
Before becoming a regular cast member as Quincy's girlfriend- cum-wife Dr. Using a small "pool" of actors was a common production trait of many Glen A. For example, an actor who plays a crooked Navy captain also plays a ballistics expert in several of the later episodes. Many of the episodes used the same actors for different roles in various episodes. In 1978, writers Tony Lawrence and Lou Shaw received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the second-season episode ".The Thighbone's Connected to the Knee Bone." (originally aired February 11, 1977).
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The Mystery Movie format was discontinued in the spring of 1977 Quincy was the only one of the rotating series to continue. The series proved popular enough that midway through the 1976–1977 season, Quincy was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series. 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). John Vernon, who played the Wojeck title role, later guest starred in the third-season episode "Requiem For The Living".

The show resembled the earlier Canadian television series Wojeck, broadcast by CBC Television, and took some inspiration from Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi. It stars Jack Klugman in the title role, a Los Angeles County medical examiner. Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC. Larson Production in association with Universal Television
