![]() His colleagues, friends and wife all address him by his surname or the shortened “Quince”. Quincy, a strong-willed, very principled Medical Examiner ( forensic pathologist) for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, working to ascertain facts about and reasons for possible suspicious deaths. Writers Tony Lawrence and Lou Shaw received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1978 for the second-season episode “…The Thigh Bone’s Connected to the Knee Bone…”. The Quincy series often used the same actors for different roles in various episodes, a common occurrence on many Glen A. Instead, a two-hour episode kicked off a thirteen-episode shortened run of the series, which concluded the 1976–1977 season, while the Mystery Movie format was discontinued in the spring of 1977. ![]() had aired during the 1976–1977 season in the extended format, Quincy was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series without a typical 60-minute pilot. The series proved popular enough that after four episodes of Quincy, M.E. Quincy was broadcast as 90-minute telefilms as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation in the fall of 1976, alongside Columbo, McCloud and McMillan (formerly McMillan & Wife). Quincy’s character is loosely modeled on Los Angeles’ “Coroner to the Stars” Thomas Noguchi. John Vernon, who played the Wojeck title role, later guest starred in the third-season episode “Requiem for the Living”. Inspired by the book Where Death Delights by Marshall Houts, a former FBI agent, the show also resembled the earlier Canadian television series Wojeck, broadcast by CBC Television. Jack Klugman stars in the title role, as a Los Angeles County medical examiner. ![]() (also called Quincy) is an American medical mystery-drama television series from Universal Studios that aired from 1976 to 1983 on NBC. ![]()
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