I’m looking for some more movies and tv shows where a man posses a woman’s body and it’s still the same actor but everyone in the movie/show else sees him as a woman, like in R.I.P.D, quantum leap, or weird science, stuff like that, If anyone knows where I can find some like that, that’d be great. Also I know I’ve already made a post very similar to this but I didn’t get a lot of good suggestions on that one so I’m trying again. Also some where they’re dressed as the woman too but it’s still the same actor would be great

Sorry if this question was asked before, but do they ever mention why they never seem to use a waiting room in the new series.

Presented here are four verified off-air recordings from the May 5, 1993 broadcast of "Mirror Image", where the second "t" in Beckett is not missing! One is from the Philadelphia broadcast, another from New York City, one from Denver, and a final one from Los Angeles. Some markets did not have the misspelling. See more about the missing "t" on our Mirror Imaging page.

Thanks to Allison Pregler for the Philadelphia recording, Brian Kenyon for sending the tape of the NBC 4 New York/WNBC recording, Mike Pryor for the Denver recording, and Kareem Dimashkie for the Los Angeles recording.

https://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/mirror.htm#The_Missing_t_in_Beckett

A few years ago someone on here commented that Ziggy was nearly always wrong. It got a few upvotes. I know they were being sarcastic, but it made me think- is it? So I went back and kept track (og series). Ziggy was right 69% of the time. I blacked it out in case you wanted to guess. No one tell Al. Here's a breakdown. It's all subjective and a little nonsensical

1.1. Super Nintendo- Break mach 5 and live to leap - wrong (no prediction for the baseball leap)

1.2 They're real and they're spectacular - make sure that couple doesn't ruin their lives with a shotgun wedding - right

Ziggy thinks Al is trying to communicate with Sam with hieroglyphics - right

4 to 1 odds reuniting Terri Hatcher with her father will fix her issues - right

1.3 Boxing - Ziggy thought Sam would land in Texas in the mid-50's - wrong

This is just an unscheduled stop over - wrong

Winning the championship is your best shot at leaping - right

1.4 Piggy Suey 72% you're here to cure the pig - wrong

47% you're here to marry Tess - less than 50% so right?

97% someone sending her love letters will marry her - right

50/50 chance you'll leap when you say "I do" - neither right or wrong

1.5 The Godfather 97.3% they can leap Sam back if they recreate the circumstances he leapt into while while some low level mafioso button pushers plug a hair dryer into a frat house (tf). But then Don Gino was with Sam. Someone says "Either Ziggy blew it again", probably Al but I didn't write down who. Al says Ziggy had a "floperoonie" but blames Sam for not following his instructions to the decimal - I don't know whether to call this one right or wrong

1.6 Driving Miss Daisy - 86% save her from the train, later 96.2% - right

1.7 Jason Priestley - 82.6% chance you're there to stop Cheryl from marring Bob - right (although he didn't leap until he kissed an underage girl) Ziggy predicted a lingerie show was going to start at precisely 2:07 but he was 8 seconds off - wrong

1.8 Casa Blanca - 4 to 1 against Sam/Nick being the killer - right

2.1 Honeymoon Express - heroic rescue cat - right

78.6% help her pass the bar - right

Best shot is to have the conductor call the police - wrong

2.2 Disco - help the brother - right but he didn't leap until Gerald Ford fell

2.3 Americanization - 97% you're there to not marry the brunette - wrong

There to have his family accept his wife into their lives - right

2.4 Gloria - stop the suicide - right

Haven't leapt because you get to get revenge on the boss guy - right

2.5 Blind - stop Michelle from being strangled - right

2.6 Peoria - 92.4% save Rachel, the station dies and her life goes downhill, make station #1 - right

read the article by the editor of Peoria Dispatch - right

2.7 Thou Shalt Not - stop the one night stand - right

2.8 Jimmy - mainstream Jimmy - right

2.9 So Help Me God - You're here to play Rhett Butler - wrong

Need to get African-Americans on the jury - wrong, wasn't legal

2.10 Man of La Mancha - Stop the fall - right, but didn't leap until he finished the play and told Nicole he loved her (in case you're wondering I'm counting all the 'right, but didn't leap until' as rights)

2.11 Troian - save her - right

2.12 - Frat 87.6% stop the bomb from killing someone - right

"Ziggy says if you don't come back, you and Elizabeth are gonna get killed!" - wrong

Jump into pool to leap - right

2.13 Another Mother - Save the kid from Blossom from being probably raped and killed - right

2.14 All American - don't throw the game - right

marry the catering truck guy - right, but didn't leap til he smacked the shoulders

2.15 Her Charm - Save woman - right

2.16 Freedom - help him die - right

2.17 Goodnight, Dear Heart - no prediction. Only leap, not counting end of Pilot with the little baseball, with no prediction

2.18 Pool Hall - win! right (some of these Al never technically says Ziggy says anything, but I'm assuming Ziggy agrees with/is the source of what Al says he's there to do)

2.19 Trapeeze Catch Alotta Fagina - right

Ziggy says if you practice you can increase your odds of catching her 10%, getting it to 30% - wrong

2.20 Baby 75.6% you're there to return the baby - wrong

Ziggy reversed, the woman was telling the truth - so Ziggy was wrong before

2.21 Sea Bride - 88.3% you're there to stop the marriage - right

96.2% get Vinny out of her life without ending yours - right

2.22 MIA Save Scags - right (hey, did you guys know one of the punks that tries to kill Scags is also the Sherriff guy from the Bigfoot leap, and Dana Scully's brother??

3.1 The Leap Home - 94.3% win the basketball game - right

3.2 TLH2 - Suceed in mission, 52% save Colonel Deep Grimwald - right

3.3 Priest - 86.2% save Father from being murdered - right

3.4 One Strobe Over The Line - 78% Save Edie from ODing - right

42%, 43%, 46% chance of recovering from the OD - three wrongs

52% surviving the OD - right

3.5 Boogey Man - Save Tully - right

3.6 Miss Deep South - save roomie, right

3.7 Black on White - 87% keep the couple together - right

32% Susan will die - right

82% she'll die - wrong

3.8 Magician - Save girl - right

Girl's gonna die - wrong

Getting back together isn't in the cards - wrong

3.9 Biker Prevent murder of woman - right

3.10 Charles Rocket You may have to bathe him - wrong

94.3% this is the right thing to do (reminding him of his past) - wrong

97%, 95%, 93% they changed Blake - three wrongs

3.11 Runaway - stop the mom from running away - wrong

Save the mom from dying - right, but he didn't leap until he hung a kid over a well

3.12 Pregnant - Don't give up baby for adoption - right

Sam: "I can't have a baby"

Al: "Ziggy's not so sure about that!" - right

3.13 Future Boy - 96% there to save Mo's life - right

3.14 Stripper - Stop her from getting into prostitution and get her in school - right

3.15 Piano Player (again) 3% if you face the bad guy you'll win - wrong

Ziggy says there's a 62% he should go left while driving but Sam goes with his gut and goes right - wrong

3.16 Whorehouse - 98.6% save the girl - right

60% she's taken from this house - right

Shutting down the house will accomplish nothing - right

3.17 Glitter Rock - Don't get stabbed - right

60% the manager's embezzling - right

99% you'll get killed - wrong

17% Dwayne's the killer - wrong

3.18 Bounty Hunter - 99.9% she stole the money - right. Fun fact: in this episode, Sam says "Ziggy, for the first time in his life, is right"

3.19 Execution - Ziggy says it's gonna work to do the detecting (find the bullet I think I meant?) - right

Here to save Raul and take down Moody - right

3.20 Wrestling - No wrestle die brother - right, but he didn't leap until he kicked a woman in the ass

75% the jealous brother is gonna kill you - wrong

3.22 Shock Theater - 94% you're there to save Tibby - wrong

82% if you keep switching personalities we'll loose contact forever - wrong

4.1 The Leap Back - 89% they committed suicide - wrong

96.5% they're at the top or dead at the bottom - right

9.6% of retrieving Sam if he leaps again - right

At the end of the episode they say he's a stand-up comic and here's there to get with a waitress and raise a little girl, we'll never know. Also Sam asks "How many times has Al saved my life" and Ziggy says "Twenty-three." I'm not gonna official count that as a wrong but that seems way low

4.2 Baseball (again) - 89% get back to the big league - right

4.3 Hurricane - 96.2% there to save Sissy from being killed by the hurricane - wrong, she was killed by the woman

4.4 KKK - stop Nathaniel from being hanged - right

4.5 Joseph Gordon Levitt - 86% find killer - right

Killed tomorrow Ziggy made big mistake but it was cuz changed history right?

4.6 Rape 89% charge this guy with rape and leap - wrong

47% rape after left Kevin right

90% you'll have to testify - right

4.7 Monkey 85% Bobo one of two finalists - wrong and didn't leap until he kissed a monkey

4.8 Dreams - 99% save Peter Dicaro from suicide - wrong

Ziggy says Jack/Sam's the killer - wrong

4.9 Rain 8 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours and 44 mins until it rains again - wrong

88% keep couple together - right

81% Annie hit road - right

4.10 Unchained - 98.6% chance he's innocent - right

4.11 Play's the Thing - 91% do Hamlet - right

4.12 Running for Honor 86.3% the guy you leapt into is gay - does it matter?

89% he could jump off there and break his neck - wrong

4.13 Temptation Eyes - Save Tamlyn - right

4.14 Gunfighter - 16% or less tell straight story - right

96% this is your old partner - right

17% of drawing as fast as your old partner - wrong

4.15 A Song For The Soul - 90% keep Lynelle out of showbiz - wrong

Ziggy says this whole thing (their performance) is going to be a catastrophe - wrong

70% Lynelle is going back to the club and apologize to that slime bucket - right

4.16 Ghost Ship - Ziggy says a power outage is affecting their communication, not the Bermuda Triangle. Given how the episode ends, I'd say wrong

4.17 Geraldo - Ziggy says it's never gonna happen (exposing the guys) - wrong

4.18 Angel - Don't get shot - right

Ziggy forgot to calculate Eastern Standard Time - wrong

4.19 Soap Opera - 84% if you try to escape you'll get killed, then 80% now's your best chance to make escape. Sam says "So much for Ziggy's predictions" so I guess wrong?

4.20 Mummy - 90% something gets destroyed when they build a dam in the 60s - right

4.21 Bob Saget 90% that mafia guy is the reason they disappear - right

90% play Cuba act success and Bob no die - right

90% he doesn't make it through opening act - wrong

4.22 Al - 3 to 1 he'll get court martialed - right

81% he'll get convicted - right

92%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 100% Al will be killed in gas chamber - seven rights

62% he's being framed for murder - right

72% car could be used to prove his innocence - right

20% found guilty - right

(wouldn't his other hologram have known from the beginning that he didn't like being called Samuel?)

80% leap Al before murder - right

5.1 Oswald - uncover a conspiracy and stop what happened in Dallas - wrong

96% Oswald didn't give the Russians anything they didn't already know - right

Ziggy says Oswald's mind is gone - right

5.2 Brooke Shields - Happy on island 100% (a first) - right

5.3 Jennifer Aniston's Original Nose - Prevent suicide - right

Keep wife - wrong

5.4 Killing Time - Less 34% Al can save Sam - wrong

91.6% you should be leaping - wrong

Didn't do a good job synching our brain waves - wrong

5.5 UFO - 78.1% say out of mental ward - right

73.3% prove aliens - right

Prevent Tim from ODing - right

Ziggy says don't trust them - right

98.6% old coot go on UFO - right

5.6 Jimmy 2 - Some kind of convergence (about touching the evil leaper I think) - right

97.6% this is when Frank cheats - right

5.7 Trilogy 1 - Don't let Abigail burn - right

5.8 Trilogy 2 - Save Jan from The Office from getting shot - right

5.9 Trilogy 3 - 91% Sammy Jo is your daughter - right

There to stop Abigail from being exectured and save Sammy Jo - right

Ziggy says you won't remember Sammy Jo, Sam says "I'll always know" - I'm gonna side with Sam, wrong

5.10 Promised Land 88.9% see bros surrender - right

72.9% surrender leap - wrong

best shot is to create a diversion - right

5.11 Two Families - Keep the wives apart - wrong

75% one of the wives - wrong

5.12 Liberation 89.3% help Diana - right

69.2% George leaves - right

92.3% still gets shot(?) - wrong

85% George moves out after tonight - wrong

You don't wanna know what the odds are - wrong

Ziggy says George is gonna move out then he says he is - right

5.13 Dr. Ruth - 72% play matchmaker - wrong

Reason leapt into Dr. Ruth is to meet Al in the future - right

5.14 Vampire - 95.2 Solve Alexandra's murder - right

5.15 Doogie Howser - get squared away with Beaks - right

Better than 90% of Sam dying - wrong

Arnie's survival 93%, 94%, 95%, 98.3%, 99.4%, 99.5%, 99.6%, 99.7%, 99.9%, 100% - ten rights

5.16 Women's Prison - Try hypnosis - right

73% no get executed murder - right

There's another leaper - right

91% guard will help get over wall - right

5.17 Marilyn - 92.4% stop Marilyn's death - right but wrong death?

78.3% doesn't finish movie - wrong

5.18 Bigfoot - 95% he's gonna have a seizure - wrong

97.6% if he doesn't get his medication he'll have a seizure and die - wrong

97% Dan and Roy will be found dead tomorrow morning - wrong

5.19 Civil War - Ziggy says it's a coincidence he leapt into a Beckett - wrong

Leapt into his great-granpa because of a genetic field transference - right

59% his mission is something besides hooking up with his great grandma - right

98% they'll get over the Mason Dixon line - right

5.20 Elvis - 81% help Sue Anne - right

90% you go on tonight you're gonna win music worker over - right

Make things right with Elvis - right

5.21 Mirror Image - 99.2% he's himself - right

Grand Total: 139 rights and 63 wrongs

Inspired by the previous post, I wanted to ask the community about something that’s been on my mind.

Following the logic of the original series, the Quantum Leap novels, and the 2022–2024 continuation, we now know that the person Sam (or Ben) replaces remembers nothing when they return to their own time. This is confirmed by episodes of the original show, the novels, and the new series itself.

I really didn’t like that in some episodes of the new show with Ben Song this issue wasn’t taken seriously — in fact, it was even played for laughs. I remember the dialogue between Hannah and Ben:

Ben: “When he comes back, he won’t remember anything.”
Hannah (laughs): “Oh, that’s fine, I’ll just tell him he hit his head or something.”

So here’s my question for the community. Imagine you became the person someone leaped into. If we follow the original canon, you wouldn’t remember being in the Waiting Room, talking to Al or Verbena, or being in someone else’s body. You would only see that person’s face in your dreams, without understanding who they were or what happened.

But when you return to your own time, you suddenly realize:

1. You have no idea how you ended up in this place at this time — because the last thing you remember is being somewhere completely different.
2. You discover that several days of your life are simply gone — three days, maybe more.
3. You realize that events around you have changed dramatically. Even if things improved, you have no idea how or why. And you can’t remember or understand anything people tell you about what “you” supposedly did — and they don’t take your confusion seriously.

What would your reaction be, and what would you do in that situation?

So Sam leaps back and the original person leaps forward and is in the waiting room while Sam is living their life.

And then Sam leaps and the person leaps back into their own body. Are their memories altered to remember what Sam did when he was that person? Or is this person like "the craziest thing happened to me. I was in the future for like a week while someone else lived my life and then I came back." They would be committed.

There should be an entire asylum of people who claim to have been replaced by leapers, such that it would be considered a strange delusion, like capgras syndrome (when people believe their friends/loved ones have been replaced by duplicates).

First time viewer here who's totally obsessed. I'm on season 4 right now and have already started writing a fanfiction. I know basically how the series ends at this point already and I don't have any plans to watch or include the reboot series continuity in my writing. That said, based on the original series alone, does Sam age normally while he's leaping? Physically age?

I know it's established by some dialogue by Al that when he leaps it may seem instantaneous for him, but time passes in the present, which can account for why Sam sustains an injury during a leap but when he leaps again, he's physically healed. Where is he during that time between the leaps?

Apologies if this has been brought up before. I tried using the search function and didn't come up with anything and I checked the Al's Place FAQs as well.

Was it somebody's birthday on staff?

Lazy writing?

I've noticed this for:

April 1st, 1969 and 1976

April 7th, 1963 and 1970

May 21st, 1966 and 1979

June 15th 1945, 1965 and 1972

August 4th, 1953 and 1961

August 8th, 1953 and 1955

September 9th, 1959 and 1969

October 6th, 1957 and 1979

October 16th, 1961 and 1968

November 6th, 1962 and 1972

November 9th, 1957 and 1965

There are so many dates to choose from on the calendar and they just kept repeating certain ones so often lol.

Here is another Melrose Place actress, Marcia Cross, in Good Night, Dear Heart. Her character got a sequel comic three years later, called Up Against A Stonewall.

Josie Bissett played Becky in Rebel Without A Clue, and also Jane in my favourite show Melrose Place. She's lovely with that long hair, too bad she cut it short for Melrose.

I had this idea for a fanfic, that eventually Sam Beckett, a while after he starts leaping sans Al, starts to become more comfortable in female leaps, the idea that after a while, the leaper because the role they take, the fact they have to be constantly different people, sometimes swiss-cheesed, that eventually they become at some point agender. That they become blase about gender.

The fact he never comes home, that he becomes a lot less bothered about wearing dresses, he starts to just accept that sometimes she is a woman, sometimes he is a man, and sometimes a nonbinary.

That being a leaper, you become so exposed to be in other bodies, that you can never GO HOME. And if you do, you probably might experience if not gender dysphoria, body dysphoria. Because your being learns to adapt, to any feelings of dysphoria the leaper initially has, being in other bodies, that eventually the leaper kind of becomes genderless.

What do we think?

Finally got around to watching Necessary Roughness where Sam, in the life as Paul Blake, helped a losing football team to win a victory. While this episode aired before the series finale, it must have been set after the finale because Al didn't appear at all. Still, fun episode to watch!

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I am a little baffled by the Up Against A Stonewall comic. For those who don't know, Sam has leapt into Marcia Cross's character Stephanie from the episode Good Night Dear Heart (There is a picture of Marcia in my previous post from the Melrose Place sub). When Sam first leaps into Stephanie, he has his normal hair (as is normally the case on the show when he leaps into a woman), but as Dee Dee Winchester is getting him ready for the gallery showing of Stephanie's photos, all of a sudden he has long red hair which he keeps for the rest of the comic. Is it a mistake by the artist or is he wearing a wig? (As a Melrose Place fan, it would really excite me if it was a wig - if you know that show, you know that scene!)

For decades, fans believed Quantum Leap was just a nostalgic time-travel adventure. But the true Quantum Leap ending reveals a deeply unsettling psychological horror story. In this video, we break down the devastating reality of the "Swiss Cheese" effect and how it slowly erased Doctor Sam Beckett's identity from Season One to the controversial series finale, "Mirror Image." We trace the tragic evolution of Sam’s mind—from losing his heartbreaking memories of his wife Donna Eleese, to the terrifying mental collapse during "Shock Theater." Did he stay lost in time as a selfless time-traveling savior, or did the Quantum Leap accelerator break his mind so completely that he simply forgot how to be himself? We uncover the hidden, dark character study of television's greatest hero.

I'd highly recommend listening to this reboot of the Quantum Leap Podcast. Peter and Mikey took over the audio podcast and are rewatching the original series. One of them has never seen it so it's fun to get their reactions to it.

https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-wcs9m-149c05d

Celebrate the final day of our 25th anniversary online with this 54-minute extended edition of Al's Place Quantum Leap Fan Site Retrospective featuring a collaboration of 55 fans, stars, and production members from both series of Quantum Leap who have enjoyed our website and favorite show over the years!

The extended edition adds five additional guests to the original lineup including K Callan, Beverly Leech, LaReine Chabut, Daniel James Chan and the star of the original series, Scott Bakula! Special thanks to Stacie Wilcox for helping organize this.

Thank you for 25 years of memories!

This video was amazing, and removed a long time ago. Does anyone have it? Please DM if you're willing to share.

At 8pm EST on March 26, 1989, NBC aired the movie premiere of Quantum Leap in its "NBC Sunday Night at the Movies" series. It was placed in this two-hour time slot featuring 33 minutes of commercials, a 1-minute intro before the episode, and a 2-minute Season One preview after the episode concluded. Watch below the off-air recording of these segments exactly as they appeared that night in Colorado, where the recording was taken.

The video above is located on the Genesis episode guide page. You can also see just the intro at the top of the Commercials page in Al's Video Library or on the episode guide page. The promo for Season One is at the top of the Promos page in the video library as well.

So Fandango At Home, the service formerly known as Vudu, has a sale going on this week, where the digital version of the complete series of Quantum Leap (2022) is available for 20 USD. It's not Physical Media, but I know some people are moving to fully digital media libraries, so if you're interested in the new version, I thought I would let you know.