The irony of Al having all daughters is priceless. You just know he’s going to be like DeNiro in meet the parents.
I'm glad that Al ended up with Beth. How sweet.
How is it I've loved this show since I was a kid and I've only NOW discovered this scene. Awesome.
Time to leap, Dean. Rest in peace! 🙌
Very interesting, what would have Season 6 looked like if it had been picked up. I watched every episode of the show here in the UK on BBC 2 on Thursday nights and I was very disappointed with the Season 5 finale as we're a lot fans at the time. Scott Bakula has done many different show since QL ended, but to me he will always be remembered as Dr Sam Beckett, the traveller lost in time putting right what once went wrong.
As Sam now has free will to leap anywhere, anytime, and with Al leaping (at least once), Season 6 would have turned the entire show on its head. It could have been very different. I would have loved to have seen it.
i have imagined season six as a more complex one, now Sam can return, and does often, to his own time at will and his motivations for helping people are different, I imagined more from the Evil Leapers, like discovering their origins and motivations and even a fight between Ziggy and Lothos, and at some point holograms are able to see each other and exchange insults, and maybe Sam is able to overcome that thing that prevents time travel from within one's own lifetime, and even some other kinds of time travellers with different technologies like homages and spoofs of Doctor Who and Back to the Future
@@Panchosama2 Donald Bellesario has stated in a different video here on UA-cam that the Evil Leapers weren't his favorite and that he considered that mini-arc closed when it completed so I'm assuming that they most likely would not have been in Season 6.
@@solracer66 I don't have the article in front of me, but decades ago, I read a Star Trek fan magazine interview with Carolyn Seymour, the actress who played Zoey, the evil equivalent of Al (she had also played a Romulan on Star Trek: The Next Generation); in that interview, she hinted at plans for Zoey's return, had Quantum Leap been renewed for a sixth season.
So, perhaps that story wasn't done; even if Alia, the (formerly evil) Leaper, was now free from her handlers, it seems unlikely (to me) that an evil time project would just shut down and stop violating history, when they could just recruit someone else to replace Alia. It might also be a chance to explore the corrupting influences of malevolent time travel; after all, if Sam's influence on *real* history saved Jackie Kennedy in Dallas, and let Marilyn Monroe survive to 1962, which actual historical horrors might've been caused by time travelers with dark plans? Helter Skelter? The Oklahoma City attack? Chernobyl?
I like Quantum Leap too I'm Polish, here in Poland we watched iconic British TV show about time travel, you know which one ;-)
The Doctor Who and I liked it too ☺️
RIP Dean Stockwell
So nice to finally see this footage after waiting 26 years LOL!!😉💕🙌
This is an amazing find and would have been an exciting direction for the show. Maybe for a reboot we could have Sam’s daughter search for Sam?
@@brittanyscott9994 Sam's daughter had a sex change and is the new leaper in the reboot airing now. Sadly, that's a bad joke.
This would make a great movie ending. How Sam has ventured through time for so long, that now he is found and gets to live his last years on his own timeline. And not only that, he is visited by every family that he saved.
this would have been a better ending than "dr sam becket never made it home." ugh.
@Zephyr Stobart This ending would have made zero sense. The entire series is based off the principles of String Theory. By saving Al's marriage in 1967, Sam ensured they would never meet in the 1980s during the Starbright Project. Al's life as established on the show- the compulsive behavior, the womanizing, the 3 failed marriages, the alchohol abuse, the gambling, the issues with authority in the military- would have never occured. Al's life would have taken a completely different path and he and Sam would have never met. By saving Al's marriage Sam condemned himself to leaping for eternity
@Zephyr Stobart I'm sure thats how the show producers would have tried to explain it, but that is weak and does not follow the principles of String Theory, or the principles established as the foundation of the entire show. When Sam changes "X event", there is a domino effect and history is changed forever. By saving a kid's life in 1954, cancer is cured in 2010. By making a Klansman see the folly of his ways in 1964, he saves the life of a black child that goes on to be a Civil Rights leader, etc. By saving Al's marriage in 1967, Al becomes an entirely different person and Sam and Al never meet in 1984.
I knew they had this scripted and saw a few promo shots, but I never knew they actually shot this scene. Wow. It's sad that he passed now 😥
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Thank you for posting this❤.
Loved this show and these two guys
R.I.P. Dean Stockwell😢
Supposedly, NBC'S streaming network PEACOCK may continue or reboot the series.....
We needed season 6!
What was so disappointing is the lightning strike that switched Sam and Al was a great setup for the next season, then they did almost nothing with it, returning Al to his shallow life with Tina. Even if they alternated leaps that would have been something.
A friend introduced me to this tv show, I wish they’d add this as the ending instead of the other version that aired. All the good that Sam did, and he doesn’t return home. 100% let down after five seasons.
Now that there’s a new quantum leap the producers should add this scene to a flashback. I could be between Beth and Janice. Or Beth and magic talking about Al
The ending was sad, but I always kind of thought it fit. I'm in the minority, I know, but some stories just have to stop.
I am glad it's coming back on it might have new people in it but I hope Scott comes back in 1 or more episodes
Hope one of Al’s daughters appears in the new/continuation series; at least as an homage to the late Dean Stockwell.
As a kid I will always be forever disappointed with the ending of Quantum Leap.
It would have been nice if they showed this while my mother was alive. She LOVED that show. Sad.
With Sam going from leaping into others instead leaping as himself with no more guide, that tells me that he died when he stepped into the accelerator. The 5 years with Al guiding him were his final trials he went through before becoming an angel
A lot of fans believe this. And it's definitely bolstered by us having an episode with an angel. Between the Bartender, Vampires, a murderous Mummy, and the Devil, Quantum Leap was never just a sci-fi show. In fact, they took every opportunity to subvert our expectations of the science.
Thank you for this - I appreciate your efforts.
I really liked the ending to QL....it was memorable and left some ambiguity. Reminiscent of Saphire and Steel or Blakes 7. So many shows end with something that is forgettable and ties everything up in a neat bow.....life just isnt like that.
Just because real life doesn't neatly resolve everything doesn't mean that fiction has to do the same.
W O W ! Thank you for cleaning it up
They should have shown this ending even if they weren't going to renew the series. It is so much better than the one that aired.
Just discovered this today..! wow thanks for this... looking forward to the new TV Movie.. its in the pipeline...
I love Quantum Leap! I'd love to see a sequel to it and I know how it would go too. Sam wakes up and asks to see Al. He is taken to the room where Al had stepped into the White Room trying to find him wherever Sam had went to next. Al as a HOLGRAM walks out and says I simply couldn't find him and Sam walks up to the HOLOGRAM and says Here I am AL! Then Al in a voice that can be recreated by the countless episodes he's been on and out takes says, I was looking for you everywhere. I couldn't find you, but now I am just a hologram left for you to listen to and know that you are welcome home. The guys have put together a device that you can wear to keep you here for good. Or if you want to you can have Ziggy and go forward on the same journey as I did with you. This could either be a full 2 hour long movie END or a NEW SERIES! Just a thought! What is your take?
I think they’re rebooting it and having a girl as the main character and the actor who played Al is dead so
why did Don Bellisario deny this existed? clearly he knew it did.
It would have been nice to see al leap to get Sam back home
I wish they aired this one. Great ending
This was a much better ending.
thank you this is a very good edit 💙👏I like how she says of course admiral calavicci had nothing to do with finding him because supposedly Sam was the leaper " the hero " Al was his buddy and helper .
wow this been very interesting season 6 and bad ass too
I have to look at it again I have no idea what that was. I was a huge fan of the show, I had no problem with ending that aired, it made me cry. It was also trippy (Spoiler coming)
To see Sam go back to a past leap to tell Al's wife he was still alive after choosing not to the first time. It just showed the true bond and friendship Al and Sam had. Sam sacrificed his life for Al, I feel like crying as I type this.
P.S. I know Sam isn't dead, I just mean he gave up going home for Al to have a better one.
Agreed. I like the fact that the ending wasn't tied up into a pretty bow with a happy ending. I also like, as you say, Sam sacrficed his life for Al's happiness. By going back he changed the entire trajectory of Al's life, and thus prevented Sam and Al from ever meeting, keeping Sam in limbo eternally
@@scottlindsey8313 Right! and it was a great call back to original episode where Sam opted out of telling Al's wife he was still alive. I remember how emotional that ep was, how upset Al was when same said he wasn't going to do it. The dance Al had with his wife trying to tell her not to give up on him he was alive.
The Al character went from woman to woman because he only loved his wife, so you know it was going to be a life changing thing for Al when he got his wife and they had children, it was bitter sweet for all Quantum Leap Fans that knew Al and Sam.
@@KaijudoMaster11 Yes, the entire trajectory of his life would have been changed in 1969. The compulsive behavior implied throughout the series- the womanizing, the boozing, the gambling, the negative interactions with authority which stunted his military career- would have never occured, thus, he would have never participated in the Starbright Project in the mid 1980s and never met Sam.
Sam, in effect, doomed himself to eternal purgatory, one which, according to God in the final episode, was going to get even more difficult
@@scottlindsey8313 The original Mirror Image ending crushed my soul because I took it as not only did Sam and Al never meet, but Sam left his wife Donna and daughter Sammy Jo at the Project and never bothered to go see them, even though he now had the free will to do so. Don Bellisario later said that Sam and Al still met and Al still became part of PQL, but just this 60 second scene would have made that clear and still left a LOT of questions open and a lot of mystery (and probably left the door open for a movie or continuation) without being the cruel punch in the face of the original. That "Dr. Sam Becket [sic.] never returned home." slammed the door on any sequel or continuation.
@Marty McFly II Correct. Guess she was too big a star or too busy to reprise her role for The Leap Back.
Great 😊
Why does the quality of the film (or is it video?) look so different than what we're accustomed to seeing being broadcast when Quantum Leap aired? I understand post production to do color correction, fix problems with audio if there are any. This footage looks like it was shot with a lower quality camera as if this was just a rehearsal and the scene will be shot again on a higher quality camera with film fit for broadcast. On the show, the look and feel of the scenes made it seem like I am in the room with them, looking at this video, I feel like I am watching a rough cut and it's time to shoot the scene with a different camera fit for broadcasting the footage, quality wise .
This is at least a 3rd generation copy of a VHS dub of the original master. It's the real scene taken from the original film recording, otherwise it wouldn't have the color cards and would be from a different angle, taken from a handheld video camera. It's just been through so many generations of loss that this is the shape it's in now.
Also it's amazing what music, sound effects by a foley artist, and removal of environmental sounds (the clapper, rustling of fabric, breathing, and other noises which would be removed during the post-production process) does to turn an average visual recording into broadcast quality material. The use of microphones suggests that it was not a rehearsal.
This has been confirmed as real by a superfan who owns a much better copy of the footage -- and who expressed *disappointment* that the footage was now out in the open in 2020.The QL fandom has a pronounced inner / outer circle dynamic I've never fully grasped despite being a fan since the show was new.
@Marty McFly II No because it wasn't used in the final episode. It's like a deleted scene. If you watch DVDs of movies and TV shows with deleted scenes they often don't have music or effects.
@@feldon27 I hate elitist fans like that! "Fans" like him are probably the reason why some lost media (like the early episodes of Doctor Who) stay missing for so long; they hoard them because they think stuff like that is only for them and not plebians like us...😑
Great video ! I don't understand why thet don't edit this scene in the finale...
Because if they left this ending in, it would've left an open ending to the series, I guess NBC wanted the audience to know that the series was done and not coming back.
@@10mtproductions55 hello, I could have the scipt of the scene in question in full to better understand please Thank you!
@@boss324100 I don't have a script, but I remember seeing it online so you should be to find it.
10MT Productions originally I think if there was a season 6 al was supposed to “leap” after Sam. But since it was cancelled they went with the original ending.
I couldn't hear it
Quantum leap Sam 😥😥😥😥😭😭😭😭
I don't think I knew this existed. Had the show been able to continue, it would have made for an interesting ending.
I think this ending would have increased the chances of the show continuing or getting a followup movie. Putting "Dr. Becket (sic.) never returned home." slammed the door on a continuation.
i had first 2 season on dvd and last 3 season is on BLU RAY
Is Sliders a sequel to Quantum Leap? I know they were on another network and all but they did have a Maggie Beckett on there. It is my theory that Sam's leaps into the past caused all the alternate timelines that the Sliders visit!
I wish they would have made more. The writer in me tries to think how this would have worked. Because since Beth waited for Al. Al would have never met Sam. So how does Al know to look for him? Would Sam have known Al? And what about Donna? This is why I love Sci Fi . There are always possibilities. I wish they could do one final movie. But I know Mr Stockwell has since had a stroke. And I don't want to see it with a different cast.
AL is a hologram. So they could use a 3D holographic projection with audio and video deep fakes. AL could be a virtual human actor. Not sure if that would be a first for Hollywood.
@@chamcham123 I think they did something like in the 8th Star Wars movie Carrie Fisher died and they used cgi or something for her to be in it I’m not exactly sure how they did it but I’m pretty sure she was somehow in the movie
We didn't see the whole conversation of how Sam convinced Beth(?) that Al was alive. Maybe he also told her that Al was his best friend and needed to be part of the Quantum Leap project when the time came.
@@sandal_thong8631 that makes sense I mean how else would Al know anything about quantum leap if he wasn’t told about it
How did u find this
@@feldon27
Thank you for finding this...and THANK YOU for the SUBTITLES !!!!
That doesn't look like the same actress who played Beth the first time around.
Susan Diol played Beth in M.I.A. and Mirror Image. In an interview on the Quantum Leap Podcast, she recalls shooting this scene.
@@feldon27 True she does look different? I know it is Susan Diol and this is suppose to the the future timeline so of course she wouldn't look the same as she did when Sam told her Al is coming home!
The aired ending was better, this ending making no sense. I'm glad they cut this ending.
What was the point of posting this? You can't hear a damn thing.
@@twhmmh Yes. I am. My time isn't free. This is time that could have been spent ruining someone's day.
Dr Sam Beckett never returned home is a bigger cop out for an ending than any other show ever. (Alright, that I can think of off the top of my head but still. It was a terrible ending
It would have been better if we discover he went home to his parents and saw his brother and sister and started a new life e.g. leaping as himself back to his new home, when as, as in the last episode we discover Sam control when and where he leaps nothings else, he controls his own destiny.🧧
RIP Dean Stockwell, you will always be Al to me.
Me too😢❤