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To be honest, on seeing it on DVD recently for the first time since I recorded it from the TV in 2007 it wasn't really as good as I had first thought. It was still nice to see Columbo in a very different sort of environment, however.
How tell me there is a Murder, She Wrote thread too and I'm in Heaven :))
I will shortly participate here :)
I used to dislike the 70's episodes when I was younger (found them dated - but then in those days I only focused on the aesthetics, as a young, immature chap). Now I think the 70's were definitely Columbo's greatest period. I particularly like the Pilot episode where he has a shorter hair cut. It was made at the tail end of the 60's.
I've never watched Murder She Wrote, although I bought the entire set for my father who is a big fan. I'll have to borrow it from him and take a look at some point.
The first 5 seasons are just wonderful of Murder, She Wrote. It gets better and better.
Season 6 and 7 are plagued by the absence of Angela Lansbury who didn't want to do 22 episodes per season anymore, but the episodes she's in are fabulous. In later seasons, although I love them too, the charm of the earlier seasons vanishes as Jessica Fletcher moves permanently to New York.
Yes, though it had sometime Columbo writer Peter S. Fischer as a writer I was never a fan of Murder, She Wrote. I have the first series on DVD but haven't watched it yet. Columbo was a much better and classier show though.
Richard Levinson and William Link co-created both series. With Murder, She Wrote, Peter S. Fischer was also a co-creator.
I watched the whole thing within two weeks!!
@birdleson I didn't know you're a Batman fan :)
Do you watch the later Batman animation series as well?
The Brave And The Bold and The Batman are my favourites too.
Beware The Batman is just disappointing, yes. Hopefully the next one will not be CGI again.
Of all the DC Animated series Justice League (Unlimited) is my favourite.
My daughter is quite fond of The Brave And The Bold (she'll be 6 this April), which is great as I have an excuse to watch those episodes over and over again ;)
I can't wait till she's old enough to watch the more serious ones as well :)
Concerning the comic books, I still collect them, my collection is insanely large, but I more or less stopped reading them 5 years ago, it's just not the same anymore.
Yes, 'A Stitch in Crime' is a Top Ten Columbo episode for me. Peter Falk and Leonard Nimoy are brilliant in it and you think the killer's actually got away with at the end.
Ray Milland's wife gets murdered. Robert Culp plays an investigator and of course he is the murderer.
It is one of my favourite episodes because I very much like Ray Milland and Culp is of course always a joy to watch.
There are some of my favourite scenes of the series in this episode.
When Columbo is at Milland's house to report his progress and he wants to leave he "accidentally" opens the door to the closet and almost walks right into it. The facial expressions of Milland, Falk and Culp (who is also present in that scene) is priceless.
After the faux-pas Columbo asks shyly if that door is the way to the outside. Again such subtle humour. I love it.
To see Culp and Milland interact is also a real treat. They couldn't be more different but yet they have such great chemistry. And of course poor Milland doesn't suspect at all that Culp is in fact the murderer of his wife.
One of the episodes (many, actually) that is not only great to watch because of the story and how it unfolds but for the acting as well.
Very, very recommended!
Yes, that one is my favourite episode of Columbo. Robert Culp was a class act!
THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE is one of many good Columbo episodes I guess, nothing very special but still always fun to watch.
Ray Milland is the baddie this time. It's one of those episodes where the murder only takes place way into the episode.
One thing is for sure, it contains one of the most iconic scenes with Columbo, if iconic is the right word, maybe most memorable is better wording.
What luck that I found this scene on the web, so here it is.
Enjoy!
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And
How to dial a murder, another great movie with Dogs being used as killers.
That's Try and Catch Me (1977) - one of my Top 10 favourite episodes. I like the dogs one too!
writing.
No, you're fine. It's a great ending with Columbo being tough with the old lady when he needed to be - "Don't count on that."
Indeed - Abigail Mitchell ('The Best in Murder') was surely based on Agatha Christie who had died the year before.
That bloke. As she said it was a pitty Columbo wasn't the detective in charge of her
Niece's death.
Yes, true. She is one of the more sympathetic killers on Columbo. That was the great thing about Columbo - as an 'inverted mystery' you saw everything, initially at least, from the killer's viewpoint.