Why was it important to you to push for that? Initially that came from Dean. He was much more of an activist at the time than I was, and he introduced me to a lot of the things he and his wife had been championing. So Dean was always looking for an opportunity. We did an episode on Queen Elizabeth II [the cruise ship, not the person].
In that episode, I ended up in the trash container. We just got in the habit of looking for it. Sam wanting to clock the guy on the couch for trying to make a pass at him is funny, but underneath it, there are all of these issues. Certainly there are ways to relate to those episodes that were subtle. But there was a whimsy to the show, and there were definitely underlying elements to the show that lurked in the nostalgia.
How did that become part of the show? It just made sense to me. It was almost more of a metaphorical physicality, assuming metabolically your molecules are getting mixed up.
An accumulation of those experiences define who we are. You know, I never dreamed this little show could have the kind of legs that it has, in terms of affecting people. It was fascinating to work on. It never got boring — and not just because one week I was hanging upside down on a trapeze and the next week I was a chimpanzee.
Today, you say, Would they even let that character on the show be a white guy, if they re-created the show today? Not that he would need to be, which is the beauty of the show. If a reboot ever happened, how do you think it would get cast?
I sort of wish it could still be led by a relatively privileged person. But certainly, I think the beauty of the show is that you could plug in almost anyone. I thought that was a pretty interesting way to do that, also. Or you could take it to another country and reboot it as a young female physicist in South America somewhere.
If there's one thing that annoys fans the most though it's that Quantum Leap ended its five-season run on a cliffhanger, denying them a satisfactory conclusion. As mentioned previously, Quantum Leap , while a critically acclaimed and respectably popular show in its day, was not a ratings champion for much of its run. In fact, it's a minor miracle fans even got five seasons to enjoy. Quantum Leap came very close to being canceled partway through season 3, but word of its impending doom leaked out, and an early example of a fan campaign - via old-school written letters - helped convince NBC to stay the show's execution.
By the time it came to film Quantum Leap 's season 5 finale, NBC was once again teetering on the edge of canceling it. The problem was, they kept creator and showrunner Donald P. Bellisario and the rest of the Quantum Leap team on the hook until the very end. Eventually coming to believe it was likely a Quantum Leap season 6 would probably be ordered, Bellisario set out to craft a season finale that would seem somewhat like an ending for the story so far, but also serve to setup another round of episodes.
The ideas teased in "Mirror Image," that Sam's leaps would soon get tougher, and that he would now be leaping as himself instead of into other people's identities, were planned to be explored in season 6.
Bellisario, who revealed in a interview that it sprang from his plans to write a time-traveling anthology series. Its story began after the U. Sam Beckett's Bakula "Quantum Leap" project.
In an attempt to save his work, he tested his project's accelerator, but made a small miscalculation that threw him back in time. He arrived with partial amnesia to find not only that he "leaped" through history, but into someone else's body. His real self was only visible to a hologram of his friend Admiral Al Calavicci Stockwell , who, along with supercomputer Ziggy voiced by Deborah Pratt , worked to help him get back home.
As they discovered, the ordeal required Beckett to identify the problem that connected him to that person in time and solve it, or get trapped in their body forever.
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