Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Quantum Leap Sci-Fi TV Series

The Sci-Fi TV series about the top-secret US Government funded project Quantum Leap led by Dr. Sam Beckett theorizing that "One could time-travel within his own lifetime, run by a supercomputer called Ziggy." Quantum Leap in physics (Quantum Jump) is the change of electron from one energy state to another within an atom, from one energy level to another instantaneously. The adventurous story of the series starts when the project was pressured to prove the theories or lose it's funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped onto the "accelerator chamber" and vanished, found himself trapped in the past facing mirror images of person that was not his own. The story gives tease to viewers and guess as Dr. Sam randomly leaping from life to life as an adult, male, female, child, white, black, etc, crossing the story to many theme from science fiction to family drama, comedy, social commentary or nostalgia, and winning the show a broad range of fans wait for next episode and when Sam will be leap back home.

With the help of Dr. Sam's companion Albert "Al" Calavicci who appears as a holographic projection using "imaging chamber", visible and audible to Sam and also young children, animals and mentally ill/fatally wounded persons can see and speak with Al. They got the chance to correct the past and put wrong to right; preventing Al's first wife Beth to fall in love with other while Al is in Vietnam war, correct many mistakes and misjudging and even avert tragedies in ordinary people's lives. Some part of the series where Sam meets the Evil Leaper telling him "Who gave you the right to go bungling around in time, putting right what I made wrong?" while in the last episode some feel that the bartender Sam meets, portrays God and tells Sam that his project was messed up for purpose: to change history for better.

Multi-award winning Sci-Fi TV Series Quantum Leap won awards from Emmy, Golden Globe, Directors Guild of America Award and more, completed 5 seasons with total of 97 episodes aired from 1989 to 1993.

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