Butch "Butchie" Rickett appears in the Season 3 episode Quantum Leap titled "Runaway". The part of Butchie the leapee is played in the episode by Frank Borin. Butchie, who is on an across-country trip from their home state Florida to the Wyoming mountains, with his controlling father Hank (Sherman Howard), desperate mother Emma (Sandy Faison), and bullying older sister Alexandra (Ami Foster). He is told that the mother is going to disappear and he and Al assumes that she will run off with a one Billy McCann (Joseph Hacker), a man that she and Hank both knew in high school that she winds up reuniting with on the trip. This will ultimately destroy the family and cause Butchie to not graduate high school and his sister to get pregnant at sixteen.