As Darlene Monte, a contestant in the "Miss Deep South" beauty pageant, Sam must come to the aid of an innocent contender who faces disgrace when she poses for naughty photographs taken by a sleazy pageant photographer. As if things weren't bad enough, Sam must ensure that Darlene finishes third, so that she'll go on to become a doctor.

original airdate--November 2,1990        Leap Date--June 7, 1958

Place--the South                                 Leapee--Darlene Monte

songs--

• Cuanto le Gusta (performed by Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell
• Great Balls of Fire (performed by Scott Bakula)
• Splish Splash (performed by Bobby Darin)
• I'm Walking (performed by Ricky Nelson)

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.