The ION network makes its own leap back weeknights this summer by stacking some escapist hours of recent vintage.
Quantum Leap (Monday-Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET) is the '90s fantasy fave starring Scott Bakula as a scientist who time-travels back to various eras within his own lifetime while "leaping" into other people's bodies. Only we see him as himself, instead of as a pregnant woman or a black man or the other relevant soul he now embodies; and only we see the ultra-dry Dean Stockwell as his hologram handler.
The Dead Zone (Monday-Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET) is the just-cancelled USA Network hour featuring Anthony Michael Hall as another, more mystic traveller, a onetime coma victim who awakens with psychic powers triggered by another person's touch.
ER (Monday-Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET) needs no explanation, but these episodes do. They're from the most recent three seasons of NBC's takes-a-licking-and-keeps-on-ticking hospital hit. With this coming NBC season announced as the series' last, here's a way to catch up before the show concludes.
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