The Right Hand of God - October 24, 1974

This is very much the set up for the early episodes of Quantum Leap.

Sam leaps into a body of a boxer in the ring and gets knocked down. Somehow he manages to knockout his opponent.

The boxer Sam has leapt into is Kid Cody, a boxer who has not had a straight fight for ages thanks to a crooked bookie and his own gambling issues.

Kid Cody's boxing contract is owned by a church. The nuns are hoping that Kid will win the championship to fund a new chapel. There is a sad sob story from Sister Angela, Kid has a rather comely girlfriend Dixie who is a stripper.

Al wants to train Sam but Al is getting a lack of sleep thanks to a noisy neighbour. Somewhere in Africa, Muhammad Ali is preparing to take on George Foreman. I wonder if Sam remembers the outcome of that fight. Just to link in with the previous episode, President Nixon is in a heap of trouble courtesy of the Watergate scandal.

A typically fun episode of Quantum Leap in its early years. Teri Copley was very easy on the eye as Dixie. There is a riff on the Rocky theme as Sam gets to do a training montage.