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* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' has several references to producer [[Donald P. Bellisario]]'s previous series, ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]'', including a character named "Gushie". "Ghost Ship" featured Captain Cutter, who was the main character in Tales of the Gold Monkey.
* Sam has leaped into nine women: a secretary, a divorced mother of three, a beauty pageant contestant, a pregnant teenager, a rape victim, a singer in a teenage girl group, a housewife during the women's movement, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and an inmate in a women's prison.
* Sam Beckett and show creator Donald P. Bellisario both share the same birthday of August 8.
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* The character 'Sam Beckett' was ranked #12 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends" (1 August 2004 issue).
* Season One's cliffhanger into Season Two was the teaser for "What Price Gloria?". The next season, three other episodes premiered before "What Price Gloria?" aired.
* There were several ideas for episodes which ultimately were never used. One had Sam leaping in as Robert F. Kennedy. Another idea would involve an animated episode. The producers even toyed with the idea of leaping Sam in as a baby. Also, Donald P. Bellisario wanted to do an episode where Sam leaps in as Thomas Magnum (from ''[[Magnum,
* Al's cigar was the idea of actor Dean Stockwell, who said it was "a good way to get free cigars for five years".
* Donald P. Bellisario's favorite of all his TV shows.
* Scott Bakula ad libbed the line "Oh boy!" at the end of an episode. The producer liked it so much that it became the signature final line of each episode, as Sam finds himself in a new body.
* Al's call-sign (pilot nickname) is "Bingo".
* Sam leaped outside his life a total of four times. Two of the leaps were explained. In "The Leap Back", Al and Sam traded places due to an accident, which allowed for leaping withing Al's life. "The Leap Between the States" revealed that Sam's great-grandfather had a very similar genetic profile and blood type. Two unexplained leaps before his life were "Play It Again, Seymour" (April 14, 1953) and "The Americanization of Machinko" (August 4, 1953), as the series finale revealed Sam's birth-date as August 8, 1953.
** However, both were after he had been conceived (which would have been at the end of 1952), so he did technically exist at that point.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: When Sam leaps into a college fratboy, the Dean whose office he and his friends regularly break into is called "Dean Stockwell".
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: In "Jimmy," [[Reservoir Dogs|Mr.]] [[Michael Madsen|Blonde]] got his start harassing retarded dockworkers before working his way up to cutting off cops' ears.▼
* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Scott Bakula directed several episodes.
** In "''Evil Leaper II: Return''", [[Neil Patrick Harris]] is a frat boy.▼
* [[Edited for Syndication]]:
** Following the pilot, episodes would open with a Sam voice-over and montage referring in some way to the previous leap. The series abandoned this convention roughly halfway through the second season -- likely in order to make it possible to air episodes out of sequence. When the series went into reruns, this trope kicked in -- with the stated openings being dropped. They were replaced with the familiar "...will be the leap home" opening narration and the "Oh, boy!" scenes.
** In the summer between the first and second seasons, NBC ran a one time only 90 minute re-cut version of the pilot featuring only the first leap and editing out the baseball leap.
** In reruns, the first three seasons always had the opening sequence made for Season 4.
▲* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: In "Jimmy
** Willie Garson appears twice in the series, so [[White Collar|Mozzie]] wrote detective novels in the 50s and shot JFK
** Sam leaps into (eventual) veteran voice actor [[Scott Menville]] in "The Camikazi Kid
** In "What Price, Gloria?", the mousey [[Nice Guy]] on the double date is [[Gregg Berger]] - aka [[Transformers Generation
** [[Teri Hatcher]] appeared as Donna, Sam's fiancee who jilted him at the alter (and who he actually married, having changed the timeline).
** And of course, [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Captain Archer]] and [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Brother Cavil/Number One]] are the main characters.
** In "Mirror Image
** A young [[Jennifer Aniston]] plays a hospital volunteer
** Diane Frost, the fugitive in the season three episode "A Hunting We Will Go", is [[Herman's Head|Hedy]]/[[Friends|Ross's ex-wife]].
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: In "Memphis Melody"<ref>[[The One With...|The One Where]] Sam leaps into [[Elvis]]</ref>, the female singer Sam has to help is played by a young [[Mary Elizabeth McGlynn]].
* [[Name's the Same]]:
* [[What Could Have Been]]: One of the episodes Donald Bellisario was planning for ''Quantum Leap'' before it was canceled was for Sam Beckett to leap into Thomas Magnum, thus merging the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' continuity with that of ''[[Magnum PI]]''.▼
** Commander Dirk Riker in "A Leap for Lisa".
** In the teaser for "What Price Gloria?", Sam is happy to find out he has leaped into someone also named Sam. He's less happy though, when he finds out its short for "Samantha".
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Sam's father was usually played by Scott Bakula, except in his first appearance where he's played by a different actor.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: One episode features Sam leaping into a younger Al. Al speaks to his younger self in 1999, with Dean Stockwell's voice dubbed over for the younger actor.
* [[Throw It In]]: When asked at a convention whether either of them improvised on-camera, Bakula replied "I think it's safer to ask does Dean ever say any of the lines that are in the script?"
▲* [[What Could Have Been]]: One of the episodes Donald Bellisario was planning for ''Quantum Leap'' before it was canceled was for Sam Beckett to leap into Thomas Magnum, thus merging the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' continuity with that of ''[[Magnum,
* [[Word of God]]: Bellisario stated that {{spoiler|despite Sam changing history to keep Al and Beth together, the Project would still exist and that Al would remain a crucial part of it}}.
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