Liberation – Episode 88

Liberation was the thirteenth episode of Quantum Leap’s fifth season to air, with Sam leaping into a protestor whose campaign for equal rights does not sit well with her husband. In this episode Gerry and Iain discuss masculine insecurity.

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Sam leaps into Margaret Sanders, a middle-aged woman he finds attending a women’s lib rally with her daughter, Suzie (Megyn Price). She is enraptured by the group’s charismatic leader, Diana St. Cloud (Deborah Van Valkenburgh), though Sam has some concerns about her proposed methods.

At home, Sam faces further problems as her husband, George (Max Gail), and her son, George Jr (Elan Rothschild) struggle to understand her perspective. Meanwhile, George must seek favours from the police chief, Donald Tipton (Stephen Keep Mills) even as he decides whether to promote the policeman’s son Peter (Bill Calvert) or his more talented female colleague, Evy Brownfield (Jordan Baker).

Liberation was directed by Bob Hulme, the last of his three episodes behind the camera. The writers were Deborah Pratt, the nineteenth of her twenty writing credits on the show, and Chris Abbott, her only Quantum Leap script.

In this episode Gerry and Iain considered leverage.

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Liberation was released in 1993. It is 46 minutes long and originally aired on the NBC network. It can be viewed on NBC’s Peacock streaming service in the UK and in the United States. The show is available on DVD and Blu Ray in other countries