A Night To Raise The Dead begins on a stormy night with a man going outside his home to retrieve something from his car when he finds a dead body lying next to it. The police and Quincy (Jack Klugman) are called to the scene and the body is brought back to the coroner lab where the autopsy reveals the man died from typhoid. This raises a public health concern, and as Quincy and the police return to the neighborhood where the body was found they realize that a mudslide caused the partial collapse of a nearby cemetery with coffins and corpses ending up all over the area. Further investigation indicates that some bodies with typhoid were illegally buried at the cemetery in an apparent cover up, and Quincy is determined to get to the bottom of this while also making sure that an outbreak doesn't occur.
This is a fairly decent Season 4 episode that doesn't feature a murder mystery but there is an investigation into a cover up. My only criticisms are that the plot is a bit overly morbid with dozens of coffins and dead bodies to contend with, and it also seemed that the identification of all of the corpses occurred way too quick and easy. If some of these decomposed bodies had been dead for some time and were exposed to extreme elements in the mudslide, wouldn't the process to identify them have been much more complicated and time-consuming? Apparently not here where it takes place instantaneously.
Other than that, this is a pretty reasonable and interesting story that still remains relevant today as extreme weather and destructive mudslides continue to plague the state of California on a regular basis and you could totally see this happening. It is another good example of the Quincy writers and production team creating compelling material that stands the test of time.