Our Conversation with Holly Fields – Jill from “Camikazi Kid”PLUS Season 2 Officially Announced!
YouTube Audio Podcast We’re excited to welcome Holly Fields to the podcast. Holly guest-starred as Jill in the original series season one episode, Camikaze Kid. Throughout her career, she has appeared in over 100 TV shows, movies, and commercials. For the last several years, she has worked as a voiceover artist, including work on several…
Keep readingStar-Crossed: Revisited
Leapers! We’re back with our second capsule view. This week, we’re talking about the series’ 2nd episode, “Star-Crossed”. We also discuss the latest news for the reboot pilot, and the exciting opportunities lie ahead for the new Quantum Leap fandom. Oh, and hey, listen carefully (or even not so carefully), and you can tell the…
Keep readingGenesis Revisited – Video Podcast
Hello, listeners, observers, leapers! Welcome to Quantum Leap: Revisited with Fate’s Wide Wheel – our capsule-sized reviews of the classic series. Our mission is to rank the show on a scale of 1-10 based on five different categories – writing, directing, acting, production values, and mythology. Each category is weighted based on importance – writing,…
Keep readingGenesis Revisited
Hello, listeners, observers, leapers! Welcome to Quantum Leap: Revisited with Fate’s Wide Wheel – our capsule-sized reviews of the classic series. Our mission is to rank the show on a scale of 1-10 based on five different categories – writing, directing, acting, production values, and mythology. Each category is weighted based on importance – writing,…
Keep readingPlay It Again, Seymour – April 14, 1953
In an episode that’s a hat tip to film noir classics, Sam is Nick Allen, a private detective in 1953 Brooklyn. When Sam leaps in standing over the body of Nick’s dead partner, he must find the killer before he himself is knocked off by a dropper called Clapper (no cure for that in 1953!),…
Keep readingCamikazi Kid – June 6, 1961 (with a little Halloween thrown in)
Sam is Cam Wilson, a pimply LA teenager, there to stop his older sister, Cheryl, from marrying Bob, dashing her dreams of joining the peace corp. (NOTE: This podcast episode aired on Halloween. We debated skipping ahead discussing the infamous Halloween episode from Season 3, but decided to stick to air date order. But as you’ll…
Keep readingThe Color of Truth – August 8, 1955
Sam leaps into Jesse Tyler, an elderly black chauffeur to Ms. Melny Trafford, an elderly white women. Sam is there to prevent Ms. Melny from driving her car into the path of an oncoming train the following day, but when Sam, unaware he’s leapt into a black man, sits at a lunch counter in segregated…
Keep readingDouble Identity – November 8, 1965
Sam is Frankie, a mob hitman in New York City, 1965. Ziggy says Sam is not there to right a wrong, but to perform a number of specific tasks in preparation for the project’s next attempt to retrieve Sam back to the present. Guest, Christopher J. Steward, joins Sam Fain and Dennis to break down…
Keep readingHow the Tess Was Won – August 5, 1956
Sam leaps into “Doc” Daniel Young, a veterinarian working on a Texas ranch. He is quickly drawn into a “cowboy off” with Tess, the ranch owner’s daughter, in a quest to win her hand at marriage. Oh, boy! See also, Piggy Sooie! Sam, Dennis, and guest star and Chicago musician, Claire Feeney, discuss cowboy feminism,…
Keep readingThe Right Hand of God – October 24, 1974
Sam Fain thinks “The Right Hand of God” is an over-plotted, too-complicated-for-its-own-good episode. Dennis thinks it is a perfectly enjoyable hour of television and worthy entry into the “Quantum Leap” canon. The two hosts spar it out. Who is Sam this episode? Sam is Kid Cody, a heavyweight boxer on the take in 1974 Sacramento,…
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