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HOT SPOT: 'Quantum Leap,' 'Dead Zone' repeats

The ION network makes its own leap back weeknights this summer by stacking some escapist hours of recent vintage.

Quantum Leap (Monday-Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET) is the '90s fantasy fave starring Scott Bakula as a scientist who time-travels back to various eras within his own lifetime while "leaping" into other people's bodies. Only we see him as himself, instead of as a pregnant woman or a black man or the other relevant soul he now embodies; and only we see the ultra-dry Dean Stockwell as his hologram handler.

The Dead Zone (Monday-Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET) is the just-cancelled USA Network hour featuring Anthony Michael Hall as another, more mystic traveller, a onetime coma victim who awakens with psychic powers triggered by another person's touch.

ER (Monday-Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET) needs no explanation, but these episodes do. They're from the most recent three seasons of NBC's takes-a-licking-and-keeps-on-ticking hospital hit. With this coming NBC season announced as the series' last, here's a way to catch up before the show concludes.

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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