Quantum Leap (TV Series) Star-Crossed - June 15, 1972 (1989) User Reviews

Star-Crossed - June 15, 1972

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 28 November 2019]

The series leaps off properly after the pilot.

Sam leaps into the body of Gerald Bryant. An older college English professor. Sam quickly realises Bryant is sleazy as he is having an affair with a pretty redhead called Jamie who is one of his students.

Sam needs to end the affair and get Jamie interested in a student more her own age.

However Sam comes across Donna Eleese (Teri Hatcher). She is someone who will come across Sam later in life and jilt him on their wedding day. With Al's help, Sam wants to reunite Donna with her estranged father before he goes to Vietnam.

A very good episode with two contrasting stories, it might sweeten the pill that Sam has leapt into the body of a lech. Hatcher is very good and I liked the fact already we found out something personal in Sam's own life.

Also Al and Sam already operate like a close knit team. Whatever is happening in Al's time, the audience knows that the project overseers are not happy with the rule breaking that is going on by both Sam and Al.

The episode ends with a fun coda at the expense of President Nixon.

Episode 3

[Seras11123 · 7/10 · 8 December 2021]

I don't know if this was quite as good as the introductory two parter, but it's not far off. On a 70's university campus, Sam meets a younger version of a woman he loved. And goes against the rules established by himself.

Sam being placed into the shoes of a womanizing dirtbag is prerty funny, as he alters his own fate and another romance to make the next leap. I liked getting more background on his life, and we get more ideas about Sam's reality (the project overseers).

400 miles to save a future love!!!

[elo-equipamentos · 7/10 · 19 January 2018]

In this second episode Sam appears in 1972 in Ohio as Professor, despite your mission in that place he finds a future wife Donna who didn't show up in church to marry him, so he has a second chance with her, by which Calavicci didn't agree as rules pre-established for yourself, almost a love story, funny ending in Watergate building when they invaded the complex!!

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First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.

Establishing principles

[Leofwine_draca · 6/10 · 2 March 2020]

The first stand-alone episode of QUANTUM LEAP and it's quickly establishing the formula: the strong sense of time and place, the repartee and humour arising from Al's presence, the shocking jump at the climax, the romance. This one's still a little odd as it sees Sam attempting to meddle with his own lifetime - as any QUANTUM LEAP fan knows, that's a definite no-no - while the main plot is rather slim. However, a young and lovely Teri Hatcher gets a thumbs up and the performances are already more assured.

good

[erin1223 · 8 March 2006]

this episode was pretty good with the arrival of SAM's future wife Donna.it was nice of SAM to reunite Donna with her dad.i just think that this is a pretty good episode i wish that they except less than 1,000 words on this board but i guess thats just that.i think that Teri hatcher is pretty good in this episode which was made before she was really known.i think this episode is kind of romantic in some kind of way or another.i think this is just a good episode of this t.v. show. what i did not get is what Jamie lee finds so interesting about her professor i mean did she look beneath his looks some how.i must of been hard for SAM to try not to get is a romantic relationship with Donna when he looked like the English professor.

Creep

[nmjoe · 4/10 · 31 December 2021]

Sam Beckett is as much of a creep as the body he leaped into. He was manipulative to an unknowing woman, his only goal was to trick her into falling for him in the future. This one was difficult to watch. I hope this is not going to be the future of the show.