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Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

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    Quincy, M.E. Season 7 Episode 9 - Bitter Pill
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Bitter Pill

    S7:E9

    After a teenager dies from taking a seemingly harmless pill, Quincy sets out to shut down the highly dangerous, but legal, trade in ‘look-alike' drugs. He tries to find out why it is legal to make such pills and concentrates on closing down a small, local shop that sells the pills.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Sam Egan

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  2. Quincy, M.E. Season 7 Episode 10 - Guns Don't Die
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Guns Don't Die

    S7:E10

    A man is mugged and killed in a park, fortunately the killer is quickly found and arrested. Sometime later a gang member kills a young boy. The autopsy shows that the same gun killed the boy and the mugged man. Quincy takes it upon himself to track down the weapon and make sure that it cannot be used to kill anyone else.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jeri Taylor

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  3. Quincy, M.E. Season 7 Episode 11 - When Luck Ran Out
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - When Luck Ran Out

    S7:E11

    When a prized racehorse, belonging to Nelson Spencer a friend of Quincy's, dies suddenly after a big race, an insurance investigation uncovers foul play. The expert insurance investigator sent by the insurance company is Quincy's latest girlfriend. A situation that causes problems for Quincy, stuck between his girlfriend and his friend.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Quincy, M.E. Season 7 Episode 12 - Smoke Screen
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Smoke Screen

    S7:E12

    A big fire strikes at a hotel. The Coroner's Office is called in to deal with the fatalities. Most of the victims died from smoke inhalation rather than from the actual fire. Investigations prove it was arson and a suspect is quickly found. Quincy doesn't believe they have caught the right man though and helps out an insurance investigator, Jake Carter, look into it further.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Quincy, M.E. Season 7 Episode 14 - Into the Murdering Mind
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Into the Murdering Mind

    S7:E14

    A family is violently murdered in their own home. The man arrested is the son and brother of the family members. He is a schizophrenic who blames everything on ‘The Beast', an alter ego inside his head who can take him over if he stops taking his medication. Quincy thinks, after talking with the DA, that he could be making it all up to get off on an insanity plea and tries to prove his theory.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Quincy, M.E. Season 7 Episode 17 - The Flight of the Nightingale
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Flight of the Nightingale

    S7:E17

    With no doctor around and a shortage of staff, Lynn Buchanan, a nurse decides to ease a patients pain by giving him medication. The patient dies and nurse Buchanan is suspended, even though the doctor's chart didn't say she shouldn't have done it. The rest of the nursing staff go on strike, her suspension being the last straw. Asten gets Quincy to look a bit closer than normal (Quincy look closer than normal!) when he does the autopsy because his wife is in the same hospital and was looked after by Lynn Buchanan.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Quincy, M.E. Season 1 Episode 1 - Go Fight City Hall -- To the Death!
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Go Fight City Hall -- To the Death!

    S1:E1

    A young woman is raped and strangled on a Los Angeles beach. Further down the coastline a young boy is shot and arrested for her murder. Quincy doesn't think that it would have been possible for the boy arrested to strangle the woman and decides that he is going to go out and begin a little investigation of his own. He visits City Hall where the woman worked to ask some questions and, after a little checking, finds out that there seem to have been a rash of unexplained deaths there.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  8. Quincy, M.E. Season 1 Episode 3 - A Star Is Dead
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - A Star Is Dead

    S1:E3

    Roberta Rhodes, a famous movie star, is found dead in her bedroom. The police think that it was probably suicide, but Quincy thinks not. A gossip newspaper editor approaches Quincy and tells him that on the night of her death his friend, and prospective senator, Congressman Charles Sinclair was with her. Quincy cannot believe that his friend could have killed Roberta but if he didn't then why does he keep lying to Quincy?

    Director:Noel Black
    Writer:Glen A. Larson

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  9. Quincy, M.E. Season 1 Episode 4 - Hot Ice, Cold Hearts
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Hot Ice, Cold Hearts

    S1:E4

    A couple of cat burglars break into a Mexican museum and steal $4 million dollar's worth of jewels. Sealing them in the floor of their boat they sail to California with the intention of fencing them there. Once there one of their crew tries to steal the jewels but is caught. Alex, the main burglar, poisons him with the venom of a fish and dumps him into the harbor. Unfortunately for him Quincy and Lee are nearby and are called to help the dying man. Quincy not only gets there to help him but manages to save his life as well. He cannot at first work out what happened to the swimmer but is soon convinced that not all is what it seems.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Quincy, M.E. Season 1 Episode 2 - Who's Who in Neverland?
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Who's Who in Neverland?

    S1:E2

    Margo Bently is writing her first book, the contents of which could prove very damaging to a certain group of people. She is murdered and brought into the lab as a suspected alcoholic prostitute with cirrhosis but Quince thinks the body is telling him something different about her social standing. Quince is asked to present a seminar in Bufflo NY by Asten, while he's preparing his notes Asten takes over in the lab. In Quincys absence, Asten signs the body out to a phoney coroner and Quincy begins tracking her down. This leads him to a murdered literary agent in New York a race to autopsy him before he's cremated so he can prove a link.

    Director:Steven Hilliard Stern
    Writer:Richard M. Powell

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  11. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 1 - Snake Eyes (1)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Snake Eyes (1)

    S2:E1

    Quincy, Lee and Danny are all in Lake Tahoe together. Quincy is there for a forensic Pathologist convention and the others for a weekend break. While they are there the guests and staff start coming down with some kind of strange illness. Quincy and a couple of other Forensic Pathologists are called in to help but when some of the patients start dying they still have no clue as to what is killing them. To make things worse the casino owner does not want to admit that anything is wrong, as it will affect his bookings and profits.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Joel Oliansky, Michael Sloan

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  12. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 2 - Snake Eyes (2)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Snake Eyes (2)

    S2:E2

    The disease continues to spread and the rest of the hotel/casino's guests want to know what is going on. They want to get out of the building but Quincy and his colleagues know that they have to keep the disease, and the guests, contained. If the disease gets out of the hotel it could cause an epidemic that could quickly spread all over the country!

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Joel Oliansky, Michael Sloan

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  13. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 3 - ... The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone ...
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - ... The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone ...

    S2:E3

    A thigh bone is found buried on the building site of a new student union building. Quincy is teaching a class at the university and soon involves himself and his students who the bone belonged to, how they died and possibly even who killed him. Not surprisingly Monaghan and Asten consider this a complete waste of time and want Quincy to get back to his job and stop bothering them.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 4 - Visitors in Paradise
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Visitors in Paradise

    S2:E4

    Quincy and Danny go on a fishing holiday to the beautiful lakeside town of Paradise, free from their troubles of restaurant managing and Dr. Asten. Almost as soon as they have started fishing a young woman pulls her boat alongside them and thanks Quincy for coming to investigate her mother's murder! Quincy has no idea what she is on about but is affected by her pleading and agrees to look into it.

    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Michael Sloan

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  15. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 5 - The Two Sides of Truth
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Two Sides of Truth

    S2:E5

    In a court appearance Quincy comes up against his old professor, Dr. Herbert Stone, who is an expert witness for the defence. Stone comes up with a completely different view of the medical evidence to Quincy, which cause him to become confused and unsure of his own opinion. Because of this the prosecution loses. Later they appear to be on opposite sides again in another case. Stone refutes evidence that Quincy has found that shows that a rich businessman died in a fire. Quincy is upset when the Assistant DA points out that his old professor is now just selling his expertise to whoever will pay him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 6 - Hit and Run at Danny's
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Hit and Run at Danny's

    S2:E6

    Outside Danny's bar a man is the victim of a hit and run. The woman driving, or thought to be driving, the vehicle was Robbi Parker. She was a friend of Quincy's current girlfriend, Jenny. Danny wants Quincy's help because a new Californian law means that if he served Robbi drinks and allowed her to leave drunk he could be closed down. Quincy examines the body and finds out that Robbi had had extensive plastic surgery, it also seems as if she didn't exist up until four months ago!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 7 - Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?

    S2:E7

    Monahan wants someone to examine a body that he thinks is involved in ‘smuggling' gems, a woman about to be autopsied is surprisingly found to be alive and Dr. Quincy is nowhere to be found. In his place is the brilliant, strict and feared Dr. Hiro.

    Director:Steven Hilliard Stern
    Writers:Michael Sloan, Glen A. Larson

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  18. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 8 - A Good Smack in the Mouth
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - A Good Smack in the Mouth

    S2:E8

    Asten's wife Melissa picks up a young boy wandering at the side of the road at night. Soon afterwards they are involved in an automobile accident. Quincy is told, Asten is out of town, and he goes and visits Melissa, and the boy. As soon as he sees Joey's bruises he knows that they are not new ones caused by the crash, they are older and look like being beaten caused them. He looks at the x-rays taken of the boy and they confirm his opinion that the boy is being abused, probably at the hands of his parents.

    Director:Jackie Cooper
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 9 - The Hot Dog Murder
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Hot Dog Murder

    S2:E9

    After a talk at a university a student who wants his advice approaches Quincy. He thinks that a body that was donated to the university was murdered, that he didn't die accidentally as the records show. What makes it worse is that the body came from a top security prison wing, where the man was being held for his own safety at the time.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 10 - An Unfriendly Radiance
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - An Unfriendly Radiance

    S2:E10

    Quincy is called in on his day off after a car crash victim is brought in and seems to have an extremely high level of radiation in his body. Ray Sanchez, who was helping out the now man, Bigelow, is arrested for manslaughter, even though Quincy is convinced of his innocence and makes no effort to hide his viewpoint. To help Sanchez Quincy decides to look more into the radiation aspect of Bigelow's death and tries to dig into his background and find out where he worked.

    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 11 - Sullied Be Thy Name
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Sullied Be Thy Name

    S2:E11

    A well-known priest, who is running a crusade against pornography, is found dead in the room of a prostitute. She insists that he had a heart attack while she was ‘with' him. Monahan cannot believe that Father Terrell would have betrayed his principles and wants Quincy to look very closely when he autopsies the body. Quincy finds some discrepancies and wants to do a more detailed investigation, starting with Carlo Dicassa, noted pornographer and enemy of the father.

    Director:Jackie Cooper
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 12 - Valleyview
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Valleyview

    S2:E12

    An old man dies in a sanatorium, Valleyview, seemingly of a coronary. His grandson doesn't think that he could have died that way and pays for the Medical Examiners office to do an autopsy. Quincy does the autopsy and tells David, the grandson, that there is nothing unusual about the death. All is done with until a young girl, Anne Freedman, dies at the sanatorium as well. Again the cause of death is not clear and Quincy begins to think that maybe someone is performing ‘mercy killings' on patients that are in pain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Quincy, M.E. Season 2 Episode 13 - Let Me Light the Way
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Let Me Light the Way

    S2:E13

    A suspected rapist seeks revenge on Quincy by attacking his friend

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Moessinger

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  24. Quincy, M.E. Season 3 Episode 1 - No Deadly Secret
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - No Deadly Secret

    S3:E1

    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!

    Director:Jackie Cooper
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Quincy, M.E. Season 3 Episode 2 - A Blow to the Head ... a Blow to the Heart
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - A Blow to the Head ... a Blow to the Heart

    S3:E2

    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.

    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Bitter Pill" is the best rated episode of "Quincy, M.E.". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Georg Fenady and written by Sam Egan, it aired on 1/6/1982. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Guns Don't Die".