“At least a third of all autistic children can learn. Schumann explains autism to Quincy with the following speech: Schumann points out that Stevie’s history says he could speak at age 3, but suddenly went mute at age 5, and therefore he believes the boy was autistic. Schumann, a neuropsychiatrist from the children’s hospital, for help.
Quincy finds no physical evidence of a mental handicap (I’m not sure if that’s even possible, but it gets the plot moving so let’s just go with it) and calls in Dr. The episode begins with a death, naturally – young Stevie Borden, who ran away from a home for “the mentally retarded”. He even co-authored the script, and I hope that some of the more insightful lines were due to him. “A Test for Living” is one such episode, inspired by Klugman’s interest in autism after he appeared on a telethon to raise money for autistic children. While most of the stories were murder mysteries, some revolved around social causes. Quincy, the medical examiner for Los Angeles County. Quincy, M.E. was a proto-procedural TV show that featured Jack Klugman (whom I preferred in his Twilight Zone roles) as Dr.
#DR. QUINCY TV SHOW FULL#
Airing in October 1978, it pre-dates Rain Man by a full decade.Ĭontent warning: some of the things said about and done to autistic children in this episode are kind of disturbing, although not really abusive. Today’s installment of Autism in Media looks at the earliest specific depiction of autism I could find: an episode of Quincy, M.E. called “A Test for Living”.
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