Season 8

Season 8,Episode 1 - Baby Rattlesnakes

Wednesday September 29, 1982

Quincy gets involved in youth gangs and the probation program after a nine-year old girl is killed in a drive by shooting. A 14-year old boy is set up to take the rap.

Season 8,Episode 2 - Ghost of a Chance

Wednesday October 06, 1982

When a man dies during bypass surgery, Quincy discovers that the operation was performed by a resident instead of the renowned heart surgeon who was contracted to do the procedure.

Season 8,Episode 3 - Give Me Your Weak

Wednesday October 27, 1982

Quincy revisits old friends and travels to Washington DC in an effort to get the Orphan Drug act passed, and help a young mother suffering from myoclonus.

Season 8,Episode 4 - Dying for a Drink

Wednesday November 03, 1982

After a colleague exhibits unusual behavior at work, Quincy discovers she has a drinking problem.

Season 8,Episode 5 - Unreasonable Doubt

Wednesday, November 10, 1982

A new pathologist (Walter Ross) is working in the lab who is disabled. When he looks into a case of electrocution of a handicapped baby he is convinced that the baby was murdered by its father.

Season 8,Episode 6 - Sleeping Dogs

Wednesday, November 17, 1982

Quincy must unravel the mystery of who murdered the town bully in a small community outside of Los Angeles. He runs into opposition as it seems that everyone in town wants to protect the killer, including local law enforcement.

Season 8,Episode 7 - Science for Sale

Wednesday November 24, 1982

A sick woman with cancer leaves the hospital and dies. Those that have had physical contact with her die. Quincy soon discovers a new virus is the culprit of the deaths and hurries to find the cause.

Season 8,Episode 8 - Next Stop, Nowhere

Wednesday December 01, 1982

Quincy takes a look into the world of punk rock, a music that he believes may have contributed to the death of a teenage boy.

Season 8,Episode 9 - Across the Line

Wednesday December 08, 1982

Quincy is talked into investigating the case of a police officer who accidentally killed a hostage during a bank robbery shootout.

Season 8,Episode 10 - Sword of Honor, Blade of Death

Wednesday December 15, 1982

Michael Moroshima, a cop working undercover with the Asian task force and Sam's best friend, is killed while listening in on a deal between the Yakuza and the Mafia.

Season 8,Episode 11 -The Law Is a Fool

Wednesday January 05, 1983

A narcissistic psychopath kidnaps the granddaughter of a former Congressman. He says it will be "Divine Retribution" if she dies, and the fault for her death will rest upon the shoulders of the Congressman and Quincy.

Season 8,Episode 12 - Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Wednesday January 12, 1983

Quincy's friend, the estranged son of a mobster, is accused of arson and murder. Can Quincy help save his friend?

Season 8,Episode 13 - Cry for Help

Wednesday January 19, 1983

After a young girl is found dead along a roadside, Quincy enlists the help of a psychologist in order to determine if the girl committed suicide or if she was murdered by her boyfriend.

Season 8,Episode 14 - A Loss for Words

Wednesday January 26, 1983

When a young man who dies in an industrial accident because he couldn't read the hazard signs. Quincy takes on the problem of adult illiteracy. A problem that hits close to home with Quincy, when he finds that his friend can't read.

Season 8,Episode 15 - Beyond the Open Door

Wednesday February 02, 1983

A psychic is enlisted to help solve the murders of several young women putting her own life in danger.

Season 8,Episode 16 - On Dying High

Wednesday February 09, 1983

After a nightclub entertainer (Roger Miller) is badly burned, Quincy is determined to make everyone aware drugs are no laughing matter.

Season 8,Episode 17 - Quincy's Wedding: Part 1

Wednesday February 16, 1983

Quincy is reluctant to plan the wedding of Emily's dreams. But, is it a murder confession holding him back... or something else?!

Season 8,Episode 18 - Quincy's Wedding: Part 2

Wednesday February 23, 1983

Quincy's wedding may be cancelled and the widow who believed she caused her husband's death is now certain she's being targeted for murder.

Season 8,Episode 19 - Murder on Ice

Wednesday March 09, 1983

Quincy goes on his honeymoon to a judge's lodge not knowing that he and others had been lured there as part of a killer's plot.

Season 8,Episode 20 - Women of Valor  

Wednesday March 16, 1983

After the tragic death of a newborn, Quincy, together with strong women, crusade to further legitimize the use of Midwives.

Season 8,Episode 21 - Suffer the Little Children

Wednesday March 23, 1983

A substandard foster home is responsible for the death of a 7 year-old boy. Quincy and Emily, try to start a new program, so that his older brother can be reunited with his troubled family, where a new stable environment be created.

Season 8,Episode 22 - An Act of Violence

Wednesday April 27, 1983

An elderly woman is robbed and murdered in her apartment. Next target, Quincy. Sam takes trace evidence at the lab before Quince goes to hospital, so that Monahan can track the vicious killers. Quincy struggles with anger from the mugging.

Season 8,Episode 23 - Whatever Happened to Morris Perlmutter?

Wednesday May 04, 1983

A formerly famous theatre star dies at the end of a robber's gun. Her sister (Rosemary DeCamp), Quincy, and Monahan look for the killer. Her agent, Morris Pearmutter, looks for a comeback in the circumstances.

Season 8,Episode 24 - The Cutting Edge  

Wednesday May 11, 1983

Kenny Kelso, a young father, is seriously injured in a work accident and loses his arm. His arm is found and the paramedics take both him and his limb to a new place, Experiment Hope, where it may be possible to reattach them.