A woman about to be autopsied is surprisingly found to be aliveA woman about to be autopsied is surprisingly found to be aliveA woman about to be autopsied is surprisingly found to be alive
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Jack Klugman
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.
- (credit only)
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Did you know
- TriviaJack Klugman refused to appear in this episode because he disliked the script, so the episode was written around him. It was his first step in pushing producer Glen A. Larson and his company (including writer Michael Kozoll, later co-creator of Hill Street Blues (1981)) out the door and repeatedly holding out on new seasons until he got a production team to his liking (even then he frequently rewrote the scripts).
- GoofsTowards the end of the show, Wilson and his assistant arrive at the morgue to steal the casket and recover the diamonds. They approach from the right of the double doors in an open corridor. Wilson uses a waste basket to hold one door open on the inside. When they pick up the casket, the door is now open on the outside and as they walk through it, the open corridor they walked in from is now a closed double door.
- ConnectionsReferences Emergency! (1972)
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A Quincy-less episode!
This is a weird one. Despite the show being "Quincy", he does not appear in the show at all! This is because Jack Klugman (Quincy) apparently thought the episode sucked and refused to act in it! So, they brought in a Dr. Hiro (Yuki Shimoda) to fill in for Quincy---and they have trouble explaining why he is absent. It's also an unusual episode because it is not made up of one case but several little ones! The first is a case where the morgue received a corpse--only to discover that the dead woman is indeed alive! Another involves a corpse that arrives from Italy in a coffin and it might contain more than just a body. The final story is about a child who is very sick and Dr. Hiro gets involved. In this last case, Bob Crane plays one of the doctors.
So is this bizarro episode any good? Well, it is entertaining. However, it also comes off more like a pilot episode of a different series than an episode of "Quincy". Different because Dr. Hiro really is more of a doctor than a pathologist--a nice do-gooder instead of a man who fights for truth (like Quincy). In other words, this doctor is more like a friendly social worker than a coroner. Now this isn't bad to watch, exactly, but is ISN'T "Quincy"....it's more like "Marcus Welby, MD". I will admit it still wasn't particularly good compared to most of the shows and is, so far in the series, the weakest show.
By the way, the character of Dr. Hiro is based on Dr. Noguchi--the LA coroner who was the inspiration for the character of Quincy in the first place!
So is this bizarro episode any good? Well, it is entertaining. However, it also comes off more like a pilot episode of a different series than an episode of "Quincy". Different because Dr. Hiro really is more of a doctor than a pathologist--a nice do-gooder instead of a man who fights for truth (like Quincy). In other words, this doctor is more like a friendly social worker than a coroner. Now this isn't bad to watch, exactly, but is ISN'T "Quincy"....it's more like "Marcus Welby, MD". I will admit it still wasn't particularly good compared to most of the shows and is, so far in the series, the weakest show.
By the way, the character of Dr. Hiro is based on Dr. Noguchi--the LA coroner who was the inspiration for the character of Quincy in the first place!
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- planktonrules
- Mar 5, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.33 : 1
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