In "A Hunting We Will Go", Al compared Diane, the woman Sam's host was taking back for trial, to Maxine, stating that the two women were practically identical. Other women Al mentions being with during the series include a girl named Danessa while he was at M.I.T., a girl named Martha he met at a Lakers game, a girl named Brenda who works on Project Quantum Leap in the coding department, a girl named Denise who wants to write his life story, another co-worker named Louise whom he encounters at a Project Quantum Leap Christmas Party, a stewardess named Oolie, an Egyptian girl who thinks she is the reincarnation of Cleopatra, he mentions making out with Hannah Gretz in the 4th grade and taking Myra Poinchik to an abandoned house in his neighborhood that was supposedly haunted, had a fling with a beauty queen while in flight school who was named Ms. Flight Gunner 1955, he had a serious relationship with a married naval nurse named Lt. Lisa Sherman in 1957. During the show he gives many references to his current girlfriend in 1999, Tina, who also works on Project Quantum Leap. They met over a Las Vegas poker table. She does leave Al at one point in the show, having a fling with Gooshie, the Project Quantum Leap programmer, but eventually goes back to Al. Television characters introduced in 1989 Fictional admirals Fictional NASA astronauts Fictional Italian American people Fictional prisoners of war Fictional United States Navy personnel Fictional Vietnam War veterans Quantum Leap characters Television sidekicks Holography in fiction