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Season guide

Quincy, M.E.: Season 4

23 episodes Premiered Sep 21, 1978
Previously on Quincy, M.E.

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Quincy, M.E. Season 3.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (17): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

The Last Six Hours

Sep 21, 1978

Finally getting to spend a bit of leave time with his latest flame, Barbara, Quincy heads off away from Los Angeles. They nearly get run off the road and then witness an accident.

S4·E2 Core

Speed Trap

Oct 12, 1978

After a racing car accident proves fatal for a former Grand Prix driver, Quincy's autopsy brands the crash a possible homicide.

S4·E3 Core

A Test for the Living

Oct 19, 1978

Quincy's powers of persuasion are put to the test when he crusades for a 7-year old boys re-evaluation as an autistic child.

S4·E4 Mytharc

Death by Good Intention

Oct 26, 1978

A patient dies just hours after having had a successful surgical operation. An ‘Affirmative Action' doctor is suspended because of his ‘mistake' and a friend of Quincy's decide

S4·E5 Core

Images

Nov 2, 1978

A fire in a small motel room causes the death of the single woman occupying it. The evidence shows that the identity of the woman is Jessica Ross, the country's top newswoman. A

S4·E6 Core

Even Odds

Nov 9, 1978

Quincy is gravely wounded at the scene of a crime, so it is up to Sam, Asten and Lt. Monaghan to solve the case he was working on and catch the person who shot him.

S4·E7 Core

Dead and Alive

Nov 16, 1978

An apparent murder victim becomes the object of Quincy's thorough investigation and identification when his mother and sister insist that he is still alive.

S4·E8 Core

No Way to Treat a Body

Nov 30, 1978

Quincy's latest ladyfriend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies. He finds himself up against a group of oddball residents when he tries to fin

S4·E9 Core

A Night to Raise the Dead

Dec 7, 1978

After four nights of continuous rain a man finds a body by his car. It had been washed down the mountains and ended up in his front yard. Once Quincy has completed the autopsy h

S4·E11 Core

House of No Return

Jan 11, 1979

Quincy investigates the death of a young man at a home for people who have comitted a crime but are considered mentally incapable and are therefore not sentenced to proper prison.

S4·E12 Core

A Small Circle of Friends

Jan 18, 1979

A roundup of prostitutes follows the death of an athlete who contracted a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea.

S4·E13 Core

The Depth of Beauty

Jan 25, 1979

Quincy delves into the world of cosmetic surgery after he autopsies a woman who killed herself because she hated the scars a botched operation caused. He discovers that the plas

S4·E14 Mytharc

Walk Softly Through the Night (1)

Feb 1, 1979

A top children's TV star, and a friend of Quincy's, is shocked when his son dies of a drug overdose. He had no idea his son was even on drugs and is angry when he finds out that a

S4·E15 Core

Walk Softly Through the Night (2)

Feb 1, 1979

Quincy continues in his quest to get close down Dr. Colella's surgery and stop him from continuing to issue prescriptions for drug addicts. This becomes less of a problem though

S4·E16 Core

Aftermath

Feb 7, 1979

A large passenger jet crash-lands 40 miles outside LA. Quincy and Sam are sent out to start the identification of the bodies and to make sure that the crash scene is kept intact.

S4·E17 Core

Dark Angel

Feb 15, 1979

Monaghan asks Quincy to push the autopsy of a young car thief to the top of his priority list. The boys' friend is claiming that a police officer chased him down and killed him aft

S4·E18 Mytharc

Physician, Heal Thyself

Feb 22, 1979

A seventeen-year old girl collapses and dies after having had an abortion. The family wants an autopsy and tells Asten that they will pay for a private one. Quincy performs it and

S4·E19 Core

Promises to Keep

Mar 1, 1979

Quincy and Sam have to stay late, going over work that was completed by a Medical Examiner who, it turned out, wasn't qualified for the job. This makes Quincy miss yet another date

S4·E20 Core

Semper-Fidelis

Mar 15, 1979

Quincy is asked to do an autopsy on the body of a marine who died in an accident during his training. Harry Collier, a friend of Quincy's wants him to give a second opinion, to sto

S4·E21 Core

An Ounce of Prevention

Mar 22, 1979

While completing the autopsy of a construction worker who fell to his death Quincy spots some unusual abnormalities. He gets Sam to run some further tests to see if there was anyth

S4·E22 Mytharc

The Death Challenge

Mar 29, 1979

A world famous magician comes out of retirement to appear on a live television show after his most famous trick leads to the death of his protege. After the autopsy Quincy has to f

S4·E23 Mytharc

The Eye of the Needle

Apr 12, 1979

An ailing woman's accidental death outrages Quincy when he discovers that she had been seeing a holistic doctor and had been treated with natural medicines rather than scientific o

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