Before Scott Bakula was traveling endlessly through time in Quantum Leap, he had a run-in with some alien gas that made him invincible in I-Man. He looks the same now as he did when he was 31 on that 1986 failed pilot.
As we know, NBC is doing a sequel to Quantum Leap which debuts on September 19th. Today, the network released a little teaser from an upcoming episode.
In that promo, we see physicist Ben Song (Raymond Lee) travel back to 1991 at the moment that the body he leaped into is about the leap out of a plane over Desert Storm, Kuwait. What does he say? What we all would say and do in that situation.
Too bad they won’t let him get the “t” out on broadcast, but hopefully, they will allow it when it streams on Peacock.
To see who Dr. Song leaps into in 1986, Los Angeles, then click here!
From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Samuel Beckett traveled through time to help people. However, for the last 30 years, he has been lost in time, and no one knows where he is or when.
NBC has decided it is time to find him, so they are sending Dr. Ben Seong (Raymond Lee) to find him. Seong and a new team have been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.
What will they find out? We will have to tune in the fall to find out.
Part of me is excited for this because I loved the original series, and I can’t wait to see what they do with the new Quantum Leap. Then, the other part of me is scared that they will completely destroy the original’s legacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugNB5HPyMA
When Quantum Leap ended, Al was reunited his true love thanks to his friend Sam going back in time, as himself, to tell her, her husband was alive. By reuniting the two, it changed all of their timelines leaving Sam lost in time, never to return home again.
That was not the only ending the time-traveling show filmed that season. They taped another one in case it did get picked up for another one. Which evil NBC did not do.
Finally, after 30 years we can see what would have had happened if evil NBC had said yes instead of no. Had it been renewed it would have ended with Beth and Al trying to find a way to bring Sam home. They know he is lost in time as himself because there is no one in the waiting room. Something that would have been a real game changer. Something we did not see.
With all of the reboots and revivals in the works, it gave fans hope that maybe Quantum Leap could live again. While we have new hope, Scott Bakula never lost hope. He told The Blast, “I keep telling people, Sam’s still out there.”
Hey CBS, you owe Don Bellisario. You need to give NCIS: NOLA, which should have been part of Bellisario’s legacy, a shortened season and let Bakula film another season of Quantum Leap with Dean Stockwell. Who else wants more of Dr. Sam Beckett besides me? Imagine what they can do now. Maybe he can make it so Donald Trump goes to Vietnam and does not get a deferment? The possibilities are endless. Let’s see a few of them.
Before Willie Garson was Moozie on White Collar, he played a character that could’ve been the inspiration for Mozzie on Quantum Leap. He looks the same now as he did when he was 25 in that 1989 episode.
