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Quincy M.E.: Gone But Not Forgotten starts as Los Angeles coroner Quincy (Jack Klugman) is called out the Regent Plazza Hotel where the dead body of reclusive billionaire Stanley Appleton Troy has been found in his executive suite with a knife stuck in his chest. Lt. Monahan (Garry Walberg) thinks it's an open & shut case since there is only one way into the suite, only one man Ben Mular (Ramon Bieri) has entered since Troy was last seen alive & his fingerprints are on the murder weapon. At first glance Quincy agrees but several things don't add up after the autopsy like why no rigour mortis? Why the unusual blood test results? Why the needle puncture wound on Troy's arm? Quincy becomes convinced Mular is innocent & knows Troy was murdered by someone else, but will he be able to put the pieces of the puzzle together & prove it?

Episode 18 from season 3 this Quincy mystery was directed by Paul Kransy & is another great murder mystery, like a lot of season three this one has a neat story which is surprisingly clever with a good twist ending. It's not so much whodunit as to how they did it which provides the fun here, I won't spoil it but it's a well thought out idea which maybe is a bit far fetched but certainly isn't predictable. As usual no-one believes Quincy & he has to stake his reputation to solve the most baffling case he's ever seen so there's still plenty of scenes with Quincy tackling bureaucracy, red tape & stubborn unhelpful officials to give the episode a familiar feel. At 50 odd minutes (without commercials) it moves along at a nice pace, the basic mystery surrounding the events of the story is enough of a hook to keep you watching & I really rather enjoyed it.

Made with competence but little style this is a bland to look at but it was probably made on a shoe-string budget. The acting is alright, like always the regular cast do a better job than the guest stars although someone called Joan Van Ark (why does that name sound funny to me?) who is probably better know as Valene Ewing in the cult soap opera Dallas (1978 - 1991) & the same character in over 300 episodes of the Dallas spin-off series Knots Landing (1979 - 1993) becomes Quincy's latest conquest.

Gone But Not Forgotten is a good solid Quincy murder mystery episode with a much better twist ending than usual, in fact it sort of comes out of the blue & does take you a bit by surprise. This is one of the more imaginative Quincy episodes & definitely recommended.