The plot for the six episodes leapt very much wherever Adams wanted to go on the day, but led to a pivotal gag that went like this; a giant computer called Deep Thought, having spent exactly 7.5m years pondering on Life, the Universe and Everything finally and solemnly announces that the Ultimate Answer is... "Forty two".
They might go weeks and months without thinking of the houses and neighborhoods they had grown up in, their triumphs of shame and glory, the jobs and routines and hobbies that had slowly eaten away their lives, yet the smallest, most inconsequential episode would leap into their thoughts a hundred times a day, like a fish smacking its tail on the surface of a lake.
Carl Cortez of iFMagazine.com said this episode improved "leaps and bounds", and was a "step in the right direction".
What was your favourite Quantum Leap episode?
The episode of Quantum Leap I miss is the one where Sam Beckett briefly makes it back home.
For the episode airing on Leap Day 2012, "Modern Family" (Wed., 9 p.m. EST on ABC) embraced the holiday in two of their three storylines.
He seemed both amused and embarrassed, as if it were an episode of Quantum Leap and he had ended up there quite by accident.
He seemed both amused and embarrassed, as if it were an episode of Quantum Leap, and he had ended up there quite by accident.
(Mr. Borle's lively if romantic stint from Monday's episode, as he leaps from the writers' table to fill in as a singing, dancing Darryl F. Zanuck in his own musical, can be seen online).
Though there will be some flashbacks for the ladies of Wisteria Lane, the coming season's episodes will mostly leap forward in time and remain there.
