Here’s how the original ‘Battlestar Galactica’ accidentally led to the creation of ‘Quantum Leap’
The cult-classic sci-fi series Quantum Leap first premiered on NBC in March of 1989, but to understand where the show came from we need to leap back a decade earlier, to the late 1970s, when creator Donald P. Bellisario was a writer on another genre touchstone: Battlestar Galactica.