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[[File:quincy_me_3141.jpg|frame|A coroner-slash-[[They Fight Crime|crimefighter]]!]]
A popular late '70s-early '80s [[Forensic Drama]] about the eponymous Quincy, ME (Jack Klugman) and his work handling cases in an LA coroner's office.
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* [[Absentee Actor]]: Jack Klugman himself in "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?" because he hated Michael Sloan and Glen A. Larson's script for the episode (in which a body brought into the morgue turns out to be alive, so you can see his point). [[Creative Differences|Klugman eventually had Larson removed from the show, which is why the showrunner credits vary so much.]]
* [[Always Murder]]: Usually true, but averted in "Semper Fi" about a young soldier who dies on night
** Also averted in "Murder By S.O.P." with the town doctor who knows the true identity of this week's murderer.
** Averted again in an episode where a cross-country running coach was accused of working his star pupil to death. The judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter charge on grounds of the specifics of the crime not matching the definition of the charge, only to have the guy sued for wrongful death. {{spoiler|It finally turned out that the [[Body of the Week]] had a small tumor on his adrenal gland, making his C.O.D. natural causes exacerbated by training for his next race.}}
* [[Author Filibuster]]: Some episodes should obviously just be called "Jack Klugman's Soapbox".
** "A Good Smack In The Mouth
** An episode where a college student dies in a hazing incident ends with a scene where, out of nowhere and with no prior setup, Quincy is suddenly giving a graduation speech at an unnamed college. His entire speech is about how terrible fraternity hazing is: which is all well and good, but would probably be more useful if he were giving it to a bunch of people who were NOT about to graduate.
** Lampshaded in the late season episode that introduced his new love interest, later to become his wife. She recognized him as the hot dogging coroner who was always incensed about some issue, only to have forgotten about it a week later, when there was some new issue that he was incensed about.
* [[The Bad Guys Win]]: "Scream To The Skies"
* [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]]: Dr. Asten and Lt. Monahan.▼
* [[The Butler Did It]]: [[Just for Pun|Used for a pun]], when the [[Monster of the Week|Villains of the Week]] had the surname "Butler".
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Quincy is friends with Rosie Grier, so this trope may apply.▼
▲* [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]]: Dr. Asten and Lt. Monahan.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Quincy does a lot of this.
▲* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Quincy is friends with Rosie Grier, so this trope may apply.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Lee Porter, Quincy's love interest in the initial movie-length episodes, disappeared without a trace when the show switched to an hour-long format.
* [[Cool Car]]: Well, ''unique'' at any rate. It's a hearse that says "CORONER" across the back. Danny hated it when Quincy parked it outside the bar.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: While Quincy runs into quite a few of these, one of the later seasons had a memorable aversion. When a executive learned that his company's poor waste disposal practices had caused a fatal accident, told Quincy that, while his lawyers had informed him he held no legal responsibility, he still felt a moral responsibility to assist in solving the crisis.▼
* [[The Coroner]]: Quincy. Duh.
▲* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: While Quincy runs into quite a few of these, one of the later seasons had a memorable aversion. When a executive learned that his company's poor waste disposal practices had caused a fatal accident, told Quincy that, while his lawyers had informed him he held no legal responsibility, he still felt a moral responsibility to assist in solving the crisis.
* [[Depending
▲* [[Depending On the Writer]]: Quincy's relationship with his superiors and their enthusiasm for his stubbornness varies between episodes.
* [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest]]: Quincy's first wife died before the series started, and then in the final season he marries a woman played by the same actress.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Several, but "Guns Don't Die" is the champion. {{spoiler|
** "Into The Murdering Mind" may well share the
* [[Eureka Moment]]
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: How many times has Sam stayed late to run tests, to the detriment of his love and social life?
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* [[The Lab Rat]]: Sam and Mark.
* [[The Mafia]]/[[Yakuza]]: One [[Body of the Week]], an LAPD organized crime detective, was the victim of a yakuza assassin. The ''oyabun'' was trying to work out a deal with [[The Mafia]] to buy black market guns for his operations in Japan.
* [[Mystery Magnet]]: Quincy and Danny can't even go on a simple fishing trip without getting dragged into a web of intrigue.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Dr. Hiro from "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?" is pretty clearly based on [
** And Quincy was based on Noguchi.
* [[No Name Given]]: Played utterly straight. It's never mentioned -- not even by his ''girlfriends'' -- though a business card gives his first initial as "R".
* [[Officer O
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: "The Cutting Edge," the [[Series Finale|final episode of the series]], barely features Quincy (the other regulars don't appear at all) and focuses instead on a surgeon who specializes in state of the art surgical techniques. No points for guessing it was meant as a spinoff.
* [[The Quincy Punk]]: The episode "Next Stop Nowhere" is the [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Because they're [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat|beleaguered bureaucrats]], Astin and Monahan tend to be leery at first about the case of the week, no matter how many previous times Quincy has been right. They also tend [[Reasonable Authority Figure|to throw in with Quincy pretty quickly when he gives them proof]].
* [[Technicolor Science]]: Justified, since Quincy and his team work on lots of actual scientific tests, including chemical reaction tests that [[Truth in Television|really do involve prettily colored liquids]].
* [[Temporary Substitute]]: Dr. Hiro from the Klugman-less episode "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?".
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* [[Very Special Episode]]: Very common in later series (see "Whatever Happened To Morris Perlmutter?" for a particularly strong example).
* [[Wheel Program]]: The first season.
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