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Post by criswell on Nov 12, 2021 0:02:35 GMT
I know some of you like Quantum Leap so I thought I post this just in case you hadn't seen the news. Dean Stockwell had a very long and interesting career staring at the age of nine in 'Anchors Aweigh' with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Quantum Leap is quite possible my favourite TV show - it's certainly top 5 - and Dean Stockwell is so great in it. He was also an artist and a thoroughly nice guy. The obituary in variety is an interesting read. I hope it would have made him smile to know that a budgie was named after him.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Nov 12, 2021 1:33:11 GMT
Yes, I loved watching Quantum Leap and try to catch the reruns whenever they air.
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Post by suesbird on Nov 12, 2021 8:43:40 GMT
If someone asked me who Dean Stockwell is I would say it is Criswell's budgie, because that's all I knew about the name.  |
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Post by jellybean on Nov 12, 2021 9:04:45 GMT
If someone asked me who Dean Stockwell is I would say it is Criswell's budgie, because that's all I knew about the name. 🤣🤣😂😂 I've got to admit I'm the same as suesbird, I'd never heard of him and have never seen an episode of Quantum leap either. |
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 12, 2021 9:13:23 GMT
He was great in Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica. Don't worry criswell, I knew who your budgie was named after  |
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Post by criswell on Nov 12, 2021 9:26:52 GMT
Quantum Leap is great. It's sci fi show where Sam, played by Scott Bakula, jumps through the past and inhabits someone else's body. He has to fix something in their life to leap on the next person. Dean Stockwell is a cigar smoking hologram called Al from the future who only Sam can see and he helps him with the aid of a computer which predicts what he needs to change. Sometimes it's something personal to the character he inhabits and other times it's more world changing. It sounds quite daft and it is but it's also really nice. And it's funny too. The good guys always win. It features some famous events from history and some real people too. In one episode he's Elvis and in another he succeeds by getting Buddy Holly to change his song words from Piggy Sue to Peggy Sue. In another he's Marilyn Monroe's body guard. There is also a two parter when he's trying to stop Lee Harvey Oswald.
There is a Christmas Carol episode where Al (Dean Stockwell) is visible to a Donald Trump type character and Al is the ghosts of Christmas.
I would recommend you giving it a try if you ever see that it's on. In UK it's currently on SyFy channel. |
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 12, 2021 9:29:49 GMT
and his computer is called Ziggy!  |
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Post by criswell on Nov 12, 2021 9:41:36 GMT
Marianne Marlow I've only seen a few episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Dean Stockwell was very good in them. There was two of him in one of the episodes I saw. It's on my 'to watch' list. I have all of Quantum Leap on DVD so will be watching some. I'm also interested to see him in The Secret Garden 1949. It also stars Margaret o' Brien who is fantastic as Tootie in Meet me in St Louis.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Nov 12, 2021 16:23:45 GMT
criswell some of my favorite episodes of Quantum Leap are the ones where Sam leaps into a woman's body. Al is portrayed as a womanizer and it is really funny when he appears to Sam when "she's" taking a bath or changing clothes. I'll have to look what channels here are playing re-runs.
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Post by criswell on Nov 12, 2021 16:35:25 GMT
Those ones are good tweetiepiesmom Sam and Al were such a good double act and it shows that Dean Stockwell and Scott Bakula were great friends.  |
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Post by criswell on Nov 12, 2021 16:37:19 GMT
I should say to those who haven't seen the show, to everyone around him, and when he looks in the mirror, Sam looks like the person he's inhabiting |
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Post by Hezz on Nov 13, 2021 1:05:27 GMT
If someone asked me who Dean Stockwell is I would say it is Criswell's budgie, because that's all I knew about the name. 🤣🤣😂😂 I've got to admit I'm the same as suesbird, I'd never heard of him and have never seen an episode of Quantum leap either. I put my hand up to join the “didn’t know” club. I thought he might have been a British celeb. |
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Post by samwiseg on Nov 13, 2021 10:25:02 GMT
I just LOVED Quantum Leap! For those who haven't seen and those who would like some nostalgia, I found this...when Dean Stockwell used to appear in character with Sam and make him jump RIP Dean Stockwell |
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 13, 2021 10:26:24 GMT
Nooo. American. 🤣🤣😂😂 I've got to admit I'm the same as suesbird, I'd never heard of him and have never seen an episode of Quantum leap either. I put my hand up to join the “didn’t know” club. I thought he might have been a British celeb. |
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Post by criswell on Nov 13, 2021 10:40:11 GMT
That's a great montage samwiseg I'd not seen that one. |
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