Falk was *sublime* as Columbo. Equally superb were the writers of these story lines; they are amazingly good, and as a 'crime' TV series this was the first to show everything in reverse. Instead of a mystery that's solved at the end and the killer is revealed, we already know the killer within the first five minutes. The payoff is Columbo reconstructing the crime using clues we all missed, and the "gotcha" scene at the end. A perfect way to present this material. Rest in peace, Peter Falk. You were truly great.
We must give credit to the writers. As the series continued, many of the early writers moved on and the quality of the star villains diminished greatly. @19:42 The commissioner scared me to death and I feared for Columbo. He was ruthless. The actor did an excellent job.
Not Adrian Carsini, though. He took the loss like a champ, and he's one of the few murderers that I genuinely felt bad for. His life's work being snatched out from under him.
@@lawrence142002 Yes and no. Yeah, you do feel bad for him because he's like a spoiled child who had all his toys taken away from him. On the other hand, he's a horrible narcissist that killed his brother and feels absolutely no guilt.
The whole series is built around not the suspense of how you get to know the identity of the killer but it is written on the suspense on how he catches them. It was something new back then and everybody loved the tom and jerry run arounds between columbo and the killers
@@michaelcolfin8464 he tasted it thinking it belong to someone else and not one from his cellar that columbo stole. So he gave an honest opinion that it was overheated
@@MultiTimetravlerBut that didn't mean that his wines were overheated. What he obviously did was go home and open a bottle of something and find out. Still, all of his wines were overheated. Since all his wines were kept in the same place, he should have already tasted a random wine in the course of living. I am sure he had wine everyday and found out it was overheated long before Columbo reminded him of the 109 degree day.
I'm right there with you. On the same level, if at worst case #2 would be jerry orbach. Let alone his run on L&O but the law and harry McGraw is my favorite series that just didn't get the chance we all wish it should. 😢
i have to hand it to all the wonderful actors who played the bad guyz in Columbo. Their reactions at the gotcha moment are always spot on, that's brilliant directing and acting.
Should have shown more of the wine episode. The killer was a gentlemen and won Columbos respect and they shared a drink together while taking him in. Very dignified indeed
Doesn't get any better than Falk & Pleasence...........Peter Falk ~ "A joyous experience with a brilliant actor--working with Pleasence--that's Heaven! One of my all-time favorite guest stars. Playing a murderer, his spontaneous child-like glee at Columbo's ability to identify a particular Cabernet--that moment is burned into my memory."
If you like Pleasance, check out The Beachcomber, with Robert Newton--who is the reason why pirates these days speak the way they do. Newton was the original Long John Silver. And The Beachcomber is no pirate film; it's more like The African Queen.
I think this montage really shows that there were three pillars in making Columbo work. Peter Falk, the writers, and the villains. Each actor/actress really brought these villains to life. Whether you hated them, felt pity for them, or reveled in their defeat. Columbo winning wouldn't work if you didn't feel the villains were worthy of Columbo's talent.
Dates back to 1912 when R Austin Freeman published the first 'Howcatchem' alternative to the Whodunit And Levinson and Link drew on the magistrate Porfiry from Crime and Punishment for the guy that harasses the guilty party
This was such a great show. I remember watching Columbo and McCloud. I'm pretty sure that this came on every Sunday evening, and if all of my homework was done, sometimes my parents would allow me to watch an episode here and there. It's amazing to know that these series are just as entertaining today as they were soooo many-many years ago.
Me too. Only one thing bothers me: Wouldn’t the little device Hayward set off still be on the balcony? I mean, it wouldn’t just evaporate into thin air, would it? But I still enjoy watching the scene, particularly the “yes sir/no sir” portion.
@@johnmanier7968yeah especially the soot it would've left on the floor, and would assume people would know what a gunshot sounds like but I mean it's just fantasy since a silencer wouldn't be that quiet either
Yes, it's one of the best endings: the murderer attempts to bluster and bully his way out, but the Lieutenant has his number: "You're under arrest, Sir"! 👮📺👍
When you watch all these finale to the Lieutenant Columbo cases makes you realise just hoe great an actor these people were especially Peter Falk as he really really did make you believe he was a Lieutenant & the finale with The Commissioner was so so brilliantly done it goes down as 1 of the top 10 Columbo endings terrific acting 👏 👍 🎉
Even after all these years just watching Peter Falk play this role is a joy. As an aside, I wonder if a lot of people know how many folks in law enforcement use many of these same techniques so beautifully displayed by Falk. A little bumbling by an interrogator goes a long way... RIP Lieutenant Columbo!
What a great comment you made and well-articulated. A mystery to be solved but in reverse. It's what probably made the series so successful, watching Columbo reconstruct the crime.
Joanne Linville has the worst luck. First she loses the cloaking device and gets captured by the Federation. She starts a new life as the wife of a senate candidate only to see him arrested for murder.
14:31 that face lol. Looks like he wants protest his innocence but he keeps silent cos columbo checkmated him so well and its burning him that he cant talk his way out of it after spending all that time talking himself into it.
Love Candidate For Crime's murderer. Dude immediately starts to detail EVERYTHING that happened after the "shot" fired clearly, as soon as the smallest amount of scrutiny or even a half implication was posed he started to get REALLY angry, and when Columbo said the quiet part out loud that the shooter was still in the room he went full forensics mode, detailing every last detail of the scene. The trajectory, the point of impact, the "calculation" of the aiming, everything. He was so desperate to paint himself as the victim to cover up the fact he was the exact opposite, and that is exactly what gave him away.
Here's what I like about Columbo: all other mystery shows have the killer shrouded in mystery and we have to guess who did it. With this show, we know who did it, we just have to figure out what clue will get them caught
Several great endings but for me it's an easy choice... 'A Friend In Deed' with Richard Kiley. Favorite episode of the entire series with an ending that was brilliant..
@@TheMuffinman191 Columbo moved all his stuff and decorated a house just to catch a killer? He even signed the lease with his own money. That is commitment. Think he was reimbursed by the department?
Columbo was a great show. I love these Scooby Doo endings, where the wealthy well-connected murderers don't keep shtum and call their expensive lawyers, but rather confess all, in the face of what is often fairly flimsy, circumstantial evidence. They'd have got away with it if it weren't for that pesky Columbo.
That was certainly true in "Any Old Port In a Storm." Just because his wines were ruined, didn't mean they were recently ruined. Nor did he have to throw out the bottles immediately.
Yes, the Lieutenant has totally stitched the murderer up with the fake address. I like the way he gets more and more tense and nervous as Columbo goes in for the kill! 👮📺👍 16:20 "... about the time you came home for supper." 😰
To the person running the Columbo TH-cam channel/whoever put this video together... You used the wrong clip for Season 3 Episode 4, Double Exposure. You had that title displayed, but the clip that played in this video was NOT from that episode. The clip that played was from Season 2, Episode 8, "Double Shock". "Double Exposure" was an episode that had Robert Culp play the murderer in it, not the twin brothers seen here. I guess you guys running the channel mixed it up because both episodes had "Double" in the title and you used the wrong one by mistake. I'm sorry, sir [or madame].
It was a feature of detective series of the period that there had to be no doubt of that the accused person was actually guilty. Being found guilty by a jury in court was not enough; the murderer always HAD to confess at the end of the show. This was how shows like Columbo and Perry Mason always ended.
I assume the wine cellar is at least partially underground and windowless- even at 109 outside and no AC, it seems unlikely it would reach 150 degrees...? Still one of my favorite episodes
The Problem with _Any Old Port in a Storm,_ is that Columbo swiped that bottle of wine without a warrant and then set up his little test. The evidence and even Adrian's confession would arguably have been thrown out illegally obtaining the evidence. I liked that you included _Candidate for Crime_ along with _Publish or Perish_ since that's one of the few times one episode referenced another. In Publish, Columbo is explaining how when he tries to write a book about the case with the Senatorial candidate he gets writer's block.
@user-bf3jr7cu7z But if he hadn't revealed he had stolen the wine and that's what they had in the restaurant Adrian wouldn't have destroyed his wine cellar in a fit of rage. For a police procedural they relied more on Peter Falk's acting and how the stories played out than actual procedure. I mean, some episodes where he pulls evidence out of his coat pocket and it's not protected in an evidence bag sends me right up the wall. In _Mind Over Mayhem_ he recovers a burnt matchstick from the crime scene and when he confronts the murderer about it he literally pulls it from his pocket to show the killer. Anyway to your comment I like to think that Adrian wasn't so asexual that he would rather go to prison for manslaughter than marry his secretary when it came down to it.
Columbo snatching the bottle wouldn’t hold up, but they still had motive - Carsini wanted to keep the vineyard, his brother wanted to sell it. Still don’t know why he turned the cooler for the cellar off when he went to New York?
@user-bf3jr7cu7z If Adrian didn't know it was his wine, then why was he throwing out all of his wines. He didn't know they were ruined. Of course, the temperature would have gotten to the same degree in the wine cellar even if it didn't get to 109. Adrian had to know that anything in the high nineties would have ruined all his wines. That is why he had the AC on in the cellar to begin with. He should have checked the moment he got back.
The twin episode actually got me stumped the first time I watched it because I wasn't paying attention at the beginning and got really confused on who actually was the murderer. Somehow it did not occur to me that both of them were
I wish there were 100 more episodes. I've watched every single one numerous times. I love Matlock, Perry Mason, and several other crime shows, and some come close to Columbo, but only clise.
i gotta respect when the culprit realizes they have been outthought and are like "alright, bravo, you got me, fair is fair" other than others that go on the angry defensive
14:30 Jackie Cooper 💕 I loved him when I was a little girl, 50 years ago & more. He was truly adorable in the Our Gang shorts, when he was sweet on Miss Crabtree, his teacher. He was a household name after "The Champ" debuted in 1931. Wallace Beery & Jackie Cooper were magic together in that movie. Edit: Just one more thing 😉 This channel won't appear in my feed again. I sat through the NUMEROUS. commercial breaks. But going back, to revisit parts, I have to watch more commercials before AND AFTER rewatching?! There are plenty of others posting Columbo. You just priced yourself out of the market.
Ma'am, TH-cam puts in the ads, not the channels, they have no control over it. If a channel starts to get popular TH-cam starts to put in ads even if the channel doesn't want them as they want every pound of flesh they can get
In "Any Old Port In a Storm" The killer says freedom is relative to him. Go to jail for killing his half-brother, or spend the rest of his life in a loveless marriage with his secretary who he referred to as an Iron Maiden who was turning the thumbscrews on him. She lied to the police to protect Adrian her boss, by telling them she saw Rick's car leaving the winery the day of the murder, when in fact it never did. Ironically the murdered man, who also played Capt. Burton in "Land Of The Giants", is still alive and runs a winery of his own.
Hold on @1:56, would someone be electrocuted if it tripped immediately with the American voltage of 120? I've received a shock at 230 volts and it hurt but, at no point, did I think I would die. If I was constantly shocked I would expect to die. I've not tested this in a bath full of water and am not going to but, come on!
Although my birthy year is early 80s but this was my fav series. My elder brother and uncles used to watch this and discuss about it. I became fan of columbo and peter falk.
The ending of "Publish or Perish" always bothered me a little bit. While it's true that the week old ending couldn't have been written 9 months ago, I don't think the weight of that piece of testimony compares to the mysteriously appearing appearing key that was dated after the death of the victim. Personally, I've always found that that was a far more important piece of evidence considering that the murderer was the only one that Columbo told about that little inconsistency. I think that ending would have been far more impactful had the episode finished on the key rather than the manuscript.
God I loved this show, why didn't I become a detective is beyond me, Life n kids got in the way I guess, but No Regrets!!! "I found this bullet 3 hrs ago before you said you fired it 3 min ago"!!, Priceless!!!
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Falk was *sublime* as Columbo. Equally superb were the writers of these story lines; they are amazingly good, and as a 'crime' TV series this was the first to show everything in reverse. Instead of a mystery that's solved at the end and the killer is revealed, we already know the killer within the first five minutes. The payoff is Columbo reconstructing the crime using clues we all missed, and the "gotcha" scene at the end. A perfect way to present this material. Rest in peace, Peter Falk. You were truly great.
We must give credit to the writers. As the series continued, many of the early writers moved on and the quality of the star villains diminished greatly. @19:42 The commissioner scared me to death and I feared for Columbo. He was ruthless. The actor did an excellent job.
The very best actor and fantastic writers!
You wrote the very best comment here! Thank you to you, to the show, and to TH-cam, thank you to all!!
Yes, he was & one of his teachers was the late Ross Martin, who was in the Columbia episode, “ Suitable For Framing.”
Indeed. A how-catch-em' rather than the traditional who-dunnit. Truly a show ahead of its time and a masterpiece.
I love how the criminals get SO irate and Columbo just sits and takes it knowing he has the criminal in the bag!
Not Adrian Carsini, though. He took the loss like a champ, and he's one of the few murderers that I genuinely felt bad for. His life's work being snatched out from under him.
@@lawrence142002 Yes and no. Yeah, you do feel bad for him because he's like a spoiled child who had all his toys taken away from him. On the other hand, he's a horrible narcissist that killed his brother and feels absolutely no guilt.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 He's both. But he's still one of the most "loveable" Columbo villains.
Indubidubly 🙂
The whole series is built around not the suspense of how you get to know the identity of the killer but it is written on the suspense on how he catches them. It was something new back then and everybody loved the tom and jerry run arounds between columbo and the killers
"Any Old Port" is such a heartbreaker. Falk and Pleasance played it like music.
Stellar performance indeed.
How did Carsini know the wine was ruined when he didn't know that Columbo stole his wine and served it to him?
@@michaelcolfin8464 he tasted it thinking it belong to someone else and not one from his cellar that columbo stole. So he gave an honest opinion that it was overheated
@@MultiTimetravlerBut that didn't mean that his wines were overheated. What he obviously did was go home and open a bottle of something and find out. Still, all of his wines were overheated. Since all his wines were kept in the same place, he should have already tasted a random wine in the course of living. I am sure he had wine everyday and found out it was overheated long before Columbo reminded him of the 109 degree day.
They cut off the best line at the end of the episode here - "I would have liked it to be a record"
Peter S Fischer, who wrote "A Friend in Deed" and five other Columbo episodes, passed away three weeks ago at the age of 88.
Aw, I just hope he realised how brilliant he was and what pleasure his work brought to so many people.
R.I.P Peter, that was some good work!
Colombo all these years on and still the best detective drama on TV. Brilliant writing and a brilliant cast.
I'm right there with you. On the same level, if at worst case #2 would be jerry orbach. Let alone his run on L&O but the law and harry McGraw is my favorite series that just didn't get the chance we all wish it should. 😢
"Hey I don´t even live here" I use that line wherever I can
Lol I hope you've got a lot of ppl around you who get it. Must be awesome.
Yes, that is one of the best lines in the series - perfectly delivered.
😂😂
🤣
@ssnoc Val was fantastic
Imagine being a cop and having to investigate and arrest your own boss
Columbo's got nerves of steel
i have to hand it to all the wonderful actors who played the bad guyz in Columbo. Their reactions at the gotcha moment are always spot on, that's brilliant directing and acting.
I swear most of the killers confess just to shut Columbo up.
"Just one more thing...."
"I CONFESS! I CONFESS! JUST GET HIM AWAY FROM ME!!!"
Certainly seemed that way on the first case in this video. I never really understood the line of logic there
😂😂😂
@@wessltovHe didn’t want to traumatize the older woman. He actually loved her and wanted to end the facade
That's how MAD magazine wrote it in its satire "Clodumbo"
@@Spanner249correct. Great catch.
I’ve had it up to HERE with this Columbo!
I’ve binge watched about 5 videos in a row and can’t seem to get rid of this guy!
Should have shown more of the wine episode. The killer was a gentlemen and won Columbos respect and they shared a drink together while taking him in. Very dignified indeed
He killed his own brother in a very cruel way!!! I'm surprised Columbo didn't hold it against him.
Doesn't get any better than Falk & Pleasence...........Peter Falk ~ "A joyous experience with a brilliant actor--working with Pleasence--that's Heaven! One of my all-time favorite guest stars. Playing a murderer, his spontaneous child-like glee at Columbo's ability to identify a particular Cabernet--that moment is burned into my memory."
If you like Pleasance, check out The Beachcomber, with Robert Newton--who is the reason why pirates these days speak the way they do. Newton was the original Long John Silver. And The Beachcomber is no pirate film; it's more like The African Queen.
I love it when the villains can't help but admire how Columbo manages to solve these cases.
An electrical outlet next to a bathtub. My god, we were really suicidal in the 70s.....🤣🤣🤣
Convenience matters 😂
What if you wanted a piece of toast as you relaxed in the bath.
Plot point. It doesn't work as well if Martin Landau had an extension code ;-)
Of course! Look at the color schemes; the shag rugs which were an asthmatic’s nightmare.
In the bath 🛁 watching TV 📺 with a cigar and a glass of champagne 🍾 👌 🇬🇧 70s
Every single episode of Columbo is a masterpiece of itself!
Thanks to the special guest stars. Whom catapulted him to " Mega " stardom-!!!🤗.
I think this montage really shows that there were three pillars in making Columbo work. Peter Falk, the writers, and the villains. Each actor/actress really brought these villains to life. Whether you hated them, felt pity for them, or reveled in their defeat. Columbo winning wouldn't work if you didn't feel the villains were worthy of Columbo's talent.
Excellent analysis 👍
The fact that within 15 minutes we knew the victim, who did it, and we still watched right up to the end. Brilliant, just brilliant.
Because we want to see how will he get caught. What had he overlooked that led Columbo to capture him?
He knew the killer before he got out of bed that day.
Dates back to 1912 when R Austin Freeman published the first 'Howcatchem' alternative to the Whodunit
And Levinson and Link drew on the magistrate Porfiry from Crime and Punishment for the guy that harasses the guilty party
U Meant The Suspect Sir The Perp😊
Part of the fun was watching Columbo drive the killer absolutely crazy 😂😂😂
I used to enjoy watching this show when I was 7 years old. 20 years later I still love it
.....Me too....at almost 80.....Cheers from Acapulco!
"Uh, he doesn't live here, I live here."
TIL Columbo lived in a dump.
My underwear, my shirts
I absolutely love the Columbo programs.... been watching them from childhood and still love them now.
This was such a great show. I remember watching Columbo and McCloud. I'm pretty sure that this came on every Sunday evening, and if all of my homework was done, sometimes my parents would allow me to watch an episode here and there. It's amazing to know that these series are just as entertaining today as they were soooo many-many years ago.
Yes ! We can’t say that about any of the nowadays series !
I love the ending scene from season 3 "A Candidate for crime"
Me too. Only one thing bothers me: Wouldn’t the little device Hayward set off still be on the balcony? I mean, it wouldn’t just evaporate into thin air, would it? But I still enjoy watching the scene, particularly the “yes sir/no sir” portion.
@@johnmanier7968yeah especially the soot it would've left on the floor, and would assume people would know what a gunshot sounds like but I mean it's just fantasy since a silencer wouldn't be that quiet either
Yes, it's one of the best endings: the murderer attempts to bluster and bully his way out, but the Lieutenant has his number: "You're under arrest, Sir"! 👮📺👍
@@modelcitizen2028 yes the evidence speaks for itself.
a candidate for crime, one of the best endings in movie history.
Except this is tv not a movie 😅
Wasn't the actress playing his wife, Joanne Linville?
@@BedsitBobyes
@@paulrosen8905 I thought so. Lovely lady.
@@craigkelly4278It was a TV movie of the week. Not a weekly show.
When you watch all these finale to the Lieutenant Columbo cases makes you realise just hoe great an actor these people were especially Peter Falk as he really really did make you believe he was a Lieutenant & the finale with The Commissioner was so so brilliantly done it goes down as 1 of the top 10 Columbo endings terrific acting 👏 👍 🎉
I will still stop and watch Colombo if I ever see it on. Which isn't often enough ;)
Double Exposure was Robert Culp. Double Shock was Martin Landau.
And Publish or Perish was Jack Cassidy, father of David and Shawn.
I love how you're correcting the official @Columbo and you're right
@@anastasias6352 It's what Columbo would've wanted.
Double Exposure was Season 3, Episode 4, but Double Shock (the episode in this compilation) was Season 2, Episode 8.
Gotta love Robert Culp!
Even after all these years just watching Peter Falk play this role is a joy. As an aside, I wonder if a lot of people know how many folks in law enforcement use many of these same techniques so beautifully displayed by Falk. A little bumbling by an interrogator goes a long way... RIP Lieutenant Columbo!
A Candidate for a Crime is my own personal favourite!
"Ya know what bothered me?" That's the last question you want to hear from Columbo 😏
You don't want to hear, "Just one more thing," either.
@@michaelcolfin8464 or "Gee ... that's funny ..."
What a great comment you made and well-articulated. A mystery to be solved but in reverse. It's what probably made the series so successful, watching Columbo reconstruct the crime.
I love Johny Cash in Swan Song. The musician played his role))
Iodine! This Liquid filth!
Great to rewatch Columbo. My Fav is Negative Reaction. The scene in the homeless shelter. Just Awesome.
Columbo always knew who did it.... loved it when he kept coming around pestering them. 😂😂
A Friend in Deed was one of THE best GOTCHA moments. "I don't even live here" LOL
Forever I’m watching Mr Columbo
"That's another lie!" lmao
Joanne Linville has the worst luck. First she loses the cloaking device and gets captured by the Federation. She starts a new life as the wife of a senate candidate only to see him arrested for murder.
And McGarrett nailed her for selling her phony heeling machine.
Very cute!
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Does it make fake shoes?
She never recovered from losing the cloaking device!
Oh, and don't forget she got played by Spock, he wine and dine her, used her!!
Columbo and Monk were two of my favorite TV shows.
14:31 that face lol. Looks like he wants protest his innocence but he keeps silent cos columbo checkmated him so well and its burning him that he cant talk his way out of it after spending all that time talking himself into it.
Peter Falk and Donald Pleasance. Wow!!!!!
With Columbo, you enjoy the mystery after the fact.
Love Candidate For Crime's murderer. Dude immediately starts to detail EVERYTHING that happened after the "shot" fired clearly, as soon as the smallest amount of scrutiny or even a half implication was posed he started to get REALLY angry, and when Columbo said the quiet part out loud that the shooter was still in the room he went full forensics mode, detailing every last detail of the scene. The trajectory, the point of impact, the "calculation" of the aiming, everything. He was so desperate to paint himself as the victim to cover up the fact he was the exact opposite, and that is exactly what gave him away.
Wonderful writing and great production values all round.
Where's that level of commitment in television today ?😢
RIP, thanks for all the memories sir. 🙏🙏
"Just one more thing, sir, can you send chili in heaven?"
@@QueSeraSeraaaa lol, for you sir, we will try to make that happen.
@@bobbycorrigan7969 "this is very kind".
"I don't even live here!" is the best wham line there is
I really can always feel the tension when he accuses the commissioner! What a freaking star! I just wish I'd have watched sooner!
Here's what I like about Columbo: all other mystery shows have the killer shrouded in mystery and we have to guess who did it. With this show, we know who did it, we just have to figure out what clue will get them caught
Several great endings but for me it's an easy choice... 'A Friend In Deed' with Richard Kiley. Favorite episode of the entire series with an ending that was brilliant..
"Hey, I don't even live here!"
“He doesn’t live here, I do. I live here.”
😮😮😮😮😮😮
@@TheMuffinman191 Columbo moved all his stuff and decorated a house just to catch a killer? He even signed the lease with his own money. That is commitment. Think he was reimbursed by the department?
Columbo was a great show. I love these Scooby Doo endings, where the wealthy well-connected murderers don't keep shtum and call their expensive lawyers, but rather confess all, in the face of what is often fairly flimsy, circumstantial evidence. They'd have got away with it if it weren't for that pesky Columbo.
That was certainly true in "Any Old Port In a Storm." Just because his wines were ruined, didn't mean they were recently ruined. Nor did he have to throw out the bottles immediately.
As good as the Acting is..the Writer's deserve much credit...
They had some terrific writers and directors too.
i love so mutch how they hide the double of Martin Landau in the first clip
Brilliant - A Friend In Deed is the best for me - I love the animalistic way the cop shoves past Columbo in 'triumph' to grab the jewels - brilliant.
Yes, the Lieutenant has totally stitched the murderer up with the fake address. I like the way he gets more and more tense and nervous as Columbo goes in for the kill! 👮📺👍
16:20 "... about the time you came home for supper." 😰
Martin Landau excellent actor. Great dual role, here. He was awesome in Mission: Impossible and Space 1999
And Fatal Love.
He was also great in _The Jeopardy Room_ episode of The Twilight Zone. He was also in an episode of The Untouchables.
And Ed Wood.
He would've made a superb Spock!
I often get Martin Landau & Leonard Nimoy mixed up.
That first video is from Season 2 , episode 8 - Double Shock !!!
What's shocking in Double Shock is Mrs Peck
@@paulamiles9559 Hahahaha very good LOL
I love the humility of the "any port in a storm" episode
Peter was overjoyed with Donald Pleasence doing the show ,absolutely awesome episode 😅
Always great gotcha moments with Lieutenant Columbo!!! 👍👍🦃
To the person running the Columbo TH-cam channel/whoever put this video together...
You used the wrong clip for Season 3 Episode 4, Double Exposure. You had that title displayed, but the clip that played in this video was NOT from that episode.
The clip that played was from Season 2, Episode 8, "Double Shock". "Double Exposure" was an episode that had Robert Culp play the murderer in it, not the twin brothers seen here. I guess you guys running the channel mixed it up because both episodes had "Double" in the title and you used the wrong one by mistake.
I'm sorry, sir [or madame].
Exactly what I was thinking! I even looked up my DVD collection as I never saw this episode with Martin Landau and started doubting :)
I THOUGHT something was wrong, but could not place it! 👏
This almost felt like Columbo himself wrote it XD
First section is not Double Exposure. It is Double Shock, with Martin Landau.
“Any Old Port…” is one of my absolute favorite Columbo episodes. “Try and Catch Me” with Ruth Gordon was the other one.
I agree
Sgt. Vernon in A Candidate for a Crime (S3E3) waving his revolver around to point out things, give direction to officers.
It was a feature of detective series of the period that there had to be no doubt of that the accused person was actually guilty. Being found guilty by a jury in court was not enough; the murderer always HAD to confess at the end of the show. This was how shows like Columbo and Perry Mason always ended.
Loved Ruth Gordon as the canny mystery writer, Janet Leigh as the dying star and Ann Baxter as the Hollywood blackmail target.
The writers of this show along with Peter Falk’s acting genius made this show a timeless classic…✌️😎🎤🔥
And the music
I assume the wine cellar is at least partially underground and windowless- even at 109 outside and no AC, it seems unlikely it would reach 150 degrees...? Still one of my favorite episodes
It’s the zeroth law of thermodynamics 😂
The Problem with _Any Old Port in a Storm,_ is that Columbo swiped that bottle of wine without a warrant and then set up his little test. The evidence and even Adrian's confession would arguably have been thrown out illegally obtaining the evidence.
I liked that you included _Candidate for Crime_ along with _Publish or Perish_ since that's one of the few times one episode referenced another. In Publish, Columbo is explaining how when he tries to write a book about the case with the Senatorial candidate he gets writer's block.
@user-bf3jr7cu7z But if he hadn't revealed he had stolen the wine and that's what they had in the restaurant Adrian wouldn't have destroyed his wine cellar in a fit of rage. For a police procedural they relied more on Peter Falk's acting and how the stories played out than actual procedure. I mean, some episodes where he pulls evidence out of his coat pocket and it's not protected in an evidence bag sends me right up the wall. In _Mind Over Mayhem_ he recovers a burnt matchstick from the crime scene and when he confronts the murderer about it he literally pulls it from his pocket to show the killer.
Anyway to your comment I like to think that Adrian wasn't so asexual that he would rather go to prison for manslaughter than marry his secretary when it came down to it.
Columbo snatching the bottle wouldn’t hold up, but they still had motive - Carsini wanted to keep the vineyard, his brother wanted to sell it.
Still don’t know why he turned the cooler for the cellar off when he went to New York?
maybe colombo realised how the evidence was obtained was sketchy & that's why he asked for the confession ...
I thought so, too. But Adruan is such a gentleman, and knew he had been outwitted. It might seem unbecoming of him to get off on a technicality.
@user-bf3jr7cu7z If Adrian didn't know it was his wine, then why was he throwing out all of his wines. He didn't know they were ruined. Of course, the temperature would have gotten to the same degree in the wine cellar even if it didn't get to 109. Adrian had to know that anything in the high nineties would have ruined all his wines. That is why he had the AC on in the cellar to begin with. He should have checked the moment he got back.
Columbo is just the best
The twin episode actually got me stumped the first time I watched it because I wasn't paying attention at the beginning and got really confused on who actually was the murderer. Somehow it did not occur to me that both of them were
Columbo was a true master of his craft.
Man, I need to watch this show again. Used to be a almost a constant watch when I was kid staying at my aunties.
Kudos to Jack Cassidy. What a perfect villain
He was brilliant
14:50 what a great scene .....absolutely great
I wish there were 100 more episodes. I've watched every single one numerous times. I love Matlock, Perry Mason, and several other crime shows, and some come close to Columbo, but only clise.
Will my fav Columbo ever become available on my fav TH-cam. A match made in heaven😊
I’ve seen all episodes many times, and I still looove all the "gotcha moments" 😊
Season 3 is probably my favorite season
Columbo could have taken the beaters off the mixer before throwing it into the tub.
He had to put the beaters into the machine. You don't store a mixer w/ the beaters inserted.
Never think that you are the smartest guy in the room, seemed to be the message in my memory. Great show.
i gotta respect when the culprit realizes they have been outthought and are like "alright, bravo, you got me, fair is fair" other than others that go on the angry defensive
5:28 Any Old Port In A Storm is my personal favorite
I'm no legal expert but... surely that's all circumstantial Columbo.
i took this bullett out of the wall 3 hours ago....
14:30 Jackie Cooper 💕 I loved him when I was a little girl, 50 years ago & more. He was truly adorable in the Our Gang shorts, when he was sweet on Miss Crabtree, his teacher. He was a household name after "The Champ" debuted in 1931. Wallace Beery & Jackie Cooper were magic together in that movie.
Edit: Just one more thing 😉 This channel won't appear in my feed again. I sat through the NUMEROUS. commercial breaks. But going back, to revisit parts, I have to watch more commercials before AND AFTER rewatching?! There are plenty of others posting Columbo. You just priced yourself out of the market.
Ma'am, TH-cam puts in the ads, not the channels, they have no control over it. If a channel starts to get popular TH-cam starts to put in ads even if the channel doesn't want them as they want every pound of flesh they can get
In "Any Old Port In a Storm" The killer says freedom is relative to him. Go to jail for killing his half-brother, or spend the rest of his life in a loveless marriage with his secretary who he referred to as an Iron Maiden who was turning the thumbscrews on him. She lied to the police to protect Adrian her boss, by telling them she saw Rick's car leaving the winery the day of the murder, when in fact it never did. Ironically the murdered man, who also played Capt. Burton in "Land Of The Giants", is still alive and runs a winery of his own.
I love how so many of these are on "Best moments period".
8:33 that little laugh when he realized that Columbo actually had prepared for that question.
Hold on @1:56, would someone be electrocuted if it tripped immediately with the American voltage of 120? I've received a shock at 230 volts and it hurt but, at no point, did I think I would die. If I was constantly shocked I would expect to die. I've not tested this in a bath full of water and am not going to but, come on!
Although my birthy year is early 80s but this was my fav series. My elder brother and uncles used to watch this and discuss about it. I became fan of columbo and peter falk.
the genius of peter falk
I already had seen these, but the acting is so good it's well worth a rewatch.
Season 3 is amazing ❤
I had that same station wagon when I was a kid.
The ending of "Publish or Perish" always bothered me a little bit.
While it's true that the week old ending couldn't have been written 9 months ago, I don't think the weight of that piece of testimony compares to the mysteriously appearing appearing key that was dated after the death of the victim. Personally, I've always found that that was a far more important piece of evidence considering that the murderer was the only one that Columbo told about that little inconsistency. I think that ending would have been far more impactful had the episode finished on the key rather than the manuscript.
I agree. Also the new ending of the manuscript was really cheesy. Go and live in a monastery...omg.
God I loved this show, why didn't I become a detective is beyond me, Life n kids got in the way I guess, but No Regrets!!!
"I found this bullet 3 hrs ago before you said you fired it 3 min ago"!!, Priceless!!!
I have the box set of every episode on dvd, truly great show
✨Thank you ✨☺️
Who needs lawyers when you have Columbo on the case!😂😂😂
I never knew there were 2 Martin Landaus...
When the Colombo is on I put my remote control down ,
That the romulan commander in the third segment?
I see it was. Nice
That was Joanne Linville who was both the Romulan commander and the candidate's wife.
6:15 since when wine overheat in a cave😂😂😂 It is much more cold in a cave than outside if you ask me