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Series 1 episodes:

Genesis (AKA The Pilot Episode)
Star-Crossed
The Right Hand Of God
How The Tess Was Won
Double Identity
The Color Of Truth
The Camikazi Kid
Play It Again, Seymour


Genesis/The Pilot:13th September, 1956 & September 1968

Sky One airdate:01/06/96, 04/06/96

This is it, the one that started it all - originally shown in two parts. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr Beckett stepped into the project accelerator - and vanished. His time travel experiment was a success, but he was stuck back in 1956. Ziggy decided that his best chance of getting back was to 'right a wrong' in Tom Stratton's (the person he leaped into) life. He has to break Mach-3 in an experimental aircraft.
He then leaped into a baseball player and had to help the team to stay up in the league.

RATING:7/10 - A fair starter. A shame we don't see more of the future.

Star-Crossed:15th June, 1972

Sky One airdate:05/06/96

Sam is a drunken professor at Lawrence College - the same college as Donna, the woman who walked out on him when she and Sam were getting married. Sam breaks his own rules of time travel to try and get back together with her.

RATING:8/10


The Right Hand Of God:24th October, 1974

Sky One airdate:06/06/96

Sam is Kid Cody, a boxer. He has to win a championship fight so the nuns can build a new chapel, but a crooked promoter expects Kid Cody to throw the match.

RATING:8/10 - Al gives a very amusing performance about a noisy neighbour waking him up.


How The Tess Was Won:5th August, 1956

Sky One airdate:07/06/96

Sam has to outrope, outride, outdrink & generally outdo Tess McGill for her hand in marriage and her father's 50000 acres of land.

RATING:7/10 - Reasonable, but the best part is the lyrics at the end


Double Identity:8th November, 1965

Sky One airdate:08/06/96

Sam is a mafia hitman, and he's seeing the godfather's girlfriend! Sam has to duplicate the original history while the project attempts to bring him home.

RATING:8/10 - All because of a lousy hairdryer!


The Color Of Truth:8th August, 1955

Sky One airdate:11/06/96

Sam is the driver of an old lady, and has to make sure she doesn't die in an accident - which is made harder by the fact that he's a black man in the South in the early 50's.

RATING:7/10 - Al makes a great performance trying to stop the old lady.


The Camikazi Kid:6th June, 1961

Sky One airdate:12/06/96

Sam has to stop the boy he leaped into's sister from marrying a wife-beater, and probably try to stop this kid's bad case of acne. This episode is fairly light-hearted and Sam & Al seem more happy than in other episodes.

RATING:8.5/10 - It's funny when Sam's eating the burger and offers to give Al a bite.


Play It Again, Seymour:14th April, 1953

Sky One airdate:13/06/96

When he leaps in, Sam is holding a gun over a dead body. He later finds out he's a detective and the dead person is his partner. Sam has to find the killer or he might be next.

RATING:7/10 - Some funny conversations


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