I agree with everyone else here who rates this as one of the better Season 8 shows since it avoids the incessant lecturing and moralizing by Quincy (& the new wife), to the detriment of the crime solving the show is supposed to depict. This is one of the rare shows that *does* focus on crime solving. Not sure of the timing, but definitely by this last season Jack Klugman had seized control of the show after ousting Creator & Producer Glen Larson, whose focus was entertainment for the viewing public. But hollywood has only gotten much worse over the years. Viewer entertainment is way down on the list of what they want to present: It falls well below casting overly diverse actors, showcasing alternate lifestyles, and writer's presenting their leftist views and causes as the only right answer to everything.
So, while happily this show does focus on crime solving, my biggest complaint is related to that by another reviewer about all the people arriving and having no way to keep them all straight unless blessed with a photographic memory. Unfortunately, I was not. But to me, the worst part was the *last* 5 minutes of the show where Quincy's exposition comes thick & fast, and impossible to process because he's already on to more circumstance-heavy exposition. Once he was done, I could have thought it through and put it all together, but why bother? Still, way more entertaining than the rest of Season 8. And the best part was Emily's adroit line about Aida and the elephants, that was funny.
So, while happily this show does focus on crime solving, my biggest complaint is related to that by another reviewer about all the people arriving and having no way to keep them all straight unless blessed with a photographic memory. Unfortunately, I was not. But to me, the worst part was the *last* 5 minutes of the show where Quincy's exposition comes thick & fast, and impossible to process because he's already on to more circumstance-heavy exposition. Once he was done, I could have thought it through and put it all together, but why bother? Still, way more entertaining than the rest of Season 8. And the best part was Emily's adroit line about Aida and the elephants, that was funny.