Fate's Wide Wheel: A Quantum Leap Podcast

We continue our Revisited series with our review of Season 2's "Disco Inferno". Sam leaps into Chad Stone, a stuntman on a bad B-movie in 1976. This is great episode for a lot of reasons, most notably for its introduction of Sam's brother, Tom into the Quantum Leap mythology. If this whets your appetite for more talk about the episode, check out our original deep dive back in 2017 .  Listener Mail...

This week, we're here to give our capsule review of the season two premiere, "Honeymoon Express". Almost serving as a soft reboot for the uninitiated, the episode sees Al fighting for the Project's life back in the future while Sam, in the life of a NYC detective on his honeymoon, fights for the life of his new bride, Diane, against a psychotic ex-husband. Oh, and he also has to fight for his own...

This week, we take a break from our "Revisited" series to read and respond to some listener mail. - Nicky Sudyn talks about their experience listening to a Quantum Leap podcast hosted by "two tired dads", and explains why Tess picking Wayne in "How the Tess Was Won" was the inevitable and right choice. - Quantum Leap author Carol Davis gives her opinion on Scott Bakula kissing the underage actor,...

We're back! It's another installment of our continuing "Revisited" series as we plunge into the shadows and pulp of the season 1 finale, "Play It Again, Seymour". After we get through our assessment of Sam's turn as a shamus looking for the dropper who killed his partner, we slide on over to our overall rating of the season. Plus, we have some conversation about the revival series and what we know...

Leapers, we're back after an unplanned break (what else is new?) This week, we're talking about the news that the new pilot has officially been picked up to a series. We knew it would happen, but man, are we even more excited now! We're also here with our capsule review of season one's "Camikazi Kid" - an episode that deals with the difficult topic of domestic violence, but still somehow manages t...

Double your identity, double your pleasure! Leapers, we're back with a double episode this week, giving back-to-back capsule reviews of Season 1's "Double Identity" and "The Color of Truth". These are two very different episodes, and Sam and Dennis have some strong feelings.  Plus! Listener mail. If you would like to send us a question or comment to read on the show, send us an mp3 or old-fashione...

We continue our journey revisiting episodes of the classic series in the lead up to the revival with "How the Tess Was Won". Where will Sam's veterinary leap rank among our previously rated episodes of the first season? Does Sam's shirtless post-digging up our rating? What about our dear boy from Lubbock with his guitar? What was his name? Pal? Pard? Bud- Oh, boy! Dennis and Sam start off on oppos...

Next up in our Revisited series is "The Right Hand of God". We bring our new rubric to bear on the third episode of the series to see how it measures up. What grade do we give it? Have our opinions changed? We also run through the latest news on the reboot/sequel and more! Fate’s Wide Wheel on the Web: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Become a Patron on Patreon: Fate’s Wide Wheel Patreon...

Leapers! We're back with our second capsule view. This week, we're talking about the series' 2nd episode, "Star-Crossed".  We also discuss the latest news for the reboot pilot, and the exciting opportunities lie ahead for the new Quantum Leap fandom. Oh, and hey, listen carefully (or even not so carefully), and you can tell the exact moment Dennis learned that a certain somebody slapped a certain...

In lieu of a fresh episode this week (hey, even we need a break sometimes), we're bringing you our 30th-anniversary retrospective episode from 2019 on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of our favorite show. There may or may not be some comments about what we'd think of a potential reboot and/or sequel. Plus, lots of looking back at our favorite episodes and moments and more!

We have a main cast! We have production photos! We have filming underway! It is all happening! Sam & Dennis are back to discuss the big news week - from Ernie Hudson to Caitlin Bassett, Nanrisa Lee, and Mason Alexander Park, to production getting underway. There's so much to discuss. Add to that a dash of speculation, a pinch of tangents, and a smidge of new info from the pilot script and you...

We're firing up the accelerator for another leap - a leap that does not take us to our promised revisited review of Star-Crossed. Why, you ask... Well, we've got some casting news! Raymond Lee was announced as our new lead, Dr. Ben Seong. We talk about Lee's career and some of the other roles he's had recently, including "Kevin Can F*** Himself" and "Here and Now". What are our initial impressions...

Hello, listeners, observers, leapers! Welcome to Quantum Leap: Revisited with Fate’s Wide Wheel - our capsule-sized reviews of the classic series. Our mission is to rank the show on a scale of 1-10 based on five different categories - writing, directing, acting, production values, and mythology. Each category is weighted based on importance - writing, directing, and acting are each worth 25% of th...

We're setting aside our start of our promised capsule reviews of the series (*ahem* classic series) to take an episode to take a moment to talk about diversity. Diversity. We've heard that word a lot on Quantum Leap forums the last few weeks as the casting call for the series was released, and that release was confirmed to be genuine. Some fans of the classic series are already coming what's to co...

We're back this week to discuss more of what we know about the new Quantum Leap pilot, including the recent announcement that Helen Shaver will serve as both the pilot director and Executive Producer. We also have some more inside details thanks to our source - who we are lovingly calling 'The Observer' - at NBC: Details on Ziggy and the Handlink How they're going to address Al's absence in light...

Here we go! We've got official confirmation from our source - our Observer - of numerous facts about the Quantum Leap pilot. We break down the confirmed cast notice and get into as many specifics as we can for each character. We also address aspects of production and story. And, perhaps biggest of all, we give the best answer we can about THAT question: Is Scott Bakula going to be involved. Longti...

We're back! And so is Quantum Leap! An official announcement dropped January 13, 2022. NBC brings back our beloved series with a continuation set 20+ years after Dr. Sam Beckett's final televised leap. We might be a little exctied. On top of that, we've been hard at work mining all our resources and reaching out to some of our contacts to bring you any and all the news that's currently available....

Sam and Dennis discuss “Source Code” (2011), starring Jake Gyllenhaal. A favorite movie of Dennis’, he’s been wanting to cover this one since the start of the podcast. This was Sam’s first viewing. We give a breakdown of the movie’s production and its stars, followed by a (mostly) spoiler-free review. Then we head into a deeper dive and break the movie down, giving our own analysis and interpretat...

Sam & Dennis have some life updates, and haven’t been watching much new TV. But Dennis has been bingeing some quality “Star Trek: TNG” Season Five, and Sam gave Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” a try.

We're back with an episode unlike any other in Fate's Wide Wheel history. We bounce around from topics ranging from the personal to the pop cultural and answer some audience questions along the way. It's a very different episode for us and we hope you enjoy this break from our regularly scheduled programming.

We are back to discuss the finale of the MCU Disney+ series Falcon & The Winter Soldier. Where does it stand now that all 6 episodes have dropped and how doe we feel about that ending? We dig in fairly deep to discuss character development, surprises, easter eggs, and what could be next for our heroes - and villains. Plus, we have some free-wheeling discussion to open the show about house hunt...

We're back with fun-filled chat that covers a lot of ground in about an hour. We talk about what's been going on in our lives, the Disney+ MCU show Falcon & The Winter Soldier, and we wrap up with some reminisces about Star Trek on First Contact Day. There's even more in between all that and we're looking forward to bringing you more conversations like this in the coming weeks.

Much to co-host Sam's delight, the fellas dive into the first episode of Doctor Who! We revisit "An Unearthly Child" and talk about how those first 25 minutes in 1963 came to be - the how's, what's, why's, and, of course, who's of the production. We offer some commentary on the episode itself as well as what Dennis thinks as a first-time viewer of Classic Who. Plus, we have some discussion about t...

We pick up where we left off last week to cover the WandaVision finale. We go over the highs and lows and our reactions to some of the criticisms floating around the web. Plus, Dennis has started his Queen's Gambit journey. What are his thoughts on the opening moves? All this along with some freewheeling discussion that starts with asking the question - Can one take Walk the Line seriously after s...

Well... What's next? A week from now, who knows? But on this episode, we're talking WandaVision. We cover our favorite bits, how it all connects, references to the comics, and more! Plus, what aren't we so sure about and what we think might be coming next. That's not all, though, we've got a brief overview of The Queen's Gambit and why Sam thinks it ranks right up there with the best of prestige t...