Episode
Quantum Leap: Future Boy
Overview
October 6, 1957: Sam leaps Kenny Sharp, better known as "Future Boy," sidekick to Moe Stein, host of the kid's show, "Time Patrol," who also happens to be building a time machine in his basement. Unless Sam can prevent Moe's daughter from attempting to have her father committed, Moe is destined to be killed as he tries to hop a freight train.
Details
- Series
- Quantum Leap
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1991-03-13
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Future Boy is Episode 13 in Season 3 of Quantum Leap. It aired on 1991-03-13. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 15: Piano Man
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Episode 10: A Little Miracle
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Episode 16: Southern Comforts
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Episode 9: Rebel without a Clue
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Episode 17: Glitter Rock
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Episode 8: The Great Spontini
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Episode 18: A Hunting We Will Go
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Episode 7: Black on White on Fire
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Episode 19: Last Dance Before an Execution
May 12, 1971: "Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled