#Quincy me slow boat to madness driver

The death of a teen-aged basketball player from so-called 'look-alike' pep pills (made from OTC ingredients) drives Quincy to organize community action to close a store that sells the highly dangerous, but legal, pills.Ī mysterious ' Saturday night special' gun is responsible for the deaths of a man, a young boy, and a cop, and Quincy is determined to find the gun to stop the carnage in a twist ending the stolen gun is returned to its owner but the weapon accidentally causes the death of a young child.

#Quincy me slow boat to madness driver

Pendleton ( Michael Constantine), a psychiatrist who counsels people with terminal illnesses, and is put to the test when he has to assist a dying cancer patient ( Tyne Daly) whose husband is resisting her efforts to die peacefully.Ī truck driver moonlighting in illegally dumping phosphorus trichloride dies after coming in contact with the toxic waste, and Quincy must race to determine where the chemical is dumped before the rains come, and the waste turns into deadly hydrogen chloride gas. Searching for a way to improve the way he interacts with grief-stricken family members, Quincy seeks advice from Dr. Astin's foster son (in a wheelchair after an auto accident that killed his parents) is having trouble adjusting to his new life until the boy is sent to the ranch. The landowner of an equine therapy ranch for handicapped children is murdered by the landowner's nephew, but the murder is observed by a mute child who works at the ranch, and the nephew plots to eliminate the witness. In an episode that exposes the weakness in DUI laws in the early 1980s, a prominent lawyer (with a blood-alcohol level of 0.21) hits and kills a pedestrian, and when Quincy discovers the driver will only receive probation and a small fine, the coroner is determined to change the law, but later changes gears when his investigation veers from DUI to murder. Janet Carlyle ( Diana Muldaur) work to discover the root cause of the illness that has infected their cruise ship, Sam & Mark land on an island to rescue a couple who swam to shore from the island's military installation. Janet Carlyle ( Diana Muldaur, reprising her role from Season 5's ' Deadly Arena') go on a cruise to Tahiti, but the vacation proves to be anything but relaxing as the coroner gets involved in a murder investigation that leads to the discovery of a potentially deadly disease on board. When hearing the trauma center may have to close due to red ink, Quincy spurs into action to stop the closing and prove the need for more trauma centers. episodes No.Ī woman fleeing from an unknown person falls down an escalator at a high school job fair and suffers from amnesia, which prevents Quincy from determining who was chasing her and why someone wants her dead.Ī father and daughter injured in a car accident have very different outcomes the father survived serious injuries at a trauma center and the daughter died from less serious ones at a closer, but non-trauma, emergency room.