Mainstream Startle

There is a television show in the United States called Quantum Leap. It's a reboot of a series that was on 20 odd years ago. The premise is, that the lead character jumps into the existence of other people at random with hilarity and drama ensuing.

In the preview for the coming season, a scene flashed which alludes to the character jumping into a young woman, pilloried, seemingly during the time of the Salem witch trials. There is a man standing by in a Quaker type outfit, holding a rattan cane. The scene cuts away at that point, but could be an interesting watch. New season begins October 4 in the US.

That sounds interesting HotScot.

The original series was interesting, it starred Scott Bakula as the guy jumping into others lives and circumstances.

I did like the original. Scott Bakula was excellent as Sam. The new version is okay, but the lead actor Raymond Lee doesn't have Bakula's ability to become the character his consciousness is inhabiting, so okay he may look like someone else and everyone around him sees that, but he's still Ben.
Speaking of spanking in mainstream shows, though, there's a show called FUBAR. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a career spy (it's not dissimilar to his character in True Lies), he has a daughter, who he has recently found out is also an operative. They're on a mission where she seduces a scientist, she needs him not to see something and they've discovered a stack of spanking related data on his personal devices, so she pushes him facedown on the bed, pulls down his slacks and begins to quite determinedly spank the seat of his boxers.

Nice find, Seegee. I’ll have to see if I can find that scene.

It’s late in episode 3.

Hotscot, I guarantee you the person in the "Quaker type outfit" was not a Quaker. The trials took place in 1692-93. Many religious groups then had what you label "Quaker" type outfits.
The dominant religious group, basically the only group, were the Puritans, and people of Puritan beliefs led the witch trials and the execution of 25 or so people.
Quakers were persecuted in Massachusetts. Not spanko stuff! Three Quaker women, for trying to practice their faith, "were arrested ... striped to the waist and tied to the back of a cart. They were sentenced to walk 80 miles in harsh winter weather and be whipped publicly in every town they passed." They were whipped severely through 3 town before being rescued. I'm told that John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "How the Women Went from Dover" is about this persecution.
Another Quaker, Mary Dyer, was hung by the Puritans in 1660; her statue stands in front of the Massachusetts state capitol, The only woman in the US executed for her religious beliefs.
Whittier writes (in part):
Bared to the waist, for the north wind's grip
And keener sting of the constable's whip,
The blood that followed each hissing blow
Froze as it sprinkled the winter snow.

Sloth

The Massachusetts Bay Colony (Colonial England) was a Puritan theocratic state.

Members of the newly created Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers, began arriving in the Colony in about 1656 and were severally prosecuted.

Between 1656 and 1661 and least 4 or 5 were executed for their mere status as members of the Society.

Quakers would be the ones tied to the post.

Yikes, Sloth. Let’s hope the scene in question is more safe and sane.

IMDB for the show says season 2 episode 3 'Closure Encounters' airs -October 18th. Don't know when or where, but I'm looking!