Anyone Here Watch Columbo?
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I just wanted to use the stale "four lights" joke.
As said I have visited the IMDB page of Columbo and checked the guest-stars.
Peter Falk and Patrick McGoohan liked working together, so they frequently collaborated on Columbo, usually with excellent results. That's why Murder With Too Many Notes was so shocking to me -- how could McGoohan co-write and direct such a horrible and incoherent Columbo movie, especially when his immediately previous one was so good? (ABC must've had issues with it it too, since they delayed three years before they actually showed it.)
So I guess McGoohan surpasses Culp for the record -- he played the killer four times (two classic, two revival), while Culp was in four but only played the killer three times.
So I guess McGoohan surpasses Culp for the record -- he played the killer four times (two classic, two revival), while Culp was in four but only played the killer three times.
McGoohan did an episode where he owned a chain of funeral homes. He was much older in that episode but it was actually pretty good. I think that particular episode was a early 90s. Rue McClanahan was the murder victim in that one.
Yeah, "Ashes to Ashes". It might've been McGoohan's last live-action work. His daughter was in it too.
^That was Ashes to Ashes from 1998, the one I mentioned above.
EDIT: Oops, beaten to it again. And yes, that was his last live-action acting role, though he did a couple of voice roles afterward, and he did direct the dreadful Murder With Too Many Notes as his final directing gig. (Correction to myself -- it aired only two years after Ashes to Ashes, not three. The three-year gap was between Too Many Notes and Columbo Likes the Nightlife.)
EDIT: Oops, beaten to it again. And yes, that was his last live-action acting role, though he did a couple of voice roles afterward, and he did direct the dreadful Murder With Too Many Notes as his final directing gig. (Correction to myself -- it aired only two years after Ashes to Ashes, not three. The three-year gap was between Too Many Notes and Columbo Likes the Nightlife.)
Ah I should have realized that was the ep. I didn't know it was McGoohans last filmed role. He really did a good job in it.
When I was a little kid, I was always hoping for McCloud when I saw this:
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...but I still liked Columbo a lot. Now there's no comparison, McCloud is fun but Columbo holds up so much better. My wife and I watched them all in the past year and will no doubt do so again before too long.
He worked "Be seeing you!" in a few times, too.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VI9mUyG_f0[/yt]
...but I still liked Columbo a lot. Now there's no comparison, McCloud is fun but Columbo holds up so much better. My wife and I watched them all in the past year and will no doubt do so again before too long.
He worked "Be seeing you!" in a few times, too.
Columbo along with The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers were two of several staples in our household while my son was growing up. Both brilliant in their own way.
I've never seen that opening. Thanks for posting it. The fun thing about Columbo is that they were all 2 hours long with commercials and because of the length and number of episodes are highly rewatachable. If I haven't seen a episode in a couple years odds are I will have forgotten some little detail or bit of dialogue so they always seem new or fresh. I also like to look at the location shooting and see 1970s California.
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Ah yes, Columbo.
The man with the dirty mac who discovered America.
The man with the dirty mac who discovered America.
Actually the majority of the original series' episodes were 90 minutes long (counting ads). All the revival ones were 2 hours, though.
Ok. Hallmark has been running the 70s episodes and they are 2 hours with commercials. I guess the ones that originally ran 90 minutes they just tack on an additional 30 minutes of commercials.
Has Columbo ever had a case that he couldn't solve?
I've always wondered who would win in a battle of wits - Columbo or Hannibal Lecter? Would Columbo be able to see beyond Dr. Lecter's polite exterior and suss out the truth? Would Dr. Lecter's psychosis be too shocking for Columbo?
Would Dr. Lecter toy with Columbo and destroy his belief system? Or would Columbo outsmart Lecter at his own game?
I've always wondered who would win in a battle of wits - Columbo or Hannibal Lecter? Would Columbo be able to see beyond Dr. Lecter's polite exterior and suss out the truth? Would Dr. Lecter's psychosis be too shocking for Columbo?
Would Dr. Lecter toy with Columbo and destroy his belief system? Or would Columbo outsmart Lecter at his own game?
He has solved them all. He was duped once by a fashion editor/photographer(Played by Ian Buchcanon). The fashion editor made Columbo think he had killed his partner and in reality he hadn't. It was all a publicity stunt. In the last 15 or 20 minutes of the episode the fashion editor did kill his partner because she wanted to sell the magazine. The fashion editor made it look like his partner had fled to Europe or some other place again but Columbo figured it out. Other than that one stunt that fooled Columbo he was never really outwitted for long. I think Columbo would give Lechter a run for his money.
Okay, it looks like the original series had 29 installments that were 90 minutes, 15 (counting the original two movies) that were 2 hours, and one, "Now You See Him" in the fifth season, that must've been an hour and 45 minutes, since without commercials it's 89 minutes, according to Netflix.
You bet. Hearing that music still makes me think that pretty soon I'll have to go to bed and get up for school on Monday!
I think at first The NBC Mystery Movie was offically a 90 minute slot but sometimes they had a 2-hour special. Then it went to two hours for a couple of seasons, and then back to 90 minutes. But the way they are on Netflix, most seasons after the first are a mixture of ≈75 minutes and ≈95 minutes.
Okay then, how about...
Columbo vs. Perry Mason?
Columbo solved them all, as you said. Perry - that I'm aware of - won every one of his cases (with the side note that Hamilton Burger must therefore be the most incompetent prosecutor in history
). So is this an irresistable force/immovable object scenario?
I liked all the original Mystery Movie shows. Appointment viewing in my house. McMillian & Wife might be the weakest of the three. Though I had a big crush on Susan St. James. John Shuck and Nancy Walker were great as the comic relief.
These days they probably would have done crossover where Columbo, McCloud, McMillan and his wife were involved in the same case.
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