Honeymoon Express
- by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by Aaron Lipstadt
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Honeymoon Express” by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by Aaron Lipstadt (NBC-TV, USA, 20 September 1989).
Sam pops into newly married Tom McBride (a New York policeman), who is headed to Niagara Falls with his new bride (a budding lawyer and the daughter of a senator). The two of them engage in the usual honeymoon activities—fighting off ex-boyfriend thugs, rolling underneath moving trains, studying for the bar exam—while unbeknownst to Sam, Al is at a Senate committee meeting in Washington, D.C., fighting for the life of Project Quantum Leap. Oh, yes, and it’s now official: Sam and Al believe that God has taken control of the project, although Al refuses to be pinned down as to which god she is.
—Michael Main
This committee has decided that your 2.4 billion dollar funding request for Project Quantum Leap . . .
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: the tree in 1957
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: 27 April 1060
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Tethers: with an uncooperative retrieval mechanism
- Themes
- Identity Illusion
- Incorporeal Traveler: Al
- Touched by a Time Traveler: Saves Ginger. And also touched Tom and Diane.
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- “Honeymoon Express” by Donald P. Bellisario, directed by Aaron Lipstadt (NBC-TV, USA, 20 September 1989).