While attending a forensic pathologist convention in Tahoe, Quincy's called on to help when hotel guests and staff are stricken with a mysterious illness.While attending a forensic pathologist convention in Tahoe, Quincy's called on to help when hotel guests and staff are stricken with a mysterious illness.While attending a forensic pathologist convention in Tahoe, Quincy's called on to help when hotel guests and staff are stricken with a mysterious illness.
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- Lt. Frank Monahan
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- Sam Fujiyama
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- Sgt. Brill
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe "Legion Fever" referred to with such dread is legionellosis or Legionnaire's Disease. The disease, caused by inhaling a water-borne bacteria in aerosol, had been first diagnosed the previous summer at a convention of the American Legion in July of 1976. This episode was first broadcast in February of 1977. However, three weeks before the broadcast the CDC announced that it had identified the causative organism behind legionellosis.
- GoofsDuring one of the recurring night club acts two bass players are playing. One is playing a left handed fender bass and strumming the bass for the guitar part.
- Quotes
Ronnie Fletcher: Other hotels have conventions, they get in plumbers, carpenters, you know what we get here? Forensic pathologists, they have a whole name, you know what that is? Coroners. Coroners, the guys in movies that go 'hmmm, guy's hanging by his neck, has a bullet hole in him, and an ice pick in his ear, I suspect it's foul play'.
Quincy is attending a forensic pathologists' convention in Las Vegas when a singer collapses from a strange illness at the hotel where he and the other conventioneers are staying. This is followed by more than a dozen other people collapsing of the same illness, the only thing in common being that they are guests at the hotel/casino. The owner doesn't want this news released to the public because it will destroy his business and make him vulnerable to the mob which wants a piece of his hotel.
Quincy agrees to keep things quiet if possible only because he does not want a panic among the guests and have them scatter. He comes up with a way to keep new guests from checking in and from preventing the current guests from checking out without a cursory medical exam. This latter goal leads to a couple of humorous encounters with understandably suspicious young women who think Quincy is some kind of masher.
While Quincy and the other forensic pathologists set up a make-shift clinic in some of the rooms upstairs, a sweaty and nervous middle aged man seems to be deliberately losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the casino. Are either of these things related ? Watch and find out in part two. Note that the "Legionnaires Fever" that the doctors keep referring to was what they called the outbreak of a serious and mysterious illness at a Legionnaires' convention in Philadelphia in 1976 where the patients seemed to have nothing in common other than where they were staying. At the time, people were afraid that the illness would spread to the general public.
This first regular episode of Quincy shifted its focus from celebrity cases, as was the case in the movies, to the situations of more average people. Also, I find the relationship between Quincy and his Toni Tenille look-alike girlfriend, Lee, to continue to seem forced. They call each other "honey" in the most cringeworthy and disingenuous manner. Especially after Quincy has made a point of telling Lee in no uncertain terms that she is Miss Right Now, not Miss Right.
- AlsExGal
- Jan 28, 2024
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1