A very strong finale on your end!! I would also suggest that Peter Falk served up some serious eye candy for us ladies in Troubled Waters. Looking good in that Hawaiian shirt with the tousled hair blowing in the wind... Looking forward to your next season, whenever it pops up!
One hundred percent concur - "Troubled Waters" (of course, it would have had the result with Robert Vaughn closing out both season 5 and season 4). C U - in 18 months!
Not only does he nearly run over the blind guy, he hits and knocks loose a cement gate post. The blind guy must have heard that. The cops must have seen it was broken. I can't believe the car didn't get at least a dimple in the bumper. Columbo was even asking about the car tires if I remember. I guess the director added the crash without the input of the writers.
I think they dropped the ball on this one by not naming it, A MURDER IN BEIGE. Good review, thanks for posting! Decent episode, but I don't revisit it much either. Hamilton cuts a smug and smooth baddie for Columbo. The series often employed actors forged in the 50s studio system, who hit marks precisely and could deliver their dialogue in the same annoyed cadence each time, giving all of their lines reliable sameness. Never dull, but kinda limited for me. I think that is why when a Cassavetes or McGoohan show up chewing the screen, they pop harder! Cheers!
if she was hypnotized into thinking she was going swimming after neatly folding her clothes getting naked why would she scream in horror when she was about to dive over? did she wake up a split second before she went over??
Thanks for S4. I never watch this, and it's running on PlutoTV right now. I've asked on various forums how the gotcha makes any sense at all, and never gotten a satisfactory answer. There are unsatisfying gotchas now and then, and then there are entrapping gotchas that would never hold up (not that they need to, as the killer immediately confesses). As you say, the fake blind man is meant to look blind, so that hardly makes the Dr a witness against himself. To me, the non-gotcha gotcha spoils the whole episode. I can't picture a production process where someone doesn't have the authority or courage to say no no no, that doesn't work.
Leslie Anne Warren was my very first celebrity crush back in the 70's. This episode is the reason I've never liked George Hamilton, because he killed my crush.
See you in a year and a half!
A very strong finale on your end!! I would also suggest that Peter Falk served up some serious eye candy for us ladies in Troubled Waters. Looking good in that Hawaiian shirt with the tousled hair blowing in the wind...
Looking forward to your next season, whenever it pops up!
Great job with all of these reviews Sherlock Horror! I can see that this has been a labor of love for you. Take as much time as you need.
Hilarious! Looking forward to Spring 2026 for the next season!
Not gonna lie…I laughed out loud at “looks like the clothing has done it.”!
I hope u will surprise us in a month and a half with season 5.😊
Excellent reaction video.
Nicely done.
It's going to be18 months until we get another review? NO, I'M ASKING YOU..... I'M ASKING YOU ABOUT A REVIEW!
One hundred percent concur - "Troubled Waters" (of course, it would have had the result with Robert Vaughn closing out both season 5 and season 4).
C U - in 18 months!
Not only does he nearly run over the blind guy, he hits and knocks loose a cement gate post. The blind guy must have heard that. The cops must have seen it was broken. I can't believe the car didn't get at least a dimple in the bumper. Columbo was even asking about the car tires if I remember. I guess the director added the crash without the input of the writers.
I think they dropped the ball on this one by not naming it, A MURDER IN BEIGE. Good review, thanks for posting! Decent episode, but I don't revisit it much either. Hamilton cuts a smug and smooth baddie for Columbo. The series often employed actors forged in the 50s studio system, who hit marks precisely and could deliver their dialogue in the same annoyed cadence each time, giving all of their lines reliable sameness. Never dull, but kinda limited for me. I think that is why when a Cassavetes or McGoohan show up chewing the screen, they pop harder!
Cheers!
if she was hypnotized into thinking she was going swimming after neatly folding her clothes getting naked why would she scream in horror when she was about to dive over? did she wake up a split second before she went over??
Thanks for S4. I never watch this, and it's running on PlutoTV right now. I've asked on various forums how the gotcha makes any sense at all, and never gotten a satisfactory answer. There are unsatisfying gotchas now and then, and then there are entrapping gotchas that would never hold up (not that they need to, as the killer immediately confesses). As you say, the fake blind man is meant to look blind, so that hardly makes the Dr a witness against himself. To me, the non-gotcha gotcha spoils the whole episode. I can't picture a production process where someone doesn't have the authority or courage to say no no no, that doesn't work.
You just don't get it.
Or..
Just watch some other detective...
Sherlock?
Leslie Anne Warren was my very first celebrity crush back in the 70's. This episode is the reason I've never liked George Hamilton, because he killed my crush.
Hamilton played a particularly nasty and pretentious slave owner in the original series "Roots."
No naked Leslie Ann Warren … yeah, gotta agree. 0/10