Jack Klugman earned four Emmy nominations for his role as Quincy, a coroner who often takes an unusually active role in police investigations. Klugman shines as his character untangles the twisted web of the criminal mind. A top-shelf crime drama that has proved timelessly popular.
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Meet the Characters
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.
Jack Klugman
Sam Fujiyama
Robert Ito
Lt. Frank Monahan
Garry Walberg
Episodes
Episode 2
A Blow to the Head... A Blow to the Heart
Quincy suspects murder when a top ranked prize fighter suspiciously dies from blows received in a championship bout. Joe Louis makes a cameo appearance as himself.
Episode 3
A Dead Man’s Truth
Quincy is pitted against a TV reporter when he tries to extricate a police officer accused of slaying a burglar.
Episode 4
A Question of Time
A publicity-conscious attorney attempts to block Quincy’s inquiry into a questionable drowning at a health spa.
Episode 5
Death Casts a Vote
Quincy is placed in the middle of a fierce struggle for power between two unions when a young labour leader allegedly commits suicide.
Episode 6
Tissues of Truth
With only a half-eaten apple as a clue, Quincy must move swiftly in order to locate a kidnapped teenager who is buried alive with only a 24-hour supply of oxygen.
Episode 7
Holding Pattern
A group of airline hijackers refuse to heed to Quincy’s impassioned warning that they have all been exposed to a deadly disease.
Episode 8
Main Man
Against the protests of an entire community, Quincy tries to convince a high school football star that his participation in the championship game could be fatal.
Episode 9
The Hero Syndrome
Quincy is confused when a longshoreman confesses to a homicide that he didn’t commit.
Episode 10
Touch of Death
Complications arise when a Japanese martial arts movie star mysteriously dies, and Quincy’s assistant, Sam Fujiyama, will not permit a fact finding autopsy, citing an ancient Japanese custom against violating a dead body.
Episode 11
The Deadly Connection
Quincy and Sam Fujiyama must work quickly to diagnose a mysterious disease which threatens to wipe out the whole population of a ranching community.
Episode 12
Last of the Dinosaurs
Despite physical evidence of a beating, Quincy’s post mortem reveals that a popular movie star’s death was not caused by a fight with a couple of hoods.
Episode 13
Accomplice to Murder
Quincy sets out to prove that an influential businessman brutally beat his wife to death.
Episode 14
Matter of Life and Death
Quincy attempts to slow himself down by filling in as a general practitioner, he quickly gets caught up in his new patients’ particular problems.
Episode 15
Passing
Quincy uses a ‘forensic sculptress’ to help solve the mysterious two-year-old disappearance of a union leader.
Episode 16
Crib Job
The fate of a publicly funded juvenile-senior citizens’ project rests on Quincy’s ability to prove a youth’s innocence in the death of an old man. Rosey Greer guest stars as himself.
Episode 17
Ashes to Ashes
In order to avoid Quincy’s homicide investigation, a clever businessman orders the immediate cremation of his late wife’s body.
Episode 18
Gone But Not Forgotten
Quincy and a beautiful newspaper editor join forces to unravel the mysterious slaying of an eccentric billionaire inventor. Joan Van Ark guest stars.
Episode 19
Double Death
When Quincy’s boss botches an autopsy, the medical examiner is hard-pressed to find evidence that could clear him of any wrong doing.
Episode 20
Requiem for the Living
Quincy and Sam Fujiyama are held hostage by a mobster with an unusual demand – they must perform an autopsy on the living gangster in order to isolate a deadly toxin.