Should you watch Quantum Leap?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Quantum Leap
Series · 1989
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
The sides of Quantum Leap
- A scientist leaping into other people's lives
- A hologram friend only he can see
- A new decade and a new wrong to fix each week
Quantum Leap is good for you if…
- you like a hero whose only mission is to make someone's life better.
- you like the bond between Sam and Al, the friend from his own time.
- you like dropping into small American lives from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Quantum Leap is bad for you if…
- five seasons is too much for you.
- you find a late 1980s series dated.
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