Quincy, M.E.
The Cutting Edge
TV Flash files “The Cutting Edge” as a desk essential hour — Quincy, M.E. (1976–1983) on NBC, season 8, episode 24, aired 1983-05-11, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S08E24: listed hour 148 of 148 in the Quincy, M.E. guide, last listed hour of season 8. It aired 1983-05-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Whatever Happened to Morris Perlmutter?” (S08E23). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “The Cutting Edge”. The Cutting Edge is the 1983 closer, titled like a scalpel pun. Eight seasons of coroner-as-crusader, then a bow: autopsy as argument, City Hall still the antagonist.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Cutting Edge sit in the Quincy, M.E. guide?
S08E24 is listed hour 148 of 148 — last listed hour of season 8, season 8 episode 24.
When did Quincy, M.E. S08E24 air?
The Cutting Edge aired 1983-05-11 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Mystery Movie entry or the long NBC run?
It began on the wheel, then became a weekly crusader hour. Start with Klugman in the morgue; the issue-of-the-week shift is the series' real diet.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Jack Klugman yells at the morgue until the district attorney blinks. Quincy treats the coroner as crusader, not lab furniture, years before forensic gloss became a weekly look. Issue-of-the-week fury, autopsy as argument, and a star who took bureaucracy as a personal insult.
Flash: a morgue, a raised voice, and Jack Klugman treating a district attorney as a personal insult until the autopsy becomes a brief. Quincy refuses to sign off on easy answers. NBC's Quincy, M.E. (1976–1983), from Glen A. Larson and Lou Shaw, began as a Mystery Movie wheel entry and ran eight seasons, 148 episodes, shifting from pure mystery toward social-issue stories. Garry Walberg's Lt. Monahan, John S. Ragin's Dr. Asten, and Robert Ito's Sam Fujiyama filled the lab and the precinct. Issue-of-the-week…
Filed against
- Jack Klugman as Dr. Quincy
Jack Klugman’s Oscar Madison made The Odd Couple a slob with a sportswriter’s mouth — 1970s catalog Neil Simon as multi-cam, then Quincy, M.E. stretching the yell into a morgue crusade. TV Flash files him as the roommate who became a…
- Garry Walberg as Lt. Frank Monahan
Garry Walberg played Lt. Frank Monahan on Quincy, M.E. — the precinct ballast while Jack Klugman's coroner yelled at the morgue until the district attorney blinked. Issue-of-the-week fury needed a badge that would not flinch. TV Flash…
- John S. Ragin as Dr. Robert Asten
John S. Ragin’s Dr. Robert Asten took the yelling on Quincy, M.E. — Jack Klugman at the morgue until the district attorney blinks, coroner as crusader, not lab furniture. Issue-of-the-week fury, autopsy as argument, bureaucracy as a…
- Robert Ito as Sam Fujiyama
Robert Ito's Sam Fujiyama steadied Quincy, M.E. while Jack Klugman yelled at the morgue until the district attorney blinked — coroner as crusader, not lab furniture, issue-of-the-week fury years before forensic gloss. TV Flash files him…