Quincy, M.E.: Season 08 (1982)

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Inasmuch as series star Jack Klugman had been railing about the mediocre script writing which he felt had plagued the past seven seasons of Quincy, M.E., it is little wonder that Klugman himself receives writing credit for several episodes telecast during the series' eighth and final season on NBC. As before, the series' protagonist is Dr. Quincy, hard-driving medical examiner for the L.A. County Coroner's Office. In addition to such familiar series regulars as John S. Ragin, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, and Garry Walberg, season eight features a new recurring character, Dr. Emily Hanover, played by Anita Gillette. After years of playing the field romance wise, Quincy decides this season that it is time to settle down, thus he proposes marriage to Emily -- though how he finds the time to do this while solving murders and crusading against a vast array of social ills is anybody's guess! In the season opener "Baby Rattlesnakes," Quincy comes up against a young gang member who would seemingly rather take a murder rap than rat on his friends. The next episode,"A Ghost of a Chance" puts Quincy in the unenviable position of proving that an eminent heart surgeon may be a fraud; and a few weeks later, he must wean a fellow medical examiner (Ina Balin) away from a ruinous alcohol dependency in "Dying for a Drink." In later episodes, Quincy ends up in a small town court where the witnesses in a murder trial have been bullied into committing perjury; he takes the controversial position that punk rock music may have brought about a youngster's death; he goes head to head with the dreaded Japanese underworld organization The Yazuka; he reconstructs the last few days in the life of a young girl who has been found dead on the side of highway; he exposes a faulty school system which allows illiterate students to be promoted without question (his involvement arises from a fatal accident that might have been prevented had the victim known how to read); and in the two-part "Quincy's Wedding," Quincy and his sweetheart, Dr. Emily Hanover, have their nuptial plans ruined by the pressures of Quincy's job (most of them brought on by himself). The series finale, "The Cutting Edge," was originally intended as the pilot for a new weekly hospital drama starring Barry Newman as Dr. Gabriel McCracken. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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