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TV Specials: 0
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	5x01 No Way to Treat a Flower Quincy perform an autopsy on the corpse of 15-year-old Kathy Campbell. The examiner promptly finds out that the young girl has died of Kolchizin poisoning. Quincy tries to locate Kathy's ...	Sep. 20, 1979
	5x02 Dead Last Quincy and Danny have decided to spend their free day at the racetrack. There they become witnesses of a quarrel between two jockeys. Moments later one of them is found dead in the ...	Sep. 27, 1979
	5x03 By the Death of a Child In the South American island state of San Cristos a puzzling disease is rife. The respiratory tract of the babies and toddlers is stricken with a virus that leads to their death after ...	Oct. 04, 1979
	5x04 Never a Child ' Uncle Harry ' alias Harry Simkins is a wicked film producer who has specialized exclusively in child pornography. Young girls who have run away from home are among his potential victims. ...	Oct. 11, 1979
	5x05 Hot Ice Quincy is on the way to Las Vegas to take part there as a judge in a beauty pageant. There by chance he witnesses as a man is hit by a bus while crossing the street. Quincy finds a ...	Oct. 18, 1979
	5x06 Sweet Land of Liberty Sergeant Yomoshira, an old pal of of Sam's, kills a young policeman and afterwards kills himself in a cell. For Sam, the uncontrolled behavior of his friend running amok makes no sense. ...	Oct. 25, 1979
	5x07 Mode of Death Franklin Osborne, preacher and leader of 'Divine World Church', is found dead in a motel. On the bedside table forensic doctor Quincy notes an empty tablet box and a bottle of whiskey ...	Nov. 01, 1979
	5x08 Nowhere to Run Without success young Jeff tried to restrain his friend Melissa Watson, to rush from a high rocky cliff to her death. When he announces the tragic case to the police, he is suspected ...	Nov. 08, 1979
	5x09 The Money Plague In Pine Ridge national park, ranger Ron Sparks finds the skeleton of a man. By order of the FBI Quincy and Sam examine the human remains and identify them as the corpse of Frederic ...	Nov. 15, 1979
	5x10 For the Benefit of My Patients Dr. Rawlins is a doctor whose greed is bigger than his conscience. His hospital accepts only those patients who can afford a treatment. This exclusiveness leads to two deaths because ...	Nov. 22, 1979
	5x11 Murder by S.O.P. Quincy satisfies his knowledge thirst with a further educational journey through different prisons. Completely exhausted by the new impressions, he finally gets sleepy while driving ...	Nov. 29, 1979
	5x12 Honor Thy Elders Quincy is investigating the death of Morgan, an 80-year-old patient. One day before leaving the hospital where he was at the elder has taken his own life. He was being treated for a ...	Jan. 10, 1980
	5x13 Diplomatic Immunity Latin-American President Sarejo visits the United States to undergo an operation in Los Angeles. He is accompanied by his wife Isabella, vice-president Marco, Foreign Secretary Varela, ...	Jan. 17, 1980
	5x14 Riot Black prisoner Ray Stone clashes, because of his social and political commitment, with corrupt warden Tompkins. When shortly after Ray lies apparently beaten to death, in the isolation ...	Jan. 31, 1980
	5x15 Cover-Up Emergency doctor Drew is along with nurse Margaret serving the night shift. Because he doesn't want to miss a private date, he relies on inexperienced Dr. Edmunds to replace him. During ...	Feb. 07, 1980
	5x16 Unhappy Hour Dr. Asten and Quincy want to exchange her jobs for a few days because each one believes the other works less. Yet his first assignment as a pathologist makes Asten shiver. 17-year-old ...	Feb. 14, 1980
	5x17 The Winning Edge During a training the star gymnast Sally falls fatally. Indeed, the autopsy shows a tumor in the head, but forensic doctor Quincy holds the view that the cause of the fall is the pep ...	Feb. 21, 1980
	5x18 New Blood Finally, Quincy has found a replacement, forensic doctor Jerri McCracken , so he may take his holiday . Then unexpectedly the congressional representative Laurence Bridges dies . When ...	Feb. 28, 1980
	5x19 TKO Boxer Clarence Hester dies after a fight against his friend and coach Kennie Mitchell. Quincy finds out that he has a fracture above the nose. Everything shows the fact that the injury ...	Mar. 13, 1980
	5x20 The Final Gift Max, an old pal of Quincy from the Korea war, dies under very strange circumstances: He flew with his business partner Charlie in a small propeller airplane when suddenly the airplane ...	Mar. 20, 1980
	5x21 Deadly Arena The people died of food poisoning. Quincy and Dr. Janet Carlyle trace the source of the poison up to Franklin Stadium. The stadium manger is less than pleased for the Football World ...	Mar. 27, 1980
	5x22 No Way to Treat a Patient Soon after having reunited with his friend and colleague, Tony Carbero, Quincy learns that his friend's negligence might have caused a death because of an improper treatment.	Apr. 30, 1980

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Season 5 Characters

M.E.	played by Jack Klugman
Dr. R. Quincy	played by Jack Klugman
Lt. Frank Monahan	played by Garry Walberg
Dr. Robert Asten	played by John S. Ragin
Sam Fujiyama	played by Robert Ito
Danny Tovo	played by Val Bisoglio
Sgt. Brill	played by Joseph Roman
Ed	played by Eddie Garrett
Bartender	played by John Nolan
Mark	played by Marc Scott Taylor
Marc	played by Marc Scott Taylor
Nurse	played by Deborah Klugman
Waitress	played by Diane Markoff
Photographer	played by Eddie Garrett
Customs Agent Niven	played by Edward Grover
Pete	played by James Whitworth
Clerk	played by Stephanie Hankinson
Pete - Guard	played by Peter Virgo
Mrs. Campbell	played by Joan Freeman
Joey Campbell	played by Charles Bloom
Carol Trager	played by Cassie Yates
Dr. Jerri McCracken	played by Beverly Adams
Attorney Eleanor Janssen	played by Marcia Rodd

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Season 5 / Episode 1: - No Way to Treat a Flower

Lt. Frank Monahan: We'll be here at 6:00 tomorrow morning with 30 officers and a search warrant. And we'll *tear this place apart!*

Season 5 / Episode 7: - Mode of Death

Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: $75? All this fuss over $75? Why you!... Come here! [Holds up a dollar bill over the window that looks out at County-USC hospital] What do you see?
Dr. Robert Asten: I see a dollar. I see the hospital...
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: That's right. That's right. [Steps forward so the dollar bill is very close to Asten's face] Now what do you see?
Dr. Robert Asten: I see the dollar.
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: That is also right. That's what happens when you get too close to money. You can't see the good you're doing or can do with it. And that's what's happening to you, sir!

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Season 5 Trivia

Episode 05 - This was the first appearance of the recurring characters of government agents Brice and Niven.
Episode 13 - Goof (factual errors): Security and a criminal investigation is done by Customs Agent Niven. He also performs the duties of a State Dept diplomat. None of these are a Customs duty. The security would have been handled by either the Diplomatic Security Service of the State Dept or the Secret Service. The investigat
Episode 03 - Goof (revealing mistake): Near the beginning of the episode, Dr. Quincy examines a child in the Republic of San Christos. He is anded a Littman stethoscope by the attending physician and he uses it with the earpieces backwards. It is quite awkward as the earpieces are meant to be used just the opposite so that the
Episode 09 - The story was based on the real life case of D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 in November 1971 and escaped by skydiving from the plane's rear stairwell.
Episode 12 - Estelle Winwood's last performance.

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Quincy, M.E. Season 5 (1979-1980)

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