The US Senate is threatening to withdraw the Project’s funding, so Al must attend a hearing to justify the continued expense of staying in touch with Sam. For the most part this all happens off screen, but the Season Two opener “Honeymoon Express” is one of the few occasions when we get a glimpse behind the curtain. Al would never be an enigma like this again, and it’s a fun way to start a classic buddy relationship.Īl and the team at Project Quantum Leap constantly monitor Sam’s time-travelling adventures from their top-secret Stallion Springs, New Mexico base in the future. The uninitiated viewer is similarly in the dark to begin with, watching Al shouting at an unseen character named Gooshie (Project Quantum Leap’s head programmer) and then disappearing through an invisible door. So it’s quite strange when you go back and watch the pilot and Sam’s first leap has scrambled his memory so much that he doesn’t even recognise Al, let alone realise that he’s a holographic projection from the future.
No matter how “Swiss-cheesed” Sam’s memory gets, he always remembers his best buddy Al. When you’re familiar with Quantum Leap you know that Sam and Al’s friendship is one of the series’ few constants. In tribute to him, here are ten of Al’s best episodes across Quantum Leap‘s five seasons. But every now and then Al would come to the fore and really demonstrate the actor’s range and talent. With Scott Bakula’s time-travelling Doctor Sam Beckett very much the protagonist of the show, the intangible Al was often relegated to exposition and comic relief, both of which Stockwell handled expertly.
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Only the other week I wrote about how I was such a big fan of this series as a teenager that my friend David Abbott and I made our own version of it. The actor had a long and varied career, but to me he will always be Admiral Al Calavicci, the holographic observer from the cult 80s/90s sci-fi show Quantum Leap. It was with great sadness last week that I read the news of Dean Stockwell’s passing.
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