Quantum Leap/Future Boy

Future Boy
Season 3, Episode 13
Airdate	March 13, 1991
Production Number	66417
Written by	Tommy Thompson
Directed by	Michael Switzer
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Quantum Leap — Season Three

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Future Boy is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Quantum Leap, and the forty-fourth episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: Richard Herd (Moe Stein), Debra Stricklin (Irene Kiner), George Wyner (Ben Harris), Alan Fudge (Dr. Richard Sandler), David Sage (Judge)

Co-Starring: Nicholas Shaffer (Roger)

with Jason Kincaid (Caped Futurite), John Christian Graas (Small Boy), Jesse Switzer (Kid), Matt Marfoglia (Kenny)

Uncredited: Deborah Pratt (Narrator)

Plot Overview

Sam leaps into another time traveller, albeit one in a kids' TV show called Captain Qalaxy. He must see to it that his co-star, who is working on a real time machine, is committed lest he gets himself killed.

Notes

Leap Date

• October 6, 1957

Location

• St. Louis, Missouri

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• It's shown that Moe Stein had a theory of time travel that compared his life time to a string and that if could travel fast enough along the loop, he'd eventually end up back at the beginning of his life. Sam then suggests his theory about balling it up and being able to travel within one's lifetime. Later, Moe, as Captain Galaxy, reads a letter on air from a young Sam, asking about his theory of time travel, which Moe then recounts the version Sam suggested to him.

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• Sam's fall out of the time machine and hurting his ankle was written in after Scott Bakula hurt himself during the filming of "Runaway".

Allusions and References

• Moe's time machine looks like the one in the 1960 film adaptation of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.