30 years later and it immediately brings tears to the eyes. Powerful in every way.

Dean Stockwell was such a handsome man, all thought out his life. Rest in Paradise

The lady who plays Al's wife is.really beautiful!!!  😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

This is the most moving episode of television ever. God bless Sam.

After watching the New QL, I immediately sought out this episode.

Bless you for having it up. That softened the blow from the new one.

After 30 years, I finally get the parallel. Al was trapped in Vietnam like Sam has been trapped in the past. There was no guarantee that Sam's life will still be there waiting for him if and when he ever returned home, but he could make sure that Beth will be there when Al did. He never let on prior to the series finale but it's clear how much failing to do so the first time killed Sam inside. That's the ultimate wrong that he has put right and better to his friends life in the process. God that makes the last caption that much more painful.

The fact that they misspelled Sam's last name shows that this ending was rushed.

Don't forget.  The original tottered on the brink of cancellation for some time before it found its footing.  Don't expect the new one to give you the payoff so soon.

I cried so much that night.  I was so sad and angry that Same didn't get home.  I've been watching the new Quantum Leap, and it's...okay.  It will never be as good as the original, but it might be alright.  I'll keep watching it, hoping that before it goes off air they manage to find Sam, alive and well, and bring him home.

And I pray to God, be He bartender or writer, let the New Quantum Leap , BRING SAM HOME!!!!

Sacrifice, the true act of love. To sacrifice your happiness for another's happiness.

That ending still gets to me

Sometimes....You do what is right......Reguardless to the consequences to yourself

Same i would love that but god wont let him ❤godspeed sam

They could’ve said “Dr Sam Beckett is still out there leaping.”

I would’ve been happy with the rehearsed but unfilmed ending with Beth and Al looking at Sam’s picture and Beth encouraging Al to leap to find Sam being the ending.

I refuse to believe that Sam Beckett never returned home.

Who down votes this video?  I was a kid when I saw this episode because my mom liked the show and even at 8 years old I understood the gravity of what was happening because of how well acted, directed, produced and edited the show was.

Watching this in 2024 after the season 2 finale of the new Quantum leap, which is definitely just gotten better over time, and how this moment was called back in a huge way in that finale. Excellent way to tie the two together.

I always thought this was when hologram Al was dancing with Beth while Sam was waiting outside in a previous leap. However, once future Sam leaped into the house Al vanished as in a new history he leaped with Sam before this as he had no reason to see Beth one last time.

When I first saw this episode, I was crushed by the ending.  Sam wanted so much to go home, and at the end, he couldn't, and I felt really bad for him.  Now, I kind of get what Al the Bartender was telling him:  he could go home any time he wanted to.  Sam was always in control of the leaps.  The reason he "couldn't" go home was that he couldn't give up trying to set things right.  Al even said he could quit any time, or even take a sabbatical.  In a way, it's sad for all the people he left behind, but somewhere out there in time and space, Sam's still trying to put things right.