ORIGINAL original opening narration
Christian Bladt
the show? It was about the middle of the second season(perhaps even
earlier). It was a very deep man's voice. I never knew who he was.
I saw every episode in it's first run on NBC, and every week after that
they used the voice of Ziggy. And, every week before that it had been
Sam giving a re-cap of the previous Leap. So,I guess what I'm asking
is, "Does anybody have any idea who that guy was?" I guess I'll also
ask if any of you remember this also.
-KT...@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU ((Christian Bladt))
Roger C38
Tess Was Won". The actor who did the voice over appeared in the episode as
Tess's father, and had a recurring role on Magnum, P.I. as Buck Murdock.
However, I've drawn a blank as to what his name is!
Roge...@AOL.com
Roger C38
I knew I had it someplace ...
Roger
Blue Cornejo
It was Ziggy before she turned into a girl ;-)
Blue.
Michael Brian Baggett
>Organization: Marist College
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> Does anybody besides me remember the first narration that was on
>the show? It was about the middle of the second season(perhaps even
>earlier). It was a very deep man's voice. I never knew who he was.
>I saw every episode in it's first run on NBC, and every week after that
>they used the voice of Ziggy. And, every week before that it had been
>Sam giving a re-cap of the previous Leap. So,I guess what I'm asking
>is, "Does anybody have any idea who that guy was?" I guess I'll also
>ask if any of you remember this also.
>-KT...@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU ((Christian Bladt))
You forgot one. The show also used to start with Sam telling the
audience about PQL and before it would go to the music (pre-
introductory-scene-oh-boy beginning) the last sentence he would say was,
"Sort of like the lone-ranger, except I don't need a mask....Oh boy."
Then the theme music would play and then he would recap the previous leap.
Lest you think you already mentioned that, there were some episodes (Catch a
Falling Star comes to mind) where there was no saga sell, just a recap
and then the theme song (those were the episodes I think you're referring
to). Just something I noticed...
Brian
Jonas Green
<KT...@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU> writes:
> Does anybody besides me remember the first narration that was on
>the show? It was about the middle of the second season(perhaps even
>earlier). It was a very deep man's voice. I never knew who he was.
It was the dawn of the last age of Mankind. And the Dusk, and the early
evening and the mid afternoon.
The year that everything happened, and everything happened differently.
The year is 1998, the name of the place is Project Quantum Leap.
-montalvo m.a.
Jonas Green <jgre...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In <30JAN95.09...@MUSICB.MARIST.EDU> Christian Bladt
><KT...@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU> writes:
>
>
>> Does anybody besides me remember the first narration that was on
>>the show? It was about the middle of the second season(perhaps even
>>earlier). It was a very deep man's voice. I never knew who he was.
>
>It was the dawn of the last age of Mankind. And the Dusk, and the early
>evening and the mid afternoon.
The Quantum Leap project was a dream given form. It was our last,
best hope for putting right what once went wrong.
>The year that everything happened, and everything happened differently.
>The year is 1998, the name of the place is Project Quantum Leap.
>
Maria
LAJAndy
>> Does anybody besides me remember the first narration that was on
>>the show? It was about the middle of the second season(perhaps even
>>earlier). It was a very deep man's voice. I never knew who he was.
>It was the dawn of the last age of Mankind. And the Dusk, and the early
>evening and the mid afternoon.
>The year that everything happened, and everything happened differently.
>The year is 1998, the name of the place is Project Quantum Leap.
ALL RIGHT NOW, we're not having any Quantum Leap 5 or Babylon Leap in
here!
And besides, the actual name of the PLACE was Stallions Gate, New Mexico.
;)
Andy
KFB OF PQL
narration), here is the info as compiled for my Common Questions posts
years ago and just updated. I think Freda tried to post this for me, but
just in case...
*QUESTION #7: WHAT IS THE SAGA CELL? HOW MANY VERSIONS OF IT HAVE THERE
BEEN? by Karen Funk Blocher
The "saga cell" (sometimes spelled "saga sell") is Don Bellisario's
name for the introduction to the show before each leap-in. It premiered
with the first airing of "Another Mother" on January 10, 1990, with Lance
LeGault (Chance in "How the Tess Was Won") providing the voice-over. The
next week Version 2 premiered, with Deborah Pratt taking over the
voice-over duties for every saga cell from that night on.
Version 1 was this: "Theorizing that one could time travel within his
own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the
desert to develop a top secret Project known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to
prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into
the Project Accelerator--and vanished! He awoke to find himself in the
past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was
not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through
brainwave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer, who appears in the
form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear. Trapped in the
past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things
right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap is the
leap home."
For Version 2 one word was changed slightly, and the music was
different. Two more changes followed during the rest of Season Two and
the summer rerun season, so that by Season Three the show was up to
Version 5, using the same wording that we have today. Version 6 premiered
with "Play Ball" on 9/25/91, adding footage from "The Leap Back" and some
third season episodes. Version 7, with clips from "Lee Harvey Oswald" and
"Leaping of the Shrew," premiered with "Lee Harvey Oswald" on 9/22/92.
Version 8, starting with "Killin' Time" on 10/20/92, was virtually
identical to Version 7, except that the clips from "A Single Drop of Rain"
and "So Help Me God" are reversed, leaping Sam into the week's episode
from "So Help Me God." "Mirror Image" did not have a saga cell because the
episode ran long.
Prior to "Another Mother," each leap-in had a voice-over in which Sam
recapped the previous leap, philosophized about leaping in general and
related these thoughts to the new leap in which he found himself. One of
them tallied what he had accomplished to that point--number of lives
saved, number of couples put together, and helping Buddy Holly with the
lyrics to Peggy Sue. These were a neat look into Sam's character, but as
time went on they were not sufficient to introduce the show to new
viewers. Also, they tied the show to the original episode order, which
could be bad news for later reruns. And so the saga cell was introduced.
However, in the first season, Sam's voice-over "segues" didn't carry
the whole burden of introducing the show. Scott as Sam also provided his
own early saga cell, which I call Version 0: "It all started when a time
travel experiment I was conducting went a little 'kaa-kaa.' In the blink
of a cosmic clock, I went from quantum physicist to Air Force test
pilot--which could have been fun--if I knew how to fly. Fortunately, I had
help, an Observer from the Project named Al. Unfortunately, Al's a
hologram, so all he can lend is moral support. Anyway, here I am, bouncing
around in time, putting things right that once went wrong, a sort of time
traveling Lone Ranger with Al as my Tonto. And I don't even need a mask!"
Karen Funk Blocher