Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam
Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project known as "Quantum Leap."
Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr.
Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator, and vanished......
He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own.
Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brain wave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Dr.
Beckett can see and hear.
Trapped in the past, Dr.
Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap
will be the leap home..........
You know, maybe this quantum leaping isn't such a bad deal after all. Getting a chance to put things right, to make the
world a better place - who knows what I can accomplish before I'm done.
-- Sam
Beckett, "
Genesis"