Quantum Leap/Glitter Rock

Glitter Rock
Season 3, Episode 17
Airdate	April 10, 1991
Production Number	66404
Written by	Chris Ruppenthal
Directed by	Andy Cadiff
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Quantum Leap — Season Three

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Glitter Rock is the seventeenth episode of the third season of Quantum Leap, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: Jonathan Gries (Flash McGrath), Peter Noone (Dwayne), Christian Hoff (Philip Silbart), Michael Cerveris (Nick), Robert Bauer (Wilder), Liza Whitcraft (Sandy)

Co-Starring: Jan Eddy (Whittler), Sharon Martin (Blonde), Dorrie Krum (Heather)

with Bob Cady (Chase), Bruce Michael Paine (Tonic/Mirror)

Uncredited: Deborah Pratt (Narrator)

Plot Overview

Sam is the frontman of a British heavy metal band and must figure out from a list of suspects who winds up stabbing him after a show.

Notes

Leap Date

• April 12, 1974

Location

• Detroit, Michigan

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• Sam compares the groupies fawning over him to when he was a chippendale dancer. (Private Dancer)

Trivia

The Show

• The closing credits play over King Thunder performing "Rock the Redhead".

Behind the Scenes

• Peter Noone was a member of the British band Herman's Hermits. When Sam speaks to him in Dwayne's office, an instrumental version of the Herman's Hermits song "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" can be heard playing in the background.

Allusions and References

• King Thunder's paint make-up is very similar to those used by KISS.

• Al brings up Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon.

• Sam brings up the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. due to his obsession with the film Taxi Driver in a bid to impress its star Jodie Foster.

• Sam mentions that when he was growing up, he listened to the likes of Simon & Garfunkel.

• Al tries to get Sam to be in the mind of rock stars like of Jimi Hendrix or Pete Townshend of The Who.

• Al tells Sam that he could always pull a Milli Vanilli, a pop act whose two members were publicly found out to be lip syncing.

Goofs

• Flash questions Wilder wearing a different wig, but he was seen wearing it at an earlier performance.

Quotes

• Al: Do Townshend.

Sam: Who?

Al: That's right.

Sam: What is?

Al: Who.

Sam: I don't know.

Al: Townshend!

Sam: Who?

Al: Yeah, that's right. Pete Townshend of The Who.

Sam: Of the what?!

Al: Never mind.