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Quantum Leap Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 2022 - 2023
Episode 1
July 13th, 1985
Mon, Sep 19, 202242 mins
Physicist Ben Song goes into the quantum leap accelerator... and vanishes. He appears in another man's body in 1985 Philadelphia and finds himself in the middle of a robbery and a high-speed car chase. His only companion is a hologram from his own time, Addison, whom Ben can't remember because of amnesia induced by the leap.
Episode 2
Atlantis
Mon, Sep 26, 2022
Ben leaps into the body of an astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on March 7, 1998, and tries to avert a disaster. In the present, Addison finds a flash drive that may hold the key to Ben's secret, and Magic and Jenn track down Janis Calavicci.
Episode 3
Somebody Up There Likes Ben
Mon, Oct 3, 2022
Ben leaps to flashy 1970s Las Vegas and into the body of promising young boxer Danny Hill on the eve of a big title fight. Ben and Addison discover that everything is on the line and must help Danny and his trainer/brother Daryl win the fight or lose everything. Magic, Ian, and Jenn dig into Ben's past to uncover the truth.
Episode 4
A Decent Proposal
Mon, Oct 10, 2022
Ben jumps into the body of a female bounty hunter in 1981, and tries to untangle her relationship with her partner Jake, whom he's unwittingly endangered, and help bring in their current bounty, a woman on the run named Tammy Jean Jessup, who has a secret or two of her own.
Episode 5
Salvation or Bust
Mon, Oct 17, 2022
Ben is transported back to 1879 and the rustic, frontier town of Salvation, where he must take on a deadly outlaw. Magic, Jenn, and Ian face a new threat when a curious senator shows up at headquarters asking a lot of questions about the Quantum Leap program.
Episode 6
What a Disaster!
Mon, Oct 24, 2022
Ben jumps into a man in 1989 San Francisco, and has to deal with the man's wife threatening divorce, his son gone AWOL, and the San Francisco earthquake, all happening on the same day. Along the way, Ben is plagued with memories of the time he disappointed his own mother and ran away.
Episode 7
O Ye of Little Faith
Mon, Oct 31, 2022
Ben leaps into the body of a post-Depression era priest, who has been called on to perform an exorcism on a young girl who has apparently been possessed by a demon on Halloween night. Now, Ben must decide whether to rely on his belief in science, or choose to believe in the supernatural.
Episode 8
Stand by Ben
Mon, Nov 7, 2022
Ben leaps into the body of a 16-year-old boy and finds himself among a group of outcast teens on the run. Ben relies on determination to try and guide himself and Addison to safety, all leading to a shocking revelation as a significant piece of his memory returns.
Episode 9
Fellow Travelers
Mon, Jan 2, 2023
Ben Leaps into the bodyguard of a pop singer in 1979, and tries to keep her safe from an unknown killer while helping to reunite her with her sister, a former junkie who may be the killer. Meanwhile, Jenn tracks Janis down to Belize and confronts the latter about why she's helping Ben.
Episode 10
Paging Dr. Song
Mon, Jan 9, 2023
Ben leaps into a doctor in 1994 Seattle and is tasked with saving the lives of three patients. To do so he has to reunite a daughter with her father, convince a husband to accept his wife's brain-dead status, and stop an arrogant doctor from using a drug that will endanger his patient's life. Meanwhile, a captive Janis demands to speak to the one person who can understand her.
Episode 11
Leap. Die. Repeat.
Mon, Jan 30, 2023
When Ben leaps into one of five people in an elevator at a 1962 nuclear reactor, he must figure which one triggers a bomb that kills them all. Each time the bomb goes off, he leaps into another one of them and the scene resets on a fine loop. If the loop runs out, Ben dies for good.
Episode 12
Let Them Play
Mon, Feb 6, 2023
Ben finds himself in 2012 in the midst of the Mendéz family as they help their transgender daughter, Gia, who dreams of playing on her high school basketball team. Magic and Jenn discover another piece of the puzzle of why Ben leapt in the first place.
Episode 13
Family Style
Mon, Feb 27, 2023
When Ben leaps into an Indian family to try and prevent their beloved family restaurant from burning down, he finds an emotional connection with their matriarch through memories of his own. Magic and Jenn share a surprising revelation with Ian.
Episode 14
S.O.S.
Mon, Mar 6, 2023
Ben Leaps into a US naval commander who is faced with an unstable captain posed to start World War III... and Addison's father, who in the original timeline was court martialed for setting off the whole thing. Addison has to watch as her father goes through the entire thing.
Episode 15
Ben Song for the Defense
Mon, Mar 13, 2023
Ben Leaps into a harried public defender trying to prove one client innocent when everyone else believes he's guilty, as well as juggle dozens of other case as well as a romantic relationship inadvertently threatened by a corrupt ADA. Jenn is called in as Observer because of her knowledge of the legal system.
Episode 16
Ben, Interrupted
Mon, Mar 20, 2023
Ben jumps into a PI in the 1950s, hired to get into an insane asylum posing as a patient and get a woman out whose sister believes she was falsely committed by her husband. Meanwhile, Magic turns to Janis for help, and she tells him who the mole at the Project is.
Episode 17
The Friendly Skies
Mon, Mar 27, 2023
When Ben leaps aboard a 1970's passenger jet as a flight attendant, he must outwit its hijackers before it mysteriously crashes into the Atlantic. Worse? He has to do it all without Ziggy's help.
Episode 18
Judgment Day
Mon, Apr 3, 2023
Ben leaps into 2018, into his past self, and tries to make sure his and Addison's first date goes the way destiny intended for it to go. Meanwhile, Leaper X tries to kill Addison, and Ben has to make sure that he fails and still preserve the timeline.
