Investigando la teoría de que viajar en el tiempo es posible, el doctor Sam Beckett, un científico convencido de tal posibilidad, un día desaparece tras introducirse en un acelerador de partículas cuántico. Cuando vuelve a aparecer, lo hace en el pasado, pero al mirarse en el espejo no reconoce su rostro y se ve aquejado de una extraña forma de amnesia. A partir de entonces no tiene más remedio que vivir vidas que no son la suya, saltando de una existencia a otra e intentando mejorar el futuro desde el pasado, mientras trata de encontrar la forma de volver a casa.
Genesis (1) (Episodio 1) 7.3
Guionista: Donald P. Bellisario
Fecha de emisión: 1989-03-26
Duración: 70 min
Sinopsis: September 13, 1956: Sam Beckett wakes up in 1956, disoriented, suffering from amnesia, but he has the awful realization that he does not belong there...
Genesis (2) (Episodio 2) 7.5
Fecha de emisión: 1989-03-26
Duración: 19 min
Sinopsis: September 13, 1956: After Tom Stratton comforts his wife and prevents her from having a premature birth, instead of leaping to save his wife and child. He instead realizes that instead of leaping home, he's lept into Ken Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas at the end of the 1968 season, in the middle of a game, where he must make the winning play in order to leap further. Ken Fox makes a home-run, and Sam leaps into Dr. Gerald Bryant as a school teacher in the middle of a class.
Star-Crossed (Episodio 3) 7.0
Guionista: Deborah Pratt
Fecha de emisión: 1989-03-31
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: June 15, 1972: Sam leaps into the persona of a womanizing college professor in 1972, encounters his lost love and attempts to reshape the past
The Right Hand of God (Episodio 4) 6.4
Guionista: John Hill
Fecha de emisión: 1989-04-07
Duración: 46 min
Sinopsis: October 24, 1974: Sam lands in 1974 as a young boxer caught between fight-fixing gangsters and hopeful nuns who now own his contract.
How the Tess Was Won (Episodio 5) 6.2
Guionista: Deborah Arakelian
Fecha de emisión: 1989-04-14
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: August 5, 1956: Sam finds himself on a Texas ranch in 1956 as a submissive veterinarian in love with a tough rancher.
Double Identity (Episodio 6) 6.5
Guionista: Donald P. Bellisario
Fecha de emisión: 1989-04-21
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: November 8, 1965: Sam becomes a hit man in 1965 whose romance with the godfather's girlfriend places him in danger.
The Color of Truth (Episodio 7) 7.5
Guionista: Deborah Pratt
Fecha de emisión: 1989-05-03
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: August 8, 1955: Sam experiences racism firsthand when he leaps into the body of an elderly black man in the pre-civil rights South of 1955.
Camikazi Kid (Episodio 8) 6.6
Guionista: Paul Brown
Fecha de emisión: 1989-05-10
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: June 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.
Play it Again, Seymour (Episodio 9) 6.3
Fecha de emisión: 1989-05-17
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: April 14, 1953: With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is Nick Allen, a private investigator looking for the murderer of his partner and, if he doesn't find the answer in time, himself. The case is solved with a number of Casablanca references as Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.
