Quincy, M.E. (season 3)

A friend of Quincy's, who looks to be badly beaten, collapses and dies beside Quincy's boat. Then the body disappears from the morgue after an autopsy is performed, and Quincy has to piece together what happened without the body.

Quincy investigates the death of a boxer just minutes after a match, and suspects include his trainer and his opponent, who was dating the boxer's sister.

A rookie cop shoots and kills a suspected burglar, but Quincy must investigate when the autopsy results on the suspect don't match the policeman's story.

Quincy investigates the death of a man in a hot tub at an alternative therapy center.

Peter Mark Richman guest stars.

When a high school football player dies from a genetic brain tumor, Quincy pleads with his father to prevent his younger brother (Scott Colomby) from playing in the championship game until he is tested for the same condition.

In an episode inspired by Bruce Lee's mysterious 1973 death, Sam's movie star cousin dies unexpectedly filming a martial-arts movie; however, Buddhist traditions forbid an autopsy, and Quincy's attempts to perform one anger the Japanese community as well as Sam.

What seems to be an open-and-shut case of the sudden natural death of Quincy's favorite movie star turns into a murder investigation when inconsistencies with the autopsy results, witness statements, and a secret about the actor's health emerge.

When a woman dies after a mild fall interrupting a burglary, Quincy determines that her abusive husband may have contributed to her death, and that her previous reports of abuse were ignored by the police and her doctors.

Quincy's hot temper leads to Asten assigning him to relieve a small-town doctor, where he comes across an accident resulting in the death of an alleged drunk driver, and a widow prevented from receiving insurance benefits due to the incompetence of the town police chief, mortician, and doctor.

In a story drawn from the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, Quincy and Sam find a human skull in the desert; after they hire a forensic artist (Zohra Lampert) and determine the skull was from a missing labor leader, his rival attempts to stop the investigation by injuring both the artist and Asten.

Michael Strong and Frank Maxwell guest star.

After a suspect is arrested in the death of a prominent CEO, Quincy begins to uncover evidence that all points in the same direction and time frame — 8 years in the past!