NBC | Release Date: March 26, 1989
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Chicago TribuneClifford TerryJun 30, 2013
Season 1 Review: Familiar turf, but not bad, considering. Trouble is, the premise will wear out quickly. [24 Mar 1989, p.4]
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San Diego Union-TribuneRobert P. LaurenceJun 30, 2013
Season 1 Review: The only thing for sure about Quantum Leap is that it's a difficult show to explain to anybody, and that the more difficult it is to explain a show, the less likely it is to succeed. [25 Mar 1989, p.C-7]
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Miami HeraldSteve SonskyJun 30, 2013
Season 1 Review: It was all quite boring...What the series does have going for it is a nostalgic sense of humor and Bakula, whom some may recall from Eisenhower and Lutz, a midseason show that lasted about 10 minutes last spring. Bakula has this hound-dog kind of handsomeness and a certain goofy charm...What it has going against it, is its sheer nutty illogic. Even science fiction is supposed to have some ground rules. God? Holograms? Amnesia? Come on! This thing is just nonsense.
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Los Angeles TimesHoward RosenbergJun 30, 2013
Season 1 Review: Quantum Leap for the most part is so excruciatingly slow and laborious that you wonder if director David Hemmings was trapped in his own time warp. Yet Bakula does nicely, and the story ultimately accelerates and even yields some very affecting moments as Beckett intrudes on his own past. [25 Mar 1989, p.C6]