Physicist and all-around good guy Sam Beckett rushes his time machine into production—funding is about to be cut!—and as a consequence, he leaps into the life of a USAF test pilot, where Sam and his holographic cohort Al have a moral mission. And after setting things right in that pilot’s life, Sam—“oh, boy”—takes a few moments to win the big baseball game in 1968.
—Inmate Jan
One end of this string represents your birth, the other end your death. You tie the ends together, and your life is a loop. Ball the loop, and the days of your life touch each other out of sequence, therefore leaping to one point in the string to another . . .

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  1. “Genesis” by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by David Hemmings (26 March 1989) [double-length broadcast].
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Indexer Notes

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  1. Debut—The feature-length pilot episode first aired on 26 March 1989. During reruns, it was generally split into two one hour episodes, which we number as [s01e01] and [s01e02], although it also had at least one airing (13 September 1989) in a cut-down 90-minute format. Only the tail end of the second part takes Sam to his second host, a baseball player in 1968.