Quincy was a crime-mystery type show with the lead character of Quincy (Klugman) being a medical examiner in Los Angeles. It actually wasn’t bad as a premise. The show included a lot of forensic science and had a few really good eps in the early seasons.
The problem with the show was, they couldn’t leave it alone. Like a lot of late 70s tv shows, Hollywood saw them as platforms for social justice. Thus, we star to have “Cause of the Week” stories. There was an entire episode about the “life” of a gun, and how it spread misery where every it goes, Quincy fighting “the system” over airline safety, etc. Quincy even had an episode where he - I kid you not - takes on the evils of punk rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJxxnemxmw <-—Much shark-jumping to be found here, LOL.
So, yeah, it wasn’t a fave of mine.
It started as a mystery movie of the week, then became a regular series.
Some of the episodes are real gems, like The Thighbone's Connected to the Legbone, where a femur is dug up at a construction site.
Quincy and his students figure out from just that one bone, who it belonged to, and who the killer was.
Another corker was when a boy is kidnapped and put into a shallow grave with a tank of oxygen. The kidnapper dies and they have to find out where the kidnapper was by the food found in the stomach, and the mud from the soles of his shoes.
The later years WERE stupid and preachy. Like the gun episode, and the punk rock one.
Real jump the shark moments.
Probably should have ended after season 5.
By then, like MASH eventually becoming the Alan Alda whine of the week, it became the Jack Klugman kooky liberal beliefs hour.
Notice how "very special episodes" of ANY series, become terribly dated.
Thanks for the warning. I’ll skip the show.