Me too😢❤

Well it was only discovered in 2019 so you did okay

@@rosshurst5630 a few diehard fans had been hanging onto it for decades.

As Sam now has free will to leap anywhere, anytime, and with Al leaping (at least once), Season 6 would have turned the entire show on its head. It could have been very different. I would have loved to have seen it.

i have imagined season six as a more complex one, now Sam can return, and does often, to his own time at will and his motivations for helping people are different, I imagined more from the Evil Leapers, like discovering their origins and motivations and even a fight between Ziggy and Lothos, and at some point holograms are able to see each other and exchange insults, and maybe Sam is able to overcome that thing that prevents time travel from within one's own lifetime, and even some other kinds of time travellers with different technologies like homages and spoofs of Doctor Who and Back to the Future

@@Panchosama2 Donald Bellesario has stated in a different video here on KZfaq that the Evil Leapers weren't his favorite and that he considered that mini-arc closed when it completed so I'm assuming that they most likely would not have been in Season 6.

@@solracer66 I don't have the article in front of me, but decades ago, I read a Star Trek fan magazine interview with Carolyn Seymour, the actress who played Zoey, the evil equivalent of Al (she had also played a Romulan on Star Trek: The Next Generation); in that interview, she hinted at plans for Zoey's return, had Quantum Leap been renewed for a sixth season. So, perhaps that story wasn't done; even if Alia, the (formerly evil) Leaper, was now free from her handlers, it seems unlikely (to me) that an evil time project would just shut down and stop violating history, when they could just recruit someone else to replace Alia. It might also be a chance to explore the corrupting influences of malevolent time travel; after all, if Sam's influence on *real* history saved Jackie Kennedy in Dallas, and let Marilyn Monroe survive to 1962, which actual historical horrors might've been caused by time travelers with dark plans? Helter Skelter? The Oklahoma City attack? Chernobyl?

I like Quantum Leap too I'm Polish, here in Poland we watched iconic British TV show about time travel, you know which one ;-) The Doctor Who and I liked it too ☺️

And maybe one of Al’s daughters could help like Al helped Sam

@@brittanyscott9994 Sam's daughter had a sex change and is the new leaper in the reboot airing now. Sadly, that's a bad joke.

@@petemills2501 seriously why??!!

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completely disagree

@Zephyr Stobart This ending would have made zero sense. The entire series is based off the principles of String Theory. By saving Al's marriage in 1967, Sam ensured they would never meet in the 1980s during the Starbright Project. Al's life as established on the show- the compulsive behavior, the womanizing, the 3 failed marriages, the alchohol abuse, the gambling, the issues with authority in the military- would have never occured. Al's life would have taken a completely different path and he and Sam would have never met. By saving Al's marriage Sam condemned himself to leaping for eternity

@Zephyr Stobart I'm sure thats how the show producers would have tried to explain it, but that is weak and does not follow the principles of String Theory, or the principles established as the foundation of the entire show. When Sam changes "X event", there is a domino effect and history is changed forever. By saving a kid's life in 1954, cancer is cured in 2010. By making a Klansman see the folly of his ways in 1964, he saves the life of a black child that goes on to be a Civil Rights leader, etc. By saving Al's marriage in 1967, Al becomes an entirely different person and Sam and Al never meet in 1984.

Yeah. And they didn’t even spell Beckett right.

What was so disappointing is the lightning strike that switched Sam and Al was a great setup for the next season, then they did almost nothing with it, returning Al to his shallow life with Tina. Even if they alternated leaps that would have been something.

A lot of fans believe this. And it's definitely bolstered by us having an episode with an angel. Between the Bartender, Vampires, a murderous Mummy, and the Devil, Quantum Leap was never just a sci-fi show. In fact, they took every opportunity to subvert our expectations of the science.

Just pretend the end card saying he never returned home is not there.

Just because real life doesn't neatly resolve everything doesn't mean that fiction has to do the same.

I think they’re rebooting it and having a girl as the main character and the actor who played Al is dead so

Agreed. I like the fact that the ending wasn't tied up into a pretty bow with a happy ending. I also like, as you say, Sam sacrficed his life for Al's happiness. By going back he changed the entire trajectory of Al's life, and thus prevented Sam and Al from ever meeting, keeping Sam in limbo eternally

@@scottlindsey8313 Right! and it was a great call back to original episode where Sam opted out of telling Al's wife he was still alive. I remember how emotional that ep was, how upset Al was when same said he wasn't going to do it. The dance Al had with his wife trying to tell her not to give up on him he was alive. The Al character went from woman to woman because he only loved his wife, so you know it was going to be a life changing thing for Al when he got his wife and they had children, it was bitter sweet for all Quantum Leap Fans that knew Al and Sam.

@@KaijudoMaster11 Yes, the entire trajectory of his life would have been changed in 1969. The compulsive behavior implied throughout the series- the womanizing, the boozing, the gambling, the negative interactions with authority which stunted his military career- would have never occured, thus, he would have never participated in the Starbright Project in the mid 1980s and never met Sam. Sam, in effect, doomed himself to eternal purgatory, one which, according to God in the final episode, was going to get even more difficult

@@scottlindsey8313 The original Mirror Image ending crushed my soul because I took it as not only did Sam and Al never meet, but Sam left his wife Donna and daughter Sammy Jo at the Project and never bothered to go see them, even though he now had the free will to do so. Don Bellisario later said that Sam and Al still met and Al still became part of PQL, but just this 60 second scene would have made that clear and still left a LOT of questions open and a lot of mystery (and probably left the door open for a movie or continuation) without being the cruel punch in the face of the original. That "Dr. Sam Becket [sic.] never returned home." slammed the door on any sequel or continuation.

@Marty McFly II Correct. Guess she was too big a star or too busy to reprise her role for The Leap Back.

Because if they left this ending in, it would've left an open ending to the series, I guess NBC wanted the audience to know that the series was done and not coming back.

@@10mtproductions55 hello, I could have the scipt of the scene in question in full to better understand please Thank you!

@@boss324100 I don't have a script, but I remember seeing it online so you should be to find it.

The script is on Al's Place Quantum Leap website.

10MT Productions originally I think if there was a season 6 al was supposed to “leap” after Sam. But since it was cancelled they went with the original ending.

This is at least a 3rd generation copy of a VHS dub of the original master. It's the real scene taken from the original film recording, otherwise it wouldn't have the color cards and would be from a different angle, taken from a handheld video camera. It's just been through so many generations of loss that this is the shape it's in now. Also it's amazing what music, sound effects by a foley artist, and removal of environmental sounds (the clapper, rustling of fabric, breathing, and other noises which would be removed during the post-production process) does to turn an average visual recording into broadcast quality material. The use of microphones suggests that it was not a rehearsal. This has been confirmed as real by a superfan who owns a much better copy of the footage -- and who expressed *disappointment* that the footage was now out in the open in 2020.The QL fandom has a pronounced inner / outer circle dynamic I've never fully grasped despite being a fan since the show was new.

@Marty McFly II No because it wasn't used in the final episode. It's like a deleted scene. If you watch DVDs of movies and TV shows with deleted scenes they often don't have music or effects.

@@feldon27 I hate elitist fans like that! "Fans" like him are probably the reason why some lost media (like the early episodes of Doctor Who) stay missing for so long; they hoard them because they think stuff like that is only for them and not plebians like us...😑

Turn on subtitles.

I think this ending would have increased the chances of the show continuing or getting a followup movie. Putting "Dr. Becket (sic.) never returned home." slammed the door on a continuation.

@@feldon27 Have you watched the 2022 incarnation?🤔🙄🤗📺

@@SuperMarioBrosIII I have. It's fine.

Nope, they're completely unrelated shows.

AL is a hologram. So they could use a 3D holographic projection with audio and video deep fakes. AL could be a virtual human actor. Not sure if that would be a first for Hollywood.

@@chamcham123 I think they did something like in the 8th Star Wars movie Carrie Fisher died and they used cgi or something for her to be in it I’m not exactly sure how they did it but I’m pretty sure she was somehow in the movie

We didn't see the whole conversation of how Sam convinced Beth(?) that Al was alive. Maybe he also told her that Al was his best friend and needed to be part of the Quantum Leap project when the time came.

@@sandal_thong8631 that makes sense I mean how else would Al know anything about quantum leap if he wasn’t told about it

It first appeared on Reddit in 2019. I cleaned it up and added subtitles.

@@feldon27 Thank you for finding this...and THANK YOU for the SUBTITLES !!!!

Susan Diol played Beth in M.I.A. and Mirror Image. In an interview on the Quantum Leap Podcast, she recalls shooting this scene.

@@feldon27 True she does look different? I know it is Susan Diol and this is suppose to the the future timeline so of course she wouldn't look the same as she did when Sam told her Al is coming home!

Complaining about something found for free online..?? ... OK.😊

Turn on subtitles.

@@twhmmh Yes. I am. My time isn't free. This is time that could have been spent ruining someone's day.