The Eyewitness is YOU! | Columbo
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- Only Columbo can make the suspect his own eyewitness to his crime.
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Clip from Season 4, Episode 6 A Deadly State of Mind' - A psychiatrist, who specializes in hypnosis, murders the husband of his mistress and convinces her to lie to the police; it's up to Lt. Columbo to discover the truth.
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And once again, simply refusing to speak to Columbo and allowing your lawyer to do his job would have saved the criminal.
Arrogant people don't know how to keep silent.
Exactly, if this jackass had just kept his mouth shut, he might have won.
Not for long. It would only delay Columbo’s hangman’s noose.
Well in real life no detective would have questioned a suspect like that prior to searching him for weapons, and definitely not in his own home.
I completely Agree.... It's your 🗣️Mouth.. 🤬.. That will..send you.. South. "Prison ⚡😂...😂
This ending was pure genius. George Hamilton played a great role. Of course Columbo used the line “you’ll be the first to know “.
So convenient how so many suspects in this series confess or incriminate themselves.
I never tire of seeing Columbo. What a great series.
The decor, the technology, the mannerisms and the people. I swear, every single one of these episodes is like a lovingly crafted time capsule for the era that it was shot in.
Up to and including "Columbo Loves the Night Life"
@Ronin:Yes,, do I agree! Thus far, my DVD collection consists of Seasons 1-3 and, those which contain the years, 1988-1991. I, WILL, eventually, own the complete library, for certain. BTW, when I thought I wouldn't be coming, out, satisfied(not being a big GH fan), WAS I surprised, discovering it's now one of my top ten, all-time favourites. He was fine. Great "payoff", in my, humble, opinion. Oh...for our forum, "one thing, more."(sorry). Could the lieutenant, truly, use the word, "EYEwitness?" Your thoughts, people?
@@djdon60
One of the best TV programmes ever made!!
I didn’t even have a color TV when I started watching Columbo.
A great Columbo villain, played by George Hamilton. The character is so overwhelmingly arrogant and sure of himself that he overplays his hand - and straight into the Lieutenant's trap! 📺👍
I also liked Rin Tin Tin in the guest role.
But he was only caught because he is pre-tan George Hamilton. Post tan, he would have been undefeatable.
The victim, right before the murder, described him as “Never at a loss for words.” He always had to have the last thing to say. He saw himself as the doctor and everyone else was just his mice to manipulate however he wanted. Of course he wouldn’t think of them as being able to threaten him. Columbo knew all do this about him, and tailor made this trap for him
@@Noah-wx7fm The victim, Carl Donner, was played by Stephen Elliot, who many people would probably recognize as the “is this the man….” police chief in Beverly Hills Cop.
@@Noah-wx7fm It was lovely to see the smile quickly fall off his face when the man started reading
In his day, George Hamilton used to be known as "famous for being famous," rather than for any acting skills. But Hamilton is actually a highly underrated actor, who plays dramatic and comedic roles with equal facility. In this episode, he plays one of the best murderers in the series. And even though the hypnosis premise inherent in the story is a bit far-fetched, Hamilton does an outstanding job of making it seem believable.
I still laugh at Hamilton playing Dracula in "Love at First Bite".
The guy known for having the best tan in Hollywood plays a vampire.
😂
He's absolutely brilliant in this scene , and I don't compliment often.
I totally agree with everything--and how handsome he was! Season 4 was the best in my opinion
Read his book... "Don't mind if I do"... A FASCINATING life.
@@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr thanks
George Hamilton was great here in portraying a very arrogant and heartless villain. Classic example of ensnaring someone with their own ego.
The slime just oozes off him. I love his quick obnoxious replies every time Columbo lays out what he has.
@@ColonelCarnagevery well put 👍
Crazy how Columbo casts a silencing spell this episode rendering the perp mute
This episode (A deadly state of mind) is one of the best 'Gotcha' scenes in the series. George Hamilton's face that has the smile that quickly runs away when the man who he THOUGHT is blind started reading the magazine he gave to him; And quickly proving that he saw a blind man walking his dog that he almost hit when racing from the crime scene... Absolutely brilliant detective work here...He inadvertantly incriminated himself in front of 7 witness's.... Time for the jail cell, then the courthouse....
Then a Not Guilty Verdict cause I'm sure there's a case for him
This is one of my favorite gotcha moments too but I also really like the guy who picks the camera out that took a picture of his wife before he shot her that he had reversed and the lady in the wall with the beeper that he messaged that says gotcha
Yeah, it's a great scene and "gotcha" moment, but a first-year law student could get him off. The evidence is so circumstantial -- and super-thin. I mean, the suspect assumes the guy's blind ... and that PROVES he saw the guy's brother that evening? I don't think so. No D.A. in their right mind would ever prosecute this case in real life. Great episode nonetheless.
@@RMR1 You miss the point. He didn't assume the guy is blind, he insisted the guy was blind. There is no reason to believe that guy was blind unless he believed he saw him that other day with the guide dog.
Second this was not the only evidence. Watch the entire episode and there were gaping holes in the culprit's case.
@@oot007 Even if he "insisted" Morris was blind -- and you're right, he is insistent -- it still proves nothing. A defense lawyer could easily show that any doctor might reasonably believe that a man acting the way Morris did was blind. Not so much because he moved in a slow, almost robotic way and wore dark glasses indoors, but because he stared at a fixed point, even as both Columbo and Collier moved while talking to him.
Sighted people -- especially well-mannered and educated people, which Morris clearly is -- do not stare into space while others are addressing them. And yes, there is other evidence, but it's either entirely circumstantial or very thin.
All of which, though, is completely moot. His admission, if you can call it that, would never be admitted in court because Columbo -- even after advising Collier that he was under arrest -- does not Mirandize him. And without the subsequent "confession," the case goes nowhere. Again, in real life. On TV, sure, it's an airtight case.
I love the way Columbo pretends to look defeated at 6.05 to 6.11 !
Very clever way for Columbo to catch the culprit.
I absolutely love the sound design and just general audio ambiance from this era. Something missing from modern shows.
Modern American murder investigation shows are almost science fiction.
I've only watched Columbo dubbed so far. Never would I have known the problems of the audio editing if it weren't for this clip.
I just love it when the villain thinks so highly of themselves getting worked up thinking they can outsmart Columbo then he destroys them completely at the end with the evidence. So satisfying.
It wouldn't hold up in court I’m afraid.
Yeah unless he has more evidence thinking someone looks blind isn’t proof of murder.
The writer of this episode, so imaginative and intelligent a script. A reason I love to watch Columbo, Peter Falk is always superb and clever (the doctor recognizes that right away) ... I love the part where Columbo goes to talk to the Dr.'s assistant, asking her if the doctor had prescribed the two medications to the woman who jumped to her death, she tries to divert him by saying he would need to ask the doctor that question and Columbo says 'I am asking you! ... about this murder'.
Peter S. Fischer. The writer of this episode. He passed away in October 2023, just a few weeks after you wrote that comment. Fischer is best known for creating the show "Murder, She Wrote".
Columbo always gets proof and is tricky the way he gets both guys there and how he nails George Hamilton. I love all the Columbo episodes . They are all good but I have my favorites too.
George really knocked it outta the park with this performance 🎭 👏
This is one os the most elegantly done endings in the entire series in my opinion. It was something else indeed!
My favourite ending of the franchise as the smug guy suddenly realised the gentleman can read the magazine & The Lieutenant last lines of 'the eye witness is YOU!!!! Great script writing & excellent acting by all 👌
This episode may have been inspired or even based on a great short story, "Eyewitness," by Robert Arthur, who was a writer and editor for Hitchcock. It is interesting that this trope had not been used more to trip up the perpetrator in these plots. The closing line in the short story has the investigator similarly admonishing the murderer that there is always an eyewitness to every crime: the one who commits it.
Robert Arthur, there's a familiar name! He created the "Alfred Hitchcock and The 3 Investigators" series of mystery novels for kids.
I also read it in a Cadfael mystery, one of the short ones. By . . . Peter Ellis?
Love how he presents evidence to you and keeps you guessing
One thing Columbo consistently does and that's play the suspect(s) against themselves. He exploits their own arrogance or confidence in themselves. Beautiful.
This one and the one with Vera Miles always shakes my head. The initial deaths were accidental and they probably could have gotten off with manslaughter. But then they had to go and commit a premeditated homicide to cover their tracks 🙄
I love the depth of this room.
This set was used in at least two other Columbo episodes!!
@@SciTrekMan if you ever spot them let me know. The brother (David) played Swanny and he killed "The Commodore" in another episode.
@@truthlifefishing1730 One was Playback, and another was Candidate for Crime
@@SciTrekMan Thanks Mate. It reminds me of the set design for Get Smart. Those designs were AMAZING, lots of decor, great dimensions, when you think of Max's apartment it was so clever.
What an ending ("eyewitness was you") !!! Falk had rightly said in an interview that w/o the creator of Columbo, there would not have been such a series.
George Hamilton a better actor than many people gave him credit for
This show is a good example of why you should never talk to police.
Then there would be no Columbo !
These plots and storylines were so well written and thought out. A million times better than the rubbish we get on our screens today!
George Hamilton is an underrated actor. He was excellent as the murderer.
One of the best Columbo episodes. Genius!
George Hamilton was criminally underused in 'The Godfather Part 3'.
Truth
What I do like is yes, he did play off a bit and spoke as someone that was told lines to memorized and supposedly seemed blind, but even then... you wouldn't know unless you asked him.
For him to be 100% sure and full of himself to know the man had to be blind without knowing him was what sealed the deal.
Another one of those times where the culprit is moving faster than their brain, with the inability to think it through before realizing "Hush. You're saying too much."
There was also one subtle clue that the man “can’t” be blind, and that was when the officer silently gestured for him to come forward, and he did. Contrast that to the blind man’s entrance, which was preceded by Columbo yelling out his name (and quite loudly).
Thats why you don't talk to cops, especially without a lawyer present
@@robertbotelho9702 Which could also be easily staged by police (one man behind corner with blind man, who prods him to go forward when he sees the office gesture)
The 'blind' man also pointed out where the matches were.
just spent 50 UK pounds on ALL episodes i have spent over 3 days straight watching all episodes back to back! Columbo must have said "MY WIFE" and "just one more thing" about 3,000 times!
Great purchase. Haha.
I wish someone could take the time to find out the exact count 😂
Apparently "One more thing" came about by accident. Levinson & Link had typed up (on a typewriter, of course) a scene where Columbo went to the villain's house to ask some questions. When they read the scene back, they realised Columbo hadn't asked the question he needed to ask. Rather than type the whole scene out again, they had Columbo come back in and say "One more thing" and it worked so well that they kept using it!
The writer/s.
Hats off.
As a young kid I was really impressed by this episode.
I did not see this ending coming. But just like Matlock always seems to get the criminal to tell on themselves.
Thanks for the throwback.
Closing that car door by the glass makes the antagonist even more dastardly
I love the quality of film grain. a Timeless masterpiece.
Plodding expertise trumps raw intellect every time.
The satisfaction level is always higher with Colombo, because the villains usually tend to be insufferably arrogant. Consequently the denouement has to be shattering, in order to chip as much away from the offender's psyche as possible.
Dr Collier was one of the worst and deserved to be hoisted on his own petard. Even at the end, he's not broken, but looks like he's just seething with rage at his own slip up.
Columbo didn't need forensics. He disarmed his suspects by playing to their high opinion of themselves. 👏
Great episode "Columbo" A Deadly State of Mind title, it's ironic that Mr morris who could see would get convicted in the ''last salute to the commodore'' also appeared in this one.
He appeared in a number of episodes
Thank you for including that first scene. It helped put the last scene into context. (I'd previously seen a video containing just that last scene.)
One of the cleverest gotchas in the series. Very slick idea. Only time I've ever seen it.
Great episode with a great gotcha moment!!! Couldn't see the title?? This man is blind!!! Brilliant!! 👍👍🙂
The curls of Falk's hair needs its own spin off!
Great clip! Remember it well from back in the day when there was a new episode of Columbo broadcast every Sunday afternoon in the UK. Classic.
The minute he said that he was blind, i knew how screwed he was.
Love seeing Newport harbor in the 70's, having recently worked out of there on a wedding yacht its a treat to see it back in the day. How things have changed.
A Deadly State of Mind - very good episode
Conclusion right on the spot - perfect plot against the suspect. The verdict is: "Blind Man successfully recognized the suspect". Amazing! 😊
Every vilian thinks they are smarter than columbo and columbo still wins at the end,that's poetic justice.
This was always one of my favourite gotcha’s of the series
Columbo shows are each a Masterpiece!!!
Prosecutor: Did you witness yourself at the scene of the crime?
Killer: No
Judge: Cass dismissed!
Thank you for another classic clip.
6:28 "When the blind man starts reading."
Right on the button! That is where Colombo put his entire effort to find the murderer in this movie. I love the way he drove in to meet Colombo and his team.
Airdate April 27th, 1975. One of my favorite Columbo scripts. First rule of dealing with police if you're a suspect (or even if you aren't) is keep your mouth shut. 2nd rule is get an attorney. Dr. Collier (George Hamilton) like every other suspect on the show keeps talking until he incriminates himself. Too bad they never watched the show they're on, but if they had there would be no show to watch. But of course this is alternative reality. Police never conduct a mock trial like this during the arrest.
" I'm sure you can see the problem " lol
ahhhh....the cigarette handling by george is priceless.....
Columbo would have found OJ Simpson Guilty very quickly
He was though that’s the difference.
Mr Morris would have found OJ guilty.
Not with that racist jury that let him go
Everyone knew OJ was guilty. You don't need a great detective for that
At this time George Hamilton was perfecting his Cary Grant impersonation for another gig he had in the works. You can tell by his speech patterns in this episode. He even impersonated Grant in this coloumbo episode 😂! Fun fact, you know 😊.
"I had to cancel two sessions because of your stupid phone call!" - when Columbo is done with you, you'll have to cancel all sessions.
Another great columbo episode ending..loved it. I seen this episode a number of times, but first time ever I noticed a small detail I always missed. Let me know any thoughts anyone on what you think., or anyone else noticed it as well.
Columbo calls into the room Mr. Morris. Then he asks Mr. Morris to take a seat on the couch. So he does, and sees Columbo trying to find a match in his pockets. Mr. Morris sees a match on the table and hands him the match.
Right there, is a clue that Mr. Morris isnt blind, otherwise how could he see the match and hand it to columbo?.
Just a fun curious detail I noticed.
Surprising Dr Collier didnt notice it, but then he had a guilt written all over him, and columbo was turning screw as he classically does to catch murders.
At 5:35 the suspect dismisses the entire concept of the man on the couch seeing/giving the matches as he is convinced the 'witness' is blind. 'Hamilton' is too arrogant to perceive it otherwise.
The whole scene is very deliberate and, not that he was ever above this sort of thing, this is probably one of the most underhanded gotchas in all of Columbo. Everything that they do in this scene is to provoke this response while having a solid counter-argument. No department would even humor attempting this unless they knew that the post-arrest investigation would seal the deal, because this is a hair folicle above straight up entrapment.
An excellent episode ! Truly magnificent
No one can work it like him Columbo
I thought this episode had the smartest "Gotcha" moment of all episodes.
I was watching Columbo goes to England as this video came out 😊
Brilliant as always
I thank this episode for introducing me to the beauty of Lesley Ann Warren. As a teenager, it was a wonderful gift!
"I'm not sure that suspect is a _strong enough_ word," . . . just can't get enough of how Frank says that line. One of my all-time favorite Columbo lines.
Frank? If you were a true Columbo fan you'd know that only his wife calls him that. I'm gonna take a guess you are not his wife
@@friedrice7Go jump in a lake. I am an absolute true-blue Columbo fan. The reason I refer to him as Frank sometimes [with tongue _firmly_ in cheek] in comments is because on his badge his first name clearly spells out Frank in cursive, and _other_ true Columbo fans know that. I _know_ that nobody on the show ever actually calls him by his first name [Rumford asks him, "Do you have a first name?" and Columbo answers, "I do. My wife is about the only one that uses it."]
To be so silly as to even _suggest_ that I'm not a true Columbo fan because I refer to him sometimes by his first name is . . . well, goofy.
@@SECRETARIATguy224 ...don't take the bait.
@@jackclements2163 You're one of the very best.
Brilliant writing..
One of my fav endings. Columbo def didnt like Hamilton and wanted to nail him. George was one of those multiple kill villains like leonard Nimoy.
Peter Falk and George Hamilton in Last Salute to the Eyewitness.
There's no escaping Columbo !!!!!!! :)
This episode was on just yesterday ! :D
Lieutenant Columbo, for the win!
"There is no way in the world that you could've assumed that ... this man is blind."
Lieutenant, first time I saw this scene out of context, I assumed the man was blind because of the way he acted.
Another episode that haunted me every time I watched it throughout my life. So very, very dark what he did to that woman and how he blamed her for her own death. Scathing rebuke of corrupt medical professionals and their power over the vulnerables they are helping.
Didn't know him but I love watching him. When I found out he was an artist, that made it even better. Being any type of artist is very special, you put a lot of yourself into each line, may he rest in peace with our Lord
"I'm not sure that suspect is a strong enough word." Oh, how this one angered Columbo. Heck, even I wanted to crawl through the TV to smack the living daylights out of George Hamilton's character. It made the gotcha moment that much sweeter.
Yeah. Not so much the 1st murder but programming the wife to jump off the balcony to kill herself was the dead that made columbo really despise Dr. Collier
Looks like something's wrong with the title.
In wot way ??
@@anthonymaughan6103 in every way
And the thumbnail. It’s unedited
This wouldn't even get to court
One of my favorite episodes
absolutely brillant!
The mic sounds like it's in Columbo's coat pocket.
Pretty sure this bait-and-switch wouldn't possibly stand up in a court. Of course it's reasonable for the doctor to think the man in the half-shade glasses is blind without seeing him on the road.
No, the issue is that the murderer wasn't supposed to see anyone, as he had a fake alibi to where he was at the time of the murder. So, by saying he saw the blind man, he just contradicted his own alibi and put himself at the scene of the crime when it happened.
I notice a lot of folks like this gotcha, but its one of the silliest to me since the non blind guy is totally acting like a blind guy. Plausible deniability and You could really argue it in court for sure.
This eye-witness is YOU 😂
From what we have learned about the rich and their high price attorneys, I don’t think Columbo would have a high conviction rate with these cases.
Just one more thing...I so enjoyed his double back😄
Brilliant!
My question: the whole charade rested on Morris assuming that the man before him was blind. The real blind man would never be able to identify what car left that driveway, or who was driving it. Therefore, there would be no cause for an arrest warrant until Morris incriminated himself. So, how could a judge approve an arrest warrant BEFORE Morris incriminated himself, absent any physical or literal eyewitness evidence?
The faults in the justification for arrest and trial would have led right into another NBC series of that time: "The Bold Ones: The Lawyers."
You’re right, but not only that! I don’t think he incriminated himself because when the guy walked in very slowly and slowly eased his way to the sofa, any person would assume he was blind. So, when the charade was up and the man started to read the newspaper, how did the murderer incriminate himself? He could of said, I assumed he was blinded the way he was acting. You fooled me into thinking he was blind. So what? How does that prove I’m the murderer? When the other guy, his brother, who is blind comes in, he was the real guy who was out that night. He couldn’t know what car or who was driving that night. So, the little charade doesn’t prove anything except you had his brother pretend to be blind and he pretended to eyewitness me. But he wasn’t there and it’s all a charade. You still have zero proof that I’m the murderer. Right? So, I don’t think that was a very good script for that particular episode. Although most of the Columbo episodes are really good, that was a loser.
The tire tread was the same and nobody at the institute could place him there before 6pm. Judges have signed lots of warrants on much less.
@@nightowl5475 I'm pretty sure that the case would be thrown out based on police entrapment. The bogus witness lied to make the suspect incriminate himself. The fact that Columbo's conclusion was logical wouldn't make it admissible, IMO.
@@JohnDrummondPhoto It wouldn't be entrapment, no. The police are allowed to lie. It would only be entrapment if he were talked into the murder itself.
A lot of the more popular episodes run into this problem. Any good lawyer could get them off.
Columbo's hair is iconic!
"Just One More Thing." 😁
The whole plot is built around around the fact of a blind man as the listening witness...only Columbo😂
Fantastic scene and one of the best 'gotchas' of the entire series. Great episode even though it probably doesn't enter my Top 10 since there's so many classic ones. Definitely honorable mention however. George Hamilton was superb in this and the 70's episodes by far were the better ones.
Brilliant! Genius!
If Columbo said I killed someone. I'd believe him
I adore
COLUMBO 🦋💕💕💕💕 , I still have some of the episodes that I didn’t see yet , but don’t know where I can find them 🦋
Lovely Columbo❤😊