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Quincy, M.E.

1976TV-PG8 seasons7.5 / 10

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

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Quincy, M.E. premiered October 3, 1976. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.

Synopsis

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

Season 7 episodes

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Episode 1

Memories of Allison

1h

Sam and Quincy are attending a job fair for students when a woman falls down an escalator, just after shouting at someone who has been following her. While she is in hospital it is discovered she has a severe case of posttraumatic amnesia. A high price assassin is caught in her hospital room not long afterwards and leads to even more interest in who she is and why someone would want her dead.

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Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Ivor Francis, Virginia Capers, Fritzi Burr, Chris Petersen, Sharon Acker, Paul Picerni, Frank Aletter, John Nolan

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Episode 2

The Golden Hour

1h

A young girl is injured in a car accident and rushed to a hospital by the paramedics. Her father who is severely injured is sent to a trauma center instead because he is a more serious case. The father survives and the daughter dies. The difference between a trauma center and an ER was what saved the man. City regulations make it hard for the center to get enough patients and it is about to get closed down unless Quincy can help.

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Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Heidi Bohay, George DelHoyo, Leonard Stone, James Staley, John Nolan, Henry Jones, Martin E. Brooks, Robert F. Simon

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Episode 3

Slow Boat to Madness (1)

1h

Quincy and Janet finally get some time off and go on a weeks cruise. They are looking forward to some rest and relaxation together. Before long their holiday is interrupted. Quincy is visited, late one night, by the captain. One of his crew has been murdered and he would like Quincy's advice. The murderer is caught but he has died before the morning and an autopsy reveals that he could have died from an infectious disease. A disease that could already be spreading throughout the ship!

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Directed by Daniel HallerWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Ed Nelson, Jack Blessing, John Reilly, Mimi Rogers, Timothy Stack, Charles Thomas Murphy, Diana Muldaur, Allan Miller

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Episode 4

Slow Boat to Madness (2)

1h

With the cruise ship being prevented from docking at any of the islands in the area it is down to Quincy and Janet to find out exactly what the disease on board is before everyone on the ship finds out and starts panicking.

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Directed by Daniel HallerWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Ed Nelson, Jack Blessing, John Reilly, Mimi Rogers, Timothy Stack, Charles Thomas Murphy, Adam Klugman, Diana Muldaur

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Episode 5

D.U.I.

1h

A man is knocked down and killed by a drunk driver. Quincy is outraged to discover that the killer is likely to get away with a light sentence and tries to change things. His digging uncovers much more than he, and the prosecutor, could ever have expected.

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Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Emilio Delgado, Chevi Colton, Frank Campanella, John Nolan, Charles Aidman, Paul Lambert, Ivan Bonar

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Episode 6

For Want of a Horse

1h
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Directed by Ray DantonGuest stars Luke Askew, Ronnie Scribner, Paul Fix, Barbara Tarbuck

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Episode 7

Gentle Into That Good Night

1h

A nineteen-year old boy, with a malignant tumor, dies in a car accident. Quincy does the autopsy and meets the family. He goes to meet Dr. Pendleton, a doctor who deals with people who are close to death, and wants to learn how to deal with people who have just identified a loved one in a more dignified way. He spends some time with the doctor and even takes his place for a while.

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Written by Jeri TaylorGuest stars Spencer Milligan, John Nolan, Michael Constantine, Tyne Daly, Alice Hirson, Stanley Kamel, Ken Sansom

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Episode 8

Dead Stop

1h

A truck driver dies just days after being splashed by a caustic chemical he was illegally dumping. Quincy uncovers the cause of his death and investigates further, trying to find where the chemicals were dumped before it rains and a dangerous chemical cloud is created.

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Directed by Ray DantonGuest stars Tony Burton, Jack Ging, Salome Jens, Henry Slate, Henry Beckman, John Dennis, John Nolan

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Episode 9

Bitter Pill

1h10.0 / 10

After a teenager dies from taking a seemingly harmless pill, Quincy sets out to shut down the highly dangerous, but legal, trade in ‘look-alike' drugs. He tries to find out why it is legal to make such pills and concentrates on closing down a small, local shop that sells the pills.

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Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Sam EganGuest stars George DelHoyo, Ralph Taeger, Dale Ishimoto, Robert Hooks, William Smithers, Garnett Smith, Peggy McCay, Simon Oakland

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Episode 10

Guns Don't Die

1h10.0 / 10

A man is mugged and killed in a park, fortunately the killer is quickly found and arrested. Sometime later a gang member kills a young boy. The autopsy shows that the same gun killed the boy and the mugged man. Quincy takes it upon himself to track down the weapon and make sure that it cannot be used to kill anyone else.

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Written by Jeri TaylorGuest stars Larry B. Scott, John Quade, William Sanderson, Eddie Firestone, Tom Atkins, Linda Carlson, Jody St. Michael

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Episode 11

When Luck Ran Out

1h10.0 / 10

When a prized racehorse, belonging to Nelson Spencer a friend of Quincy's, dies suddenly after a big race, an insurance investigation uncovers foul play. The expert insurance investigator sent by the insurance company is Quincy's latest girlfriend. A situation that causes problems for Quincy, stuck between his girlfriend and his friend.

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Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Don Keefer

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Episode 12

Smoke Screen

1h10.0 / 10

A big fire strikes at a hotel. The Coroner's Office is called in to deal with the fatalities. Most of the victims died from smoke inhalation rather than from the actual fire. Investigations prove it was arson and a suspect is quickly found. Quincy doesn't believe they have caught the right man though and helps out an insurance investigator, Jake Carter, look into it further.

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Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sandy Kenyon, Hugh Gillin, Buck Young, Barbara Stuart, Philip Baker Hall

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Episode 13

For Love of Joshua

1h

A doctor persuades a couple that their new baby, which was born with Down's syndrome, will not have any life outside of hospitals and institutions. The child is then allowed to starve to death, something that causes a second doctor to ask for the original one to be charged with murder. Quincy investigates and finds out more about how children with Down's syndrome are treated in the world. To do this he visits a family that look after six children on their own.

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Guest stars Tyne Daly, Colleen Dewhurst, Allan Arbus, Ellen Travolta, Ellen Geer, Clu Gulager

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Episode 14

Into the Murdering Mind

1h10.0 / 10

A family is violently murdered in their own home. The man arrested is the son and brother of the family members. He is a schizophrenic who blames everything on ‘The Beast', an alter ego inside his head who can take him over if he stops taking his medication. Quincy thinks, after talking with the DA, that he could be making it all up to get off on an insanity plea and tries to prove his theory.

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Directed by Georg FenadyGuest stars Kelly Ward, John Nolan, Henry Darrow, Lloyd Gough, Joseph Sirola, Conchata Ferrell

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Episode 15

To Clear the Air

1h

An old man at a hospital for respiratory disorders drops dead after going for a walk during a smog alert. Quincy's autopsy reveals lungs that had some kind of inflammation, caused by the pollutants being pumped into the air by the oil refineries near the sanatorium. Refineries that are meant to cut back their emissions during a smog alert!

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Written by Sam EganGuest stars Christian Hoff, Joby Baker, Meg Wyllie, Anthony Eisley, Stephen Elliott

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Episode 16

The Shadow of Death

1h

An ex-nurse, who served in Vietnam and suffered nightmares because of it, is found dead in her apartment. Her best friend, who was also a nurse in Vietnam, tries to help find the killer but has problems of her own. She suffers her own nightmares from the war and begins to fall deeper into depression and alcohol. The same thing happens to many vets when they come back from the war and Quincy wants to help her, if he can.

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Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Jeri TaylorGuest stars Karen Austin, Sharon Spelman

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Episode 17

The Flight of the Nightingale

1h10.0 / 10

With no doctor around and a shortage of staff, Lynn Buchanan, a nurse decides to ease a patients pain by giving him medication. The patient dies and nurse Buchanan is suspended, even though the doctor's chart didn't say she shouldn't have done it. The rest of the nursing staff go on strike, her suspension being the last straw. Asten gets Quincy to look a bit closer than normal (Quincy look closer than normal!) when he does the autopsy because his wife is in the same hospital and was looked after by Lynn Buchanan.

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Guest stars David Ruprecht, Peter Hobbs, Mary Jackson, Patricia Smith, Cynthia Harris, James Karen

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Episode 18

Stolen Tears

1h

A man who was a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps is run down and killed after he recognizes the man who was his tormentor in the camp. He manages to get a message sent to his friend, Heime, before his death and he tries to convince Quincy that it was murder, not an accident. At the same time Heime, who runs a Holocaust museum, has to deal with a rich, powerful man who spends his time proclaiming that the Holocaust never happened.

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Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Signe Hasso, Stefan Gierasch, Martin Balsam, Norman Lloyd, Michael Durrell

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Episode 19

The Face of Fear

1h

A woman, Vicki Maguire, who has suffered from agoraphobia, manages to finally leave her house, for the first time in seven years. While walking her dog along the beach beside her house she looks in through the window of another house, and witnesses what she thinks is a woman being strangled. The police are called and when Monahan and Brill get to the house there is no body, no sign of a struggle and a completely different man in residence. No one believes her story, except for her psychologist Dr. Rainer, and she goes to see Quincy. She persuades him that the woman wasn't seeing things and that he should help her find out the truth, before she suffers a relapse and will never be able to leave her house again.

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Guest stars Carrie Snodgress, Paul Carr, Dixie Carter, Connie Ramirez, Paul Mantee, Jonathan Frakes

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Episode 20

Expert in Murder

1h

Quincy is going to be testifying in the appeal of a big mob boss, Victor Ramsay, and his evidence is vital to him staying in prison. Ramsay and his people have other ideas though and have a plan to guarantee his release. They kill the only witness and then set about making sure that Quincy is discredited. Once this is done Quincy and the D.A. have three weeks to come up with more evidence or Victor Ramsay will be released.

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Directed by Michael J. KaneWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Michael Gregory, Irene Tedrow, Richard Erdman, Paulene Myers, John Nolan, Joseph Sirola, Lloyd Gough, Jack Colvin

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Episode 21

The Unquiet Grave

1h

After running into an ex-girlfriend he had a fall-out with years ago, Quincey finds himself on the case when her husband dies and must unweave a diabolical plot to reveal the killer's identity.

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Directed by Georg FenadyWritten by Jeri TaylorGuest stars George Gaynes, Cynthia Harris, Ina Balin

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Episode 22

The Last of Leadbottom

1h

Rear Admiral Mckenzie, an old colleague of Quincy's, dies while opening a naval museum named after him. A simple autopsy causes confusion for Quincy and Asten when they encounter a naval commander desperate for the body, 3 Mrs. Mckenzies and the presence of a microchip inside his stomach. Soon Quincy has his Naval reserve status reactivated and finds himself involved in the cat and mouse affairs of espionage and counter espionage.

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Guest stars Rebecca Holden, James Gregory, Albert Paulsen, Bibi Osterwald, Fritzi Burr, Toni Lawrence, Tom Atkins

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Episode 23

Deadly Protection

1h

A German shepherd, bought as a family pet, savages and kills a young girl. Quincy investigates and finds out that there are absolutely no rules or regulations regarding dog trainers. He decides that he wants to do something about this but soon realizes that not only is this near impossible but that there is also more to this particular situation then it first seemed.

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Guest stars Carl Franklin, Sam Groom, Alexander Enberg, Jenny O'Hara, Kristin Gamboa

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Episode 24

The Mourning After

1hfinale

A fraternity ‘hazing' stunt goes badly wrong and a young man, Cary Stadler, dies. The other students panic and cover up how he died by placing his body in another place. Seeing as Quincy is the ME who deals with the case their attempt is very quickly uncovered. He proves that the story they are telling the police is complete fabrication. Proving they were involved and proving exactly what happened are two completely different things though, and there seems to be nothing that the police can arrest the boys for.

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Directed by Jeri TaylorWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Timothy Patrick Murphy, Rosemary Murphy, Skip Homeier, Carol Eve Rossen, Robert Hogan

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More about Quincy, M.E.

Cast

Jack KlugmanQuincy
Robert ItoSam Fujiyama
Val BisoglioDanny Tovo
John S. RaginRobert Asten
Garry WalbergFrank Monahan
Joseph RomanSergeant Brill
William SylvesterJoe Crawford
Joby BakerDonald Bigelow

Credits

Created by
Glen A. Larson

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
148
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • NBCUnited States
  • Universal TelevisionUnited States
  • Glen A. Larson ProductionsUnited States
  • Universal Television EntertainmentUnited States

Themes

coronerdoctorlos angeles, californiamedical examinationmurder investigation