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Quantum Leap
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Posted by: Regor

I was just wondering....

What happened in the last ever episode of Quantum Leap. I watched it on and off when it was first on years ago but never caught the last episodes.

I found it was the sort of programme that you didn't need to watch all the time, as each episode never really followed on from the last. (I maybe wrong though).

I am just interested to see if Sam ever got home!!

Cheers

Posted by: JolDC

quote:
Originally posted by Regor
I was just wondering....
What happened in the last ever episode of Quantum Leap. I watched it on and off when it was first on years ago but never caught the last episodes.
I found it was the sort of programme that you didn't need to watch all the time, as each episode never really followed on from the last. (I maybe wrong though).
I am just interested to see if Sam ever got home!!
Cheers

In later episodes/seasons, they built in ongoing storylines (good versus evil) with other leapers and such mumbo-jumbo.

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)

I know it is silly to spoiler-tag something as old as this, but hey why not.

At the end of the last episode, they displayed the text (paraphrasing) "And Sam never made it home."

Pissed some people off.

Posted by: Turtleboy

The last episode wasn't supposed to be the last episode, but just the season finale. However, NBC cancelled the show after it was shot, so they had to add some tacked on ending.

Posted by: LooseWiring

To expand on that last post; Sam never got home because he CHOSE not go back home.

The final episode found Sam leaping into a Pennsylvania coal-town and, specifically a bar called Al's Place in a time WELL before his birth.

The entire episode was all about Sam constantly seeing people from past leaps except they were not the same. Jimmy and his brother were there, as was a man named Ziggy, etc.

Basically the bartender Al, who doesn't look like the Al we all know, was implied to be god. At the end, after being confronted by Sam, he admits to having controlled Sam's leaps.

He also tells Sam that he has it within himself to control the leaps. After that, Sam decides to write the wrong in Al's (the hologram Al) life. He goes back and talks to Beth, the one wife Al never got over loving, and tells her that Al was alive and that he was captured by Viet Cong and that he would return within a few years.

At that point it goes on to say that Sam kept leaping and writing wrongs, etc. and that Al's future was changed and he was now happily married with kids, grandkids, etc.

Posted by: Marc

quote:
Originally posted by LooseWiring
The final episode found Sam leaping into a Pennsylvania coal-town and, specifically a bar called Al's Place in a time WELL before his birth.

Actually, he leaped into the bar one hour before his actual birth. Al (the bartender) commented that due to funny time zone rules then between Pittsburgh (I think that's where they were) and Indiana (that's where Sam was born, right?), it was actually the same time as his birth.

Posted by: Regor

Ah I see...thanks for that guys. So there was no conclusive ending. It's always annoying when shows get cancelled before running their course.

I could ask how Farscape ended too, but I will catch up with the last series soon enough!!

Posted by: JolDC

quote:
Originally posted by Regor
...I could ask how Farscape ended too, but I will catch up with the last series soon enough!!

Ha, Ha. All I will say is that you sure know how to pick series finales. :)

Posted by: HTH

Other notable endings:

Blake's 7
St. Elsewhere
Newhart
Early Edition
Dark Skies

Shows that ended in another show's episode:

Millennium (in The X-Files)
The Lone Gunmen (in The X-Files)
Prey (in The Invisible Man (jokingly))

Posted by: ClutchBrake

Remind me about Early Edition, I don't remember. :)

FYI, if you like Kyle Chandler I believe he is co-starring in a new law drama with Rob Lowe called The Lyon's Den. Fall 2003.

Posted by: Drazi

Soap.

Jessica is lined up before the firing squad, guy yells "FIRE" and we get credits. That's it.

Posted by: Hunter Green

Oh, Drazi, why did you have to remind me? Now I'll be gritting my teeth for a week again.

Posted by: HTH

quote:
Originally posted by ClutchBrake
Remind me about Early Edition, I don't remember. :)

Gary has to pick a successor in the same manner as he was picked as a child: giving a swiss army knife to a child, which magically became emblazoned with the child's initials as it had with his when it was given to him as a child.

Posted by: ClutchBrake

quote:
Originally posted by HTH
Gary has to pick a successor in the same manner as he was picked as a child: giving a swiss army knife to a child, which magically became emblazoned with the child's initials as it had with his when it was given to him as a child.

I think I sorta remember that. Was the child the son of someone close to him?

He didn't stop getting the paper did he? I would assume he would continue until something happened to him.

Did Chuck ever get him to bet on the ponies or cough up a lottery number? :D

Posted by: kdmorse

Prey (in The Invisible Man (jokingly))

I enjoyed The Invisible Man, but never really got around to watching Prey. So whatever the inside joke was, I'm sure I missed it.

Could someone let me know which episode of The Invisible Man it was, and how it related to Prey?

Thanks,

-Ken

Posted by: HTH

quote:
Originally posted by kdmorse
Prey (in The Invisible Man (jokingly))

I enjoyed The Invisible Man, but never really got around to watching Prey. So whatever the inside joke was, I'm sure I missed it.

Could someone let me know which episode of The Invisible Man it was, and how it related to Prey?

The star of The Invisible Man (Vincent Ventresca) also played an important character in Prey (Dr. Ed Tate). In the last episode of Prey, Tom Daniels (Adam Storke) had been captured and kept in a cage in an anonymous room.

Adam Storke was "Prisoner in Cell" (uncredited) in episode "Exposed" of The Invisible Man (2.17), released by Darien Fawkes (Vincent Ventresca), and commenting at the time, "I know you, don't I?" and "I know that guy."

When the The Invisible Man episode "Exposed" was first shown on Sci-Fi Channel, they led it with the episode of Prey and hyped the connection. If you saw the syndicated run instead, this hype wasn't there. The connection plotwise though was tenuous at best if not totally non-existent.

I really like the IMDb.

Posted by: rhuntington3

Series Finale of Blake's 7 was great! So was St. Elsewhere. Newhart's was a riot! :)

Richard...

Posted by: jones07

ahhh Blake's 7, My wife an I was/are big fans of that show. The ending was so much of a surprise to us.We never saw it coming. My wife was setting there crying and I was in shock. At the time American TV would have never had the guts to have a ending like that.

Posted by: Frylock

Is this show on anymore anywhere? Like Trio perhaps?

And most painful series finale ever was Alf! Alf was discovered by the Alien task force, and then NBC canned the show.

Good to see he made it out ok, because he's now doing 1-800-COLLECT ads with Terry Bradshaw. Good career move Alf. :)