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DVD Quantum Leap - The Complete First Season
They'll be dancing (well, leaping maybe) in the streets now that the first season of Quantum Leap, voted one of the 25 best cult series ever by TV Guide, has come to home video, a decade after its final year (1994) on the air (the pilot episode was released on DVD in '98). And why shouldn't they? This is a show, called "an imaginative diversion" by one critic, with a good premise that's cleverly and skillfully conceived, written, acted, and produced--ample evidence of which is spread out over three discs, each containing three episodes (plus some fairly meager extras) from the first season.
Scott Bakula, in the role that made him a star, plays Sam Beckett, a scientist who's part of a time-travel experiment that "went a little... ka-ka." Unable to return to his own time, and aided only by Al (Dean Stockwell, whose rapport with Bakula is one of the series' most appealing elements), his cigar-smoking, peculiar-dressing, sex-obsessed, holographic "enabler," Sam "leaps" unpredictably from one time period and person to another, usually completely out of his element (as a pilot, a boxer, a cowboy, an English lit professor, even an elderly black man in segregated '50s Alabama) and always in a situation that needs to be "made right" before he can leap onward. Generous helpings of humor, drama, physical action, and sentimentality (this is TV, after all) keep things moving, as do references to many other classic films and genres (Driving Miss Daisy in "The Color of Truth," Casablanca in "Play it Again, Seymour," boxing in general in "The Right Hand of God") and what creator Donald Bellisario calls the occasional "kiss with history" (Sam crosses paths with the young Buddy Holly and Michael Jackson, among others). It doesn't all work, as Quantum Leap occasionally becomes too cute and facile for its own good. But that and the set's paucity of bonus material (limited to one passable featurette and brief episode intros by Bakula) are the only real shortcomings of a boxed set that will likely earn multiple spins in the DVD player. --Sam Graham
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A Great Series
I took the advice of many reviewers before me and so I have bought Season 1 to 3 from Amazon.uk. It was well worth it to have the original music! (I had made the same mistake with my "21 Jumpstreet" series. Now I have to find out from someone if the music from that series is complete in the UK version too!) I had forgotten many of the storylines, and found myself enjoying each episode as if for the first time. I was impressed at how Scott Bakula's handling of his "leaps" seems so real, that I found myself laughing out loud or acutely embarrassed along with him. Such a good thing to have new audiences appreciate the show again now.
I'm a Leaper!
I love Quantum Leap, but I do feel that Season 1 got off to a shaky start. Still, the rest of the series built on what was established in Season 1.
I give this four stars, which is still good! Seasons three through five, I would give five stars. It was a terrible shame they canceled Quantum Leap after the strong fifth season.
Season One is where the writers got their footing in creating an ultimately fantastic show.
Timeless
I love Quantum Leap!! It's so exciting to be able to enjoy shows of the past. I was hoping to share it with my 8 year old son, who is very much into science and science fiction, but after previewing it, I quickly changed my mind. It is not for children his age. Too many adult situations. Al constantly talks about his love life and being with women. And the morals are tailored to adults, as well. I still love it like I did when I was young, but I was a teenager when I first started watching it. So, my advice, hold off for awhile if you think this is family entertainment. I backed out after the first episode.
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i liked watching the show on tv. without the original music. it's not the same. i can understand why it is on tv episodes and not dvd. it's yours to own. on television it is not and no way does music companys want to give you free music. even in whole or part. so i got to miss this dvd for that reason. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Scott Bakula DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I LOVE THE SHOW. YOU ALWAYS WONDER WERE HE WOULD END UP NEXT. BUT WHAT WAS HE TRYING TO DO OR WHAT WAS HIS MOTIVE FROM GOING FROM PLACE TO PLACE. NEVER SEEN ALL EPISODES. NOW THE REASON WHY I GAVE IT 3 STARS. THE ORIGINAL MUSIC HAS BEEN DELETED FOR GENERIC MUSIC IN EVERY EPISODE. MAKING BUYERS BACK OFF. IF NOTHING IS ORIGINAL. THAN I WONT BUY. EVEN THOUGH I LOVE THIS SHOW. IT SPOILS THE MOOD. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Scott Bakula DVD Release Date: Released the 10 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Though often and unfairly dismissed as a Quantum Leap clone, the Fox TV series Sliders earned a substantial fan base thanks to its intriguing central premise--the existence of multiple alternate realities--and impressive special effects, both of which get a fine showcase in this six-disc DVD set. Jerry O'Connell leads the appealing cast as a college student who accidentally discovers a portal into alternate dimensions; with the help of his professor (Lord of the Rings' John Rhys-Davies), a spunky Girl Friday (Sabrina Lloyd), and a soul crooner (Cleavant Derricks), O'Connell encounters a host of strange parallel Earths, including a British-ruled United States and one where dinosaurs roam a national park. All nine episodes of the 1995 debut season and the 12-episode... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jerry O'Connell DVD Release Date: Released the 03 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Like James Bond--but without the high-tech gadgets--Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is one of those rare beings who can avert any crisis without mussing a hair. (The rest of us should be so lucky.) In the pilot alone, the secret agent dismantles a missile using a paper clip and fashions a rocket thruster out of a pistol. Is there anything MacGyver can't do? As the first season of ABC's long-running adventure series proves, the answer is a resounding no. MacGyver's secret: the everyday items he "finds along the way," like matches or gum wrappers, and the ingenuity to put them to a myriad of uses (a background in physics and chemistry doesn't hurt). Unlike Alias' Sidney Bristow, he isn't a multi-linguist, a martial artist, or a master of disguises. Wits are MacGyver's weapon... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Richard Dean Anderson - Michael Vejar - Michael Caffey - Lee David Zlotoff - James L. Conway DVD Release Date: Released the 25 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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