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Summary: Make All The Seasons Available On DVD!!
Review: Should have been done years ago. Release each season as a boxed set, include the extras, the out takes, the interviews, the gag reels; ring up Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell and all those concerned if you have to. They'll go for it. Those of us who loved the show deserve the extras. We sure waited long enough for Quantum Leap to be made available on DVD. I don't know about the rest of the fans of Quantum Leap, but I feel a bit like "Sam" with the way the show going to DVD has been handled. The writers of the show left "Sam" high and dry since the show went off the air and the fans have been left to battle excessive commercials and edits when we are lucky enough to catch it on television. It's way past time...Get it out there!
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Summary: Leap to the release of the entire series!
Review: Quantum Leap is simply one of the best television series ever made. Period. Attempting not to sound like other reviews, this is one absolutely fantastic series that has a little something for everybody. Throughout its five seasons, the main characters, quantum physicist/scientist/musician/martial arts expert Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and his trusty sidekick, ex-astronaut/Viet Nam veteran/MIT graduate/womanizer Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell) go through seemingly, and apparently countless adventures together (Sam ultimately never returning home).
Like science fiction? Well there's a backdrop of a time travel story about a man bouncing around through time within his own lifetime, 1953-1999 (with 2 exceptions), with a holographic link to the present via his own brainwaves. This link, Al, is only seen by Sam himself, children under the age of 5, the mentally ill, and animals. However, Sam's time travels come with a twist: he "leaps" into the lives of random people in the past uncontrollably, with their auras surrounding him and being seen as the person he has leapt into until he makes right what once went wrong in their lives. Al comes in quite handy as Sam's guide to what's going on and giving advice through experience all the while technically remaining in the present. Sam and Al also have the aid of a parallel hybrid computer, Ziggy, which was invented by none other than Sam himself. To further complicate matters, an unexpected side-effect of Sam's time travel is amnesia in which Sam's memory is constantly "swiss-cheesed" and he knows little details about his life before the time travel experiment. Not only does the amnesia occur but in some cases traces of minds of the people Sam has leapt into get left behind and scrambled with Sam's own mind making his missions that much more difficult to accomplish.
There's also plenty of sports, romance, drama, action, comedy, horror and plenty of controversial subjects tackled in this series. What makes Quantum Leap such a great series is its flawless execution at so many diverse subjects and making them believable through the main character's point of view. In a time where most of the subjects (racism, sexism, homosexuality) were shied away from on network television, Quantum Leap was one of the first series to examine these topics with a unique perspective. Sadly, it remains highly underrated and not well known among mainstream audiences, most likely due to its unorthodox science fiction backstory.
The good news is that this series is finally officially making it to DVD, the bad news is that it is only the first season (for now) which consists of 9 episodes counting the two part pilot episodes. Being a big fan of the series, only having the first season will have to do for now but I'm happy that it's even on DVD to begin with. Having seen the series, even without any special features, I would rate it five stars. Inevitably the other four seasons must come to DVD as well and unfortunately we can't "leap" ahead to when they finally do.
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Summary: Money Talks!
Review: It is my sincere hope that all the many Quantum Leap fans will purchase the Season One DVD set and totally blow away the producers who have been sitting on their ***** since Quantum Leap has gone off the air. Fans feel that their release should have occured long before now. It is my hope that Seasons 2-5 will not take as long. I would like to see them all released by the end of this year. What do you think? The only thing that will quarantee this is if the producers see big $$$ in doing so. Support your fellow Leaper fans and purchase Season One! This show was awesome and still beats what we have on the air now.
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Summary: One of the Best TV series ever.
Review: Quantum Leap is probably the TV series I saw during my childhood I remember most fondly. It had an amazing mythology, the stories were intelligent, it always left me in expectation and I practically grew up watching it. I was barely finishing my fifth year in elementary school when the final episode aired. Even though it took Universal so long to release the DVD, I'm still hoping the next seasons will take no more than 6 months between each other (like the case of The X-Files). I think this TV series was so well done that is must be a classic. It entertains adults and children alike with an intelligent plot that leaves something to the viewer (unlike most of the shows there are out there nowadays). For fans it's a must, and for people who want intelligent well done entertaining TV this is definitely worth the money...
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Summary: Uh-Oh....Good Show...Extreme cost
Review: Uh-oh. Deja-vu all over again. I won't comment too much on the show itself because anyone looking at this is probably considering buying it or they wouldn't be here reading. Quantum Leap was another of my favorite shows next to Northern Exposure. Unfortunately, like Northern Exposure the first season of Quantum Leap was a late season fill-in that only produced 8 episodes the first season. And like Northern Exposure, this DVD set is overpriced. Shame shame. Taking advantage of paying customers, the companies in charge of distribution should reconsider the cost and how much they may be driving good customers away. 5 stars for the show, 1 for the cost= 3 stars average.
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Summary: This show was over-rated Garbage.....
Review: Well I saw this show enough times when it was on NBC to see what a piece of TV trash it really was. The premise was stupid. Guy keeps leaping into different bodies while a time travel fluke takes place and then each week he enters a new body and a new life until he at last will make the leap home....Sounds like a recycled Twilight Zone idea with the X-Files thrown in for measure. Later they really went over-board with the idea of evil leapers who try and ruin Sam's work as a time traveler...But that's going too far, all this made me see how bad television is for science fiction, they make video game stuff like this and then have the nerve to pass it off as drama, Please.
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Summary: Quantum Leap Season One on DVD!!! Now lets see seasons 2-5!
Review: Finally! I have waited so long for this series to come to DVD. My wait is almost over. I will be at the store first thing in the morning on June 8 to buy my copy of the wonderful series. The are just so many wonderful things to say about Quantum Leap that I don't know where to begin. A lot of the other reviewers here have already covered most of it. The stories were excellent. The message of each and every show comes through loud and clear teaching us all something about ourselves and others. This is a great series for everyone...adults and children alike. I can only hope that all the fans of the show will support this DVD release and that many new people will give it a try. This could be just what is needed for the studio to see that we all want, need more Quantum Leap! I can't wait to get all 5 seasons. I hope this will also help inspire TPTB to continue work on the new QL movies and perhaps a new series. And bring back Scott Bakula (as much as he can come back with his role on Enterprise) and Dean Stockwell (same for Dean with his recurring role on JAG). For as wonderful as the writing was on this series, these actors made the show what it was. Again, I can't wait until June 8! Get out there and by this wonderful piece of television history!
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Summary: Finally!!!!! One of the best shows on TV.
Review: Quantum Leap is a true treasure from my childhood. This show one of the best that has ever been on TV. Not only have I been waiting for this series to be released on DVD, but I have been waiting for a series just like this to come out again. There has not been a show, I think, as good as this, since Quantum Leap went off the air. Some of the best memories I have as a child are watching Quantum Leap on Wednesday nights with my parents and younger brother. We still talk about those days, that was the only night of the week that our 9pm bedtime was extended to 10. It was the only show that my family could agree on and these memories are still talked about at family gatherings. If you or your kids either didn't watch Quantum Leap while it was on or you were too young to remember it, you should take this opportunity to see it on DVD. It was so ahead of it's time as far as story concept goes, and it will still be as clever and great now. I cannot wait! I hope the other seasons quickly follow.
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Summary: One of those great shows
Review: I used to watch Quantum leap in middle school and was absolutely hooked! Each time the story was interesting as the last and though they were different stories, they were still connected by Sam and his journey. I would recommend anyone to watch this show. I'm so glad that they're finally releasing the the first season on DVD (which I am definitely buying) and I'm hoping its worth the wait. I really hope they don't take as long releasing the rest of the seasons as I never got to see the ending of this great show. So fingers crossed & until then I'll enjoy watching the beginning again.
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Summary: Should be shown in every high school civics program
Review: I gave the DVD five stars on the assumption that it will be of at least reasonably good quality. I have been a big fan of Quantum Leap ever since it was first shown. In my opinion, it's one of the best TV series of all time. To me, the most valuable aspect of Quantum Leap is its historical accuracy. The producers got the little details right. There are very few anachronisms. Far more importantly, however, they got the attitudes right. Whenever they took on controversial issues, they showed us exactly how we, as Americans, thought and acted at the time. We really were prejudiced against African-Americans and Korean War brides in the ways showm in two of the early episodes. Some people really did build bomb shelters in the 1950s. Some communities really did attempt to ban rock-and-roll. There were definite stigmas against mental illness and retardation, in part because we didn't understand them. These are just the episodes that come to mind immediately. There were many more that dealt with societal issues. The episodes that dealt with issues such as these should be shown in every high school civics class--or whatever it's called today--because the people responsible for Quantum Leap got them right. I can think of no better way of giving today's young students an accurate picture of what America was like in the latter half of the 20th Century.
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