Fourth Season

“The Leap Back” 
June 15, 1945; September 18, 1999 

A well-timed lightning bolt at the end of his previous Leap caused Al and Sam to switch places, with Sam as the hologram and Al in 1945, as a POW just home from the Second World War. While the past comes flooding back to Sam, Al has to prevent a lover’s leap to death. 

“Play Ball” 
August 6, 1961 

Sam finds himself back on the baseball diamond, this time as a former major league pitcher stuck back in the minors.  While fighting off the advances of the team’s owner and her daughter, Sam has to help a hot rookie pitcher overcome his drinking and self-loathing. 

“Hurricane” 
August 17, 1969 

While hurricane Camille is pounding the Gulf coast, Sam seems to be faced with a terrible choice. Does he save the hurricane-watching party the deputy he Leaped into did originally, or save the man’s girlfriend? Of course, Sam attempts at both. 

“Justice” 
May 11, 1955 

Sam is disgusted to find himself being inducted into the Ku Klux Klan, a group that stands for everything his parents taught him to fight against.  While following the rules that say he has to act like the person he’s Leaped into, Sam has to prevent the lynching of a 
local black activist. 

“Permanent Wave” 
June 2, 1983 

Sam Leaps into the hairdresser in Beverly Hills in time for his girlfriend’s son to witness a robbery/murder at the pharmacy next door.  She refuses to let her son speak to the police, 
and they begin to be dogged by a killer intent on silencing the boy forever. 

“Raped” 
June 20, 1980 

No one wants to believe a teenage rape victim, Sam learns, especially when the accused is the son of a prominent people.  As the victim, Sam attempts to make the charges stick. 

“The Wrong Stuff” 
January 24, 1961 

In a genetic twist on Leaping, Sam finds himself in the chimponaut corps – as one of the space cadets.  His mission is to get himself into the space program, or the chip will disappear. 

“Dreams” 
February 28, 1979 

After Leaping into the life of a homicide detective investigating a gruesome murder, 
Sam begins to have strange flashbacks, Sam begins to have strange flashbacks.  After 
visiting the psychiatrist who had been treating the murdered woman, Sam is drawn into 
a deadly quest for the source of the visions. 

“A Single Drop of Rain” 
September 7, 1953 

Sam becomes a traveling rainmaker who has just returned to his drought-stricken hometown. His brother thinks he’s a huckster, but his sister-in-law is ready to run away with him. Sam works to reunite the family and to make it rain despite the odds. 

“Unchained” 
November 2, 1956 

Working on a chain gang in Louisiana, Sam has to help his “shackle mate” who has 
been unjustly accused of robbery. 

“The Play’s The Thing” 
September 9, 1969 

As the much younger half of a May - December romance, Sam must convince the woman he’s living with not to consign herself to a fate worse than death: moving back to Cleveland with her “square” son and his wife.  In the meantime, he has to go on stage as Hamlet – in the nude. 

“Running for Honor” 
June 11, 1964 

Al becomes very upset when Sam Leaps into a track student at a naval academy who is defending his ex-roommate’s homosexuality.  While Sam works to convince his friend 
that perhaps the military hard anti-gay line is wrong, he has to keep the man’s friend from becoming murdered by a gay-bashing gang. 

“Temptation Eyes” 
February 1, 1985 

Sam Leaps into a television reporter investigating a string of murders in San Francisco, and has to keep a psychic helping the police from becoming the next victim.  The stakes become more personal after she discovers his identity and the pair have an intense love affair. 

“The Last Gunfighter” 
November 28, 1957 

As an old gunfighter who now makes his living by reenacting his supposed fight to clean up an Arizona town, Sam is confronted by the man’s ex-partner who claims he was the real hero. Sam works to find a way out of the impending showdown at high noon and to keep the respect of the old man’s grandson. 

“A Song for the Soul” 
April 7, 1963 

Leaping into one third of a Supreme-style teenage singing group, Sam has to convince 
one of the other singers not to enter into a recording contract with a sleazy promoter. 

“Ghost Ship” 
August 13, 1956 

Once again Sam finds himself in the cockpit (and still unable to fly) copiloting a corporate 
jet taking a honeymooning couple to Bermuda.  While crossing through the Bermuda Triangle, the new wife suffers from a ruptured appendix, and the pilot begins to have flashbacks from an old mission during the war. 

“Roberto!” 
July 26, 1982 

Sam Leaps into a Geraldo-type television reporter who is challenged by a co-worker 
to do one decent investigative story.  The pair uncover a secret chemical weapons plant 
and face a corporation eager to do anything – including murder – to keep their secret under wraps. 

“It’s a Wonderful Leap” 
May 10, 1958 

While working as a cabdriver attempting to earn his own medallion in a contest, 
Sam encounters a woman who claims to be an angel. 

“Moments to Live” 
May 4, 1985 

In a twist on Misery, Sam becomes a soap opera star who is kidnapped by an 
obsessed fan who wants him to father her child. 

“The Curse of Ptah-Hotep” 
March 2, 1957 

Sam lives out a childhood dream when he Leaps into an archaeologist about the break 
into the fabled tomb of the pharaoh Ptah-Hotep.  Legends about a curse seem to 
come true as their encampment is plagued with a number of accidents including an 
impending sandstorm that will obscure the site of the tomb forever. 

“Stand Up” 
April 30, 1959 

Leaping into the nightclub circuit, Sam finds himself part of a comedy act. His male partner is consumed with anger and he and the female partner love each other, but can’t seem to come together.  While Sam works to bring them together, he must stop a Mafia-connected hotel owner who has designs on the woman. 

“A Leap for Lisa” 
June 25, 1957 

Sam has a chance to change Al’s history when he Leaps into his best friend in 1957. 
Al is facing a charge of murdering his commanding officer’s wife, and his alibi was that he was with Lisa Sherman, a married nurse.  In the original history Lisa told Al’s lawyer where they were and this got Al off the hook.  But Sam tells Lisa not to testify, and she dies in a car wreck that evening.  Now Sam is faced with proving Al’s innocence as the odds of his court-martial and subsequent execution rise.