'Play It Again, Seymour' Story Code '65009' by Scott Shepherd and Donald P. Bellisario Story by Scott Shepherd, Donald R Bellisario and Tom Blomquist

14th April 1953: Sam leaps into Nick Allen, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike Private Detective who has just discovered the corpse of his dead partner, Phil Grimsley. Sam is arrested for murder, but soon cleared when it is found that the bullets of his gun do not match those of the murder weapon. With the help of a nerdy newspaper boy named Seymour, Sam begins an investigation to uncover the identity of the killer. With a mounting sense of déjà vu, Sam becomes involved with Phil’s gorgeous widow, a femme fatal named Allison, learns that the killer could be a mysterious ‘dropper’ named Clapper, and narrowly avoids two attempts on his life. He then finds out why everything is so familiar: Nick has been writing up these events as a pulp novel which Sam once read; the only problem is that the novel was never finished – because the next murder victim was Nick himself…

Scott Bakula (Doctor Samuel ‘Sam’ Beckett), Dean Stockwell (Rear Admiral Albert ‘Al’ Calavicci), Claudia Christian (Allison), Willie Garson (Seymour), Richard Riehle (Lieutenant Lannon), Paul Links (Lionel), Kevin Mockrin (Young Boy [Woody Allen]), Don Keith Opper (Crooner), Jeanette Miller (Old Lady), Don Maxwell (Police Officer), Barbara London (Mama), Ron Utstad (Bandleader), Hap Lawrence (Bartender), Tony Heller (Nick Allen / Mirror)

Directed by AAaron Lipstadt
Producer Harker Wade
Co-Producer Deborah Pratt
Executive Producer Donald P. Bellisario

TX (US): 17th May 1989

Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Samuel ‘Sam’ Beckett and Rear Admiral Albert ‘Al’ Calavicci

*At the end of the episode, Sam leaps into the body of a woman; however, this is not picked up until episode 4 of season 2, 'What Price Gloria?'