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Original Air Date—3 October 1976 Quincy investigates the rape and murder of a civil servant; he finds a rash of murders and a political conspiracy. |
Original Air Date—10 October 1976 Margo Bentley's about her experiences hobnobbing with powerful people worldwide just might be a best-seller. Concerned about advance publicity, she advises her agent that she'll continue working in a hotel, under an alias. Hours later, she's dead, apparently of liver cirrhosis. Unmoved by Quincy's objections, Asten releases the body to a funeral home that quickly cremates it. Then Quincy finds a strange microorganism in her blood - something he's never seen before. One of Margo's friends gives Quincy the New York telephone number of her literary agent, but Quincy finds that avenue closed - by the days earlier death of that agent, apparently from liver cirrhosis... |
Original Air Date—28 November 1976 Clara Rhodes finds her daughter, movie star Roberta Rhodes, dead in her bedroom, apparently of an overdose. Quincy remains unconvinced. Then Paul Reardon, a journalist, tells Quincy he can prove Congressman Charles Sinclair was with Roberta the night she died. Sinclair is an old friend of Quincy's, so Quincy must face the unpleasant possibility that his old friend may be linked to a murder. Quincy must sort through a maze of lies and half-truths to discover what really happened. |
Original Air Date—2 January 1977 As Quincy celebrates Independence Day aboard his boat with Lee, the local sheriff motors over and reports a young man found suffering from pain and breathing problems. Quincy saves the boy's life, and at the hospital finds the spine of a stonefish, one of the most toxic fish know. Except the stonefish isn't native to the California coast! Have the deadly fish migrated there, or is something else going on? When Quincy tries to learn which, powerful men in Washington start to get nervous... |
Original Air Date—4 February 1977 |
Original Air Date—4 February 1977 |
Original Air Date—11 February 1977 In the last of the 90-minute Sunday Mystery Movie episodes (this was aired in the Friday time slot), a crook frantically steals the bones of a long-dead football player from a construction site. But he misses a femur, and it was hit by a pistol slug. The next day, the thigh bone is discovered and turned over to Quincy and a group of medical students. Quincy uses analysis to get a complete portrait of the victim, who had been a high school champion who flunked out of college and turned to thievery. When the crook (who killed the football player in a fight over money they had stolen) assaults and nearly kills a student, Quincy travels to the football player's home town of Lubbock, Texas (in an incredibly stupid portrayal) to see about the football player's history -- with the crook following him. |
Original Air Date—18 February 1977 Quincy and Danny plan a simple fishing vacation in the town of Paradise. Then a case of mistaken identity drags Quincy into a closed murder case. The more Quincy digs, the more he realizes the case should never have been closed the way it was - and the more determined someone becomes to discourage the investigation. A new test that permits Quincy to tell the difference between male and female blood will confirm or deny the suspect's story, and maybe expose something worse... |
Original Air Date—25 February 1977 Quincy investigates the death in an oil refinery fire. Is the man missing executive William Farrell? Quincy comes under pressure from the man's widow and her lawyer to declare a death for insurance purposes. Then Quincy discovers his conclusions will be refuted by Dr. Herbert Stone, the man who taught Quincy and whom he regards as a mentor. Dr. Stone now testifies for anyone willing to pay his fees. But Quincy believes the evidence is irrefutable, and Stone's testimony will destroy a once exemplary reputation, now tarnished by mercantilism. Quincy must discover the truth before his old mentor can destroy himself on the stand. |
Original Air Date—11 March 1977 Quincy helps a football player struck by a car in Danny's parking lot. Later, the car is pulled from the water and there is just one body inside - a young woman who is friends with Quincy's girlfriend and whom police assume caused the accident. That's big trouble for Danny, because if he served her last, he may be liable for the accident. At autopsy, Quincy discovers evidence of extensive plastic surgery, and his investigators hit walls trying to identify the young woman's next of kin. Discovering her identity may be the key to saving Danny's restaurant, but there are people in the government who would prefer the young lady's past remain a mystery |
Original Air Date—18 March 1977 Quincy disappears at the worst time: a "corpse" delivered to the morgue isn't as dead as the hospital believes. Monahan needs help with a diamond smuggling case, and a young boy with symptoms that defy diagnosis arrives at the hospital. Fortunately, Dr. Hiro - Quincy's boss' boss - fills in... |
Original Air Date—15 April 1977 |
Original Air Date—22 April 1977 |
Original Air Date—29 April 1977 Sam calls Quincy at Danny's with a strange case: an accident victim with very unusual blood test results. The man died from an small gash on his forehead, because his blood could not clot. Monohan arrests the driver, who was discovered with a small amount of cocaine that he claims belonged to the passenger. To clear the driver's name, Quincy and Sam must discover exactly how the dead man received a lethal dose of radiation. He works at a nuclear power plant, but the type of radioactive material there could not have caused his death. So where was he exposed? And why? |
Original Air Date—6 May 1977 |
Season 2, Episode 12: ValleyviewOriginal Air Date—13 May 1977 Valleyview, a convalescent and nursing care home, has an excellent reputation. Then Howard Phillips dies of a blood clot - a heart attack - and his nephew drops $362 on Quincy's desk. That is the county's fee for an autopsy, which is the young man's right, so Quincy performs the examination - and discovers the elder Phillips' heart was in fine shape, with no evidence of a clot. A second patient succumbs to the same mysterious disorder, and shortly after that staff nurse Grayson. All come to Quincy's table; none reveals the secret. Asten pressures Quincy to step lightly around Valleyview's reputation lest the good work it does be destroyed forever. But until Quincy can determine the cause of death, he cannot dismiss any possibility - including the most damning one of all, that Valleyview might have an Angel of Death among its staff... |
Original Air Date—27 May 1977 A rapist is terrorizing Los Angeles. After one attack, a nurse who worked at a local hospital dies as a result of shock. The prime suspect is a mechanic who has eluded capture. Even though Quincy and the police pretty much know who it is they can't arrest him due to lack of evidence. Things become personal when he attacks a rape counselor who Quincy has become friendly with. |
Original Air Date—16 September 1977 A friend of Quincy's escapes captivity and torture and runs to Quincy's boat, but keels over and dies before Quincy can reach him. Quincy loads the man into his official car and takes him to the hospital, where he performs an autopsy on him with no witnesses. The autopsy reveals the man was savagely beaten in the stomach and died of internal hemorrhaging. But when Quincy returns the next day to the morgue, the man's body has been stolen, along with all of the records except for Quincy's tape-recorded comments while performing the autopsy. Quincy begins to suspect that maybe the man wasn't beaten by mobsters -- and in fact that maybe he wasn't beaten at all. He wants to do toxicology tests, but there is no tissue remaining -- or is there? |
Original Air Date—23 September 1977 |
Original Air Date—30 September 1977 |
Original Air Date—14 October 1977 |
Original Air Date—21 October 1977 |
Original Air Date—28 October 1977 Quincy races against time and a dwindling oxygen supply to locate a kidnap victim's underground prison after the boy's abductor is killed in a car accident. |
Original Air Date—4 November 1977 |
Season 3, Episode 8: Main ManOriginal Air Date—11 November 1977 |
Original Air Date—18 November 1977 |
Original Air Date—2 December 1977 Sam's cousin Tad Kimura is a rising young star in the genre of martial arts pictures. Unfortunately, he dies unexpectedly while filming his latest motion picture. Quincy prepares to perform an autopsy on the body, but it is taken before he can perform the procedure. The reason is that due to strict Buddhist beliefs, the body can't be autopsied. Quincy agrees to do an external examination, but when several questions still persist he decides to go ahead with the autopsy, which causes not only conflict within the Japanese community, but also puts a strain on his close relationship with Sam. |
Original Air Date—9 December 1977 |
Original Air Date—16 December 1977 |
Original Air Date—23 December 1977 |
Original Air Date—20 January 1978 |
Season 3, Episode 15: PassingOriginal Air Date—27 January 1978 While returning from a coroners convention, Quincy and Sam find a human skull in the desert. They immediately hire a forensic artist to use it to try to identify it. Eventually, they discover that the skull belonged to a missing labor leader. Soon, his main rival finds out and he and his goons threaten to stop Quincy by hurting the artist as well as Astin. Also, as the investigation goes on, Quincy discovers a hidden secret the man had that may have been the reason for his killing. |
Season 3, Episode 16: Crib JobOriginal Air Date—3 February 1978 A teenager with a record is accused of murdering an elderly man. The teen happened to belong to a group run by Quincy's friend, former pro-football great Rosie Grier. Rosie asks Quincy not only to help clear the teen, but to help save the organization he runs, Giant Step, which helps to bring teens and the elderly together. |
Original Air Date—10 February 1978 |
Original Air Date—17 February 1978 |
Original Air Date—3 March 1978 |
Original Air Date—10 March 1978 Quincy and Sam are on their way to their weekly poker game with Astin, Monahan, Brill, Ed and Danny when they are accosted by a prominent mob boss who only has 24 hours to live. He suspects he was poisoned by his rivals and orders Quincy to perform an autopsy on him while he is still living and to find out where he was poisoned. If Quincy refuses, he and Sam will be killed. |
Original Air Date—21 September 1978 Quincy and his girlfriend Barbara are driving up the coast on vacation when they are nearly run off the road by a young woman who is driving very erratically. She drives off the road and when Quince arrives at the wreck he discovers that she is dead. When Quincy performs the autopsy on her, he discovers that she died as a result of internal bleeding despite the fact that the wreck wasn't that serious. The next day, a police officer, who was inspecting the car, dies of apparently the same thing the woman did. However, things really become personal for Quincy when Sam is also stricken. Now he must find out what it is about the car that is killing people or else Sam will suffer the same fate. |
Season 4, Episode 2: Speed TrapOriginal Air Date—12 October 1978 A race car driver is killed in a fiery crash. However, Quincy suspects foul play, especially when he finds amphetamines in the driver's system. He then tries to prove that it was murder while at the same time dealing with a nosy insurance investigator who's company had a major policy on the driver. |
Original Air Date—19 October 1978 |
Original Air Date—26 October 1978 |
Season 4, Episode 5: ImagesOriginal Air Date—2 November 1978 |
Season 4, Episode 6: Even OddsOriginal Air Date—9 November 1978 Quincy is called in to investigate the shooting of a bar owner in an apparent robbery attempt. During the investigation, the suspect panics and grabs the gun he used in the course of the robbery and starts shooting. During the shooting, Quincy is shot and is in grave condition. Monahan, Sam and Astin try to piece together what happened and using their memories of past cases that Quince worked on they try to figure out if he was shot by accident or maybe that his shooting was deliberate. |
Original Air Date—16 November 1978 |
Original Air Date—November 1978 |
Original Air Date—7 December 1978 |
Original Air Date—4 January 1979 |
Original Air Date—11 January 1979 |
Original Air Date—18 January 1979 While performing an autopsy on a football player who died from an aneurysm, Quincy notices that he also had an especially drug resistant strain of gonorrhea. Quince and Sam are then loaned out to the health department to try to find any women he may have been involved with before a full scale epidemic breaks out. Also, Quince looks into the murder of a prostitute who also was infected with the virus. |
Original Air Date—25 January 1979 Quincy investigates the suicide of a woman who was horribly disfigured after undergoing a face peel that was performed by an incompetent plastic surgeon. He then goes on a crusade to see that his operation is shut down and he is aided by a former motion picture beauty who was victimized by the same doctor. |
Original Air Date—1 February 1979 |
Original Air Date—1 February 1979 |
Season 4, Episode 16: AftermathOriginal Air Date—7 February 1979 After a jet liner crashes just outside of Los Angeles, Quincy is called in to help identify the victims as well as to help find out the cause of the crash. However, he is soon trying to solve two other mysteries as well. One involves trying to positively identify a man who was traveling under an assumed name with a woman he was having an affair with. The other involves three chemical engineers who all suffered from lung cancer, which might have been caused by a project they were working on. |
Season 4, Episode 17: Dark AngelOriginal Air Date—15 February 1979 Officer Tommy Bates, a close friend of Monahan's, is accused of killing a young car thief who goes berserk after crashing into Bate's police car. Although the signs point to the young man being under the influence of PCP, there is no trace of it in his blood. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worst when Monahan is suspended for roughing up the young man's accomplice prompting a lawsuit by lawyer Charlie Trusdale, the head of a civil rights organization. However, Quincy finds out that the young man was a chronic user of the drug and thinks that he was experiencing a delayed reaction to all the years of abuse of the drug. Quince also suspects that he might have been responsible for the horrific murder of a butcher the morning of the attack. |
Original Air Date—22 February 1979 |
Original Air Date—1 March 1979 Quincy considers a marriage proposal from his girlfriend Lynne while working on a case. This then causes him to reminisce about his first marriage to his wife Helen. He also thinks about how his career caused him to neglect her, she developed a malignant brain tumor, and how her death influenced his decision to become a forensic pathologist. |
Original Air Date—15 March 1979 |
Original Air Date—22 March 1979 |
Original Air Date—24 March 1979 |
Original Air Date—12 April 1979 |
Original Air Date—20 September 1979 A teenage girl dies from a disease that mainly affects the elderly. A few hours later, her boyfriend dies of the same symptoms. Quincy later traces it to a the marijuana they smoked, which was treated with a poisonous fertilizer. Quincy then decides to go after the magazine that advertised it in order to try to keep more kids from dying from the tainted weed. He also must find out where the kids got the weed from. |
Season 5, Episode 2: Dead LastOriginal Air Date—27 September 1979 |
Original Air Date—4 October 1979 |
Original Air Date—11 October 1979 Quincy gets lured into the world of child pornography and teen prostitution while investigating the death of a reformed prostitute. She was killed after witnessing the man who turned her into one pick up another little girl with the intention of putting her into pornographic films. Now Quincy must try to find the young girl before her life is ruined. Also, Quincy tries to save an open shelter for young runaways that the girl who died was a volunteer at. |
Season 5, Episode 5: Hot IceOriginal Air Date—18 October 1979 While performing an autopsy on a man who was hit by a bus, Quincy and Sam find what looks like a pacemaker inside of him. However, when they remove the object they find out that it actually was a container for diamonds that he was smuggling into the country. Quincy is then "drafted" by a pair of government agents to act as a replacement courier to try to catch the mob boss who was to receive the gems. However, Quincy soon becomes a target of a hit man who poisons him and now its a race against time to find the hit man and get an antidote to save Quincy. |
Original Air Date—25 October 1979 Steve Yomashira, an old friend of Sam's, goes crazy one night and kills a young police officer with the officer's gun. It turns out that its the latest in a series of near psychotic episodes that Steve was suffering following an incident in Germany while he was serving in the army. Steve then commits suicide and Sam decides to dig deeper and he eventually finds out that Steve was suspected of being a spy for the Soviets and he was given an LSD laced truth serum. Now Sam and Quincy must try to prove that the army was responsible for what happened to him and reverse the army's decision to dishonorably discharge him and give Steve the honor back that he lost. |
Original Air Date—1 November 1979 |
Original Air Date—8 November 1979 After a pregnant young woman falls off a cliff during a struggle with her boyfriend, the young man is suspected of killing her; however, Quincy suspects that the girl may have committed suicide, and that her respectable family harbors a shocking secret. |
Original Air Date—15 November 1979 While walking through a forest, a forest ranger finds a stack of money believed to be the payoff for a hijacker who used a vial of anthrax to hijack a plane. He also finds the hijacker's skeleton in a tree. Unfortunately, he accidentally steps on the vial containing the spores. Quincy and Sam go to the town where the body was brought in to properly identify the remains. However, when the ranger dies from the disease and it now becomes a race against time to find the infected money before a major epidemic breaks out. |
Original Air Date—22 November 1979 |
Original Air Date—29 November 1979 While driving to a forensic pathologists convention, Quincy nearly falls asleep at the wheel and is stopped by the sheriff of a local town and is taken to the local jail where he sleeps it off. However, while he is there a fire breaks out in the jail and four of the inmates are killed as a result. Quince volunteers to perform the autopsy and finds out that one of the inmates, who was in jail for embezzling town funds, was actually stabbed to death. At first it looks as if the owner of the local diner was responsible, but it was later revealed that he had an airtight alibi. However, when the local MD finds out who the real killer is, he becomes the next victim. Now it is up to Quince to find the real killer before he gets away with murder. |
Original Air Date—24 January 1980 |
Original Air Date—17 January 1980 |
Season 5, Episode 14: RiotOriginal Air Date—31 January 1980 Quincy and Sam go to a prison to investigate the death of an inmate who had a reputation for being somewhat of an activist and the main suspect is a guard who is noted for his brutality. However, while they are conducting the investigation, the inmates decide to stage a revolt to protest conditions in the prison and Sam is taken hostage. Now its a race against time not only to find out the exact cause of the the inmate's death, but to save Sam's life. |
Season 5, Episode 15: Cover-UpOriginal Air Date—7 February 1980 |
Original Air Date—14 February 1980 |
Original Air Date—21 February 1980 |
Season 5, Episode 18: New BloodOriginal Air Date—28 February 1980 Quincy is forced to go vacation by Asten and is replaced by a pretty young pathologist named Jerri McCraken. However, as this is going on city councilman Larry Bridges is found dead in the stairwell of his secretary, with whom he was having an affair, from an alleged heart attack. Quincy tries to help with the investigation, but is rebuffed by McCracken. However, when several inconsistencies are discovered she later changes her mind and goes to Quincy for help. During the course of the investigation they later discover that Bridges suffered an allergic reaction to penicillin that was mixed with a mouthwash he was using. Now they must find the killer before he (or she) gets away with murder. |
Season 5, Episode 19: T.K.O.Original Air Date—13 March 1980 |
Original Air Date—20 March 1980 |
Original Air Date—27 March 1980 |
Original Air Date—30 April 1980 |
Original Air Date—16 September 1980 |
Original Air Date—12 November 1980 |
Original Air Date—19 November 1980 A lawyer, who also was a small time coke dealer, is murdered by a group of crooks who inject him with a lethal dose of cocaine. The killers then try to make it look like an accident by putting him in his car and having it drive off the road and explode. However, the plan goes awry when the victim is thrown from the car before it explodes. The killers then blackmail the son of one of Quincy's colleagues to try to get him to get his father to fix the autopsy so that there is no trace of cocaine in his system. When Quincy finds out what happens he tries not only to save his friend's reputation, but possibly his life. |
Original Air Date—26 November 1980 A mistake at the coroners office concerning a crib death effects not only Quincy and the staff but the parents also. |
Original Air Date—3 December 1980 |
Original Air Date—17 December 1980 |
Original Air Date—7 January 1981 Quincy and Sam travel to a small village in Central America to help identify the remains of a religious icon. |
Original Air Date—14 January 1981 While working as a technical advisor on a reality movie, Quincy uncovers that the murder being filmed was unjustly prosecuted. |
Season 6, Episode 9: Dear MummyOriginal Air Date—21 January 1981 |
Season 6, Episode 10: HeadhunterOriginal Air Date—4 February 1981 |
Original Air Date—11 February 1981 An Airliner crash in Santa Monica Bay springs Quincy into action fighting for airline passenger safety. |
Season 6, Episode 12: Jury DutyOriginal Air Date—28 January 1981 While serving on a jury Quincy finds flaws in the prosecution's case. |
Original Air Date—25 February 1981 |
Original Air Date—4 March 1981 A tragic death of a teenager sets Quincy into action fighting for orphan drug development. |
Original Air Date—11 March 1981 Quincy gets involved with a woman whose husband may have been killed by her as a tenacious insurance investigator pursues her. |
Original Air Date—18 March 1981 An assassin killed before the hit has Quincy rushing to expose who the target is before it's to late. |
Original Air Date—1 April 1981 Quincy investigates the death of a model. |
Original Air Date—6 May 1981 A vigilante group gets in a shoot-out with a killer resulting in the death of an innocent bystander and Quincy uses all of the coroner's office resources to find out what exactly happened and who was responsible. |
Original Air Date—28 October 1981 Quincy befriends a women he helped. |
Original Air Date—4 November 1981 |
Original Air Date—11 November 1981 While on a cruise in Tahiti, Quincy steps in and helps the crew when a mysterious illness affects the passengers on the ship. |
Original Air Date—18 November 1981 While on a cruise in Tahiti, Quincy steps in and helps the crew when a mysterious illness affects the passengers on the ship. |
Season 7, Episode 5: D.U.I.Original Air Date—2 December 1981 Quincy gets involved in an anti drunk driving campaign after a tough case involving a pedestrian being killed by a prominent lawyer-with a surprising twist. |
Original Air Date—9 December 1981 Quincy investigates the death of a ranch owner while Dr. Astin and his wife struggle with their foster child. |
Original Air Date—16 December 1981 Quincy helps a cancer patient who is dying. |
Season 7, Episode 8: Dead StopOriginal Air Date—23 December 1981 |
Original Air Date—6 January 1982 |
Original Air Date—13 January 1982 |
Original Air Date—20 January 1982 Quincy investigates the death of a horse. |
Original Air Date—27 January 1982 |
Original Air Date—3 February 1982 |
Original Air Date—10 February 1982 |
Original Air Date—17 February 1982 |
Original Air Date—24 February 1982 |
Original Air Date—3 March 1982 A mistake at a hospital leads to a nurses strike which Quincy and Astin try to clear up. |
Original Air Date—17 March 1982 |
Original Air Date—24 March 1982 |
Original Air Date—31 March 1982 |
Original Air Date—7 April 1982 |
Original Air Date—28 April 1982 |
Original Air Date—5 May 1982 |
Original Air Date—12 May 1982 |
Original Air Date—29 September 1982 |
Original Air Date—6 October 1982 |
Original Air Date—27 October 1982 |
Original Air Date—3 November 1982 |
Original Air Date—10 November 1982 |
Original Air Date—17 November 1982 |
Original Air Date—24 November 1982 |
Original Air Date—1 December 1982 |
Original Air Date—8 December 1982 |
Original Air Date—15 December 1982 Michael Morishima, a good friend of Sam's, is murdered in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. It turns out that he was investigating possible Yakuza activity in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Michael's old fashioned father now wants revenge. Now Sam and Quince must find the old man before he becomes a victim himself. |
Original Air Date—5 January 1983 |
Original Air Date—12 January 1983 |
Original Air Date—19 January 1983 |
Original Air Date—26 January 1983 |
Original Air Date—2 February 1983 |
Original Air Date—9 February 1983 |
Original Air Date—16 February 1983 |
Original Air Date—23 February 1983 |
Original Air Date—9 March 1983 |
Original Air Date—16 March 1983 |
Original Air Date—23 March 1983 |
Original Air Date—27 April 1983 |
Original Air Date—4 May 1983 |
Original Air Date—11 May 1983 A dock worker is seriously injured in an accident and loses his arm in the process. He is taken to an experimental hospital called Project Hope headed by a dedicated surgeon named Gabriel McCracken where his arm is reattached. The operation is a success, but a complication arises and he loses the use of his good arm. Now McCracken and his staff of cutting edge surgeons try to find a way to help the young man lead a better quality of life. |
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