Sunday, 12 July 2015

Quincy, M.E:Speed Trap (1978), A Test for Living (1978), Death by Good Intentions (1978), A Night to Raise the Dead (1978)

 
Speed Trap:
a dyed injection in an orange peel















A Test for Living (autism)
Does anybody think this guy was on Eight is Enough?














 A young Tracy Gold















Death by Good Intentions
 
This guy went on to play "Trapper John M.D."
— at Quincy, M.E. Death by Good Intentions (1978).












 2 injection holes side by side- evil nurse was killing off patients she didn't approve of. 













 
return of the super computer (as seen in Columbo)
 













A Night to Raise the Dead
 another Halloween style oldie but goodie - a landslide made coffins get washed into the neighbourhood 













 Tonnes of coffins getting washed off the hill 









Quincy, M.E. : No Way to Treat a Body (1978)

This is one of my favourite Halloween episodes.  The spooky house looks like the Psycho house!  There was also a black cat.













A young Ed Begley junior plays a renter in this house, along with one of Quincy's girlfriends.













The first 2 mummies are playing poker. They died of natural causes. It was never explained why they were posed this way.












 Comparing handwriting samples

Quincy, M.E. - The Last Six Hours (1978)

Quincy used this crazy old Packard car when trying to go for a vacation.  Usually he drives his coroner's station wagon everywhere.












Lesions, lesions, lesions!  (If you get bitten by a poisonous snake.)














Using an ultraviolet light to see snake venom on the steering wheel of a car.  Quincy was always decades ahead of CSI!












I still wonder about this piece of lab equipment.














Graph indicates the presence of poison














Threatening the murderer using a snake.  ?!?!?

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Quincy, M.E.: Even Odds (1978)

Way to contaminate the crime scene, Quincy!














X-ray of bullet fragments















Magnified bullet fragments.  As you can see, Quincy M.E. was ahead of its time. You see this kind of thing on CSI all the time!












Sgt. Brill working out in slacks!  Different kind of gym clothes back then!













The electron microscope.  They used it often














If your friend almost gets killed, buy him a giant decoration normally reserved for decorating horses

Columbo: Double Shock (1973), Quincy, M.E.: Images (1978)

A home security system on Columbo















An x-ray of spina bifida on Quincy, M.E.














Smoking in the workplace on Quincy, M.E.  I have also seen this actress on Macmillan & Wife.













Checking the blood type on Quincy

Monday, 18 May 2015

Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match (1973)


Chess player having a bad dream
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 Round building with shutters















You an play chess on a table cloth with all your eating supplies

Columbo: A Stitch in Crime (1973)

Cracking a hard boiled egg on the hood of the victim's car for breakfast.










Cracking a 2nd hard boiled egg on the murder weapon itself!
















murderer Leonard Nimoy tries to kill Grandpa Walton next!
— at A Stitch in Crime.