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Quincy, M.E. Created byGlen A. Larson
Lou ShawStarringJack Klugman
Garry Walberg
John S. Ragin
Val Bisoglio
Robert Ito
Joseph Roman
Eddie Garrett
Marc Scott Taylor (Seasons 4-8)Country of originUnited StatesNo. of seasons8 (1st season extended into 60 min format)No. of episodes148 (list of episodes)ProductionRunning time60 to 90 minutes
60 minutes (syndication)Production company(s)Glen A. Larson ProductionsDistributorUniversal Television
NBCUniversal Television DistributionReleaseOriginal channelNBCPicture format35mm film
4:3 aspect ratioOriginal releaseOctober 3, 1976 (1976-10-03) – September 4, 1983 (1983-09-04)

Quincy, M.E. (also called Quincy) is an American television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC. It stars Jack Klugman in the title role, a Los Angeles County medical examiner.

Inspired by the book Where Death Delights by Marshall Houts, a former FBI agent, the show also resembled the earlier Canadian television series Wojeck, broadcast by CBC Television.^[1] John Vernon, who played the Wojeck title role, later guest starred in the third-season episode "Requiem For The Living". Quincy's character is loosely modelled on Los Angeles' "Coroner to the Stars" Thomas Noguchi.^[2][3]

The first half of the first season of Quincy was broadcast as 90-minute telefilms as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation in the fall of 1976 alongside Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan (formerly McMillan & Wife). The series proved popular enough that midway through the 1976–1977 season, Quincy was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series. The Mystery Movie format was discontinued in the spring of 1977.