Quantum Leap (s02e02)

Disco Inferno

by Paul Brown, directed by Gilbert Shilton

• Release: 27 September 1989
• Format: TV Episode
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Disco’s not gonna last forever. I got a feeling it’s probably gonna die in a couple of years.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1970 to 1999: April 1976

Time Travel Methods

• Time Tethers: with an uncooperative retrieval mechanism

Themes

• Identity Illusion
• Incorporeal Traveler: Al
• Touched by a Time Traveler: Saves Chad’s younger brother Chris and softens their father.

Real-World Tags

• Gerald Ford: a small, but important, appearance on TV
• Lorne Greene: Footage from the 1974 movie Earthquake is spliced into the episode, showing Lorne Greene trying to save Sam from falling.
• Regis Philbin: left of Lorne Greene

Groupings

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

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From a honeymoon suite in Niagara Falls, New York, 27 or 28 April 1960 ⋙ to a disco in Burbank, California, 1 April 1976. Note: into stuntman Chad Stone.
2. From the Stone house in Burbank, California, 4 April 1976 ⋙ to getting off a bus in Oak Creek, Ohio, 4 August 1953. Note: into returning serviceman Charlie Mackenzie.
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.