Quantum Leap - Series 1 (DVD)

---We gather here today...--- As I type, I am off work, ill. Hay fever (or gay fever as my predictive text on my phone keeps making me type) has grabbed hold of my head today. Unlike every other day, the antihistamines haven't hit in in the face. In fact, they have hardly tickled it in a jovial manner. So, not particularly wanting to be electrocuted mid call by a snot covered computer or the prospect of putting people on hold while I gouge my eyes out and have a sneezing fit, I called in sick. I may have to deal with a borage of sh...er...unpleasantness when I return tomorrow, but hey ho, that's life. Being off sick, this means I'm sitting in the ...  Read the complete review

Quantum Leap was my favourite show when I was a kid and I still love it today. After watching scractchy VHS tapes and endless repeats of the show on TV I was mega excited when it eventually came out on DVD. The premise of the show is that a genius in 1999 called Dr Samuel Beckett, invents a time machine as part of a top secret project called 'Project Quantum Leap'. Bursting with the joy of his own success and swept away by an inflated ego, Sam jumps into the time machine before it's been fully tested to make sure it won't malfunction. Sam 'leaps' into the past, waking up in a strange house in the 1950s. When he looks in the mirror he sees a different face. In ...  Read the complete review

Quantum Leap is a time-travelling TV drama series that ran from 1989 to 1993. The show had five seasons in total before ending its airing. It got a little tired of ideas in the end, and it was time to call it a day. A year or so ago, I spotted the complete season 1 on DVD for a mere £5, and just had to have it, but it is only more recently that I have gotten around to watching it. The basic premised is that Sam Beckett, a physics genius, has created a device that can send someone leaping through time, stopping at various intervals and assuming someone's persona for the purposes of his 'mission'. Each leap is determined by whether Sam can alter the course of ...  Read the complete review

I was so excited when I bought this DVD. I sat through the whole first season in a few days. ~The programme~ Quantum Leap is a secret government project. When the funding is about to be cut (in the future - not the present when the programme was made), the leading scientist decides to test the machine. When Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) awakes back in 1956, he discovers that he is a test pilot and has to test a fighter jet - but he has no idea how to fly. Sam discovers that he has actually "leaped" in to the body of another person. Everybody around Sam can see and hear the person he has "leapt" in to. Al Calavici (Dean ...  Read the complete review

At just eight episodes, the first season DVD is a lot shorter than I first imagined it would be; the endless TV episodes led me to think this would be a lot longer, and for £13 it's not the value for money I would have liked to have seen. Also, like many premierre seasons, the show is considerably poorer than many of the future ones in terms of acting and over all quality. It was finding its feet here, and took a while to do so. For the hardcore fans, there's still enough to enjoy, but casual viewers could give it a miss. This sci-fi series focuses on Sam, a scientist who travels through time, becoming different people, and having to solve a mystery ...  Read the complete review