[s3e13] Future Boy - October 6, 1957 May 2026

Sam trips and sprains his ankle while exiting the "Time Patrol" prop. This was written into the script to accommodate a real-life foot injury Scott Bakula sustained while filming a previous episode, "Runaway".

Dr. Sam Beckett leaps into , the sidekick to "Captain Galaxy" (Moe Stein) on a 1950s children's sci-fi show called Time Patrol . Leap Date: October 6, 1957. Location: Los Angeles, California. [S3E13] Future Boy - October 6, 1957

The calculating device Captain Galaxy uses on his show is designed to look strikingly similar to the Handlink Al uses throughout the series, further hinting at Moe's influence on Sam's future work. Watching the Episode Sam trips and sprains his ankle while exiting

Moe explains his theory of time travel using a piece of string . He posits that our lifetimes are like a string; if you roll it into a ball, "all the days of your life" touch each other, allowing for travel between points. Sam Beckett leaps into , the sidekick to