The Worst Episodes of Quincy, M.E.
Every episode of Quincy, M.E. ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Quincy, M.E.!
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Quincy, M.E." is "The Cutting Edge", rated 5.1/10 from 112 user votes. It was directed by Georg Fenady and written by Jeri Taylor. "The Cutting Edge" aired on 5/11/1983 and is rated 0.6 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Suffer the Little Children".
5.1/10 112 votes#1 - The Cutting Edge
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1983
Kenny Kelso, a young father, is seriously injured in a work accident and loses his arm. His arm is found and the paramedics take both him and his limb to a new place, Experiment Hope, where it may be possible to reattach them. The Doctor in charge, Gabriel McCracken, is the man behind the revolutionary new techniques and does everything he can to make sure that Kenny will be able to use his arm again.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: Jeri Taylor
5.7/10 78 votes#2 - Suffer the Little Children
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/1983
Dr. Asten asks Quincy to stop of on his way to his fishing holiday to do an autopsy on a young boy. The coroner in the area wants back up evidence to help him close down the foster child home that was looking after the boy and other children. To help out one boy Emily and Quincy get the local authorities to try out a new scheme. The idea of this scheme is that a qualified therapist lives with the troubled family to try and stop any flashpoints from occurring, hoping that this will then enable the family to be able to live happily together.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Karp
6.2/10 104 votes#3 - Next Stop, Nowhere
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1982
Emily comes to see Quincy about a young 18 year-old boy he has just completed an autopsy on. He died while slamdancing at a punk rock club, killed while dancing to lyrics about death, lack of hope and violence. She had been counseling his girlfriend Abby and is worried about her. Quincy's report declares that the punk music Zack listened to was a part of the cause of his death but the main reason was an ice pick in his back. Punk music and its lyrics come under the spotlight as Quincy tries to find evidence to prove who killed Zack.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Sam Egan
6.2/10 85 votes#4 - Beyond the Open Door
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1983
A woman with psychic powers helps the police track down a serial killer.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: David Moessinger
6.3/10 77 votes#5 - On Dying High
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1983
An accident at a club leaves JJ Chandler, a top country singer, badly burned and in intensive care. Sgt, Wendell, a narcotics cop, believes Chandler freebasing cocaine caused the accident; the only problem is getting any proof, or a witness. While Wendell is trying to find someone who will testify Quincy begins to realize how many drug overdose victims he has dealt with during his time with the coroners office. He decides that there must be something he can do about it and means to do everything he can to stop the proliferation of drugs in Los Angeles.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
6.3/10 70 votes#6 - Women of Valor
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/1983
A midwife, Olivia, is approached in the street and asked to help deliver a baby. She knows that she should not get involved but can see that the mother's friend is desperate for help. She goes to their aid but the baby dies in childbirth. The hospital they rushed the baby to when it became apparent that she couldn't help decides that her negligence caused the baby's death. The next thing Olivia knows she is being arrested for murder! Dr. Reed, a friend of Olivia's, visits Quincy and asks him to do his own autopsy on the baby. She hopes that he will find something that will help clear her friend.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 75 votes#7 - The Hope of Elkwood
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/1980
When a potential Olympic champion is cut down in his prime his coach is accused of negligent homicide. A young lawyer, the only man who is willing to defend him, must rely on Quincy to find evidence to clear his clients' name.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
6.5/10 94 votes#8 - Guns Don't Die
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1982
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: N/A
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.5/10 71 votes#9 - Unreasonable Doubt
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1982
A new pathologist (Walter Ross) is working in the lab who is disabled. When he looks into a case of electrocution of a handicapped baby (Sturge – weber disease) he is convinced that the baby was murdered by its father, Quincy's friend, Gerald Preston. Quincy is alarmed at Walter's blinkered view and decides to investigate Walters findings for himself.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Lee Sheldon
6.6/10 192 votes#10 - Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/1977
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
Writer: Glen A. Larson, Michael Sloan
6.6/10 107 votes#11 - Main Man
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1977
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.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 75 votes#12 - By Their Faith
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 1/7/1981
Asten sends Quincy and Sam, at the request of Archbishop Vallejo, to San Remos, Mexico. They are sent to a small village where a young woman is seemingly curing people of their illnesses. She says that she gained her powers from some bones she found in a cave. Quincy and Sam have to join a group of eminent scientists trying to determine how old the bones are and whether they could possibly belong to a legendary missionary from the time of the Incas.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 79 votes#13 - Baby Rattlesnakes
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1982
When a young girl is killed in a drive by shooting a young 14 year-old boy is quickly arrested. The boy, Ethan, was part of a special program trying to get kids out of gangs and trouble. Ethan denies having had anything to do with the shooting, but if he doesn't tell who did do it or if Quincy and the probation people cannot find them then not only will he end up in prison but the special program will be closed down.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.6/10 74 votes#14 - Science for Sale
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1982
A sick woman with cancer leaves the hospital and dies. Those that have had physical contact with her die. Quincy soon discovers a new virus is the culprit of the deaths and hurries to find the cause.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
6.7/10 92 votes#15 - Death Casts a Vote
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1977
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: William Froug
6.7/10 100 votes#16 - Holding Pattern
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1977
Quincy has to persuade a group of hijackers that the plane they, and their hostages, are on has been exposed to a deadly virus.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10 86 votes#17 - Walk Softly Through the Night (2)
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1979
Quincy continues in his quest to get close down Dr. Colella's surgery and stop him from continuing to issue prescriptions for drug addicts. This becomes less of a problem though after Marty Herrera, the young would be doctor, is arrested for killing Dr. Colella! Quincy doesn't believe the boy did it but finds that the evidence seems to be pointing straight at him.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Moessinger
6.7/10 72 votes#18 - When Luck Ran Out
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/1982
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: N/A
6.7/10 87 votes#19 - Dying for a Drink
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/1982
A medical examiner starts making basic mistakes, mistakes that are putting her job on the line and are caused by her alcohol binges. She is heading deeper and deeper into alcoholism and it may be that only Quincy can help her before she falls too far.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
6.7/10 70 votes#20 - Guilty Till Proven Innocent
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1983
After his furniture warehouse is burnt down Ted Locke, a friend of Quincy's finds he is suspected of arson and murder. A lack of evidence makes the DA reluctant to press charges though. Enter Federal Prosecutor Philip St.John, he suggests avoiding a normal court trial and charges Locke with mail fraud, based on his claims for payment from his insurance company, which allows him to bring him before a Federal Grand Jury. When the ‘trial' starts Quincy discovers that there a literally no rules in a grand jury and the defendant can have no representation to help in defending himself. Quincy decides that he is not going to stand for this and tries to help his friend out.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
6.7/10 81 votes#21 - Quincy's Wedding (1)
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1983
Quincy and Emily's wedding is fast approaching and there are many things that still need arranging. Emily has brought in Winslow, a wedding arranger to help. While the wedding arrangements are proceeding a body comes into the coroner's office, an old man who died of natural causes in a rest home, just after his 65th wedding anniversary. After the autopsy the wife of the deceased man, Edna, comes in to see Quincy and tells him that she killed her husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.7/10 79 votes#22 - Quincy's Wedding (2)
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1983
Emily calls off the wedding when Quincy fails to make it to the rehearsal, the last straw as far as she is concerned. Quincy seems to be more interested in the tales Edna has to tell about her husbands' death. Was it murder as she claims or are her statements just the ravings of a mad woman?
Director: Jeri Taylor
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.8/10 88 votes#23 - Promises to Keep
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/1/1979
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. This makes Quincy miss yet another date with Lynne, his current girlfriend. When they do get together she proposes to him. He turns her down because he remembers how he treated Helen, his first wife. He was always working and never spending enough time with her. Later he feels guilty and decides to go and see Lynne and propose to her himself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10 69 votes#24 - To Clear the Air
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1982
An old man at a hospital for respiratory disorders drops dead after going for a walk during a smog alert. Quincy's autopsy reveals lungs that had some kind of inflammation, caused by the pollutants being pumped into the air by the oil refineries near the sanatorium. Refineries that are meant to cut back their emissions during a smog alert!
Director: N/A
Writer: Sam Egan
6.8/10 83 votes#25 - Sleeping Dogs
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1982
Quincy has to testify in the court of a small town. The witnesses in the case are pressurized into lying and Harry Muller, a bullying murderer, goes free. Within half an hour of the court case having been dismissed Harry Muller is found dead. The six men in the shop where he died all say they killed him, firing one shot each from his gun. The police chief is happy to call the death self defense but Quincy knows that it was murder and insists he will find out which one of them really killed him.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A