Second Season 

“Honeymoon Express” 
1957; April 27, 1960 

 Leaping into a newlywed on his honeymoon, Sam is there to make sure his lovely new 
bride passes her bar exam.  Complicating matters is her murderous ex-husband and Al’s insistence that Sam change a major historical event.  If he doesn’t, Project Quantum Leap might lose funding. 

“Disco Inferno” 
April 1, 1976 

 Disco.  Sam would rather die.  But as a stuntman on a disco disaster movie, he must keep his brother from losing his life in a failed stunt. 

“The Americanization of Machiko” 
August 4, 1953 

Returning from Japan with a surprise war bride, Sam has to convince his family to accept her. Complicating matters are a jealous ex-girlfriend and a prejudiced war veteran. 

“What Price, Gloria?” 
October 16, 1961 

 Sam Leaps into a gorgeous woman and finds out how hard life can be for the other half. 
Not only does he have to keep his roommate from killing herself over “Mr. Wrong,” but 
Sam has to fend off the sexual advances of his boss, who just happens to be the same man. 
To make matters worse, Al thinks he’s fallen in love with his best friend. 

“Blind Faith” 
February 6, 1964 

 While leading the life of a blind concert pianist, Sam has to keep his assistant from 
becoming the next victim of a serial killer. 

“Good Morning, Peoria” 
September 9, 1959 

 As a DJ at a rock and roll radio station, Sam helps keep the station intact in the face of an attack by self-styled “Moralists” in the town.  In the meantime, he and the station owner carry on a love/hate relationship. 

“Thou Shalt Not” 
February 2, 1974 

 Sam Leaps into a rabbi and find his brother’s family falling apart after the death of their son a year earlier.  He must patch up the family before his sister-in-law has an affair. 

“Jimmy” 
October 14, 1964 

 As a mentally retarded man, Sam learns about a different kind of prejudice while attempting to mainstream the man into society. 

“So Help Me God” 
July 29, 1957 

Defending a black woman against a trump up charge of murder pits Sam against an entire Louisiana town.  The whites, especially the woman’s powerful employer, want her convicted, and the blacks know the truth but refuse to testify. 

“Catch a Falling Star” 
May 21, 1979 

 Sam does a turn as a star when he lands as the understudy to the lead in The Man of La Mancha. He has to literally keep the drunken star from breaking a leg, but matters become complicated when he meets his old piano teacher.  She doesn’t know he’s Sam Beckett, but he’s fallen in love all over again. 

“A Portrait for Troian” 
February 7, 1971 

 A beautiful woman believes her dead husband is calling for her to join him, 
and Sam, as a parapsychologist, has to find the source of the mysterious messages and goings-on. 

“Animal Frat” 
October 19, 1967 

Sam has to prevent a fellow college student from dying in a bomb blast set up to protest the war in Vietnam. 

“Another Mother” 
September 30, 1981 

 As a divorced mother of three, Sam learns how to juggle fighting kids, burned dinners, 
and a kidnapping.  The son will vanish without a trace that night unless Sam can do something. 

“All-Americans” 
November 6, 1962 

 Leaping into a star high school quarterback, Sam’s job is to prevent a teammate from throwing the championship game and blowing a medical school scholarship to protect his illegal alien mother. 

“Her Charm” 
September 6, 1973 

 As an FBI agent protecting a witness from the mob, Sam finds that no matter what he does, 
he cannot seem to prevent her death. 

“Freedom” 
November 22, 1970 

 A young Shoshone Indian is trying to help his grandfather go home to die as Sam Leaps into his life.  During the journey, Sam faces a painful decision about whether he should prolong the man’s life or take him home to die. 

“Good Night Dear Heart” 
November 9, 1957 

After the apparent suicide of a young German immigrant in a seaside resort town, Sam Leaps into the town coroner and discovers her death was a murder.  Searching for the killer is difficult as Sam finds resistance among the townspeople, who would rather close the book on the incident. 

“Pool Hall Blues” 
September 4, 1954 

 A retired billiards legend shouldn’t have to do anything but play pool and snooker a few unsuspecting opponents for laughs, but the stakes rise after Sam Leaps in. The marker is about to be called in on his granddaughter’s blue club, and Sam has to play for the marker.  Only one minor problem: Sam doesn’t know how to play pool. 

“Leaping Without a Net” 
November 18, 1958 

 As a high-flying trapeze artist, Sam has to catch his sister in the dangerous triple somersault. Opposing his efforts is the duo’s father, who refuses to let Sam fly because the man he Leaped into was catching when their mother died a year before. 

“Maybe Baby” 
March 11, 1963 

 On the lam with a stripper and a kidnapped baby, Sam must decide if the woman is telling the truth about taking the child back to her real mother.  In pursuit is the father, who 
claims to be a widower, and the law. 

“Sea Bride” 
June 3, 1954 

Sam must prevent a wedding on the high seas before the bride marries a Mafia man intent 
on buying out the shipping business her family owns.  His job is complicated by his identity as the bride’s ex-husband, who had vanished on a sea voyage and been given up for dead. 

“M.I.A.” 
April 1, 1969 

 When Sam Leaps into the life of a San Diego police officer in 1969, Al attempts to convince him that he’s there to keep a woman from marrying another man and leaving her MIA husband for dead.