Quantum Leap
Future Boy - October 6, 1957
S3 E13:
Sam (Scott Bakula) becomes sidekick to Captain Galaxy, a popular 1957 children’s TV character, in order to keep the actor who plays the Captain out of a mental institution due to his obsession with a time travel machine, which is curiously based on Sam’s Quantum Leap theory.
Starring
Richard Herd, Debra Stricklin, George Wyner