Quantum Leap S2

Business classes at the University of Kansa bored Bakula, who returned to St. Louis after a year to work in community theatre and then moved to New York to try his luck and soon was cast in 'Shenandoah.' His off-Broadway credits include 'Accentuate the Positive' and 'Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down,' and he debuted on Broadway as Joe DiMaggio in ' Marilyn: An American Fable.'

Bakula moved to Los Angeles in 1986 to star on stage in 'Nite Club Confidential.' He won guest-starring roles in such television series as 'On Our Own' and 'My Sister Sam' and starred in the TV movies 'The Last Fling' and 'The Infiltrator' and in the Disney Sunday Night Movie 'I-Man.'

After graduating from high school at 16, Stockwell left Hollywood. 'I cut my hair off, changed my name and disappeared into the countryside. I took odd jobs for five year; then when I ran out of things to do, I went back into the business to try again.'

Successful again, he starred in the film classics 'Compulsion,' 'Sons and Lovers' and 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' before quitting show business a second time. 'In the '60s, when we had hippies and Haight-Ashbury, I dropped out of my career and just went with that,' he says. 'I found it fulfilling because didn't have much of a childhood.'

The next time back in Hollywood, there were occasional roles, but it wasn't until Stockwell married his wife Joy, started a family and moved to new Mexico, that he found himself in demand. 'I think I have my best work ahead of me,' he says, 'and now I can enjoy it.'

Sam remembers his own relationship with his older brother when Sam becomes a stuntman who must protect his younger brother from being killed while doing a stunt on a low budget feature.

Sam Beckett leaps into the body of a blind concert pianist, who must save his assistant Michele from being murdered in Central Park following a concert.

Sam leaps back to Ohio in 1953 and becomes a Navy man with a Japanese wife, who must make his family, as well as the townspeople, accept her and their marriage to change the course of events.

Sam is given the difficult task of 'mainstreaming' a mentally retarded man into the everyday world, or he will live out his days in an institution.

It is 1959 and Sam Beckett has quantum leaped into Howlin' Chick Howell, a disc jockey who must save the radio station from it's demise when rock 'n' roll is banned by a City Council ruling.

Sam leaps into the body of a Rabbi who must help his brother's family resolve their anger and guilt over the death of their son, which drove his brother's wife into an affair and ruined their marriage and lives.

Sam Beckett leaps into a courtroom as a defence attorney, and by pleading his client, a lovely black woman, innocent of murder, must win her case despite the bigoted courtroom atmosphere and fixed trial, or she will be sentenced to the electric chair.

In order to convince a Senate committee to renew funding for the Quantum Leap project, Albert must have Sam Beckett prove his existence in the past by altering an historical event, and Sam is also a busy newly-wed faced with his bride's ex-husband who is intent on killing him.

Sam's latest leap lands close to home for Albert when he becomes a detective, torn between helping his partner and helping a young woman who believes her husband, listed as M.I.A. is dead.

Sam becomes an actor in a Broadway production, who must save the lead, a brilliant performer with a drinking problem, from falling on stage and ruining his life. He is also given the opportunity to court his piano teacher who was his first love when he was fourteen.

Sam learns about single parenthood when he becomes a newly-divorced mother of three, who must keep her son from running away from home after being humiliated by his friends, not learning until the last minute that a third party has turned the boy's disappearance into an abduction.

Sam leaps to 1968 into Knut Wileton, the wildest brother on fraternity row, but he has a purpose beyond guzzling beer; he must prevent an anti-war radical from making a fatal mistake by blowing up the chemistry building.

Sam touches down as a high school quarterback whose goal is to prevent his best friend, a sure-handed wide receiver, from throwing the city championship game.

Sam leaps into the body of a trapeze artist with the greatest of ease, but things get difficult very quickly when he must prevent his sister from having a fatal fall in a death-defying stunt.

Sam picks up the cue of a 1950s pool shark, and finds himself committed to a winner-takes-all game that will determine his grand-daughter's future.

Sam leaps into a mortician's body who becomes obsessed with preserving the memory of a young German woman by proving that she did not commit suicide but was murdered.

Sam leaps into the formidable body of a bouncer who helps Bunny O'Hara, a stripper, kidnap a beautiful baby girl, and for the first time he does not heed Al's computer read-outs but trusts his instincts, knowing that if he is wrong, he could spend the next twenty years in jail.

Sam drops anchor as a debonair globe-trotter aboard a cruise ship where he must capsize the wedding plans of his aristocratic ex-wife and a venomous hood.