European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Sci fit magnum has winning ways Welt see this Guy named Sam from the future gets stuck in a time Warp and gets batted about from year to year Between 1953 and 1970, with Hologram named Albert for his Only real Friend. Each year he stumbles in to he gets stuck in a different person s body once he a a Black Sam s White in pre civil rights South once he s a woman who s having trouble with sexism. In the first episode he s a Pilot in the �?~50s in the California desert trying to make Mach 3 while his wife is Down on Earth going into labor. Well that s the Gist of quantum leap the new Abc drama from the creators of magnum . Making its debut on an to wednesday. But the Gist does t do it Justice quantum leap May sound like so much Sci i silliness but it s a very likable even plausible show if Lime travel were possible it s perfectly plausible that you d got stuck in it a and that you probably would t be running around in your own body while you re stuck. And if there s going to be a series about a time traveler they done to come Moro likable than this Sam Beckett a Young Geni a us who after the initial Shock submits to this time Warp Jam he got himself into with Grace and humor. A. Scott Bakula is Sam and while he s no Tom Sellack to look at he plays much the same sort of person As Selleck s magnum an average Joe who manages to fall for every hard Luck Story that comes along. A Doan Stockwell plays the sleek sidekick Albert who keeps cropping up As Hologram full of adventurous ideas for ways to gel Sam Back to his own time ,. Of course none of those ways work or at least they won t until the Torres gets cancelled. This May. Though be one of these series that goes on until its producers and stars think it s ready to end it s a Good enough series to last that Long speaking of endings tonight Midway through he season is the night we Lind out what happened to chief Gillespie in in the heat of the night. You May recall the last season ended with a Chi changer. The chill missing and All hell breaking Loose m Sparta the new season started a few weeks ago with Gillespie sitting at his desk with no explanation As to what happened to him. It otherwise a relatively quiet week on an a discover the world of science is the new nature science series for sunday mornings Tak my the place of National geographic for a while. And Oprah begins a 12-part series on alcoholism monday to feature such topics As living with alcoholics rip off rehabilitation centers recovering celebrity alcoholics and so Forth. Donahue starts his week tuesday with a program on Why men Don t get enough sex. Movies Worth watching the Parent trap this afternoon is a 1961 Disney classic about kids trying to get their divorced parents Back together one. Of the first films to use the Quot a Quot word no no. Not the original Odd couple a life goes on a the Story of an 10-year-old mildly retarded by Downs syndrome and his family is neither sickly Sweet or predictable. Seb will air it next saturday or sunday at a Lime to be announced. A. A. #21 jump Street a heart throbs go undercover starting their third year on seb tuesday night a Spear Fields a daughter a ludicrous Minise Ries about a woman who goes from reporter in Vietnam to chairman of the Board of a major pub Lishing Empire like that. Starting a Friday night a. A a a Murphy Brown a she s Back year two Star s wednesday night. A a life goes on Quot starts this weekend on Southern european broadcasting acc Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau Are paired in the Fortune cookie thursday As a swindling lawyer and his hapless brother in Law. The Black stallion is a Beautiful film to look at but a bit slow for anyone but kids. Well it is a kid s horse movie. Its on saturday afternoon. And killer instinct thursday has a Novice psychiatrist putting a supposedly dangerous mental patient Back on the streets and wondering if she should have with Melissa Gilbert and Woody har Relson inside to plus seb has a bumper crop of new and returning series for this hot August week a saved by the Bell a sort of a 1980s Dobie Gillis about a conniving girl chasing teen Ager and his pais on thursday afternoon leaping into a comfortable Niche bean Stork to ii the Veteran screen actor who plays Sam Beckett s fellow time traveler on quantum leap he was advised try Friend Dennis Hopper and Many others not to do series television. When tie began quantum leap he had just finished two films a married to the mob and Blue velvet. But Lias no regrets i have kids 4 and to Quot lie said. Quot my Job is to provide Tor whom i want to do a bang up Job of it until i a tie and trial s not for a while yet 1 tie sri is to Tkv i should keep the paychecks coining in ii 1-i lashed Trie 1989 90 season with a respectable 10 b Nelson rating. Atquit nut Range Tor in shows and was renewed Lor the 1990-91 season i he episode teat Reg Bakula portraying a Black Man is partially responsible Tor Abc s Faith in the show sad executive producer Donald Bolh Sano it showed them what we could do Quot but. He added Quot we can t do the shows we re capable of doing because we Don t have that audience locked m i can t bring Sam Beckett tuck As a dog i d really lose an audience we be been wanting to do a show when we bring him in As a baby Bui an audience would go crazy with that Quot a a Cox news service the Nielsen ratings to listings video reviews top 10 videos cafes movie schedules movie reviews top 10 movies 4 50 9 9 10 i 11 staff editor a it director production editorial assistance Sarah Bailor of Sharon Kisiday Lisa Williams Denise Adams Louis Pierce Marian Hamilton on the coi Ehi Charlie Sheen with co Star Michael Stehn left on he cover Hollywood s notion o f a Avny Seal. I he Story on Sheen and the Triin the on he adjacent Page. Asia is. Ltd stripes Purl Ica Tion c to plus sunday. August 5. 1990
