GENESIS
Although the project isn't ready yet, Sam hops into the Accelerator and leaps.
As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot, Sam finds his memory patchy, with only
enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. Al explains that
the project has gone awry and that the only way Sam can leap out is by flying
the X-2 to Mach 3. Instead, Sam leaps after saving his wife and child, only to
find that rather than leaping home, he's leapt into Ken Fox, a minor league
baseball player in Texas, at the end of the 1968 season, where he must make the
winning play in order to leap.
STAR-CROSSED
As Dr. Gerald Bryant, a literature professor at the Ohio college attended by his
one-time fiancee, Sam has to prevent an amorous co-ed from attach- ing to him
and ruining her life. Despite threats to his job, Al gives Sam the information
he needs to reunite his star-crossed lover with her father and, maybe, give
himself a second shot at marriage.
THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
Having leaped into Kid Cody, a boxer on the take, Sam has to win the
championship to fund a new church for his trainers, a group of nuns. Sam must
face the bookie who counts on him to take a dive in the final bout, and, with
the help of several trainers, streaking, and Al's appearance in the ring to
guide his punches, Sam wins the bout and finances the chapel.
HOW THE TESS WAS WON
As a veterinarian in rural Texas, Sam's mission appears to be winning the love
of an heiress to a large ranch. Sabotaged by another suitor, Sam fails and finds
that his true goal was to save the life of a sick piglet, and to help an unnamed
cohort with a task he's performing.
DOUBLE IDENTITY
Though his goal as a mafia hitman named Frankie is unclear, Sam follows a list
of instructions, supplied by Ziggy in an effort to bring Sam back to the
Project. These instructions result in the Great East Coast Blackout and, rather
than leaping home, Sam finds himself in the life of the mafia don who's been
jealously preventing a romance between Frankie and the don's girlfriend. Sam
believes he knows his mission, and publicly announces Frankie's marriage to the
girlfriend, putting himself in a position to call a winning Bingo number.
THE COLOR OF TRUTH
In the life of Jesse Tyler, an aging black man, Sam must face discrimin- ation
in the South while trying to prevent the death of an elderly white woman.
Actions motivated by his own belief in equality cause violent reactions, as Sam
tries to convince one of the pillars of the community to change her views on
racism and the futility of trying to change a society for the better.
CAMIKAZI KID
As a high school nerd, Sam is required to prevent the marriage of his sister to
an abusive drinker, with the wedding only three days away. By drag racing the
prospective husband, beating him with a car that couldn't have won without
nitrous oxide, Sam shows the groom's true tendencies.
PLAY IT AGAIN, SEYMOUR
With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is Nic Allen, a private
investigator looking for the murderer of his partner and, if he doesn't find the
answer in time, himself. The case is solved with a number of Casablanca
references as Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.
HONEYMOON EXPRESS
As Tom McBride, a New York City cop on his honeymoon, Sam must save himself from
a jealous, and sociopathic, ex-husband. To make matters worse, the Project's
funding will be cut off, stranding Sam alone in the past, unless he can prevent
the U2 flight from being shot down over Russia.
DISCO INFERNO
As a stuntman, Sam is to save the life of his younger brother, while try- ing to
convince the pair's obsessive father to let the younger son go his own way, even
if it means going into country-western music, rather than following the family
tradition of stuntwork.
THE AMERICANIZATION OF MACHIKO
As a sailor returning from Japan, Sam brings a foreign wife to a small town. He
then has to fight against the prejudice of both a scheming ex- girlfriend, as
well as his mother, in order to gain acceptance of his new bride.
WHAT PRICE GLORIA?
Sam is shocked when he learns he's leaped into a woman, Samantha Stormer. As a
gorgeous secretary for an automobile company, Sam has to cope with sexual
harassment by the boss, a suicide attempt by a roommate, and the effect his
looks have on Al's lecherous tendencies.
BLIND FAITH
Although the concert pianist he leaps into is blind, a fact which bothers his
girlfriend's disapproving mother, Sam can still see. At least until an exploding
flashbulb blinds him at the crucial moment.
GOOD MORNING, PEORIA
Rock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as
DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's
employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.
THOU SHALT NOT...
Sam's task as a rabbi is to keep his sister-in-law from falling for a sleazy
author and ruining her life. In the process he also helps the family recover
from the year-old death of their son.
JIMMY
Since mainstreaming the mentally retarded is not yet a popular concept, Sam must
help Jimmy LaMotta, the "slow" young man he's leaped into, get a job and gain
his coworkers' acceptance, to prevent his brother from returning Jimmy to the
institution.
SO HELP ME GOD
Though he can't remember much more than habeas corpus, Sam finds himself the
defense attorney for a young black woman accused of murdering the son of the
most powerful man in a small Louisiana town.
CATCH A FALLING STAR
Sam leaps into, Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes just
seconds before curtain time.
A PORTRAIT FOR TROIAN
Sam leaps into a reknowned parapsychologist where he must prevent a young widow
from joining her husband at the bottom of a lake, while proving that she's not
crazy, despite her claims of hearing her dead husband calling to he
ANIMAL FRAT
Trapped in the body of Knut Wileton, better known as "Wild Thing", the typical
frat jock, Sam must win the confidence of an attractive campus radical before
she bombs the college's chemistry building as a protest against the war in
Vietnam
ANOTHER MOTHER
As a divorced mother of three, Sam's job of preventing his teenage son from
running away, never to be seen again, is made more interesting by the fact that
his youngest daughter can see both him and Al
ALL-AMERICANS
Keeping his best friend from throwing the high school championship foot-
ball game, costing both of them their scholarship offers, Sam must also get
their families to consolidate.
HER CHARM
Protecting a female member of the witness protection program from a mafia hitman
proves difficult for Sam, since the FBI appears to have an informant confounding
his attempts to hide her.
FREEDOM
Rather than saving his grandfather's life, Sam has to escape from jail and
elude the police long enough to get them both to the reservation, where the
old man can die in peace, at home.
GOOD NIGHT, DEAR HEART
Rather than saving the damsel of the episode, who supposedly committed
suicide, Sam is the coroner trying to prove that she was murdered, and find
out by whom.
POOL HALL BLUES
In order to help his granddaughter save a small bar from the slimy loan
shark holding a note on the place, Sam has to play pool like a pro...with a
little help from Al and Ziggy.
LEAPING IN WITHOUT A NET
Sam remembers he's afraid of heights when he leaps into a trapeze artist, whose
sister wants him to catch her as she does a triple without a net. Dad is less
than pleased, since his wife died a few years earlier while attempting the same
stunt.
MAYBE BABY
Babysitting a kidnapped tot and a flakey, compulsively lying stripper keeps
Sam busy as they cross Texas, on the run from the legal father and a squad
of cops.
SEA BRIDE
Aboard an ocean liner, Sam must stop the marriage of a young man's ex-wife to a
mobster. In the process, he finds himself in one heck of a mess in the ship's
garbage compartment.
M.I.A.
When Sam leaps into the life of an undercover cop, Al explains that his mission
is to convince a navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive, and to prevent
her from marrying a lawyer she meets on the day Sam leaps in. But a series of
coincidences causes Sam to wonder about the true nature of his mission.
THE LEAP HOME 1
As himself at the age of 16, Sam has the opportunity to both win the high
school basketball championship and save his family from their sad fates.
THE LEAP HOME 2
As a Navy SEAL in his own brother's squad, Sam must determine whether he is
there to save Tom's life or ensure the success of the mission on which his
brother was killed.
LEAP OF FAITH
Sam finds himself in one holy mess as a priest in Philadelphia, trying to
help an alcoholic priest deal with a killer and the death of a young
parishoner.
ONE STROBE OVER THE LINE
Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency
on amphetamines and a predatory manager's ambitions.
THE BOOGIEMAN
Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a
horror novelist on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the
death of a church deacon, things get even stranger when two more people die
without warning.
MISS DEEP SOUTH
As Darlene Monte, a contestant in the "Miss Deep South" beauty pageant, Sam must
come to the aid of an innocent contender who faces disgrace when she poses for
naughty photographs taken by a sleazy pageant photographer. As if things weren't
bad enough, Sam must ensure that Darlene finishes third, so that she'll go on to
become a doctor.
BLACK ON WHITE ON FIRE
Sam leaps into a black med student engaged to a white woman in order to ensure
that he and his fiancee survive the Watts Riot together.
THE GREAT SPONTINI
Leaping into magician Harry Spontini, Sam has to prevent his estranged wife from
taking their daughter away from him as she files for divorce, so she can marry
her sleazy divorce attorney.
REBEL WITHOUT A CLUE
As "Bones," a member of a motorcycle gang, Sam is an uneasy rider who has to
prevent a Kerouac-inspired young woman from meeting her death on the road.
A LITTLE MIRACLE
On Christmas Eve, Sam leap into Reginald Pierson, valet to a wealthy
contractor, who is in danger of losing his soul in an attempt to demolish a
Salvation Army mission, so he can build his "Blake's Plaza." Seeing a
similarity to the Dicken's character, Sam and Al decide to "Scrooge" the
greed out of the man.
RUNAWAY
On a croscountry car trip, Sam, as 13-year-old Butchie, must contend with
a sadistic older sister and a mother on the verge of running away from an
unfulfilling marriage, in search of the feminine mystique.
8 1/2 MONTHS
Billie Jean Crockett is a pregnant teenager who will make the second biggest
mistake of her life - giving her baby up for adoption - unless Sam, as Billie
Jean, can convince someone to help her raise her child... before he goes into
labor himself.
FUTURE BOY
Sam leaps Kenny Sharp, better known as "Future Boy", sidekick to Moe Stein, host
of the kid's show, "Time Patrol," who also happens to be building a time machine
in his basement. Unless Sam can prevent Moe's daughter from attempting to have
her father committed, Moe is destined to be killed as he tries to hop a freight
train.
PRIVATE DANCER
An aspiring dancer working as a waitress in a strip club is in danger of being
led into a life of prostitution unless Sam, as "Rod the Bod," can convince her
to audition for a spot in a professional dance group. But, since she's deaf, the
choreographer doesn't believe she has the time to give the young lady the
attention she'll need.
PIANO MAN
Joey Dinardo is a lounge lizard on the run from mob hitmen. When Sam leaps
in, he's been found by his ex-girlfriend, and former musical partner, and
now both are on a run for their lives from a killer who seems to know their
every move.
SOUTHERN COMFORTS
It's the best little cat-house in New Orleans. No, it's the Gilbert Labonte
Sewin' & Quiltin' Academy. As the proprietor of this worthy establishment, Sam
must prevent the mysterious death of a resident who doesn't belong there.
GLITTER ROCK
Sam is a glitter rock star in danger of being stabbed to death after a
performance, unless Sam can determine who, from a growing list of people,
the real killer is.
A-HUNTING WE WILL GO
It's the leap from hell as Sam, a bounty hunter handcuffed to a wiley
embezzler who will stop at nothing to get away from him, has to deal with
his captive, as well as his attraction towards her, despite her countless
attacks on him.
LAST DANCE BEFORE AN EXECUTION
Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into
Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last
second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove
himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big
Switch is pulled.
HEART OF A CHAMPION
The heart of a champion belongs to Ronnie, a professional wrestler, who will
die if he competes in the title match. Sam, as his brother and new partner
Terry, must convince him of his hidden health problem, while avoiding his
own health problem - the jealous wrestler-husband of a woman who has taken
an amorous interest in Sam.
NUCLEAR FAMILY
Sam finds himself the brother of a fallout shelter salesman during the Cuban
Missile Crisis, where he must defuse a potentially explosive situation as panic
sets in on the night of John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation.
SHOCK THEATER
Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute
depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes
his Swischeesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps. Al,
finding himself visible to the mentally absent, must try to complete Sam's
mission, and convince him to take another shock treatment, in order to leap
Sam out before contact is lost forever.
THE LEAP BACK
Struck by lightning, Sam and Al find their roles reversed, as Sam returns to
the future, and to a lonlost love, while Al leaps back to 1945 to prevent
the death of a returning World War II hero and his former girlfriend.
PLAY BALL
A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to
help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or
babysit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of
the women in his life.
HURRICANE
Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy
sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly
hurricane.
JUSTICE
Sam must don the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman in order to save the life of an
ambitious young civil rights leader, who is trying to register black voters.
PERMANENT WAVE
Sam leaps into Frank Bianca, a hairstylist in leather pants, to prevent the
death of a young murder witness and his mother.
RAPED
It's up to Sam to try to bring a rapist to justice when he leaps into the perp's
victim, a young woman who may have been unwilling to press charges against the
young man - the son of the pillar of the community.
THE WRONG STUFF
The fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astrochimp
who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.
DREAMS
It's more like a nightmare when Sam leaps into a detective, investigating a
gruesome murder. He may be next if he doesn't find out who eviscerated the
victim and his only hope is the victim's catatonic son and her husband's
psychiatrist. The horrific flashbacks he's experiencing don't help matters much
either.
A SINGLE DROP OF RAIN
A devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam, as Billy
Beaumont, "purveyor of precipiation and maker of rain", can find a way to
make it rain, while keeping his family together in the process.
UNCHAINED
Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue
his companion from a fifteen year sentence on a chain gang.
THE PLAY'S THE THING
May meets December when Sam leaps into a young actor in love with an older
woman, who is also an aspiring singer. If he can't boost her confidence and
help her get her career on track, she will face a "fate worse than death,"
returning with her son to Cleveland.
RUNNING FOR HONOR
As a track star in a Navy college, Sam must prevent the death of his ex-
roommate, who was expelled because he was gay, and who is slated to die at
the hands of a group of bigoted cadets.
TEMPTATION EYES
A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a TV reporter,
protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case, from becoming the next
victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.
THE LAST GUNFIGHTER
Sam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces
death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.
A SONG FOR THE SOUL
As a backup singer in a black, amateur girl group Sam finds between the
fifteen year-old lead singer and her father as he attempts to rescue the
girl from a sleazy night club owner's clutches.
GHOST SHIP
Flying over the Bermuda Triangle, Sam, as the co-pilot, must prevent the flight
from returning to Virginia, to get a seriously ill passenger to a doctor before
she dies. Flying through the triangle is riskier than it seems, and Sam,
deprived of Al's help when the hologram fades out, must get them through alive.
ROBERTO!
Sam, as Roberto!, is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an
asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical
plant, a mystery which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LEAP
Sam finds himself behind the wheel of a New York taxicab, in the life of Max
Greenman, a driver striving to win his own tag, a license to drive his own
cab. His mission is aided with the help of a woman who claims to be a
guardian angel.
MOMENTS TO LIVE
Sam is a soap opera heart surgeon and the obsession of a love-struck, if
somewhat deranged fan. He must escape from the woman and her husband who
kidnap him for reproductive purposes.
THE CURSE OF PTAH-HOTEP
It's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale
Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course,
visit Egypt. But between an encroahing sandstorm, computer glitches back at
the project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000 year old curse
to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.
STAND UP
Sam, as the singing half of a comedy team, soon finds that trying to convince
two people that they're truly in love is no laughing matter, especially when one
of them is the object of a sleazy casino owner's desire.
A LEAP FOR LISA
Sam leaps into one Al "Bingo" Calavicci to prevent the death of his mar- ried
lover. But when Sam accidentally alters history, and finds out too late about
her untimely demise, it could mean the gas chamber for Al... and a whole new
situation at the Project.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
As a result of leaping again before he had a chance to complete his original
mission, Sam finds himself leaping back and forth through the life of Lee Harvey
Oswald. Following the sole assassin theory, Sam and Al attempt to prevent
Oswald's attack on John F. Kennedy. But, with each leap giving Oswald more
control over Sam's body, history seems doomed to repeat itself.
LEAPING OF THE SHREW
It's Robinson Crusoe with a twist when Sam leaps into a Greek sailor stranded on
a deserted island with a beautiful young rich woman who appears to be less than
fond of both him and their stranded situation.
NOWHERE TO RUN
As a Marine captain whose legs were amputated after a mishap in Vietnam, Sam
finds himself in a veteran's hospital, where he must prevent the suicide of
a fellow patient who would rather be dead than face life paralyzed from the
neck down. Making matters worse, his wife seems incapable of accepting the
fact that she and Sam's host can still lead a normal life, in spite of his
condition.
KILLIN' TIME
Sam leaps into a tricky situation as an escaped killer holed up in a house with
a mother and daughter as hostages. Escape isn't going to be easy for either Sam
or his hostages, when the real killer breaks out of the waiting room, stranding
Sam in the past, destined to die at the hands of a vengeful sheriff.
STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT
Sam leaps into a 79-year-old man whose son wants to have him committed when
he claims to have seen UFO's. Sam is kept busy as he tries to keep the
family together, prevent the future drug overdose of "his" grandson, and
avoid the sinister plans of the military, all before the next anti- cipated
UFO sighting.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Things are already on their way downhill when Sam leaps back into Jimmy LaMotta.
Despite Sam's inaction, history continues to change for the worst. The cause is
unknown until Sam discovers another time traveler on the scene, one who's
determined to destroy Jimmy's family, as well as Sam.
TRILOGY 1
A pair of unsolved murders marks just the tip of the iceberg when Sam leaps
into a sheriff in a small Louisana town. Rumors of a history of family
insanity, the suspicions surrounding his daughter Abigail's involvement in
the murders, and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make
matters worse.
TRILOGY 2
Finding himself back in the same small Louisiana town, in the arms of Abigail,
now twenty-one, Sam must prevent an angry crowd of townspeople from lynching his
fiancee, following the disappearance of a young boy whom she had been
babysitting.
TRILOGY 3
Sam is an aging lawyer, recruited by Abigail, now thirty-three, to defend
her when she is put on trial for the murder of Lita Aider, the woman whose
daughter Abigail was accused of killing almost twenty-five years earlier.
PROMISED LAND
Sam leaps back to Elk Ridge, Indiana to help save the lives of the Walters
boys as they try to save their farm from a banker with designs on getting
rich from foreclosure.
A TALE OF TWO SWEETIES
As a horse-playing, traveling brush salesman, Sam finds himself with two
wives and two families. Although Ziggy predicts that Sam's mission is to
choose between the two lives, the choice is made more difficult by the fact
that there's only a 50/50 chance that he'll choose the right one. As if
things weren't bad enough, Sam finds that his penniless host owes a pair of
bookies some big bucks.
LIBERATION
Leaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib, Sam
must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in, while con- vincing
the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and
daughter.
DR. RUTH
While Sam is in 1985, running her radio talk show, playing matchmaker to her
producers, and trying to help a young secretary who's being sexually
harassed by her boss, Dr. Ruth Westheimer spends her time in the Waiting
Room, counseling Al on his feelings towards his five wives, as well as his
relationship with Tina.
BLOOD MOON
As an eccentric, possibly vampiric, artist just outside of London, Sam must bear
with Al's superstitions, while trying to prevent the death of his host's young
wife, at the hands of a couple who are taking a sacrificial ceremony in honor of
the "blood moon."
RETURN OF THE EVIL LEAPER
As Arnold Watkins, better known as The Midnight Marauder, Sam has to persuade a
fraternity to stop using chicken races as a part of their hazing ceremonies,
while Al tries to convince Arnold to stop trying to get himself killed in
retaliation for his parents' deaths twelve years earlier. When Alia, the evil
leaper, appears on the scene, Sam becomes determined to take her with him when
he leaps.
REVENGE OF THE EVIL LEAPER
Having simo-leaped, both Sam and Alia find themselves trapped in a women's
prison, accused of murdering a fellow inmate. Their efforts to unmask the real
killer are not their top priority as the two attempt to keep Alia's location
hidden from her observer, Zoey, who leaps into the same place and time,
determined to make Alia pay for her betrayal.
GOODBYE NORMA JEAN
As chauffer to Marilyn Monroe, Sam must try to prevent Marilyn's tragic
death. But when a well-meaning plan backfires, it could mean the end of
Marilyn's career, even if her life is saved.
THE BEAST WITHIN
Sam leaps into Henry Adams, one of a trio of friends who fought in Vietnam and
came home each with their own personal scars and the memory of a lost buddy. He
has to save the life of a friend, Roy, as well as of a young boy, Daniel, who
ventures into the woods of Washington looking for proof of Bigfoot.
THE LEAP BETWEEN THE STATES
In a bizarre twist of a genetic coil, Sam leaps into his great-grandfather,
Captain John Beckett, during the Civil War. He must not interfere with his
ancestor's romance with a riled southern belle named Olivia. He must also
avoid being hanged as a Yankee dog by some home-guard Confederate soldiers.
MEMPHIS MELODY
Sam swivels his hips into Elvis Presley, mere days before he is discovered.
Along with making sure that Elvis does become the King, Sam must help Sue
Anne, a local songbird, from being trapped in a not-so-gilded cage of
marriage.
MIRROR IMAGE
Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal mining town, where strange things
are happening and familiar people don't know him. With the help of another Al,
he still has something to set right... or is there more than one thing he needs
to change.