Quantum Leap - The Complete Fifth Season
by Alan J. Levi, Bob Hulme, Christopher Hibler, David Hemmings, Debbie Allen
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Actor: Dean Stockwell, Natasha Pavlovich, Reni Santoni, Scott Bakula, Willie GarsonDirector: Alan J. Levi, Bob Hulme, Christopher Hibler, David Hemmings, Debbie Allen
Brand: NBC Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1028 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
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DVD Review: That's the way it is
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not sure how I feel about Quantum Leap ending.
OH MY GOD IT'S OVER!!! WHAT NOW?!!!
OK, yes I do know how I feel. It's been a long haul. It didn't take me long to watch the first three seasons, the fourth season was a pain in the neck, and then the fifth season seemed to be over in a flash. I watched eight episodes during a two day period, and then today, I watched the last two discs straight through. I did consider rationing it, maybe watching an episode a week, but I don't think the person I borrowed it from is too happy at the gap in his DVD case. Didn't think it would be a good idea to risk it, never mind joke about it.
I'm still actually in shock over the last episode, Mirror Image. I'm totally gutted it's over, there's no more Sam, there's no more Al. And what a gripping final episode. From the blurb, I thought it would work slightly differently. I thought it would be he went back to where he was born, and do something there. Kinda like the end of the director's cut of Butterfly Effect. But although it was a disappointing ending (there's rumours it was meant to be a two parter, or a cliffhanger to the sixth season, which of course, never happened, as it was cancelled in its prime!), it totally gripped me, and I think I sat there with my jaw on the floor when the credits rolled. I won't give away anything about the final episode, but OH MY GOD, get some tissues beside you, cos I started crying. Hey I started crying when Sam started crying - I'm a sucker for guy's crying. I bawled my eyes out so much the first two times I watched Armageddon (when Ben Affleck starts crying), I actually missed the ending!
The rest of the season was an alright ending to a brilliant show. The double whammy episode at the beginning, where Sam leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald, was a major disappointment, and thankfully, it didn't start the very first season, cos there's no way I would have gone on to continue watching it. I'm too young to know all the conspiracy theories surrounding JFK & Lee Harvey Oswald, and I've never really had an interest in finding out more, so this episode just didn't work for me. Sure it fascinated Donald P whatshisface, and he just had to make an episode about it, but not for me.
My other favourite episodes include:
Brook Shields appearing in Leaping Of The Shrew, as the spoiled brat stranded on a desert island with Sam - she was absolutely hilarious, but I doubt she was meant to be.
Killin' Time - we got to see more of the present time in Al's world, as Sam leaps into a serial killer, who then promptly escapes in 1999, and Al has to catch him.
The Trilogy arc was a brilliant way to stop the show from getting too much the same, as Sam leaps about into three different people on one person's life. Some reviewers haven't liked this as much, but I certainly did, so much so that I watched the three in a row, with the previous two.
Deliver Us From Evil was brilliant, as it went back to someone Sam had previously leaped into, little Jimmy the Downs syndrome boy, but then introduced the concept of an evil leaper to Sam's good. To be honest, I did consider that they should have introduced this sooner, because everyone has their nemesis, but I was disappointed, because that's where Tru Calling seemed to have their Tru & Jack storyline from!
Return Of The Evil Leaper, and Revenge Of The Evil Leaper were good, but just not as good as I thought they'd be. There's eight episodes between Deliver Us From Evil & Return Of The Evil Leaper, I think they should have brought it about sooner, instead of just reintroducing the concept again randomly.
Goodbye Norma Jean was another brilliant episode, with Sam playing Marilyn Monroe's chauffeur. I didn't think the actress playing Marilyn was that great a lookalike, but she did the job I guess.
I do wish they'd bring back Quantum Leap, especially since it will be coming up for its twentieth anniversary in two years. It would be nice to see the show more resolved than it was (like Tru Calling!), and lets face it, Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell are still a) alive and b) Scott has NOT changed in the slightest. If there was enough call for it, I'm sure they'd reappear as a one off, just to end the show on a high, for all us disappointed 'fans'. Maybe do something that Sam suddenly reappears, or they somehow find a way to find him? Just a one off. Pretty please? I'm lost without having this to watch now, I'm going to have to find myself a social life.
Bring Back Sam!
Description of Quantum Leap - The Complete Fifth Season
He's leaped into lives of the past, but nothing can prepare time traveler Dr. Sam Beckett (Emmy nominee Scott Bakula) and his wise cracking holographic guide, Al (Emmy nominee Dean Stockwell), for he high-stakes, groundbreaking adventures that await them in all 21 episodes of the fifth and final season of Quantum Leap! From a presidential assassin to his own great-grandfather to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, it's up to Sam to change history for the better and get one step closer to his final mission. Complete your Quantum collection with this extraordinary Emmy-winning season that includes such time-stopping guest stars as Brooke Shields, Jennifer Aniston, Neil Patrick Harris and many more. Available on DVD for the first time ever, it also includes images of the actual blueprints from the original sets! He's been on the adventures of many lifetimes - is it Sam's time to finally make it home? Starring: Scott Bakula, Dean StockwellBestsellers in DVD
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