clash of the titans: columbo vs quincy

[kyser_soze]

The Streets of San Francisco...guaranteed car chash and a credit sequence with a ride over the Golden Gate Bridge.

But of the two? Columbo obviously. I can imagine Quincy living out his retirement being a 'green ink letter writer' to newspapers about local youths breaking litter regs...

 

[DaveCinzano]

ecce! ingens polyspaston meus!

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Are you a catholic traditionalist, or did you go to Oxford? Either way, *I* feel superior

 

[DaveCinzano]

neither, you cheeky whelp

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Then perhaps you are proud of your Roman heritage?

*Direct decendant of Boudicca*

Yes, I've been boozing, this avo

 

[DaveCinzano]

so basically you're saying you're an essex man..?

 

[kyser_soze]

so basically you're saying you're an essex man..?

Got beef wiv Essix then? Eh? EH?!

U wanna watch it m8...de Essex Kru got dey ise on you...

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I love 'em both to death, but there can only be one...

...more thing, ma'am...errrrrr...

Genius.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

so basically you're saying you're an essex man..?

Even in my drunken state I feel that, if I respond to this, I'm gonna turn into the next Ernesto, without the East-end chip shop empire

 

[tim]

Yeah Quincy was a right dick head. Though the theme to Quincy was better.

Yes, but nicked from a 1930's song about nannies called "Other people's babies"!

 

[CNT36]

I really can't decide...

I mean, Columbo had Shatner as a villain...

But Quincy was on Diagnosis Murder...

So they're even tied on bonus points

Not so. Shatners evil schemes for galactic domination and chart succes were twice fioled by the cunning sleuth doubling the bonus points and one more thing...

 

[CNT36]

Monk shits on them both or would but its not very hygenic.

 

[Termite Man]

Monk shits on them both or would but its not very hygenic.

Damn right , Monk rules

 

[shandy]

Am I imagining this but didn't Jack Klugman lose his marbles for a while and start turning up at hospitals/mortuaries claiming to be Quincy?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Columbo's great, of course, but Quincy has its own special place of merit.

You have to understand about Jack Klugman, coming off the Odd Couple stint, and basically carrying the Oscar persona into the autopsy room.


Also worthy of mention, Robert Ito as sidekick Sam Fujiyama, and John Ragin as eye-on-the-bottom-line snivel servant boss Dr. Astin.

Classic Seventies tv.

 

[Shirl]

The shagable factor says it has to be columbo

 

[DaveCinzano]

Classic Seventies tv.

...and a rip-off of a superior canadian show... plus ça change, eh johnny?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

...and a rip-off of a superior canadian show... plus ça change, eh johnny?

Which one: Wojeck?

 

[DaveCinzano]

aye

 

[Batley]

Am I imagining this but didn't Jack Klugman lose his marbles for a while and start turning up at hospitals/mortuaries claiming to be Quincy?

Jimmy Saville just turns up claiming to be Jimmy Saville.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

aye

How the hell would you know about that?

John Vernon: the actor who proved that acne scars don't really matter in life...

 

[DaveCinzano]

How the hell would you know about that?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You bought the dvd with american dollars?

 

[DaveCinzano]

all-seeing eye

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

all-seeing eye

...from the US dollar.

 

[scumbalina]

Does any one remember the episode of Quincy where he tackled the perils of punk rock? And won Surely he gets points for that!

 

[Nine Bob Note]

A legend? Little old me?

 

[scumbalina]

A legend? Little old me?

Isn't that Dr sloane from Diagnosis Murder?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Isn't that Dr sloane from Diagnosis Murder?

One thing for sure: it's Dick van Dyke, not Jack Klugman.

 

[CNT36]

The man that scrapped a thousand language filters.