These episodes are on 5USA tomorrow - any favourites?
10:05 Murder In Malibu (1990)12:00 Murder - a Self Portrait (1989)13:55 Short Fuse (1972)15:25 Murder Under Glass (1978)17:00 Grand Deceptions (1989)19:00 Murder, Smoke and Shadows (1989)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 11 November 2023 13:10 (six months ago) link
Murder Under Glass is pretty fun.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 11 November 2023 13:14 (six months ago) link
That's the Demme one? It is wonderfully dated, with the worst 1970s food you can imagine.
I wouldn't bother with the ones from 1989+.
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 11 November 2023 18:52 (six months ago) link
I have been known to enjoy some of the later ones, though 70s are generally better of course.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 11 November 2023 19:24 (six months ago) link
Short Fuse has Roddy McDowall and an unusually tense climax.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 November 2023 19:28 (six months ago) link
Started watching this with our kid, first episode we watched was MURDER BY THE BOOK, directed by Spielberg (!) and really good twisty story with a particularly nasty villain played by Jack Cassidy. Also co-starring Barbara Colby as a lovelorn store owner who blackmails the bad guy in an ill-advised scheme.
Within a few years, and real life, those two guest stars would be tragically killed in a fire and unsolved homicide, respectively, Colby murdered in a random double murder (three episodes into her new supporting role on the first season of the sitcom Phyllis.)
― omar little, Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:55 (two months ago) link
*in real life
― omar little, Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:56 (two months ago) link
have also been watching this, but only selected episodes, the Columbophile blog a good curator
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 16 March 2024 19:36 (two months ago) link
All of the original run is pretty good, I don’t remember a bum episode.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 16 March 2024 19:45 (two months ago) link
Pretty sure there isn't one.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 March 2024 19:46 (two months ago) link
"Old Fashioned Murder" is pretty weak. Conceit is that the murderer acts older than her age, but Columbo always had old villains so it isn't obvious.
there's an episode set in a "think tank", back when that didn't have crackpot political connotations, with a kid named steve spielberg as a tribute to their boy genius director.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:04 (two months ago) link
The one where he goes to Jolly Old England is bad
― Josefa, Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:02 (two months ago) link
Oh yeah, that one isn't good.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:24 (two months ago) link
the columbo-goes-to-a-rave episode is exactly as good as you'd expect
― mark s, Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:30 (two months ago) link
i.e. at least 10 times better than the Morse goes to a rave episode
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:33 (two months ago) link
That's right
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 March 2024 23:21 (two months ago) link
also just recently started watching this for the first time. it rules so hard. crazy that every episode is over an hour long
― flopson, Sunday, 17 March 2024 03:09 (two months ago) link
^^It was originally presented as part of a series of weekly TV Mystery Movies, rotating in a shared time slot with similar film-length episodic shows like McMillan & Wife with Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James, and McCloud with Dennis Weaver. That's why the seasons seem so short.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 March 2024 03:58 (two months ago) link