Quantum Leap

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 becomes Frankie, a mafia hitman, who is involved with the Godfather's girlfriend.

Sam looks into the mirror and sees the face of 'Kid Cody,' a boxer who has won the majority of his 37 fights but bears scar tissue on his face and his soul. He learns from Sister Sarah and Sister Angela that his previous owner willed his contract to St Mary's Church. Sister Angela hopes that with the $20,000 winnings form Cody's match they will build a new chapel to help the poor.

Sam must avoid the marriage between the English Professor he has just become and a student named Jamie Lee by rekindling the girl's involvement with her football player boyfriend...and he sees his own second chance at loving the girl who left him at the alter.

As a cowboy-veterinarian in 1956 West Texas Sam Beckett must keep destiny on course by taking on an ornery cowgirl who pledges to marry him if he can prove he is a better cowpoke than she is.

It looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship when Sam, in the body of a Bogie-like private eye, teams up with a 'neat kid' to find the hit man who killed his partner.

Sam confronts racism when he appears as a black man, sitting at a lunch counter in the Deep South of 1955, and he uses his borrowed identity to alter the life and conscience of the eldery widow he works for.

In the body of a Van Nuys, California, teenager in 1961, Sam asks not what he can do for the guy's woeful acne problem, but what he can do for the teen's idealistic sister, who is about to marry a brutish hot-rodder.

The year is 1961, and Sam Beckett becomes a gorgeous woman suffering sexual harassment on the job, and her roommate, who is destined to commit suicide, is included in her bosses' womanizing.

Sam becomes somewhat of a ghost-buster who must save a beautiful young woman from being driven insane by her deceased husband.