An Airliner crash in Santa Monica Bay springs Quincy into action fighting for airline passenger safety.An Airliner crash in Santa Monica Bay springs Quincy into action fighting for airline passenger safety.An Airliner crash in Santa Monica Bay springs Quincy into action fighting for airline passenger safety.
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- TriviaThe Coast Guard vessel that Quincy boards is USCG WPB-82338, Point Bridge, an 82-foot patrol boat placed in service 1962 and sold to Costa Rica in 2001. At the time, Point Bridge operated out of Marina Del Rey and had a usual complement of 2 officers and 8 men.
- GoofsWhen Quincy and Holly are talking on the pier the amount of sunlight changes dramatically between shoots. In their medium shots the sun is in the late afternoon position. In their close ups, the sun has already set and is approaching twilight.
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[last lines]
Subpoena Server: Excuse me, Doctor Quincy?
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Yes.
Subpoena Server: Senior Medical Examiner for the County of Los Angeles?
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: That's right.
Subpoena Server: This is for you.
[he hands Quincy a subpoena]
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: What is it?
Subpoena Server: Well, you've just been served, Doctor. This is a defamation suit against you brought by Transglobal Airlines. And if you read the fine print, the plaintiffs have also secured a restraining order that expressly prohibits you from making any public pronouncements that can be construed as either damaging or slanderous to the airline.
[Quincy is outraged]
Subpoena Server: Doctor, you've just been gagged.
[Quincy is left in devastated silence]
This is an interesting and unique episode where the first half resembles a disaster in the air type flick which were popular in the 1970s, but then the second half becomes a crusade to improve airline safety measures. While I typically do not enjoy the latter type of episodes, I thought that this one was still good as it had enough other action and content to make the crusade aspect not seem as overbearing and monotonous like other plots. I also enjoyed the scenes where Quincy becomes despondent following the tragedy and retreats from work as well as his friends. There are just a handful of episodes in this series where we see the normally strong and gregarious Quincy brought to his knees in grief by an event, and I feel that Jack Klugman's acting skills are at his finest in those as we see him display the full range of emotions. The scene between him and Dr. Asten (John S. Ragin) on the boat is an especially powerful moment as we rarely ever see the two characters interact in this manner.
My only criticisms of this episode are that some of the stock footage scenes used for the crash in the beginning were pretty obvious and it seemed pretty far-fetched that Quincy was one of the first people at the accident scene given that he had to be called from Danny's. I realize Danny's is right near the water, but wouldn't whoever had called them have deployed emergency personnel to the scene immediately rather than waiting for the medical examiner crew to arrive?
These issues aside, this is still a good Season 6 episode with plenty of action and drama that manages to entertain as well as promote an airline safety issue. We don't often see a good blending of these plot elements, but in my opinion they pulled it off nicely here!
- rayoflite24
- Nov 20, 2015
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