Quantum Leap (s01e07)

The Color of Truth

by Deborah Pratt, directed by Michael Vejar

• Release: 3 May 1989
• Format: TV Episode
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

You’re hear to save her tomorrow, not to initiate the civil rights activity in the South.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1950 to 1959: 8–10 August 1955

Time Travel Methods

• Time Tethers: with an uncooperative retrieval mechanism

Themes

• Identity Illusion
• Incorporeal Traveler: Al is mostly incorporeal in this episode.
• Touched by a Time Traveler: Sam’s touch affects Nell Tyler, Miz Melny, and the entire town

Real-World Tags

• Civil Rights Movements

Groupings

• Quantum Leap (TV series)
• Quantum Leap (franchise)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From a bingo game in the St. Francis church, Brooklyn, New York, 9 November 1965 ⋙ to standing in Patty’s Cafe in Rigada, Alabama, 8 August 1955. Note: into Jesse Tyler, an elderly Blxck man.
2. From sitting at the lunch counter in Patty’s Cafe in Rigada, Alabama, 10 August 1955 ⋙ to San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles, 6 June 1961. Note: into Jesse Tyler, an elderly Blxck man.
3. From the imaging chamber at the project lab, New Mexico desert, circa 1996 ⋙ to various locations and times in the episode at an unknown time. Multiple round trips. Note: Al’s hologram.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

• Melny Trafford was not a real historical person.