As of July 2026, Quincy, M.E. Season 5 aired in 1979 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Quincy, M.E. Season 5

1979 22 Episodes Crime · Drama ⭐ 8/10

Quincy, M.E. Season 5 is currently streaming on major platforms, and its case-by-case structure never gets in the way of the bigger story. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 119 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Jack Klugman leads a cast that carries the story without ever feeling mechanical. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Quincy, M.E. Season 5 earns its spot. Quincy, M.E. Season 5 treats its mystery as a means, not an end in itself. Season 5 of Quincy, M.E. Includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1979 to April 1980. Jack Klugman and Robert Ito lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1979. The plot mechanics of Quincy, M.E. Season 5 never overwhelm the human cost underneath them. The consistency throughout is what elevates it — not every moment is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

Viewers who think they have seen every crime drama tend to find Quincy, M.E. Season 5 proves them wrong. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Watch Jack Klugman work — it is a masterclass in the genre. Few crime dramas earn their twists this consistently.

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🎬 Quincy, M.E. Season 5 — Episode Guide

No Way to Treat a Flower

Quincy investigates the death of a teenager who smoked marijuana treated with a chemical that stimulates plant growth.

Quincy and Danny go to the tack and, while there, see a horse go wild in the stables. The horse kills one of the jockeys but, after completing his autopsy, Quincy thinks that it wasn't an accident! That someone murdered the man and tried to make it look as if the horse killed him. The problem Qui...

By the Death of a Child

The small nation of San Christos has a new progressive, America friendly, president. His hold on power is fragile and he could be toppled if the rumor of an American supplied Diphtheria vaccine is killing the children it is supposed to be saving. Quincy and Sam are sent to the country to find out t...

After performing an autopsy on a young woman Quincy finds out about a man called' Uncle Harry'. He preys on young girls, runaways, who arrive in Los Angeles alone and scared. Quincy helps Carol Treager, who runs a home for runaways whose lease is about to run out, to not only track down a missing...

Two customs officers want Quincy's help in catching arresting a diamond smuggling ring. A courier they were following was killed when a bus at the airport and, as Quincy is going to a Las Vegas to judge a Miss Coroner Contest; they want him to take the couriers place. He has to deliver the diamonds ...

Sweet Land of Liberty

A policeman is killed while on a routine visit to a house. The killer turns out to be an old friend of Sam's, the gentlest man Sam has ever known. Arrested he admits that he killed the policeman and then, while in a cell, kills himself. Sam is determined to find out what changed his friend and inve...

An evangelist whose church is being investigated by the government is found dead in a motel room., drugs and alcohol at his bedside table. Quincy is told to come up with the mode of death quickly, everyone wants to know how, and why, he died. The scientific results are borderline so Quincy asks Aste...

Quincy doesn't believe Monahan's theory that a teenager pushed his pregnant girlfriend to her death. Kenneth Watson: Charles Aidman. Monahan: Garry Walberg. Jeff Cavanaugh: Bill Beyers. Asten: John S. Ragin. Lorraine Watson: Dolores Mann. Sam: Robert Ito. Cathy Watson: Jennifer McAllister. Cavanaugh...

The Money Plague

'R.W. Collins', a famous hijacker who escaped by parachuting out of a plane with his money five years ago is found dead, hanging from a tree in the National Park he bailed out over. He died before he hit the ground and has been hanging there, undiscovered, for 5 years now. Quincy and Sam are sent to...

For the Benefit of My Patients

Quincy has to autopsy a man who died at the county hospital. He is amazed at the ability of the Dr. who tried to save him. It turns out though that the patient was originally taken to a different hospital that turned the ambulance away because the man did not have any insurance. Quincy visits the h...

Murder by S.O.P.

On his way to a Forensic Pathologist convention in Sacramento, the Sheriff of a small town stops Quincy on the road. He was trying to stay awake by sticking his head out of the window. The Sheriff decides to put Quincy in jail for his own good. That night a fire starts in the cells and four men die....

Honor Thy Elders

After Quincy's traces an old man's death to his son's physical abuse he is faced with a similar case involving the exploitation of two elderly women by their unscrupulous nephew.

Diplomatic Immunity

President Sarejo, the ruler of a small South American country, has come to America for some urgent hospital treatment. He brings with him most of his cabinet so that he can keep an eye on them while away. What with them and the large number of his countrymen protesting outside the hospital there are...

Quincy and Sam are called to a prison to help investigate the murder of one of the inmates. Once there they soon find themselves held hostage by the prisoners when they begin a riot.

A nurse seeks help from Quincy when a heart-attack victim dies at the medical center where she works. Her boss and the two doctors involved want her help in trying to cover up the true circumstances of what happened. She fears for her job if she doesn't help and her career if she does.

Dr. Asten's niece is involved in a car accident while drunk and it is up to Quincy to try and establish whether she was the driver of the car or whether it was her friend, who died in the crash, who was driving. Asten gets Quincy to swap jobs with him for a day so that he can find out how hard it...

The Winning Edge

While investigating the sudden death of a high school gymnast Quincy begins to think that her teacher was giving her and her other students more than just coaching and advice. His discoveries lead him to think that she has been supplying them with steroids and other drugs.

Asten forces Quincy to take some unwanted vacation time and brings in a temporary replacement, Dr. McCracken, a pathologist rather than a Medical Examiner. That very same day the body of a controversial Congressman, Laurence Bridges, is found at the bottom of a flight of stairs in his office. ...

Two days after winning a boxing championship a young boxer collapses and dies while looking at new cars. At the same time Danny's chef, Alfredo, goes to a cheap doctor for a hernia operation. A routine procedure but he dies during it. Quincy's investigations lead to a connection between the two. ...

Two old Korean war buddies of Quincy's, Charlie and Max, have an accident in one of the planes owned by their company. Although the most badly injured of the two should have survived for some reason he dies in hospital. The police think that Charlie could have killed his partner because of another, ...

🎭 Cast of Quincy, M.E. Season 5

Jack Klugman

Robert Ito

Val Bisoglio

John S. Ragin

Garry Walberg

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