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- Season 1 "Ransom For a Dead Man" A brilliant tort attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo. Culmbo works with the suspect's daughter-in-law to unravel the killer's only weakness.
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"Don't do that again"
He was about to send her to the Columbo dimension.
Also known as: jail
@@DeathnoteBB Love your name. My favorite anime and reminds me of Beyond Birthday.
he was actually about to teach a child a lesson
That was the most... anger? I've ever seen Columbo display. It was incredibly mild but for him that was going nuclear.
The Shadow Realm
"Being chased by Columbo is like being nibbled to death by a duck." -Peter Falk
that's funny
Perfect analogy!🤣🤣🤣
Oh my gosh that's funny!!! Nibbled to death by a duck. Lol!!!
"This is like being nibbled to death by... a... what are those earth creatures called? Feathers. Long Bill. Webbed Feet. Go Quack?" - "Cats!" - "Cats! I've been nibbled to death by cats!"
@@FersusSwingo "You moon faced assassin of joy!"
Peter Falk fully embraced his character. The hunched over shoulders, the constantly troubled expression of a man deep in thought, the general body language . . . What a tremendous actor.
It's astounding to find out that Peter Falk was NOT the first choice to play Columbo. When the character was originally created the writers envisioned another actor to play the part. He turned them down because he was in semi-retirement and he felt that committing to a show like Columbo would interfere with his golf game. If he had said yes, Columbo would have been played by Bing Crosby!
@@nwolfe35 holy smokes I completely forgot about that!
@@nwolfe35 *shudder*
@@nwolfe35 thank heavens Peter Falk took the role, I can't see me watching Bing doing the job.
@@damienpepper2254 to be fair we can’t picture Bing playing Columbo because Peter Falk made the character his. If Bing had taken the role we’d be talking how we can’t imagine Peter Falk in the role.
"I can't have you accused of murder on the wrong evidence." I love how Columbo never lied, or lost his cool. He just said things the way they are - and let the facts and the criminals speak for themselves.
Columbo lied often
@@artygunnar I saw it more like allowing the suspects to think he’s a bumbling detective. Either way, he was a master at it.
@@artygunnar Lied? That's a bit of an oversimplification. More like he set up a gray area which allowed the murderer to expose the truth.
@@highplainsdrafter595 Also known as lying :)
@@DeathnoteBB Bit of a difference.
I love how she deconstructed him. How she saw through all his tricks and veils, all the while he was successfully luring her back into that false sense of security. We all saw that at the end of the conversation, she thought she won.
She was wrong.
Love it!
Well she was actually right. She just had one huge problem... she couldn't help but be herself.
And that did her in!
C'est la guerre@@donarthiazi2443
Columbo's personal manner is disarming and astute, hoodwinking his suspects into revealing details that incriminate,
helping him solve the murder. Brilliant stuff.
Useful skills to counter and defeat the JR Ewings of Office Politics. It worked for me.
2:45 “Young lady...don’t you ever do that again.”
That’s more chilling then when he slammed the coffee pot on Spock’s desk.
Columbo nearly had to show 1% of his power in eliminating the girl from existence.
That woman was about 0.1% away from being permanently banished to the Columbo dimension
@@casey6556 Please, tell me more about the Columbo dimension, I’m anxious to know more
@@whackyjinak4978 well you see it's where he comes from as he comes from nothing and returns to nothing. That is a quote from his creator but what can be discerned from this quote is he does not return alone. If I speak anymore on this I may be banished myself to the Colombo dimension. Just one more thing... The Colombo dimension it's.. it's not quite as oh no have said too much euuuahhhhhhgggg!!! Uuuuuurk!!! Nooooo detective don't! Gah! SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEP! . . .
@Damien Vryce well Damien, I'm coming to you from the Columbia dimension and I can confirm I see a great deal of perps from the show. The rest I don't see I can only assume they have been cannibalized.
What an actor Peter Falk............he is truly missed by millions of people
My favorite detective
They don't make actors like him anymore..
The sad part is that the character died with him. How could Columbo be played by anyone else? In essence, Peter Falk was Columbo.
"I can't have you accused of murder on the wrong evidence". Boom!
“I JUST can’t have you accused...”
Leslie thought she was cleverer than Columbo! 😄 🙈
But he could have a mobster threaten to kill George Wendt if he didnt incriminate himself
@@phdtobe Thanks, good catch.
@@llarmstrong783 I didn't like that one. Not a good look for Columbo.
This is still my favourite episode from the early series. The way in which each scene is set and played out. It is almost like watching a stage play. Especially the house scenes. All the actors are perfect, with Lee Grant and Patricia Mattick almost chewing the set with their melodramatic performances. It is a delight to watch and I could literally watch this episode again and again. The music is also wonderful. There is so much detail in every scene. The background music in the airport bar, that slowly becomes the closing title theme. The cinematography in the early episodes always stood out too. Needless to say, I have the whole box set of the series on DVD.
I just recently bought the whole series DVD box set. I love this show!
Agreed. I have the complete box set also with the movies included.
If I'm correct this is the 2nd pilot episode that made the show to be bought by the tv.
I watch Columbo partly for all the amazing furniture and ornaments
Yes, and the cars too!
When I watched Columbo, the first time around, back when binge watching took 9 months, those cars and furniture were nothing special.
I watch for the cars and technology
Same. It makes me wish we were back in the 70’s....
My opinion is I hate 70's design. It's so garish.
Love how Columbo hits her with a zinger as he's leaving the house. For a minute there she is clicking her heels, then bam! What a great show this was.
"Ransom for a Dead Man" played a vital role in reviving Lee Grant's career, which had been stalled by Hollywood for many years. This film (and it is more of a film than merely an episode, much like "Prescription: Murder" was a film) gave Lee Grant the opportunity to reinvent herself as an actress, proving to all doubters in the Hollywood community that she still "had it." Within only about 4 years, Lee would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film "Shampoo" (1975), starring Warren Beatty and written by Robert Towne (who earlier was a "script doctor" for the classic picture, "The Godfather," and the writer for another class picture, "Chinatown"). Lee is approximately 94 years old.
Wasn't she in a airport movie?
@@lonnybush5612 In only a few more seconds than it took you to compose and post said question (and never have anyone respond) you could've googled it. SMH.
@@highplainsdrafter595 Who pissed in your " Cheerios "?
By this time, she'd already been in 'In the Heat of the Night' (1967). Her comeback was already in progress.
Margaret was a pretty smart cookie, between her & The Lieutenant, Leslie didn't stand a chance!!! 🙂
She lived in a freemason lodge lol
Except that this incident with the keys lacked thought
I was worried the stepmom was going to kill the young girl. That is a danger you know.
@@jjohnsengraciesmom then columbo would have nailed her on two murders
@@jjohnsengraciesmom I actually thought the opposite. The girl was gonna go psycho and kill the stepmother for demeaning her
and as revenge for the murder of her dad.
Ha!
What a line!
"I can't have you be accused of murder on the wrong evidence".....brilliant.....
😂 😃 😄 😅
Yeh that was genius! Such a subtle way of putting her in her place.
I just learned, that Peter’s right eye was fake. He had cancer when he was 3 and lost it. He is such a great actor, I never even noticed.
ah! just started watching and i noticed in some videos his eyes pointed different directions and sometimes not. a glass eye did not occur to me somehow
It's worth noting that Peter's fake eye played the part of a real eye in Columbo.
Peter Falk was the best, this role showed what a great actor ge really was.
He did a great bit on a talk show, on how he was rejected for service when he enlisted. "Cover your right eye, and read the chart", which Falk did. "Now cover the left one and read". Falk just repeated the first action, as the Dr. wasn't watching him.
@@SpeccyMan It didn't, as in one particular episode, he asks a guy to help him find something and said "three eyes are better than one!"
"Young lady, don't you ever do that again." - Calm, cool headed, direct, powerful. That's totally Columbo, through and through.
Exactly. He was saving her from herself. He explained it later: he can't use wrong evidence. When he said: "No I don't know that (she killed your father)", he meant: officially I don't know that. Let's do that by the book as it should be.
She has to be the prettiest murderer on any Columbo episode.
she's mesmerizing
She’s probably 60 by now
Pretty and sharp and complete aplomb. Just a staggering woman.
And all of this, in a body that Don lemon would say, was even at the time of this program, past its prime
@@fortunatebumThe actress playing Leslie is Lee Grant. She'll be 98 years old in October. When this episode of COLUMBO first aired in 1971 she was just 45.
@@Richard-xo2gm the makeup department did a good job portraying her as a young girl.
We need a new detective series like this. A series that is about the people, the interaction, and not about bombastic special effects.
Monk was kinda fun to binge watch for me
@@MattTheLizard Yes, I have seen several Monk episodes, and they were indeed fun to watch, but it is hard to beat Columbo. :)
Even after seeing this a number of times over several decades, Lee Grant's cold intensity is something to behold. Beautiful and deadly. The early Columbo episodes had the most fabulous casts, though later episodes were still excellent.
No wonder, she's a Scorpio, and people still think that zodiac signs are complete bollocks
Nobody has ever put together a full out dissection of Columbo such as this. 100%. I appreciate the compliment...lol
Margaret and Columbo have set up a really great trap for Leslie. That she tried to slap him gave the hole show an extra convincing note. Really great.
hole?
I love her breakdown of Colombo. It’s so cathartic for one of these adversaries to finally express what makes Colombo so frustrating for them to go up against.
The lovely and talented Ms. Lee Grant is still alive today (2022) at 96 years old. God bless her!
7:31, "...fumbling and stumbling along, but it's always jugular that He's after", LOL
I was only watching this the other night, im replaying the whole columbo series again, such a great series
I don't think there is ever a time when there isn't a Columbo episode on my Sky television planner!
I watched it last night. :)
I'm filing this under 'Columbo moves the Chess pieces into position.'
'Forging evidence is a crime' - Columbo
Mr. Brimmer, Dr Cahill and the British acting couple roll their eyes off screen.
So weird that the actress playing the stepdaughter died in 2003 at 52, but lee Grant is still alive at 95
It's a real shame she wound up devoting herself to Theater. She had some talent.
@@Mourtzouphlos240 i agree..in fact, imo, theatre is overrated pretentious garbage.. it's only useful for honing your skills to move into tv shows
@@siddharthsen7035 I do enjoy movies and TV shows more, but even I have to admit theater takes more acting skills. There are no take twos or editing there.
@@Aivottaja true
Specifically the stepdaughter Margaret Williams (played by Patricia Mattick) died of cancer in 2003. Too young at age 52. RIP.
No one can beat Columbo. I wished he was on more than just on Sundays because some Sundays I work. Thank you to the uploader
You can watch all the Columbo you want on Amazon video or NBC’s Peacock app.
@@johnlipponen271 Thank you. I wasn't aware. 👍👍
LOL ever heard of the internet? There's a whole world of streaming on demand resources you can watch any episode anytime. And yes, for free. WIse up.
@@highplainsdrafter595 uncalled for
@@highplainsdrafter595 why so nasty? This is not the first comment I’ve noticed your nasty reply. Try being helpful instead of a hinderance, your life will improve heaps.
Classic! Love everything about this episode. Margaret's bratty behavior, furniture, clothes, phone/ fax. COLOMBO is so very SMART.
4:08
God, the shiver I felt down my spine when Columbo said, "I just can't have you accused of murder based on the wrong evidence."
Lee Grant is 95 and still alive.
I had a crush on her when I was a boy.
@@richardquinn8604 Oh yeah. Same.
@@jmadden50 it makes me feel sad when I see her now after the obvious plastic surgeries.
You really can’t turn back time but I guess people will keep trying.
@@topherthe11th23 Hahaha, that's pretty good. She's as witty as she is beautiful, apparently. No surprise, a certain intelligence always seemed to shine through in her roles. Great actress. And one of Columbo's most memorable opponents.
She had a great role in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.
I love that exchange between the mother and daughter in the study. Such high drama! That's the way it should be.
Stepmother
RIP Pattye Mattick- you were awesome 💐
Poor old Leslie didn't stand a chance. Margaret and Columbo on her case, Columbo could have had Margaret arrested for attempting to strike a police officer, but he was far too nice for that!
Exactly
Umm. That was part of the setup. They were both in on it. They wanted the killer to think Columbo didn’t like the daughter.
@@michellemckillop8935 My mistake, it's a long time since I watched this episode and I believe you are right. It was part of Columbo's cunning plan to bring the killer to justice.
@@michellemckillop8935 exactly 👍
Lee Grant is good at this kind of role where she challenges someone with force of will. And so is her counterpart, Patricia Mattick.
Superb writing and performing. An excellent villain.
I love this show. No other detective show can touch it.
God, I love Columbo - its been YEARS since I watched a full episode but catching these on youtube brings it all back!
'Just one more thing!'~
My favorite things in life are golden retreivers, reading a great Dean Koontz book and watching Columbo!!!
"I can't have you accused of murder on the wrong evidence" AHAHAHAHA
Ah, another clip from the one with Lee Grant as the murderer with an incredibly charming facade. One of my fav earlier episodes!
Definitely one of my all time favorite episode thanks mostly for the talented Lee Grant. I love her so much in this episode.
04:00 Demonstration of the Reverse Columbo.
07:04 Columbo Defined.
08:32 Apparently Perry Mason is a fictional character, in the Columbo universe.
09:22 The "one more thing" fake-out.
"Gotta love it."
Perry Mason is a fictional character.
I look up actors to see how they did in life. So sad to see Patricia Mattick died so young. RIP beautiful Patricia.
She was only 52
Absolutely! The fact that she dresses rather plainly, wears small round glasses, and still looks gorgeous really says something.
@@truefilm6991 Thanks for those kind words about Pattye. I had the honor of knowing and working with her when we were both in school together. She really ignited/lit up any room with her energy, intensity and beauty.
Young lady?!.......don't you ever do that again. I love those rare moments where you see Columbo get serious and let's a person know he ain't no c**t 🤣🤣🤣. Love it.
and to think….Lee Grant has outlived all of her co stars in this episode.
Awesome Pattye Mattick, always remembered, never forgotten. 🙏💐📺
Lee Grant... Just beautiful, a true lady from the 1970's. I was smitten with her while a young lad.
After years away from acting. She had been blacklisted.
She was amazingly beautiful, and not just in her youth.
@Tom Lowery she was blacklisted and in fact struggled to find work...something which created a fear of not being able to find work as she got older.
In this scene Columbo says there's a “‘murder in Malibu’ they want me to look into.” In Season nine, there's an episode “Murder in Malibu”!
And it was s**t
@@jamesporter2542 All those episodes from the 90s and early 00s were. They were all barely a step above an episode of Murder She Wrote or Diagnosis Murder. Falk had too much power and took too many liberties with the character; but I could overlook that if the scripts weren't so obviously thrown together.
Murder in Malibu was a Season 9 episode actually.
Columbo solves these cases AND discovers America....Good Job!
2:45 -- OH WOW!!! I was literally shocked when I saw this happening! Slapping Columbo in the face?!?! Oh, my ... O_o'
Same I yelled out "Woah" lol
@Herry Valenzuela I think so too but it still surprised me 😉
Lee Grant was a superb actress.
Lee Grant was such a beautiful woman. Great cast. The lines were equally classy with good English and articulate characters, unlike today with fountains of expletives and not much else. There is a craft to language. Its a joy to the ears to hear a creative use of words.
Sadly it is a dying art. Americans massacre the English language with every utterance.
LMFAO This WOMAN Literally explained Columbo perfectly from A-Z
I love how beautiful things were back then
If I ever was guilty of a crime I'd would have been honored to have Columbo on my case.
Not if you wanted to get away with it!!!
Margaret's acting feels convincing.
Mrs. Williams Oh man.
7:12 perfect description of the whole series
Dang ole Marg took a good swipe at Columbo😲
As a psychopath, it's not a surprise she could see through a pretense like Columbo's.
Columbo was never roughed up as a police man unlike Joe Mannix or Jim Rockford who as private eyes always seemed to get assaulted in every episode of their shows!!
And Columbo would never do that, rough up Jim Rockford. He was even nice to the ex-cons he'd question along the way.
@@parcivale
Peter Falk had it easy as an actor playing Columbo whereas Mike Connors playing Joe Mannix and James Garner playing Jim Rockford really had to earn their acting dough.
That's because Jim Rockford was a sarcastic smart a** and was another irreplaceable gem for that particular show. Rockford Files was also a fantastic series and is in my all-time Top 3. They wanted to do a modern remake of that show and thankfully the director pulled the plug on it because The Rockford Files cannot ever be replicated. Period.
The Rockford files was another great show,a big favourite of mine,but of course,my heart belongs to Columbo.
Lee Grant is still with us. However It was the step daughter, played by Patricia Mattick that passed first. Died of cancer in 2003.
Thats so sad she was really cute on here. In an early 70s coed kinda way
@@rainblaze. i know she was a cutie
She was actually beautiful. Started her career as aodek at 16. Redhead with green eyes! 🌹 I haven't been ableto find out what type of cancer she died from but it was reported she moved to Florida because the air was better than California or the high altitude of Denver wwere she was from. After her death, she was buried in Colorado. RIP beautiful.
She was only 52
"Lieutenant Columbo, this is Margaret. I found the Mannlicher-Carcano! Lieutenant? Lieutenant?
There is no role Lee Grant couldn't take on. Funny, deadly, sinister, romantic, pathetic, and always fantastic, even in trash like Valley of the Dolls. She could play them all, and so effectively. A truly great character actress.
She's not dead is she? Maybe old as Methuselah... but not dead??
Seing this reminds me of Lee Grant as the victim's widow in 'In the heat of the night'. I've watched this movie numerous times over here in Germany, dubbed, so I don't know the original dialogue. Retranslating it Lee Grant tells the local notables "I'll leave you to yourself", in case Virgil Tibbs, a homicide inspector of African American descent, isn't allowed to investigate the murder of her husband, who was about to build a new factory in Sparta with lots of economic benefits for the town. That's one chilly scene if I ever saw one, and a highly recommended movie.
My favorite Columbo episode.
Like both actresses too.
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The stunning Lee Grant, a victim of blacklisting due to her husband's contacts, who she later divorced. She lost ten prime years in her career, as she put it. Thankfully, she got to do some great work afterward, like this splendid performance in the beloved show, Columbo.
@@TD75 Ope! Found the conservative XD
What contacts did her husband have, that she was blacklisted?
Oh no she didn't. She tried to hit Columbo. Girl - sit down.
The writers were brilliant! Brilliant!
I think C and Margret planned that confrontation , to throw the step - mother off and cause her to get bolder in showing he hand
My favorite part: “Young lady, don’t you ever do that again”.
I have never had the reflexes to catch a slap. So I just say, "You couldn't even draw blood. Pathetic; a baby could hit harder than you."
I love the cyclical nature of fashion. The daughter looks 100% gen-Z. Middle parted hair, round glasses, muted colors. Even the hair length and general expressions and body language remind me so much of the younger generation now.
Also her sense of humor!
“Are you listening?”
“Yes, but it’s _very_ difficult because I’m so sick!”
Interesting you say that about fashion and hair, as I've noticed as of 2022 that male teens are lengthening their hair to look similar to the long-haired teens of the early to mid-70s.
Fashion and names both have notably cyclical characteristics
1:26 check out the tape on the floor. It's the mark where the actress is to stop, to be where the camera is focused to frame this shot.
Excellent spotting! Yep: floor marking. Checked the next shot where Pattye Mattick moves along the optical axis and it could have been a second camera rolling just outside the frame on the left. The continuity is perfect. So I'd say the marking was for both: blocking (staying clear of the chair) for the wide shot - and focus for the tight medium shot.
Omg, good catch!
"I can't have you accused of murder on the wrong evidence." - God Columbo is brilliant in how they wrote "Oh you're not guilty....with THIS evidence."
Funny thing about Columbo, no poor people ever kill or get killed in his cases.
We never saw Columbo dealing with those cases of it being a street crime shooting or knifing.
They use him when they need a high profile case handled quickly.
The first scene would also fit into your compilation of Columbo becoming angry
7:05 I love it when the villain knows just how intelligent Columbo is, and aren't fooled by him.
This is one episode I had not seen back in the day! This is a good one!
One of my favourites!
@@quietside3734 Mine too, mainly because of the gifted Lee Grant.
Is this the only time anyone actually physically hit Columbo?
Nobody else could ever play Columbo like Peter Falk
Sure, he says goodby now but there is always one more thing.
Wow these film to video transfers are amazing. I wish MeTV was this clear.
The actress who played Margaret was beautiful. R.I.P.
Patricia Mattick (”Margaret”) passed away on December 6, 2003 at age 52. Lee Grant is still with us at age 95.
Lee Grant was in Mulholland Dr.
What was the cause of death?
Yes she died of cancer in 2003 aged just 52, that's a few years younger than I am. Coincidentally 2003 also saw the last Columbo episode ever made "Columbo Likes The Nightlife" Peter Falk was then in his mid 70's.
She was around 50 when this was made? Jeez, she looked very nice.
@Herry Valenzuela I was referring to Lee Grant.
7:04- 7:40 That was a great description of "Columbo's way". She got to know who he was.... but that didn't save her. And "but it's always the jugular that he's afyer" is perfect. The is the essence of Columbo: he is there to get you. Nothing else.
This was a great episode and one that is rarely seen in replays. Don't know why.
@Herry Valenzuela possibly. Good thought.
"I'm disappointed in you, lieutenant."
This line is always the beginning of the fall. lol
I just can't have you accused on the wrong Evidence! Superb how he talked to the suspects , as he knew they did it, but was going to get them eventually.
I like that no sooner has the girl picked up the phone to call the police department, Columbo materialises at the door.
Dude is like a justice ghost it's uncanny
Awesome, timeless Pattye Mattick 💐💐💐
Absolutely adorable 👩🏻🦰👓📺
She thought social security would still be there lmao
The main actress in this episode is a fire woman with a mane of flames. SMOKING
"Margaret" was played by Patricia Mattick (she's 19 here) who had parts in about a couple dozen TV productions in the 70's and then worked in theater for the next 20 years. She died of cancer in 2003 at only 52 years of age.
Timeless Pattye Mattick 👩🏻🦰👓💐
I remember all of these episodes. I even do a pretty good columbo myself
My most favorite TV character ever. And Peter falk had it mastered.👍🏼
Fun guy isn't he????
@@rickmays797 he's a mench. Pretty sure loved by all.👍🏼
I dressed up as him for Halloween one year.
If Mrs. Columbo knew how flirty he was with the female killers she would have burned his overcoat.
Just as well. He hated that coat.
I LOVE COLUMBO!!! I always cheer for him while I watch !!!!
Lee Grant was ,in this pilot episode of Colombo so Beautiful smart classy and utterly lacking a conscience. At 11 I was totally in love with her while watching this episode. But the incidental music really stuck in my pre-composers brain all those chromatically altered harmonies and submiediant modal shifts that's actually how I and Wayne Shorter and Kenny Wheeler do approach harmony. Very weightless and mysterious.