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Quincy M.E.: Give Me Your Weak (1982)
Episode 3, Season 8
dull perhaps, but ...
29 July 2015 - 6 out of 7 users found this review helpful.
For those in the know this episode was pivotal to the passing of the Orphan Drug Act in 1983, which had been neutered by Oren Hatch in the Senate after the first episode on the subject. That bill, which later passed intact, was helped along immensely by the impact of this episode in which Jack made the studios pony up an extra mil to create the March. This was Jack's last year on Quincy and he had always wanted the show to have social relevance as well as entertainment value. Perhaps this episode failed to be entertaining, but politically it was the most significant episode ever filmed. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/25/jack- klugmans-secret-lifesaving-legacy/ for a more detailed description of the facts.
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