Presents, a Life with a Plan. My name is Karen Anastasia Placek, I am the author of this Google Blog. This is the story of my journey, a quest to understanding more than myself. The title of my first blog delivered more than a million views!! The title is its work as "The Secret of the Universe is Choice!; know decision" will be the next global slogan. Placed on T-shirts, Jackets, Sweatshirts, it really doesn't matter, 'cause a picture with my slogan is worth more than a thousand words, it's worth??.......Know Conversation!!!
My middle name, I real claim to fame. Forest right to make the gentle stop to tell of more than just a life, today is the day that I thought to say that I have lived a tale and not only a day.
Living on the cusp of my life as a 9 life path with an 11 soul is as
wonderful as every story that I had ever known. The recognition of so
much is as I see the ocean as it waves. The storms bring the cold weather
into shore and the rain sheds the tears of so many lives lost. Wishing
that my life had not been filled with so much would have been a dream however
the harsh reality of the 1960s and this country's rash and insidious behavior
delivered real when I was so young that today is as the new wind.
It is not the memories that sorrow my wound(s) of life itself, as I was born
in the midst of war. The Vietnam War was at it's tilt and this country
was on the throws, unfortunately on April 29th, 1965 everybody in the U.S.A. was
at odds and to this I state with simplicity that I breathe.
Changing nothing I noted that people are horrific and employ pain as their
rally. It happened to be the sorrow of the veteran of war that the people
of the United States took arms up against. As such and as I was born in
San Francisco, California I only new hatred and screams of people that pointed
fingers and took drugs, tons and tons of drugs however in that I saw more, I
saw pain, tons and tons of pain.
The streets of San Francisco never did find anchor in any resolution.
The years between became rank with bitter people and the rallies have never
ended, death became resident in horror here in November of 1978. With
that the people around the country fell not to the tour buses and blame instead
it became laughter, mockery and the "told you so(s)", sadly this is
where I saw people become worse. Religion in the early 1970s banked on
the 1960s and that made quite a bit of money for those that participated, the
Christian Church went haywire and even more bad behavior suffered our streets.
The 1980s gave a bit more as all the adults of those era's gave way to
cocaine and I believe that those adults are all still numb from November
1978. Several of or actually more than several adults from the City Hall
of San Francisco that were present during that horrid November of 1978 went on
in politics even going as far as Washington D.C. and hold very prominent and
powerful seats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and as of recently one of those people actually holds the seat as the Speaker of the United States in the House of Representatives first being elected to Congress in 1987 and is the only woman to have served as speaker and is the highest ranking elected woman in United States history. These
people never turned to look and see the pain, the horror, the rifled life left
behind, I have never witnessed one law changed or one law added that did not
just take more in adding more as if the entire reach was one of a hammer that
had already been thrown as the hinge slammed the door that had already been
closed with crime scene tape, the suffering is obvious, the impact of those
years is as written as the times themselves as the multiplied thesis has now buried
our entire country and is fowl with the stench of bad behavior and the “don't
care" people. This shows all over the television and, well, in
person my experience leans exactly back to those first few years of my life in
The Haight/Ashbury, yuck, Patchouli Oil to cover the smell may help those that
still perfume and should the Patchouli Oil update than an App. will provide the
same cover for those dirty feet and unkempt lives as the entire smell of Patuchouli
Oil only reminded me of one thing, the obituaries. That ripe smell and
those feet gave path to more conversation and it always led down the same
trail, hackers!!This word now is more formidable
a, “hackers” means appropriately not taking your horse on a trail ride as it
once meant it means what showed up in and on the streets of San Francisco as
the true meaning of another remodeled word and the taking that meaning to the
1960s today makes me say to whom may be reading that the people were indeed
hacking the brains of people, weird science now defined. “A hacker is someone who explores methods for
breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network”
and should that fantastic computer that was built after the human brain be good
for anything than it is the food for thought today to the reality of what
happened, Hackers.
My mother at the time had a small flat on Hemway Terrace and so I lean
towards the good times that she and I had on our wonderful walks to go back and
forth to her places of employment, downtown is a favorite. Walking
through the Stockton Tunnel and listening to her determined path of lecture,
her fervent words to stay far away from particular people still rings with
truth today.
To state with lecture would be only the freedom of speech and I will not
share the privacy of those determined walks, instead I will state with implicit
word to afford only the basic lease, bad is bad and not affordable, what
tenderness spoke my mother’s cold and not one would have known of her lecture to state.
Knowing that those people from City Hall did nothing to change the
bitterness in San Francisco, and knowing that the seats they hold in office in
Washington D.C. has done nothing other than continued the bad behavior of
ignorance I understand the basic lecture, bad is bad.
Towards the good I treasure the footsteps of those walks where downtown
meant more than a shopping trip, where the deli was a grand dinner after a day
of hard work and where the Candy Shop was the bright stop that made the
Richmond a breadth. In reality the beatings that I took from her second
husband were awful and my siblings candor of breath to my very existence was
hurtful and I still feel the heat of their awful nature however it is their
nature, their problem, their shoulders that must carry such loaded memories,
for my mother and I it was an afternoon at Union Square, a stop at the Macy's
candy counter, a walk up Stockton Street, for us it was the talk. In that
it was never the gossip that I hear today, it was more the expulsion of all
their bad behavior and a good lesson in how that behavior is unbecoming.
These lessons are indeed the branch of life itself, those lessons made all the
pain real, made all those hippies simple, it made all the veterans friends and
it made the drum of this country the song as the drugs were endless and still
plague this country today. It is odd to see such reach and yet it is odder
to see each song removed and replaced when all the fighting continues to be the
same, man against man, woman against woman, sex against sex, religion against
religion, basic war against war.
The Free Tibet movement was big back when I was born, it was more like free everything and grub it all too. People made work a dirty word and days of the week became the mud that each person threw at each other. I do not believe that there were any days that did not involve a fight. With candor the event has not changed much at least on the television, the wars still go on with vigor and strength, people still kill and people still blame, bad is bad.
I know that today is just another day for most people and perhaps that is good as today is just wonderful for me. I see the product development in my life and that development has kept my mind on the job, putting one foot in front of the other, determined.
I don't miss the good old days because there were never any "good old days". That is sad as I have heard many speak of such and always wondered what life must have been like in the U.S.A. before all the wars and discontentment however I am glad that I do not have to suffer such a quote as those people that said such words now quotes have always seemed stuck in high school, may you rest in peace.
To fashion of my existence is simplify the war to rules of engagement, avoid it all together. Don't run, don't speak, don't be in anybody's home unless the address is of kindness and not woe or ploy, these rules having worked better. I miss my mother of course and I have not met a man to share the remainder of my life.
A cranioclast
(from Greek κρανίον kranion "head, scull" and -κλάστης -klastes
"breaker") is surgical instrument akin to a strong forceps. It was once
used to crush and then extract the skull of a fetus so as to facilitate
delivery in cases of obstructed labour.
I am in love with truth and the excitement of being born again or as many call it, incarnation. Might this beauty of a truth be the wonder of all Americans and cause their belief in being born again to change and enable as many are Christians. Might your comprehension bloom.
"Mullah Mohammed Omar, widely known as Mullah Omar, was an Afghan
mujahideen commander who founded the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in
1996. The Taliban recognized him as the Commander of the Faithful or the
Supreme Leader of the Muslims until being succeeded by Mullah Akhtar
Mansour in 2015. The current president is Ashraf Ghani, since 29 September 2014."Wikipedia; 1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani 2.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Afghanistan
The historic Buddhas of Bamiyan statues have made a return to the Afghan valley as 3D light projections. ... They were once the world's largest standing Buddhas. In March 2001 Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar ordered the Buddhas destroyed. They were subsequently blown apart and left in rubble.Jun 11, 2015
The Buddhas of Bamyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of
Gautam Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in
the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 kilometres northwest of
Kabul at an elevation of 2,500 metres.Wikipedia
Sadness does not cry,
emptiness is vain,
bit by piece is no riddle to paper,
letter by letter to date tether.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
A terrible loss
2nd
March 2001, turned out to be the blackest day for all history and
archeology lovers of the world, because on this day, Afghanistan's
Taliban rogue forces began their most criticized task; that of
destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas. In spite of repeated requests from
all over the world not to destroy Bamiyan Buddhas and make the world
loose one of its historic monuments, they went ahead and completed
the task after several weeks. They could not destroy the massive
Buddha idols with gun shots and had to use missiles and tank mines to
complete the job.
No one
knows exactly when the Buddha statues were carved out of the rock,
but they were there in full glory when Xuan Zang visited Bamiyan in
632 CE. It is generally assumed that the statues were carved out
during first two centuries of the first millennium, when Kushan kings
ruled Afghanistan. In spite of the statues having such important
historical heritage status for Afghanistan, Taliban not only
destroyed them completely but even boasted about that to the world.
Within
8 months from destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas, the Taliban rule in
Afghanistan ended with US and NATO forces intervening along with
forces of Northern alliance and world heaved a sigh of relief. It was
hoped that such wanton destruction of heritage artifacts of
tremendous historical values would not be repeated anywhere else in
the world. Unfortunately, these hopes are dashed as the world is
finding to its horror that a new force has started destroying signs
of heritage even on a much greater scale.
Ancient
Mesopotamia is often considered as the cradle of western
civilization. It is the name given to the area of the
Tigris–Euphrates river system in the middle east. The present
boundaries of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of
Syria and to a much lesser extent southeastern Turkey and smaller
parts of southwestern Iran, were all parts of this land. In Bronze
Age, Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and
Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq.
Around
900 BCE, the ancient kingdom of Assyria, had become a powerful
regional power in Mesopotamia. It existed as an independent state
for a period of approximately nineteen centuries from c. 2500 BCE to
605 BCE, with 'Assur' as its first capital. The capital was moved to
Nimrud in the Ninth century BCE and was continued for next 180 years,
before getting finally destroyed in 612 BCE. This city was located
on the Tigris River just south of Iraq’s second largest city,
Mosul.
Nimrud
was first described by the British traveler Claudius James Rich in
1820. Archaeologists have been excavating sites from the city from
1849 right up to 1989. Excavations have revealed remarkable
bas-reliefs, ivories, and sculptures. Statues of kings, colossal
winged man-headed lions weighing around 9 tonnes, large number of
inscriptions have been discovered here. Temples, palaces and a
monument commemorating the king's victorious campaigns of 859–824,
also have been discovered.
Another
remarkable discovery at Nimrud was The "Treasure of Nimrud."
It is a collection of 613 pieces of gold jewelry and precious
stones. It has survived the confusions and looting after the invasion
of Iraq in 2003.Archaeologists were relieved, when the treasures were
found hidden in the country’s central Bank in a secret
vault-inside-a-vault submerged in sewage water. It was put away for
12 years and was "rediscovered" on June 5, 2003. Readers
must have by now got a fair idea about archaeological importance and
heritage value of ruins found in Nimrud.
In
June 2011, a new development took place that has now shaken the
world. This was the rise of ISIS, (sometimes known as ISIL and later
renamed simply Islamic State), which is a Jihadist militant group in
Iraq and Syria influenced by the Wahhabi movement. It aims to
establish a caliphate, or Islamic state in Sunni majority regions of
Iraq and Syria. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named its Caliph. As a
caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over
all Muslims worldwide and that "the legality of all emirates,
groups, states, and organizations, becomes null by the expansion of
the khilāfah's (caliphate's) authority and arrival of its troops to
their areas.
In
early 2014, ISIS forces drove the Iraqi government forces out of key
western cities in Iraq while in Syria it conquered and conducted
ground attacks against both the government forces and rebel factions
in the Syrian Civil War. Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, was
captured by the ISIS in June 2014 and are still holding it.
ISIS
has been following a policy of the deliberate destruction of a
heritage and its images that are found in captured territories. The
intention is clear; to erase history and the identity of the people
of Iraq, whether in the past or the present.
In
2014, ISIS zealots destroyed the Mosque of the Prophet Younis or
Jonah and the Mosque of the Prophet Jirjis, two revered ancient
shrines in Mosul. Last week, they released a video that showed
militants with sledgehammers destroying ancient artifacts at the
Mosul museum. ISIS is belived to be following a policy that art
pieces that can be carried away are sold to fund the IS group, while
the larger artifacts and sculptures are simply destroyed.
Last
week, ISIS has taken the ultimate step to destroy Iraq's history.
Militants have actually “bulldozed” the renowned archaeological
site of the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq using heavy
military vehicles. Iraq’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities says
that ISIS continues to defy the will of the world and the feelings
of humanity. Iraq's prime minister Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi
has described the acts as efforts to destroy the heritage of mankind
and Iraq’s civilisation.
There
has been a world wide outrage against these acts of vandalism by ISIS
zealots. But there is precise little that the world can do except
watch helplessly its heritage getting lost. In this respect, I am
well reminded of a new policy that is being followed in Afghanistan.
A joint Japanese-Afghanistan group has been working since 2004 in
Afghanistan. In September 2008 they made significant discoveries near
Bamiyan like traces of a Buddhist Vihara, a palace and dozen or more
statues. In a surprise move, no more excavations were done by this
group. On the contrary, all artifacts, dug out were buried again and
all excavated area was covered up so that no clues to buried
treasures can be seen. Chief of the UNESCO mission in Afghanistan
agrees with this policy. According to him the safest place for these
archeological heritage treasures is underground. He says that there
are thousands of prehistoric, Buddhist and Islamic sites dotted
around the country and policing all of them is an impossible task.
Deep below the ground, the relics are protected from endemic looting
and illegal smuggling.
The
archeologists world over are always very keen to dig and unearth
objects and artifacts that can lead us to new traces of history. If
any such new find is ever made, anywhere in the world, more resources
and manpower is employed to unearth as many objects as possible.
These are subsequently studied, new inferences drawn and then the
objects and artifacts are carefully preserved in some museum or
other. The time has come to change this policy, at least in the
middle east and west Asia. After any new archaeological discoveries
are made, the artifacts should be studied, documented and then
re-buried to protect them from religious hotheads and zealots.
I was thinking about Chief Jerry Dyer today as I had spoken to an old acquaintance that lives outside of Clovis the other day and his name had come up in one of those odd ways that makes you gulp and so I thought I would look up and see how he was doing as when Chief Gregg Suhr retired it was sort of weird and sad as he just disappeared. Anyhow I am sure that Chief Suhr worked it out but I hope he at least got a watch as that is a classic retirement gift.
Best Works!! Wow!! Chief Jerry Dyer got a DAY!! March 1st is Jerry Dyer!! Fresno must really love him!! Congratulations Chief Jerry Dyer and to give forever and a day to a real live Cop means everything to me, so, "Forever and a day" now belongs to the beauty of a man that changed a town and gave the people so much that the townspeople will be honoring his work forever and a day.
Listen to the howl of the City that heard the deep baritone speak,
on the times that life brought more than a tunnel,
it was the tune of a thousand lives that changed the one man.
Directly the hear went to the Towns that Cities fell,
oh for the certain inalienable rights that Fresno recovered.
Thanks to the breadth as I have known the sound of tones since before the lives could say hi,
Oh for the delight of wonder. I did not have to look into the eyes of any twin soul or twin flame and that makes this the best day ever!! The imagination of that horror of the twin flame finally lost to eternity as these cards of the moon have had my day to say that this is much less environmental and more in house. From the drawing room to my curiosity about whether or not these ultra cool cards had made it to the internet for all to see the dynamics of the most incredible art made this evening the furnishings for why nobody will need the fear of the meeting of strangers to ever wonder again. Goodbye Plato!!
As the story is the fact that I was just in the other room wondering why nobody will ever mention or recognize any of my work I was thumbing through my Reader's Digest, just then I thought of my deck of cards and went to go and enjoy that artwork. At that same moment I thought to myself, "I wonder if the Artist had made it onto the Worldwide Web", so I stopped and thought I will grab one card and see the magic!! I of course am not a big believer in tarot in fact I just really enjoy the reads and in the case of Mr. Patrick Valenza the works are just amazing, anyhow back to my story. I turned the card and boom I put the deck away and walked into where my computer is held and logged-on to find that Mr. Patrick Valenza had a web presence and I promptly asked the question!! Lo and behold, I drew exactly the same card, yikes!! Most would venture some sort of queer thing however I love the fact that Mr. Patrick Valenza made cards that are so incredible and have brought to light some colors and structures that have made artwork wonder.
Here is to the wonder in the continue, I love the mystery!!
When will the public at-large recognize my work?
Heart of the Matter : Ace of Pentacles
The dragon grasps the mystical pentacle, holding the entire universe in his grip.
He is a being of pure perfection, in harmony with both the material world and the spiritual realm.
Recently added!! Thanks Xfinity by Comcast in San Francisco, you're the bomb!!
Looking northward through the dial of the historic Chronicle Clock in 1926.Photo: GABRIEL MOULIN / Gabriel Moulin Studio 1926
2of14President
William Howard Taft passes the old Chronicle building during a parade
in San Francisco in 1911. He was in town for ground-breaking ceremonies
for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.Photo: Chronicle file / Chronicle file photo 1911
3of14Stereotypers are at work at The Chronicle in preparation of the daily printing process in 1926.Photo: GABRIEL MOULIN / Gabriel Moulin Studio 1926
With four pages, no breaking news, no photos and a
different name, the first edition of the Daily Dramatic Chronicle is
almost unrecognizable when compared with today’s San Francisco
Chronicle.
Quantum Leap is an American science-fiction television series that originally aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 1989 through May 1993. Created by Donald P. Bellisario, it starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who leaps through spacetime during an experiment in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct historical mistakes. Dean Stockwell co-stars as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking companion and best friend, who appears to him as a hologram.
The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. The show was ranked #19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever".[1]
This section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings.(July 2018)
"Theorizing that one
could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite
group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project,
known as "Quantum Leap." Pressured to prove his theories or lose
funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project
Accelerator--and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past,
suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not
his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through
brainwave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer, who appeared in
the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett could see and hear. Trapped
in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life,
putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time that his
next leap will be the leap home.
--Opening narration by Deborah Pratt, season two, episodes 13–22.
Quantum Leap follows the narrative of Dr. Sam Beckett
(Bakula), a physicist who has become stuck in the past as a result of a
time-travel experiment gone wrong, and his attempts to return to his
present, the late 20th century, by altering events in the past for the
better, with the aid of a hologram of his friend Admiral Al Calavicci
(Stockwell), monitoring him from Sam's present.[2][3]
In the series premiere, Sam has theorized the ability to travel
in one's own lifetime and is the lead scientist of the government-funded
Project Quantum Leap, operating from a secret laboratory in New Mexico;
Al oversees the project for the government. When Al learns that funding
for the project is in danger of being pulled because no demonstrable
results have come from the project, Sam takes it upon himself to step
into the Quantum Leap accelerator to prove that the project works;
unfortunately, he does this well before the project is ready to be
demonstrated, and is sent into the past. When Sam gains consciousness,
he finds himself suffering from partial amnesia,
and is more surprised to find that his appearance to others, including
what he sees in the mirror, is not his own face. He finds that Al has
come to his aid as a hologram that only Sam can see and hear, as it is
tuned to his brainwaves. Al, working with the project's artificial intelligence Ziggy (voiced by Deborah Pratt),
determines that Sam must alter an event in the current period he is in
so as to re-engage the Quantum Leap process and return home. Al helps
Sam overcome some facets of his "Swiss-cheese memory" and provides
information on history as it originally happened. He also updates Sam on
future events and relates possible outcome-probabilities using a
handheld communication device in contact with Ziggy. The device is often
temperamental and must be struck a few times as it emits electronic
beeping and whirring sounds before the information is revealed. With Al
and Ziggy's help, Sam is able to successfully change history, and then
leaps out, only to find himself in the life of someone else in a
different period of time.[4]
Episodes in the series subsequently follow Sam's reaction to each leap (typically ending the cold open
with him uttering "Oh, boy!" on discovering his situation), and then
working with Al and Ziggy to figure out his new identity and who he
needs to help to "set right what once went wrong" and trigger the next
leap.[5] An episode typically ends as a cliffhanger,
showing the first few moments of Sam's next leap (along with him again
uttering "Oh, boy!" on discovering his situation), which is repeated in
the following episode's cold open. Though initially Sam's leaping is
believed by Al and the others on the Quantum Leap team to be random, the
characters come to believe in later seasons that someone or something
is controlling Sam's leaping, and this is a central focus of the show's
finale episode, "Mirror Image".
When Sam leaps, his body is physically present in the past,
although he appears to others as the person into whom he leaped. In one
case, after leaping into a Vietnam veteran
who has lost both legs, Sam is still able to walk normally, but appears
to others as if he is floating. Sam's body and mind may become jumbled
with those into whom he has leaped. In one situation, he leaps into a
woman near the end of her pregnancy and feels her birth pains, while in
another episode, he leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald and feels an intense pressure to assassinate John F. Kennedy,
despite knowing that it is the wrong thing to do. Similarly, the
persons into whom Sam has leaped are brought into the future, where
they appear as Sam to the others; they are normally kept in an isolated
waiting room to prevent them from learning anything about the future,
and they return to their own time when Sam leaps.
In most of Sam's leaps, the changes he makes are small on the
grand scale, such as saving the life of a person who might otherwise
have died, or helping making someone's life better. Selected episodes,
however, demonstrate more dramatic effects of his time travels. In one
episode, Sam's actions ultimately lead to Al's death prior to the
project, and Sam finds himself suddenly aided by a new hologram, "Edward
St. John V" (played by Roddy McDowall),
and must work to prevent Al's death. In another episode, when again the
project's funding is threatened, Sam helps a young woman successfully pass the bar;
this results in her becoming one of the members of Congress who
oversees the project and aids in the restoration of its funding. In the
episode involving Lee Harvey Oswald, while Sam and Al do not prevent the
assassination of Kennedy, Sam's actions prevent Oswald from making a
second shot that killed Jacqueline Kennedy in the original fictional history.
Because of the time-travel aspect, many episodes allude to famous
people or incidents indirectly, such as Sam suggesting to young Donald Trump that New York real estate will be valuable in the future, suggesting the lyrics of "Peggy Sue" to a teenaged Buddy Holly, showing young Michael Jackson his signature moonwalk dance for the first time, giving Dr. Henry Heimlich the idea for his namesake maneuver by saving him from choking,[3] and setting in place actions that lead to the discovery of the Watergate scandal.
Two notable episodes place Sam directly at the center of significant
historical events, one being the leap into Oswald. In "Goodbye Norma
Jean", Sam appears as Marilyn Monroe's bodyguard, who saves her life and convinces Marilyn to remain alive for her starring role in The Misfits. Other episodes explore the past of the main characters, such as Sam saving his brother from being killed in the Vietnam War, and saving Al's marriage to Beth.
In the final episode, "Mirror Image", Sam leaps through spacetime
as himself (without replacing another person), arriving at the exact
time of his birth, where he meets a mysterious barkeep (Bruce McGill,
who also appeared in the first episode in a different role). The
barkeep is aware of Sam's situation and assures him that Sam himself
controls the very nature and destinations of his leaps ("to make the
world a better place"), and that Sam is always able to return home at
any time he truly wants. In the final episode's epilogue, Sam is shown
to leap back to visit Al's wife Beth as himself again, assuring her that
her husband (who was a prisoner of war at the time) will return home to her; this results in Al and Beth remaining happily married in the future,[3] while Sam continues leaping, never returning home.
Dr. Samuel "Sam" Beckett (played by Scott Bakula,
who also narrates the episodes in character) is a quantum physicist
with six doctoral degrees. He grew up on his parents' farm in Elk Ridge,
Indiana, with an older brother (Tom) and a younger sister (Katie).
Sam's idol is Albert Einstein.
Ziggy (voiced by the introduction narrator, Deborah Pratt, who was also a co-executive producer of the show) is the self-awareartificial intelligence "parallel hybrid computer with an ego"
that runs the Project Quantum Leap, and helps Sam throughout his leaps;
appearing in the fourth-season episode "The Leap Back."
Irving "Gooshie" Gushman (played by Dennis Wolfberg) is the project's often-mentioned head programmer, who is said to have bad breath. He appears in five episodes, including the finale.
Dr. Verbena Beeks (played by Candy Ann Brown) is often mentioned as the project's psychiatrist. She appears in two episodes throughout the series.
In each episode, a different cast of guest characters appears, mostly
the ones whom Sam replaces with his leaps. Several other characters
are referred to regularly throughout the series, but are mostly unseen.
The theme for the series was written by Mike Post.[3]
It was later rearranged for the fifth season, except for the series
finale episode, which featured the original theme music. Scores for the
episodes were composed by Post and Velton Ray Bunch.
A soundtrack album was first released in 1993, titled "Music from the Television Series Quantum Leap", dedicated to John Anderson, who played Pat Knight in "The Last Gunfighter". It was released by GNP Crescendo on CD and cassette tape.
The Quantum Leap
series was initially moved from Friday nights to Wednesdays. It was
later moved twice away from Wednesdays to Fridays in late 1990, and to
Tuesdays in late 1992. The series finale aired in its Wednesday slot in
May 1993.[3]
The most frequent time-slot for the series is indicated by italics:
Sunday at 9:00–11:00 PM on NBC: March 26, 1989
Friday at 9:00–10:00 PM on NBC: March 31, 1989 – April 21, 1989
Wednesday at 10:00–11:00 PM on NBC: May 3—17, 1989; September 20, 1989 – May 9, 1990; March 6, 1991 – May 20, 1992
Friday at 8:00–9:00 PM on NBC: September 28, 1990 – January 4, 1991
Tuesday at 8:00–9:00 PM on NBC: September 22, 1992 – April 20, 1993
Wednesday at 9:00–10:00 PM on NBC: May 4, 1993
In the United Kingdom, the show began on BBC Two on February 13, 1990 [1],
airing Tuesday evenings at 9:00PM. The final episode was scheduled to
be aired on June 14, 1994, but altered schedules after the death of
British dramatist Dennis Potter earlier that month delayed the airing until June 21, 1994.[2]. Repeat episodes continued on the channel at various times until December 28, 1999 [3]. It has since aired several times on satellite and cable television, rerunning late at night on television channel Cozi TV.
Home media
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the entire, digitally remastered, Quantum Leap series on DVD.[9][10]
There was some controversy when fans discovered that many songs had
been replaced from the soundtrack due to music rights issues. For the
fifth season, Universal included all of the original music. [4][5]
On April 13, 2016, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series and re-released the first two seasons on DVD on June 7, 2016.[11]
On February 7, 2017, Mill Creek re-released Quantum Leap - The Complete series on DVD and also released the complete series on Blu-ray for the very first time.[12] The 18-disc set contains all 97 episodes of the series as well as most of the original music restored for all seasons.
Despite its struggling start with poor broadcast timings,[3] the series had gained a large 18–49 demographics of viewers.[citation needed] The finale was viewed by 13 million American households.[13] In 2004 and 2007, Quantum Leap was ranked #15 and #19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever."[1]
Awards
Along with 43 nominations, Quantum Leap received 17 awards (listed below).[14][15]
Dale, Matt, Beyond the Mirror Image. TME Books,
UK 2017. The limited edition first print hardcover was funded via
Kickstarter in late 2016 and included both black & white and colored
pages. Due to popular demand, the book was reprinted, though the 2nd
edition did not include colored pages and came with a book jacket/dust
cover.
Fiction
Robitaille, Julie, The Beginning. Transworld Publishers|Corgi]], London 1990. ISBN0-552-13642-5. Re-published in U.K. by Boxtree Ltd., London 1994. ISBN1-85283-392-0. (Novelization of the pilot episode)
Robitaille, Julie, The Ghost and the Gumshoe. Corgi, London 1990. ISBN1-85283-397-1. Re-published in U.K. by Boxtree Ltd., London 1994. (Novelization of "Play It Again, Seymour" and "A Portrait of Troian")
Davis, Carol, and Esther D. Reese: Mirror's Edge. Boulevard, 2000 ISBN0-425-17351-8.
Comics
Innovation Publishing
produced a series of comic books which ran for thirteen issues from
September 1991 through August 1993. As with the television series, each
issue ended with a teaser preview of the following issue and Sam's
exclamation of "Oh, boy." Among the people Sam found himself leaping
into in this series were:[16]
Issue
Title
Person
Date
1
"First There Was a Mountain, Then There Was No Mountain, Then There Was"
Few of the comic stories referenced episodes of the television
series, with the exception of the ninth issue, "Up Against a Stonewall."
Possible continuation
There have been occasional announcements of plans to revisit or restart the series. In July 2002, the Sci-Fi Channel announced its development of a two-hour television film based on Quantum Leap, which it was airing in reruns at the time, that would have served as a backdoor pilot for a possible new series, with Bellisario as executive producer.[17] During the TV Guide panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International, Scott Bakula said that Bellisario was working on a script for a projected Quantum Leapfeature film.[18] In October 2017, Bellisario confirmed at the L.A. Comic Con that he has finished a script for a feature film.[19]
In Popular Culture
Adult Swim'sRobot Chicken
has parodied the show on at least two occasions. Once, showing the
character of Sam Beckett leaping into a woman who appeared to be a sex
worker.[20]
On another episode, a character is shown 'leaping' into other
characters and his reflection is not his own. This episode also features
an opening theme similar to Quantum Leap.[21] Seth McFarlane'sFamily Guy has referenced the show on at least 3 different episodes. 'The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz,' Peter Griffin
is shown going door to door as a Jehovah's Witness and says that Jesus,
"would travel from place to place putting things right that once went
wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap would be the leap home";
then the show cuts away to an animated Jesus 'leaping' into a scene.[22] In 'The Kiss Seen Around the World', Al the hologram is shown entering a scene like he would on Quantum Leap and character Neil Goldman asks, 'Al, why haven't I leaped?'[23] In the episode Back to the Pilot, Stewie says he learned the rules of time travel by watching the show.[24]
On June 16, 2016, Scott Bakula made a brief reprise of his role as Sam Beckett on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Colbert made a reference to an episode where Sam Beckett has leapt into
the body of a 1950s New York cab driver, whose comment about investing
in New York real estate is heard by a young Donald Trump. Using a handset to talk to Ziggy, Colbert leaps back as a hologram to help Sam Beckett attempt to change the future.[25]
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