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I love Columbo. Been watching it over the last couple of months and I don't know if its on purpose or not but almost all the murderers (so far, I'm in season 3) do a lot capital letters ACTING, chewing the scenery. It is especially fun compared to Peter Falk's understated acting as Columbo. There is also a surprising number of big names involved in the episodes. (and a future big name in the case of Spielberg directing the first episode of season 1).
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I'm bringing this thread back to life because well .. I'm still watching this! And I'm pretty sure I just watched the worst episode of Columbo. At the very least the worst so far. The final episode of season 5: "Last Salute to the Commodore" Surprisingly poor, considering it was directed by Patrick McGoohan but I guess he decided to have a galaxy brain moment and do the entire episode as a normal murder mystery where the murderer isn't unveiled until the end, instead of the normal Columbo formula. I don't really have a problem with that approach, it's fair enough after 5 seasons to try and do something a little different but the whole episode is just horrendously paced. And they decide that Columbo needs some young sidekick detective who then never shows up again as far as I can tell. If you're going to change things up I much prefer the subplot of the previous episode ("Now You See Him...") where Columbo is trying to get rid of the new raincoat his wife got him because it's too tight and he can't get rid of it. Only problem is that one of the other police officers keep finding it and bringing it back to him.
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Mar 20, 2021 19:16
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zoux posted:Is there somewhere I can watch episodes without ads? I'll sub to another service if I must!!! According to some website I found you can stream it on tubi and peacock whatever those are.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:04
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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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Dec 9, 2021 18:17
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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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Dec 15, 2021 17:47
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And the reason for them even doing the Mystery Movie thing in the first place was that Peter Falk absolutely did not want to commit to a regular TV series schedule. He was a serious film actor and didn't want to get tied up in TV, since that was seen as a lesser thing back then.
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Feb 20, 2023 10:22
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knox posted:
I don't think we would have gotten the same quality of guest actors if it was a 20+ episode season show. Of course I don't know for sure but I'm guessing it must have been a lot easier to get bigger names to do Columbo because they knew it was a high quality thing and it was more of a special occasion rather than just a normal tv show.
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Feb 20, 2023 12:43
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Bob Quixote posted:I was re-watching a few favorite episodes a few years ago and want to catch them again, but I dont remember which stream has them nowadays since it changes around. https://archive.org/details/columbo
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Feb 28, 2023 06:18
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I always just assumed that Falk was drunk off his rear end in Commodore. Though I guess he could both be drunk and also medicated.
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