Episode 1 of "Quantum Leap"
s01e01 Genesis (1/2)
Title: Genesis (1/2)
Original Air Date: 03/26/1989 on NBC
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Guest Stars: W.K. Stratton (Dr. Berger), Bruce McGill (Weird Ernie), Doug Cox (Sportscaster), Patrick Cranshaw (Old Man), Newell Alexander (Young Sam), John Allen Nelson (Captain Bird Dog Birdell), Larry Poindexter (Captain Tony LaMotta), Layne Beamer (Tom Stratton / Mirror), Lee De Broux (Coach), Barbara Horan (Tina), Lydia Cornell (Sally), James F. Dean (Dr. Blaustein), Lela Ivey (Lucy), Dave Duensing (Clyde), Hank Robinson (Umpire), David Trent (Capt. Doug Walker), Christine Poor (Jeanie), Christian Van Dorn (Mikey Stratton), Brent Chalem (Bat Boy), Adam Affonso (Young Sam), Mike Greenwood (Matt), David Dawson (Barnes), Kevin Johnson (VIII) (Pepper), Ken Martin (Tim Fox / Mirror)
Plot Outline:
September 13, 1956: Although the Project Quantum Leap isn't ready yet, Sam Beckett doesn't listen to supercomputer Ziggy, hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot, Sam finds his memory Swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. Al explains that the Project has gone awry and that the only way Sam can leap out is by flying the X-2 to Mach 3. Instead, Sam leaps after saving his wife and child, only to find that rather than leaping home, he's leapt into Ken Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas, at the end of the 1968 season, where he must make the winning play in order to leap.
