Third
Season
“The Leap Home”
November 25, 1969
Back home in Elk Ridge, Indiana,
as himself at age sixteen, Sam has to win a big basketball game so some
of his old classmates can go on to college. Instead, he tries to change
his own past.
“The Leap Home, PII:
Vitenam”
April 7, 1970
Leaping straight from Elk
Ridge to Vietnam, Sam finds himself in his brother Tom’s
SEAL unit the day before
his death. He can save his brother, but at a terrible price.
“Leap of Faith”
August 19, 1963
As a Catholic priest, Sam
has to help a fellow priest who claimed to have been a witness
to a murder keep from becoming
a victim himself. Along the way, Sam helps the
elder man regain his lost
faith.
“One Strobe Over the Line”
June 15, 1965
The life of a high-fashion
photographer isn’t as flashy as it looks. Sam realizes when
he has to help a young model
whose agent has her hooked on drugs.
“The B**gieman”
October 31, 1964
As if being a horror novelist
on Halloween isn’t creepy enough, Sam finds himself powerless to prevent
a string of murders. Al thinks the writer’s girlfriend is a witch
and must be responsible, but there’s more to this scary night than meets
Sam’s eye.
“Miss Deep South”
June 7, 1958
Sam finds himself sash-deep
in trouble when he lands into a beauty contestant. While helping keep a
fellow contestant out of the clutches of a sleazy photographer, he must
do well in the pageant so the lady he Leaped into can afford to go to medical
school.
“Black and White on Fire”
August 11, 1965
In the midst of the Watts
riots, Sam finds himself as a black medical student in love with a white
woman.
“The Great Spontini”
November 9, 1974
As a magician involved in
a bitter custody battle, Sam works to reunite a broken family.
“Rebel Without a Clue”
September 1, 1958
Riding with a motorcycle gang,
Sam attempts to save a woman from being killed by their Brando-esque leader.
“A Little Miracle”
December 24, 1962
Sam works to keep a bitter
millionaire from evicting a street mission during the holiday
season in order to build
a towering Manhattan landmark to himself. The only way Sam (as the man’s
valet) and Al find to possibly turn
the man around is to “Scrooge”
him on Christmas Eve.
“Runaway”
July 4, 1964
Bringing back memories of
his own family vacations, Sam finds himself as a kid
on a cross-country trip.
In between torments from big sister, he has to make sure the mother doesn’t
run away from the family.
“8-1/2 Months”
November 15, 1955
Sam Leaps into a life of a
sixteen-year-old on the verge of giving birth to a baby.
While he struggles with all
of the attendant feelings of impending motherhood,
he has to make sure the girl’s
baby will have a home rather than be given up for
adoption – or he may become
the first man in history to have a baby.
“Future Boy”
October 6, 1957
Real life meets fantasy as
Sam lands in the role of an actor in a children’s television series about
time travel. Unfortunately for the man who plays “Captain Galaxy,”
his own
dreams of time travel may
land him in the mental institution, and Sam must prevent
him from wasting away his
life.
“Private Dancer”
October 6, 1979
As a Chippendale’s dancer,
Sam fights off adoring fans and works to help a
hearing-impaired woman achieve
her dream of becoming a dancer.
“Piano Man”
November 10, 1985
Sam leaps into a lounge lizard
who went into hiding after witnessing a Mafia murder.
When the musician’s old girlfriend
tracks him down to convince herself she no longer loves him, they wind
up dodging bullets from an unseen assassin who dogs their every move.
“Southern Comfort”
August 4, 1961
Things get a little uncomfortable
for Sam, as he becomes the proprietor of a
“house of joy” in New Orleans.
One of the ladies seems clearly out of place, and Al informs Sam she will
vanish unless Sam finds a way to keep her on the premises.
“Glitter Rock”
April 12, 1974
As the leader of a 1970’s
KISS-like rock group, Sam has to catch a murderer
– before he becomes the victim.
“A Hunting We Will Go”
June 18, 1976
Sam becomes a bounty hunter
leading a feisty woman back to justice – or her death.
Is she telling the truth
about the crime, or is it another in a long series of escape attempts?
“Last Dance Before an Execution”
May 12, 1971
In one of his most harrowing
Leaps ever, Sam arrives just as he is being strapped into
the electric chair to die
for a murder the man may not have committed. Taking advantage of a last
minute reprieve, he works to find the truth buried in a mass of legal and
political red tape.
“Heart of a Champion”
July 23, 1955
Tagging in as one half of
a “bad guy” team of wrestlers, Sam takes a few unplanned knocks when he
attempts to keep his partner (and brother) from fighting in the championship
match. If he wrestles, he’ll die in the ring of heart failure.
“Nuclear Family”
October 26, 1962
Amid the backdrop of the Cuban
Missile Crisis, Sam finds himself selling fallout shelters in Florida.
In two days a neighbor will get killed during a false air raid alarm, and
the
salesman’s brother will get
convicted unless Sam can prevent the death.
“Shock Theatre”
October 3, 1954
When Sam receives a high dose
of shock therapy in a mental institution, he begins to
exhibit personalities from
past Leaps. With each change, Al finds it harder to contact Sam.
Unless Sam can snap back to reality, contact may be lost forever.