Susan French

An ambitious Lumerian ambassador uses Troi in an attempt to achieve his greatest success.

A boy named Todd spent much of his childhood being beaten by his alcoholic father. Now Todd is an angry teenager who arrives in Walnut Grove to spend time with his grandparents. He quickly runs into trouble and even lands in jail after stealing, but when Charles begins to sympathize with the boy, he hires him as a farmhand to teach him some values.

A little person named Lou becomes the single father of a baby girl when his wife dies in childbirth. He abandons his job as a circus performer and looks for something that would allow his daughter to live normally. Lou ends up in Walnut Grove and forms a friendship with John Carter, who nearly lands him a position at the bank...until someone interferes and creates even bigger problems for Lou.

Sam leaps into the body of Jessie Tyler, a 70 year old black man who lives in Red Dog, Alabama, and works for Miz Melny, the 75 year old widow of the one-time Governor of Alabama. Sam/Jessie drives her to the cemetery where she visits her husband's grave. Albert informs him that Miz Melny will be killed tomorrow when a train hits her car at a crossing. Sam/Jessie brings Miz Melny home and is chastised by Clayton, Miz Melny's son, for sitting at the lunch counter at Miz Patty's diner. Sam/Jessie becomes livid when Clayton tells his mother to keep her "negro" in line. Albert, who participated in the Civil Rights marches, orders Sam to stay out of politics, but Sam begs to differ, hoping that his reason for the quantum leap is to initiate the Civil Rights movement.