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I love Peter Falk! He was the best!
That's great artwork there, @mattjoes, for a Top 10 Columbo episode. Robert Culp is by far my favourite guest star. Such a great actor.
Thank you. One of my favorite episodes for sure. The back-and-forth between Culp and Falk is insanely good.
"Right or left? You didn't tell me where the murder was committed so I couldn't possibly know which way to go.
Nice try though."
Source: https://www.birgitvlk.com/beruehmtheiten#/columbo-und-hund/
That's something I need to try some time soon. Watching them all in order from the start to the finish. I've actually never done that. It'd be a great way to watch the Columbo character progress as the long-running series goes along. I look forward to your comments as you rewatch then all in order, @Birdleson. I've been a Columbo fan since I was a child too, albeit in the early 1990s. I remember my late father letting me sit up late to watch the new Columbo episode premieres on ITV around the 1994 mark. He liked Columbo too and really got what the show was about. On the other hand he disliked Quincy as being too smug and full of himself. I think Columbo's meekness and politeness appealed to him, as it does to me.
No, neither do I. It's probably not the best show for someone who is squeamish like me, either. Plus, the smug know-it-all nature of the central character is off-putting.
I get what you mean about Columbo - the 1970s classic episodes are definitely the best the series has to offer.
That would be really interesting to do.
https://columbophile.com/2023/06/04/the-mystery-and-murder-of-murder-with-too-many-notes/
"But why did you call it oven, when you of in the cold food, of out hot eat the food?"
What?!
Keep talking nonsense, Lieutenant, and I'll have to have a little chat with your superiors.
Those videos are great. They're always good for a laugh.
Agree! This paints Patrick in an unflattering light. Course he was one of the few actors to audition for James Bond the first time around. Can you imagine the fights he'd have with Cubby and Harry? He seemed to want creative control and exerted it at every step.
I guess he just didn't want to be a Prisoner of someone else's creative control.
I've just realized the comments section of that article links to another, far more positive account of Columbo screenwriting:
https://www.michael-sloan-equalizer.com/young-man-with-a-dream.html
Columbo would be a fish out of water in that kind of story. Though crazies and dope addicts etc. are referred to in Columbo they're never the social strata that the killer comes from.
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Yes, he was a great recurring cameo guest star. I think my favourite role of his was as Thomas Dolan - the "wino" in Negative Reaction (1974).
"That is the prevailing theory."
I had forgotten the swill and lip smacking of him and the wine steward at the end of that scene! Fantastic stuff. I almost wish we had seen whether they concurred with Adrian or Columbo but better we are left to our own imagination!
Yes, he was. He was in quite a few Columbo episodes, including one of the newer ones, Murder: A Self Portrait (1989) where he played a character called Vito. He also played an undertaker in Swan Song in a funny scene where he tried to sell a funeral package to a very reluctant Columbo!
I'm happy to bother you
I'm gonna tell you what I paid for my shoes