Kim Stanley was a fine actress in other different roles according to those who saw her do stage performances, but in this episode of "Quincy," she was simply too old to be at all believable in the role of the mom of a very young boy just learning to play hockey. Her son was played by an actor who was about ten years old. His age matched his role. Her age did not match her role.
Ms. Stanley had been probably about age 58 when this episode was taped. The age discrepancy was jarring enough that it diminished the story flow.
Also, this episode's plot was unusually far-fetched, even for "Quincy." Ms. Stanley played a clairvoyant, which is one type of psychic. And even within that, her character was written as her being quite an incompetent psychic. Yes, she would get the "vision" involved but she misinterpreted her vision. Two paranormal "visions" in the episode, and she batted zero for two. For both of them, Quincy had to tell HER what her vision really meant as opposed to the way she wrongly understood it.
Oh, come on! SHE'S the one who supposedly has had these visions all of her life, but Quincy (who doesn't believe in paranormal things at all) is the one who's needed to figure out how she misinterpreted them and get it right? NOT using any forensic/pathology stuff at all, but solely and specifically about psychic stuff? Which he doesn't believe can exist? That's a bad storyline -- and demeaning to women and the competency of women.