Second Season

Honeymoon Express - #9
April 27, 1960
Sam is Tom McBride, an NY City cop on his honeymoon whose
life is endangered by an ex-husband. Meanwhile, the Project is
in danger of being shut down, leaving Sam alone in the past, unless
he can stop the U2 from being shot down over Russia.
Airdate: September 20, 1989
Written By: Donald P. Bellisario
Directed By: Aaron Lipstadt
Guest Stars: Alice Adair, Mathieu Carriere, Hank Rolike, Warren Frost, and James Mastrantanio.

Disco Inferno - #10
April 1, 1976
As a stuntman, Sam has to keep his brother from getting killed
and convince their father to let his brother go his own way.
Airdate: September 27, 1989
Written By: Paul Brown
Directed By: Gilbert Shilton
Guest Stars: Michael Greene, Kris Kamm, Kelli Williams, Peter Onorato, and Arnetia Walker.

The Americanization Of Machiko - #11
August 4, 1953
Sam is a sailor returning from Japan with his new foreign wife.
He must avoid the prejudice of his ex-girlfriend and mother for
his new bride to be accepted.
Airdate: October 11, 1989
Written By: Charlie Coffey
Directed By: Gilbert Shilton
Guest Stars: K. Callan, Wayne Tippit, Leila Hee Olsen, Elena Stiteler, and Patrick Massett.

What Price Gloria? - #12
October 16, 1961
Shocked, Sam finds himself in the body of a beautiful female secretary
named Samantha Stormer. This time, Sam must cope with sexual harassment
at the office, prevent his (or should I say her?) roommate's suicide, all
the while avoiding Al's comments on his (Samantha's) beauty.
Airdate: October 25, 1989
Written By: Deborah Pratt
Directed By: Alan J. Levi
Guest Stars: Jean Sagal and John Calvin


Blind Faith - #13
February 6, 1964
Sam Leaps in to find himself at a piano, on a stage, in front of an entire
crowd of people, all focused on him, as he and they sit in silence.
"Oh, boy..." is all he can mutter when he realizes that he's in the body of a blind pianist
(although he can see) and he doesn't even remember how to play anything
other than "Chop Sticks".
Airdate: November 1, 1989
Written By: Scott Shepard
Directed By: David J. Phinney
Guest Stars: Cynthia Bain, Jennifer Rhodes, and Kevin Skousen.


Good Morning, Peoria - #14
September 9, 1959
Howlin' Chick Howell is his name and he's a DJ at a hot rock 'n roll
radio station that's about to be shut down. Can Sam save the station
from a bunch of conservative town elders and keep rock 'n roll alive in Peoria?
Airdate: November 8, 1989
Written By: Chris Ruppenthal
Directed By: Michael Zinberg
Guest Stars: Patricia Richardson, Richard McKenzie, Todd Merrill, and Chubby Checker.


Thou Shalt Not... - #15
February 2, 1974
As a rabbi, Sam must keep his sister-in-law from marrying a sleaz
and help the family cope with a horrible loss.
Airdate: November 15, 1989
Written By: Tammy Ader
Directed By: Randy Roberts
Guest Stars: James Sutorius, Terri Hanauer, Lindsay Fisher, Rush Tamblyn, and Jill Jacobson.

Jimmy - #16
October 14, 1964
Sam is Jimmy LaMotta, a mildly retarded man who is not
accepted by his new co-workers, and if Sam doesn't make some
changes, Jimmy's brother will have to reluctantly return Jimmy to the institution.
Airdate: November 22, 1989
Written By: Paul M. Belous and Robert Wolterstorff
Directed By: James Whitmore, Jr.
Guest Stars: John D'Aquino, Laura Harrington, Michael Allredge, Ryan McWhorter, and Michael Madsen.


So Help Me God - #17
July 29, 1957
Sam finds himself the defense attorney a young black woman accused of murdering
the son of the most powerful man in a small Louisiana town.
Airdate: November 29, 1989
Written By: Deborah Pratt
Directed By: Andy Cadiff
Guest Stars: Byrne Piven, Tyra Ferrell, Kathleen Noone, Ketty Lester,
John Apicella, Stacy Ray, Jon Shepard, and William Schallert.


Catch A Falling Star - #18
May 21, 1979
Sam Leaps into Ray Hutton, an understudy for the role of Cervantes.
Sam must prevent the drunken star from falling to the end of his career
during a Man of La Mancha performance.
Airdate: December 6, 1989
Written By: Paul Brown
Directed By: Donald P. Bellisario
Guest Stars: John Cullum, Michele Pawk, Janin Turner, Ernie Sabella, and Paul Sand.

A Portrait For Troian - #19
February 7, 1971
Sam is a parapsychologist who must prevent a young woman from
joining her late husband in his watery grave and prove she's not crazy.
Airdate: December 13, 1989
Written By: Scott Shepard, Donald P. Bellisario, and John Hill.
Directed By: Michael Zinberg
Guest Stars: Deborah Pratt, Robert Torto, and Carolyn Seymour.


Animal Frat - # 20
October 2, 1969
Sam Leaps into Knut "Wild Thing" Welton, a frat jock, and he must
win the love of a campus woman before she blows up the chemistry
building in protest of the Vietnam war.
Airdate: January 3, 1990
Writtey By: Chris Ruppenthal
Directed By: Gilbert Shilton
Guest Stars: Stacy Edwards, Raphael Sbarge, Darren Dalton, Brian Haley, Stuart Fratkin,
Robert Petkoff, and Edward Edwards (must have had interesting parents...).

Another Mother - #21
September 30, 1981
Sam is a single mother of three who must prevent her oldest
teenage son from running away, never to be seen again. Oddly enough,
the little girl of the family can see both Sam and Al.
Airdate: January 10, 1990
Written By: Deborah Pratt
Directed By: Joseph L. Scanlan
Guest Stars: Michael Stoyanov, Olivia Burnette, Troian Bellisario, Allison Barron, Andrew Held ,
Larron Tate, Kevin Telles, Eric Welch, Terrance Evans, and Michael Kemmerling.

All-Americans - #22
November 6, 1962
Sam must prevent his friend from throwing the high school's championship
football game and help bring their two families together.
Airdate: January 17, 1990
Written By: Paul Brown and Donald P. Bellisario
Directed By: John Cullum
Guest Stars: Richard Coca, Ruth Britt, Pepe Serna, Fausto Bara, and Robert Benedetti.

Her Charm - #23
September 26, 1973
Sam is an FBI agent who must protect a reluctant woman
from the mafia.
Airdate: February 7, 1990
Written By: Deborah Pratt, Donald P. Bellisario, Paul M. Belous, and Robert Wolterstorff.
Directed By: Chris Welch
Guest Stars: Teri Austin, Stanley Brock, John Snyder, Rene Assa, and John Shepherd.

Freedom - #24
November 22, 1970
AS a Native-American, Sam must escape jail and elude the police so
that he can take his grandfather to the reservation where he can die in peace.
Airdate: February 14, 1990
Written By: Chris Rupenthall
Directed By: Alan J. Levi
Guest Stars: Frank Sotonoma Salsedo, Leon Rippy, Gloria Hayes, and Tom Everett.



Good Night, Dear Heart - #25
November 9. 1957
As a coroner, Sam must prove his latest, a beautiful young woman, did not
commit suicide and was in fact, murdered.
Airdate: March 7, 1990
Written By: Paul Brown
Directed By: Christopher T. Welch
Guest Stars: Willaim Cain, Marcia Cross, Robert Duncan McNeill, Deborah Strang, and W. K. Stratton.


Pool Hall Blues - #26
September 4, 1954
To keep his daughter's bar from slipping into the hands of a loan shark,
Sam has to kick some serious butt, pool-style. The only problem is,
Sam's no pro at pool. But with a little help from Al and Ziggy, he just
might make a man out of himself yet.
Airdate:March 14, 1990
Written By: Randy Holland
Directed By: Joe Napolitano
Guest Stars: Shair Headley, J. W. Smith, Teddy Wilson, Ken Foree, and Robert Gossett.

Leaping In Without A Net - #27
November 18, 1958
Sam Leaps in, only to find himself dangling from a trapeze with his
sister, whom expects him to catch her as she does a triple flip.
Airdate: March 28, 1990
Written By: Tommy Thompson
Directed By:Christopher T. Welch
Guest Stars: Jan Triska, Fabiana Udenio, Richard Riehle, and Phil Fondacaro.

Maybe Baby - # 28
March 11, 1963
Taking care of a kid-napped baby, Sam is on the run with his
accomplice, who happens to be a compulsive liar, from the legal father
and the police.
Airdate: April 4, 1990
Written By: Paul Brown & Julie Brown
Directed By: Michael Zinberg
Guest Stars: Julie Brown, Jimmy Ray Weeks, Travis McKenna, Cathly McAuley, and Charles Frank.

Sea Bride - #29
June 3, 1954
Sam is set to marry the ex-wife of a mobster, but problems
arise when the mobster expresses his distate for the whole ordeal.
Airdate: May 2, 1990
Written By: Deborah Pratt
Directed By: Joe Napolitano
Guest Stars: Beverly Leech, John Hertzler, James Harper, Patricia Harty, Juliet Sorcey, Tony Maggio, and Louis Guss.

M . I . A . - #30
April 1, 1969
As an undercover cop, Al tells Sam that his mission is to tell
a navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive to prevent her from
marrying a lawyer she meets. Eventually, Sam begins to wonder about the true
nature of his mission.
Airdate: May 9, 1990
Written By: Donald P. Bellisario
Directed By: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast: Jason Beghe, Susan Diol, Norman Large, Pat Skipper, William Shockley, Sierra Pecheur,
Letitia Vasquez, and Dan Ziskie.