Quantum Leap: Has it Really Been Twenty Years

                                              
TV Shows come and TV shows go, some are fun, entertaining, others are forgettable.  Many impact our lives whilst others hang around like, well, bad TV shows.  But every now and then you get a show which has everything.  Great stories, plots, comedy, drama, heartbreak and a superb cast to boot!

Quantum Leap was one such show.  Involving the premise of time travel, it wasn't really a sci-fi show in the usual sense of the word or genre.  More drama with some moving stories and fun too.  It was the brainchild of Donald P Bellisario, as if you didn't already know, who came up with a lot of my fave shows, like Magnum PI, JAG, NCIS, to name a few.

It found Dr Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaping into other peoples' lives as 'other people' and "putting right what once went wrong" for them.  Finding himself in all sorts of interesting situations and trouble, helped out by his best friend and observer, hologram Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell).  Scott and Dean really made the show what it was and it's a real shame that it has been twenty years since it ended in 1993 in the US and not much has been done to bring it back.  Maybe not for want of trying but people and networks wanting different things and other people cast, instead of the original leads, is really a remake, reboot, killer!  Seems we can never get back what we lost.  Perhaps a little ironic in the sense that just as Sam was forever leaping and never returned home, we won't get any type of closure either.

It really is so sad that there are conventions and so many forums on the web and the cast still talk fondly about the show and that so many letters, petitions from fans didn't really amount to anything.  Though the five series are available on DVD, to keep the memories alive, they don't really contain any extra features aside from the season 1 DVD.

I guess since so much time has passed we may not see anything resurface anytime soon which is disappointing for all concerned; that a a show of this calibre couldn't be brought back again even as a TV movie with the original leads of course.  Makes my heart break...

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