was spun off only about halfway through that show’s first year.ĭr. The Klug did such a great job (as did the writers) that Quincy M.E.
#QUINCY TV SHOW PUNK EPISODE MOVIE#
began with 90 minute episodes back in 1976, as part of the NBC Mystery Movie rotation that included Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan (patience please… I’m working on the McMillan & Wife post). That conversation would be one for the ages, I’m sure.Īnyway… I’m off topic here.
playing poker out on the back deck of Quincy’s boat during some late summer evening. Part of me would love to see Quincy, Columbo, and Harry O. Quincy would work it straight from the bomb crater. Columbo would work the case from the outside in. Raising his voice was pretty much all that Quincy did. Columbo never raised his voice, maybe two times. These were two very different sorts of detectives. As much as Peter Falk was Columbo, Klugman was Quincy.
Just watch him chew the scenery when he played Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple. The Klug was an actor who never, ever called it in. One of his Twilight Zone episodes, from 1963, called “ In Praise of Pip ” is carved into the Mount Rushmore of my favorite T.Z. ran for seven years, 1976-1983, and starred The Great One, Jack Klugman. No medical windmill too tall, no killer too tough… whether a corporate monster, or an evil plastic surgeon… or even a corrupt, mob-backed, union leader. ( Had to be an Aries, right?) He was the police forensics version of Don Quixote. If someone came across this man’s metal slab and it didn’t seem kosher? That something might be amiss? This man would bull his way forward to the truth, until that truth had been uncovered. Way before there were shows like CSI or Diagnosis Murder, there was the man, the one man who refused to be denied.
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