Talk:Sam Beckett

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So, what happen to him in the last episode?

Surely there's some way to get the catch-phrase "Oh boy" into this article. That's a very noteworthy feature of the character. Chalkieperfect 01:50, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey, if he was born in 1953 then how could he beat a computer at chess at age 10? 1962 was when the first arguably competent chess playing program was developed at MIT. It sucked. Then again Al had a Blackberry in 1996, so maybe the Quantum Leap universe has better computers than we do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.64.54 (talk) 19:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Unencyclopaedic content?

I tagged the article for its in-universe style and the trivia section but I'd argue that much of it is just too detailed for an encyclopaedia. (Example: "The 1970s was not Sam's favorite decade; for instance, he dislikes disco.") Any thoughts? Peeper (talk) 11:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


I've made some framing changes to deal in part with the issues Peeper tagged, but didn't want to overstep. Please take a look and see what else can be modified. Chalkie, the epilogue just states, after he makes the one change he'd regretted not making originally, that he never came home.Iolus00 (talk) 08:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)Iolusnaught

[edit] Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move JPG-GR (talk) 06:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Samuel Beckett (Quantum Leap)Sam Beckett — He is almost never called Samuel in Quantum Leap, and, to quote Wikipedia:Naming conventions, article naming should prefer what the greatest number of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature. Also, "Sam Beckett" redirects here anyway. —Philip Stevens (talk) 16:00, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

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  • support. as long as theres no other Sam Becketts on Wikipedia. Mcmullen writes (talk) 18:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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