This doesn't really belong here, although it IS about TV. But it centres on a question I've been arguing with various people about for over 40 years. And at last I have the visual proof! It surrounds that great unanswered question of our time, one that scholars have been arguing about for decades - in the old 70s TV show "Quincy," did Dr. Quincy have a first name? 

The answer, of course, is no - he was never referred to as anything but "Quincy" on the Jack Klugman drama. But also sort of, yes. And after all this time, I finally have proof. I was over at a friend's house on Thursday night watching a rerun of "Quincy" off his satellite dish, an episode from 1978 (#33) to be exact. 

At one point, Qunicy gives a battered woman in a shelter his card and the abusive husband finds it. That's when the camera zooms in and we see that it reads: "Dr. R. Quincy." 

They never did give his full name in the series (kind of like Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel.) But I have sworn up and down for years I remember that card scene and that "R." (Ricky? Roger? Rupert?) And this time, thanks to the kind of phone tech we didn't have back then, I have the evidence. Yes, this is utterly absurd, but if you'll indulge me, for all my friends who said I was making it up, here is the definitive proof, 45 years later.



We really need to start worrying about more important stuff! We now return you to regular SOWNY Board business.