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― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Sunday, 17 July 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
I just started Rockford Files after finishing the classic Columbo run. It's different enough but definitely darker. It makes me realize how restrained Columbo really was. No guns, no car chases, everybody is cool as a cucumber for the most part.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 18 July 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
Is there any episode at all when Columbo takes a fist to the face? Rockford gets pummeled half to death in his own trailer every other week.
― Josefa, Monday, 18 July 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
My favourite is #11 - I really need to get my "watch all of columbo" project off the ground though.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Sunday, July 17, 2022 3:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
We're up to the final 70s episode, The Conspirators, which looks like it's going to be very silly indeed. Then we're on to the 80s episodes which I've seen very few of, I think we're probably in for a very mixed bag.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 18 July 2022 09:33 (one year ago) link
very very very
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 18 July 2022 09:34 (one year ago) link
Man the Johnny Cash as malicious Cessna pilot episode takes forever to get through
― calstars, Friday, 22 July 2022 03:12 (one year ago) link
I quite enjoyed that one, Cash does an entertaining job
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 22 July 2022 08:41 (one year ago) link
It's good!
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
I mean it's a fairly low-stakes episode, even by the standards of Columbo, but there's plenty of fun to be had with Cash's costumes and the bizarre 70s interiors, and Cash is relatively sympathetic by the standards of Columbo murderers
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 22 July 2022 09:23 (one year ago) link
Yes, it's one of those ones where Columbo is most apologetic for catching the murderer. Good ending too.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2022 09:34 (one year ago) link
I think that ep would be in the top 10 for me. Love the last scene in the car.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 July 2022 10:03 (one year ago) link
(xp) almost apologetic not most apologetic!
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2022 10:10 (one year ago) link
Is there any episode at all when Columbo takes a fist to the face?
Yes, there are at least two such incidents in the 1990s. Columbo and George Wendt get roughed up by Rod Steiger's henchmen at the end of the disappointingly flat Strange Bedfellows episode, although all is not as it seems.
Columbo gets a proper fist to the face when posing a small-time crook in the Undercover episode, which was an adaptation of an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pdjZgnMLqc
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 24 July 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
Thank you, I appreciate your research
― Josefa, Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
Going to rep a new-ish podcast that’s both rewatched the show but also had really good interviews with writers and scholars about the show.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-the-shabby-detective-91672189/
It’s done by Chris Stachiw (from The Kulturecast) and Mike White (from The Projection Booth and the Cashiets du Cinemart zine)
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 25 July 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
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rude tbh
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 25 July 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
In the episode I’m up to (s4?), the lieutenant is first seen looking in the back seat of the police commissioners car (which he had to borrow because his was in the shop) looking for his signature green cigar (why is it green)
― calstars, Sunday, 31 July 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
Just watched “a friend in deed” and it seemed kind of …sad? that C brakes up the conspiracy between the two friends. Like let them just live with what they did, that’s punishment enough, isn’t it?
― calstars, Friday, 5 August 2022 04:44 (one year ago) link
I’m starting to think I can skip the usually belabored opening sequences and just start watching when C arrives at the scene of the crime
― calstars, Saturday, 6 August 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
wtf, no.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 6 August 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link
This show is so screenshot worthy that I’m going to have to stop watching on peecock and pirate instead
― calstars, Saturday, 6 August 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
I watch Columbo on Tubi and Chrome won't let me screenshot but Firefox will.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
Haha outsmarted that Detective Columbo, dude has no idea I’m the murderer. He’s just got one more question for me and then I’m off the hook— Dolphin Pilot (@TheAmitie) August 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 August 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
At the same time as this show encourages the love for the titular character it does the same inversely in equal measure to loathe the criminal. That’s just not reality and that’s what makes the show a bit unreal and uncomfortable. Who isn’t worthy of mercy?
― calstars, Friday, 12 August 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
That's not always true though, some of the murderers are presented fairly sympathetically. Not often but it does happen.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 12 August 2022 06:46 (one year ago) link
Obviously the worst thing about the murderers is not their murdering but their arrogant and condescending attitudes.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 12 August 2022 06:51 (one year ago) link
Definitely. Not all of them are Jack Cassidy or Robert Culp though.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 12 August 2022 08:15 (one year ago) link
Cash and Pleasance eg are wildly likeable / empathetic within the text
but those episodes wouldn't work the same way unless MOST of the other murderers were presented as being cunce tho!
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 12 August 2022 08:56 (one year ago) link
McGoohan is a tragic figure in "By Dawn's Early Light".
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 12 August 2022 09:20 (one year ago) link
The show is basically class warfare, the schlubby blue collar working class guy against the snobby elites who use their wealth and power to try and conceal their crimes. It's not always necessary to portray his opponents as sympathetic IMO, because with a few exceptions, they are The Worst.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Friday, 12 August 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
yah, but the tragedy is largely bcz he’s willfully signed on to a system that will never value or support him iirc? (obv the not-very-hidden moral is that it will treat his charges / trainees worse…)((McGoohan having way more fun in at least two of the later eps he also directs, but with much less sympathy for sure)
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 12 August 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
(xp to tom)
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 12 August 2022 10:18 (one year ago) link
yah, but the tragedy is largely bcz he’s willfully signed on to a system that will never value or support him iirc? (obv the not-very-hidden moral is that it will treat his charges / trainees worse…)
i read this as talking about Columbo and the police force at first...
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Paul Verhoeven OTM
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/10/a-sweet-simple-salt-of-the-earth-scruffball-why-i-love-columbo
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 14 August 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
That's given me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 August 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
Love Falk’s physical comedy - the early episode where he stumbles down a hill to get to a car wreck in the Hollywood hills. And in “exercise in fatality” where we see our hero in a blue tracksuit on a treadmill, jogging tiredly while he questions the suspect Making his way from the crowd to the stage in ‘74 to accept some award, he trips coming up the stairs and then rights himself using his arms like plane wings.
― calstars, Sunday, 14 August 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
It’s not that Paul Verhoven
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 August 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
Unless you already thought that an article on Guardian Australia that talks about what streaming service carries Columbo in Australia would be by the Australian film critic Paul Verhoeven, in which case it is
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 15 August 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
Must you shatter our hopes and dreams
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 August 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
RoboColumbo, make it so...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 August 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
Showcolumbos
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 15 August 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
Starship Columbos
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 August 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
Spotted a young Bruno Kirby in the cadet academy episode
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
His dad's character in that episode recurs (nearly all in eps directed by the cadet academy episode's guest star)
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link
Every episode has such a wealth of character actors, I watched Murder Under Glass yesterday which featured Louis Jourdan, Michael Gazzo (who played Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather Part II), Alan Alda's brother Antony Alda, and Shera Danese who was married to Peter Falk, among others. Part of the pleasure is spotting actors you (semi) recognise then looking them up to see what else they appeared in.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 08:02 (one year ago) link
Yes, I remember watching the Eric Rohmer film "La Collectionneuse" and the lead actor in it turned up as the murderer in a (not very good) later Columbo not long after.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
Blink and you'll miss it, but Jamie Lee Curtis confiscates Columbo's contraband doughnut in 'The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case'
Brilliant comic seen from The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case sees a surly @jamieleecurtis confiscate #Columbo’s contraband donut! Love it! 🍩😄♥️ pic.twitter.com/j4tHeakVNx— Lieutenant Columbo (@columbophile) September 11, 2019
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 09:04 (one year ago) link
saw that one just recently. i got the sneaking suspicion that the writer(s) had a ADC Accutrac 4000 and then reverse engineered a convoluted way it could be used to commit murder.
couldn't help myself and looked up info on the turntable. apart from the clever programmability, it's pretty much a cheap plastic toy. i would hope a person of means who is a member of a mensa-like society would pride themselves on having some high-end audiophile shit. this guy had two of these bad boys, one at home, one at the club. anyway, can't buy taste i guess.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
That episode alone has Theodore Bikel, Samantha Eggar and Kenneth Mars in it!
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
Dean Stockwell just showed up in the cruise ship EpisodeI thought he was murdered back in season 2 lol
― calstars, Thursday, 25 August 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link