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11-10) Drs. Sam Beckett and Ben Song, Quantum Leap

Image: NBC
Image: NBC

Both Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and Ben Song (Raymond Lee) were sent careening through time, guided by some unknown forces that wanted/wants them to fix the timeline by transferring their consciousnesses into various people. Neither of them knows why they’re stuck bouncing around other people’s lives, trying to solve their problems (hell, Ben can’t even remember why he went into the Quantum Leap machine, thanks to a touch of amnesia) but they’re pretty great at it. Whether an AI is responsible for their journeys or something more ethereal, they’re correcting abnormalities in ways both small and large, and the timeline is presumably being repaired by their efforts.