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Unsolved Mysteries: Quantum Leap’s Don Bellisario on the fate of Sam Beckett

Produced by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Ron Douglas. Click here for transcript. (video link)

Fresh from our talk with Warhammer remembrancer Dan Abnett on the unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer universe, we now turn our attention to a science fiction property with a bit less grimdark: the one where a polymath with an eidetic memory invents time travel and things go, as they say, a little kaka. Grab your handlinks and step into the imaging chamber because it’s time to talk about Quantum Leap.

We were lucky enough to snag some time with legendary TV producer Donald P. Bellisario, whose name has graced the closing credits of some of the most influential and popular TV shows of the ’80s and ’90s—including Airwolf, Magnum, P.I., and of course Quantum Leap. Though he’s now retired, Bellisario gamely agreed to allow an Ars film crew—with props!—into his California home to badger him with occasionally obscure questions about what is easily the best time-travel show ever to grace television.

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