Fifth Season 

“Lee Harvey Oswald” 
March 21, 1963; October 5-6, 1957; June 6, 1959; October 21, 1959; April 10, 1963; October 21, 1963; November 22, 1963 

Sam’s first Leap into a historical figure finds him as Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy.  Through a series of Leaps into Oswald’s adult life, the two minds become entangled to the point that Sam finds himself in the Texas Schoolbook Depository with his finger on the trigger. 

“Leaping of the Shrew” 
September 27, 1956 

Shipwrecked with a spoiled heiress, Sam has to help her follow her heart and marry the Greek seaman he Leaped into. 

“Nowhere to Run” 
August 10, 1968 

As a soldier who lost his legs in Vietnam, Sam struggles to hold together a marriage and keep his hospital roommate from killing himself. 

“Killin’ Time” 
June 18, 1958 

Sam Leaps into a serial killer holding a woman and her daughter hostage. Back in the Waiting Room, the killer escapes and Al has to track him down before Sam can Leap.  Otherwise, Sam will die when the sheriff storms the house. 

“Star Light, Star Bright” 
May 21, 1966 

When Sam witnesses a UFO, he has to convince the family he lives with that the old 
man he’s Leaped into is telling the truth before he gets committed to a mental institution. 

“Deliver Us From Evil” 
March 19, 1966 

Sam is delighted to be back as Jimmy, the man with Down Syndrome he had mainstreamed on an earlier Leap.  While things look great on the surface, underneath the family is falling apart.  The cause becomes evident when he touches Connie and suddenly sees her as Alia, another time traveler.  Her project has a less-than-decent intent, as Sam finds out to his horror. 

“One Little Heart” 
August 8, 1955 
(Trilogy Part 1) 

“For Your Love” 
June 14, 1966 
(Trilogy Part 2) 

“The Last Door” 
July 18, 1978 
(Trilogy Part 3) 

In a triple Leap, Sam finds himself drawn to a young woman accused of murdering one of her friends and then the friend’s father.  Abagail’s accuser is the one survivor of the family, who believes the child is cursed.  Leta’s insistent accusations drive her to set Abagail’s house on fire, and Sam rescues her, Leaping moments before Abagail’s father would die in the fire. 

Sam next finds himself as Abagail’s fiancé, and is strongly attracted to her himself. 
Again, she is accused of a murder when a child she was baby-sitting runs away. 
Sam convinces a lynch mob instigated by Leta not to hang her. 

The old murder charges surface in 1978, when Sam Leaps into a lawyer defending 
Abagail in the murder of Leta Eider.  Other surprises are in store for Sam when Sam discovers that Abagail has a child conceived during his last Leap. 

“Promised Land” 
December 22, 1971 

Once again in his hometown of Elk Ridge, Sam is one of three brothers robbing a bank in desperation to pay off their loan.  Sounds crazy, but half of the townspeople support them because their farms are in trouble.  Sam digs to find the reason the bank lent farmers money they couldn’t pay back while attempting to keep violence from erupting at the bank. 

“A Tale of Two Sweeties” 
February 25, 1958 

Sam finds himself between a rock and a hard place when he leaps into a bigamist. Ziggy says he has to choose one of two wives and keep them from finding out about the other. 

“Liberation” 
October 16, 1968 

As a middle-aged housewife turned bra-burning liberationist, Sam must keep the woman’s husband from walking out on the family and their daughter from dying in an ill-advised protest march that turns violent. 

“Dr. Ruth” 
April 25, 1985 

For his second Leap into a famous person, Sam becomes the sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer and has lots of trouble dealing with the frank language shared during her radio program. His job is twofold: to get his producer and announcer’s on-again, off-again relationship permanently on; and to help a woman who is being sexually harassed on the job.  In the future, Al takes a little 
advice from the real Dr. Ruth. 

“Blood Moon” 
March 10, 1975 

Sam Leaps into the coffin of an artist who lives as a vampire – on the night of the sacrifice to Count Bathory.  Sam believes the man is just very eccentric, but Al thinks otherwise.  Matters are complicated by a couple who arrive to share the ritual, and Sam must save the artist’s wife from being the sacrifice. 

“Evil Leaper II:  Return” 
October 8, 1956 

Once again, Sam meets up with Alia, the time traveler with less than good intentions. 
The pair are on a college campus, and her intent is to stop the good-two-shoes hijinks of the student Sam has Leaped into.  Alia has begun to feel trapped, forced into her deeds by her Observer, Zoey, and Lothos, the computer behind her project.  Sam and Alia plan a desperate escape to free Alia. 

“Evil Leaper III: Revenge” 
September 16, 1987 

Sam and Alia Leap together, into a women’s prison where they are accused of murdering 
another inmate.  Zoey Leaps into the fray as the prison warden, and Sam and Al work to 
mask Alia from Zoey and Lothos. 

“Good-bye Norma Jean” 
April 4, 1960 

As Marilyn Monroe’s driver, Sam must keep the star alive to make one last movie. 

“The Beast Within” 
November 6, 1972 

Leaping into a Vietnam ver living as a mountain man, Sam is startled when a boy mistakes him dressed in a furry coat for the legendary monster Bigfoot.  The vet lives with a friend who is suffering seizures and hallucinations related to a war injury, and his attempts to get medicine are foiled by the sheriff, who served with them and has a terrible secret to keep. 

“The Leap Between the States” 
September 20, 1862 

All the rules are broken when Sam Leaps along his genetic code into his own great-grandfather during the Civil War.  Sam has to help the Underground Railroad conduct one more family, plus keep the relationship with his future great-grandmother going. 

“Memphis Melody” 
July 3, 1954 

Once again Sam Leaps into a famous person.  This time he’s Elvis Presley, but it’s two days 
before The King gets discovered.  Sam’s task is to help a young woman pursue a singing career while keeping Elvis’s career from going down the toilet. 

“Mirror Image” 
August 8, 1953 

Sam walks into a bar the day he is born and sees his own reflection in the mirror.  Back at the Project, there is no body and Al and Gooshie set out to find Sam.  Meanwhile, Sam is learning a thing or two about the “unknown force” that is directing his Leaps, and gets a chance to set right a major wrong in Al’s life.