Quincy M.E.: The Last Six Hours starts as Los Angeles coroner Quincy (Jack Klugman) & his latest young enough to be his daughter girlfriend Barbara (Sharon Acker) are looking forward to spending a nice vacation together, with only three miles left to the county line they both get very excited as once past it Quincy has no authority or responsibility beyond it. As they drive along the highway an open top Mercedes almost runs Quincy off the road, Quincy notices a young woman driving & that there is something wrong with her. The doctor & humanitarian in Quincy decides to follow her & soon after the Mercedes crashes into a ditch by the side of the highway, Quincy rushes to help but the young lady is dead. Back in the laboratory & Quincy agrees to do the autopsy which leaves him baffled, apart from massive hemorrhaging she was in perfect health. Then a cop is brought in, a cop who worked in the police car compound & examined the Mercedes hours earlier, Quincy believes that something in the car is responsible for both deaths & when Sam (Robert Ito) becomes ill he races against time to find a killer & the poison they used...
Episode 1 from season 4 this Quincy story was directed by Corey Allen & certainly opens the fourth season with a real cracker of an episode which just about contains everything that is good about Quincy M.E. as a series in my eyes. It has the humour, it has the amusing & now developed relationships between the regular character's with everyone getting some screen time, it has Quincy putting his reputation on the line with a bizarre theory that no-one else believes, it has a solid murder mystery that is intriguing & not too predictable, there's Quincy running around in a race against time to save his friend, there's Quincy using his medical skills & knowledge to solve a crime, Quincy gets angry & shouts at people, there's the running gag about Quincy's girlfriends, some reasonably poignant & touching scenes that make you realise why you actually like these character's & not one but two happy comedic endings in which Quincy is left annoyed. I mean what more do you want exactly? Although some people like the moralistic episodes with a social message I don't & I'm both happy & relieved to say there's no preaching in The Last Six Hours at all about anything. I thought The Last Six Hours had just about everything including tigers & poisonous snakes which Quincy uses to threaten someone with! All in fifty odd minutes as well. There is another episode in which the tables are turned & it's Quincy who is dying & his friends have to save him which is also worth mentioning but I can't remember the title.
Here in The Last Six Hours Quincy's huge black funeral hearse looking car is shown for the first time, he claims that it has been in storage & to be honest it probably should have stayed there although it does have a car phone in it... We learn that Sgt. Brill actually spent fifteen years in the police car compound before joining homicide in a rare moment of character development for him. I think that the science on show in The Last Six Hours is actually quite accurate & as a plot it's pretty plausible. The acting is good & Klugman is great here be it emotional scenes like when he's trying to comfort an ill Sam or when he is exploding with rage as he tries to get to the truth, the guy was just born to play this part & by the time season four had started he had the Quincy character nailed to a tee.
The Last Six Hours is a brilliant Quincy episode & a fantastic way to kick off a generally strong season four, a must for fans & all armchair detectives out there everywhere.
Episode 1 from season 4 this Quincy story was directed by Corey Allen & certainly opens the fourth season with a real cracker of an episode which just about contains everything that is good about Quincy M.E. as a series in my eyes. It has the humour, it has the amusing & now developed relationships between the regular character's with everyone getting some screen time, it has Quincy putting his reputation on the line with a bizarre theory that no-one else believes, it has a solid murder mystery that is intriguing & not too predictable, there's Quincy running around in a race against time to save his friend, there's Quincy using his medical skills & knowledge to solve a crime, Quincy gets angry & shouts at people, there's the running gag about Quincy's girlfriends, some reasonably poignant & touching scenes that make you realise why you actually like these character's & not one but two happy comedic endings in which Quincy is left annoyed. I mean what more do you want exactly? Although some people like the moralistic episodes with a social message I don't & I'm both happy & relieved to say there's no preaching in The Last Six Hours at all about anything. I thought The Last Six Hours had just about everything including tigers & poisonous snakes which Quincy uses to threaten someone with! All in fifty odd minutes as well. There is another episode in which the tables are turned & it's Quincy who is dying & his friends have to save him which is also worth mentioning but I can't remember the title.
Here in The Last Six Hours Quincy's huge black funeral hearse looking car is shown for the first time, he claims that it has been in storage & to be honest it probably should have stayed there although it does have a car phone in it... We learn that Sgt. Brill actually spent fifteen years in the police car compound before joining homicide in a rare moment of character development for him. I think that the science on show in The Last Six Hours is actually quite accurate & as a plot it's pretty plausible. The acting is good & Klugman is great here be it emotional scenes like when he's trying to comfort an ill Sam or when he is exploding with rage as he tries to get to the truth, the guy was just born to play this part & by the time season four had started he had the Quincy character nailed to a tee.
The Last Six Hours is a brilliant Quincy episode & a fantastic way to kick off a generally strong season four, a must for fans & all armchair detectives out there everywhere.
