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Think I'll start marathoning this as well. It's been a while. My personal theory about Columbo is that he knows who the murderer is the moment he lays eyes on them. From there he just needs to put together the case so it holds up in court. He's got Holmes-levels observation talents. I like to imagine he's some kind of human experiment. A murder-solving replicant. I bet at the end of the day he just goes to his tiny home where he sits on the single piece of furniture he has and stares at the wall- waiting until the station calls again. Kind of like Dan Stevens in "The Guest". 
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Sanzuo posted:My personal theory about Columbo is that he knows who the murderer is the moment he lays eyes on them. From there he just needs to put together the case so it holds up in court. In some other cases, it's a series of smaller hunches or lucky coincidences. But the building the case part is always fun.
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Oct 30, 2021 20:38
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FilthyImp posted:There's quite a few cases where he suspects them from the word Go just because of a small discrepancy -- why'd you check your mail as you were calling about your dead wife? How are you sure they left right when they said they would? It's always fun in the beginning of the ep when the perp is trying to cover up the crime. Especially when they are panicky and doing it poorly. It's like watching a wrestling match. I'm just eating my popcorn thinking: Man, Columbo's gonna destroy you. You don't have a chance.
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Oct 30, 2021 20:58
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One of the most enjoyable things of watching Columbo for the first time and only being in my early 30s is seeing so many actors I know solely from other shows and films. Like Hey it's Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) showing up with Columbo!
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Nov 1, 2021 13:17
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Digital Jedi posted:One of the most enjoyable things of watching Columbo for the first time and only being in my early 30s is seeing so many actors I know solely from other shows and films. Pleasence would also show up (as a different character) in Mrs. Columbo
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Nov 1, 2021 15:43
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Ahhh yes Mr. Columbo. The Amontillado is right this way. Imagine Orson Welles on Columbo?
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Nov 1, 2021 21:04
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Columbo is so, so good. I love that the formula isn't whodunnit or how, but the dramatic irony of how Columbo will catch them using simple powers of observation and interrogation disguised as innocuous conversation. After decades of rote police procedurals it's a welcome change of pace. Also worth noting that Tubi has the first pilot, 1968's "Prescription: Murder".
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Nov 1, 2021 21:52
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I love "Murder Under Glass", where a famous chef is murdered, and during the investigation, other chefs keep feeding him all their rich food, and Columbo couldn't be happier.
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Nov 1, 2021 22:34
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just watched a friend in deed. it's a good one. the trick at the end with columbo revealing that he bought the apartment and everything in it is his is great, mostly for columbo pointing out various items.
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Nov 3, 2021 03:15
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I just watched that Tuesday. Took me a second when he said that and was so Columbo It's refreshing watching these and have the first 10-20 minutes be solely with the victim and perpetrator. And not immediately introducing Columbo or just a quick 2 minutes. Really helps build the episodes
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Nov 11, 2021 14:27
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Who's the best recurring murderer and why is it Robert Culp?
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Nov 11, 2021 15:05
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grassy gnoll posted:Who's the best recurring murderer and why is it
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Nov 11, 2021 15:31
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Culp was one of the adults on Mystery Inc. Advantage Rob  In his final incarnation, the murderer hid in Everybody Loves Raymond
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Nov 11, 2021 16:30
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Because Robert Culp was in this scene, the best scene with the best acting and cinematography in all of Columbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcBrF9t8so
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Nov 11, 2021 16:35
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Unquestionably a strong candidate, but he's still gotta be second place. Culp's weird and menacing in all his roles; I just can't stay mad at gleeful murder cherub Jack Cassidy.
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Nov 11, 2021 19:29
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grassy gnoll posted:Unquestionably a strong candidate, but he's still gotta be second place. Culp's weird and menacing in all his roles; I just can't stay mad at gleeful murder cherub Jack Cassidy. If the murderers were being considered in a vacuum yes I would agree that Culp is better however every episode of Columbo is a two-hander and Cassidy has almost perfect chemistry with Peter Falk. Since the show is Columbo and the murderer playing off of each other this is not just an important factor but the most important factor catapulting Cassidy to number one
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Nov 11, 2021 19:45
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I watched the exercise episode yesterday, i love not hiding his angry columbo holy poo poo
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Nov 11, 2021 20:10
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Also: the actual scene with best cinematography is when he first investigates the body under the Santa Monica pier in the spy episode
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Nov 11, 2021 20:15
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I like how he pulls out an egg investigating the plane crash in the one with the Man in Black.
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Nov 11, 2021 21:49
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FilthyImp posted:I like how he pulls out an egg investigating the plane crash in the one with the Man in Black. He pulls out an egg in "Lovely But Lethal", then wanders about the crime scene kitchen looking for salt. He pulls out another egg in "A Stitch in Crime" and cracks it against the murder weapon
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Nov 11, 2021 23:36
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In that revival episode Peter falk wrote where the woman murderer tries to romance him (actually p good for a revival ep) he just straight up raids the victims fridge because he’s hungry. It’s not even an act to get people off their guard it’s just him and some cops who presumably know his schtick.
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Nov 11, 2021 23:49
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:In that revival episode Peter falk wrote where the woman murderer tries to romance him (actually p good for a revival ep) he just straight up raids the victims fridge because he’s hungry. It’s not even an act to get people off their guard it’s just him and some cops who presumably know his schtick. That's why I can never buy people's theory that Columbo's whole schtick is an act.
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Nov 12, 2021 00:22
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I think it's a heightened persona deal. That's how he really is but he turns up the dial when he meets a witness or a suspect.
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Nov 12, 2021 03:03
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Yeah, his schtick isn't fake, but he knows what he's doing with it. Folks who think it's an act are being fooled by him just as hard as the criminals.
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Nov 12, 2021 07:09
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he clearly switches modes too in some scenes. he'll be his normal columbo self and the killer arrives and it clicks for him. its like he is shifting gears on a bike. he is just leaning forward a bit more on his normal personality.
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Nov 12, 2021 10:23
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Because it was a convenient excuse, I went back and watched a few episodes to compare regular guest stars. I gotta say, Cassidy's got just a little bit of that Midatlantic accent in his performances, and it's just superb.
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Nov 12, 2021 19:02
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Dick Van Dyke should've been a recurring villain. I thought his performance was one the best in the series. Perhaps he was too convincing as an irritable, narcissistic murderer that he thought it could affect his reputation as the most wholesome man in showbiz?
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Nov 12, 2021 22:46
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Rollie Fingers posted:Perhaps he was too convincing as an irritable, narcissistic murderer that he thought it could affect his reputation as the most wholesome man in showbiz? Nimoy was similarly fantastic in his episode.
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Nov 12, 2021 23:03
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Digital Jedi posted:One of the most enjoyable things of watching Columbo for the first time and only being in my early 30s is seeing so many actors I know solely from other shows and films. This. Man, Columbo is so great and it's astonishing how well it holds up decades later. Peter Falk is fantastic. WE used to have a Sunday night tradition in college of getting stoned and watching reruns. When I was a little kid, my parents would watch it after I went to bed and (I think) it was paired with McMillan and Wife as a Sunday Night Movie kind of a thing. I remember often being able to hear the TV and for whatever reason the theme song they played used to scare the hell out of young me for whatever reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ26K3nVM_0 Here's a full list of costars and it's really impressive: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027695787/ Thanks for the thread. Brings back memories. I always thought that Columbo would be a good candidate for the comedy movie remake thing that was going on for a while. Six Million Dollar Man too.
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Nov 14, 2021 14:04
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By television law, every mystery TV show has to have an episode in which the suspect is a stage magician, and Now You See Him is the best of the bunch.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Because Robert Culp was in this scene, the best scene with the best acting and cinematography in all of Columbo I love how some eps end with no words, just the killer knowing that they're truly and totally hosed.
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Nov 24, 2021 04:04
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Oh, just one more thing ... In the 70s there was a Columbo Board Game
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Davros1 posted:Oh, just one more thing ... I actually bought a copy of this off eBay after I first learned that it existed. I've never actually gotten around to playing it (and reviews I've seen have said it's not that much fun), but it was just one of those "That exists? I must have it!" moments.
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You gotta love that they couldn't bother to get Falk's likeness.
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They tried to get it but every time it looked like he was about to sign the release he would add an extra clause at the end and make it complicated again
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BiggestBatman posted:They tried to get it but every time it looked like he was about to sign the release he would add an extra clause at the end and make it complicated again He insisted on play testing it, but then kept drifting off onto tangents about how he's really not good at board games. His wife, however, she loves 'em. Can't get enough of them. He had to eventually hide CLUE, because his wife would always solve the mystery within the first few turns. Took all the fun out of it. And oh boy, one weapon is a lead pipe? He has a cousin who's a plumber, who had to redo an entire apartment building that was filled with lead pipes. Could really mess up the drinking water. As soon as he heard that, he and his wife had all their plumbing redone, 'cause his wife makes the best iced tea. Sun tea, actually. Now you say you like sun tea too, and this made delicious glass other Sunday. Funny thing though, his wife couldn't make sun tea that day, on account of the storms. Didn't clear up until well into the evening. So the only way you could've made it is if you bought at the store. And funny enough, we just happen to have you on camera at the store across the street from the victim's home. And those things are time coded too. You know what a time code is? It's a little clock, printed right on the tape, so we know exactly to the minute of when you were in the store. And it's exactly when you said you were at home, Mr. Cassidy.
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Davros will you quite get to the point??
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watching How to Dial a Murder and Columbo really didn't like the murderer in this one, he was really trash talking him at the end, telling him how bad a murderer he was.
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That opening long shot in the first episode is just Perfect
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Culp and Cassady are indeed S-tier Colombo foes (ColumbFoes) but my personal favorite is Patrick McGoohan. Just having a blast devouring every scene he's in with absolute gusto.
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