Quincy investigates the murder of an Auschwitz survivor. He also tries to help a friend fight a law suit claiming the Holocaust never happened.Quincy investigates the murder of an Auschwitz survivor. He also tries to help a friend fight a law suit claiming the Holocaust never happened.Quincy investigates the murder of an Auschwitz survivor. He also tries to help a friend fight a law suit claiming the Holocaust never happened.
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- TriviaThe Auschwitz Holocaust survivor's tattoo number B-87693 does not conform with how the numbers were done by the Nazi's. The leading letter of "B" indicates a number assigned beginning in May 1944.The Nazi's though only assigned numbers for each alphabet letter up to the maximum of 20,000, so the number of 87693 could not have been assigned. This was likely done intentionally as the show did not wish to show an actual Holocaust victim's tattoo number out of consideration to any then-surviving family members of the victims.
- GoofsThe boom microphone is visible in the court room scene (00:38:24 to 00:38:40)
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Quincy strays even further from its original purpose.
After having re-watched all the "Quincy" episodes recently, I have learned that the very best episodes were the early ones. This is because they all were about solving crimes and seeing Quincy using forensics to do this was pretty exciting. However, after a while, fewer and fewer episodes were about crimes and more and more of the time they were about social causes and featured Quincy preaching at the audience about the issue of the week. "Stolen Tears" is one of the best examples of just how far the show had wandered from its original purpose. It comes off as exceptionally preachy and bad--even though the topic (Nazis and Holocaust deniers) are topics I usually might enjoy learned about...but NOT on "Quincy".
Quincy gets to do a bit of forensics when a Nazi war criminal does some killing in 1982. However, this only makes up a tiny portion of the show. Most is an utterly ridiculous story about a Holocaust denier--a guy who writes books and goes on the radio in order to promote his inane ideas. Now why Quincy would get involved in this really makes no sense and the show manages to annoy the audience. This is because in the SANE world, no reasonable person would deny the Holocaust and the show gives such stupid ideas the time of day. Plus, the idea of having Quincy PROVE the Holocaust occurred is pretty offensive and grandiose! It is a fact...no need for Quincy and the gang to spend 50 minutes trying to probe and prove it to the audience. Overall, an embarrassingly bad episode made tolerable only by a nice guest performance by Martin Balsam. Otherwise, a lot of rubbish. There is so much better about this sort of thing than this!
Quincy gets to do a bit of forensics when a Nazi war criminal does some killing in 1982. However, this only makes up a tiny portion of the show. Most is an utterly ridiculous story about a Holocaust denier--a guy who writes books and goes on the radio in order to promote his inane ideas. Now why Quincy would get involved in this really makes no sense and the show manages to annoy the audience. This is because in the SANE world, no reasonable person would deny the Holocaust and the show gives such stupid ideas the time of day. Plus, the idea of having Quincy PROVE the Holocaust occurred is pretty offensive and grandiose! It is a fact...no need for Quincy and the gang to spend 50 minutes trying to probe and prove it to the audience. Overall, an embarrassingly bad episode made tolerable only by a nice guest performance by Martin Balsam. Otherwise, a lot of rubbish. There is so much better about this sort of thing than this!
- planktonrules
- May 28, 2013
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- 3 Vicente Terrace, Santa Monica, California, USA(Otto Rottermeyer's apartment at 771 Vincente Terrace)
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- Runtime1 hour
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