Quantum Leap (2022 TV series)

Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series aired on NBC. It is a revival of the original 1989–1993 show created by Donald P. Bellisario, being developed by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt.[1] Bellisario, Lilien and Wynbrandt executive produce. It takes place 22 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and after the Season 5 finale where the show left off. The series stars Raymond Lee as new lead character Dr. Ben Song, along with Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Nanrisa Lee, and Ernie Hudson. The season premiered on September 19, 2022. In December 2022, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on October 4, 2023.

Quantum Leap
Season 1 promotional poster
Genre
Created bySteven Lilien
Bryan Wynbrandt
Based onQuantum Leap
by Donald P. Bellisario
Starring
ComposerDaniel James Chan
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes22
Production
Executive producers
Running time42 minutes
Production companies
Release
Original networkNBC
Original releaseSeptember 19, 2022 (2022-09-19) –
present (present)
Related
Quantum Leap

Premise

Thirty years have passed since Dr. Sam Beckett vanished into the Quantum Leap accelerator. The Quantum Leap project has been restarted with a new team trying to piece together the mysteries behind Beckett and his machine. For reasons unknown, Dr. Ben Song, the new project's lead physicist, has uploaded new program code to the project systems and used the upgraded accelerator to leap back in time. He becomes lost in the past just as Beckett did, living the lives of other people and changing history in hopes of getting back to the present. Project employee Addison Augustine, who is Ben's fiancée, acts as his liaison with the project, appearing to him as a hologram only he can see and hear, just as the previous project's observer Al Calavicci did for Beckett.

Cast

Main
  • Raymond Lee as Ben Song, the lead physicist working on Quantum Leap who gets stuck in the past, leaping into the bodies of different people, while also having partial amnesia about his identity as a result of leaping
  • Caitlin Bassett as Addison Augustine, Ben's fiancée and "observer", who helps Ben with finding out what he has to do in order to leap
  • Mason Alexander Park as Ian Wright, the chief architect of the Quantum Leap artificial intelligence
  • Nanrisa Lee as Jenn Chou, the Quantum Leap head of security
  • Ernie Hudson as Herbert "Magic" Williams, head of the Quantum Leap time travel project, and a Vietnam War veteran who Sam Beckett leaped into in the series' Season 3 1990 episode "The Leap Home (Part 2) – Vietnam"; Hudson replaces Christopher Kirby from the original episode
  • Eliza Taylor as Hannah Carson (season 2)
  • Peter Gadiot as Tom Westfall (season 2), a U.S. Army Intelligence officer, formerly of the Special Forces, and Addison's new love interest

Recurring

Guest

Episodes

Series overview
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
118September 19, 2022 (2022-09-19)April 3, 2023 (2023-04-03)
213[3]October 4, 2023 (2023-10-04)TBA

Season 1 (2022–23)
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byLeap details
(Name, date & location)		Original air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
11"July 13th, 1985"Thor FreudenthalSteven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt[lower-alpha 1]Nick Rounder/Matt Shaw
July 13, 1985
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania		September 19, 2022 (2022-09-19)3.35[5]

Dr. Ben Song celebrates his engagement to Addison Augustine, and receives mysterious texts during the party that leads him to make an unauthorized leap in the Project Accelerator. Awakening in 1985 as an undercover cop, he stops a plot to steal the Hope Diamond. Suffering amnesia from the leap, Ben is aided by Addison, working as his hologram guide. In 2022, the new Project Quantum Leap (PQL) team tries to find out why Ben leapt, and to bring him back.

Note: The episode is dedicated to Dean Stockwell, who played Al in the original series and died on November 7, 2021. Both Stockwell and Scott Bakula, who played Sam Beckett, appear in the episode via archive photos.
22"Atlantis"David McWhirterRobert HullDavid Tamura
March 7, 1998
Space Shuttle Atlantis		September 26, 2022 (2022-09-26)2.77[6]
Ben leaps into David Tamura, an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1998. Ben remembers that David was one of his childhood heroes, triggering some of Ben's memory. Ziggy predicts that Ben is there to save David from being killed by debris during a spacewalk. Ben is successful, but the debris instead damages the shuttle's heat shield, which changes history to having the entire crew die when Atlantis disintegrates during re-entry. Ben convinces the crew to seek assistance the Mir space station, but the cosmonauts are asleep. Ben engages in a daring jump from the shuttle to the station to get the cosmonauts' attention and succeeds in saving the crew. In 2022, Addison shows Ian a flash drive Ben left in their apartment, but asks Ian to keep it quiet after Magic reveals Ben's connection to Janis and orders her to withhold Ben's memories from him until they determine why he leapt. Meanwhile, Magic and Jenn contact Al's widow, Beth, to locate Janis. Beth later calls Janis, leading Magic and Jenn to a house. Magic and Jenn arrive to find servers and calculations in Ben's handwriting. Magic receives a call from Janis, who reveals that Ben contacted her for help and warns Magic to stay out of their way. Magic and Jenn escape Janis' booby trap and later retrieve an encrypted hard drive. Addison and Ian reveal their flash drive that, when combined with the hard drive, unlocks data that reveals Ben was trying to reach a precise moment in history, but it remains unclear when, where or why Ben was going.
33"Somebody Up There Likes Ben"Marcus StokesDrew LindoDanny "Youngblood" Hill
October 2, 1977
Las Vegas, Nevada		October 3, 2022 (2022-10-03)2.58[7]
Ben leaps into Danny "Youngblood" Hill, a prizefighter in 1977, the day before his bout for the world middleweight championship. Addison informs him that Danny originally lost the fight because he was distracted and they assume it's due to Danny's girlfriend Angela, who is attached to Danny's opponent. They soon learn, however, that Danny's distraction is his trainer and older brother, Darryl, a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD who committed suicide following Danny's loss. Ben makes Darryl promise to seek help and then, with coaching from Darryl and Addison, wins the fight. Addison informs Ben that his leaps are likely to continue for some time as Ian discovered that Ben's code is taking him on a path towards the mystery point in spacetime. Ben tells Addison that he had a memory when he got knocked down during the fight but leaps before he can say more. In 2022, Addison is suffering from exhaustion due to her singular focus on getting Ben home. After she collapses in the imaging chamber, Magic forces her to slow down and, following Ben's leap, Magic, Ian and Jenn join Addison at her home to help her unwind and relax. While there, Magic receives a call from Beth, who informs him that Janis contacted her and stole artifacts from the original project that Al had in his possession. One such item was Al's old handlink to Ziggy, which Janis is using to help build her own imaging chamber.
44"A Decent Proposal"Rachel TalalayMoira KirlandEva Sandoval
July 29, 1981
Los Angeles, California		October 10, 2022 (2022-10-10)2.46[8]
Ben's first leap into a woman is into Eva Sandoval, a bounty hunter in 1981 Los Angeles. Addison tells Ben he's there to locate Tammy Jean Jessup, a bail skip, but inadvertently ruins a proposal to Eva from her boyfriend and partner, Jake. It is revealed that Tammy Jean is on the run from the cartel and is trying to flee town with her boyfriend, Zack. Ben and Jake track her to Zack's club only to discover that Tammy Jean is Carla, the head of the cartel, and she kills Zack. Ben and Jake are able to stop her and send her to jail, Ben also managing to save Jake and Eva's relationship. Ben then remembers his relationship with Addison before leaping into the Old West. In 2022, Ziggy is still running slow while Ian tries to limit Janis' access into the system. Jenn reveals to Addison that Ben has been keeping secrets from the team for the past six months while Magic reveals to Ian his own past history with Quantum Leap, recounting the time Sam leapt into him in Vietnam and that he restarted the project to honor Sam and, if possible, bring him home. Ian and Jenn resolve to save Ben from the same fate as Sam and bring him home.
55"Salvation or Bust"Silas HowardBenjamin Raab & Deric A. HughesDiego de la Cruz
1879
Salvation, California		October 17, 2022 (2022-10-17)2.41[9]
Ben lands in Salvation, an Old West town on the verge of destruction by a railroad company, in the body of aged ex-gunslinger Diego de la Cruz, who was summoned by his granddaughter to help save the town from a dangerous outlaw gang hired by the railroad to drive the townsfolk away. Ben, a pacifist, tries to overcome his moral qualms when Addison informs him that he'll have to beat the outlaw leader, Josiah McDonough, in order to leap. Ben rallies the townsfolk to rig a series of traps for McDonough and his gang so they can collect a large bounty to save the town and then informs them of a large vein of copper nearby that will keep them financially stable for years to come. Before Ben leaps, however, he and Addison are surprised to encounter a man in the town who knows Ben's name and that he is a time traveler, warning Ben to stop following him. Meanwhile, in 2022, the PQL team receives a surprise visit from Congresswoman Kavita Adani, who sits on the project's oversight committee, and tries to keep her from figuring out that Ben made an unauthorized leap. She does, anyway, but Magic convinces her to keep the project running by promising to find a way to save her brother from a fatal car accident in the past in which she was driving.
66"What a Disaster!"Helen Shaver
Chris Grismer		Story by : Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrant
Teleplay by : Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrant and Martin Gero		John Harvey
October 17, 1989
San Francisco, California		October 24, 2022 (2022-10-24)2.22[10]
Ben leaps into John Harvey in San Francisco moments before the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. He learns he is there to help John's estranged wife, Naomi, save their son, Jason, who originally died in the aftermath of the earthquake. Meanwhile, Ben relives his memories of his deceased mother, who died after an argument with him. Ben finds Jason at the family's old apartment building in Oakland but goes inside to help an old neighbor and is knocked unconscious by falling debris. Fortunately, Jason is able to revive him and they escape the building moments before it collapses. Ben also manages to repair the family's relationship and then uses a hospital phone to call his mother just as he leaps. Ben then awakens in a priest on Halloween. In 2022, the team tries to figure out the identity of the mystery Leaper encountered during Ben's previous leap. They learn he is Richard Martinez, a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. However, Martinez has no knowledge of the project and a clean record, which leads Magic and the team to theorize that Martinez will become the Leaper at an unspecified point in the future, making Ian realize that Ben is attempting to reach the future through his leaps.
77"O Ye of Little Faith"Chris GrismerMargarita MatthewsFather James Davenport
October 31, 1934
Coventon, Maryland		October 31, 2022 (2022-10-31)2.33[11]
Ben leaps into a priest who has been called to perform an exorcism on a patient named Daisy, who is supposedly possessed by a demon, and has recently turned 18. Since Ben is not religious, he is uncomfortable performing an exorcism because it goes against his beliefs. Unknown interference prevents Addison from communicating with Ben. When Daisy's aunt is found dead in her room, her family debates whether Daisy murdered her or if the demon did it. Her aunt's will names Daisy to inherit all her money and possessions, which they suspect to be a motive. Ben later discovers that Daisy's symptoms are consistent with being exposed to certain poisons and figures out that Daisy's mother and uncle murdered her aunt, and have been poisoning Daisy. Daisy's mother was unhappy with her husband and has been having an affair with her brother in law. After Daisy died, her uncle would be next in line to inherit her aunt's money, which Daisy's mother and uncle were going to use to start a new life together. Daisy's mother and uncle are arrested. Ben gets a message from Janis Calavicci (who was causing the interference preventing Addison from communicating with Ben) warning him, but leaps before she can tell him what she is warning him about.
88"Stand by Ben"Avi YouabianEmily KimBen Winters
July 10, 1996
Lassen County, California		November 7, 2022 (2022-11-07)2.65[12]
Ben leaps into Ben Winters, a teenager who escapes from an abusive academy for troubled youth with three other teens, Stacy, Roy and Leah. Addison tells Ben he's there to save the kids, who got lost following a car crash and died of exposure. With Addison's guidance, Ben leads the kids towards an empty cabin. Though Leah breaks her ankle along the way, they make it to the cabin. Unfortunately, the school staff tracks them and Leah sacrifices herself to allow the others to escape. However, they enlist the help of Leah's uncle, a local news reporter, to expose the school's brutal practices and secure their release. Addison reveals that the kids go on to lead productive lives and remain friends to the present. Ben's experience with the kids triggers his memories of recruiting Janis and, before he leaps, he tells Addison that he finally remembers why he leapt in the first place: to save her. In 2022, Jenn uses the local power grid to track Janis' imaging chamber but Janis sees them coming through PQL security feeds and locks down the facility to buy time to escape.
99"Fellow Travelers"David GrossmanStory by : Drew Lindo & Dean Georgaris
Teleplay by : Drew Lindo		Jack Armstrong
April 24, 1979
Chicago, Illinois		January 2, 2023 (2023-01-02)2.31[13]

Ben leaps into 1979 Chicago as bodyguard Jack Armstrong, assigned to protect famous musician Carly Farmer from mysterious attempts on her life. Addison grows frustrated with Ben for leaping to save her life.

Jamie, estranged sister of Carly, reappears in her life. Initially the suspect, Ben later realizes that Jamie was framed. Trevor, Carly's manager becomes the next suspect, and Ben exposes several threatening letters that Trevor used to frame Jamie. Carly fires Trevor after, and he later reveals that Loretta, one of the backup singers also plan to kill Carly. Ben manages to subdue Loretta in time and save Carly, but he is wounded in the attempt.

Ben promises Addison that he will trust her from here on out and reassures her that they are a team. In 2023, Ian uses Ziggy to track Janis to Belize. The team realize they need Janis' help to save Addison, however she remains uncooperative and implies that the PQL cannot be trusted. Jenn brings Janis in for questioning, but wonders if there may be truth to Janis's story.
1010"Paging Dr. Song"Tessa BlakeBenjamin Raab & Deric A. HughesDr. Alexandra Tomkinson
1994
Seattle, Washington		January 9, 2023 (2023-01-09)1.75[14]
Ben leaps into a doctor at a hospital where victims of a train crash are being admitted. His mission is to save the lives of three people. He saves one person by encouraging him to sit still while he removes debris lodged in his head. His wife died in the crash, but Ben encourages him to donate his wife's heart to another crash victim, saving the life of Ben's second patient, who died in the original timeline due to a reaction to an experimental drug used during anesthesia. Ben changes the order to a different drug, but is caught. Though the patient has one operation under the drug, Ben prevents the drug from being used for her second operation. Ben exposes the risks of this drug and saves hundreds of lives. The third is a man who is discovered to have a brain tumor but does not want to get treatment due to the bad life he feels he has lived, including being an absent father to the friend of the doctor into whom Ben leapt. At headquarters, Janis Calavicci tells Addison to tell Ben not to reveal any more of what he remembers about why he leaped in the first place, since someone at Project Quantum Leap cannot be trusted.
1111"Leap. Die. Repeat."Pamela RomanowskyMargarita MatthewsColonel Jack Parker,
Eugene Wagner,
Mallory Yang,
Dr. Edwin Woolsey,
Moe Murphy
September 12, 1962
Fort Worth, Texas		January 30, 2023 (2023-01-30)2.10[15]
Ben leaps into a colonel in an elevator with four other people. These people have come to see the initial power up of a highly experimental nuclear reactor. Nevertheless, something goes very wrong and everyone in the facility (including Ben) dies. While the people at headquarters are experiencing the initial grief of losing Ben, their monitors of his vital signs indicates that he is alive. Ben has leapt into a different person who was in the elevator, and gets another try at preventing the disaster. However, it soon becomes apparent that Ben can only leap into each person present in the elevator once before Ben dies permanently. Back in 2023, the team have no choice but to ask Janis help with this 'quantum loop'. In the end, Janis agrees to tell Addison the name of the person who told Ben to leap in the first place.
1212"Let Them Play"Morenike Joela Evans
Shakina		ShakinaCarlos Mendéz
2012
Los Angeles, California		February 6, 2023 (2023-02-06)1.75[16]
Ben leaps into Carlos Mendéz, a high school basketball coach in 2012 whose daughter, Gia, struggles with backlash being a transgender student and athlete. Gia faces backlash from the community, particularly from the mother of one of her teammates, over Ben putting her in a game. Ben struggles to protect Gia from the community and prevent her from running away and disappearing, as she did in the original history. In 2023, Magic and Jenn track down a trans poet named Dottie, who Janis revealed was the person who told Ben to leap. Listening to a new poem Dottie is performing, Magic realizes that a Leaper inhabited Dottie and spoke to Ben. Dottie shows Magic a drawing of the Leaper's face and Magic is surprised to see that the picture seems to be of Ian.
1313"Family Style"Deborah M. PrattAadrita MukerjiKamini Prasad
September 2009
Portland, Oregon		February 27, 2023 (2023-02-27)2.02[17]
Ben leaps into Kamini Prasad, the daughter of Indian immigrants working as a chef in her family's restaurant. The restaurant has been struggling since Kamini's father died a year prior and Ben learns that the family owes their landlord $30,000 in back rent and that he has arrived on the day the restaurant is burned down in an insurance scam. Ben promises the landlord, Kathy, that they'll deliver a full house as a down payment on the back rent. Kamini's sister, Manisha, tries to convince their mother, Sonali, to let her try new recipes to bring in more customers and Ben lists the restaurant on Groupon to help promote the business and also contacts a local restaurateur as a possible angel investor. Sonali approves of the Groupon idea but rejects Manisha's new recipes, saying that they can't afford to take risks on such an important night, prompting Manisha to quit in frustration. After one of their employees falls asleep on the job and the other ducks out, Sonali tries to do the work herself but ends up cutting herself and then passing out, triggering Ben's memory of his own mother's death. Ben is able to convince Sonali and Manisha to patch things up but the family returns to the restaurant to find that Kathy had burned it down. Ben instead borrows a wedding reception venue from a local family while several of the Prasad family's relatives and friends come together to help with the dinner. Sonali lets Manisha take charge and, afterwards, the family offers to help the Prasads find a new location. Addison reveals that the new restaurant is a thriving success while Kathy goes to jail for insurance fraud. In 2023, Ian is struggling with the revelation that they are the one who sent Ben leaping. Frustrated and concerned that they put Ben in harm's way, they start obsessing over figuring out why they did it until Magic orders Ian to take a day off to decompress. Ian decides to visit their old partner, Rachel, who reassured them that they are a good person who always wants to help people. Ian returns to the project with renewed focus.
1414"S.O.S."Chris GrismerDean GeorgarisCommander Rossi
May 2, 1989
U.S.S. Montana,
South China Sea		March 6, 2023 (2023-03-06)2.19[18]
Ben leaps into Commander Rossi aboard the U.S.S. Montana, whose crew includes XO Alexander Augustine, Addison’s father. Commander Augustine had been disgraced after a nearby submarine, the U.S.S. Tampa, sank, leading to the death of its crew despite the Montana's close proximity. Ben has to save the members of the Tampa, but the Montana's captain initially declines, thinking the SOS they had received was a ploy by the Chinese. Ben proves the signal came from an American ship, but after the Montana hits a Chinese mine, the captain orders them to fire on the Chinese vessel trailing them, the Han, which would spark World War III. Augustine is sent to his quarters when he objects. By working with Augustine, Ben convinces the crew to mutiny and prevent the Montana from firing on the Han, instead getting the codes to remotely detonate the mines and clear a path to the Tampa. Afterwards, Ben is standing on the tail of the ship when he is confronted by another sailor—Richard Martinez, in the body of the communications sailor he'd been working with, though had never met.
1515"Ben Song for the Defense"Kristen WindellRomy LoorAleyda Ramirez
1985
Queens, New York		March 13, 2023 (2023-03-13)2.28[19]
Ben leaps into public defender Aleyda Ramirez, who must defend Camilo Diaz, a teenager wrongfully accused of killing a gang recruiter, while also juggling several other cases. In the original timeline Diaz pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but his brother joined the gang and died as a result. Jenn joins Ben, as she has prior legal experience, although Ben does not initially recognize her. Ben finds that the prosecutor has hidden a witness who would later be accused of two other murders, but Aleyda's ADA girlfriend is fired when she asks the prosecutor about it. The prosecutor offers Ben a plea deal that would get Camilo in jail for only five years, allowing him to move from Queens with his family and prevent his brother's death, which would also allow Ben to leap, but Ben doesn't take it. With the help of another client, Ben finds the gun used in the shooting and makes the case for Camilo, who is found not guilty, whereas the prosecutor loses his job for involvement in multiple cover-ups.
1616"Ben, Interrupted"Jude WengAnnelise Kollevoll MedinaLiam O'Connor
1954
Georges Island,
Boston, Massachusetts		March 20, 2023 (2023-03-20)1.92[20]
Ben leaps to Georges Island Asylum as private detective Liam O'Connor, who was hired to rescue his client's sister Judith Sullivan (who was held there for hysteria). Janis Calavicci removes her ankle monitor so Magic will arrive, warning him that Ben must sabotage the leap. Posing as a patient, Ben and Judith use a vent to crawl into the head doctor’s office and find his files, but they are caught. Martinez leaps into one of the attendants, helping Ben escape his room. The two then team up to take on and knock out the head doctor before he can perform a lobotomy on Judith. Judith climbs up a ladder and escapes with her sister, allowing her to release the files and get the head doctor's license revoked, but when Ben climbs up to escape he is suddenly stabbed in the neck by Martinez, who then leaves. Ben manages to climb up and make it to a nearby car, and he is able to honk the horn and alert two nearby nurses to aid him. Janis tells Magic that she has figured out who the traitor on the Quantum Leap team is—Ziggy.
1717"The Friendly Skies"Linda MendozaAlex BergerLois Mitchell
August 5, 1971
Transglobal Airlines Flights 349, over the Atlantic Ocean		March 27, 2023 (2023-03-27)2.25[21]
Ben leaps to Lois Mitchell, a flight attendant flying from London to New York on a flight destined to crash. In addition, the team disables Ziggy following the previous episode's events, although the imaging chamber is still active. After finding the pilot and flight engineer dead from poison, Ben realizes the flight was hijacked before it crashed. Ben initially suspects an Irish flight attendant, Holly, with possible IRA connections, but after a rich heir on board, Corey, notices the emergency equipment opened, his caretaker Leslie reveals herself to be the hijacker. Working with the co-pilot and two mercenaries, Leslie takes control of the plane. Ben and Holly take out one hijacker, while the second hijacker is attacked by a passenger, who is non-fatally shot. Ben and Corey use a concoction to knock Leslie and the co-pilot out, but find that the fired bullet has damaged the hydraulics. With the help of Ian, Ben is able to successfully land the plane in Puerto Rico. In his next leap, Ben arrives in the destroyed Quantum Leap facility and it is snowing. Greeted by an older Ian, Ben realizes he is in the future experiencing a nuclear winter.
1818"Judgment Day"Chris GrismerMargarita Matthews2051; Los Angeles, California
Ben Song; 2018; Los Angeles, California
Liam O'Connor; 1954; Boston, Massachusetts
Commander Rossi; May 2, 1989; U.S.S. Montana
Diego de la Cruz; 1879; Salvation, California		April 3, 2023 (2023-04-03)2.16[22]
Future Ian tells Ben that Martinez was sent to kill Addison and end Quantum Leap, and they give Ben a code to give to past Ian. In 2018, Ben leaps to his past self and goes on a date with Addison but ends it early and tells her the truth. He goes to headquarters but Addison, suspicious he is not the real Ben, tries to apprehend him. Jenn initiates lockdown, but Martinez has already leapt into Magic. Martinez convinces them that Ben is an impostor and he is put in a cell. Ben convinces Jenn and Ian he is the real Ben by giving them Jenn’s password, while Addison realizes Magic is a fake after finding cigars Magic promised to deliver to Al Calavicci. Ben and Martinez fight in the accelerator and Addison is shot before Ben and Martinez are thrown into their past leaps. Martinez is about to shoot Ben but a friend of the leapee shoots him. Ian realizes the code requires all three versions of them and uses it to transport Ben back to 2018, Martinez being lost to time. After Ben and Addison kiss, the 2023 team prepares for him to leap to the present day.

Season 2 (2023)
No.
overall		No. in
season		Title [3][23]Directed byWritten by [24]Leap details
(Name, date & location)		Original air date [3][23]U.S. viewers
(millions)
191"This Took Too Long!"John TerleskyMartin GeroPerez
1978
Russia		October 4, 2023 (2023-10-04)2.90[25]
Ben is dismayed to discover he is still leaping and has leaped into an Air Force cargo plane over Russia that is carrying a mysterious crate. The plane is shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) and Ben and the crew discover their crate is empty and they were a decoy for another target. Ben and the crew work together to reach a communication site to radio for help, only to discover that it's actually the SAM site that shot them down and is now targeting three other American planes. The crew use a stolen truck and trip mine to destroy the site and save the planes. After working through the entire leap without support from PQL, Ben finally receives contact from Ian, who reveals that they have been searching for Ben for three years, that the Project was shut down and everything has changed.
202"Ben & Teller"Kristin WindellAadrita MukerjiLorena Chaves
May 9, 1986
Tucson, Arizona		October 11, 2023 (2023-10-11)2.62[26]
While Ian gathers the rest of the team, Ben leaps into elderly bank teller Lorena Chaves on the day of a bank robbery, with one robber, Sean, being the brother of Lorena's coworker Rebecca. In the original timeline, police stormed in and eight died in the shootout. Ben acts as a liaison between the police and robbers, convincing them to release two hostages. The head robber has Ben put in the safe code, but the imaging chamber shuts down while Ian recites it, though Ben guesses the code. The team is arrested but Addison's boyfriend gets them released. Ben learns in the new timeline the shootout hits a gas line, causing an explosion, but there’s a meeting room with drywall leading to safety. He convinces the robbers to leave them there before breaking through. Before Ben and Rebecca leave, the head robber discovers them and is about to kill Rebecca when Sean shoots him. Rebecca takes the gun from Sean, and although Sean takes the blame for the shooting it's ruled self-defense and he is released after five years. Jenn confronts Ian over how they really discovered Ben was alive, and Ben realizes that something is different about Addison.
213"Closure Encounters"Chris GrismerRomy LoorRobert Cook
1949
Starlight, New Mexico		October 18, 2023 (2023-10-18)2.75[27]
Ben leaps into Project Sign investigator Robert Cook, who has been sent to investigate a crash that put a girl named Melanie Hunt in a coma and injured her friend Carrie Baker, Sheriff Morgan's granddaughter. Carrie claims she and Melanie ran through the woods after a UFO ran them off the road, but police found Melanie still in the car. Melanie's powerful father wants Carrie to be arrested. The team deduces Hunt must have used a helicopter to cause the crash. Ben and Morgan are followed by a helicopter near Hunt's ranch and a signal-jammer kicks Addison out of the imaging chamber. Ben exits the car and runs but is passed out, waking up in a bed the next morning. Ben realizes he and Melanie have the same marks on their necks and that she had been drugged as part of a cover up for seeing a ranch Hunt had leased to the military for testing. Morgan prepares to skip town with Carrie. Ben purposely gets abducted near the ranch, where Morgan takes photos and Addison observes the base. They confront a general and get him to remedy Carrie's charges and move the base from New Mexico to Area 51.
224"The Lonely Hearts Club"M. J. BassettKristy LowreySummer Walsh
April 4, 2000
Los Angeles, California		October 25, 2023 (2023-10-25)2.52[28]
Ben leaps into the body of an ambitious Hollywood assistant whose famous client, Neal Russell, is in danger; as Ben realizes that Neal's circumstances may shed light on his own, his working relationship with Addison reaches an inflection point.
235"One Night in Koreatown"TBABenjamin Raab & Deric A. HughesTBANovember 1, 2023 (2023-11-01)TBD

Production

Development

In September 2021, Scott Bakula, who played main character Sam Beckett in the series, hinted that a reboot of the show was being considered, with creator Donald P. Bellisario returning in some capacity.[29] A pilot episode was ordered by NBC the following January with plans for writers Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt to act as showrunners with executive producer Martin Gero and with original producer and writer Deborah Pratt.[30] Helen Shaver was hired to direct the pilot episode and to serve as an executive producer as well.[31] NBC ordered the revival with a full season pickup in May after viewing the test pilot.[32]

After it received a full season order, Aadrita Mukerji and Dean Georgaris joined as additional executive producers, and Gero took over as showrunner while Lilien and Wynbrandt stayed with the series as executive producers.[33][34] A new pilot was directed by Thor Freudenthal and written by Lilien and Wynbrandt, with the original pilot being scheduled to air later in the season.[34] The decision not to launch the revival with the original premiere episode of the season was made in order to provide a better introduction in the series,[35] and it was rescheduled as the sixth episode with some reshoots added for context.[36]

In September 2022, Bakula confirmed that he had been asked by producers to reprise his role as Sam Beckett in the revival but had ultimately decided to not be involved with the new series, saying in a statement on Instagram, "As the show has always been near and dear to my heart, it was a very difficult decision to pass on the project".[37]

After the first three episodes had aired, NBC ordered six additional episodes for the first season, bringing its total to 18 episodes.[38] On December 12, 2022, NBC renewed the series for a second season, which was filmed prior to the start of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and premiered on October 4, 2023.[39][40] Initially consisting of 13 episodes (with a possibility of more), Season 2 went into production immediately after the first season wrapped, with no break in between.[41]

Casting

Raymond Lee was the first actor cast in the show, taking the lead role as Dr. Ben Song in March 2022.[42] Shortly afterwards, the cast was filled out with Ernie Hudson, Nanrisa Lee, Mason Alexander Park, and Caitlin Bassett, making her television debut.[43][44] After being ordered to series, Georgina Reilly joined the cast in a recurring role.[45]

Marketing and release

Quantum Leap premiered on September 19, 2022.[46] The show is available to stream on Peacock and NBC website and NBC app and On-Demand on Comcast/Xfinity Systems for free with ads. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on June 13, 2023.[47]

Reception

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 55% approval rating with an average rating of 5.3/10, based on 22 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "This more serialized reboot of Quantum Leap has enough heart to merit a look from viewers with the luxury of time, but it often forgets to have fun with the episodic structure that made the original a classic."[48] On Metacritic, the series has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 based on eight critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[49]

Overall
Viewership and ratings per season of Quantum Leap
SeasonTimeslot (ET) Episodes First aired Last airedTV seasonViewership
rank		Avg. viewers
(millions)		18–49
rank		Avg. 18–49
rating
Date Viewers
(millions)		 Date Viewers
(millions)
1 Monday 10:00 p.m.18 September 19, 2022 (2022-09-19)3.35[5] April 3, 2023 (2023-04-03)2.16[22]2022–23TBDTBDTBDTBD
2 Wednesday 8:00 p.m.[3]13[3] October 4, 2023 (2023-10-04)2.90[25] TBATBD2023–24TBDTBDTBDTBD

Season 1
Viewership and ratings per episode of Quantum Leap
No. Title Air dateRating
(18–49)		Viewers
(millions)		DVR
(18–49)		DVR viewers
(millions)		Total
(18–49)		Total viewers
(millions)
1 "July 13, 1985" September 19, 20220.53.35[5]0.32.170.75.52[50]
2 "Atlantis" September 26, 20220.32.77[6]0.31.900.64.67[51]
3 "Somebody Up There Likes Ben" October 3, 20220.42.58[7]0.31.980.64.56[52]
4 "A Decent Proposal" October 10, 20220.42.46[8]0.31.720.74.18[53]
5 "Salvation or Bust" October 17, 20220.42.41[9]0.31.650.64.06[54]
6 "What a Disaster!" October 24, 20220.32.22[10]0.21.540.63.76[55]
7 "O Ye Of Little Faith" October 31, 20220.32.33[11]0.21.480.53.81[56]
8 "Stand by Ben" November 7, 20220.42.65[12]0.21.560.64.21[57]
9 "Fellow Travelers" January 2, 20230.32.31[13]0.31.470.63.77[58]
10 "Paging Dr. Song" January 9, 20230.31.75[14]0.31.660.53.42[59]
11 "Leap. Die. Repeat." January 30, 20230.32.10[15]TBDTBDTBDTBD
12 "Let Them Play" February 6, 20230.31.75[16]TBDTBDTBDTBD
13 "Family Style" February 27, 20230.42.02[17]TBDTBDTBDTBD
14 "S.O.S." March 6, 20230.32.19[18]TBDTBDTBDTBD
15 "Ben Song for the Defense" March 13, 20230.42.28[19]TBDTBDTBDTBD
16 "Ben, Interrupted" March 20, 20230.31.92[20]TBDTBDTBDTBD
17 "The Friendly Skies" March 27, 20230.32.25[21]TBDTBDTBDTBD
18 "Judgment Day" April 3, 20230.32.16[22]TBDTBDTBDTBD

Season 2
Viewership and ratings per episode of Quantum Leap
No. Title Air dateRating
(18–49)		Viewers
(millions)
1 "This Took Too Long!" October 4, 20230.32.90[25]
2 "Ben & Teller" October 11, 20230.32.62[26]
3 "Closure Encounters" October 18, 20230.32.75[27]
4 "The Lonely Hearts Club" October 25, 20230.32.52[28]

Accolades
Award Date(s) of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
3rd Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards January 6, 2024[60] Best Broadcast Network Series: Drama Quantum Leap Pending [61]
Best Writing in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series: Drama Shakina Nayfack for "Let Them Play" Pending
Best Actor in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series: Drama Raymond Lee Pending

Explanatory notes
  1. In the Citytv airing of the episode, Martin Gero also received writing credit.[4]

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