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<v ->Ziggy, what have you got for me?</v>

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[mysterious music]

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<v Ziggy>Theorizing that one could create</v>

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a time-travel series set within his own lifetime,

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Don Bellisario created a groundbreaking television series,

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"Quantum Leap".

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Now nearly 30 years later,

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Don finds himself answering

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the unsolved mysteries of Dr. Sam Beckett's journey

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striving to put right what once went wrong

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and hoping each time

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that his next answer will be the leap home.

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[gentle techno music]

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<v ->Oh boy.</v>

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<v Ziggy>Was Sam really leaping or was he imagining it all?</v>

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<v ->Wasn't in Sam's mind.</v>

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He was actually leaping.

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That's what I felt, anyway.

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It wasn't something he was imagining.

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It was real.

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<v Ziggy>What do people in the waiting room do</v>

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while Sam is in their bodies?

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<v ->It's interesting to think about the waiting room.</v>

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The waiting room came from a novel that I had read

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that had a waiting room in it,

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different sense of "Quantum Leap,"

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but in "Quantum Leap," people in the waiting room

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would be a little disturbed

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by what had happened,

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would not understand what was going on, of course.

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Their interactions with each other

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would have been interesting.

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I don't think that they know

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or remember anything that Sam felt

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when he was in their body,

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but I think that they leap back into their body

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and remember being in the waiting room

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and don't understand what has happened.

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At one point, I thought about

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maybe that's where all the stories come from about aliens,

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that people felt there were aliens when they came back.

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I think that when Sam leaps into someone's body,

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doing his thing, when he leaps back out

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and they are there left without Sam,

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they don't remember what Sam did,

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but they do have a sense of confusion

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about what's gone on with them

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during the time that the leap happened.

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It could drive somebody crazy,

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now that I think about it.

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<v Ziggy>When did you decide that Sam was married?</v>

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Did adding Donna to the series

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create complications for the characters moving forward,

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besides me?

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<v ->Adding Donna created complications for Sam</v>

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because suddenly he has a wife

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and that's complicated in itself.

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Donna was very much in love with Sam

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in a way he could do no wrong.

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She understood what was going on with his leaping.

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She wasn't very happy with him sleeping with other women,

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but she understood why.

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Sam was the love of her life

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and I think she went on and lived her life

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but she didn't hook up with anybody again, Sam was it.

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And I think she always hoped that Sam would return,

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but Sam was too busy helping other people

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than to help his own wife.

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<v Ziggy>What were your touchstones</v>

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in designing the future?

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<v ->Lights in blue boxes</v>

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and red boxes and yellow boxes [laughing]

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work very well for the future.

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The technology in the future was, of course,

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far in advanced of where we were.

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Sam designed "Quantum Leap," that was his baby.

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Al was part of it.

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<v Ziggy>You always have answers, Don.</v>

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why does everyone wear glowing lights?

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<v ->Well, it was the future.</v>

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So you had to have something glowing,

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like here in front of me now.

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And in the very first episode Sam's accoutrements,

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I had some part of it glowing and flashing.

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<v Ziggy>We know Al spends much of his time</v>

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covering for Sam.

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But when, or if the details ever got out,

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would the "Quantum Leap" project be considered a success?

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<v ->The government see it as a success?</v>

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Well, they kept financing it.

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So it had to be successful to the government on some level.

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Al was very good at raising funds from Congress

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and he had to explain "Quantum Leap" to them

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on a level they could understand.

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And he had to put out some teasers

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that in "Quantum Leap" uncover something

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that would be very positive

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for the government and for the country.

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He kept on that track when he met with Congress

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and that's how he got the money.

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He was a good talker

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<v ->For $43 billion he could at least</v>

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have altered the results of the last presidential election.

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<v ->I didn't tell any stories</v>

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where he would radically change history

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because we know what goes on in history.

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And that would have been as if the show was a pure fantasy,

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which, I didn't want the audience to feel that way.

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I wanted the audience to feel

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that there really was Sam out there leaping through time.

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There were certain things,

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he could only leap into people that were ordinary.

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That was what we started off with, that rule,

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which I broke a couple of times later in the show.

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The reason he could only leap into his own lifetime

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was to make the show believable.

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I didn't want it one day he'd leap into Rome

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and Caesar's time.

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I didn't want that.

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I wanted every show to feel like it could really happen.

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And that's why it had to be contemporary.

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<v Ziggy>What kind of challenges did you face</v>

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in producing a show that relied heavily on guest actors?

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<v ->The show was an opportunity to use a lot of actors.</v>

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I never found that to be a challenge,

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I found it to be an opportunity.

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I liked the idea of being able

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to pull different actors in from the acting pool.

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The stories that we wrote gave us that opportunity,

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which I think was very positive for the show.

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<v Ziggy>Is it true that the format of the show</v>

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was intentional and allowed you to use

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existing resources, sets, and costumes?

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<v ->Because we could leap into</v>

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just about any place in any time

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we did use a lot of the sets that existed at Universal.

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We'd drive around and see a set and think,

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how can we put that into a story?

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And we did it quite often.

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that it would normally have,

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using sets that had been paid for by another show.

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My favorite set was the bar.

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<v ->What d'ya got on tap?</v>

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<v ->By the way, my dad had that bar,</v>

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that bar was exactly replicated from the bar I was raised in

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until I was 18 years old and went off to college,

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including the beer taps, which were from my dad's bar,

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which was a real time trip for me,

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to be standing on that set

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as if I was standing at home 18 years or 20 years before.

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<v Ziggy>How controversial was it</v>

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to produce the Lee Harvey Oswald episodes?

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<v ->First of all when I created the show</v>

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because I had served with Lee Harvey Oswald

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in the Marine Corps.

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And I knew Lee Harvey Oswald.

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and multiple people behind it

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that I believe that Lee Harvey was the only guy that did it.

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And I knew that his type would react that way.

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So I decided to do the show.

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That episode was a little different for me

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because I started the same way I do any episode,

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I just start writing and something comes out,

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kill Kennedy in his lifetime.

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dealing with somebody who actually lived,

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killed the precedents.

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<v Ziggy>Was the evil leaper storyline</v>

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planned from the beginning?

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<v ->Evil leapers were only in, I believe,</v>

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I didn't have any plans to continue them.

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They were put in an episode by another writer.

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but I never really felt comfortable with the evil leapers.

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That's just a personal thing.

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I don't know why I didn't feel comfortable with them,

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So maybe I'm not too comfortable with that.

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It didn't feel the same as the other episodes to me,

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it felt different and it was different.

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<v ->Alia is not gone.</v>

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<v Ziggy>What were some of your ideas</v>

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for a potential season six?

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<v ->I didn't have a plan for season six.</v>

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It was going to be the same thing,

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to tell all the stories that we could tell.

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to tell any kind of story.

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you have to just go with whatever story was being told.

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I just planned to do a lot more individual stories

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<v Ziggy>Was Bruce McGill intentionally cast</v>

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as a callback to the pilot episode, "Genesis Part I?"

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<v ->Bruce was an actor that I loved working with</v>

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and I wanted to work with him again.

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And so that final episode I put Bruce in it.

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He was in the first one

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and put him in what turned out to be the last one.

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It was a, he's a delight to work with.

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Purely the producer's desire to have him in the show.

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<v Ziggy>How would you envision</v>

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a modern reboot of "Quantum Leap?"

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<v ->I think if I did "Quantum Leap" today</v>

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I'd do it just the same way I did it decades ago.

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I would tell the same type of stories,

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doing stories of individuals, their challenges.

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I would be able to use more sets from other shows

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and more modern sets,

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but it would basically be the same show.

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What made the show great was the stories

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and the interaction of the people,

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not the sets or the costumes or anything.

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How today's audiences would view the show,

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I don't think that view it any different

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than they did when we created it.

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It's the stories that were so good.

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And the people that I cast in the roles

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that made the show come alive.

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And I think the same thing would happened today.

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Wish I could do it again.

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I wouldn't serialize it.

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I got away from that.

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Never did it in the old show

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and I wouldn't do it in doing it again.

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I'd follow the same format.

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<v Ziggy>What happened to Sam after the finale?</v>

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Will he live forever, leaping at will,

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or will he eventually die?

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If he dies, what happens to his body?

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I don't think he ever went home.

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When that last episode ended

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and the show went off the air,

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One section was that Sam went on leaping forever.

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And the other section was that no, Sam leaped home

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and they wanted him to leap home.

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The fans have wanted him to leave home were upset with me.

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I got a lot of, not nasty,

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but I got a lot of negative letters from fans like that

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because I said that he went leaping on.

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Sam leaping on is the way the story has to go.

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Can't stop, it's his life work.

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He's making a choice to leap on

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because he has so many people to help,

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which every episode he helped somebody

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and he had to keep doing that.

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So he made a very conscious choice to keep leaping.

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He could have chosen to leap back home,

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he had that ability.

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I'd like to think that Sam could live forever

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but I doubt that would happen.

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I don't think anyone can live forever.

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So I think at some point his life had to come to an end

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but maybe along the way,

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Sammy Jo, daughter that he had,

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<v Sam>What's yours?</v>

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<v ->Sammy Jo.</v>

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<v ->There's a 91.9% chance</v>

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that Sammy Jo Fuller is your daughter.

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<v ->She could take up the mantle and it would continue.</v>

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<v ->She has an IQ of 194.</v>

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So she got her brains from her father.

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<v ->Potentially I saw that,</v>

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that Sammy Jo could take his place

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and it would be a different show,

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but she would keep leaping the same way that Sam did.

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But I couldn't have done it

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because Scott Bakula was so integral to the character

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and so important to the show

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that without him

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I don't think the show could have gone on.

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<v Ziggy>What do you think happened to Al</v>

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when Sam was left leaping forever?

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<v ->Well, that's an interesting question.</v>

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What happened to Al? [laughing]

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I hadn't thought what happened to Al.

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Dean Stockwell probably did.

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But I think Al would have been traveling along

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into the future along with him,

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would still be there as a sidekick.

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It would have to continue the storylines just as they had.

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Sam's connection to Al was like an umbilical cord.

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I don't think you could separate the two.

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Where Sam went Al would follow.

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Al wouldn't pass away, it's television.

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<v ->It's a dirty job,</v>

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but somebody's got to do it.

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<v ->Thank you for all the questions.</v>

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Hopefully someday Dr. Beckett will return home,

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but probably not.

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"Quantum Leap," may it come back again.

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[bright music]

