Quincy M.E.: The Golden Hour starts as Bruce Anderson (Leonard Stone) & his teenage daughter Sherry (Heidi Bohay) are involved in a car crash, the paramedics are on the scene in no time & get to work. Sherry seems fine apart from a few broken bones but her father looks in a bad way, Mike (George DelHoyo) the attending paramedic defies the rules & sends Bruce to Memorial Hills trauma center even though it's not the nearest hospital because he feels it's the only hospital in the area equipped to treat Bruce. Meanwhile Sherry is sent to the much nearer Valley View emergency hospital where she dies of complications & ends up on L.A. coroner Quincy's (Jack Klugman) autopsy table. Quincy comes to the conclusion Sherry died from internal bleeding which wasn't spotted, as he digs deeper into her death he becomes enraged when he realises patients are sent to the nearest hospital as opposed the best equipped & he decides to try & change the rules in favour of the patient...
Episode 2 from season 7 this Quincy story was directed by Georg Fenady & is yet another story where the basis firmly lies on telling a moral issue, generally I love the show but I don't like these dull moral crusades which revolve around some personal tragedy rather than than the intriguing murder mysteries in which Quincy has to use his knowhow to solve a crime. To make matters even worse with The Golden Hour the message it's trying to get across is totally irrelevant these days, I'm sorry but I simply do not believe any hospital in the Western world in the year 2007 would not have a team of in-house surgeons on call or could not cope with a road accident so that in itself makes this episode extremely dated & basically pointless. Sure we still get Klugman as Quincy fighting bureaucracy & red tape the way only he can but medical techniques have come a long way since The Golden Hour first aired in 1981 & this is one of the few Quincy episodes to have so badly dated to the point where it has absolutely no relevance at all. A disappointing story, not that much actually happens, it's a bit predictable & it's definitely not one of my favourites.
As I've mentioned The Golden Hour has not stood the test of time at all well, I simply don't believe hospitals & paramedics operate like this anymore & they certainly don't here in the UK. The guest cast aren't so great here with some poor performances. Since no crime takes place Lt. Monahan, Sgt. Brill & Dr. Asten are totally absent from this episode until the final couple of minutes in the obligatory 'light hearted feel good' climax in Danny's.
The Golden Hour has to be one of the worst Quincy episodes out there, I'm a big fan of the show but even this great series produced some poor stories & this is one of them I'm afraid, anyone new to Quincy & watching this as their first episode probably wouldn't go back for seconds.
Episode 2 from season 7 this Quincy story was directed by Georg Fenady & is yet another story where the basis firmly lies on telling a moral issue, generally I love the show but I don't like these dull moral crusades which revolve around some personal tragedy rather than than the intriguing murder mysteries in which Quincy has to use his knowhow to solve a crime. To make matters even worse with The Golden Hour the message it's trying to get across is totally irrelevant these days, I'm sorry but I simply do not believe any hospital in the Western world in the year 2007 would not have a team of in-house surgeons on call or could not cope with a road accident so that in itself makes this episode extremely dated & basically pointless. Sure we still get Klugman as Quincy fighting bureaucracy & red tape the way only he can but medical techniques have come a long way since The Golden Hour first aired in 1981 & this is one of the few Quincy episodes to have so badly dated to the point where it has absolutely no relevance at all. A disappointing story, not that much actually happens, it's a bit predictable & it's definitely not one of my favourites.
As I've mentioned The Golden Hour has not stood the test of time at all well, I simply don't believe hospitals & paramedics operate like this anymore & they certainly don't here in the UK. The guest cast aren't so great here with some poor performances. Since no crime takes place Lt. Monahan, Sgt. Brill & Dr. Asten are totally absent from this episode until the final couple of minutes in the obligatory 'light hearted feel good' climax in Danny's.
The Golden Hour has to be one of the worst Quincy episodes out there, I'm a big fan of the show but even this great series produced some poor stories & this is one of them I'm afraid, anyone new to Quincy & watching this as their first episode probably wouldn't go back for seconds.