Quincy gets involved in the world of truckers and illegal toxic dumping when a driver with lung damage ends up in his morgue following an accident.Quincy gets involved in the world of truckers and illegal toxic dumping when a driver with lung damage ends up in his morgue following an accident.Quincy gets involved in the world of truckers and illegal toxic dumping when a driver with lung damage ends up in his morgue following an accident.
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- TriviaSince they were both produced by Universal it no surprise that Quincy and The Rockford Files would share the same footage or sets. The footage of the semi- trailer running up the side of the hill before wrecking is the same footage used in The Rockford Files "Heartaches of a Fool" in 1978 (3 years before this). The inside of the roadside diner is the same one used in The Rockford Files "The Attractive Nuisance", also from three years before this.
- GoofsThe truck that Quincy gets into at the first truck stop is a Freight liner until we see him and Mrs. Cheznell from a close up from outside the truck, which turns into a White Freight liner. And yet when we see the truck at the second truck stop/diner where Quincy meets the other truck drivers the truck is back to the original truck again.
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Kind of weak
"Dead Stop" is yet another social issue story--one with no crime per se to investigate and lots of preachy stuff from Quincy to bore the audience. What I mean by this is that the show was at its best when Quincy was solving murders and here there is no murder--making it a rather weak episode.
The show begins with a couple idiot truckers doing some illegal dumping. What they don't realize is that the substances they are just dumping in the wilderness are VERY, VERY toxic--so toxic that one of the dumpers dies en route to their next run. Quincy is shocked to find traces of some VERY dangerous chemicals--chemicals that will kill a lot of folks when rain interacts with this stuff. So, Quincy and the man's widow (who, by the way, seems to have gotten over her husband's death VERY quickly) go on a statewide search in her 18 wheeler--and "Quincy" apparently has gotten into the very brief trucker craze of the early 80s (with films like "Convoy" and TV shows like "BJ and the Bear" filling the airwaves for some inexplicable reason). During most of the show, Dr. Quincy preaches and rants about illegal dumping...and my brain pretty much shut off during these interludes. The bottom line is that like many of the social issue shows on "Quincy", entertaining the audience seemed, at best, secondary. As a result, I really didn't care very much for this one and found it a bit dull.
The show begins with a couple idiot truckers doing some illegal dumping. What they don't realize is that the substances they are just dumping in the wilderness are VERY, VERY toxic--so toxic that one of the dumpers dies en route to their next run. Quincy is shocked to find traces of some VERY dangerous chemicals--chemicals that will kill a lot of folks when rain interacts with this stuff. So, Quincy and the man's widow (who, by the way, seems to have gotten over her husband's death VERY quickly) go on a statewide search in her 18 wheeler--and "Quincy" apparently has gotten into the very brief trucker craze of the early 80s (with films like "Convoy" and TV shows like "BJ and the Bear" filling the airwaves for some inexplicable reason). During most of the show, Dr. Quincy preaches and rants about illegal dumping...and my brain pretty much shut off during these interludes. The bottom line is that like many of the social issue shows on "Quincy", entertaining the audience seemed, at best, secondary. As a result, I really didn't care very much for this one and found it a bit dull.
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- planktonrules
- May 20, 2013
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