The Best Episodes of Quincy, M.E.
Every episode of Quincy, M.E. ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Quincy, M.E.!
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Quincy, M.E." is "Seldom Silent, Never Heard", rated 8.2/10 from 124 user votes. It was directed by Jeffrey Hayden and written by Sam Egan. "Seldom Silent, Never Heard" aired on 3/4/1981 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Hot Ice".
8.2/10 124 votes#1 - Seldom Silent, Never Heard
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 3/4/1981
A young boy, Jeffrey, dies when he falls from a building, after being chased in there. After the autopsy a doctor turns up wanting to have the brain. Jeffrey had Tourette's Syndrome and the doctor wants to try and find out what causes it and how to cure it. This is the only way he can research it as the drug companies don't think they could make enough money to make it worth their while.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Sam Egan
7.9/10 84 votes#2 - Hot Ice
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1979
Two customs officers want Quincy's help in catching arresting a diamond smuggling ring. A courier they were following was killed when a bus at the airport and, as Quincy is going to a Las Vegas to judge a Miss Coroner Contest; they want him to take the couriers place. He has to deliver the diamonds to a known mobster, something he really, really does not want to do!
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Robert Crais
7.9/10 94 votes#3 - Deadly Arena
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1980
Three deaths due to food poisoning are linked to a football stadium where a big championship game is due to take place. Quincy has three days to find the source before 90,000 spectators come to watch and are put in jeopardy.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Robert A. Cinader, Sam Egan
7.9/10 84 votes#4 - Stain of Guilt
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 1/14/1981
Quincy is hired as a technical director for a movie that is recreating a famous homicide case. Watching the murder scene being filmed convinces him that the real murderer is still loose and that the woman in jail for the crime was innocent. He sets out to find the truth but is hampered by the reluctance of the woman convicted to get involved. She only has a few months now until her parole hearing and if she is still trying to prove her innocence she has no chance of getting out if Quincy fails to find the real killer.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Sam Egan
7.8/10 125 votes#5 - Let Me Light the Way
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 5/27/1977
A suspected rapist seeks revenge on Quincy by attacking his friend
Director: N/A
Writer: David Moessinger
7.8/10 106 votes#6 - Double Death
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/1978
A rushed autopsy by Dr. Asten places Quincy in a difficult position as he tries to clear his bosses' name.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 106 votes#7 - The Last Six Hours
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1978
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. Quincy then finds himself in a life or death race to isolate a mysterious poison, found in the woman's body, that has already claimed two lives
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 109 votes#8 - No Way to Treat a Body
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1978
Quincy's latest ladyfriend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies. He finds himself up against a group of oddball residents when he tries to find out what is going on, who the bodies belong to and where they came from.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Crais
7.8/10 109 votes#9 - The Depth of Beauty
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/1979
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. He discovers that the plastic surgeon isn't in fact a qualified plastic surgeon, only a qualified MD. The law allows anyone who has qualified as a doctor to call himself any kind of specialist he likes.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Robert Crais
7.8/10 100 votes#10 - Never a Child
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1979
After performing an autopsy on a young woman Quincy finds out about a man called' Uncle Harry'. He preys on young girls, runaways, who arrive in Los Angeles alone and scared. Quincy helps Carol Treager, who runs a home for runaways whose lease is about to run out, to not only track down a missing young girl who was seen in the company of ‘Uncle Harry' but to also try and get a new place for her and ‘her' kids.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Sam Egan
7.8/10 77 votes#11 - Murder by S.O.P.
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1979
On his way to a Forensic Pathologist convention in Sacramento, the Sheriff of a small town stops Quincy on the road. He was trying to stay awake by sticking his head out of the window. The Sheriff decides to put Quincy in jail for his own good. That night a fire starts in the cells and four men die. The towns' authorities call all the deaths accidental but Quincy, doing some of the autopsies to help the local Dr. is convinced that one of the victims was murdered.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Crais
7.8/10 94 votes#12 - Jury Duty
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 2/18/1981
When Quincy sits on a jury for a homicide case he realizes that there are errors in the evidence, which could lead to the conviction of an innocent man. Not being one to sit by without doing anything he is soon causing uproar in the court with his constant questioning and interrupting.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 88 votes#13 - Who Speaks for the Children?
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/25/1981
Polly Carmody, a young 9 year old girl, is murdered and found in a refuse bin. The police quickly pick up a suspect but Lt. Alex Markasian thinks that he doesn't fit the profile of a child murderer. He is much more interested in the fact that the 'father' of Polly is in fact her stepfather, and has only been in the house for a couple of months. When the arrested suspects blood type doesn't match the blood found on the victioms clothing Donald Thompson, the stepfather, becomes an even more likely suspect. This is made even more likely when Alex and Quincy discover some disturbing things in Thompsons' background.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 95 votes#14 - For Love of Joshua
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1982
A doctor persuades a couple that their new baby, which was born with Down's syndrome, will not have any life outside of hospitals and institutions. The child is then allowed to starve to death, something that causes a second doctor to ask for the original one to be charged with murder. Quincy investigates and finds out more about how children with Down's syndrome are treated in the world. To do this he visits a family that look after six children on their own.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 75 votes#15 - Expert in Murder
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 3/31/1982
Quincy is going to be testifying in the appeal of a big mob boss, Victor Ramsay, and his evidence is vital to him staying in prison. Ramsay and his people have other ideas though and have a plan to guarantee his release. They kill the only witness and then set about making sure that Quincy is discredited. Once this is done Quincy and the D.A. have three weeks to come up with more evidence or Victor Ramsay will be released.
Director: Michael J. Kane
Writer: Sam Egan
7.7/10 158 votes#16 - Snake Eyes (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/1977
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: N/A
Writer: Joel Oliansky, Michael Sloan
7.7/10 142 votes#17 - Snake Eyes (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/1977
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: N/A
Writer: Joel Oliansky, Michael Sloan
7.7/10 163 votes#18 - Visitors in Paradise
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/1977
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
7.7/10 127 votes#19 - No Deadly Secret
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1977
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: N/A
7.7/10 110 votes#20 - Matters of Life and Death
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 119 votes#22 - Requiem for the Living
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 109 votes#23 - Images
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1978
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. As Quincy begins a press conference confirming her death Jessica walks in through the door, declaring that the rumours of her death are unfounded. Quincy and Asten are shocked but soon Quincy doesn't believe that this woman is Ross, and that his original findings were correct. He thinks that the body was Jessica ross and this woman is an imposter.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 106 votes#24 - Dead and Alive
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 106 votes#25 - A Night to Raise the Dead
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1978
After four nights of continuous rain a man finds a body by his car. It had been washed down the mountains and ended up in his front yard. Once Quincy has completed the autopsy he announces that the man died of typhoid, an extremely infectious disease. The man had been illegally buried in the cemetery at the top of the mountain very recently. Quincy wants the whole cemetery checked to see if there are more infectious bodies buried up there but he comes up against a barrel load of red tape trying to get this authorized.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
