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Quantum Leap :: Lee Harvey Oswald Part I - October 5, 1957-November 22, 1963 (05x01)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: Lee Harvey Oswald Part I - October 5, 1957-November 22, 1963
Episode #: 05x01
Production Number: 68102A
Original Airdate: Tuesday September 22nd, 1992
10/10 (1 Vote cast)
Episode Crew
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
 
Episode Summary
 
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October 5-6, 1957, January 6, 1959, October 21, 1959, March 21, 1963, April 10, 1963, October 21, 1963, November 21-22, 1963: Sam leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald and has to stop John Fitzgerald Kennedy from being assassinated, however the control of Oswald keeps fluctuating between Sam and Oswald. Will Sam manage to save the president?
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Becky LondonplayedRuth PaineRecurring (first appearance)
Charles NelsonplayedSgt. BellisarioRecurring (first appearance)
Chris Kinkade (1)playedNew Orleans PolicemanRecurring (first appearance)
Dennis WolfbergplayedGooshieRecurring (third appearance)
Donna MagnaniplayedMariskaRecurring (first appearance)
Elya BaskinplayedMajor Yuri KosenkoRecurring (first appearance)
Erika AmatoplayedLt. Anna GuriRecurring (first appearance)
James MedinaplayedCarlosRecurring (first appearance)
Karen IngramplayedJackie KennedyRecurring (first appearance)
Lazar RockwoodplayedGuardRecurring (first appearance)
Michael RichplayedCorp. McBrideRecurring (first appearance)
Natasha PavlovichplayedMarina OswaldRecurring (first appearance)
Nathan LisleplayedFrazierRecurring (first appearance)
Patty ToyplayedBar GirlRecurring (first appearance)
Philip McNivenplayedPFC BriggsRecurring (first appearance)
Reni SantoniplayedSgt. LopezRecurring (first appearance)
Rodney KageyamaplayedJodaRecurring (second appearance)
Ward C. BolandplayedLt. ObrigowitzRecurring (first appearance)
Willie GarsonplayedLee Harvey Oswald / MirrorRecurring (second appearance)
 
Main Cast
 
Scott BakulaplayedDr. Samuel "Sam" Beckett
Dean StockwellplayedRear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci
 
Episode Notes
 
This episode marks the first time that Sam leaps into a famous person. He would later leap into Dr. Ruth Westheimer in "Dr. Ruth - April 25, 1985" and Elvis Presley in "Memphis Melody - July 3, 1954".
 
Donald P. Bellisario, the creator of Quantum Leap, served with Lee Harvey Oswald in the US Navy in the late 1950s.
 
Willie Garson (Lee Harvey Oswald) previously played Seymour in "Play It Again, Seymour - April 14, 1953".
 
Part of this episode takes place on October 6, 1957. This is also the leap date of "Future Boy - October 6, 1957".
 
 
Episode Quotes
 
Sam: (as Oswald) Carlos, do you wanna hit me?
Al: He's doing exactly what Oswald did!
Carlos: With pleasure.
(He is about to punch Sam)
Cop: Y'all freeze! Hands up against the wall! Up against the wall! Shut up!
 
Al: Sam, can you hear me? It's the ninth of August of 1963. There's only three months until the Kennedy assassination Sam, and this leap is bringing you closer! If you leap into Dallas on November 22nd and Oswald is still in control, you won't be able to change anything Sam! You gotta fight him. Fight him Sam!
Sam: My name?
Al: Dr. Samuel Beckett!
 
Sam: (as Oswald) My name is Lee Harvey Oswald.
(He leaps out)
 
Oswald: String theory?...It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles....Huh? How did I know that?
 
Oswald: I admire the President very much!
Al: You admire him but you're gonna kill him.
 
Gooshie: Then Oswald would have to be the sole assassin.
Al: That's right!
Gooshie: No conspiracy?
Al: No. Just one angry, envious man who wanted to propel himself into infamy!
Gooshie: One lone man?!
Al: I know it's more comforting to believe in plots, because if Kennedy could be killed that easily, by one sicko, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Gooshie: Admiral, what are you gonna do?
Al: To try and find the truth.
(Al enters the Waiting Room)
 
 
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