'The Color of Truth' Story Code '65013' by Deborah Pratt

8th August 1955: Sam finds himself in the body of Jessie Tyler, an old African-American man living in the Deep South town of Red Dog, Alabama. Having outraged the locals by taking a seat in an all-white diner, Sam then learns that he is chauffeur to Miz Melny Trafford, a well-respected elderly widow of the governor of the state. In a time before the advent of the Civil Rights movement, Sam soon comes face-to-face with bigotry, hatred and violence; he tries to convince Miz Melny to change her views on racism – only to learn that she is to be killed by a speeding passenger train the next day…

Scott Bakula (Doctor Samuel ‘Sam’ Beckett), Dean Stockwell (Rear Admiral Albert ‘Al’ Calavicci), Susan French (Miz Melny Trafford), Royce D. Applegate (Sheriff Blount), Michael Kruger (Billy Joe Bob Blount), Kimberly Bailey (Nell Tyler), Jim Ingersoll (Clayton Tyler), Jeff Tyler (Toad), Jane Abbott (Miz Patty), Elyse Donalson (Nurse Ethel), Christopher J. Keene (Doctor Parker), J. T. Solomon (Effie), Howard Johnson (Jesse Tyler / Mirror)

Directed by Michael Vejar
Producer Harker Wade
Co-Producer Deborah Pratt
Executive Producer Donald P. Bellisario

TX (US): 3rd May 1989

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