History Series / Quincy

* AlwaysMurder: Usually true, but averted in "Semper Fidelis" about a young soldier who dies on night manoeuvres.

* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The ''Mystery Movie'' episodes had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_dgnqefcgg a more businesslike (though still optimistic) theme tune]]; the more familiar theme came along when the series debuted and was edited onto the shortened versions, but the original is still heard over their end credits (although the "guy on the landscape with the flashlight" background is replaced with the big Q, and the credits themselves are changed -- they're white instead of yellow, and instead of "Mystery Movie Theme: HenryMancini" there's "Theme: Glen A. Larson and Stu Phillips"). Later seasons got a new arrangement which sounded less quirky and more suitable to the series.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Corpses generally aren't shown on-screen even during the autopsy scenes.

* NoNameGiven: Played utterly straight. It's never mentioned -- not even by his ''girlfriends'' -- though a business card gives his first initial as "R".

* RealLifeWritesThePlot

* BusmansHoliday: Quincy takes a few.

* {{Expy}}: Season 5's "The Money Plague" was based on the real-life D.B. Cooper plane hijacking.

* {{Expy}}: The "R.J. Collins" episode was based on the real-life D.B. Cooper plane hijacking.

* ShownTheirWork

[[caption-width-right:251:A coroner-slash-[[TheyFightCrime crimefighter]]!]]

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "The Cutting Edge," the [[SeriesFinale 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.

* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The ''Mystery Movie'' episodes had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_dgnqefcgg a more businesslike (though still optimistic) theme tune]]; the more familiar theme came along when the series debuted and was edited onto the shortened versions, but the original is still heard over their end credits (although the "guy on the landscape with the flashlight" background is replaced with the big Q, and the credits themselves are changed - they're white instead of yellow, and instead of "Mystery Movie Theme: HenryMancini" there's "Theme: Glen A. Larson and Stu Phillips"). Later seasons got a new arrangement which sounded less quirky and more suitable to the series.

* ScaryBlackMan: Starvin' Marvin from "Dead Stop" comes off friendly enough when we first meet him him- until he later learns his partner is involved in the illegal dumping of chemical wastes, which has led to the death of a friend, and forces him to spill the beans.
* SharedUniverse: With ''BJ And The Bear'', believe it or not - the PoorlyDisguisedPilot "The Girls Of Hollywood High" has the [=PDP=]s' stars visiting his place of work. Asten and Sam appear but not the main man, understandably given the episode was scripted by both shows' co-creator Glen A. Larson (see AbsenteeActor above).

* StatusQuoIsGod: Because they're [[BeleagueredBureaucrat 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 [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure to throw in with Quincy pretty quickly when he gives them proof]].

* VerySpecialEpisode: Very common in later series (see "Whatever Happened To Morris Perlmutter?" for a particularly strong example).

** One of the worst cases was played by John Colicos(Kor of ''Star Trek''). He murdered his boss, kept the man frozen for eight years while telling the world the man was living in seclusion, then planted the thawed body and tried to frame another man for the murder(a man who had recently been released from prison, no less, for falsely confessing to a murder to help these people cover up the real culprit in a crime), all in a plot to take control of a major corporation.

* PassedOverPromotion: Over the course of eight seasons, the ONLY character to get any sort of promotion was Quincy, who was bumped up to deputy coroner sometime around season 7(which placed him as head of the coroners on his floor, but still under Asten). Everyone else stays in their respective jobs.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: For all the complaining about the series being preachy, this is exactly why such a change happened. Many of these social issues needed to be addressed.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The apartment fire effect in season 7's "Smoke Screen" is a terribly done overlay that doesn't look close to real.

-->'''Quincy''': [[spoiler: Your son didn't fall, and he wasn't thrown. He jumped.]]

*** In season 7- "Smoke Screen", Engine 51 is called as part of the battalion to deal with an apartment building fire, although none of the usual Emergency! cast are present. "The Golden Hour", Rampart is called by paramedics.

** This is played for laughs during the opening. Quincy is performing an autopsy as some rookie police officers observe. They all pass out, but all we see are the tools used and the cops dropping.

** Something similar happens again in the final season when Quincy is mugged. He spends much of the episode terrified and traumatized, unwilling to even identify the muggers for the police, partly because of the others discussing the low conviction rate of muggers, how so many end up on the streets in short order and how so many witnesses who come forward end up suffering retaliation. Ultimately, Quincy sees a trauma therapist and admits that he isn't afraid of the muggers- he's afraid of himself. he fears that if he ever gets his hands on them he may kill them(as listed above, he's already displayed the possibility of violent assault against another human being, despite his generally high value of human life, if he's provoked)..

* Magazine/{{MAD}}: ''Queasy M.E.''

* TourettesShitcockSyndrome: Though the portrayal was more tempered compared to most examples of this trope.

*** In season 7's "Smoke Screen" Engine 51 is called as part of the battalion to deal with an apartment building fire, although none of the usual Emergency! cast are present.

The entire series is currently available on Netflix.

* {{Crossover}}: with [[Series/Emergency]] - Robert A. Cinader wrote the episode "Cover Up" which featured paramedics from Squad 44 calling Rampart Emergency to deal with a heart attack at a bowling alley. The patient is directed to a different hospital as it's closer. [[spoiler:If they hadn't redirected the patient, he may have lived- an incompetent replacement doctor killing the patient set off the episode's key plot.]]