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Products often get repackaged unnecessarily when reissued to sell as many units as possible the public are likely to spend money when its something new looking.
Falk also hugged Mike Connors of Mannix on his way up to the stage.
A mates step Dad lent me several recordings of the early movies when I was around eleven years old so got into the show quite early, Blueprint for Murder I recall was the first movie I watched, still one of my favorites.
Agreed also the early films were very cinematic, Spielberg got the first season off to a great start with Murder by the Book which showcased his raw ability well I thought, I suspect talent were queuing up to work on Columbo,
I also like Patrick O'Neal's suave, but slightly detached and subtly sarcastic style.
I agree. It's not too common these days.
Remember that show. It ran on weekends I think, when I was around 7-8 years old. Haven't seen it since, and have been thinking about buying a few series on DVD/Blu-ray. Unfortunately the only DVD's I've seen are Region 1, not Region 2 DVD's.
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Blueprint for Murder and Murder by the Book are both some of my favourite Columbo episodes from the 70's. Murder by the Book is probably my very favourite, as well. Jack Cassidy was always a perfect Columbo villain.
Haha, that's true. As a kid of the 90's, mobile phones were already getting common by the time I got around to watch Cannon - my fascination was probably more the look of those American 70's cars, and the size of the bonnets.
As an aside, there's a book called Quinn Martin, Producer. In the chapter about Cannon, there's an anecdote about how Anthony Spinner came aboard as the new day-to-day producer, Conrad wanted to have dinner with him. Spinner describes the sheer amount of food an booze Conrad consumed. The next day, Spinner was a bit woozy while Conrad was good to go. :-)
Interesting anecdote! Did Conrad gain weight during the series? Did a Google search, and in a few images he looks a bit larger. Might just be the clothes, of course.
I think he gained at least weight. But for comparison, here's the main title of the pilot, with clips from the show:
Here's the opening to a final-season episode that includes clips from the show.
Hard to tell from these, bur maybe he did gain a little bit. The music in that last clip is fantastically funky!
Didn't know there's a Cannon comic strip. Is it still available somewhere?
Tonight's episode... The Broken Promise :D
No idea.
I read a colorized version, that looked much better, inTempo in the 70s.
You got to love the very 70's voice-over on that clip. Different era!
Tempo, of course! Where else! Hope some reprints or something of that Cannon comic turns up at some point. Looks like the comic was originally published in the Countdown (later TV Action) comic book magazine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Polystyle_Publications)
The Persuaders, The Protectors, Hawaii Five-O (!), and others too - by looking at cover images online!
Probably no Columbo, though.
The Persuaders.
I had the vinyl LP of The Persuaders
It had various other John Barry tracks on, Sir Roger looking cool
Curiously, it had, to the best of my knowledge, never been used in France.
Can't remember seeing any of these, other than Columbo, of course.
Has McCloud/McMillan & Wife ever been aired on TV in Norway?
I watched McCloud on Friday nights some time in the mid 70s, on Detektimen.
I guess Columbo was part of Detektimen, too?
Banacek was a new title to me. Any good?