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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

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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 London	played	Ruth Paine	Recurring (first appearance)
•Charles Nelson	played	Sgt. Bellisario	Recurring (first appearance)
•Chris Kinkade (1)	played	New Orleans Policeman	Recurring (first appearance)
•Dennis Wolfberg	played	Gooshie	Recurring (third appearance)
•Donna Magnani	played	Mariska	Recurring (first appearance)
•Elya Baskin	played	Major Yuri Kosenko	Recurring (first appearance)
•Erika Amato	played	Lt. Anna Guri	Recurring (first appearance)
•James Medina	played	Carlos	Recurring (first appearance)
•Karen Ingram	played	Jackie Kennedy	Recurring (first appearance)
•Lazar Rockwood	played	Guard	Recurring (first appearance)
•Michael Rich	played	Corp. McBride	Recurring (first appearance)
•Natasha Pavlovich	played	Marina Oswald	Recurring (first appearance)
•Nathan Lisle	played	Frazier	Recurring (first appearance)
•Patty Toy	played	Bar Girl	Recurring (first appearance)
•Philip McNiven	played	PFC Briggs	Recurring (first appearance)
•Reni Santoni	played	Sgt. Lopez	Recurring (first appearance)
•Rodney Kageyama	played	Joda	Recurring (second appearance)
•Ward C. Boland	played	Lt. Obrigowitz	Recurring (first appearance)
•Willie Garson	played	Lee Harvey Oswald / Mirror	Recurring (second appearance)

Main Cast

•Scott Bakula	played	Dr. Samuel "Sam" Beckett
•Dean Stockwell	played	Rear 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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