Product Details

• Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Deborah Pratt, Dennis Wolfberg, W.K. Stratton
• Directors: John Cullum
• Writers: Donald P. Bellisario
• Producers: Deborah Pratt, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Chris Ruppenthal, Donald P. Bellisario, Joanne Oboyski
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303049230
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,085 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, August 31, 2000

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Marissa (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantum Leap: Leap Home [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Why they took this TV show off is beyond me, especially when they came out with episodes like this one. How you could watch the ending of this two-parter without choking up is also beyond me. In part one, Sam leaps into himself as a teenager who must win a school basketball game. But Sam is too caught up in trying to save his family to care about the game. Al has to convince him of his real assignment so that he can leap. (The scene where Al says he would give anything to tell his family he loves them again is especially touching) Part two has Sam in Vietnam with his brother Tom, trying to pull off a successful mission (and trying to save his brother in the process). Time stood still during the last couple minutes of this episode.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful episode, May 8, 2000

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Michael Hickerson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantum Leap: Leap Home [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Television rarely, if ever, gets better than this. Kicking off the third season of the show, Sam gets what he's always wanted--a chance to go home. But instead of to the future we'd only seen hinted about, Sam leaps into himself as a high schooler at Thanksgiving. It's a time of relative innocence before his brother went to Vietman and his father began his battle with cancer and high blood pressure. Sam thinks he can save his dad and his brother and attempts to do so. However, he has relatively little success and is forced to leap to Vietnam to try and save his older brother from dying.

Written by Donald P. Bellisario, this is Quantum Leap at it's best. The script is just amazingly nuanced and showed off the strengths of the show to a tee. Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell raise the bar yet again in their performances and give their characters a human side that is simply amazing.

And the ending...well, I can't say anything here. Because if you haven't seen it, it'll ruin it all. And if you have, well, then you know what I'm talking about. I defy anyone to watch the final ten minutes without a lump in their throat and a tear in their eye.

It's simply that good.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sam leaps home and tries to save his brother's life, June 18, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quantum Leap: Leap Home [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am ashamed to admit that the two-parts of "The Leap Home" were the first episodes of "Quantum Leap" that I ever watched. Of course, once it was over I never missed another episode of this most unique television series starring Scott Bakula. Part I, "The Leap Home - November 25, 1969" (Episode #32, September 28, 1990), finds Sam has leaped into himself at the age of 16. Ziggy says Sam is home to help his team win the state high school basketball championship but Sam insists he is going to save his father (also played by Bakula) from dying, his sister (Olivia Burnette) from marrying the wrong man, and his brother Tom (David Newsom) from dying in Vietnam. At one point Sam actually tries to convince them he knows the future, until his singing John Lennon's "Imagine" terrifies his sister. At the end he wins the game, but Al informs him Tom still dies in Vietnam. Sam calls his brother's name and leaps into "Magic," a Navy SEAL in his brother's squad in Vietnam.

"The Leap Home, Part II (Vietnam) - April 7, 1970" (#33, October 5, 1990), takes place in the days before Tom Beckett's death in Vietnam. Sam does not know if he is there to prevent Tom's death or simply to ensure that his mission is a success. Trying to do both, Sam uses a female reporter (Andrea Thompson) to help him out. But in the end he learns that saving one life effects others. The surprising consequences that his efforts have provides one of the biggest shocks I have ever seen on television. Absolutely stunning and a scene that continues to bring tears to my eyes. Tia Carrere is in this episode as a Vietnamese woman. Not surprisingly, both parts of "The Leap Home" were written by series creator Donald P. Bellisario. This is epic television of the first rank. It simply does not get any better than this, people.