Quincy, M.E.: Season 4 (1978)

Quincy, M.E, a man who must have been a nightmare to work with! Quincy was a crusading Medical Examiner in Los Angeles, an expert at his job he was always capable of finding something that everyone else missed. A small clue that would go against all the rest of the evidence in a case and would lead to him arguing with his boss, Asten, and/or the investigating detective, nearly always Monahan. Quincy started of as a straight forward crime series with a difference, it was a M.E. investigating not a police officer or private eye.As the series went from strength to strength the writers, probably with a little push from Klugman, started bringing in stories about social injustice rather than criminal. Most of the time this worked, in fact it is sometimes interesting to see that some of the things highlighted still have not changed even now! Sometimes it came over a little preachy but the show can never be faulted for trying to enlighten the eyes of its viewers.


60 mins 9/21/1978 1. The Last Six Hours
	Finally getting to spend a bit of leave time with his latest flame, Barbara, Quincy heads off away from Los Angeles. They nearly get run off the road and then witness an accident.
60 mins 10/12/1978 2. Speed Trap
	After a racing car accident proves fatal for a former Grand Prix driver, Quincy's autopsy brands the crash a possible homicide.
60 mins 10/19/1978 3. A Test for Living
	Quincy's powers of persuasion are put to the test when he crusades for a 7-year old boys re-evaluation as an autistic child.
60 mins 10/26/1978 4. Death by Good Intentions
	A patient dies just hours after having had a successful surgical operation. An 'Affirmative Action' doctor is suspended because of his 'mistake' .
60 mins 11/2/1978 5. Images
	A fire in a small motel room causes the death of the single woman occupying it. The evidence shows that the identity of the woman is Jessica Ross, the country's top newswoman.
60 mins 11/9/1978 6. Even Odds
	Quincy is gravely wounded at the scene of a crime, so it is up to Sam, Asten and Lt. Monaghan to solve the case he was working on and catch the person who shot him.
60 mins 11/16/1978 7. Dead and Alive
	An apparent murder victim becomes the object of Quincy's thorough investigation and identification when his mother and sister insist that he is still alive.
60 mins 11/30/1978 8. No Way to Treat a Body
	Quincy's latest lady friend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies.
60 mins 12/7/1978 9. A Night to Raise the Dead
	After four nights of continuous rain a man finds a body by his car. Once Quincy has completed the autopsy he announces that the man died of typhoid, an extremely infectious disease.
47 mins 1/4/1979 10. A Question of Death
	The M.E.'s office is helping a hospital with their organ donation program. Quincy goes there to help declare a young man dead and he was told that his kidney would go to a man whose constantly having dialysis.
60 mins 1/11/1979 11. House of No Return
	Quincy investigates the death of a young man at a home for people who have committed a crime but are considered mentally incapable and are therefore not sentenced to proper prison.
60 mins 1/18/1979 12. A Small Circle of Friends
	A roundup of prostitutes follows the death of an athlete who contracted a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea.
60 mins 1/25/1979 13. The Depth of Beauty
	Quincy delves into the world of cosmetic surgery after he autopsies a woman who killed herself because she hated the scars a botched operation caused.
60 mins 2/1/1979 14. Walk Softly Through the Night: Part 1
	The son of a friend of Quincy's dies of a seizure due to a massive drug overdose. Quincy and the boy's father are determined to find out who prescribed the drugs and why the boy was unable to get help.
60 mins 2/1/1979 15. Walk Softly Through the Night: Part 2
	Quincy continues in his quest to get close down Dr. Colella's surgery and stop him from continuing to issue prescriptions for drug addicts.
60 mins 2/7/1979 16. Aftermath
	A large passenger jet crash-lands 40 miles outside LA. Quincy and Sam are sent out to start the identification of the bodies and to make sure that the crash scene is kept intact.
60 mins 2/15/1979 17. Dark Angel
	Monaghan asks Quincy to push the autopsy of a young car thief to the top of his priority list. The boys' friend is claiming that a police officer chased him down and killed him after they were stopped in their stolen car.
60 mins 2/22/1979 18. Physician, Heal Thyself
	A teenage girl dies after an abortion, and Quincy learns from her boyfriend that the doctor who performed on her may have been drunk. Quincy finds it hard to hold him accountable when everyone around him so willing to cover up for him.
60 mins 3/1/1979 19. Promises to Keep
	Quincy and Sam have to stay late, going over work that was completed by a Medical Examiner who, it turned out, wasn't qualified for the job.
60 mins 3/15/1979 20. Semper-Fidelis
	A Marine recruit's death may have been the result of a drill sergeant's vendetta.
60 mins 3/22/1979 21. An Ounce of Prevention
	Quincy discovers a construction worker died due to pollution in the ground under his home.
60 mins 3/24/1979 22. The Death Challenge
	A retired magician's assistant dies performing his mentor's best illusion.
60 mins 4/12/1979 23. The Eye of the Needle
	An ailing woman's accidental death outrages Quincy when he discovers that she had been seeing a holistic doctor and had been treated with natural medicines rather than scientific ones.

	Jack Klugman	Dr. R. Quincy / M.E.
	Robert Ito	Sam Fujiyama
	John S. Ragin	Dr. Robert Asten
	Joseph Roman	Sgt. Brill
	Garry Walberg	Lt. Frank Monahan
	Val Bisoglio	Danny Tovo
	John Nolan	Bartender
	Karen Philipp	Robin Rollin
	Marc Scott Taylor	Mark
	Eddie Garrett	Ed
	James A. Watson Jr.	District Attorney
	Frances Lee McCain	Dr. Barrie Stoddard
	Charles Leland	Chuck
	Don Stark	Henessey
	Morgan Paull	Defense Attorney
	Michael Constantine	Brock Campbell
	William Prince	Prosecutor
	Floyd Levine	Major Levy
	Raymond St. Jacques	Dr. Charles Martin
	Dimitra Arliss	Dr. Kershner