Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1 - No Way to Treat a Flower

Thursday, September 20, 1979

Quincy investigates the death of a teenager who smoked marijuana treated with a chemical that stimulates plant growth.

Season 4, Episode 2 - Dead Last

Thursday, September 27, 1979

Quincy and Danny go to the tack and, while there, see a horse go wild in the stables. The horse kills one of the jockeys but, after completing his autopsy, Quincy thinks that it wasn't an accident.

Season 4, Episode 3 - By the Death of a Child

Thursday, October 4, 1979

A small turbulent South American island republic has babies dying.

Season 4, Episode 4 - Never a Child

Thursday, October 11, 1979

The death of a teenage girl will draw Quincy into the world of teenage prostitution and child pornography.

Season 4, Episode 5 - Hot Ice

Thursday, October 18, 1979

Two customs officers want Quincy's help in catching arresting a diamond smuggling ring.

Season 4, Episode 6 - Sweet Land of Liberty

Thursday, October 25, 1979

A policeman is killed while on a routine visit to a house. The killer turns out to be an old friend of Sam's, the gentlest man Sam has ever known. Arrested he admits that he killed the policeman and then, while in a cell, kills himself.

Season 4, Episode 7 - Mode of Death

Thursday, November 1, 1979

An evangelist whose church is being investigated by the government is found dead in a motel room., drugs and alcohol at his bedside table.

Season 4, Episode 8 - Nowhere to Run

Thursday, November 8, 1979

A girl falls off of a cliff while with her boyfriend. Quincy believes the boy's story that she committed suicide despite everyone else's belief that he killed her.

Season 4, Episode 9 - The Money Plague

Thursday, November 15, 1979

'R.W. Collins', a famous hijacker who escaped by parachuting out of a plane with his money five years ago is found dead, hanging from a tree in the National Park he bailed out over.

Season 4, Episode 10 - For the Benefit of My Patients

Thursday, November 22, 1979

After two patients with low income die unnecessarily, Quincy is driven to change the policy of a private hospital that does not treat patients who cannot pay for the services provided.

Season 4, Episode 11 - Murder by S.O.P.

Thursday, November 29, 1979

On his way to a Forensic Pathologist convention in Sacramento, the Sheriff stops Quincy on the road. He was trying to stay awake by sticking his head out of the window. The Sheriff decides to put Quincy in jail for his own good.

Season 4, Episode 12 - Honor Thy Elders

Thursday, January 24, 1980

When an old man commits suicide in a hospital, Quincy discovers the tragedy of parental abuse, and gets involved in a senior citizens center.

Season 4, Episode 13 - Diplomatic Immunity

Thursday, January 17, 1980

Quincy foils the plans of an assassin who is determined to kill an ill Latin American dictator visiting the United States for medical treatment.

Season 4, Episode 14 - Riot

Thursday, January 31, 1980

Quincy and Sam are called to a prison to help investigate the murder of one of the inmates. Once there they soon find themselves held hostage by the prisoners when they begin a riot.

Season 4, Episode 15 - Cover-Up

Thursday February 7, 1980

An autopsy eads Quincy to an ER where an underqualified doctor's ending lives rather than saving them.

Season 4, Episode 16 - Unhappy Hour

Thursday, February 14, 1980

A teenager is killed during an auto accident.

Season 4, Episode 17 - The Winning Edge

Thursday, February 21, 1980

Star gymnast Sally collapses during practice and dies. Quincy suspects that high school coach Virginia Hart is providing the team with performance-enhancing drugs to give them a competitive edge as they head into a national competition.

Season 4, Episode 18 - New Blood

Thursday, February 28, 1980

Quincy is upset when Asten makes him go on vacation and calls in a pretty young pathologist to perform the autopsy on a city councilman who was found dead at the base of a stairwell.

Season 4, Episode 19 - T.K.O.

Thursday, March 13, 1980

An incompetent surgeon performing operations in his ill-equipped office causes the deaths of a boxer and a chef.

Season 4, Episode 20 - The Final Gift

Thursday, March 20, 1980

An old friend of Quincy's is dead following a plane crash.

Season 4, Episode 21 - Deadly Arena

Thursday, March 27, 1980

Three deaths due to food poisoning are linked to a football stadium where a big championship game is due to take place. Quincy has three days to find the source before 90,000 spectators come to watch and are put in jeopardy.

Season 4, Episode 22 - No Way to Treat a Patient

Wednesday, April 30, 1980

A gunshot victim's death may have been caused by a doctor's incompetence... or it may have been the work of a professional killer.