Deborah Pratt (supervising producer) Harker Wade (producer) Paul Brown, Jeff Gourson, Chris Ruppenthal (co-producers)
Featured music
Mike Post
Cinematography by
Michael W. Watkins
Original air date
March 14, 1990 (1990-03-14)
Running time
48 min
Guest appearances
Ken Foree, Robert Gossett, Shari Headley, Theodore Wilson
Episode chronology
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"Pool Hall Blues" is a 1990 episode of the American science fiction television series Quantum Leap. Lead character Sam Beckett "leaps" (travels through time) into the body of an African American man in 1954: Charlie "Black Magic" Walters, one of the (fictional) greatest pool players in America, and a childhood mentor of supporting character Al. Beckett as Walters must help Walters's granddaughter keep her Chicago nightclub and rescue it from under the corrupting influence of a criminal loan shark. The episode, the 18th of season 2, was written by Randy Holland and directed by Joe Napolitano. It originally aired on March 14, 1990. The episode won the series its second of three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography.[1][2]
^"Awards for 1990: Emmy". Internet Movie Database. Outstanding Cinematography for a Series section. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
^"QUANTUM LEAP | (all time) Awards & Nominations". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
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