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Laterite posted: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. McGoohan's work on Columbo netted him 2 Emmys, he's great value for money in his appearances, I personally loved him as the spy Nelson Brennan he seemed to have fun with that role. He also directed Murder with Too Many Notes which I thought was quite a brisk ep even though it had a long runtime.
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What I always find funny about McGoohan is that for a full decade, he was an upright, intense hero on British TV (first Danger Man, then The Prisoner). Then he moved to Hollywood and found a new career on TV and in film playing cocky rear end in a top hat villains who aren't quite as smart as they think.
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Payndz posted:What I always find funny about McGoohan is that for a full decade, he was an upright, intense hero on British TV (first Danger Man, then The Prisoner). Then he moved to Hollywood and found a new career on TV and in film playing cocky rear end in a top hat villains who aren't quite as smart as they think. America never got over the revolutionary war
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:America never got over the revolutionary war Also the UK, so it evens out.
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Finished up the "original" run. Kinda weak episode with the Irish gun runner poet. He wasn't a particularly interesting villain and Columbo didn't really seem to be very into it either. Are the newer episodes noticeably worse?
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MrBling posted:Finished up the "original" run. Yes except for the college student one and the one with the girl who tries to honeytrap columbo
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Every time I think this thread is dead, there's just one more thing.
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MrBling posted:Finished up the "original" run. I would check out the very last episode "Columbo Likes the Nightlife." It stars a very young Matthew Rhys.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I would check out the very last episode "Columbo Likes the Nightlife." There was an interview with Rhys and he talked about making that ep. When he arrived at the airport, Falk was the one to pick him up.
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Davros1 posted:There was an interview with Rhys and he talked about making that ep. When he arrived at the airport, Falk was the one to pick him up. Hell, I know he just did a season of Perry Mason, but get him a trench coat and cigar for a Columbo movie. He could do it.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I would check out the very last episode "Columbo Likes the Nightlife." Does he got to boogie?
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Dagger of the Mind in season 2 is the first episode of Columbo that's really disappointed me. He planted evidence!
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rewatched Bye Bye Sky High IQ Society Murder Case and the episode's pretty ok right until the end when out of nowhere you have one of the greatest scenes/endings in columbo.
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I like whenever Columbo gets genuinely pissed off and lays into the culprit during his final summation/monologue/what have you. Great stuff.
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Kicking myself for not picking up the 'cigar box' complete DVD set on eBay when I saw one as a £30 buy-it-now a few days ago. Now having to endure the tedium of bidding and watching the price rise like omicron infections just before the deadline.
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Payndz posted:Kicking myself for not picking up the 'cigar box' complete DVD set on eBay when I saw one as a £30 buy-it-now a few days ago. Now having to endure the tedium of bidding and watching the price rise like omicron infections just before the deadline. I didn't know that existed. I bought the regular box set.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I didn't know that existed. I bought the regular box set. I think i was a Japanese exclusive
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Which one was the one were someone kills the victum with a block of ice and then chucks it in a swimming pool to dispose of the wepon? Also is Billy Connerly famous in america as he was once the villain in one of the later ones and I didnt think he was that famous???
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He did a late 80s/early 90s network sitcom where he was a quirky teacher, IIRC.
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wibble posted:Which one was the one were someone kills the victum with a block of ice and then chucks it in a swimming pool to dispose of the wepon? Most crucial game. An nfl team manager murders the playboy owner who inherited the team because he doesn’t care enough about football He is not. The murderers aren’t all dick van dykes and Leonard Nimoy’s. They put in character actors people recognize but haven’t heard of quite a bit. BIG FLUFFY DOG fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Just watched 9x02, Columbo Cries Wolf, and it had a bonkers twist. One of the best of the newer episodes. 18 left to go, I don’t want it to end.
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Davros1 posted:I think i was a Japanese exclusive Is columbo popular in Japan
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Yeah, there was furuhata ninzaburo which is pretty inspired by the columbo formula and was popular in its own right, and then there is this https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/1459041114791501839 You see references pop up here and there. loving Lupin the III had an episode about a skateboarding kid detective whose uncle is Columbo. Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Dec 26, 2021 |
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Stairmaster posted:Is columbo popular in Japan reruns of columbo would get around a quarter of japanese households watching when competing against baseball games. it was/is v popular.
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Apparently the guy who made Phoenix Wright was heavily inspired by Columbo.
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https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587
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There's a statue of Columbo and Dog in Budapest. It's pretty great.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Apparently the guy who made Phoenix Wright was heavily inspired by Columbo. No idea what you could be talking about. https://i.imgur.com/BsFWvr9.mp4
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Completely forgot about the lady that murder's her brother, takes over his company and decides to turn up to a board meeting dressed as Penelope Pitstop
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one of the greatest outfits to ever grace the show
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That's a great episode. She's a real sympathetic character who just...tragically alienates everyone around her when she finds her independence. Sure, she murders her brother, but gently caress that controlling rear end in a top hat.
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The tv executive who murders her lover when he doesn't promote her alienates everyone and ends up getting fired too. Columbo has a real 70s view on women in business.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:The tv executive who murders her lover when he doesn't promote her alienates everyone and ends up getting fired too. Columbo has a real 70s view on women in business. 50's
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Roddy McDowell, chemical expert, is my favourite villain breakdown so far
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In his defense, I'd probably make that face if I thought I was seconds away from getting exploded by Peter Falk.
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Just got my complete DVD collection.  Sadly not the original 'cigar box' set with individual season cases but a newer one where multiple discs are stacked on a single spindle and the one you want is always at the bottom, but for £30 I can't complain too much.Was going to start with a Patrick McGoohan, but as there's no index in the box (!) I didn't realise there are only two episodes per disc and not three. Never mind, I see Donald Pleasence is the villain in one of these so I'll go with him instead!
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Payndz posted:Just got my complete DVD collection. If it's the same releases as the US version: sometimes there's three per disc! And with season 1, there's a single episode on a disc. And if it's the same as the US, there's a couple of Mrs. Columbo eps on the discs as bonus features, one of which has Donald Pleasence!
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ultrabindu posted:Roddy McDowell, chemical expert, is my favourite villain breakdown so far I love this one because there's no reason on paper to like McDowell's character; it's all in the performance. Bastard is just so damned likeable.
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So far watched the Donald Pleasence and first Patrick McGoohan episodes, and loving the chill vibes of the whole thing. No rush, no gunplay, no montages of people peering into microscopes or CGI bullet-entry flashbacks, just Columbo ambling about pestering people and gradually whittling down the killer's story before snapping shut the trap at the end. I'm also enjoying the past-shock of a show that started half a century ago. Smoking everywhere. No seatbelts. Rotary phones, and people laboriously dialling numbers. Calling an operator. Cheques. Huge boat-like cars. No DNA evidence. Hardly any forensic analysis. Columbo just picks up pieces of key physical evidence with his bare hands and puts them in his pockets!
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God I can't remember the drat episode but there's one where Columbo ends up going to talk to a database clerk and it's just delightfully awkward how put off he is by the whole thing E: ah, it's "An Exercise in Fatality". After waiting for lile 10 minutes for a print-out of a person's phone number, Columbo make a call and leaves a message: "Hello. This is Lieutenant Columbo: homicide. It's very important that I talk to you. You can call me at the main precinct. The number there is: you can look that up." FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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