John S. Ragin (born May 5, 1929) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Robert Asten, M.E. in the TV-series Quincy, M.E. (1976–83). Ragin appeared in mostly smaller supporting roles in television series such as in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Invaders, Star Trek: The Next Generation and smaller roles in movies such as Earthquake and The Parallax View. He played Walter Cramer in the 1974 TV-series "Sons and Daughters". In 1991 he played Dr. Grant Jameson on soap opera Santa Barbara.

Career Filmography[link]

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Television work[link]

Films[link]

• Moving Violation (1976) .... Agent Shank
• Earthquake (1974) .... Chief Inspector
• The Parallax View (1974) .... Buster Himan
• Copernicus (1973) (voice) .... Narrator

... aka "Nicholas Copernicus: From an Exhibition Celebrating

• Doctors' Wives (1971) (uncredited) .... Minister

External links[link]

• John S. Ragin at the Internet Movie Database
• John S. Ragin at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

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Robert Ito (born July 2, 1931) is a Canadian voice, television, and movie actor of Japanese descent.

A Canadian actor of Japanese descent, Ito was, for many years, a dancer with the National Ballet of Canada before turning to acting in the mid-1960s. With a long list of performing credits to his name, he is probably best known for his seven-year role on the popular TV series Quincy, M.E. which aired from 1976-83 on NBC. Ito played forensic lab technician Sam Fujiyama, opposite Jack Klugman's title character.

Ito played Professor Hikita in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He also came out in the 1976 classic World War II film, Midway, as Minoru Genda, the leader of the attack on Midway Island in June 1942.

Robert Ito guest starred on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Coming of Age as TAC officer Lt. Chang and on Star Trek: Voyager as John Kim (Harry Kim's father). Ito also starred in The X-Files episodes "Nisei" and "731". He appeared as a guest star portraying the character of a bandit named Captain Lee in "The Way of Violence Has No Mind" which was an episode in the television series Kung Fu. In 1974, he also appeared as a guest star in a two-part episode of Kojak, "The Chinatown Murders".

Ito was also a voice actor in several cartoon programmes and films. These have included Avatar: The Last Airbender, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Animaniacs, Bonkers, Batman: The Animated Series, Jackie Chan Adventures, Fantastic Max, Superman: The Animated Series, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, My Little Pony and Friends, Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, Biker Mice from Mars, Quack Pack, Capitol Critters, ProStars, Justice League, Darkwing Duck, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Iron Man, The Karate Kid, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, Rambo and the Forces of Freedom, Savage Dragon, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, TaleSpin, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, All Grown Up!, The Mummy: The Animated Series, Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, The Wild Thornberrys, Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects and Gargoyles.

He was also a story consultant for the film The War Between Us where he also played Mr. Kawashima.

External links[link]

• Robert Ito at the Internet Movie Database
• Robert Ito at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

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Garry Walberg (born June 10, 1921 in Buffalo, New York, died March 27, 2012) was an American character actor primarily known for his work on television. Walberg has performed in numerous TV shows since the early 1950s, including Johnny Staccato, Lassie, Peyton Place, The Fugitive, and The Odd Couple. He also appeared in the first episode of The Twilight Zone, entitled "Where Is Everybody?".

Walberg's most prominent role was as Los Angeles Police Department Homicide Lt. Frank Monahan in the television series Quincy, M.E. (1976–83), starring Jack Klugman. He portrayed a plainclothes police detective constantly worn down by Quincy's attempts at aiding him. Walberg previously appeared alongside Klugman in The Odd Couple (1970–75) in the recurring role of Oscar's poker crony Speed. He reprised the role in the 1993 TV movie The Odd Couple: Together Again. Walberg died from chronic pulmonary disease on March 27, 2012.

External links[link]

• Garry Walberg at the Internet Movie Database
• Garry Walberg at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Obituary - LA Times

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Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC. It stars Jack Klugman in the title role, a Los Angeles County medical examiner.

The show resembled the earlier Canadian television series Wojeck, broadcast by CBC Television, and took some inspiration from Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi. John Vernon, who played the Wojeck title role, later guest starred in the third-season episode "Requiem For The Living".

The first half of the first season of Quincy was broadcast as 90-minute telefilms as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation in the fall of 1976 alongside Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan (formerly McMillan & Wife). The series proved popular enough that midway through the 1976–1977 season, Quincy was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series. The Mystery Movie format was discontinued in the spring of 1977.

In 1978, writers Tony Lawrence and Lou Shaw received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the second-season episode "...The Thighbone's Connected to the Knee Bone..." (originally aired February 11, 1977). Many of the episodes used the same actors for different roles in various episodes. For example, an actor who plays a crooked Navy captain also plays a ballistics expert in several of the later episodes. Using a small "pool" of actors was a common production trait of many Glen A. Larson TV programs. Before becoming a regular cast member as Quincy's girlfriend-wife Dr. Emily Hanover in the 1982-1983 season, Anita Gillette had portrayed Quincy's deceased first wife Helen Quincy in a flashback in a 1979 episode "Promises to Keep".

Synopsis[link]

The series starred Jack Klugman as Dr. Quincy, a strong-willed, very principled Medical Examiner (forensic pathologist) for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, working to ascertain facts about and reasons for possible suspicious deaths. His colleagues, friends and wife all address him by his surname or the shortened "Quince". (The character's first name was never fully given, although in the third-season episode "Accomplice to Murder" his name is shown on a business card as "R. Quincy" and in early episodes the name "Dr R. Quincy" appears on his door.)

In his investigations, Quincy frequently comes into conflict with his boss, Dr. Robert Asten (John S. Ragin), and the police, in particular, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Frank Monahan (Garry Walberg). Each have their own (often flawed) ideas about what's going on and about Quincy's deductions. Quincy is assisted by his faithful lab assistant, Sam Fujiyama (Robert Ito).

It is revealed in the episode "The Last of Leadbottom" Quincy is a retired Captain in the US Navy and remains in the Naval Reserve. In the episode "Crib Job", Quincy notes he originally wanted to be a railroad engineer, after revealing a number of facts about the dangers of the occupation. A well-liked man, Quincy lives on a sailboat in Marina Del Rey, California and frequents "Danny's", a restaurant at the marina, owned by his friend Danny Tovo (Val Bisoglio).

Quincy is very popular with women. He was married once before but lost his wife Helen to cancer. In the Mystery Movie installments and earliest "regular" episodes, Quincy has a regular girlfriend called Lee (Lynette Mettey) who sometimes accompanies him on his cases (such as in "...The Thighbone's Connected to the Knee Bone..."). This is his only steady relationship until near the end of the seventh season, when Quincy remarries (Dr. Emily Hanover, played by Anita Gillette who had previously portrayed Helen in a flashback^[1]) and sells the sailboat in the episode "Quincy's Wedding". Quincy occasionally drives an antique car (which is shown in Season 4, Episode 1 to be an antique hearse), but friends sometimes ask why he drives his "work vehicle" (the county coroner's hearse, an AMC Matador Station Wagon (reg plate: 999853)) on his day off. Quincy claims that his car is off being repaired.

Many of the episodes follow a set formula:

• Somebody dies, seemingly by natural causes.
• Quincy notices something that causes him to suspect foul play.
• He then changes roles from medical examiner to detective, by refusing to release the body and sign off on the cause of death, to Dr. Asten's disapproval.
• Asten gets upset, believing Quincy is seeing evidence that doesn't exist, and urges the doctor to speedily conclude his investigations and accept the obvious. Lt. Monahan's feathers are ruffled too as Quincy "shoulders-in" on police territory.
• Quincy argues quite loudly with some bureaucratic individual impeding the case.
• Quincy asks Sam to "cover for me" while the coroner continues his detective work. This often involves asking his assistant to carry out some laborious and time-consuming tests that take him all night. Sam, who often has to cancel his social activities as a result, grumbles but relents.
• Quincy solves the murder, with even the most stubborn bureaucratic officials now also convinced.
• All main characters meet at Danny's restaurant at the episode's end to celebrate.

Early seasons' episodes focused on criminal investigation; a typical episode would find Quincy determining the real murderer in a crime or the real cause of an unusual poisoning case. Later seasons' episodes began to introduce themes of social responsibility; Quincy would find himself involved with a police investigation that reveals situations such as a disreputable plastic surgeon and the reasons his poor surgeries are not stopped, flaws in drunk driving laws, problems caused by punk rock, airline safety issues, dumping of hazardous waste, the proliferation of handguns, Tourette's syndrome, orphan drugs and anorexia among others.

Quincy, M.E. was one of the earlier dramatic series to use a format like this to further a social agenda. Klugman himself even came to testify before the US Congress about some of these issues, (such as orphan drugs in 1982) describing what he had learned about a difficult or complex social concern as a result of its use in one of the show's episodes.^[2]

A quote from one episode gives a snapshot of a typical conflict. When Quincy is hospitalized, Sam takes the reins and finds something fishy about Quincy's condition when everyone else sees no need for suspicion. Hearing this, Lt. Monahan says, "You're pullin' a Quincy on me, and you ain't Quincy!" Although Quincy studies bodies in-depth at his laboratory, he also does plenty of police investigation work technically outside the role of a coroner for the purposes of the show. He could be considered a workaholic. In every episode where he goes on vacation, it is always interrupted by an intrigue that requires his skills. He then provides copious hours of free work to solve the case. He insists on being intensely thorough in all his work.

In 2008, Klugman sued NBC, asserting that the network had concealed profits from the show which were owed to him.^[3]

While many detective series had depicted rudimentary physical evidence analysis such as fingerprints and bullet comparisons, Quincy M.E. was the first to regularly present the in-depth forensic investigations which would be the hallmark of later detective shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its spin-offs, NCIS, Diagnosis Murder, Crossing Jordan, inter alia. Klugman himself made guest appearances on the latter two series as, respectively, Dr. Jeff Everden & Det. Harry Trumble, and Dr. Leo Gelber.

Cast[link]

Actor Eddie Garrett portrayed a photographer for the Los Angeles coroner's office in approximately 100 episodes of the series.^[4]

A total of 148 episodes were made, however Jack Klugman appeared in 147. In the episode "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?", Quincy is heard talking on the phone several times to Dr. Astin, however he is not seen on screen.^[5] The reason Klugman did not take part in the episode is because he disliked the script written by Michael Sloan and Glen A. Larson for the episode; a body brought into the morgue turns out to still be alive.^[6] Although these cases do happen in real life, Klugman thought it laughable that a medical examiner of Quincy's expertise would fail to notice it.

Conversely, Klugman is the only regular cast member who does appear in the final episode: "The Cutting Edge" was a backdoor pilot for a proposed series about a revolutionary new clinic (it didn't sell).

DVD releases[link]

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released Seasons 1 and 2 of Quincy, M.E. on DVD in Region 1, 2^[7] and 4. Season 3 was released in Region 1 on June 2, 2009, four years after the release of Seasons 1 and 2.^[8]

In June 2011, Madman Entertainment announced that it had acquired the distribution rights to the series in Region 4. They subsequently released seasons 3 and 4 on DVD in 2011. Season 5 was released on March 21 2012.

International broadcasts[link]

Australia[link]

Quincy, M.E. currently airs on the Seven Network's digital-only channel 7mate daily at 11am and 3am.

United Kingdom[link]

The series was first broadcast nationally in the United Kingdom in 1977 on the ITV network (albeit at differing times due to the then federal structure of the network). Repeats of the full series were initially shown on BBC1 on afternoons in the early 1990's and it has frequently been running daily since the late 1990s on ITV and more recently ITV3 until early 2010, in various time slots (usually 8am, 2pm, and early morning). The show is currently showing on Universal Channel, with three episodes on Sunday morning, and one episode at 8am (repeating at 4pm) through the week.^[16]

Japan[link]

Quincy M.E. has aired on the TV Asahi network since 1979. Tsuneyuki Serizawa, who supervised the Japanese edition, was a friend of Thomas Noguchi.^{[citation needed]} Doctor Detective Quincy was the Japanese title.

Germany[link]

13 episodes were first aired from 1981 through 1983 by the public broadcaster ARD. Then in the early 1990s, 133 episodes were aired by the commercial television station RTL. Since April 2010 kabel eins has aired the first five seasons on weekdays. All episodes shown on German TV are dubbed into German.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• The Quincy Examiner - Online Home to Fans of QME
• Quincy, M.E. at the Internet Movie Database
• Quincy, M.E. at TV.com
• Mystery.net - Quincy, M.E.

Jack Klugman
Klugman in November 2009
Born	Jacob Joachim[citation needed] Klugman (1922-04-27) April 27, 1922 (age 90) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence	Malibu, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation	Actor, comedian
Years active	1950–2012
Known for	12 Angry Men, Oscar Madison
Home town	New York City, NY
Television	The Odd Couple, Quincy, M.E.
Spouse	Brett Somers (1953–2007; her death) Peggy J. Compton (2008–present)
Children	Adam Klugman, David Klugman
Awards	Emmy Award

Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman (born April 27, 1922) is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known as Felix Unger's sloppy roommate Oscar Madison in the American television series The Odd Couple (1970-1975), for his starring role in Quincy, M.E. (1976-1983), and as Juror #5 in 12 Angry Men.

Life and career[link]

Klugman was born in Philadelphia, the son of Rose, a hat maker, and Max Klugman, a house painter.^[1] His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated in 1948. He began acting after serving in the United States Army during World War II. As a struggling actor in New York City, he roomed with future star Charles Bronson.

Klugman (right) with Tony Randall in the publicity photo of The Odd Couple, 1972.

In 1954, Klugman played Jim Hanson on the soap opera The Greatest Gift.^[2] Also in 1954 Klugman made multiple appearances on the NBC legal drama Justice, starring Gary Merrill and Dane Clark, that was based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York.^[3]

On September 4, 1955, Klugman and Tony Randall appeared together with Gena Rowlands in the episode entitled "The Pirate's House" of the CBS anthology series, Appointment with Adventure.

Klugman starred in several classic films including 12 Angry Men in 1957 as Juror 5, and is the last surviving actor to play a juror in the movie., Days of Wine and Roses in 1962, and Goodbye, Columbus in 1969. He won an Emmy Award for his work on the television series The Defenders and appeared in four episodes of the acclaimed series The Twilight Zone (tied with Burgess Meredith for the most number of appearances). Klugman says his greatest thrill was appearing with Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda in a 1955 live television broadcast of The Petrified Forest. He also appeared in The Fugitive episode "Terror at High Point" in 1963.

Klugman also starred in the original Broadway production of The Odd Couple as a replacement for Walter Matthau.^[4] He won two Emmy Awards for the television version of The Odd Couple.

Klugman was nominated for a Tony Award in 1960 for Best Featured Actor (Musical) for his role in Gypsy, but lost to Tom Bosley in Fiorello!.^[5] During the pre-Broadway tryout tour in 1959, several of Klugman's songs were cut, including a song for his character Herbie called "Nice, She Ain't", due to Klugman's untrained singing voice.

In 1957, he appeared in the film 12 Angry Men as Juror #5. Of the twelve actors who portrayed the jurors, he is the last survivor. He was scheduled to appear in a stage production of 12 Angry Men at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey in the spring of 2012, but on March 6 it was announced he had withdrawn from the production for health reasons.^[6]

Quiz show appearances[link]

In 1993, Klugman appeared on a special 'celebrity versus regulars' version of the United Kingdom quiz show Going for Gold. The special episode was mostly made up of actors and actresses that appeared in programmes that were on around the same time slot as Going for Gold competing against past series winners. Klugman was invited to participate as the show Quincy, M.E., in which he starred, was often on afterwards. Klugman won this special airing before going on to win the entire 1993 series.

Klugman also appeared on the very first week of the 1970s revival of Match Game and then from time to time filled in for his then-wife, Brett Somers, when she became a regular on the program a few weeks later.^[7] Klugman and Somers also appeared on the ABC version of Password in 1973.

[edit] Dispute over Quincy M.E. profits

In 2008, Klugman sued NBC Television concerning missing profits from his show Quincy M.E.^[8] The lawsuit was filed in Superior Court, with Klugman requesting NBC to show him the original contract.^[8] Klugman stated that his production company, Sweater Productions, should have received twenty-five percent of the show's net profits.^[8] NBC Universal and Klugman settled the lawsuit on undisclosed terms in August 2010.^[8]

Work with Tony Randall[link]

In 1973, Klugman and Tony Randall recorded an album called "The Odd Couple Sings" for London Records. Roland Shaw and The London Festival Orchestra and Chorus provided the music and additional vocals.^[9]

In 2005, Klugman published Tony And Me: A Story of Friendship, a book about his long friendship with his The Odd Couple co-star Tony Randall.^[10][11] Klugman gave the eulogy at Randall's memorial service in 2004.^[10]

Personal life[link]

Klugman in August 2005

Klugman is the father of two children: Adam Klugman (who had a cameo as Oscar Madison as a child in a flashback on The Odd Couple) and David, both from his marriage to Brett Somers. Klugman and Somers were married in 1953 and legally separated in 1974, though they never divorced, and remained married until her death in 2007 at the age of 83.^[12] They only lived together as husband and wife for 21 years of their 54-year marriage. Klugman, who appeared on the first week of Match Game in 1973, asked the show's producers to give Somers a guest shot on the panel. She fit in so well that she stayed with the show for its entire nine-year run.

Klugman lived with Peggy Crosby, ex-wife of Phillip Crosby, since 1988. They married in February 2008.^[13][14]

Health issues[link]

A heavy smoker, Klugman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1974. In 1989, he lost a vocal cord to cancer, but continued to act on stage and television, though he was left with a raspy, scratchy voice.^[15]

Filmography[link]

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• Grubstake (1952)
• Time Table (1956)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Mail Order Prophet (1957)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• Cry Terror! (1958)
• The Velvet Alley (Playhouse 90) (1959)
• "A Passage for Trumpet" episode of The Twilight Zone (1960)
• "A Game of Pool" episode of The Twilight Zone (1961)
• " The Untouchables (1959 TV series) (1961) Episode: Loophole
• Naked City (1958 TV series) Let Me Die Before I Wake (1962) Original Air Date: 14 February 1962 (Season 3, Episode 19)
• Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
• The Yellow Canary (1963)
• I Could Go On Singing (1963)
• Act One (1963)
• "Death Ship" episode of The Twilight Zone (1963)
• "In Praise of Pip" episode of The Twilight Zone (1963)
• "Terror At High Point" episode of The Fugitive (1963)
• "Harris Against the World" (1964-1965)
• "Everybody Gets Hit In The Mouth Sometimes" episode of The Fugitive (1965)
• Hail, Mafia (1965)
• The Detective (1968)
• The Split (1968)
• Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
• The Odd Couple (1970–1975)
• Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow? (1971)
• Two-Minute Warning (1976)
• Quincy, M.E. (1976–1983)
• Challenge of the Tiger (1980)
• You Again? (1986)
• The Odd Couple: Together Again (1993)
• Parallel Lives (1994)
• Dear God (1996)
• Brothers Keeper (1999)
• Diagnosis Murder (1990s)
• Third Watch (2000)
• Glitch episode of The Outer Limits (2000)
• Scene Smoking: Cigarettes, Cinema & the Myth of Cool (2001) (documentary)
• Crossing Jordan (2002)
• When Do We Eat? (2005)
• Camera Obscura (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

United States Army portal

• Jack Klugman at the Internet Movie Database
• Jack Klugman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jack Klugman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Jack Klugman profile
• The Quincy Examiner – Online Home to Fans of Quincy M.E.
• Jack Klugman's Blog
• Jack Klugman – Jack Klugman Informationscenter Europe
• Jack Klugman Radio Interview w/Doug Miles Part 1
• Jack Klugman Radio interview w/Doug Miles Part 2