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Columbo

Started by bgmnts, July 08, 2019, 04:49:22 PM

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biggytitbo

Quote from: beanheadmcginty on July 23, 2019, 09:28:48 PM
I've never seen Mrs. Columbo but it stars Captain Janeway doesn't it? Do they address the obvious fact that she's about half his age?


Only in years.

Lordofthefiles

Quote from: beanheadmcginty on July 23, 2019, 09:28:48 PM
I've never seen Mrs. Columbo but it stars Captain Janeway doesn't it? Do they address the obvious fact that she's about half his age?

In the second episode there's a very quick glimpse of a Polaroid featuring Columbo, completely naked on a camp bed, save for a pair of cowboy boots and a John Thomas the length of an infant moray eel lying across his tummy.

I always thought that was a hint to the viewer as to why they had entered into matrimony.

St_Eddie

Quote from: Lordofthefiles on July 23, 2019, 10:29:57 PM
In the second episode there's a very quick glimpse of a Polaroid featuring Columbo, completely naked on a camp bed, save for a pair of cowboy boots and a John Thomas the length of an infant moray eel lying across his tummy.

Lost my childhood wearing out that scene on VHS...

bgmnts

Season 3 Episode 1: Lovely but Lethal.

Vincent Price and a young Martin Sheen.

Vincent Price is meant to be like a king of horror but is voice is delightfully camp, it'a bizarre.

bgmnts

Season 3 Episode 2: Any Old Port in a Storm.

Donald Pleasance (yes!) is a massive pisshead masquerading as a wine connoisseur.

kidsick5000

Quote from: bgmnts on July 25, 2019, 03:07:24 AM
Season 3 Episode 2: Any Old Port in a Storm.

Donald Pleasance (yes!) is a massive pisshead masquerading as a wine connoisseur.

The darkest Day For Night shots committed to TV

DrGreggles

Quote from: bgmnts on July 25, 2019, 03:07:24 AM
Season 3 Episode 2: Any Old Port in a Storm.

Definitely one of my favourites.

Rolf Lundgren

The other day I watched one from the early nineties with George Hamilton who gets blackmailed when his rival digs out a tape of him in a porn film having sex with an underage girl. They make a lot more of the fact that he was in a porn film than the paedophile bit.

monkfromhavana

Quote from: DrGreggles on July 25, 2019, 04:09:37 PM
Definitely one of my favourites.

It is a good one, and one of the episodes where Columbo actually likes the murderer.

I've had to look up the plot to Lovely but Lethal as I don't remember it at all even though I've probably watched it a dozen times. Not the mark of one of the best.

bgmnts

Quote from: Rolf Lundgren on July 25, 2019, 05:49:58 PM
The other day I watched one from the early nineties with George Hamilton who gets blackmailed when his rival digs out a tape of him in a porn film having sex with an underage girl. They make a lot more of the fact that he was in a porn film than the paedophile bit.

To be fair the show is very dated in places, sometimes it's funny, sometimes its a bit iffy.

biggytitbo

George Hamilton's first one where he hypnotises the witness to his murder into killing herself is very good but it does contain a classic example of Columbo's dodgy entrapment tactics.

bgmnts

Season 3 Episode 3: Candidate for a Crime.

Politician is a wrong'un.

Not the strongest episode by any means, the cat and mouse game between Columbo and the killer isn't good.

bgmnts

Season 2 Episode 4: Double Exposure .

The episode title and the THIRD appearance of Robert Culp make me think this will be a good one.

bgmnts

#133
Season 3 Episode 5: Publish or Perish.

Jack Cassiday makes his second appearance. Two criminals in this one, which is always fun!

Edit - holy shit! One of the random cops is Alejandro "don't you ever try to fuck me" Sosa!

Jasha

Quote from: Rolf Lundgren on July 25, 2019, 05:49:58 PM
The other day I watched one from the early nineties with George Hamilton who gets blackmailed when his rival digs out a tape of him in a porn film having sex with an underage girl. They make a lot more of the fact that he was in a porn film than the paedophile bit.

The killer cigarette. I believe that's the episode where Columbo blows the case open by no fingerprints on the sheet of printer paper. "You see sir I tried and I tried but no matter what I did I couldn't remove the paper without touching it", classic miniscule detail that never occurred to the killer (or me for that matter)

Rolf Lundgren

Quote from: Jasha on July 26, 2019, 11:06:32 PM
The killer cigarette. I believe that's the episode where Columbo blows the case open by no fingerprints on the sheet of printer paper. "You see sir I tried and I tried but no matter what I did I couldn't remove the paper without touching it", classic miniscule detail that never occurred to the killer (or me for that matter)

That's the one and yeah, a great detail. The highlight of a very average episode really. Columbo doesn't need to get out of first gear and George Hamilton just isn't strong enough to play the villain. You can see why he was such a near miss in Hollywood. With just a bit of something extra he could have been a James Brolin or with a bit more he could have been a Warren Beatty.

bgmnts

Season 3 Episode 6: Mind Over Mayhem.

There's a shitty 50's robot, Columbo's dog is so shit he's kicked out of doggy daycare and Jessica Walter! All the ingredients are there.


bgmnts

Season 3 Episode 7: Swan Song.

Johnny "I AM a coyote" Cash!

biggytitbo

I don't think swan song is the very best episode of Columbo ever made, although it's up there, but it is probably my favourite. Cash is great and the relationship between his character and Columbo is just a total treat throughout.

bgmnts

Yeah i'm going to go in nerd mode and say in a previous episode Columbo admits he does the food shopping but in this episode he says his wife does the shopping.

I hope somebody got fired for that one.

bgmnts

Is it weird to say Columbo is my hero and I want to be just like him?

famethrowa

Quote from: bgmnts on July 25, 2019, 03:07:24 AM
Season 3 Episode 2: Any Old Port in a Storm.

Donald Pleasance (yes!) is a massive pisshead masquerading as a wine connoisseur.

This was on TV about a week ago so I watched most of it, it's the only episode I've ever seen but was cracking good. As a Peugeot fan I appreciated the banter between Columbo and the valet, it's amusing how everyone makes fun of the car when it's only about 10 years old! It would be like him driving around in a 308 convertible today.

bgmnts

Season 4 Episode 1. An Exercise in Fatality.

Columbo gets on the treadmill and cuts out the beer and cigars for a day.

Season 4 Episode 2 Negative Reaction

Columbo is mistaken for a tramp when he walks into a homeless shelter because he hasnt shaved.

bgmnts

Season 4 Episode 3: By Dawn's Early Light.

Patrick McGoohan isn't a prisoner but an army man. We learn Columbo was in the army but doesnt know military time. A young Bruno Kirby stars.

Columbo isn't interested in the case of the cider fermenting. UNTIL HE IS!

bgmnts

Seasoned 4, Episode 4: Troubled Waters.

Columbo goes on a cruise and he's lost his wife! Oh Columbo!

Robert Vaughn stars and Dean Stockwell is back and his hair is amazing. 70s fashion is fucking brilliant.

bgmnts

Season 4, Episode 6: Playback.

Columbo has a cold and goes apeshit for CCTV. Another much appreciated appearance from Dog. What an absolute lad.

Also this DVD of season 4 randomly has an episode of Mrs Columbo on it. Is that worth a punt? Never seen it before in my life.

Shit Good Nose

Quote from: bgmnts on July 30, 2019, 10:05:17 PM
Also this DVD of season 4 randomly has an episode of Mrs Columbo on it. Is that worth a punt? Never seen it before in my life.

No, terrible.  Avoid.  It's worse than the very worst of the later Columbo episodes.  Aside from a glimpse of his car in the title sequence (and, if memory serves, I don't even think it's the correct one), it has no relation or similarity to Columbo whatsoever, to the point where they drop any acknowledgement of his existence in one episode where they get divorced (off-screen), and he's never even hinted at ever again.  The fact that the final episode was credited to Alan Smithee says it all.

Natnar

Quote from: Shit Good Nose on July 30, 2019, 10:19:12 PM
No, terrible.  Avoid.  It's worse than the very worst of the later Columbo episodes.  Aside from a glimpse of his car in the title sequence (and, if memory serves, I don't even think it's the correct one), it has no relation or similarity to Columbo whatsoever, to the point where they drop any acknowledgement of his existence in one episode where they get divorced (off-screen), and he's never even hinted at ever again.  The fact that the final episode was credited to Alan Smithee says it all.

I'm not sure why they couldn't just make Mrs Columbo Columbo's Niece or Cousin or even Step-daughter they mght have gotten away with it then, instead it just makes Columbo look a bit like a dirty old man.

Bad Ambassador

#148
The wiki page amuses. In its 13 episodes across two season it allegedly went through four different titles, and from unambiguously being about Colombo's wife to being about some woman who'd recently divorced a man called Philip.

There were only five episodes in the first season, and the second was pulled after seven, with the final Smithee episode airing more than three months later.

Also, it was the brainchild of the infamous Fred Silverman, the man who cancelled $87m in Olympics coverage after the US announced its boycott in 1980, commissioned Supertrain and hired Jean Doumanian to run Saturday Night Live after Al Franken blew his chances by making fun of him on air.

biggytitbo

Bad Ambassador (i think that was the title of it) was a good episode of Columbo, if only the murderer hadn't put the glasses on the fella he killed, he might have gotten away with it!