Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1 - The Last Six Hours

21 Sep. 1978

Finally getting to spend a bit of leave time with his latest flame, Barbara, Quincy heads off away from Los Angeles. They nearly get run off the road and then witness an accident.

Season 3, Episode 2 - Speed Trap

12 Oct. 1978

After a racing car accident proves fatal for a former Grand Prix driver, Quincy's autopsy brands the crash a possible homicide.

Season 3, Episode 3 - A Test for Living

19 Oct. 1978

Quincy's powers of persuasion are put to the test when he crusades for a 7-year old boys re-evaluation as an autistic child.

Season 3, Episode 4 - Death by Good Intentions

26 Oct. 1978  

A patient dies just hours after having had a successful surgical operation. An 'Affirmative Action' doctor is suspended because of his 'mistake' .

Season 3, Episode5 - Images

2 Nov. 1978

A fire in a small motel room causes the death of the single woman occupying it. The evidence shows that the identity of the woman is Jessica Ross, the country's top newswoman.

Season 3, Episode 6 - Even Odds

9 Nov. 1978

Quincy is gravely wounded at the scene of a crime, so it is up to Sam, Asten and Lt. Monaghan to solve the case he was working on and catch the person who shot him.

Season 3, Episode 7 - Dead and Alive

16 Nov. 1978

An apparent murder victim becomes the object of Quincy's thorough investigation and identification when his mother and sister insist that he is still alive.

Season 3, Episode 8 - No Way to Treat a Body

30 Nov. 1978

Quincy's latest lady friend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies.

Season 3, Episode 9 - A Night to Raise the Dead

7 Dec. 1978

After four nights of continuous rain a man finds a body by his car. Once Quincy has completed the autopsy he announces that the man died of typhoid, an extremely infectious disease.

Season 3, Episode 10 - A Question of Death

4 Jan. 1979

The M.E.'s office is helping a hospital with their organ donation program. Quincy goes there to help declare a young man dead and he was told that his kidney would go to a man whose constantly having dialysis.

Season 3, Episode 11 - House of No Return

11 Jan. 1979

Quincy investigates the death of a young man at a home for people who have committed a crime but are considered mentally incapable and are therefore not sentenced to proper prison.

Season 3, Episode 12 - A Small Circle of Friends

18 Jan. 1979

A roundup of prostitutes follows the death of an athlete who contracted a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea.

Season 3, Episode 13 - The Depth of Beauty

25 Jan. 1979

Quincy delves into the world of cosmetic surgery after he autopsies a woman who killed herself because she hated the scars a botched operation caused.

Season 3, Episode 14 - Walk Softly Through the Night: Part 1

1 Feb. 1979

The son of a friend of Quincy's dies of a seizure due to a massive drug overdose. Quincy and the boy's father are determined to find out who prescribed the drugs and why the boy was unable to get help.

Season 3, Episode 15  - Walk Softly Through the Night: Part 2

1 Feb. 1979

Quincy continues in his quest to get close down Dr. Colella's surgery and stop him from continuing to issue prescriptions for drug addicts.

Season 3, Episode 16 - Aftermath

7 Feb. 1979

A large passenger jet crash-lands 40 miles outside LA. Quincy and Sam are sent out to start the identification of the bodies and to make sure that the crash scene is kept intact.

Season 3, Episode 17 - Dark Angel

15 Feb. 1979

Monaghan asks Quincy to push the autopsy of a young car thief to the top of his priority list. The boys' friend is claiming that a police officer chased him down and killed him after they were stopped in their stolen car.

Season 3, Episode 18 - Physician, Heal Thyself

22 Feb. 1979  

A teenage girl dies after an abortion, and Quincy learns from her boyfriend that the doctor who performed on her may have been drunk. Quincy finds it hard to hold him accountable when everyone around him so willing to cover up for him.

Season 3, Episode 19 - Promises to Keep

1 Mar. 1979

Quincy and Sam have to stay late, going over work that was completed by a Medical Examiner who, it turned out, wasn't qualified for the job.

Season 3, Episode 20 - Semper-Fidelis

15 Mar. 1979

A Marine recruit's death may have been the result of a drill sergeant's vendetta.

Season 3, Episode 21 - An Ounce of Prevention

22 Mar. 1979

Quincy discovers a construction worker died due to pollution in the ground under his home a classic crusading Quincy episode

Season 3, Episode 22 - The Death Challenge

24 Mar. 1979

A retired magician's assistant dies performing his mentor's best illusion.

Season 3, Episode 23 - The Eye of the Needle

12 Apr. 1979

An ailing woman's accidental death outrages Quincy when he discovers that she had been seeing a holistic doctor and had been treated with natural medicines rather than scientific ones.