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The Best Episodes of Quincy, M.E.

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

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  1. Background image for The Last Six Hours
    7.8/10(117 votes)

    #1 - The Last Six Hours

    S4:E1

    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

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    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Images
    7.8/10(120 votes)

    #2 - Images

    S4:E5

    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.

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    Director:Ray Danton
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for No Way to Treat a Body
    7.8/10(120 votes)

    #3 - No Way to Treat a Body

    S4:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for Even Odds
    7.7/10(103 votes)

    #4 - Even Odds

    S4:E6

    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.

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    Director:Ray Danton
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for A Night to Raise the Dead
    7.7/10(118 votes)

    #5 - A Night to Raise the Dead

    S4:E9

    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.

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    Director:Gene Nelson
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for House of No Return
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    #6 - House of No Return

    S4:E11

    Quincy investigates the death of a young man at a home for people who have comitted a crime but are considered mentally incapable and are therefore not sentenced to proper prison. His mother insists that he was forced to fight by the attendants, who run the place like prison warders, in a unofficial boxing contests against other inmates.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.7/10(111 votes)

    #7 - A Small Circle of Friends

    S4:E12

    A roundup of prostitutes follows the death of an athlete who contracted a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.7/10(121 votes)

    #8 - The Depth of Beauty

    S4:E13

    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.

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    Director:Ray Danton
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    7.7/10(90 votes)

    #9 - The Eye of the Needle

    S4:E23

    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. His opinion about the doctor responsible though is affected by his liking for her and it gives him something to think about.

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    Director:Unknown
  11. Background image for Who's Who in Neverland?
    7.6/10(211 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.

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    7.6/10(106 votes)

    #11 - A Question of Death

    S4:E10

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    Director:Ray Danton
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    7.6/10(93 votes)

    #12 - The Death Challenge

    S4:E22

    A world famous magician comes out of retirement to appear on a live television show after his most famous trick leads to the death of his protege. After the autopsy Quincy has to find out whether or not the first performance was a cover up for homicide or whether it was just an accident.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Go Fight City Hall -- To the Death!
    7.5/10(272 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  15. Background image for A Star Is Dead
    7.5/10(201 votes)

    #14 - 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?

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    Director:Noel Black
  16. Background image for Dead and Alive
    7.5/10(120 votes)

    #15 - Dead and Alive

    S4:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.4/10(108 votes)

    #16 - Dark Angel

    S4:E17

    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. When the autopsy is completed it can only confirm that the boy, Billy Harris, died to a bone broken in his neck, and not how it could have occurred. This information is enough to get the press printing stories of police brutality and a Californians for Constitutional Rights lawyer rushing in to defend Billy's friend Steve.

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    Director:Ray Danton
  18. Background image for Physician, Heal Thyself
    7.4/10(102 votes)

    #17 - Physician, Heal Thyself

    S4:E18

    A seventeen-year old girl collapses and dies after having had an abortion. The family wants an autopsy and tells Asten that they will pay for a private one. Quincy performs it and thinks that her death was caused by the negligence of the doctor who performed the abortion. He visits the doctor and the hospital and finds out that the doctor was drunk when he operated, proving this is hard though as he faces a conspiracy of silence.

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    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Hot Ice, Cold Hearts
    7.3/10(172 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for An Ounce of Prevention
    7.3/10(102 votes)

    #19 - An Ounce of Prevention

    S4:E21

    While completing the autopsy of a construction worker who fell to his death Quincy spots some unusual abnormalities. He gets Sam to run some further tests to see if there was anything that could have made the man fall. The results show that he was killed by a large amount of pesticides, pesticides that were covering the tomatoes he had for lunch. Follow up investigations show that a dumpsite near the town of Rosewood is leaking. The chemicals are infecting the ground in and around the dumpsite and town.

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for Speed Trap
    7.2/10(119 votes)

    #20 - Speed Trap

    S4:E2

    After a racing car accident proves fatal for a former Grand Prix driver, Quincy's autopsy brands the crash a possible homicide.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Death by Good Intention
    7.2/10(112 votes)

    #21 - Death by Good Intention

    S4:E4

    A patient dies just hours after having had a successful surgical operation. An ‘Affirmative Action' doctor is suspended because of his ‘mistake' and a friend of Quincy's decides that he will take the blame to save him, and the ‘Affirmative Action' program. Quincy soon gets involved to try and save his friends job.

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    Director:Unknown
  23. Background image for Aftermath
    7.2/10(96 votes)

    #22 - Aftermath

    S4:E16

    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. Once the rest of the Coroners team has arrived and the positions of the bodies have been marked out they are all taken back to LA, where an autopsy has to be completed on each and every one of them, all one hundred of them! Quincy eventually discovers that a dangerous flammable gas was being carried by the plane, not illegal but extremely dangerous. He then finds himself with two dilemmas to solve. The first being how to persuade the airlines that transporting this sort of flammable substance is not a good idea and secondly, to get an insurance company to accept that one of the unidentifiable bodies was that of a man they insured so that his wife and family can claim his life insurance.

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    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Semper-Fidelis
    7.2/10(97 votes)

    #23 - Semper-Fidelis

    S4:E20

    Quincy is asked to do an autopsy on the body of a marine who died in an accident during his training. Harry Collier, a friend of Quincy's wants him to give a second opinion, to stop the press from calling the death a cover up. What Quincy finds though is what he thinks is evidence of a murder and he goes to the base to find out what did happen to cause the young soldiers death, and if necessary who caused it.

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    7.1/10(116 votes)

    #24 - A Test for the Living

    S4:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Walk Softly Through the Night (1)
    7.1/10(106 votes)

    #25 - Walk Softly Through the Night (1)

    S4:E14

    A top children's TV star, and a friend of Quincy's, is shocked when his son dies of a drug overdose. He had no idea his son was even on drugs and is angry when he finds out that a doctor prescribed the drugs to him. Quincy and the star, Brock, go to visit the doctor and find an enormous queue of addicts waiting outside the surgery. They are all waiting with money in hand to buy a prescription from the doctor. Quincy and Brock set about trying to shut this doctor down and to help a young would be doctor in his attempts to get some sort of drug counseling support system set up in his college.

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    Director:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Last Six Hours" is the best rated episode of "Quincy, M.E.". It scored 7.8/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by Corey Allen and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/21/1978. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Images".