Quantum Leap (1989)

Quantum Leap parents guide

Heads up on some innuendo or implied sex. That is past what the TV-PG on the box suggests. Beyond that, mild language and nothing scary.

Our estimate: fine from about 10. Rated TV-PG.

Scare

Not scary

Jump scares

None noted

Gore

No gore

Violence

Some violence

Some fighting or peril.

Sex and nudity

Mild

Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.

Language

Mild

Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

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What is Quantum Leap about?

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

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