I saw about a year ago where somebody made a list of the best tv detectives and to my disappointment Columbo was like 10 or 12 can't remember how many there was and the guy explained why he was so low on the list .....the ONLY reason was that he was unkempt and the guy liked his detectives polished ...what a load of bs ...
@@witzelasper2821 yeh, that's all I need to know to say that guy either has no taste or appreciation for character design, or he's simply writing an article to fill a quota and get paid. Either way, fairly irrelevant opinion.
Quite possibly that this is in the top 5 columbo episodes as like he said..'the eye witness is you!!!!! Brilliant script writing & Peter falk as usual superb ..
In hindsight, I actually think it's a terrible episode, initially there isn't a murder. The first person that is killed instigated the fight first by grabbing and punching George Hamilton then by attacking Lesley Warren, George Hamilton is acting in self-defense when he kills him.
@@24magiccarrot True, but in order to have that work, he'd end up having to admit the details that would ruin his career. Even if he came up with a story like he did about 2 intruders breaking in, the truth would still eventually come to light with or without an investigation due to the wife's guilt.
Was a cunning ending by Columbo, but they had other evidence, like the dog claw scratches on his Mercedes door (only had 3 scratches as the dog lost a claw)
0:40 At this moment, I would have questioned as to whether or not it was a justifiable homicide since the husband was beating Leslie Anne Warren and might very well have killed her. But his other actions before and after definitely made it murder. Especially arranging for Leslie to kill herself.
@@Drummerchick2003 Yeah, but if he had gone to the cops and said "look, this guy was trying to beat my girlfriend to death, I hit him over the head with this fireplace thing and he died." I don't think he would even see a day in prison.
@Peter Fitzgerald He can just tell the truth. "Look, I don't like to admit it, but I was having an affair with her. I came over there to see her, and he was trying to kill her, so I acted." She will confirm this. It's better than trying to cover it up and then having to face Columbo. Plus, Columbo can confirm his story with his keen observation skills just as he can pick apart his bullshit story when he tries to cover up.
Agreed on both points! I do have to say that George Hamilton gave a pretty good performance, tho. Lesley Ann Warren was solid, as she often was in TV and movies.
This episode where he kills a drugged Mrs Donner making her jump of a high balcony with a phone call reminds me of the episode "How To Dial A Murder", where the psychologist murderer has his dogs trained to kill his victim by the phone as soon as they hear him repeat the word "rosebud"
And they both remind me of Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder", which popularized the how catch 'em mystery format. We might not have Columbo without that movie.
the homicide of the man is probably justifiable given the fact that Hamilton (actor's real name) was attacked by the husband and the husband was beating his wife I do not think he was trying to kill him when he hit him with the poker. Was it a reasonable amount of force to hit a man from the back with poker in order to protect a woman being beaten? This is arguable. But the use of mind control to cause the woman to kill herself was First-degree murder-there was Intent, planning, and deliberation to cause and in fact, caused her death.
That's true. He probably would have got 6 months max even if he was convicted for the first murder. But, the second? The only problem with claiming self-defense for the first murder would be that his relationship with his patient would have been made public and what would that have done to book sales?
the theme in all these Columbo episodes is that the famous fortune seeking killer is trying to either pursue wealth or protect wealth and usually at the same time.
Also, he killed her and she was his only witness who could testify for his innocence. Esp. since getting beaten like that must have left significant marks on a delicate woman.
"There is no way in the world that you could have assumed that this man, this witness, was blind. Unless, of course, you had seen this man that day. That's the only way you could have known." That original assumption was understandable because of how the sighted brother was acting. What really incriminated the suspect morally is when after the brother read the magazine, the suspect still insisted that he was blind. I don't know how that would have held up in court, but for the audience, this was clever and fun. Having a sighted person act like a blind person pretending that he wasn't blind. That is some next level writing... There would have been other incriminating things, as well. Like phone records, tire tread prints and damage to the car.
That large console with all the flashing lights that you see starting at around 2:40 in the clip - that is the maintenance console of the NORAD SAGE air defense computer system. The computer was the IBM Q-7. The actual computer was huge and filled most of the first floor of a giant block house building. It was a vacuum tube computer and the largest (physical) computer ever built. That console with the lights seen here - that was just the maintenance console where they could run tests and monitor the computer operations. When the Air Force finally shut these systems down (some in the 70s and the rest in the 80s), Hollywood bought some of the equipment and hooked up the lights to flash randomly and look cool. How do I know all this? Because I was a maintenance man on this beast for 7 years in my early AF career.
I feel like this is a "murder" that could be argued as self-defense. Dude was attacked and then the guy who attacked him was beating up his defenseless girlfriend so he grabbed the nearest object and defended her A good lawyer could get them both off
Columbo could have solved the case without the blind man scene in the house. He found a fresh tyre track from a European car there. There were no other European cars there except Columbo's beaten up old French car and Dr Colliers fancy car. His forensic team could have easily matched the thread on the tyre track to the tyre on Dr Colliers car proving his car was there at the time when the blind man heard a car speeding away from the house.
European car on European tyres unfortunately ridiculous or perhaps American cars run on Firestone tyres, they don’t run on Pirelli or Michelin tyres under any circumstances!
thats what I love about Columbo as a series and I just discovered this show a few years ago. They left in all these weird absurdities that would get cut in a second now. They wouldn't even bother filming it now. Someone should do a review of just moments like that.
Loved this one, esp the ending, but in reality, if the good doctor had claimed self-defense and defense of Nadia, most likely there would not have been charges in the first place.
But his life would have been ruined, he would have had his reputation and ethical reputation destroyed. Sleeping with a patient is bad enough, but a married patient makes it even worse, yeah his defense of her would have brought him legally innocent but he would have lost his book deal and his career. A lot of these killers in Columbo, are people with reputations that they have to protect, they aren't mob hitmen who don't care if the public thinks they killed someone, they just have to admit to nothing, and the court of public opinion has no real impact on their career. These people cannot afford to even be thought guilty, it's why they don't just button their lips, to even do that is to say in the public eye, that cloud lies heavy over them. This shrink, he could have fessed up to self defense he gets off, or only manslaughter, but the fact that he slept with a patient immediately kills his reputation for good, as he was deeply unprofessional and unethical.
Did I miss something in the opening scene? It looked like self defence. They could have just told the truth about their affair and that the husband started to beat her lover up, then was doing a ground and pound on her until the younger guy whacked him over the head with the fire poker!
The thing is the first death was a clear case of self defense, or at least a good lawyer could have made that defense work. He had already attacked the guy and was murdering the wife.
Similar ending to An Exercise in Fatality where the murderer is the only person to know the victim was in his gym clothes. His own alibi was what caught him out.
2:49 I just realized how absurd it is for a police officer to say to a person involved in the case, ‘can we talk off the record.’ Not sure if it’s just such a common phrase, but you can imagine it’s purposefully deployed to make someone he already suspects feel subconsciously at ease.
This shows how different the seventies were. Back then, the idea that someone could be hypnotized into jumping to their deaths wasn’t considered ridiculous. Any serious tv show today wouldn’t use this trope.
@@beCoCOi Nah, we've just learned to understand hypnotism more. It's been proven to be impossible to hypnotize someone into a state where they can ignore their sense of self preservation
it's just a plot device, requiring suspension of disbelief. in my opinion it's not that viewers get more educated and start seeing through plot devices - they just get bored with some, because they've been overused and they get out of fashion. hypnosis was one, then came unrealistically accurate forensics etc. they come and go. also bear in mind that TV series used to be regarded as more light-hearted, low-budget type of fun back in the day. the era of "serious" TV series (like House of Cards. Breaking Bad, Mad Men) was yet to come. so people didn't care so much about the realism of their favourite "monster of the week" type of series. i don't think it has very much to do with the perception of hypnotism specifically
@Solitude47152 Well,obviously it'd be a bit difficult to prove a man hypnotized a woman to ask her to die. I feel this episode needs you to suspend disbelief.
Well, there was no one left alive who could corroborate the self-defense story, and the guy himself wanted to cover it up so that his book thing with the university wouldn't fall apart and ruin his career. And I think that there were plenty of character references that would have said that he's a scumbag. So putting him in the house at around the time of the death plus him lying about it plus the woman mysteriously dying from suicide while being under his psychiatric care wouldn't look very good in a trial.
The point of the Columbo series is - "mind games"! No matter how improbable the reasons for the charge of murder, it's all about the psychological games.
That was the thinnest evidence hes ever had .. but yes when you kill someone at their home .. first thing to do when leaving is to spin your tires driving like a lunatic when leaving
I like all columbo episodes, but that one didnt make sense at the end. anybody could and would assume that the man was blind the way he moved and talked, the way he was dressed ect. That does not prove anything.
Aaaaand this is why you never, never talk to the police. These suspects are total idiots and in Columbo episodes, 99% of the time, the suspect incriminates himself.
I haven't seen the whole episode, but, from what I saw here, I'm not sure I'd call it murder. Homicide, sure, but it seemed as though he hit the man too hard in an effort to protect the woman.
This was one of my favorite episodes. "So, am I to take it that I'm a suspect?" asks Hamilton's character. "I don't think suspect is a strong enough word,'" answers Columbo. That tells you all you need to know about how much he despised Hamilton's character, and with good reason. Hamilton was so good at playing the detestable character that I wanted to reach through the TV and smack him. When Columbo took him down in the last scene, it was EXTRA sweet.
The old-school detectives seemed to use deduction and reason to solve cases; since the advent of DNA testing and new lab methods and surveillance cameras, there has been a heavy reliance on these new methods. They solved many cases (old and new) but there is something very appealing about solving it the old way like Holmes or Columbo did.
@2:45 Smoking in the data center? Um. I wish! Back in the day computers were the size of refrigerators AND had to stay refrigerated while they operated otherwise they'd overheat. Smoking a cigarette in there would have been verboten!!
Out of all of the Columbo episodes I watched this one makes the least sense to me. Usually the murderer has planned the deed, theres a reason, greed usually, but here the murderer was trying to stop a man beating on his wife .... thats manslaughter at worst, right? With a good lawyer he may of got off free, so why all the hiding and lying?
True. Theres also the issue with how Columbo makes his most of his arrests. None of the evidence would be permitted in court if it even got that far. Many of them would be false arrests.
Just look at the body and physic of Leslie Anne warren UNBELIEVABLE and what a great face still looks great today! Pity she’s a Democrat like all the HOLLYWEIRD crowd.
“ I am not sure suspect is a strong enough word”. This episodes ending was top notch.
Peter Falk has left us, but his character is loved by millions, certainly the detective of all detectives .
Word
I saw about a year ago where somebody made a list of the best tv detectives and to my disappointment Columbo was like 10 or 12 can't remember how many there was and the guy explained why he was so low on the list .....the ONLY reason was that he was unkempt and the guy liked his detectives polished ...what a load of bs ...
@@witzelasper2821 yeh, that's all I need to know to say that guy either has no taste or appreciation for character design, or he's simply writing an article to fill a quota and get paid. Either way, fairly irrelevant opinion.
Except for Sherlock Holmes.
And an upstanding GI in The Longest Day.
Quite possibly that this is in the top 5 columbo episodes as like he said..'the eye witness is you!!!!! Brilliant script writing & Peter falk as usual superb ..
In hindsight, I actually think it's a terrible episode, initially there isn't a murder. The first person that is killed instigated the fight first by grabbing and punching George Hamilton then by attacking Lesley Warren, George Hamilton is acting in self-defense when he kills him.
That is possible
@@24magiccarrot True, but in order to have that work, he'd end up having to admit the details that would ruin his career. Even if he came up with a story like he did about 2 intruders breaking in, the truth would still eventually come to light with or without an investigation due to the wife's guilt.
I guesed top top 10 so glad to see others agree
A better line would have been “you’re the eye witness “
Superb. George is underrated as one of Columbo’s best villains.
Hamilton was the right mixture of suave and sinister. Very good actor , and one of my favorites.
The best detective show ever. Love Columbo!
Glad I have Columbo on DVD. This is one of the best ones. Well, they are all pretty good.
Make sure you have a few DVD players. They will disappear soon
Really like this video with the episode highlights all in one place and in order!! Would love to see more like this!
The ending using the blind mans brother was brilliant!!! The killer was his own eye witness!!! 👍👍🎃
Was a cunning ending by Columbo, but they had other evidence, like the dog claw scratches on his Mercedes door (only had 3 scratches as the dog lost a claw)
Heaven 🤗🤗🤗🤗👻
@@artmallory970 you are right, Art. It was in the full episode ❤️ 🐶
But, the black detective points to the blind guy off stage and he comes out!
only coz the audience was given false information - why did the brother that saw the car exit and hit the pillar not look at it ?
Excellent performance from George Hamilton!
0:40 At this moment, I would have questioned as to whether or not it was a justifiable homicide since the husband was beating Leslie Anne Warren and might very well have killed her. But his other actions before and after definitely made it murder. Especially arranging for Leslie to kill herself.
I was just thinking that same thing
Premeditated, yes. heat of the moment, yes. Either way, guilty. Love columbo
@@Drummerchick2003 Yeah, but if he had gone to the cops and said "look, this guy was trying to beat my girlfriend to death, I hit him over the head with this fireplace thing and he died." I don't think he would even see a day in prison.
With a good lawyer with him going straight to the cops, I think he would have been ok.
@Peter Fitzgerald He can just tell the truth. "Look, I don't like to admit it, but I was having an affair with her. I came over there to see her, and he was trying to kill her, so I acted." She will confirm this. It's better than trying to cover it up and then having to face Columbo.
Plus, Columbo can confirm his story with his keen observation skills just as he can pick apart his bullshit story when he tries to cover up.
Not one of my favorite episodes,but it has the best "gotcha" moment !!!
Agreed on both points! I do have to say that George Hamilton gave a pretty good performance, tho. Lesley Ann Warren was solid, as she often was in TV and movies.
God! He's clever that Columbo 😏
Ya it has the coolest ending of all Columbo. 'I have an eyewitness - you' - Yep. Badass.
Best? Nope. It's just that Columbo series are so good, that watching many episodes, you want to say 'oh this one is my favorite'.
'Eyewitness is you' - No crime solving story can ever do any better :)
This episode where he kills a drugged Mrs Donner making her jump of a high balcony with a phone call reminds me of the episode "How To Dial A Murder", where the psychologist murderer has his dogs trained to kill his victim by the phone as soon as they hear him repeat the word "rosebud"
And they both remind me of Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder", which popularized the how catch 'em mystery format. We might not have Columbo without that movie.
@@Genevieve1023 Thank the playwrite Frederick Knott, then. He wrote the play that became the film.
@@wbcjr17106 Thanks for the info.
Thank for the connection - I saw that one
Peter Falk has the sweetest smile. His whole face lights up, his eyes twinkle and it makes you feel good just to look at him.
Fantastic Episode~ Hamilton is outstanding. (Just finished reading his book, "Don't mind if I do". What a life.. what a crazy family.. a great read!)
One of the top 10 episodes i love columbo 70s episodes
George Hamilton was in a couple episodes, good actor!
Which ones please?
the homicide of the man is probably justifiable given the fact that Hamilton (actor's real name) was attacked by the husband and the husband was beating his wife I do not think he was trying to kill him when he hit him with the poker. Was it a reasonable amount of force to hit a man from the back with poker in order to protect a woman being beaten? This is arguable. But the use of mind control to cause the woman to kill herself was First-degree murder-there was Intent, planning, and deliberation to cause and in fact, caused her death.
That's true. He probably would have got 6 months max even if he was convicted for the first murder. But, the second? The only problem with claiming self-defense for the first murder would be that his relationship with his patient would have been made public and what would that have done to book sales?
the theme in all these Columbo episodes is that the famous fortune seeking killer is trying to either pursue wealth or protect wealth and usually at the same time.
Also, he killed her and she was his only witness who could testify for his innocence. Esp. since getting beaten like that must have left significant marks on a delicate woman.
Many thanks for these 12 minute recaps of various Colombo episode. I was a teen in the 70s loved this show
Wow - I watched this episode two days ago on DVD. What a weird coincidence!
Really, the clip from “Last Salute To The Commodore” released two minutes after I watched the episode. That’s what I call “Crazy Coincidence
Et oui quelle coïncidence comme tu dis, moi j'aimerai bien avoir cette épisode en anglais je l'ai qu'en version française.
Maybe google is snooping on your activities 😜😜
Wow, this is actually one of the best one.
I love Columbo
I love his sneaky tricks that cause the killers to inadvertently incriminate themselves.
That "right to remain silent" thingy kind of comes in handy sometimes. 🤣
Please! Make Columbo available to be purchased on TH-cam or ITunes. I can’t believe there is no way to watch this outside of the US
I bought the DVD set. All 68 episodes. Love it,
A gem
"There is no way in the world that you could have assumed that this man, this witness, was blind. Unless, of course, you had seen this man that day. That's the only way you could have known." That original assumption was understandable because of how the sighted brother was acting. What really incriminated the suspect morally is when after the brother read the magazine, the suspect still insisted that he was blind. I don't know how that would have held up in court, but for the audience, this was clever and fun. Having a sighted person act like a blind person pretending that he wasn't blind. That is some next level writing... There would have been other incriminating things, as well. Like phone records, tire tread prints and damage to the car.
Sans doute l'un des meilleurs épisodes !
"The eyewitness is you"
Brilliant 👏👏👏
Lesley Warren has been in so many sexually compromising situations throughout her entire career as an actor.
She has huge eyes.
That large console with all the flashing lights that you see starting at around 2:40 in the clip - that is the maintenance console of the NORAD SAGE air defense computer system. The computer was the IBM Q-7. The actual computer was huge and filled most of the first floor of a giant block house building. It was a vacuum tube computer and the largest (physical) computer ever built. That console with the lights seen here - that was just the maintenance console where they could run tests and monitor the computer operations. When the Air Force finally shut these systems down (some in the 70s and the rest in the 80s), Hollywood bought some of the equipment and hooked up the lights to flash randomly and look cool.
How do I know all this? Because I was a maintenance man on this beast for 7 years in my early AF career.
I feel like this is a "murder" that could be argued as self-defense.
Dude was attacked and then the guy who attacked him was beating up his defenseless girlfriend so he grabbed the nearest object and defended her
A good lawyer could get them both off
I love this show
Columbo could have solved the case without the blind man scene in the house. He found a fresh tyre track from a European car there. There were no other European cars there except Columbo's beaten up old French car and Dr Colliers fancy car. His forensic team could have easily matched the thread on the tyre track to the tyre on Dr Colliers car proving his car was there at the time when the blind man heard a car speeding away from the house.
And if dogs talked
European car on European tyres unfortunately ridiculous or perhaps American cars run on Firestone tyres, they don’t run on Pirelli or Michelin tyres under any circumstances!
Glad the part when Dr. Collier hands Columbo his cream soda was left in!
thats what I love about Columbo as a series and I just discovered this show a few years ago. They left in all these weird absurdities that would get cut in a second now. They wouldn't even bother filming it now. Someone should do a review of just moments like that.
I whole heartly agree!!!
Loved this one, esp the ending, but in reality, if the good doctor had claimed self-defense and defense of Nadia, most likely there would not have been charges in the first place.
But his life would have been ruined, he would have had his reputation and ethical reputation destroyed. Sleeping with a patient is bad enough, but a married patient makes it even worse, yeah his defense of her would have brought him legally innocent but he would have lost his book deal and his career. A lot of these killers in Columbo, are people with reputations that they have to protect, they aren't mob hitmen who don't care if the public thinks they killed someone, they just have to admit to nothing, and the court of public opinion has no real impact on their career. These people cannot afford to even be thought guilty, it's why they don't just button their lips, to even do that is to say in the public eye, that cloud lies heavy over them. This shrink, he could have fessed up to self defense he gets off, or only manslaughter, but the fact that he slept with a patient immediately kills his reputation for good, as he was deeply unprofessional and unethical.
@@20thCenturyManTrad All valid points. Thanks.
Well, it's too late, she can't corroborate this bc she's dead! Had he not killed her ....
@@madelainepetrin1430 True, lol.
Did I miss something in the opening scene? It looked like self defence. They could have just told the truth about their affair and that the husband started to beat her lover up, then was doing a ground and pound on her until the younger guy whacked him over the head with the fire poker!
a lot of the "murders" in columbo looked like manslaughter to me - i still liked the movies though.
The only time in history a murderer was trapped by the words "always wear a bulky sweater".
and some heavy underwear
Very clever deduction
The thing is the first death was a clear case of self defense, or at least a good lawyer could have made that defense work. He had already attacked the guy and was murdering the wife.
Similar ending to An Exercise in Fatality where the murderer is the only person to know the victim was in his gym clothes. His own alibi was what caught him out.
2:49 I just realized how absurd it is for a police officer to say to a person involved in the case, ‘can we talk off the record.’ Not sure if it’s just such a common phrase, but you can imagine it’s purposefully deployed to make someone he already suspects feel subconsciously at ease.
This shows how different the seventies were. Back then, the idea that someone could be hypnotized into jumping to their deaths wasn’t considered ridiculous. Any serious tv show today wouldn’t use this trope.
We've become a boring society.
@@beCoCOi Nah, we've just learned to understand hypnotism more. It's been proven to be impossible to hypnotize someone into a state where they can ignore their sense of self preservation
it's just a plot device, requiring suspension of disbelief. in my opinion it's not that viewers get more educated and start seeing through plot devices - they just get bored with some, because they've been overused and they get out of fashion. hypnosis was one, then came unrealistically accurate forensics etc. they come and go.
also bear in mind that TV series used to be regarded as more light-hearted, low-budget type of fun back in the day. the era of "serious" TV series (like House of Cards. Breaking Bad, Mad Men) was yet to come.
so people didn't care so much about the realism of their favourite "monster of the week" type of series.
i don't think it has very much to do with the perception of hypnotism specifically
🤔 Why didn't the guy and woman simply say it was self-defense at the beginning? The dude WAS beating that lady... 🤨
8:04 is one if the all-time best moments
Youre talking about George's hair arent you? lol
"I'm not sure suspect is a strong enough word"
California in the 70s looked great .! Clothes , cars everything. ! What the hell happened ! ?
Democrats.
Balcony Blues with out the neuraglia
so clever. eye witness is you. priceless. thank you
Those double yellow couches appear in a minimum of three columbo episodes!
Clobumbo couldn't crack a wall nut much less a murder case ...
The eyewitness is you 😅🤣😅🤣
Nice.
I need Columbo on 4K Blu Ray please
I guess you could call it a blind mans bluff !😀
Very good, l like it! 😄
Another smoothie was unfortunate enough to come up against Columbo. The great detective did have a little bit of help from the blind man at the end.
This isn’t Murder, he went to the rescue of a woman who was being beaten up by a bully, watch the scene. He has a defense. Columbo is wrong.
Yeah,and then he ends up killing the woman he tried to defend,so any sympathy we had for him has evaporated
@@tbone2416 Absolutely not, even Columbo admitted he could not prove she was murdered. This was not a well thought out episode.
@Solitude47152 Well,obviously it'd be a bit difficult to prove a man hypnotized a woman to ask her to die.
I feel this episode needs you to suspend disbelief.
Well, there was no one left alive who could corroborate the self-defense story, and the guy himself wanted to cover it up so that his book thing with the university wouldn't fall apart and ruin his career. And I think that there were plenty of character references that would have said that he's a scumbag. So putting him in the house at around the time of the death plus him lying about it plus the woman mysteriously dying from suicide while being under his psychiatric care wouldn't look very good in a trial.
Certainly falls in the top 5 episodes no doubt
Ok.....wasnt that a justifiable homicide to start with. I mean you'd at least have a 75/25% shot at getting off, right?
Oh my, he was beating the woman badly and by that deserved his faith.
I think many of Colombo's cases would get tossed out, if the defense lawyer was competent. It was always fun to watch Falk as the character though!
The point of the Columbo series is - "mind games"! No matter how improbable the reasons for the charge of murder, it's all about the psychological games.
looked like self defense to me
the eye witness is not Mr. Morris, the eye witness is you!!
Lesley Ann Warren,
What a woman..
Yum Yum
She looked great at age 50 or 60 as well.
How shall we rate the ending of this anong all the episodes? I'm guessing near the top 10. I came here after watching the full ep on Peacock.
surely a good brief would have gotten George off with a self-defense rap.
If you were seen talking to Columbo, you're the killer.
Agree with below. Can still watch fifty years later.
That was the thinnest evidence hes ever had .. but yes when you kill someone at their home .. first thing to do when leaving is to spin your tires driving like a lunatic when leaving
George Hamilton is so handsome
I like all columbo episodes, but that one didnt make sense at the end. anybody could and would assume that the man was blind the way he moved and talked, the way he was dressed ect. That does not prove anything.
People are smoking in the workplace!! That is a no-no today.
Columbo episodes always had the best looking women and cars.
Aaaaand this is why you never, never talk to the police.
These suspects are total idiots and in Columbo episodes, 99% of the time, the suspect incriminates himself.
Would be quite the show .. suspects not talking ..
I haven't seen the whole episode, but, from what I saw here, I'm not sure I'd call it murder. Homicide, sure, but it seemed as though he hit the man too hard in an effort to protect the woman.
This was one of my favorite episodes. "So, am I to take it that I'm a suspect?" asks Hamilton's character. "I don't think suspect is a strong enough word,'" answers Columbo. That tells you all you need to know about how much he despised Hamilton's character, and with good reason. Hamilton was so good at playing the detestable character that I wanted to reach through the TV and smack him. When Columbo took him down in the last scene, it was EXTRA sweet.
The old-school detectives seemed to use deduction and reason to solve cases; since the advent of DNA testing and new lab methods and surveillance cameras, there has been a heavy reliance on these new methods. They solved many cases (old and new) but there is something very appealing about solving it the old way like Holmes or Columbo did.
I never got George Hamilton
@2:45 Smoking in the data center? Um. I wish! Back in the day computers were the size of refrigerators AND had to stay refrigerated while they operated otherwise they'd overheat. Smoking a cigarette in there would have been verboten!!
True. They came with warnings about temps & dust.
A good attorney would get him off
.....so would a good prostitute.
Leslie Ann Warren... so Beautiful... 😍
A los 6:45 aprox. en los subtitulos en ingles sale: "40 inches high", es un error, serian 40 pies (feet), pero no pulgadas (inches)
Lol the 2nd so called blind play so many different characters in Columbo Episodes
Old Head was about that life.
You aren't just going to take his wife because he going to put those hands on the both of you.
Out of all of the Columbo episodes I watched this one makes the least sense to me. Usually the murderer has planned the deed, theres a reason, greed usually, but here the murderer was trying to stop a man beating on his wife .... thats manslaughter at worst, right? With a good lawyer he may of got off free, so why all the hiding and lying?
Slick.
WHEN I WAS 3 ON MY BIRTHDAY MY DAD HIT MY HEAD 2 TWO TIMES WITH A CANE AND ONCE IN MY HAND WITH A DIFFERENT CANE AND I DID BLEED.
Does George still hangout with Imelda Marcos?
i want a cigarette .....
not guilty, circumstantial evidence.
Would never hold up in court
Jennifer Anne Warren
It should be "Everything wrong with:
A Deadly State of Mind' in 12 Minutes or less!
[Spoilers, duh!]
Ah, but you can't incriminate yourself in court, so his "eyewitness" is pretty useless when it goes to trail.
True. Theres also the issue with how Columbo makes his most of his arrests. None of the evidence would be permitted in court if it even got that far. Many of them would be false arrests.
Its not that U "can't" incriminate yourself but you aren't obligated or forced to do so
@Peter Fitzgerald *No, youre right. That is the objective of the show*
Lesley Warren's character got on my nerves simpering all the way through
Just look at the body and physic of Leslie Anne warren UNBELIEVABLE and what a great face still looks great today! Pity she’s a Democrat like all the HOLLYWEIRD crowd.
I don't get why this is a murder and not defense of a woman.
Watch the movie. murder Inc. .incredible academy award performance.