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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    FLeiter wrote: »
    Peter Falk was a nice guy. He really found the role of a lifetime and carried the show thru some very bad scripts. You know he was fascinated by the CIA and FBI and even applied for work at the CIA. He maintained a number of relationships with the intelligence community all his life. He had a glass eye and that was a hindrance. His adopted daughter(Catherine) is not a nice person.

    Anytime someone wants to do '77 Sunset Strip', 'Mannix' and 'Colombo'...sign me up. I would have probably said the same thing about 'Hawaii Five-O' but this latest version is terrible. How more 'The Protectors' with Robert Vaughn and the stunning Nyree Dawn Porter or 'Dempsey and Makepeace'?

    Yes, and the episode "Identity Crisis" guest starring (and directed by) Patrick McGooghan has Intelligence agents involved in it as well as a few nods to The Prisoner. Hell., Columbo even meets The Director!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I just want to publicise this great Columbo website resource and fan forum:

    http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Nice site. :)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    DrGorner wrote: »
    Nice site. :)

    Yes, it's great. I used to post on the Fan Forum on that site as the member 'Son of A Gun'. I hope to return to posting duties there soon as I'm going through the Columbo series on DVD again. :)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Do you know why glass eyes are made of glass?
    Otherwise, you cannot see through them.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 2015 Posts: 18,345
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Do you know why glass eyes are made of glass?
    Otherwise, you cannot see through them.

    Good one! Only you could come up with that one, TF! :))
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Old joke.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Old joke.

    I thought so, but new to me at least!

    Interestingly, Peter Falk as Columbo actually refers to his glass eye in the late episode 'A Trace of Murder' (1997) by saying "Three eyes are better than one", as the killer (a CSI type) is coming along with him to "help out".
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Reminds me of how they described
    the rat pack.
    Sinatra was old blue eyes
    dean martin was old red eyes
    and Sammy Davis jr was old one eye.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    Matt_Helm wrote: »
    We don't need a new Columbo. This was a great series,conceived in another time for another kind of audience.
    Funny, I was jsut going to comment on that clip above that Columbo looks a lot like Dr. Banner from The Avengers ;-).

  • DrunkIrishPoetDrunkIrishPoet The Amber Coast
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    Columbo was such a great series that I expect it will never die, but rather TV producers generations hence will be pitching, "It's like a female Columbo!"
    Or, a black Columbo or a gay Columbo or whatever.
    Just as Sherlock Holmes is constantly being reinvented, there should always be a Columbo for the times.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    DrunkIrishPoet wrote: »
    Columbo was such a great series that I expect it will never die, but rather TV producers generations hence will be pitching, "It's like a female Columbo!"
    Or, a black Columbo or a gay Columbo or whatever.
    Just as Sherlock Holmes is constantly being reinvented, there should always be a Columbo for the times.

    Yes, just like Bond. That would be nice to see.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 2015 Posts: 18,345
    Columbo fans without a TV licence - you have been warned! :))

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Must see - Columbo appears on the Frank Sinatra Roast:



    :))
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Columbo mentioned his wife a lot. Did we ever get to see her in any episode?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited June 2018 Posts: 18,345
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Columbo mentioned his wife a lot. Did we ever get to see her in any episode?

    No, not even in 'Rest in Peace, Mrs Columbo' (1989). There was a really dire series called Mrs Columbo though that starred a young Kate Mulgrew.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Really? Wow, glad I never saw it.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 2015 Posts: 18,345
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Really? Wow, glad I never saw it.

    There are two episodes as extras on some of the Columbo DVDs. I watched one of them - not too great. I believe that it only lasted one season.



    And an episode with Robert Culp:

  • shamelordshamelord
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    Bad to the point even the studio retitled the series and cut the link with the great Peter Falk character.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 2015 Posts: 18,345
    shamelord wrote: »
    Bad to the point even the studio retitled the series and cut the link with the great Peter Falk character.

    Indeed - it would be called "damage limitation" in today's parlance, and for good reason, too.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    Recently watched the 2 Bill Shatner episodes back to back, many similarities between the episodes. Watched Columbo likes the night life a few days ago, not his best though certainly a improvement on a few episodes that proceeded it. Falk was on good form and you would not think he was his age in his final appearance as Columbo.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    fire_and_ice wrote: »
    Recently watched the 2 Bill Shatner episodes back to back, many similarities between the episodes. Watched Columbo likes the night life a few days ago, not his best though certainly a improvement on a few episodes that proceeded it. Falk was on good form and you would not think he was his age in his final appearance as Columbo.

    Yes, I noticed those similarities too in the Shatner episodes. I just recently watched 'Columbo Likes the Nightlife' too and thought it was good - a modern updating of the series.
  • shamelordshamelord
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    I would have loved to see the projected final episode "Columbo's Last Case". No network wanted to back a TV movie with a 80 years old actor. What a shame!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 2015 Posts: 18,345
    shamelord wrote: »
    I would have loved to see the projected final episode "Columbo's Last Case". No network wanted to back a TV movie with a 80 years old actor. What a shame!

    Yes, that was a real shame. The 70th episode. It says more about today's TV executives than it does about Columbo though. It was originally titled 'Hear No Evil'; I missed out on the name change I'm afraid!
  • shamelordshamelord
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    As a matter of fact, 'Hear No Evil' was turned into 'Columbo's Last Case' when Peter Falk judged that the script would make a graceful exit for the Lieutenant. That little detail makes it even more a pity that they didn't produce this TV movie for silly insurance reasons.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    fire_and_ice wrote: »
    Recently watched the 2 Bill Shatner episodes back to back, many similarities between the episodes. Watched Columbo likes the night life a few days ago, not his best though certainly a improvement on a few episodes that proceeded it. Falk was on good form and you would not think he was his age in his final appearance as Columbo.

    Yes, I noticed those similarities too in the Shatner episodes. I just recently watched 'Columbo Likes the Nightlife' too and thought it was good - a modern updating of the series.

    Agree, Likes the night life was a vast improvement on the poor Murder with too many Notes with Billy Connolly.

  • shamelordshamelord
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    I agree the final episode improves on "Murder with too many Notes". It also gives us a taste of what "Columbo's Last Case" would have looked like. In "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" Peter Falk was noticeably older than in the Billy Connolly episode and it was the first one shot directly for 16x9 screens. Some recent Columbos are shown in 16x9 but the picture was composed with 4x3 framing in mind. So you lose information at the top and bottom of the frame.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited June 2018 Posts: 18,345
    fire_and_ice wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    fire_and_ice wrote: »
    Recently watched the 2 Bill Shatner episodes back to back, many similarities between the episodes. Watched Columbo likes the night life a few days ago, not his best though certainly a improvement on a few episodes that proceeded it. Falk was on good form and you would not think he was his age in his final appearance as Columbo.

    Yes, I noticed those similarities too in the Shatner episodes. I just recently watched 'Columbo Likes the Nightlife' too and thought it was good - a modern updating of the series.

    Agree, Likes the night life was a vast improvement on the poor Murder with too many Notes with Billy Connolly.

    I agree with this assessment too. It was disappointingly a rather weak episode, the novelty of having Billy Connolly in it aside. Many viewers failed to understand the abrupt ending to the episode too. I believe that it was filmed in 1999 although it was not shown on TV until 2001, hence Falk's aging. I thought that 'Columbo Likes the Nightlife' was a return to form. I also really liked the third from last episode 'Ashes to Ashes' with Patrick McGooghan.
  • shamelordshamelord
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    Agreed. In a way it was the last great episode with a classical feel to it.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    shamelord wrote: »
    Agreed. In a way it was the last great episode with a classical feel to it.

    Yes, do you mean 'Ashes to Ashes'?
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