Favourite Columbo episode
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Haven't seen it since I was a kid but seem to remember it was a bit racist/sexist. How does it look these days?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
my quincy days were around five years ago where I was predictably unemployed and watching re-runs on ITV. Issues quincy has aged very badly, think of how sometimes pertwee in doctor who comes off as a massive sexist boor. That sort of touch. Murder quincy still stands up, when it was just a procedural detailing how an ME somehow solves a murder it was not going to bad places.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Etude in Black is a great one.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
I've just done this. Watching the first pilot now, should keep me busy for a while
This top ten of episodes voted for by some bunch of people is reasonably interesting: Columbo top 10 episodes: as voted for by the fans
The one with the Mensa-type society? Or this one where at the end he proves the case cos this painting in a bag has Columbo's own fingerprints on it and the murderer says "you just put them on it now" and then columbo raises his hands and he is wearing gloves. I seem to remember.
edit: I just saw they're both mentioned in that top 10! Excellent, usually noone I talk to remembers these.
edit: I just saw they're both mentioned in that top 10! Excellent, usually noone I talk to remembers these.
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I remember it. I've seen it at least four timesThe one with the Mensa-type society? Or this one where at the end he proves the case cos this painting in a bag has Columbo's own fingerprints on it and the murderer says "you just put them on it now" and then columbo raises his hands and he is wearing gloves. I seem to remember.
edit: I just saw they're both mentioned in that top 10! Excellent, usually noone I talk to remembers these.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
it holds up well, i think.
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
The one with Billy Connelly as a psycho film score composer was good and the one with the fax machine and the cheese was a cracker. Can't believe I missed this thread, my wife will love it when I tell her, she's a big fan. Think there's been two episodes with twins as the culprit(s), normally don't like any drama with twins or amnesia as the main theme but saw one the other day involving an inheritance scam and a faked heart attack on an exercise bike which was good. Any episodes with William Shatner and yeah Donald Pleasance in the wine one.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It really does. Still does. Garner nails it...the dialogue is on top form and the stories are consistently good. Great supporting cast too and Jim always takes a beating...
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The one with the Mensa-type society? Or this one where at the end he proves the case cos this painting in a bag has Columbo's own fingerprints on it and the murderer says "you just put them on it now" and then columbo raises his hands and he is wearing gloves. I seem to remember.
edit: I just saw they're both mentioned in that top 10! Excellent, usually noone I talk to remembers these.
I saw this one the other night - the fingerprints on the painting one, I mean - and it was great stuff altogether. But surely something like that would never stand up in court?
ha no of course not. but the previously strong minded murderer always crumbles as soon as columbo reveals the final "evidence", because columbo has been psychologically fucking with them for weeks.
Mrs Miggins
There's been a slight cheese accident
There's and episode of Columbo where Mrs Columbo has bought him a new raincoat and he keeps trying to leave it behind. I don't remember what the story was but that little side story really amused me.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Saw the first one. It was ace.
Conceited charlatan 'author' gets rumbled by Columbo.
Directed by Spielberg too.
Conceited charlatan 'author' gets rumbled by Columbo.
Directed by Spielberg too.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I'm anticipating several good years of slowly working my way through them all.
5t3IIa
Registered User
No!did you just make that up?
Well it isn't one that I recall
Eggshells and inside out knickers you say? Is there more?
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
I remember the egg shells but not the knickers! Watched the Chess one yesterday, thought the ending was rubbish. Columbo finishes up by declaring that the murderer had to be deaf because he wouldn't have heard that the heavy duty waste disposal system had automatically shut down when the victim went into it. FFS Columbo, he would have felt the vibrations stop, he's a chess genius, he would have known something was wrong and he would never have fallen for fools mate, ever.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Not a patch on Petrocelli.
I JEST, I JEST.
I've adored Columbo since I was a nipper. This thread makes me happier than I can say. I used to call my dad Columbo because he'd always come back in the back door to tell us 'just one more thing' before he went somewhere.
And now you're telling me the boxed set can be had for a mere £30? That's my Christmas list sorted
I JEST, I JEST.
I've adored Columbo since I was a nipper. This thread makes me happier than I can say. I used to call my dad Columbo because he'd always come back in the back door to tell us 'just one more thing' before he went somewhere.
And now you're telling me the boxed set can be had for a mere £30? That's my Christmas list sorted
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
American telly might often be shit, but they've always done a good line in daytime tv detectives.
I love me some Jessica Fletcher as well.
I love me some Jessica Fletcher as well.
Reno
The In Kraut
Whenever I'm at the gym there is one monitor which always has Murder She Wrote on. There must be an entire channel devoted to repeats of it !
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Petrocelli?
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