- This episode was edited into two parts for later rebroadcast, which titled the episode "Genesis". The original credit sequence was replaced by the familar opening credit sequence. The season 4 opening prologue and a recap sequence were added to part two.
- When NBC reran this episode along with the other first season episodes, they cut the two hour pilot down to 90 minutes. The first scene of Al and the girl in the car was cut with the episode opening on Sam first waking up after leaping into Tom Stratton. The show continues like the original until the shot where Sam runs out of the house after seeing the "Howdy Doody" clip and he says his line about "....there's usually a Boogyman." At this point the opening credits run. After that there are some minor bits of footage cut from the flying sequences. The biggest cut comes at the end when the entire second leap into baseball player Tim Fox is removed. Sam gives Tom's son a thumb's up at the end of the first leap. Instead of Tom's son throwing Sam the baseball as in the original - the picture freeze frames on Sam's thumbs up, and he turns electric blue with the now standard leap effects, and we get the preview of next week's rerun, the episode with Sam as a teacher.
- On September 13, 1989, NBC reran the movie pilot but only as a 90-minute episode. (It was the only first-season episode rerun during the first season. The other first-season episodes were rerun during the second season.) The movie credits were replaced with standard "guest star" credits; it was the first time the title "Genesis" was shown, as the original movie pilot had simply been called "Quantum Leap." It eliminated most of the opening scene where Al encountered the woman on the side of the road. It only showed his car driving fast and a close-up of him conversing with Gooshie that Sam was leaping. The scene of the camera flying through the clouds to Tom Stratton's house and the digital clock ticking backward was replaced with the blue effect of Sam leaping into Tom in the bed. The scene continued until Sam walked outside the house saying that this was a nightmare, and sooner or later "there's gonna be a boogeyman." They then cut to the opening theme (which was actually the theme prepared for the second season - featuring a couple of scenes from second-season episodes, and saying "Starring Dean Stockwell" instead of "and Dean Stockwell".) From there on, bits and pieces of the story were cut - most significantly the subplot about Sam taking a memory test and responding with answers from his real life in the future. When he was arguing with Dr. Berger late in the story, they dubbed over the line, "It's not a sham. Those answers were true." and replaced it with "It's not a sham. What I'm saying will work." When the Tom Stratton story was completed, rather than showing Tom's son tossing a ball and cutting over to Sam catching a ball as minor league ball player Fox, they used the blue leaping effect to show him leaping out after kissing Tom's wife on the forehead and leaping directly into the standing ball player. The second story with him playing the minor league ball player and making a phone call to his Dad was left pretty much intact - except that at the end when he slides into home plate, they started the blue leaping effect but freeze-framed it there without showing the leap-in to the next episode. (During the commercial break, they did run a preview for the second season premiere episode "Honeymoon Express.") In the closing credits, the credit for "Barbara Horan as Tina" (the woman on the side of the road) was removed.
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What is the English language plot outline for Genesis: Part 1 - September 13, 1956 (1989)?
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