Creator
Creator
Cast
Dr. R. Quincy
Sam Fujiyama
Danny Tovo
Dr. Robert Asten
Lt. Frank Monahan
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Synopsis
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC. It stars Jack Klugman in the title role, a Los Angeles County medical examiner.
Inspired by the book Where Death Delights by Marshall Houts, a former FBI agent, the show also resembled the earlier Canadian television series Wojeck, broadcast by CBC Television. John Vernon, who played the Wojeck title role, later guest starred in the third-season episode “Requiem For The Living”. Quincy’s character is loosely modelled on Los Angeles’ “Coroner to the Stars” Thomas Noguchi.
The first half of the first season of Quincy was broadcast as 90-minute telefilms as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation in the fall of 1976 alongside Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan. The series proved popular enough that midway through the 1976–1977 season, Quincy was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series. The Mystery Movie format was discontinued in the spring of 1977.
In 1978, writers Tony Lawrence and Lou Shaw received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the second-season episode “…The Thighbone’s Connected to the Knee Bone…”. Many of the episodes used the same actors for different roles in various episodes. For example, an actor who plays a crooked Navy captain also plays a ballistics expert in several of the later episodes. Using a small “pool” of actors was a common production trait of many Glen A. Larson TV programs. Before becoming a regular cast member as Quincy’s girlfriend-wife Dr. Emily Hanover in the 1982-1983 season, Anita Gillette had portrayed Quincy’s deceased first wife Helen Quincy in a flashback in a 1979 episode “Promises to Keep”.
Original title
Quincy, M.E.
First air date
Oct. 03, 1976
Last air date
May. 11, 1983
Seasons
8
Episodes
148
Status
Ended
Seasons and episodes
1
Season 1 Oct. 03, 1976
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Go Fight City Hall -- To the Death! May. 03, 2024
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Who's Who in Neverland? May. 03, 2024
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A Star Is Dead May. 03, 2024
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Hot Ice, Cold Hearts May. 03, 2024
2
Season 2 Feb. 04, 1977
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Snake Eyes (1) May. 03, 2024
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Snake Eyes (2) May. 03, 2024
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Visitors in Paradise May. 03, 2024
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The Two Sides of Truth May. 03, 2024
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Hit and Run at Danny's May. 03, 2024
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Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy? May. 03, 2024
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A Good Smack in the Mouth May. 03, 2024
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The Hot Dog Murder May. 03, 2024
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An Unfriendly Radiance May. 03, 2024
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Sullied Be Thy Name May. 03, 2024
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Valleyview May. 03, 2024
3
Season 3 Sep. 16, 1977
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No Deadly Secret May. 03, 2024
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A Blow to the Head ... a Blow to the Heart May. 03, 2024
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A Dead Man's Truth May. 03, 2024
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A Question of Time May. 03, 2024
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Death Casts a Vote May. 03, 2024
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Tissue of Truth May. 03, 2024
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Holding Pattern May. 03, 2024
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Main Man May. 03, 2024
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The Hero Syndrome May. 03, 2024
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Touch of Death May. 03, 2024
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The Deadly Connection May. 03, 2024
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Last of the Dinosaurs May. 03, 2024
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Crib Job May. 03, 2024
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Matters of Life and Death May. 03, 2024
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Passing May. 03, 2024
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Accomplice to Murder May. 03, 2024
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Ashes to Ashes May. 03, 2024
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Gone But Not Forgotten May. 03, 2024
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Double Death May. 03, 2024
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Requiem for the Living May. 03, 2024
4
Season 4 Sep. 21, 1978
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The Last Six Hours May. 03, 2024
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Speed Trap May. 03, 2024
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A Test for the Living May. 03, 2024
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Death by Good Intention May. 03, 2024
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Images May. 03, 2024
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Even Odds May. 03, 2024
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Dead and Alive May. 03, 2024
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No Way to Treat a Body May. 03, 2024
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A Night to Raise the Dead May. 03, 2024
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A Question of Death May. 03, 2024
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House of No Return May. 03, 2024
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A Small Circle of Friends May. 03, 2024
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The Depth of Beauty May. 03, 2024
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Walk Softly Through the Night (1) May. 03, 2024
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Walk Softly Through the Night (2) May. 03, 2024
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Aftermath May. 03, 2024
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Dark Angel May. 03, 2024
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Physician, Heal Thyself May. 03, 2024
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Promises to Keep May. 03, 2024
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Semper-Fidelis May. 03, 2024
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An Ounce of Prevention May. 03, 2024
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The Death Challenge May. 03, 2024
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The Eye of the Needle May. 03, 2024
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Season 5 Sep. 20, 1979
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No Way to Treat a Flower May. 03, 2024
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Dead Last May. 03, 2024
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By the Death of a Child May. 03, 2024
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Never a Child May. 03, 2024
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Hot Ice May. 03, 2024
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Sweet Land of Liberty May. 03, 2024
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Mode of Death May. 03, 2024
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Nowhere to Run May. 03, 2024
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The Money Plague May. 03, 2024
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For the Benefit of My Patients May. 03, 2024
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Murder by S.O.P. May. 03, 2024
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Honor Thy Elders May. 03, 2024
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Diplomatic Immunity May. 03, 2024
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Riot May. 03, 2024
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Cover-Up May. 03, 2024
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Unhappy Hour May. 03, 2024
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The Winning Edge May. 03, 2024
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New Blood May. 03, 2024
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TKO May. 03, 2024
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The Final Gift May. 03, 2024
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Deadly Arena May. 03, 2024
7
Season 7 Oct. 28, 1981
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Memories of Allison May. 03, 2024
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The Golden Hour May. 03, 2024
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Slow Boat to Madness (1) May. 03, 2024
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Slow Boat to Madness (2) May. 03, 2024
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D.U.I. May. 03, 2024
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For Want of a Horse May. 03, 2024
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Gentle Into That Good Night May. 03, 2024
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Dead Stop May. 03, 2024
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Bitter Pill May. 03, 2024
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Guns Don't Die May. 03, 2024
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When Luck Ran Out May. 03, 2024
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Smoke Screen May. 03, 2024
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For Love of Joshua May. 03, 2024
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Into the Murdering Mind May. 03, 2024
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To Clear the Air May. 03, 2024
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The Shadow of Death May. 03, 2024
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The Flight of the Nightingale May. 03, 2024
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Stolen Tears May. 03, 2024
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The Face of Fear May. 03, 2024
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Expert in Murder May. 03, 2024
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The Unquiet Grave May. 03, 2024
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The Last of Leadbottom May. 03, 2024
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Deadly Protection May. 03, 2024
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The Mourning After May. 03, 2024
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Season 8 Sep. 29, 1982
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Baby Rattlesnakes May. 03, 2024
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A Ghost of a Chance May. 03, 2024
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Give Me Your Weak May. 03, 2024
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Dying for a Drink May. 03, 2024
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Unreasonable Doubt May. 03, 2024
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Sleeping Dogs May. 03, 2024
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Science for Sale May. 03, 2024
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Next Stop, Nowhere May. 03, 2024
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Across the Line May. 03, 2024
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Sword of Honor, Blade of Death May. 03, 2024
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The Law Is a Fool May. 03, 2024
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Guilty Till Proven Innocent May. 03, 2024
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A Cry for Help May. 03, 2024
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A Loss for Words May. 03, 2024
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Beyond the Open Door May. 03, 2024
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On Dying High May. 03, 2024
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Quincy's Wedding (1) May. 03, 2024
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Quincy's Wedding (2) May. 03, 2024
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Murder on Ice May. 03, 2024
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Women of Valor May. 03, 2024
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Suffer the Little Children May. 03, 2024
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An Act of Violence May. 03, 2024
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Whatever Happened to Morris Perlmutter? May. 03, 2024
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The Cutting Edge May. 03, 2024