Quantum Leap/Black on White on Fire

Black on White on Fire
Season 3, Episode 7
Airdate	November 9, 1990
Production Number	66403
Written by	Deborah Pratt
Directed by	Joe Napolitano
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Quantum Leap — Season Three

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Black on White on Fire is the seventh episode of the third season of Quantum Leap, and the thirty-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: Gregory Millar (Lonnie Harper), Corie Henninger (Susan Bond), Sami Chester (Papa David Harper), Ron Taylor (Bebe), Marc Alaimo (Police Captain Paul Bond), Laverne Anderson (Sheri)

and CCH Pounder (Mama Harper)

Co-Starring: Montrose Hagins (Matty)

with Cheryl Francis Harrington (Young Woman), Jon Berry (Police Sniper), Garon Grigsby (Ray Harper)

Uncredited: Deborah Pratt (Narrator)

Plot Overview

Sam leaps into a black man engaged to a white woman on the eve of the Watts riots. Sam has to keep them together amidst as the racially tense situation gets worse.

Notes

Leap Date

• August 11, 1965

Location

• Watts, Los Angeles, California

Music

• The Temptations - "My Girl"

• The Miracles - "Ooh Baby Baby"

• Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - "The Tracks Of My Tears"

• James Brown - "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"

• The Four Tops - "Baby, I Need Your Lovin`"