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Quantum Leap - The Complete First Season

starring: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Deborah Pratt, Dennis Wolfberg, W.K. Stratton
directed by: Aaron Lipstadt, Alan J. Levi, Anita W. Addison, Bob Hulme, Chris Ruppenthal

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783286136
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0783286139
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 08, 2004
Running Time: 428 minutes
Sales Rank: 3760
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: March 26, 1989



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Description:
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.

Amazon.com:
They'll be dancing (well, leaping maybe) in the streets now that the first season of Quantum Leap, voted one of the 25 best cult series ever by TV Guide, has come to home video, a decade after its final year (1994) on the air (the pilot episode was released on DVD in '98). And why shouldn't they? This is a show, called 'an imaginative diversion' by one critic, with a good premise that's cleverly and skillfully conceived, written, acted, and produced--ample evidence of which is spread out over three discs, each containing three episodes (plus some fairly meager extras) from the first season.

Scott Bakula, in the role that made him a star, plays Sam Beckett, a scientist who's part of a time-travel experiment that 'went a little... ka-ka.' Unable to return to his own time, and aided only by Al (Dean Stockwell, whose rapport with Bakula is one of the series' most appealing elements), his cigar-smoking, peculiar-dressing, sex-obsessed, holographic 'enabler,' Sam 'leaps' unpredictably from one time period and person to another, usually completely out of his element (as a pilot, a boxer, a cowboy, an English lit professor, even an elderly black man in segregated '50s Alabama) and always in a situation that needs to be 'made right' before he can leap onward. Generous helpings of humor, drama, physical action, and sentimentality (this is TV, after all) keep things moving, as do references to many other classic films and genres (Driving Miss Daisy in 'The Color of Truth,' Casablanca in 'Play it Again, Seymour,' boxing in general in 'The Right Hand of God') and what creator Donald Bellisario calls the occasional 'kiss with history' (Sam crosses paths with the young Buddy Holly and Michael Jackson, among others). It doesn't all work, as Quantum Leap occasionally becomes too cute and facile for its own good. But that and the set's paucity of bonus material (limited to one passable featurette and brief episode intros by Bakula) are the only real shortcomings of a boxed set that will likely earn multiple spins in the DVD player. --Sam Graham



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Quantum Leap - Season One
The DVD was in excellent condition, and it was wonderful watching Quantum Leap Again. You are always ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Quantum Leap
Not your standard Sci-fi series; funny and quirky with plenty of excitement and heart-tugging moments ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Play it again, Sam
Theorizing that he could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the quantum ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - THE MUSIC!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice... go to amazon.co.uk and order the British releases of these DVDs, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Putting right what once went wrong...
I have been striving to see them put right what has been wrong for so very long, what with Quantum Leap not ... Read More

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