'Private Dancer' Story Code '66416' by Paul Brown

6th October 1979: Sam leaps into the barely-clad body of male stripper Rod the Body, during a ‘performance’ at a nightclub filled with sex-crazed women. While the shy and prudish Sam is both embarrassed and morally outraged, Al is delighted, wishing he were the one being treated like a piece of meat by so many attractive girls. Al tells his friends that his mission is to save Dianna, a young deaf waitress who is destined to fall into a life of stripping and prostitution, before dying of A.I.D.S. in seven years’ time. Learning that Diana loves to dance, using the bass-line of the music as her muse, Sam sees a way to steer her onto a professional dancing career, and encourages her to take part in an open audition at a dance company run by one of the nightclub’s patrons, Joanne Chapman. However, Sam’s good intentions only serve to anger Diane, and she vows to have nothing to do with him any more…

Scott Bakula (Doctor Samuel ‘Sam’ Beckett), Dean Stockwell (Rear Admiral Albert ‘Al’ Calavicci), Rhondee Beriault (Dianna Quinna Perry), Debbie Allen (Joanne Chapman), Louis Mustillo (Mario), Heidi Swedberg (Valerie Jackson), Robert Schuch (Otto), Henry Worgnicz (Martin), Marguerite Pomerhn-Derricks (Gina), Melinda Cordell (Winnie), Charles Emmett (Officer Arden), Frank Novak (Lou), Harry Cohn (Louie), Christopher Solari (Rod ‘Rod the Bod’ McCarty / Mirror)

Directed by Debbie Allen
Executive Producer Donald P. Bellisario

TX (US): 20th March 1991

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

*This episode was directed by Debbie Allen, who also played Joanne Chapman; Allen is best known for her role as Lydia Grant in 'Fame'