World Famous Comics: Quantum Leap - The Complete Third Season
Quantum Leap - The Complete Third Season
Directed By: Chris Ruppenthal, John Cullum, Paul Brown (III), Bob Hulme, Stuart Margolin Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Universal Studios Number of Items: 3 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 10, 2005 Running Time: 1020 minutes Theatrical Release Date: March 26, 1989
THE MUSIC!! Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice... go to amazon.co.uk and order the British releases of these DVDs, if you have a player that will support them. They use the ORIGINAL music, not the stuff on the DVDs released in the U.S. Also, if you do the conversion, they cost the same if not less even with shipping. Please also do not order the British complete package, as you cannot play the final episode, according to several posters. Get each season separately. It adds up to about the same. I live in VA and it was only 12 GBP to ship all five seasons. Well worth it, if you want the series the way it was intended. My two cents...
leap home It is a fine retro product, I liked a lot the two "Leap Home" chapters, really cool, this is a great series.
Great viewing I used to watch this show all the time. I am glad that I got it so I can watch anytime.
Quantum Leap - Wish the series was back. What a great show and superb talent for this TV series. I only wish the series had lasted another 10 years or so.
Hope it keeps it up for the next two seasons Sometimes, TV shows start to lose their magic and their stride during certain seasons. Friends was always my favourite TV show, and that lost it during the third season. But that's the only one I can really comment on, unless I talk about Lois & Clark etc :)
This season starts off with the emotional The Leap Home part one and two. I'd previously seen them before, some random time they were put in, but I don't really connect with them at that point, because it was really my first introduction to Quantum Leap. But with seeing the first two seasons, and actually loving it, I was glad to revisit The Leap Home episodes. I'd stupidly asked when I first started the first season, does he ever leap back into himself? And I got my answer in the first two episodes of this season. He leaps into his sixteen-year-old self, with a dad who's spookily played by Scott Bakula too, who's about to die in a few years, and a brother who's away fighting the war in Vietnam. I did kinda hate this first episode, as Scott plays his own character AND his Dad, which was quite surreal to watch. Very creepy. The second episode, where he has to save his brother from dying was very weird, especially when one of the photos that is taken! I did actually have to rewind this point, to believe what I was actually seeing. Tia Carrere stars in this episode.
The rest of the episodes are quite good, and Sam leaps into different people, from a priest who meets the future Sylvester Stallone; to a magician; beauty pageant contestant; to a black man in love with a white girl; an aging motorcyclist (didn't like this episode); an eight and a half months pregnant girl (VERY interesting episode); to a man on Death row and many others.
Some of my favourite episodes included 8 & A Half Months, Private Dancer (which features the excellent deaf actress Rhondee Beriault) and a couple of others. Look out for Lauren Tom in Southern Comforts, you will recognise as playing Ross's girlfriend Julie in early episodes of Friends. ALSO look out for Jane Sibbett, who played Ross's ex wife Carole in Friends.
The last episode again is very emotional. Sam leaps into a patient at a mental hospital, with a sadistic nurse who gives him electro shock treatment, causing him to get his past leaps muddled and shows Scott's excellent ability to master accents. But it starts to affect his link with Al, who discovers he can also be seen by the other patients in the hospital, and makes up the Alphabet Song. Dean Stockwell rapping? Yes, it has to be seen to be believed! But just as I thought Quantum Leap was starting to get a tad repetitive - well, I won't spoil it for you, but the last scene ends series 3 on a totally different note, and should lead to some laughs in the next series.
Speaking of the songs, Scott gets to sing a song in this called "Somewhere In The Night", which although not on par with his version of "Imagine", is still excellent, and equally haunting.
A great season, and I can't wait to see the next series. Shame I've only got two more seasons to go, and I'm dying to find out what happens at the end, but I'll get there eventually.
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