Greg Morris guest stars as "Cliff Collier." Hope I don't have to wait four more years until season four, with its great-to-me episode, "A Night to Raise the Dead", where Quincy has to contain a typhoid epidemic after a rainstrorm unearths coffins from a cemetary. The issues episodes did get boring but Quincy was a great show in its heyday. It would be pretty difficult, although Jerry Goldsmith apparently kept his middle name hidden from his wife! (That said, how many guys could keep their first names a secret from their wives? Even Emily called him Quincy!) But the real shark-jumping came when Quincy had to sell his boat after he got married end of an era. issue, yes (adult illiteracy? Air safety?). Though over time "Quincy" became an unwatchable show because more and more episodes became nothing more than 60 minute speeches on a pet social issue with little to no pretense of giving us a good mystery story. I agree that the show was better at 60 minutes, but it was also better because of its new creative philosophy. The end of the 90 minute shows also, perhaps not coincidentally, came at the same time as Klugman's insistence that creator/producer Glen Larson be fired and the show taken in a new direction. Gary Walberg made the transition over from "Odd Couple" to "Quincy" along with Klugman (having previously been "Speed" one of the poker playing buddies of Felix and Oscar). I rewatched the 90 minute episodes and notwithstanding the charming presence of Lynette Mettey who was dropped when the show went to an hour, the stories at 90 minutes just seem overly bloated to me. Oh, and my pre-order went in back in March! But of course, The Klug Man was still Oscar Madison then. I enjoyed seeing QME in its first season in the Mystery Movie template, and for nostalgia's sake would liked to have seen it run longer under that umbrella. The previous DVD release had the first dozen episodes of the show in its weekly series format (so in effect it had two "seasons" over the course of the 1976-77 TV season). This is the second season of the regular series. Jack Klugman, only a few years removed from playing Oscar in the Odd Couple series, is wonderful as the tireless, doggedly determined LA medical examiner, R. This was the first season of the actual weekly series, featuring some superb scoring by several composers including Bruce Broughton, who would become the show's principal composer starting with season four/ season two of the weekly series. season three DVD coming June 2, 2009.Ĭan't wait for this one, as it has been over two years since the "Mystery Movie" episodes were released.
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