Police discover a woman dead on the beach, her neck broken and apparently raped. Not far away they find a kid with her purse, and in the scuffle the kid gets shot. But something about the kid makes Quincy believe he did not commit the murder. Shortly after Quincy begins poking around and stepping on toes, Assistant City Controller Marcus hangs himself - and Quincy discovers that his injuries suggest his neck was broken and he was placed in the noose after death. An immensely strong giant seems to be killing people, but City Hall is strangely uninterested in discovering who and why...
Margo Bentley is writing a book about her experiences hobnobbing with influential people worldwide. She calls her agent, worried about the advance publicity and explains that she'll check into a certain motel under the alias Barbara Miller to work on the book. Hours later, Barbara Miller lies dead, apparently a victim of alcoholic cirrhosis. Her identification is missing, so Monahan assumes she is an alcoholic prostitute. Astin does not regard the case as unusual, and releases the body to a funeral home where it is quickly cremated. Then Quincy discovers a microorganism in her blood sample that is unlike anything he has ever seen. And one of Margo's friends gives Quincy a New York telephone number that he learns belongs to Margo's literary agent, who two days earlier died of liver cirrhosis...
Roberta Rhodes dies in her bedroom, an apparent suicide. But certain clues suggest to Quincy that all may not be as it appears. Then newspaperman Paul Reardon approaches Quincy with a bombshell: Congressman Charles Sinclair was with Roberta on the night she died. Did Sinclair, a Senatorial hopeful, kill the movie star? And if he did, why? Quincy finds this case like an artichoke – he must peel back layers of lies and half truths from everyone involved until he reaches the heart of it – the real reason Roberta Rhodes died.
Quincy suspects foul play after a young Mexican arrives at the hospital writhing in agony. Quincy discovers he has been stung by a venomous stone-fish - a creature not found in local waters. When the boy later dies, Quincy collects samples for analysis - and someone mugs him and steals them! Now certain that someone has got away with murder, Quincy must figure out who and why, while fighting opposition that comes all the way from Washington, D.C.
Quincy goes to the Nomad Hotel in Lake Tahoe for a pathology convention. The convention draws to a close and Quincy prepares to return home – and then the hotel physician Dr. Larry Pines has Quincy paged. Several hotel guests have developed fevers, coughs, and extreme tiredness. Quincy and a few of his fellow pathologists must discover what’s wrong with these people – and the symptoms are disturbingly similar to Legionnaire’s Disease. Complicating matters are the hotel owner Al Ringerman’s desire to keep the illness out of the papers, and the presence of Rawley Dinehart, who just might be a syndicate front man here to muscle in on the hotel business. Quincy races the clock to figure out what’s killing the hotel guests.
Quincy and his colleagues race to determine the cause of the mysterious illness. Lab tests reveal no bacteria, no virus particles, no toxins – no cause at all. The sick people get no better, but they get no worse, either. Then the doctors find Rawley Dinehart dead in his sick bed – is the illness getting worse, or did someone order Rawley’s plug pulled? Despite Ringerman’s best efforts, news leaks out and soon terrified guests are swarming to escape. Quincy cannot allow them to spread contagion elsewhere, but he cannot keep them quarantined indefinitely, either. Just when things seem bleakest, Dr. Pines’ dog dies – but that might be a breakthrough, for Dr. Pines realizes that the dog has the same symptoms, and ate leftovers from the hotel’s kitchen...
Dr. Astin orders Quincy to conduct a class in pathology for some of the brightest young minds at the university. When one of the students brings him a human bone found near a construction site, Quincy arouses Monahan’s ire by first stopping work at the site, and then at the city dump, while he searches for the rest of the skeleton. Unable to find more bones before work resumes, Quincy devotes his entire class to the reconstruction of a human life from the single bone he does have. But someone would prefer that bone not yield its secrets, and that person will stop at nothing to derail the investigation...
Quincy and Danny go on a fishing vacation to the town of Paradise. They check in and someone makes a phone call, and no sooner do they get on the lake than Jessica Casey motors up. The girl lost her mother and her father has gone to prison for it. She hired a private investigator to find an independent pathologist to prove her father did not murder her mother, and she believes Quincy is that man. At first Quincy protests, but her tale reaches his soft spot and he agrees to investigate. And that’s when his troubles begin, because it seems that at least one person doesn’t want Quincy poking around, and they aren’t shy about sending him that message...
Quincy investigates the death of a man in a refinery fire. But the accident largely destroyed the victim’s body, leaving Quincy uncertain just who the victim really is, despite testimony from several people that executive William Farrell, now missing, entered and never left. Under pressure from Farrell and her attorney to declare Farrell dead, Quincy is dismayed when he learns that his mentor Dr. Herbert Stone has become a hired gun who will testify to anything for a fee. Quincy believes his evidence is irrefutable and that any attempt to rebut it will ruin his old friend and teacher’s already tarnished reputation. To keep that from happening, Quincy must discover what really happened the night of the explosion and reveal the guilty party before Dr. Stone testifies.
Quincy pays a visit to Danny’s, where with some friends he races turtles. His date’s friend Robbi intrigues him... something about the way she moves. Outside, two men force Robbi into a car and race off with her, hitting and injuring a football player. The car veers crazily and finally plunges through a fence and into the water. The police recover the vehicle and find just one body in the back seat – that of Robbi Parker. Now Danny faces closure under a new California law that holds the proprietor of a bar responsible if a patron leaves drunk. Facing suits, Danny cannot get insurance unless Quincy can deduce what actually happened, and prove who was really responsible. That will require delving into Robbi Parker’s past. But when Quincy discovers evidence of extensive plastic surgery, the only doctor who could have performed it is curiously reluctant to discuss the matter. And then the FBI gets involved...
Quincy’s rattletrap car has failed and he is nowhere about. Fortunately, his boss’ boss Dr. Hiro steps in to help, for there is chaos at the coroner’s office: As the autopsy of Harriet Crawford begins Dr. Hiro realizes she’s still alive and races back to the hospital to keep her alive. Lieutenant Monahan delivers a casket and a corpse that he hopes will help him arrest smugglers bringing in a fortune in uncut diamonds – if he can discover how the smugglers hid the stones. And when Dr. Hiro returns Harriet Crawford to the hospital he meets the family of a young child admitted with symptoms that defy diagnosis. While all this is going on, Sam and Danny sneak about as they put together Dr. Hiro’s birthday party.
Asten’s wife picks up a young hitchhiker. She tries to discover why a child so young would hitchhike, but a careless driver and an accident interrupt her inquiry. Since Asten is away at a conference, Monahan tells Quincy first. What Monahan doesn’t know – and Quincy does – is that the Astens have no children. That draws Quincy to the hospital where he discovers old injuries all over the child’s body – a road map depicting years of abuse. From the time line and the child’s behavior Quincy deduces the mother must be the abuser, and when the boy runs away again, Quincy suggests the father take the boy fishing while he tries to convince the mother to seek help. Then a key insight from Asten makes Quincy realize that he may have made an awful mistake...
Quincy delivers a lecture on forensics at the university. Following it, a student approaches him. The student, George Talbot, has performed an autopsy on prison inmate George Kendall, who died of asphyxiation after he was moved to a high security zone of the prison for his own safety. Talbot’s findings suggest that Kendall died not from terminal emphysema, as the death certificate reads, but from foul play. Kendall's connection to suspected real estate fraudster Arthur Brandeis pushes Quincy to crusade for a real investigation. But Arthur Brandeis is a powerful man with a lot of friends...
Quincy relaxes at Danny’s when Sam calls him. Police have brought an accident victim named Bigelow to the morgue, and the man’s blood test results baffle Sam. The driver of the vehicle is an ex-con named Sanchez, and police discover cocaine in his shirt pocket. Sanchez claims the cocaine belongs to the dead man, his passenger, but only Quincy believes him. Then Sanchez confesses - he has made a deal to keep the nuclear power plant out of the headlines. Quincy and Sam work to discover where and how Bigelow received a lethal dose of radiation to keep Sanchez out of jail for a crime he did not commit.
Father Martin Terrell, priest and crusader, is dead. There’s little doubt that he died of a heart attack. The problem is where he died – in the bedroom of a high class prostitute. Was Terrell’s anti-pornography campaign an act of hypocrisy? Or did the cleric die elsewhere, and someone moved him to a compromising location to discredit him? Lieutenant Monahan, a friend of the priest’s, asks Quincy to take a personal hand. Monahan believes someone is trying to smear his friend, but can Quincy prove it?
Howard Phillips, a patient at the Valleyview Sanitarium, dies of a blood clot – a coronary. But his grandson contends the old gentleman’s heart was in fine shape, and pays the $362 fee for an autopsy. Quincy performs the autopsy and discovers that the grandson was right – Howard Phillips’ heart was fine. But Quincy cannot discover what did kill the man. Then another patient at Valleyview dies, and Quincy begins to wonder. When a healthy staff member succumbs to the same mysterious death, Quincy is certain someone at Valleyview is killing people, and must discover who and how before more people die.
Quincy races to the hospital to collect evidence from rape victim Fay Willard, but discovers that emergency room staff washed the patient and discarded her clothing on the floor, eliminating any evidence that links her rapist to his crimes. Quincy and Monahan know who the rapist is, but cannot prove what they know. Together with Sam and rape counselor Carol Bowen, they search for a way to put the man behind bars. Then Carol herself becomes the rapist’s next victim. She insists the hospital wait to treat her until Quincy collects evidence. He does, and Monahan arrests their suspect, but a foul-up frees him, leaving only a slim chance: his wife, who has alibied for him in the past – if she finally sees her husband as the monster he really is...
When an injured man shows up early in the morning and dies before Quincy can get him help, a mystery ensues when all his records are missing the next morning, and so is the body. Since no one else witnessed the incident, Quincy is believed to have been dreaming the whole thing up.
When a young boxer dies in the ring, Quincy holds an autopsy on the body at the request of the victims wife, who believes that the death wasn't an accident. Quincy is convinced that she may be onto something after four men ask to rush the findings.
An incident during a break in doesn't match up with Quincy's findings, when a rookie police officer explains how a shooting occurred. Monahan wants Quincy's findings since a female reporter is doing a story about recent police brutality.
A Health Spa hires a wily attorney to challenge Quincy's findings when a member accidentally drowns at their facility.
Quincy believes a young farm worker's death by carbon monoxide may not have been a suicide as expected, but a possible murder. The suspects include two labor leaders who are in a battle for votes.
Quincy has only one clue, a partially eaten apple, which can help him find a kidnapped boy after his abductor is killed while collecting the ransom.
Quincy tries to convince a group of hijackers that they, and the passengers are in danger because of a deadly virus which is aboard the plane.
When a college football star dies from a congenital brain defect, Quincy must convince a community and the boy's father that his younger son needs to be checked out before playing in the next game. But the championship seems more important to everyone than Quincy's findings.
Despite a confession from a man who believes he has killed his boss, Quincy feels the autopsy proves differently from his story.
Sam quits unexpectedly when Quincy performs an autopsy on a Japanese martial arts movie star, because the practice goes against the family's beliefs.
Quincy and Sam are sent into a small town to research a mysterious virus which has already claimed twelve of their residents.
Quincy and Lt. Monihan clash over the autopsy results when a western movie star, Will Preston, and the idol of Quincy, dies unexpectedly.
A friend of Quincy, who runs a program that bridges the gap between old and young people, asks Quincy to rerun his results when the suspect of a murder is believed to be one of his young members. Not only does he believe that the kid could never kill anyone, but the program would lose its funding if the results are found to be true.
Quincy becomes involved in a medical neglect case while covering for a General Practitioner in a small town North of Los Angeles.
When a skull of a murder victim is discovered, Quincy is put to a race against time to prove that the skull is that of a missing union leader who disappeared two years ago.
When the estranged wife of an influential businessman if found murdered, Quincy stakes his reputation on his findings that he is in fact the killer.
When the autopsy of a young woman who died from a heart attack while in a bar points to a different direction, Quincy does research that proves that her husband may have been involved.
Quincy is send in to investigate when an eccentric millionaire is murdered in his home, despite having a seemingly impenetrable security system in his residence.
Quincy is put in a bad position when his boss, Dr. Asten, rushes through an autopsy and misses some important findings.
A mob boss, Vincent DiNardi, holds Quincy and Sam hostage in order to have them discover how he was poisoned. When the results are found, DiNardi plans on his own revenge for his assassins.
Quincy and his latest galpal head off for some rest and relaxation but things don't turn out as planned when they nearly get run off the road and then witness an accident.
After a race car driver is killed in an accident, Quincy's autopsy raises the possibility that the crash was a homicide.
Quincy's got himself another crusade when he tries to get a seven year old boy re-evaluated as an autistic child.
A patient dies after a surgical operation and an Affirmative Action doctor is blamed. Quincy gets involved when a friend of his decides to take the blame in order to save the Affirmative Action program.
Quincy announces at a press conference that a woman who died in a fire is Jessica Ross, a well-known anchor babe. Then Jessica Ross walks into the room and announces that she's alive. Quincy believes that this woman is an impostor and that his original diagnosis was the correct one.
After Quincy is seriously wounded While working on a case, it's up to Sam, Dr. Asten, and Lt. Monaghan to find the culprit.
The mother and sister of a murder victim insist that he's still alive. It's up to Quincy to sort things out.
Quincy's latest galpal moves into a new apartment and discovers two mummified bodies.
A body washes down from a cemetary on a hill onto a man's yard after several nights of hard rains. Quincy then discovers that the deceased died of typhoid, a very contagious disease, and tries to get the entire cemetary dug up in order to discover if there are more infected bodies.
A slip and fall lawyer is after Quincy's hide for erroneously pronouncing a kidney donor dead.
Quincy investigates reports of inmates at a detention facility being forced to participate in boxing matches against each other.
A star athlete dies from a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea and it's believed that he contracted it from relations with a hooker. So, at Quincy's insistence, there's a round-up of prostitutes.
Quincy gets involved in the world of cosmetic surgery after autopsying the body of a woman who killed herself because she hated the scars caused by a botched operation.
After a friend's son dies of an overdose, Quincy discovers that a doctor is selling prescriptions for drugs from his office for a price. Needless to say, Quincy wants to shut him down.
Quincy continues his quest to shut down a doctor who's issuing prescriptions to drug addicts. Then the unethical doc turns up murdered and a young would be physician is blamed.
A plane crashes 40 miles outside of Los Angeles and Quincy and company must perform autopsies on all of the dead bodies
Two cops are accused of beating a suspect to death and Quincy's autopsy appears at first to support the accusations.
A 17 year old girl dies after undergoing an abortion and Quincy's ensuing investigation discovers that the attending physician was drunk when he performed the operation.
After a spat with his galpal, Quincy recalls his relationship with his wife and how he didn't spend enough time with her.
Quincy autopsies the body of a marine who died in an accident during training and discovers evidence of murder.
Quincy's autopsy of a construction worker who fell to his death eventually leads to the discovery of chemicals leaking from a dumpsite near a suburban town.
After a magician dies doing a stunt, Quincy's autopsy must determine whether the death was an accident or murder.
Quincy clashes with a doctor of holistic medicine after the death of one of her patients.
Quincy perform an autopsy on the corpse of 15-year-old Kathy Campbell. The examiner promptly finds out that the young girl has died of Kolchizin poisoning. Quincy tries to locate Kathy's friend, Scott Westlake, to unravel some clues about her mysterious death. When he searches around Scott's room, he finds a drug magazine in which appears an advertisement where Kolchizin is offered as a plant protection agent. Quincy decides to turn to the authorities, however, nobody seems to be responsible for this case. Some days later Kathy's friend is found dead with Kolchizin poisoning as well. Now Quincy believes that both youngsters have smoked poisoned marijuana and asks Monahan to start searching for the poisoned plant...
Quincy and Danny have decided to spend their free day at the racetrack. There they become witnesses of a quarrel between two jockeys. Moments later one of them is found dead in the stable. Apparently he has been trampled to death by a horse. As Quincy examines the corpse, he finds out that the body has been trampled by four different hoofs. Quincy asks the slaughterhouse for the hoofs of the horse which was put to sleep, in order to be able to compare the hoof prints more exactly with each other. The forensic doctor believes that this case doesn't look like an accident, but rather like a well planned murder...
In the South American island state of San Cristos a puzzling disease is rife. The respiratory tract of the babies and toddlers is stricken with a virus that leads to their death after a few days. The researchers suspect a Diphtheria vaccine, which the USA government sent to the developing country, was the triggering factor. Reason enough for the reactionary opposition led by Boutillier to begin a virulent campaign against prime minister De Ville. He searches the progress for his country to be in contact with the industrial nations. Quincy and Sam fly to the crisis area to probe the suspicion against the American drug. According to the first investigations the vaccine can be excluded as a cause. However, a further research is prevented by religious regulations, since every corpse may be released only after a dead person's wake of 24 hour until the autopsy. However, not only the religion is obstructing Quincy, local politicians blame the drug for endangering the lives of numerous children.
' Uncle Harry ' alias Harry Simkins is a wicked film producer who has specialized exclusively in child pornography. Young girls who have run away from home are among his potential victims. When one day he runs into 12-year-old Amanda in the railway station, he is observed by Sophie who has worked for a long time with Harry. Sophie wants to get out of Harry's business so she calls desperately her old friend Carol who runs a asylum for the runaways. Suddenly the conversation is interrupted. The telephone call has been finished by Harry who proceeds to quieten Sophie in a crude way. Quincy performs the autopsy on her corpse...
Quincy is on the way to Las Vegas to take part there as a judge in a beauty pageant. There by chance he witnesses as a man is hit by a bus while crossing the street. Quincy finds a cache of diamonds near the corpse. The snoopy forensic doctor interferes once again with the police search. Besides, he finds out that the precious stones were intended for infamous fence André Otero. Quincy, playing a courier, tries to make contact with Otero and offers the diamonds against a ransom for him. Otero accepts but Quincy fears the crook has something in hiding for him.
Sergeant Yomoshira, an old pal of of Sam's, kills a young policeman and afterwards kills himself in a cell. For Sam, the uncontrolled behavior of his friend running amok makes no sense. To restore Yomoshira's honor, Sam is ready to ignore all regulations. After initial hesitation Quincy supports the stubbornness of his colleague. They discover a track leading back 17 years - to Germany. At the same time they find radioactive remains in Yomoshira's body .
Franklin Osborne, preacher and leader of 'Divine World Church', is found dead in a motel. On the bedside table forensic doctor Quincy notes an empty tablet box and a bottle of whiskey - suicide? Osborne was an incurable diabetic. The public prosecutor's office investigated his church because of embezzlement of profit money. Quincy's autopsy results show no conclusion. However, a voluntary elimination of one's life doesn't appear to the resourceful doctor to be plausible enough. He requests a psychological certificate which might hold some surprises.
Without success young Jeff tried to restrain his friend Melissa Watson, to rush from a high rocky cliff to her death. When he announces the tragic case to the police, he is suspected of the murder. Likewise Melissa's parents hold that a suicide of her daughter would be impossible and accuse Jeff. When in addition it's found that the young girl was pregnant, the situation for the boy seems hopeless. In contrast to her husband Melissa's mother, Lorraine, knew nothing about the pregnancy of her daughter, and Jeff denies to have slept one day with Melissa. Quincy has an awful suspicion.
In Pine Ridge national park, ranger Ron Sparks finds the skeleton of a man. By order of the FBI Quincy and Sam examine the human remains and identify them as the corpse of Frederic Gates. The man is known to the police. He hijacked an airplane five years ago and blackmailed with a gun which contained anthrax bacteria as an 'ammunition', 500,000 dollars. Sparks has found a part of the booty nearby the skeleton and, besides, has been infected with anthrax. He spreads an epidemic. To stop it, all people who came and touch the money must be found. An affair which requires the highest haste and care.
Dr. Rawlins is a doctor whose greed is bigger than his conscience. His hospital accepts only those patients who can afford a treatment. This exclusiveness leads to two deaths because the respective patients had to be transported only to the faraway public hospital. When the unprincipled doctor intends to acquire another hospital, Quincy intervenes. Together with his colleague Asten he founds a charitable association which should prevent the takeover by Rawlins to rule the hospital under his own management.
Quincy satisfies his knowledge thirst with a further educational journey through different prisons. Completely exhausted by the new impressions, he finally gets sleepy while driving so a sheriff decides to take him to a small, urban prison for one night. Promptly that night in the prison cells, a fire erupts. Four prisoners die in the flames. In a conversation with Quincy the prison doctor confides a hunch that the blaze was provoked to cover up the murder of a temporary prisoner. Quincy offers his assistance as a coroner to his colleague and some clues begin to confirm the prison doctor's suspicions.
Quincy is investigating the death of Morgan, an 80-year-old patient. One day before leaving the hospital where he was at the elder has taken his own life. He was being treated for a broken arm. Quincy determines that the injuries of the old man are not due to a fall, but heavy blows. Then Dr. Quincy guesses that Timothy, the old man's son, has been abusing his father.
Latin-American President Sarejo visits the United States to undergo an operation in Los Angeles. He is accompanied by his wife Isabella, vice-president Marco, Foreign Secretary Varela, General Bettraga, secret police chief Fernandez and Dr. Allermo, Sarejo's personal physician. Lieutenant Monahan's men are ready to protect the dictator against an attempt. When vice-president Marco suddenly falls and dies of a heart attack , Quincy is asked by the State Department to examine his death. The forensic doctor can find no signs of a heart attack. The cause of death remains puzzling at first. After a little while another person from Sarejo's confidant circle dies under similarly mysterious circumstances. Quincy must solve the mystery, before the president comes under the knife.
Black prisoner Ray Stone clashes, because of his social and political commitment, with corrupt warden Tompkins. When shortly after Ray lies apparently beaten to death, in the isolation cell, rude attendant Bull Stewart is considered the culprit, since he was the only one who had access to the cell. Quincy is instructed to perform the autopsy on the corpse. When the indignant cell mates cause a riot and take Quincy and Sam as hostages and then they go to lynch Bull Stewart right away, the pathologist must persuade the angry mob to remain still and wait for the results of the investigation. Should the cause of death point to a murder, Stewart will be released by the prisoners. They let Quincy go. Nevertheless, his assistant Sam stays as a hostage in the hands of the distrustful prisoners.
Emergency doctor Drew is along with nurse Margaret serving the night shift. Because he doesn't want to miss a private date, he relies on inexperienced Dr. Edmunds to replace him. During this time Robert Keane, a heart attack patient, has been recently checked in. Dr. Edmunds must devote completely to the patient. While Margaret looks just after his concerned wife, Edmonds injects Keane with a wrong drug. The false treatment is deadly. When Dr. Drew comes back from his affair, he quickly recognizes the situation and tries to cover up the case along with Edmunds. Besides the chief of clinical emergency admission doesn't want the truth to come to light so Margaret is put under pressure to follow suit. But she doesn't like what she saw and decides to inform her uncle - forensic doctor Quincy.
Dr. Asten and Quincy want to exchange her jobs for a few days because each one believes the other works less. Yet his first assignment as a pathologist makes Asten shiver. 17-year-old Melody Stedman and her friend Lennie Miller, driving under the influence, have crashed in a car accident. Lennie is dead. The girl is Astin's niece, so, the case goes back to Quincy. The determining question is knowing who sat behind the wheel of the crashed car. Dr. Silva, the teacher of both victims, clears up Quincy about the fact that Melody was an alcoholic. All the evidences point to the fact that she was steering the car. But Quincy and Asten are not contented with the evidences.
During a training the star gymnast Sally falls fatally. Indeed, the autopsy shows a tumor in the head, but forensic doctor Quincy holds the view that the cause of the fall is the pep pills which Sally has taken before the training. His inquiries in Sally's team are at first fruitless. Their companions insist on protecting their coach Virginia Hard. When a girl, Brenda, wants to do,finally a statement, Carolyne goads the others to make see Brenda as an untrustworthy liar. Brenda appears to be as though she had procured the drugs. Quincy must wade through a mountain of lies to bring the truth to light, in the end.
Finally, Quincy has found a replacement, forensic doctor Jerri McCracken , so he may take his holiday . Then unexpectedly the congressional representative Laurence Bridges dies . When more and more indications point to a crime, Quincy breaks off his holidays stay and lends a hand to Jerri with the inquiries.
Boxer Clarence Hester dies after a fight against his friend and coach Kennie Mitchell. Quincy finds out that he has a fracture above the nose. Everything shows the fact that the injury has been caused by the boxing match. However, with the second investigation Quincy finds out that the dead boxer had underwent a nasal operation six months before practiced by surgeon Dr. Sanders who plainly had removed too many bones. After the death of another patient of Dr. Sanders, Quincy begins to show an interest in the safety measures of the ambulatory practice.
Max, an old pal of Quincy from the Korea war, dies under very strange circumstances: He flew with his business partner Charlie in a small propeller airplane when suddenly the airplane failed and fell to the ground. Both men survived the fall as if by a miracle, nevertheless, Max got a bleeding wound. Charlie donated blood to Max , whereupon Max died after a brief time. Quincy stands before a mystery: The injury of Max was not so serious that he would have had to die. Was Max killed by his partner Charlie? For that's what the evidence shows, however, there are also circumstances which point to a poison attack on both men. And which role does young, pretty secretary Linda play when she wanted to marry old Charlie?
The people died of food poisoning. Quincy and Dr. Janet Carlyle trace the source of the poison up to Franklin Stadium. The stadium manger is less than pleased for the Football World Championship is due in few days. Dr. Quincy warns about the risk but the stubborn man refuses to cancel the game, so the two researchers must locate quickly the source if they want to avoid more deaths.
Soon after having reunited with his friend and colleague, Tony Carbero, Quincy learns that his friend's negligence might have caused a death because of an improper treatment.
Quincy's friend Dr. Charles Volmer holds the medical examiner's job in a small town. A boy overdoses on drugs, but to spare the boy's mother added suffering, his father wants the death ruled an accidental drowning. And a fatal accident at a textile plant reveals deadly hazards. Pressured, Volmer causes on his friend for help and counsel.
Sam devises a way to measure tooth impressions. His technique, reluctantly embraced, clears a rape suspect. Then another rape occurs, and the chief suspect is the man Sam cleared! Now Sam must defend his approach against fresh hostility from the police and his own bosses.
A medical student accuses a veteran pathologist of deliberately obscuring the facts when he autopsies a possible homicide victim. Quincy, initially inclined to support his friend over the student, digs deeper and discovers that his friend was compelled to his misdeeds by peril to his family. Quincy must weigh sympathy against his duty to the law.
Bill and Madeline Estes lose one of their two sons to SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or so everyone but Dr. Gage believes. Gage thinks the baby died of abuse, and calls on the police. Dr. Quincy must step into the middle of a delicate situation - if Gage is right, Madeline Estes is a murderer, but if he is wrong, his assertions will heap misery onto grief.
A promising young athlete dies, and folks wonder if Coach O'Bannion, who hails from the win-at-all-costs school, ran him to death. The coach has only one chance: a young defense attorney named Ben Nicholson, who in his turn has only one resource: Dr. Quincy, the man he hopes can prove the death was a tragic accident.
When Quincy's foster son, who lives on an Indian reservation, develops strange symptoms, Quincy races there to help. It does not take him long to discover the nature of the illness: bubonic plague, a serious and extremely communicable disease. But the locals don't want to cause a panic on the cusp of opening a new resort headlined with many celebrities, so they try to keep Quincy from revealing what he has learned.
Astin dispatches Quincy and Sam to San Remos, Mexico. That small village is the home of a young woman who heals people of illness and injury, a power she claims she acquired from bones in a cave. Archbishop Vallejo wants to know if these could be the bones of a legendary missionary to the Incas. Quincy also clashes with a tabloid reporter whom he believes is giving people false hope.
The producers of a fact-based drama about a murder hire Quincy as their technical adviser. That may be a mistake for them when Quincy uncovers facts that convince him the wrong woman went to jail. When he goes to see her, he finds he must overcome a curious reluctance on her part to find the real killer.
Quincy becomes involved in verifying a mummy, and soon learns the antiquity and its case are part of a conduit for moving gems from Los Angeles to Cairo. And that the smugglers are perfectly willing to kill to keep their ill-gotten riches.
Quincy looks into the death of a stewardess who also occasionally served as an informant for a narcotics officer. When suggesting the officer was crooked surfaces, Quincy has to decide if the man is also a murderer, and if so, he has to prove it.
Quincy investigates an airline crash, and discovers that many of the victims did not die of impact trauma - they died of hypothermia from exposure to the icy ocean. That puts him on a crusade to force air carriers to equip their vehicles with lifeboats, and also puts him at odds (again) with Astin.
Summoned to jury duty, Quincy finds flaws in the prosecution's case. Never one to let procedure stand in the way of justice, Quincy soon lands himself in hot water with his outbursts: jury members aren't supposed to ask questions!
Quincy draws the case of nine year old Polly Carmody, murdered and tossed in a garbage bin. The police soon round up a suspect, but the chief investigator, Lieutenant Markasian, doesn't believe they have the right man. When Quincy can't match the blood type, and when he and Quincy discover some disturbing facts about the girl's stepfather, they turn their investigation towards him.
Jeffrey Rosenthal falls from a building and ends up on Quincy's table. During the autopsy, a researcher named Arthur Ciotti asks for the boy's brain. It seems the Rosenthal suffered from the rare neurological disorder Tourette's Syndrome, and Ciotti hopes to learn from the boy's brain what causes the disease and how to cure it. It turns out Ciotti has a personal stake in the matter...
Quincy fnds himself attacted to Elizabeth Chessler. Trouble is, her husband Lou died when his nightclub burned to the ground, and an insurance investigator believes Lou isn't the first man Liz has murdered. But if she is a murderer, she's been clever enough to avoid arousing official suspicion. Quincy must decide who to trust.
Quincy claims a best selling diet book led to a woman's death, when she followed its rules and did not receive adequate nourishment. When the crusading medical examiner expresses this opinion on the air, the author sues him, the department, the county... Quincy's only chance is to prove he's right.
Concerned about rising crime, a patrol group forms. They chase a suspect into a warehouse and ultimately shoot him. The police find no weapon, and Quincy discovers the man was so drunk he probably couldn't even have stood under his own power, much less run from anyone. Unless Quincy can discover what really happened in that warehouse, people who only set out to protect their neighborhood will go to jail for murder.
A woman suffers from post traumatic amnesia after falling down an escalator at a student job fair. Just before her fall she was heard to shout out a warning that she was being chased, but no one knows who it is. But the answer may clear up when a would be assassin appears in her hospital room.
An car accident is used as an example of what great need there is to keep a trauma center open after a man who was seriously injured is sent there and survives while his daughter is sent to an ER and passes on. Quincy uses his influence to get more funding to hopefully save the center.
A murder of a crew member on a cruise ship interrupts Quincy and Janet's vacation, when he is asked by the captain for help. Although the killer is dead too, his autopsy shows that he died of an infectious disease.
Quincy and Nancy need to discover what the infectious disease is before a panic arises, since the area islands refuse the ship's request to dock with an unidentified disease on board.
Quincy investigates the history of a man accused of killing another in a hit and run accident when he realizes that the man will likely be given a light sentence for his crime.
Quincy investigates when a wealthy property owner is viciously killed by his nephew, and then schemes to have his aunt sign over the ownership of the Institute of Equestrian Therapy, which helps crippled kids.
Quincy meets with a doctor who specializes in teaching others how to handle grieving people after he is put in a situation of having to tell a family that their son, who already had a malignant tumor, died in a car crash.
When a truck driver dies after a toxic chemical he was illegally dumping spills upon him, Quincy needs to find the site before the toxins get into the areas water system.
Quincy takes it upon himself to find out how to get look alike drugs made illegal by the government, after a teenager dies from taking these dangerous, yet legal pills.
Quincy makes it his business to track down a gun used in a murder when a man dies after a mugging in a park, followed by a young boy, both from the same gun.
Quincy finds himself in a precarious situation when his girlfriend is called in to investigate foul play of a racehorse, which belongs to a close friend of the horse's owner, Nelson Spencer.
Quincy is called in to help after an arsonist torches an hotel, killing a number of victims. But when the results show that most of the victims died from the smoke, Quincy disagrees about the suspects identity and goes all out to prove that his facts are correct.
Quincy is called in when a baby with Down Syndrome is allowed to die by starvation, and a doctor wants to know if the child's doctor was responsible so he can be charged with murder.
Quincy investigates the claims that a young man killed his family after a voice inside his head, referred to as "the Beast," told him to do the crime. The schizophrenic says the voice talks to him when he is off his medication.
Quincy investigates an oil refinery near a sanatorium after a man dies while jogging during a smog alert. His autopsy proves his lungs were filled with pollutants, believed to come from the refineries, and Quincy wants to prove it.
Quincy is asked to help when a female Vietnam vet is found dead. Her best friend, also a veteran of the war says they both suffer from post war depression and nightmares.
Quincy is called to investigate when a patient dies after receiving a pain injection from a nurse. The hospital blames the nurse and she is suspended immediately, causing a strike by the nursing staff.
A survivor from a Nazi concentration camp needs Quincy's help after another survivor is run down after noticing a guard from the camp. At the same time, the survivor is being harassed by a person who says the Holocaust was a hoax.
When an agoraphobic woman takes a walk for the first time in years, with the help of her psychiatrist. While strolling she believes to have witnessed a strangling inside a neighbor's house. When investigated, the story seems to be just that...a story. But her doctor is positive she has seen a murder and needs Quincy's help to prove it before he loses her again to her condition.
While Quincy is scheduled to be a witness in an appeals trial to keep a mob boss behind bars, the cases only witness is murdered. The mob next plan is to discredit Quincy, causing him to come up with a new set of evidence.
A dinner party finds Quincy and his boss Dr. Asten, at the home of Quincy's former high school sweetheart. He is weary of seeing her again because she was unstable the last time he had seen her, but appears normal now. The next morning finds that a top politician, Powell Dixon had died while at the house. An autopsy clears Jeannina, Quincy's former love, of any wrong doing. But when an explosion kills her too, Quincy knows that these cases may be murders.
Quincy is caught in a game of espionage when a friend, Rear Admiral McKenzie, dies during the dedication of a Navy Museum, named after him. But while performing the autopsy, a Navy Commander requests the immediate release of his body, and Quincy discovers a microchip in the dead man's stomach.
When a pet German Shepard kills a young girl, Quincy goes into an investigation over why there are a limited set of rules concerning the training of dogs in the state.
Quincy is called in to investigate the hazing death of a college student. After the young man died, his brothers moved his body in a panic to hide their guilt.
A young member of an anti-gang group is arrested for the shooting death of teenage girl, but Quincy believes he is innocent and covering up for the real shooter. He needs to name the killer or be sent to prison.
When a young man dies after a routine heart surgery, his brother requests to have Quincy perform his autopsy. Quincy's findings makes him suspicious over who really performed the operation, the surgeon or his intern?
Quincy helps a young mother receive the medication she needs for a severe nervous condition when the government and drug company fight over making the medication available.
Quincy tries to help out a fellow female medical examiner when she begins to screw up her job and make mistakes due to a drinking problem.
Quincy believes a new pathologist with a handicap is judging a case with blinders on when a disabled baby is electrocuted. He believes the baby's father is responsible for his child's death, not wanting a handicapped son.
Quincy is determined to find the killer of a murderer who was set free after a trial found him innocent. With the witnesses forced into lying, a group of men all claim that they killed the man in self defense, an excuse that Quincy doesn't agree with.
After returning home to die, those who had contact with the terminally ill woman also become sick and die. Quincy discovers that the deaths were not from her cancer, but from a new virus which is spreading fast.
Quincy believes and autopsy he just complete on a young man who died after a night of slam dancing at a punk rock club was directly attributed to the music the kids were listening to at the time. Lyrics about no hope, violence and death led to the man being stabbed in the back with an ice pick.
A hostage is shot dead by a policeman during a botched bank robbery and the cop enlists Quincy's help when he is suspended and possibly will face charges if it is proved that the shooting was his fault.
Sam is sucked into danger when his friend is killed while working undercover, infiltrating the Japanese Yakuza. Sam warns Quincy that his friend's father will likely follow the ancient code and exact revenge for his son's death.
A young girl disappears after entering a cab on her way home from school. A search for the missing teen reveals no clues, until a man appears, claiming that he is the cab driver and that he was attacked and removed from his cab.
Quincy tries to help out a friend when he is framed for mail fraud since a Federal Prosecutor feels a case of arson and murder would not hold up in court.
Quincy believes that a young man is telling the truth when he says that his girlfriend had killed herself and that he was not involved in the crime. Since she can not answer any questions, Quincy asks for a psychological autopsy be performed by finding out her past history.
When a young man dies in an explosion while doing some welding work, an investigator determines that the boy can not read. Quincy wants to know why a boy would be hired if he can't read simple words that he needs to protect him on the job.
The police call in the help from a woman who claims to be a psychic, when their investigation for a man known as the "Hit and Run Killer" leads them nowhere. Although skeptical at first, Quincy is amazed when her predictions and findings materialize.
When a country singing star is badly burned in an accident inside a club, an investigator is convinced that the fire was caused by freebasing cocaine. The problem is there are no witnesses or friends who will testify that this is what happened.
While Quincy and Emily prepare for their upcoming nuptials, a body of a deceased old man comes into the morgue from a nursing home. The wife of the dead man informs Quincy that she is responsible for his passing.
Quincy misses the wedding rehearsal while listening to the story from an old lady who claims she killed her husband. Emily cancels the wedding plans while Quincy tries to figure whether the old woman is telling the truth or just rambling on.
A quiet honeymoon at a mountain resort proves anything but peaceful when a group of law enforcement officers arrive for their own vacation. The fun is short lived when a judge fails to show up and is found dead inside his car on a roadside.
A midwife is arrested for murder after being asked off the streets to help a woman in labor and the newborn baby dies. When the hospital lays the blame on her, a doctor asks Quincy to do his own autopsy on the child to see if there is another reason it passed away.
When a young boy died who was living in a foster home, Quincy is asked to do an autopsy in hopes of finding enough proof to get the home closed down. In the meantime, a qualified therapist is asked to stay at the home and help fix any problems that may arise between the kids and the foster parents.
Quincy is determined to find the attacker of an old woman who was brutalized inside her own apartment. But things change when he is mugged on the way out one day, causing Quincy to suddenly fear being attacked again.
The death of half of a famous entertainment team that Quincy used to admire as a youth, has him on a search to find the other half of the team.
An industrial accident causes a young father to lose an arm. When the arm is found, the man is brought to Experiment Hope, a top technological facility which has the ability to reattach a missing limb.