There's no moment like when Columbo's wits shock us all as well as his prime suspect! Here's an underrated clip of some clever mind-gymnastics! th-cam.com/video/qNMTxiAPCyk/w-d-xo.html
Why dont you ever upload clips from the very first columbo episode? Prescription Murder? I seem to recall there was a similar word game played by columbo in that first episode.
I have a recording of that very first episode. I recorded it to videotape maybe 20 years ago and digitized it to DVD disc when DVD recorders came on the market where I live. He was a more polished Columbo back them and he engaged in a battle of wits with the killer who was a psychiatrist .
@@johnfinnegan8474 i got the whole columbo dvd boxset. just no longer have a dvd player. i do enjoy watching columbo clips. maybe they dont have the rights to the first episode which may explain why they dont upload clips from it
@@alberthamel6039 There was a scene in which Columbo made a phone call in Brown's house in which Columbo said "Tomorrow, there is going to be a search team looking for a thermal flask" Brown believed the phone call and knew the chute would be discovered and he couldn't risk it
*Ya i love Peter Falk. I wish they would do more than Remasters of these old shows. I wish they would do RESTORATION. They just dont want to spend the money on it. Ive just recently discovered all of these old shows from the 70s that my older brothers grew up with but I missed. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and thought the 80s were awesome. Now I realize I was born too late(*
@@itismeself8276 means what.??. I am old and boring. means You ? you what.... I really don't know the point. I was being funny of course on the coat pressing story .. I just can't figure it out.
In all the videos I have watched, Colombo always shows kindness and empathy - after he has proved the killer’s guilt. It’s almost like he’s disappointed in and disappointed for the killers. He lets them know he can still see their human side. The respect- and even gentle encouragement- he shows the guilty- that let’s them know they are not defined by the crime they committed, and that it does not erase all the good they have been or done. Colombo clearly believes in redemption. I wish more people in the world were like him.
Great observation: we can see that at work particularly in Lady In Waiting (Beth Chadwick, who really blooms after she bumps off her oppressive brother), in Any Old Port In A Storm (when wine maker Adrian Carsini really awes and impresses Columbo with his enthusiasm for and worship of wine and winemaking, and Columbo makes a gift of a fine dessert wine to Carsini after he takes him into custody), in The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case (where Columbo comes to appreciate and understand the lifelong isolation and loneliness of the genius embezzler-and-killer Oliver Brandt), and in Try And Catch Me (a personal favorite, in which Columbo flat-out tells avenging mystery writer Abigail Mitchell, "I understand why you did it.") He showed insight, sympathy and compassion--within the limits of his professional obligations, of course.
@@wbcjr17106 Don't forget the way he looks linto their backgrounds and the field they work like in one episode, I think it was double exposure, he read the books the murderer had written in their field.
Not only never pulled a gun - Columbo never used his authority psychologically to coerce behavior, intimidate, or bully people - always polite with “sir”. Like MacGyver.
As far as I know, he only ever fired a gun twice in the entire series, but never at any person. Once was to test the murder weapon, I can't remember the other occasion.
He doesn’t need to pull a gun. It’s all in how he says the word “sir.” No criminal, no murderer, has ever been a match for Columbo’s use of that word, which has 100 meanings ranging from “You are an honored member of the human race” to “you are an innocent-until-proven-guilty citizen and you are entitled to my professional, respectful politeness,” to “Yes, you killed somebody but I nevertheless respect and appreciate you for the special and very talented human being you are, despite the murder, to “I know you are a vile subhuman murdering scum, and I look forward to seeing you fry as you so richly deserve.” Any of these (and dozens of others) are possibly contained in a Columbo “sir”; but once he calls you that, your fate is sealed.
Cash co-wrote a song in 1960 called The Girl From Saskatoon about a guy who leaves his town, braving the freezing Canadian winter, to see his love in the prairie city of Saskatoon (only to find she braved the winter too and left Saskatoon to find him, heading to the town he left). He ended up singing it to a Saskatoon beauty queen contest winner in 1961 by the name of Alexandra Wiwcharuk. Just a few months later, Wiwcharuk was found murdered and buried on a Saskatoon street by the South Saskatchewan River. When Cash heard the news he swore he’d never sing that song again. Alexandra’s murder has never been solved.
I always loved the ending here, with Cash so clearly remorseful and guilt-ridden. It's a bit hokey but it's a nice, bittersweet end, knowing the guy may have lost in the end, but he isn't FULLY lost either. And Columbo always sees that bit of good in most of his suspects.
"Sooner or later you'd have confessed even if I hadn't caught you." "Yeah, you're right, Lieutenant. I would have. Because it was getting to me and I'm glad it's over."
Johnny Cash once said about the murderer characters in his songs that they always faced justice and were remorseful in some way. If the writers of this episode didn't make his character remorseful originally Cash would have asked them to.
@Hugh Mungus Yeah ok. Nothing like painting with an incredibly broad brush because you've had bad experiences. That shows how much your opinion is worth and how superior you think YOU are. Pot, meet kettle.
@Hugh Mungus ….would you like some cheese with that (whine)? People have the right to believe and furthermore I been around and then some and I’ve never met anyone like you described.
"Anyone who can sing like that can't be all bad". A prime example of Columbo's compassion. Columbo understands human nature. He knows people are complex and multifaceted. There is usually a good side to everyone.
@@highplainsdrafter595 What a narrow, pathetically sad little world you must live in to have to inject politics into everything. Go find something constructive to do with your life.
The interplay between Columbo and Pangborn is one of the great parts of this episode. No nonsense and professional. Columbo sensed a competent man when he met Pangborn and kept him around.
I love watching Columbo's entire interaction with Pangborne in this clip. It's a window into the "real" Columbo, the truly brilliant and calculating mind, which we don't normally catch a glimpse of until he springs the trap onto his prey at the end. My goodness, Falk was such an incredible actor.
One of the few killers Columbo liked.But he murdered two people. Even Faye Dunaway who killed a real scumbag couldn't change Columbo's mind in: It's All in the Game(1993)
The one guy he didn’t wanna bust but had no choice. And he even admitted that his crime was eaten him alive and believed he would’ve came forward when he couldn’t take it anymore. How criminals have the stones to do that?
throughout the years it happened so often that Columbo convicts someone whom his wife would admire in one way or the other , she must really hate him after all these cases LOL
Funny they made a spin off about his wife where they are divorced. I don't the impression they would ever get a divorce from how Columbo talks about her, but that could explain it. Though more likely she is disappointed about those people.
I always assumed he was just saying those things to make disarming small talk with the suspect, and as a way to stroke their ego... I figured his wife never actually even heard of any of them lol
@@NondescriptMammal I'm on team 'it's hard to know what's true'. The best lies are always part true after all. For all we know, it being a celebrity that she knows makes hearing about the case more exciting. 'Wait until my wife hears about this' indeed.
@@jamesolojo787 *You're witnessing the tolerance that America USED TO HAVE but now only has in WORDS only. That AMERICA was PROMISED to GENERATIONS and STOLEN by CROOKED POLITICIANS*
I like how he just casually walks up to him takes the parachute and throws it in the back of the car. Columbo is as cool as the other side of the pillow in the midst of a VERY intense situation.
It always depended on the type of killer Columbo was dealing with.....and when they were quite dangerous, he took no chances. In "The Great Santini" he knows Santini can do whatever he sets his mind to doing, and so at the showdown, Columbo has four patrol guys plus his assistant hanging around :-) He studied the crime, he studied the killer
I think you mean the episode "Now You See Him" Where the magician/illusionist's stage name is "The Great Santini". I remember "Lady In Waiting" where Columbo had a gun pointed at him by the killer, and he asks her what would be the point of shooting him when he had police officers outside her house.
@@martinfinn1550 I do remember that one, it was with Susan Clark. And you're right about the Santini episode, it WAS "Now You See Him" ......my favourite episode, directed by a talented Canadian, Harvey Hart
what you don't mention is the risk of the killer pulling a six gun and shooting him in the back , assuming Columbo is up there on his own. I hope I can find the whole episode somewhere .. prollly not. What I am guessing is this chap faked his own death.. based on what little I can see. Tim Fidler / NZ
This was one of my favourite Columbo episodes out of all of them. The killer really seemed like he was remorseful over what he had done, and Columbo really seemed to have empathy for him. Note also how Columbo didn't have any police officers as back up. He knew he was in no danger with this guy.
powerful ending, this one always stuck with me, i could remember clearly when columbo says "any man who can sing like that cant be all bad" through the years.
You know that that line had to hit Johnny personally. Considering all he's done, and all he's gone through, I don't think that was Columbo talking to Tommy. I think that was genuinely Peter Falk talking to Johnny Cash, and they just so happen to be filming a TV show ending.
Both Episodes with Super Star names revealed both ends of the Columbo spectrum. This episode showed the true compassion and tenderness Columbo can have towards the killer he is trying to convict, knowing who they are and what they’ve done. He’s sees the remorse and respects that to as much as he can. The episode with Nimoy shows the cut throat and angry side of Columbo, as he looks into the eyes of someone who has killed, and will do it again without looking back. Columbo reads these criminals like books.
This episode of Columbo is one of my all time favorites. I love Johnny Cash! This script was as well written as any of Mr. Cash's best songs! He played the role of Tommy to perfection!
One of the things that made Columbo one of my favorite all time shows, and I'm sure others as well was seeing some of the Big stars of the day on the show as villains. This particular episode if I remember correctly was not heavily promoted. This is arguably one of the best guest appearances. Cash was layered perfectly. Good guy, then jerkoff, almost to the point you almost wanted to see him get away and make it necessary for a part 2. Television will never be as good as it was back then. The writing (especially on Columbo) was very simple, yet had a way of capturing your side of how can Columbo be so detail oriented? The more you watched, the more you see what made him that way. Columbo was the ultimate underdog. Laughed at, picked on, disrespected, and under appreciated. How many of us could relate? The first run of Columbo, I was in Kindergarten (1973) and my Mom started me watching the Sunday Mystery. She liked McMillan & Wife, but I took to Columbo. Even though I knew nothing of those attire described earlier, I related Big Time as I felt those things in school. Instead of trying to be the best bully, or the Don Juan, or jock jackass, I thought, be like Columbo. You get more by outhinking than any other way. In my mind, the way I've lived and had to live at times came down to how fast my brain worked. Columbo...Thanks!
The writing was so great because there weren't that many episodes since Columbo was part of a rotation of series with McCloud, Hec Ramsey, McMillan and Wife, and something else, I think. The writers had the time to get the plot points right in every episode, which was seven per season... 😏
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@@cleopuma4322 I'm so sorry, I had no idea I had a reply, apologies. Yes, I am lucky it's on every single week in the uk, it's on all day on Sundays. I'm sorry you don't get to see it.. I hope they air it on your country. Take care 🍀 🍀 🍀
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I always felt it was the final scene that convinced Johnny Cash to appear in this episode. It was consistent with a common theme in his songs: Fatalism and that most people have the capacity of being both good and evil.
Still one of my favorite episodes. Great songs by the "Man in Black," great script. The only sad thing about watching these episodes is that it reminds me of these two great men who are gone. Except for these reruns💕
One of the better episodes, of course they were all great but Johnny Cash and Peter Falk really hit this one out of the ballpark together. Colombo the last few lines being so humane about things, really an amazing script.
"Any man who can sing like that can't be all bad." Truer words were rarely spoken. I don't remember this episode. I'll have to look it up. RIP the Man in Black and Lt. Columbo, two of the all-time greats.
Every time something old is posted, one of you mooks show up to say "back when TV was classy" or some utter nonsense. Meanwhile, this amazing show probably came on after CHiPs or BJ and the Bear, and we're currently in a golden age of TV and you're missing it all because you live in 1974 in your brain.
@@bbmcrae I agree...if you never watch Mad Men at least once you've missed out on a true work of art. 70s TV was an absolute wasteland. Columbo was one of the few shining jewels, maybe the ONLY show from that decade that still holds up against modern shows.
Had class? I loved Columbo, but the show didn't have class. It had great stories. And theme of the show was the success of he who lacked class over those that had too much.
A curious episode in some ways, as this episode really does exceptionally show the Lt. consulting, deferring and working along side his peers. I'm so used to seeing him as a lone wolf.
Underrated episode despite its popularity due to being the "Johnny Cash episode". Fans often say the ending was too similar to that of Any old port in a storm but I saw this episode first and like this ending just as much as that of Any old port. One of my favorite episodes.
Another great ending. The 70s episodes were pure gold. What makes Columbo so watchable, is the ordinary exterior and down to earth nature which always disarms people. Beneath the rumpled raincoat lies a steel trap of a mind.
The fact that they got Johnny Cash to star in this, one of the greatest singers/musicians of all time, is a testament to the show's sheer popularity and influence at the time.
When a famous country singer can make a special guest appearance in a show like Columbo, a quite unforgettable episode can be expected and this more than qualifies. R.I.P., Peter Falk and Johnny Cash.
There's no better Columbo ending in my book. The way he tells a lost soul that he's not all bad. Then the frame cuts right at the perfect moment, sealing that though in your head, with a Johnny Cash song playing in the car to boot.
Not only was Cash one of the very best Columbo offenders ever, his complex, human character was so well written, everything about the man's deeds and struggles was authentic.
Colombo, I love all his episodes. I believe he knows who was bad from the beginning of every episode he does. I think he can feel the person from the start.
This ending and the one in Any Port in a Storm are my favorites. Not only are they both clever, but you can see Columbo genuinely liked, even in a way admired the killer.
now idk who i love more peter falk or johnny cash😂😍 great episode 👏 "aren't you afraid of being up here alone with a killer?" the sadness in his voice..wow, great acting 👏❤️
in a pitch black night, you are at the scene of the crime, and you STILL look around furtively looking to see if 'someone' has followed you to that crime scene? the nibbling duck.......
A significant number of the casts in Columbo were also used in the comedy Hogan's Heroes, in this episode, the actor portrayed Roland Pangborn (guy standing beside Lt. Columbo), John Dehner, portrayed a couple mildly type villains in Hogan's Heroes, the Inspector General and the Gestapo Colonel in Paris, good memories those were.
Yes, he was terribly underrated as an actor - probably because his forays into acting were somewhat few. I don't remember the name of the movie now, but it involved JC playing a southern sheriff going up against the local "boss" played by Andy Griffith. One of the few times Andy Griffith played a bad guy. JC prevailed and managed to get a murder conviction against AG, whose character then received the death penalty.
Najpierw oglądałem nowsze odcinki Columbo, teraz oglądam starsze i muszę przyznać że pan Peter Falk zagrał świetnie Columba, niby prosty człowiek ale przy tym bardzo inteligentny, kochający swoją żonę i zawsze uprzejmy, nawet dla morderców
There's no moment like when Columbo's wits shock us all as well as his prime suspect!
Here's an underrated clip of some clever mind-gymnastics! th-cam.com/video/qNMTxiAPCyk/w-d-xo.html
Why dont you ever upload clips from the very first columbo episode? Prescription Murder? I seem to recall there was a similar word game played by columbo in that first episode.
I have a recording of that very first episode. I recorded it to videotape maybe 20 years ago and digitized it to DVD disc when DVD recorders came on the market where I live. He was a more polished Columbo back them and he engaged in a battle of wits with the killer who was a psychiatrist .
@@johnfinnegan8474 i got the whole columbo dvd boxset. just no longer have a dvd player. i do enjoy watching columbo clips. maybe they dont have the rights to the first episode which may explain why they dont upload clips from it
One of my Very favorites! Thanks!
You should do a piece of villains that you wish Columbo had let go. For example --- "Any Old Port in a Storm"...Donald Pleasance.
" Aren't you afraid being up here alone with a killer"? Powerful line delivered to perfection by Johnny Cash.
Now Johnny gets to sing to himself in prison.
Yeah well. If I'm not mistaken Cash looks pretty Cashed-Out at this juncture in life.
@@GS-zc4sk why do you say that?
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Cash's character wasn't as cold blooded as most in columbo columbo knew this
"Who could find it?"
"The guy that hid it."
I love that line. So matter-of-fact, and the way Columbo looks at the guy!
columbo likes to lure his suspect. very fascinating to watch
Why didn’t Johnny just leave the shoot, Nobody would’ve found it
@@alberthamel6039 Good question. I guess he didn`t have any choice. It was in the script...
@@alberthamel6039 There was a scene in which Columbo made a phone call in Brown's house in which Columbo said "Tomorrow, there is going to be a search team looking for a thermal flask" Brown believed the phone call and knew the chute would be discovered and he couldn't risk it
@@alberthamel6039 That's the thing. Columbo planted it in his mind that they would find it.
"I knew...then I didn't know...then I knew."
Wonderful writing, and superbly acted. Peter Falk was magnificent as Columbo.
capital production spectacular acting
*Ya i love Peter Falk. I wish they would do more than Remasters of these old shows. I wish they would do RESTORATION. They just dont want to spend the money on it. Ive just recently discovered all of these old shows from the 70s that my older brothers grew up with but I missed. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and thought the 80s were awesome. Now I realize I was born too late(*
You'd think they'd have paid him enough that he could afford to get his Burbery coat pressed from time to time.... Tim Fidler , NZL
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@@itismeself8276 means what.??. I am old and boring. means You ? you what.... I really don't know the point. I was being funny of course on the coat pressing story .. I just can't figure it out.
In all the videos I have watched, Colombo always shows kindness and empathy - after he has proved the killer’s guilt. It’s almost like he’s disappointed in and disappointed for the killers. He lets them know he can still see their human side. The respect- and even gentle encouragement- he shows the guilty- that let’s them know they are not defined by the crime they committed, and that it does not erase all the good they have been or done. Colombo clearly believes in redemption. I wish more people in the world were like him.
Well said. This is why I adore the character.
Great observation: we can see that at work particularly in Lady In Waiting (Beth Chadwick, who really blooms after she bumps off her oppressive brother), in Any Old Port In A Storm (when wine maker Adrian Carsini really awes and impresses Columbo with his enthusiasm for and worship of wine and winemaking, and Columbo makes a gift of a fine dessert wine to Carsini after he takes him into custody), in The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case (where Columbo comes to appreciate and understand the lifelong isolation and loneliness of the genius embezzler-and-killer Oliver Brandt), and in Try And Catch Me (a personal favorite, in which Columbo flat-out tells avenging mystery writer Abigail Mitchell, "I understand why you did it.") He showed insight, sympathy and compassion--within the limits of his professional obligations, of course.
Unless the guy doesn't deserve it, like that guy who tried to have him killed with his dogs. He takes pleasure in busting assholes like that. lol
@@wbcjr17106 Don't forget the way he looks linto their backgrounds and the field they work like in one episode, I think it was double exposure, he read the books the murderer had written in their field.
@@wbcjr17106 Your detailed and accurate comment leaves me with the impression that you`re a fan of the great detective Columbo.
Simply amazing. All those criminals and he never once pulled a gun.
He doesn't like to carry one.
Not only never pulled a gun - Columbo never used his authority psychologically to coerce behavior, intimidate, or bully people - always polite with “sir”.
Like MacGyver.
@@MedXOR now *THAT* would have been a helluva crossover
As far as I know, he only ever fired a gun twice in the entire series, but never at any person. Once was to test the murder weapon, I can't remember the other occasion.
He doesn’t need to pull a gun. It’s all in how he says the word “sir.” No criminal, no murderer, has ever been a match for Columbo’s use of that word, which has 100 meanings ranging from “You are an honored member of the human race” to “you are an innocent-until-proven-guilty citizen and you are entitled to my professional, respectful politeness,” to “Yes, you killed somebody but I nevertheless respect and appreciate you for the special and very talented human being you are, despite the murder, to “I know you are a vile subhuman murdering scum, and I look forward to seeing you fry as you so richly deserve.”
Any of these (and dozens of others) are possibly contained in a Columbo “sir”; but once he calls you that, your fate is sealed.
Cash co-wrote a song in 1960 called The Girl From Saskatoon about a guy who leaves his town, braving the freezing Canadian winter, to see his love in the prairie city of Saskatoon (only to find she braved the winter too and left Saskatoon to find him, heading to the town he left). He ended up singing it to a Saskatoon beauty queen contest winner in 1961 by the name of Alexandra Wiwcharuk. Just a few months later, Wiwcharuk was found murdered and buried on a Saskatoon street by the South Saskatchewan River. When Cash heard the news he swore he’d never sing that song again. Alexandra’s murder has never been solved.
He was going to write a song about a girl from a different city in Saskatchewan, but he couldn't think of a word that rhymed with Regina.
What a great side story! Marvelous. TY
I always loved the ending here, with Cash so clearly remorseful and guilt-ridden. It's a bit hokey but it's a nice, bittersweet end, knowing the guy may have lost in the end, but he isn't FULLY lost either. And Columbo always sees that bit of good in most of his suspects.
"Sooner or later you'd have confessed even if I hadn't caught you."
"Yeah, you're right, Lieutenant. I would have. Because it was getting to me and I'm glad it's over."
Johnny Cash once said about the murderer characters in his songs that they always faced justice and were remorseful in some way. If the writers of this episode didn't make his character remorseful originally Cash would have asked them to.
One of the best endings ever and only Johnny Cash could end it with such a powerful performance.
My favourite ending and my favourite episode.
1000% agree.
Johnny Cash was so awesome. He was a believer but also a sinner. He was human. He was never judgy or self righteous.
Christians believe we are all sinners, every single person. Church is a sinner support group. At least that is what a real church is.
@@floydlooney6837 lol yea thats true!
@Hugh Mungus Yeah ok. Nothing like painting with an incredibly broad brush because you've had bad experiences. That shows how much your opinion is worth and how superior you think YOU are. Pot, meet kettle.
@Hugh Mungus ….would you like some cheese with that (whine)? People have the right to believe and furthermore I been around and then some and I’ve never met anyone like you described.
@Hugh Mungus I've never even once heard talk like you described in my Christian church.
"Anyone who can sing like that can't be all bad".
A prime example of Columbo's compassion.
Columbo understands human nature.
He knows people are complex and multifaceted.
There is usually a good side to everyone.
I agree!
Hell, bet he'd even have a little (though only very little) compassion for War Criminals like George W Bush!
That really got to me that part :-(
@@highplainsdrafter595 What a narrow, pathetically sad little world you must live in to have to inject politics into everything. Go find something constructive to do with your life.
There is a good side to everyone. Even to people thrashing around as they breathe in the poison of the death chamber.
The interplay between Columbo and Pangborn is one of the great parts of this episode. No nonsense and professional. Columbo sensed a competent man when he met Pangborn and kept him around.
Now I remember. Fun fact, Johnny is using the cane on the wrong side, I know because I use one, it goes on the opposite side of the injury
I love watching Columbo's entire interaction with Pangborne in this clip. It's a window into the "real" Columbo, the truly brilliant and calculating mind, which we don't normally catch a glimpse of until he springs the trap onto his prey at the end. My goodness, Falk was such an incredible actor.
Who knew that Cash was such a great actor.
He made you actually feel sorry for the killer.
I think he shot him just to watch him die.
If you sing songs like that, you take on a persona, but you also take on a conscience.
One of the few killers Columbo liked.But he murdered two people. Even Faye Dunaway who killed a real scumbag couldn't change Columbo's mind in: It's All in the Game(1993)
His wife was such an overbearing meanie. I think, that plays into sympathy with Tommy Brown.
@@erikramaekers63 He also liked Adrian Cassini, the wine producer.
The one guy he didn’t wanna bust but had no choice. And he even admitted that his crime was eaten him alive and believed he would’ve came forward when he couldn’t take it anymore. How criminals have the stones to do that?
throughout the years it happened so often that Columbo convicts someone whom his wife would admire in one way or the other , she must really hate him after all these cases LOL
Funny they made a spin off about his wife where they are divorced. I don't the impression they would ever get a divorce from how Columbo talks about her, but that could explain it. Though more likely she is disappointed about those people.
I know, right? lol
columbo has been doing it to upset his wife for years
I always assumed he was just saying those things to make disarming small talk with the suspect, and as a way to stroke their ego... I figured his wife never actually even heard of any of them lol
@@NondescriptMammal I'm on team 'it's hard to know what's true'. The best lies are always part true after all. For all we know, it being a celebrity that she knows makes hearing about the case more exciting. 'Wait until my wife hears about this' indeed.
"Any man that can sing like that can't be all bad"
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Maybe but to blow up two others especially a young girl is pretty dark.
@@jamesolojo787 *You're witnessing the tolerance that America USED TO HAVE but now only has in WORDS only. That AMERICA was PROMISED to GENERATIONS and STOLEN by CROOKED POLITICIANS*
@@thetruthchannel349 like killing and stealing from natives and killing and use of slaves. And I'm not a liberal, just stating facts.
@@luketemple1015 *YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE. SO SHUT UP*
I like how he just casually walks up to him takes the parachute and throws it in the back of the car. Columbo is as cool as the other side of the pillow in the midst of a VERY intense situation.
It always depended on the type of killer Columbo was dealing with.....and when they were quite dangerous, he took no chances. In "The Great Santini" he knows Santini can do whatever he sets his mind to doing, and so at the showdown, Columbo has four patrol guys plus his assistant hanging around :-) He studied the crime, he studied the killer
I think you mean the episode "Now You See Him" Where the magician/illusionist's stage name is "The Great Santini". I remember "Lady In Waiting" where Columbo had a gun pointed at him by the killer, and he asks her what would be the point of shooting him when he had police officers outside her house.
@@martinfinn1550 I do remember that one, it was with Susan Clark. And you're right about the Santini episode, it WAS "Now You See Him" ......my favourite episode, directed by a talented Canadian, Harvey Hart
what you don't mention is the risk of the killer pulling a six gun and shooting him in the back , assuming Columbo is up there on his own. I hope I can find the whole episode somewhere .. prollly not. What I am guessing is this chap faked his own death.. based on what little I can see. Tim Fidler / NZ
I'm that kind of... Ah screw it
This was one of my favourite Columbo episodes out of all of them. The killer really seemed like he was remorseful over what he had done, and Columbo really seemed to have empathy for him. Note also how Columbo didn't have any police officers as back up. He knew he was in no danger with this guy.
When Columbo caught him, Jonny Cash saw the light like he sang in his song. Super !
powerful ending, this one always stuck with me, i could remember clearly when columbo says "any man who can sing like that cant be all bad" through the years.
Steinmetz !!
Yeah, that scene has always stuck in my mind as well. As you say, a powerful ending.
I remeber this sentence for ever...😉👍
You know that that line had to hit Johnny personally. Considering all he's done, and all he's gone through, I don't think that was Columbo talking to Tommy. I think that was genuinely Peter Falk talking to Johnny Cash, and they just so happen to be filming a TV show ending.
One of my favorite episodes. Columbo knew then he didn't know then he knew!!! Brilliant 🤔
Johnny Cash knew a lot about barbiturates too.
I must say both Johnny Cash and Leonard Nimoy did superb work playing Columbo’s Nemesis
Nimoy was a good episode heck they are all good. I didnt realize how long columbo was on since 2003? I thought they were just reruns.
Don’t forget Culp&Albert,Hamilton !?👍🍺
Both Episodes with Super Star names revealed both ends of the Columbo spectrum. This episode showed the true compassion and tenderness Columbo can have towards the killer he is trying to convict, knowing who they are and what they’ve done. He’s sees the remorse and respects that to as much as he can. The episode with Nimoy shows the cut throat and angry side of Columbo, as he looks into the eyes of someone who has killed, and will do it again without looking back. Columbo reads these criminals like books.
@@telosladd7706 the Man in Black
This episode of Columbo is one of my all time favorites. I love Johnny Cash! This script was as well written as any of Mr. Cash's best songs! He played the role of Tommy to perfection!
One of the things that made Columbo one of my favorite all time shows, and I'm sure others as well was seeing some of the Big stars of the day on the show as villains. This particular episode if I remember correctly was not heavily promoted. This is arguably one of the best guest appearances. Cash was layered perfectly. Good guy, then jerkoff, almost to the point you almost wanted to see him get away and make it necessary for a part 2.
Television will never be as good as it was back then. The writing (especially on Columbo) was very simple, yet had a way of capturing your side of how can Columbo be so detail oriented? The more you watched, the more you see what made him that way. Columbo was the ultimate underdog. Laughed at, picked on, disrespected, and under appreciated. How many of us could relate?
The first run of Columbo, I was in Kindergarten (1973) and my Mom started me watching the Sunday Mystery. She liked McMillan & Wife, but I took to Columbo. Even though I knew nothing of those attire described earlier, I related Big Time as I felt those things in school. Instead of trying to be the best bully, or the Don Juan, or jock jackass, I thought, be like Columbo. You get more by outhinking than any other way. In my mind, the way I've lived and had to live at times came down to how fast my brain worked. Columbo...Thanks!
What you wrote was well written!
I felt the same way.
The writing was so great because there weren't that many episodes since Columbo was part of a rotation of series with McCloud, Hec Ramsey, McMillan and Wife, and something else, I think. The writers had the time to get the plot points right in every episode, which was seven per season... 😏
@@Tom-hp3kw Wow! Thank You. Sorry for the delayed response. I love to write and see if I can get the reader to enter into their imagination and really gravitate to the story.
I've been watching Columbo for 40 years every single week on telly & I never tire of it. I just watch them over & over.. It's the best ever 🍀💚🍀
You're so lucky. I would have to buy all of them, and I really can't afford it. I love all the episodes, and every one of the movies. Excellent
@@cleopuma4322 I'm so sorry, I had no idea I had a reply, apologies.
Yes, I am lucky it's on every single week in the uk, it's on all day on Sundays.
I'm sorry you don't get to see it..
I hope they air it on your country. Take care 🍀 🍀 🍀
@@enlightenedsoul4282 : You are so kind and thoughtful of others less fortunate.
@@ivanppillay914 Aww thankyou, that's the kindest most lovely comment I've ever read or received on TH-cam. Thankyou, have a happy healthy week. God bless 🍀 🍀 🍀
@@enlightenedsoul4282: And you, Ametrine. Take care and stay safe my friend.
I always felt it was the final scene that convinced Johnny Cash to appear in this episode.
It was consistent with a common theme in his songs: Fatalism and that most people have the capacity of being both good and evil.
You are forgetting redemption- he believed in that too.
@@yesterdayitrained Absolutely, I left that out.
It perhaps was written for him, so the other way around. Cinema knows Johnny; was always a good draw.
Still one of my favorite episodes. Great songs by the "Man in Black," great script. The only sad thing about watching these episodes is that it reminds me of these two great men who are gone. Except for these reruns💕
One of the better episodes, of course they were all great but Johnny Cash and Peter Falk really hit this one out of the ballpark together. Colombo the last few lines being so humane about things, really an amazing script.
Peter Falk and Johnny Cash....thank you always for your time on Earth....your TV series and your music will be played eternally on streaming services!
"Any man who can sing like that can't be all bad." Truer words were rarely spoken. I don't remember this episode. I'll have to look it up. RIP the Man in Black and Lt. Columbo, two of the all-time greats.
"I saw the light" was this guy's hit song. 5:12 gives that song a whole new meaning. :)
Interesting 'subliminal' aspect.
This Guy ?? How quickly they forget.
Columbo should have hummed the song when he turned the lights on JUST FOR THE IRONY
Johnny Cash was so good in this episode.
Columbo was always kind enough to explain to each killer how he caught them by their stupid mistakes. Lol.. "Just one more thing sir"
When tv shows had class.
Every time something old is posted, one of you mooks show up to say "back when TV was classy" or some utter nonsense. Meanwhile, this amazing show probably came on after CHiPs or BJ and the Bear, and we're currently in a golden age of TV and you're missing it all because you live in 1974 in your brain.
@@bbmcrae I agree...if you never watch Mad Men at least once you've missed out on a true work of art.
70s TV was an absolute wasteland. Columbo was one of the few shining jewels, maybe the ONLY show from that decade that still holds up against modern shows.
Had class? I loved Columbo, but the show didn't have class. It had great stories. And theme of the show was the success of he who lacked class over those that had too much.
Meh, TV still has class....
....just nowhere near as much as it used too, or as frequently....
Nah no class today.
A curious episode in some ways, as this episode really does exceptionally show the Lt. consulting, deferring and working along side his peers. I'm so used to seeing him as a lone wolf.
agreed. the detective work done here was well thought and executed, the whole process made sense.
Underrated episode despite its popularity due to being the "Johnny Cash episode". Fans often say the ending was too similar to that of Any old port in a storm but I saw this episode first and like this ending just as much as that of Any old port. One of my favorite episodes.
Another great ending. The 70s episodes were pure gold.
What makes Columbo so watchable, is the ordinary exterior and down to earth nature which always disarms people. Beneath the rumpled raincoat lies a steel trap of a mind.
The fact that they got Johnny Cash to star in this, one of the greatest singers/musicians of all time, is a testament to the show's sheer popularity and influence at the time.
Great scenes like this always made Columbo special.
When a famous country singer can make a special guest appearance in a show like Columbo, a quite unforgettable episode can be expected and this more than qualifies. R.I.P., Peter Falk and Johnny Cash.
One of the best episod, great ending and tribute to johnny Cash: One man with that voice can't be absolutely bad.
Let's appreciate how talented Johnny Cash was.
There's no better Columbo ending in my book. The way he tells a lost soul that he's not all bad. Then the frame cuts right at the perfect moment, sealing that though in your head, with a Johnny Cash song playing in the car to boot.
It's a good thing Columbo told him that. Otherwise, knowing the character, he probably would have killed himself in jail over his guilt.
This is my favorite Columbo episode. RIP and Godspeed to both Cash and Falk. They did great things with their lives.
Certainly one of the top 5 episodes from the NBC years.
Columbo was unique and inimitable in fact he was a genius.
'inimitable' - never heard (or read) this word prior to today! Well done!
Oh ya, Johnnie Cash. I love that song about his alcoholic wife.
"Because you're mine, I lock the wine."
It's I walk the Line.
@@nolanboles8492 it was a joke
😆😆🎂
As many said before, Columbo is such a well written character and acted perfectly by Falk!
One of the best episodes of the series. Easily top 5.
2 legends together.
One of the very best episodes.
Best episode ever,I saw the light 💡 hears Johnny!!
The music is so well done. The days when cops and murderers rode together cordially
Columbo really liked this guy, and he had me rooting for him too.
His wife was a big fan.
Not only was Cash one of the very best Columbo offenders ever, his complex, human character was so well written, everything about the man's deeds and struggles was authentic.
Johnny Cash still young at this point and full of life. God Bless him.
My favourite actor meets my favourite singer = my best Colombo episode BRILLIANT
This is a great episode. Johnny Cash was a pretty good actor.
I love when Columbo catches the culprit red- handed.
Colombo, I love all his episodes. I believe he knows who was bad from the beginning of every episode he does. I think he can feel the person from the start.
Classic, two legends facing off in a cinima classic!!!
Wow...2 of the greatest in the world Columbo & Johnny Cash.
This ending and the one in Any Port in a Storm are my favorites. Not only are they both clever, but you can see Columbo genuinely liked, even in a way admired the killer.
now idk who i love more peter falk or johnny cash😂😍 great episode 👏 "aren't you afraid of being up here alone with a killer?" the sadness in his voice..wow, great acting 👏❤️
That’s the brightest set of headlights I think I’ve ever seen!! Haha 😂🤣
A new Cadillac.
2 classics here. Falk and Cash. Glad that Johnny did some acting. An American gem.
Easily the best 'Syrup of Figs' I've seen on TH-cam today
Now about that business of killing a man in Reno just to watch him die...
Lol, nice. 😆
Superb...✨
Also taking cocaine and killing his woman before escaping to Mexico. And Grand Theft Auto (in pieces).
Nicely done, sir.
Although he didn't kill the man who named him Sue
in a pitch black night, you are at the scene of the crime, and you STILL look around furtively looking to see if 'someone' has followed you to that crime scene?
the nibbling duck.......
Loved this ending, Columbo bonded with the murderer.
Yes, like in the Carsini winery one.
He actually does that a lot. He has such a great respect for people, the good, the bad, even those who get ugly with him.🙂
One of my very favourite episodes I remember watching this with my mum all those years ago.
This guy should get a pardon.
By far the best columbo episode.
Hey columbo make sure to keep law and order. Classic as he gets on airplane.
For anybody wondering, he was sent to Folsom Prison. Later transferred to San Quentin.
this clip is edited. the scene does not go from the parachute scene to the forest. columbo follows him to the airport first.
You don't say.
@@droceretik Not everyone would know.
@@garyjones2561 now we' all do
Words of Wisdom: "You do not need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice."
It's not the fall that kills you. It's stopping.
A significant number of the casts in Columbo were also used in the comedy Hogan's Heroes, in this episode, the actor portrayed Roland Pangborn (guy standing beside Lt. Columbo), John Dehner, portrayed a couple mildly type villains in Hogan's Heroes, the Inspector General and the Gestapo Colonel in Paris, good memories those were.
Indeed, I think the location where Cash stowed the parachute was part of the HH set!
6:48
♪♫
Don't take your keys to plane son,
Leave your keys at airport,
Don't take your keys to plane... ♫♪
Or at least remember to taaake off the taaag…🎵
I think It has been One of the best episodes. Awesome Peter Falk and Johnny Cash.
Absolutely brilliant episode!
I didn't know that Johnny Cash could act like this. Surprisingly superb.
Yes, he was terribly underrated as an actor - probably because his forays into acting were somewhat few. I don't remember the name of the movie now, but it involved JC playing a southern sheriff going up against the local "boss" played by Andy Griffith. One of the few times Andy Griffith played a bad guy. JC prevailed and managed to get a murder conviction against AG, whose character then received the death penalty.
@@brandtbecker1810Murder in Coweta County. It was based on a true story
How young they both look. The years sure do fly by ever so quickly.
One great episode- Swan Song
Colombo is so brilliant
the moment the lights hit him that LOOK, surprise,surprise,surprise.
I was at the Roxy Theater to see Tiffany Lowe. But backstage.....awaited Johnny Cash! I said hello to him,too,and mentioned this epic episode....
Columbo: 'a man who can sing like that can't be all bad'
Normie: 'He literally killed two people'
That's just a beginner in the states, kids kill more than that at school.
Yeah, two people that deserved to die.
He saw the light. The headlights!
My favorite Columbo.
Najpierw oglądałem nowsze odcinki Columbo, teraz oglądam starsze i muszę przyznać że pan Peter Falk zagrał świetnie Columba, niby prosty człowiek ale przy tym bardzo inteligentny, kochający swoją żonę i zawsze uprzejmy, nawet dla morderców
Love the psycho harmonica music!
4:44 The music perfectly suits the kind of thinking you'd have to do, risking a murder conviction to retrieve some linen from the woods.
Man, I rooted for Johnny on this one! Easily my favorite episode!
wait he killed an innocent girl not just his harpi of a wife what's wrong with you
@@MaxwellsDemon9 it’s fictional, it’s okay
Columbo had to win because you know, he`s Columbo.
@@MaxwellsDemon9 The girl was complicit in the blackmail.
I believe Columbo genuinely liked him and didn't enjoy this arresting him. I love seeing his more compassionate and kind side.
Columbo knows the difference between bad people and people who have done bad things
This was one of the best Columbo episodes
Columbo driving a Cadillac for a change!
one of the best detective series ever!
I remember this episode. That car too, my friend had one like that.
This is the best series ending ever! Best Colombo ending ever! I love it!
Columbo is my dream man, he's so cute 🥰😘
The key’s. swan song one of my fav columbo’s.
4:22 Great illumination in the dark, dark forest. So natural.