Robert Ito

Robert Ito plays Sam Fujiyama on Quincy, M.E., the lab partner while Jack Klugman yells at the morgue until the district attorney blinks. Quincy treats the coroner as crusader, not lab furniture; Ito is the competence that keeps the fury from floating. Issue-of-the-week argument, autopsy as plot, a star who took bureaucracy as a personal insult — Fujiyama as the other half of the sentence.

Robert Ito's Sam Fujiyama sits in the NBC window (1976–1983) on Quincy, M.E.. Viewers who want a door more than a recap still use s01e01: Go Fight City Hall -- To the Death! is the brief in the title. Klugman already treats the coroner as crusader, not lab furniture.

Forensic gloss arrived later. On TV Flash Ito is 1970s procedural craft: the assistant who made a crusading hour photograph as a partnership, then left the yelling to the man with the crusade.

Robert Ito plus Quincy, M.E. is the filing; go to s04e08 when you already know the door — No Way to Treat a Body is issue-of-the-week fury named as etiquette. Autopsy as argument. s06e01 keeps a sideways coordinate — Last Rights is the season-open as civic last rites. Quincy still yelling until the district attorney blinks. Supporting, and load-bearing. Sam Fujiyama is not the logo of Quincy, M.E.; Robert Ito is why the marquee still has a world. The extras are noise.

Robert Ito is here because Quincy, M.E. still needs Sam Fujiyama in the shot — 1976–1983 on NBC, 1970s craft that photographs as a person instead of a pitch. s01e01 shakes hands; s04e08 still shows the turn. That is the whole passport.