Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
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- Seasons
- 8
- Episodes aired
- 148
- Latest aired
- S08E24
- Total runtime
- 6d 3h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 October 1976 – January 1977 4 episodes
- Season 2 February 1977 – May 1977 13 episodes
- Season 3 September 1977 – March 1978 20 episodes
- Season 4 September 1978 – April 1979 23 episodes
- Season 5 September 1979 – April 1980 22 episodes
- Season 6 September 1980 – May 1981 18 episodes
- Season 7 October 1981 – May 1982 24 episodes
- Season 8 September 1982 – May 1983 24 episodes
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S03E01 No Deadly Secret
September 16 · 60min find the promo
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At 4 am one morning Quincy is awoken by the arrival of a man at his boat. He is in a very bad shape and he dies before Quincy can do anything to save him. He takes him to the morgue and does an autopsy on him. The next morning Quincy is surprised to find that his results and slides have not turned up. When he goes to find out why he finds out that they are not all that is missing, so is the body! Without any proof of a body everyone thinks that he must have been mistaken, especially when Monaghan visits the man's workplace and finds him there!
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S03E02 A Blow to the Head ... a Blow to the Heart
September 23 · 60min find the promo
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After a championship bout a young boxer collapses and dies. His wife thinks that it wasn't an accident and asks Quincy, a friend of her husband's trainer and the coroner on call, to see if he can find out how he really died. Once Quincy has completed the autopsy he begins to wonder if the woman is right, there is certainly something that does not seem to be quite right with the death, something that is made even more certain when Quincy is approached by 4 thugs who tell him in no uncertain terms that he better hurry up and make his report.
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S03E03 A Dead Man's Truth
September 30 · 60min find the promo
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A rookie cop and his partner are called to a break in at a shop, when they arrive they go into a dark shop and start to search it. The criminal is still inside and when they find him an altercation ensues and ends up with the rookie cop shooting the burglar. After an autopsy Quincy quickly discovers that the story the rookie is telling is not the truth. With a crusading TV reporter looking into police brutality Monahan wants Quincy to find out exactly what happened and why the rookie is lying before the reports condemn him and ruin his chance of a career in the police.
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S03E04 A Question of Time
October 14 · 60min find the promo
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An alleged accidental drowning at a Health Spa pits Quincy against a slick attorney hired to prevent adverse publicity from affecting profits.
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S03E05 Death Casts a Vote
October 21 · 60min find the promo
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Two labor leaders are fighting for votes from the farm workers in the Los Angeles area. When a young union worker dies, seemingly committing suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, both leaders come under suspicion. Even more so when Quincy announces in a press conference that he is not convinced that it was suicide, and that it may have been murder.
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S03E06 Tissue of Truth
October 28 · 60min find the promo
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When a kidnapper dies in a car crash after trying to pick up his ransom the only clue that will help the police find the missing boy is a half eaten apple. It is up to Quincy to use his medical expertise to uncover where the kidnapped boy has been hidden.
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S03E07 Holding Pattern
November 4 · 60min find the promo
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Quincy has to persuade a group of hijackers that the plane they, and their hostages, are on has been exposed to a deadly virus.
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S03E08 Main Man
November 11 · 60min find the promo
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An autopsy on a college football star reveals a congenital brain disease, and Quincy urges the victim's younger brother to stay out of the next high school game. But the boy's father and the school are determined to win the championship at any cost.
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S03E09 The Hero Syndrome
November 18 · 60min find the promo
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A man confesses to murder, thinking that he has killed his boss, but Quincy is not convinced that his blow was the one that killed the man and believes that he is not the guilty party.
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S03E10 Touch of Death
December 2 · 60min find the promo
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The sudden, unexplained death of a Japanese martial artist movie star leaves Quincy without an assistant. Sam quits after urging him not to perform an autopsy on the man, as it is against the religion of his parents. Quincy tries to balance his need for knowledge, to find out how the man died, and the feelings of his best friend.
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S03E11 The Deadly Connection
December 9 · 60min find the promo
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After twelve people in a small town fall victim to a mysterious epidemic Quincy and Sam are sent on a mission to identify the disease, before the victims die.
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S03E12 Last of the Dinosaurs
December 16 · 60min find the promo
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When Will Preston, a western movie star and one of Quincy's idols, is found dead Quincy clashes with Lt. Monahan over what really happened to cause his death.
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S03E13 Crib Job
January 6 · 60min find the promo
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After dealing with what seems to be an open and shut murder case Quincy is ready to close his findings. Then he receives a request from a friend of his runs a program that helps old and young people work together. It seems that the suspect is one of the boys in his program and he doesn't believe that he could have killed someone. Not only that but the program could lose it's funding if it is true, and this would be detrimental to both the old and young it helps. Quincy promises to look into the matter and see if he can help.
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S03E14 Matters of Life and Death
January 20 · 60min find the promo
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Quincy is asked to cover for a GP working in a small community north of Los Angeles. There he becomes involved in a case of medical negligence after the death of a local man.
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S03E15 Passing
January 27 · 60min find the promo
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Quincy races against the clock to confirm that the skull of an apparent murder victim is that of a union leader who had disappeared two years earlier.
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S03E16 Accomplice to Murder
February 3 · 60min find the promo
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Quincy stakes his reputation on his forensic findings, which suggest that an influential businessman is responsible for the death of his estranged wife.
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S03E17 Ashes to Ashes
February 10 · 60min find the promo
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A young woman dies in a bar, apparently of a heart attack. After the autopsy Quincy is sure that something is not quite as it seems and soon discovers some unsettling facts about her husband.
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S03E18 Gone But Not Forgotten
February 17 · 60min find the promo
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Quincy investigates the death of an eccentric millionaire, whose lavish penthouse was protected by a supposedly impenetrable security system.
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S03E19 Double Death
March 3 · 60min find the promo
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A rushed autopsy by Dr. Asten places Quincy in a difficult position as he tries to clear his bosses' name.
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S03E20 Requiem for the Living
March 10 · 60min find the promo
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While working late at the lab Quincy and Sam are taken hostage by syndicate chief Vincent DiNardi. He has been poisoned and wants the two medical examiners to find out how the toxin was administered. Once he knows that he can make sure arrangements are completed for his revenge before he dies.