wrestler, who will die if he competes in the title match. Sam, as his brother and new partner Terry, must convince him of his hidden health problem, while avoiding his own health problem - the jealous wrestler-husband of a woman who has taken an amorous interest in Sam.

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  26. Background image for Play Ball
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Play Ball

    S4:E2

    August 6, 1961: A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or baby-sit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of the women in his life.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"What Price Gloria?" is the worst rated episode of "Quantum Leap". It scored 5.3/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Alan J. Levi and written by Deborah Pratt, it aired on 10/25/1989. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Running for Honor".