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Quincy M.E. Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
Last Rights
Tue, Sep 16, 198060 mins
In a small industrial town, an award winning medical examiner is pressured to refrain from doing a thorough job and to falsify reports... especially after asking Quincy to help him determine whether the industrial plant is poisoning the town!
Episode 2
A Matter of Principle
Wed, Nov 12, 198060 mins
When an ex-convict is arrested for a series of rapes, Sam uses a new lab technique for bite marks (forensic dentistry or odontology) that he's developed which casts reasonable doubt on the defendant's guilt. After his technique gets that man acquitted and released, an identical fatal rape in the same neighborhood occurs causing others, including Sam himself, to blame him for the later crime. But Sam keeps investigating, just like Quincy always does.
Episode 3
Last Day, First Day
Wed, Nov 19, 198060 mins
A lawyer, who also was a small time coke dealer, is murdered by a group of crooks who inject him with a lethal dose of cocaine. The killers then try to make it look like an accident by putting him in his car and having it drive off the road and explode. However, the plan goes awry when the victim is thrown from the car before it explodes. The killers then blackmail the son of one of Quincy's colleagues to try to get him to get his father to fix the autopsy so that there is no trace of cocaine in his system. When Quincy finds out what happens he tries not only to save his friend's reputation, but possibly his life.
Episode 4
The Night Killer
Wed, Nov 26, 198060 mins
Mr. and Mrs. Estes have baby twins and with Bill Estes working all day Madeline is finding it harder and harder to look after the two boys. One night one of the twins dies suddenly in its sleep. All the medical and police personnel involved thinks that the baby died from SID (Sudden Infant Death) Syndrome, but a new, young and ambitious ME, Dr. Gauge, thinks that it was battered and calls in Lt. Monahan. Bill, remembering how his wife was getting angry with the workload of looking after both babies begins to think that she could have killed their son.
Episode 5
The Hope of Elkwood
Wed, Dec 3, 198060 mins
When a young promising track athlete dies, someone blames the coach who pushed him very hard. The man is arrested and charged. The coach's wife tries to find a lawyer to represent him but everybody hates him. But a lawyer whom Quincy knows offers to defend him. He's hoping Quincy can find out if the athlete's death was because of the coach or if it was something else. When Quincy initially tells him, he found nothing, Quincy tells him maybe he should plead it out. But he doesn't want to do that.
Episode 6
Welcome to Paradise Palms
Wed, Dec 17, 198060 mins
Quincy rushes to an Arizona Native American reservation when he hears that his foster son, Chester, is suffering from bubonic plague. When he confirms this and tries to warn the local authorities he finds that they have no interest in the potential disaster. They are much more concerned with the forthcoming opening of a new country club that will bring tourists to the area. They have a big golf competition planned with many big names arriving and they don't want to cause a panic that would ruin the resort before it has even opened.
Episode 7
By Their Faith
Wed, Jan 7, 198160 mins
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.
Episode 8
Stain of Guilt
Wed, Jan 14, 198160 mins
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.
Episode 9
Dear Mummy
Wed, Jan 21, 198160 mins
Quincy stumbles upon a plot devised by a group of nazi war criminals to use an Egyptian mummy to smuggle rare gems from Cairo to Los Angeles.
Episode 10
Headhunter
Wed, Feb 4, 198160 mins
When the body of an airline stewardess is found with her stomach cut open, Quincy's investigation runs into interference from Internal Affairs, who is certain that a well respected police officer is involved in the drug smuggling operation.
Episode 11
Scream to the Skies
Wed, Feb 11, 198160 mins
An Airliner crash in Santa Monica Bay springs Quincy into action fighting for airline passenger safety.
Episode 12
Jury Duty
Wed, Jan 28, 198160 mins
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.
Episode 13
Who Speaks for the Children
Wed, Feb 25, 198160 mins
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 victims 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.
Episode 14
Seldom Silent, Never Heard
Wed, Mar 4, 198160 mins
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.
Episode 15
Of All Sad Words
Wed, Mar 11, 198160 mins
A club near Danny's burns down killing the owner, Lou Chesler. His wife, Elizabeth, is suspected of causing her husband's death, especially by an insurance investigator for the company that held her husbands' life assurance policy. He thinks she has also killed previous men in her life and warns the latest one that he could be next. The latest one is, of course, Quincy.
Episode 16
To Kill in Plain Sight
Wed, Mar 18, 198160 mins
An assassin killed before the hit has Quincy rushing to expose who the target is before it's too late.
Episode 17
Sugar and Spice
Wed, Apr 1, 198160 mins
Quincy investigates the death of a model.
Episode 18
Vigil of Fear
Wed, May 6, 198160 mins
A group of concerned citizens patrol their neighborhood to help keep crime off the streets. After chasing an armed criminal into a warehouse a gun battle takes place and they shoot the man. When examining the body Quincy proves he hadn't fired a gun and was so drunk he couldn't even have stood up at the time. He was not, and could not have been the thief they chased into the building. The vigilantes now look as if they are going to be charged with murder, will Quincy be able to help them?
