"1992 season opener for the TV series ""Quantum Leap"", finds Sam Beckett leaping into Oswald's body. At a critical moment, Al Calavicci prompts him to leap into Secret Service Agent Clint Hill. Hill attempts to reach the President's car before the shots are fired, but he fails to prevent Kennedy's death. Calavicci later reveals that he and Beckett have saved one life – that of Jackie Kennedy, whom Oswald had killed along with the President in the original timeline. This episode was written by series creator Donald P. Bellisario, in response to the Oliver Stone film ""JFK"". Bellisario (who served"
"the TV Guide panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International, Scott Bakula said that Bellisario was working on a script for a projected ""Quantum Leap"" feature film. In October 2017, Bellisario confirmed at the L.A. Comic Con that he has finished a script for a feature film. Quantum Leap Quantum Leap is an American science-fiction television series that originally aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 1989 through May 1993. Created by Donald P. Bellisario, it starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who leaps through spacetime during an experiment in time travel, by temporarily taking"
"originally aired on March 14, 1990. The episode won an Outstanding Cinematography Emmy Award. It is September 4, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, and Sam Beckett has ""leaped"" into the body of pool hustler Charlie ""Black Magic"" Walters, a former mentor of Al Calavicci. Magic's granddaughter, Violet, has borrowed money from a loan shark to convert an old pool hall into a blues nightclub. Unfortunately, disreputable pool hustler Eddie Davies has purchased the note for Violet's loan from the loan shark and is using it to goad Magic into a series of games of pool, threatening to take over the nightclub"
"herself most at home working in the emergency room. She generally assisted others in projects until George was removed from the show, and then she took on a larger role as medical caregiver. Amy West, ""The Marine Scientist,"" is a 34-year-old marine biologist. Amy is certified in providing CPR and other medical assistance. She is believed to have been interested in marine biology while she was a child vacationing in the Caribbean. She and Allison kept tabs on the food supply and how they related to the colonists' health. She also participated in the manual labor. George Fallieras, ""The Doctor,"""
"held the rank of Commander in the United States Navy and was the Captain of the ""Arleigh Burke""-class guided missile destroyer USS ""Nathan James"" (DDG-151). That year, he and his crew took on paleomicrobiologists Dr. Rachel Scott (Rhona Mitra) and Dr. Quincy Tophet (Sam Spruell) as the ""Nathan James"" conducted operations at the Arctic. However, their mission, unknown to even them, was just a cover for Drs. Scott and Tophet, who were actually collecting samples of a deadly virus that has infected 80 percent of the human population while they have been at sea. The first season revolves around finding"
"films as ""Paris, Texas"" (1984), ""To Live and Die in L.A."" (1985), ""Blue Velvet"" (1986), ""Beverly Hills Cop II"" (1987), ""The Player"" (1992), and ""Air Force One"" (1997). He earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Married to the Mob"" (1988). His television roles include playing Rear Admiral Albert ""Al"" Calavicci in ""Quantum Leap"" (1989–1993) and Brother Cavil in the Sci Fi Channel revival of ""Battlestar Galactica"" (2004–2009). Following his roles on ""Quantum Leap"" and ""Battlestar Galactica"", Stockwell appeared at numerous science fiction conventions. Stockwell was born in North Hollywood, California, but was grew"
"Over My Dead Body (TV series) Over My Dead Body is a detective drama which was aired in the United States on the CBS television network as part of its 1990 fall lineup on Friday night at 9:00 p.m Eastern time. ""Over My Dead Body"" stars Edward Woodward as Maxwell Beckett, an aging mystery novelist whose three successful early novels were starting to be overshadowed by the reputation his two most recent works had developed as being ""bombs."" He was approached by young, struggling reporter Nikki Page (Jessica Lundy) who wrote for ""the San Francisco Union"", and who came to"
"team of analysts have the most advanced surveillance technology in their hand. Captain Adam Dalton (Mike Vogel), a former Delta Force operator, communications director for the team, he has the mission of finding an American doctor who was kidnapped and must make the mission safe and sound. Thus, his highly qualified squad must save innocent people's lives and face the most dangerous missions in the world. NBC ordered the pilot to series on May 4, 2017 together with ""Rise"", making both series the first regular series orders for the 2017–18 United States network television schedule. In May 2017 NBC announced"
"ethics and asks the Doctor why he is associated with them; the Doctor ambiguously replies he used to work for them in the ""70s or 80s."" ATMOS is marketing a satellite navigation system developed by young prodigy Luke Rattigan (Ryan Sampson). The system also reduces carbon dioxide emissions to zero; UNIT requested the Doctor's help because the technology is not contemporary and might be alien. UNIT are also concerned about fifty-two simultaneous deaths occurring spontaneously several days earlier. Whilst everyone else is studying the technology at the plant, Donna goes through the personnel offices and discovers there are no recorded"
"June 1991. Over My Dead Body (TV series) Over My Dead Body is a detective drama which was aired in the United States on the CBS television network as part of its 1990 fall lineup on Friday night at 9:00 p.m Eastern time. ""Over My Dead Body"" stars Edward Woodward as Maxwell Beckett, an aging mystery novelist whose three successful early novels were starting to be overshadowed by the reputation his two most recent works had developed as being ""bombs."" He was approached by young, struggling reporter Nikki Page (Jessica Lundy) who wrote for ""the San Francisco Union"", and who"
"program has been revived in 1984, unexpectedly interacting with the experiment in 1943 and putting the entire world in danger. In 1943 United States Navy sailors David Herdeg (Michael Paré) and Jim Parker (Bobby Di Cicco) are assigned to the destroyer escort USS ""Eldridge"" during a project to make it invisible to radar. The ship is in Philadelphia Harbor, filled with equipment from a team led by James Longstreet (Eric Christmas). During the experiment the equipment begins malfunctioning. Observers simply see the ship disappear but sailors on board experience a bizarre and disorienting phase shift. David and Jim try to"
"Quinn Burchenal (Tom Sizemore), a geneticist; Bud Chantilas (Terence Stamp), an aging philosophical scientist and surgeon; systems engineer Robby Gallagher (Val Kilmer); commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss); pilot Ted Santen (Benjamin Bratt); and terraforming scientist Chip Pettengill (Simon Baker). When ""Mars-1"" is damaged in arrival by a Gamma-ray burst, Bowman remains aboard for repair while the others land to locate an automated habitat (HAB 1) established earlier to manufacture food and oxygen. During insertion, the team's landing craft is damaged and lands off-course. In the aftermath, ""AMEE"" (Autonomous Mapping Exploration and Evasion)—a military robot programmed to guide them—is lost, and"
"Sam's family was dealt a hard blow when his older brother, Tom, was killed in Vietnam on April 8, 1970, but Sam leaps into his brother's unit and saves him on that day. Tom (Thomas Andrew Beckett) was a good athlete, an All-State basketball player, an Annapolis graduate, is a Navy SEAL Commander, and has a wife named Mary. Sam has one sister named Katie (Katherine Elizabeth Beckett), born during a flood in 1957, whose first husband was an abusive alcoholic named Chuck. They divorced and she is now married to Navy officer Lt. Jim Bonnick. They have lived in"
"Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, singer and director best known for his lead roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on ""Quantum Leap"" (for which he received four Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award), and as Captain Jonathan Archer on """". Bakula starred on the comedy-drama series ""Men of a Certain Age"", and guest-starred in seasons two and three of NBC's ""Chuck"" as the title character's father Stephen J. Bartowski. From 2014 to 2015, he played entrepreneur Lynn in the only two seasons of the HBO show"
"Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, singer and director best known for his lead roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on ""Quantum Leap"" (for which he received four Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award), and as Captain Jonathan Archer on """". Bakula starred on the comedy-drama series ""Men of a Certain Age"", and guest-starred in seasons two and three of NBC's ""Chuck"" as the title character's father Stephen J. Bartowski. From 2014 to 2015, he played entrepreneur Lynn in the only two seasons of the HBO show"
"21, 1994.. Repeat episodes continued on the channel at various times until December 28, 1999 . It has since aired several times on satellite and cable television, rerunning late at night on television channel Cozi TV. On June 16, 2016, Scott Bakula made a brief reprise of his role as Sam Beckett on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert makes reference to an episode where Sam Beckett has leapt into the body of a 1950s New York cab driver, whose comment about investing in New York real estate is heard by a young Donald Trump. Using a handset"
"The ""Seaview"" is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret) (Walter Pidgeon). Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is the ""Seaview's"" Commanding Officer. One of the on-board observers is Dr. Susan Hiller (Joan Fontaine), studying crew-related stress. The mission includes being out of radio contact for 96 hours while under the Arctic ice cap, but the ice begins to crack and melt, with boulder-size pieces crashing into the ocean around the submarine. Surfacing, they discover fire burning in the sky. After the rescue of scientist Miguel Alvarez (Michael Ansara) and his dog at Ice Floe Delta,"
"directed by Stewart Raffill. Though only loosely based on the prior accounts of the ""Experiment"", it served to dramatize the core elements of the original story. In 1990, Alfred Bielek, a self-proclaimed former crew-member of USS ""Eldridge"" and an alleged participant in the Experiment, supported the version as it was portrayed in the film. He added details of his claims through the Internet, some of which were picked up by mainstream news outlets. The experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of some unified field theory, a term coined by Albert Einstein to describe a class of potential theories; such"
"Pool Hall Blues ""Pool Hall Blues"" is a 1990 episode of the American science fiction television series ""Quantum Leap"". Lead character Sam Beckett ""leaps"" (travels through time) into the body of an African American man in 1954: Charlie ""Black Magic"" Walters, one of the (fictional) greatest pool players in America, and a childhood mentor of supporting character Al. Beckett as Walters must help Walters's granddaughter keep her Chicago nightclub and rescue it from under the corrupting influence of a criminal loan shark. The episode, the 18th of season 2, was written by Randy Holland and directed by Joe Napolitano. It"
"a prime-time television series for NBC Television. The pilot film was released to cinemas on March 30, 1979. Good box office returns led NBC to commission a full series, which started in September 1979. Glen A. Larson produced the film and the first season of the eventual series. The series starred Gil Gerard as Captain William ""Buck"" Rogers, a United States Air Force and NASA pilot who commands ""Ranger III"", a space shuttle-like ship that is launched in 1987. When his ship flies through a space phenomenon containing a combination of gases, his ship's life support systems malfunction and he"
"Carson Beckett Dr. Carson Beckett is a fictional Scottish character in the Canadian-American science fiction television series ""Stargate Atlantis"", a spin-off series of ""Stargate SG-1"". He is portrayed by Scottish-born Canadian actor Paul McGillion, who previously played Dr. Ernest Littlefield in the first season of ""SG-1"". The character's Scottish nationality was only decided after McGillion's audition. Dr. Beckett's character arc begins in the pilot episode ""Rising"". He is the discoverer and a carrier of the fictional Ancient Technology Activation gene, which allows humans to interact with specialized Ancient technology such as the Atlantis base. His medical expertise and his history"
"a break during her pregnancy. Each second segment is a standalone exploration of one of the scientific principles touched on in the serialized tale. In these segments, an actor (Ben Affleck, Mark Graham, or Mary Tanner) portraying a young person comes out of character and interviews a real, in many cases well-known, scientist about his or her work. These scientists include oceanographer Sylvia Earle, geologist Kim Kastens, zoologist Katharine Payne, Greg Watson of the New Alchemy Institute, and physicist Ted Taylor. In addition, Judy Pratt, a deaf student at Gallaudet University, and Peter Marston, a scientist at M.I.T., come out"
"work of Michael W. Watkins in the episode. Pool Hall Blues ""Pool Hall Blues"" is a 1990 episode of the American science fiction television series ""Quantum Leap"". Lead character Sam Beckett ""leaps"" (travels through time) into the body of an African American man in 1954: Charlie ""Black Magic"" Walters, one of the (fictional) greatest pool players in America, and a childhood mentor of supporting character Al. Beckett as Walters must help Walters's granddaughter keep her Chicago nightclub and rescue it from under the corrupting influence of a criminal loan shark. The episode, the 18th of season 2, was written by"
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American police television sitcom that premiered on Fox on September 17, 2013. Created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, the series revolves around Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), an immature but talented NYPD detective in Brooklyn's 99th Precinct, who comes into conflict with his new commanding officer, the serious and stern Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher). The ensemble and supporting cast feature Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa Diaz, Terry Crews as Terry Jeffords, Melissa Fumero as Amy Santiago, Joe Lo Truglio as Charles Boyle, Chelsea Peretti as Gina Linetti, Dirk Blocker as Michael Hitchcock and Joel"
"Good Night, Dear Heart ""Good Night, Dear Heart"" is a 1990 episode of the American science fiction television series ""Quantum Leap"". Lead character Sam Beckett ""leaps"" (travels through time) to 1957, into the body of a mortician investigating the death of a young German immigrant woman. What at first appears to be a suicide by drowning turns out to be foul play. The episode, the 17th of season 2, was written by Paul Brown and directed by Christopher T. Welch. It aired originally on March 7, 1990. Paul Brown won an Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series"
"starring in 90-minute whodunits as a wealthy Boston playboy who solves thefts for insurance companies for a finder's fee. Sixteen regular episodes were produced over two seasons. Both have been released on DVD along with the pilot episode. He also delivered one of his most critically acclaimed, though rarely seen, performances in the TV movie ""Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case"" (1975), as Sam Sheppard. Peppard appeared in the short-lived (half a season) ""Doctors' Hospital"" (1975) and several other television films. He starred in the 1977 science-fiction film ""Damnation Alley"", which has gone on to attain a substantial"
"Dr. Wilhelm Brücke, a high-ranking Nazi officer, Philip Alexander as Captain James Beal, British officer stationed in Egypt., and Shvan Aladdin as Wasif, a native Egyptian and a lieutenant in the British army. ""Stargate Infinity"" is an American animated science fiction television series created by Eric Lewald and Michael Maliani as a spin-off from its sister show, ""Stargate SG-1"". The story arc in ""Infinity"" is set 30 years into the future and follows Gus Bonner and his team. Bonner's team was created after he was framed for a crime he did not commit. He escaped from Stargate Command (SGC) after"
"explore the dynamic relationship of a gay character in a science fiction setting, as well as to explore the issue of homosexuality on a social level. In 2012, he guest-starred in the second season of the Jane Espenson scripted romantic comedy web series, ""Husbands"". Sasha Roiz Sasha Roiz (born October 21, 1973) is a Canadian-Israeli actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Sam Adama in the science fiction television series ""Caprica"" and Captain Sean Renard in the American dark fantasy television series ""Grimm"". Roiz was born in Tel Aviv to Russian Jewish parents. The family moved to Montreal"
"of radiation-mutated giant crabs that not only consumed the members of the first expedition, but absorbed their minds, and now plan to reproduce their kind in numbers. A group of scientists and their support crew of five sailors land on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. They are searching for a previous expedition that disappeared without a trace, and to continue their research on the effects of radiation from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests on the island's plant and sea life. The scientists on the expedition are led by Dr. Karl Weigand (Leslie Bradley), and also include geologist James"
"bait. Gunnery Sergeant Brandon Beckett is given yet another mission. Master Sergeant Brandon Beckett is given the ultimate mission. Sniper (film series) The ""Sniper"" series is a series of action and war films beginning with ""Sniper"" in 1993. All seven films feature the United States Armed Forces. The series portrays MGySgt. Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) and GySgt. Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins) in their service to the United States Marine Corps as Force Reconnaissance Scout Snipers. Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett, an experienced sniper, and Richard Miller are sent on a mission to assassinate a Panamanian General. Thomas Beckett and"
"'80s and '90s, thus making it the first TV sci-fi franchise. The series was set in the year 2500 AD and followed the adventures of the crew of the galactic patrol ship Phoenix Five, ""the most sophisticated craft in the Earth Space Control Fleet."" This handpicked team consisted of Captain Roke, a typical heroic Kirk-style commander with a solution to every problem; Ensign Adam Hargraves, his stalwart young second-in-command always ready to shoot first and skip the questions; compassionate young navigator Cadet Tina Kulbrick; and their clunky, glass-domed Computeroid robot Karl. Together they patrolled the outer galaxies defending the innocent"
"Roger Zelazny's ""Chronicles of Amber"". In 2013 Juliani played a minor role in ""Man of Steel"" as Officer Sekowsky. From 2014 to 2017, Juliani had a recurring role as Sinclair, a member of the Ark crew on The CW science fiction series ""The 100"". Alessandro Juliani Alessandro Juliani (born July 6, 1975) is a Canadian actor and singer. He is notable for playing the roles of Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta on the Sci-Fi Channel television program ""Battlestar Galactica"", Emil Hamilton in ""Smallville"", Jacopo Sinclair on The CW series ""The 100"" and Dr.Cerebrus on Netflix series ""Chilling Adventures of Sabrina""."
"a protocol droid and library management system (Simon Fielding) and Akira Neo 'Rocket Girl', the ships engineer (Anna Singleton) in their mission to 'Save the world, one cartoon at a time' from the evil Dr. Poopanski - Poopants (James Hunt). Toonattik Toonattik was the flagship children's strand of the British breakfast television station, GMTV (known on-air as CITV at weekends), which ran from 5 February 2005 to December 2010. The strand aired on weekend mornings from 07:25 until GMTV's closedown at 09:25, featuring a selection of both British and imported cartoons, mainly from brands such as Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon"