Columbo Uses Subliminal Manipulation To Catch His Killer | Columbo
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- From Season 3 Episode 4 "Double Exposure" A self-styled "motivation research specialist" uses subliminal cues to commit a murder. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
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..."I'm not searching. I'm looking" ... lol
lol yepp a Defense Lawyer would have a field day with that
My dad was a cop for forty years and a homicide detective for 25 years of that and even though he was called up on the "carpet" many times he still wouldn't carry a gun. The brass didn't fire him because he too was the best they had. As adults we finally got to hear his stories and it was like watching Columbo.
Could he have just worn a gun and not used it
Interestingly the episodes here he had to go get fire arm certified he still had someone do it for him, crazy how you can work around evil and still not want to carry a gun for protection, But that is where personal convictions come into play.
r/thathappened
@@Drummerchick2003 It also shows that just because you don't have ALL the skills needed to be a police officer doesn't mean that they should be removed. He's a lousy shot. A strict reading of the policies would have him removed from the force (or at least off the streets). Then they'd have no Columbo solving the crimes. My guess is someone near or at the top turns a blind eye to keep those murder cases solved.
This does happen in real life. Me, I have a weird brain, and it allows me to 'solve' issues that my compatriots can't solve. But advertising/marketing instead of murder. The thing is, where the others meet with the clients, my boss exempts me. I am a bit...blunt and undiplomatic. I can't help it. Not everyone likes that, in particular egotistical business owners. I'm better off sticking to the office.
@@Ocrilat that's why skills should be utilized in all aspects of our society. Could you imagine how far we could be as a society if we did.
I love how Columbo shows empathy to the villains at the end.
If he likes them. Robert Conrad and George Hamilton were no sympathy endings. Columbo didn't like them. You could tell.
@@MrAitraining Same with Spock and Kirk
Edit: Leonard and William
My favorite of that ending is Donald Pleasance in 'Any Port in a Storm'.
@@GhostDrummer Yes! Leonard Spock and William Kirk were both fine men ☺️
Colombo doesn't like the villian in this case. He behaves just nice.
Real fans should see the difference!
Robert Culp was the ultimate villain in all the Columbo episodes. Legendary.
Both he and Patrick McGoohan were great, as was Jack Cassidy.
I believe that Robert Culp was in 4 Columbo episodes!
He was the murderer three times, McGoohan was the murderer 4 times. I thought Culp was the bad guy more than any other actor, but he was the best villain in Columbo to me.😈💀
He was great in the Outer Limits episode "Demon With A Glass Hand" too. The basis for The Terminator. I loved the way in Columbo he "seethed".
a very CULPable villain
Shoot.
Culp was almost proud of Columbo.
"Let me see, may I?"
Leenkesh Ramlagun - I think his character was delighted that his technique was proved to work.
I got the same impression from Colombo when he realized Culp had used a calibration converter.
By far, This is my favorite reaction of a killer getting caught by Columbo.
Even he has to laugh at how clever Columbo's move was.
It's kind of scary...
@@jamescombs8316 creepy too. he has no remorse.
@@bababa3917 That's not unusual, even one of the most personable killers, Donald Pleasence's Adrian Carsini tells Columbo after he's caught, "Oh yes, I'll confess, there's no remorse. I just feel like a great weight has been lifted off of me."
@ActionCom, Columbo's reaction was legendary as well : "If there was a reward (for catching the killer), I'd support Your claim to it"...
@@jamescombs8316 this is one of the several reasons that people need to be careful and aware of which outside influences they are exposed to....
His face when he was seeing the subliminal cuts was hilarious😂
Thank you for this clip. One of the great things about Columbo clips is you learn things you may not have recognized before, even though you've seen the full episode many times. This is an example of that. For the first time, I'm realizing that Columbo got his big idea featured here from something the Forensic Specialist said when Columbo asked him where the gun is. Forensic Specialist: "I'll tell you what you do. You go to the suspect and you tell him you got a problem, and you ask him where he hid it. In the meantime, I'm gonna call my wife and tell her I'll be late for dinner." Even though the Forensic Specialist made his suggestion in jest, Columbo thought of it an entirely different way by recognizing that there WAS a way to ask the suspect where he hid the murder weapon, and a potential way for the suspect to tell him.
Bingo!
Brilliant comment!
Watching Columbo episodes taught me many great ways to commit a murder and get way with it.
Fortunately, I've never felt the need to use any of them.
I wonder if anyone actually has though.
@@antonystringfellow5152 For me, watching Columbo taught me that you could smoke anywhere at that time :)
@@alecule yeah and it was fantastic being able to live in a free world and ,if you were that way inclined, enjoy a cigarette with your drink in a pub or bar/restaurant.
I am starting to figure out this is a theme with Colombo cases. He always uses the murderers expertise , which they use to kill the victim to reveal themselves as the killer.
Maybe you should leave the detective work to Columbo there, Columbo
I mean, yeah... It's part of what makes the show great. He lets them hang themselves, especially in the episodes where the killer uses their connections or skills to cover the crime up:
Police chief? Make a false police report.
Wine maker? Remind him he ruined all his wine.
Photographer? Let him pick out the camera he used.
Ad Executive Experimenting with Subliminal Cuts? Use a subliminal cut.
Audio/Visual Enginer? Reveal how he edited the footage.
JROTC instructor hellbent on order and control? Use his punctuality and veracity against him.
Mercenary/Private Security Firm CEO? Use his own carefulness against him.
Musician that used be a paratrooper, and crashed a plane to kill? Have him find the parachute.
Greedy, callous lawyer who's all about the Benjamins? Have someone blackmail her for some of the money.
Art Critic who personally handled all his uncle's artwork? Plant and find fingerprints that shouldn't be there.
Mortician used an incinerator to dispose of a body? Reveal the switcheroo.
Fake psychic used a trick guillotine to kill his former mentor? Reveal the psychic's tricks and trick him into attempted murder.
Hotshot movie director? Use undercover officers acting as nobodies to tail him night and day.
Actor plays a TV detective? Have him reenact the scenes with you until he practically reveals things he overlooked something.
Doctor with a cool head? Re-examine everytime he blew his lid and reveal that it was an act.
This is my favorite of Culp's episodes. The most amazing thing is that Stephen J. Cannell just wrote this script for fun during a Writer's Guild Strike. He submitted it to the show after the strike was settled.
I was a big fan of Columbo as a kid and ‘Double Exposure’ was one of my favorites. Today I have a caliber converter for one of my rifles and occasionally think about that episode.
@macdonald tramp LOL
@stevemrmusic9 They gotta have the rifle and converter! What if someone comes to their house with a lampshade?! /jk
Robert Culp snaps in sanity at the end. It's actually really creepy.
Indeed, it is...hubris...
He went mad in the end.🥴
I don't think that's it. He is amazed and appreciates how Columbo figured it out and trapped him. He didn't think Columbo could play the game better than he could, and in a show of good sportsmanship, he laughs about the absurdity of it.
Many of the killers express relief after being caught, because they can't take it anymore. He knows he is busted as he never tries to hide the converter and he hands the key to the gun case right over.
@@MrK623 I agree; I think you're right!
My own read is that Culp's character is consumed by ego, so much so that he takes solace in Columbo using his own research to catch him. We see the ego when Culp's character repeatedly insists on being called "Dr. Kepple" rather than "Mr." He doesn't go insane, or even act insane like Richard Basehart did in "Dagger of the Mind," but that smile at the end is creepy and weird.
"Just one more thing", the most dreaded phrase among the elite criminals in LA
You ain’t lying about that
"You go to the suspect and ask him where he hid it". These scenes are always worth a second look, as you figure out exactly when Columbo solved the case.
Columbo can even make subliminal advertising work... lads' a genius.
Columbo knew all along and he was just keeping the pressure on. Robert Kulp was excellent in all episodes he appeared in.
You can take that to the bank!!
There’s no evidence that “subliminal cuts” actually work.
It’s such a cool idea, though, you can’t blame writers for using it as a plot device.
Undoubtedly inadmissible but hey, who cares.
I think there was enough suggestion that it worked, though, funnily enough, that it got banned, so...I mean, it's incredible. Nobody was actually SURE if subliminal cuts worked, but people were so scared they MIGHT work that they're banned in a bunch of countries. It's an interesting plot device, though.
If I remember correctly from my 1 semester of Media studies years ago, they did a test to see if it works (might have been about getting pop-corn) and no correlation was found. It can cause unease if you actually "see the frame" and it is more frames than one actually, and percieved, not subliminal in that case. Like in Fight Club.
Gary Cooper, I might try it out on a video production to see if I can get my kids to eat more vegetables.
This episode was written by Stephen J. Cannell, co-creator of The Rockford Files, creator of Baretta starring Robert Blake, creator of The A- Team, etc. It's my favorite Columbo episode of them all, because how brilliantly it was written, and because the audience actually LEARNED something. (About a calibration converter. I wonder how Cannell knew about them. Maybe he was in the military?). The difference between TV then and now? The quality of the writing.
Hearing Peter Falk and Robert Culp talk feels like home.
Columbo is pure genius!
Just watched this again yesterday and I never noticed before, but when Culp turns towards the camera (5:02 in the video) you can see he has shed a tear from his left eye (our right when looking at the screen).
Like the editor said at the start, it only works if you have the feeling to begin with. And the killer, for all his seeming calm, was worried about someone finding the evidence. So subliminals worked in this case, exacerbating what was already there and causing him to go check without pausing to make sure he was alone.
This was one of the best episodes , ever!!! Robert Culp made several appearances on Columbo, and it is easy to see why...
Robert Culp’s expression at the end always creeped me the f’ck out.
Yeah, especially when you see his tears
This episode really exemplifies what makes the series so great. It's always the interplay and relationship between Columbo and the villain and it's maybe never better than what we see in Double Exposure. Terrific stuff!!
Camera guy: Searching without a warrant.
Columbo: I’m not searching I’m looking…..priceless
There are other episodes that are written just a bit better, but this is my hands-down favorite episode of Columbo. Culp is just fantastic in this.
I agree . I'm still waiting for a logical reason why the Robert Culp character was STILL hiding the calibration converter in the lamp days after the murder.
The actor who plays the press photographer, Danny Goldman, was also the voice of Brainy Smurf.
wow, that's a real 'fun fact' [even though I never heard Smurfs in original language version]
Magnificent actor, that Robert Culp! I never get tired of seeing this bit.
Robert Culp was always good in these episodes but I especially liked him in this one. I also liked Chuck McCann who played Roger. It's hard to believe that this episode was so long ago that McCann died 2 years ago at age 83. I would put this one somewhere in my list of top favorites.
As in interesting note here for you.
Robert Culp passed away March 2010 at the age of 79.
There are two causes of death.
The one I remember hearing on the news is that the tripped whilst on a normal walk in his neighborhood, fell, hit is head, and died.
The other one is listed as heart attack.
Here is an excerpt from Reuters:
Culp, who also starred alongside Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon in the 1969 film “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” was pronounced dead at a Los Angeles hospital where he was rushed after falling during a morning walk, a police spokeswoman said.
“It appears that the individual (Culp) had fallen down and struck his head. It’s still a preliminary investigation and we’re still waiting on the official cause of death,” she said, adding there was no indication of foul play.
This is my favorite performance of his in the series, and my favorite overall episode. I think what puts it above so many others is that Columbo knows it's Culp VERY early in the episode, but in the switch, Culp ALSO knows that Columbo knows it's him, but he's highly intelligent and egotistical and honestly, for most of the episode, he's really close to getting away with it. That car exchange is brilliant.
"Which way, lieutenant?"
"Beg pardon?"
"Right or left? You didn't tell me where the murder was committed, so I couldn't possibly know how to get there....Could I."
"Go left."
"Good try though."
"Yeah, you can't win 'em all."
I liked him as Raymond's father-in-law, Warren.
Love when the idea hits him & his hand goes up to his head.
Favorite ending of all the Columbo episodes. Written by Steven J. Cannell.
What a masterpiece! My favourite gotcha of all!
My favourite was the one with the Commissioner. "He doesn't live here. I live here".
It's my personal favorite, but objectively, I think hands-down the best gotcha of all was in Ross Martin's episode. "He touched them! While you weren't looking he touched them you saw him didn't you?" And then Columbo takes his hands out of his pockets and cuts Martin off in mid-blubber.
And at the very end, after days of pressure, after the running is done and he no longer has to hide because Colombo has caught him, he can genuinely smile again
Ooo this man was brilliant! I am always amazed and taken aback by his methods solving homicides. It never gets old no matter how many times I watch Columbo. God bless him!
The premise that subliminal cuts actually work gives this episode an element of science fiction. Actually not a bad example to illustrate the point that genres can never be rigidly defined.
Wow, I didn't even know a "calibration converter" was a thing
The tactic to catch him is the most brilliant part. Detective work is the greatest.
The golf course scene was the best part.
One could do a whole montage on the killer's moment of admission. So many different ways they accept it, yet they all accept it. None fights it, since they all know Columbo tied up all the loose ends and provided the rope that they used to hang themselves. Brilliance.
Milt the photographer played by Danny Goldman, who was the voice of Brainy Smurf! Also appeared in _Get Smart, Again!_ (1989) as the inventor of the new soundproof chamber that converts speech into text!
Reverse engineering manipulation
*So when the snooty cat and the courageous dog with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel 3, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film.*
When will idiots learn that blackmailing a murderer is "NEVER" a good idea ?
That was one of the best episodes.
Top 5 Columbo adversaries:
1. Jack Cassidy
2. Jack Cassidy
3. Jack Cassidy
4. Robert Culp
5. Robert Culp
How about Patrick Mcgoohan and William Shatner?
@@bollockjohnson3060 So right. Mcgoohan was formidable.
No Ruth Gordon? That's just wrong.....
T R U E
They were all fantastic. But McGoohan showed the most range across his Columbo appearances. His killers were entirely different from one another. Culp was not far behind in that respect. I think Cassidy was the most fun to watch, and so were Shatner and Gordon.
👏👏👏💖 Colombo , Thank you for teatching essential ,for long Time ago"' to ours days!!
Waiting for this series to come out on Blu-ray. Will definitely add it to my collection.
Add it now..good writing and ideas win out over pixel-resolution!
Every murderer makes the same mistake, underestimating Columbo, whose keen attention to detail helps him solve the cases.
Not all of them do. In a few episodes, the suspects call him out on his act.
@@markmerzweiler909 Good point. The episode Columbo Cries Wolf comes to mind.
I remember seeing this on tv as a kid. It always stuck with me as being so cool.
“I’m not searching, I’m looking” 🤣
Even tho this isn’t how subliminal messaging works, it’s still a satisfying conclusion.
that facepalm he does when he gets tje good idea is great
"I'm not searching. I'm looking" LOL!
"If there was a reward, I'd support your claim to it." ROFL!
And to a degree, he was correct - he wasn't searching for the weapon (or anything else), he was looking *at* the furniture.
Columbo : " I'm not searching. I'm looking. "
Prosecutor : " You just destroyed our case . That evidence is now inadmissible in court . "
That zoom-in on the slide at the end with that terrific scoring just gives me the chills. One of my favorite moments in Columbo. Unfortunately they cut it short so it loses a lot of the effect here.
THE ULTIMATE INCEPTION! 😎👍
There is not an episode where Columbo is outsmarted, but the killer is caught anyway. If there would be, this would be the one.
GOTCHA! @ 3:02 WTF is a calibration converter? I thought....WOW i never laughed so hard!!
Fantastic viewing
Brilliant episode!!!! Culp was an outstanding CULPrit on this one.
Lo mejor de los 80 Colombo!!!
Season 3 and Season 4 are powerful Columbo seasons.
4:41 LOL what the hell is this Star Trek thing he's got in his office, is he gonna launch his advertisements warp speed to Polaris XII ?
@ 0:30 that guy was on the show "It's a Living" in the 80's,too
Well played Sir, well played
bravo !
I never heard of a calibration converter for a gun before I first saw this episode during the 1990's. Are such things real and if they are, why didn't the murderer get rid of it at the nearest opportunity instead of leaving it hidden in a lamp for Columbo to find?
Yes, they do exist. He probably didn't get rid of it because he planned on keeping it I guess, and thought that was a good enough hiding place.
lol great question
@Peter Fitzgerald sorry , that doesn't make much sense . When your life and freedom is at stake a " good enough hiding place " wouldn't cut it .
at 3:21 mark, look at the upper left on the curtains. boom goes the mic shadow! love this show!!!!
Love Columbo. This was a classic, one of my favourites. Bet they're using subliminal imaging/manipulation today.
"If there was a reward, I'd support your claim to it." Heh
I like how Columbo had those prints on hand just so that he could screw with him
anyone notice the mounted ash trays in the hall way 😆
Culp was hoisted on his own petard ... the poetic justice of it all makes Culp forget about the imminent prison cell and embarrassingly laugh at the beauty of Columbo's trap
Always loved that ending: the murderer recognizing that Columbo wouldn't have gotten him without using his own technique. "That's right, Doc. If there was a reward, I'd support your claim to it." And Dr. Keppel can only laugh at the irony.
Robert Culp is no Jack Cassidy when it comes to great Columbo murderers, but he's still fantastic in all his episodes.
2:30 that’s William Shatner’s voice doing the overdub work on the sales workshop movie. He’s trying to hide by changing the tambour of his voice but that’s him. I’m 100% positive.
It's Peter Walker according to IMDB. Sounds like him.
Yeh, hide the incriminating item in a lamp shade. Better than tossing it into the waste away from the office.
R.I.P Robert Culp . Did you know about Bills habits?? You did one episode with him on the Cosby show as good friends. Get Smart as a waiter after I Spy. Hard times before Columbo??
Absolute genius.....
I find it interesting that no matter what Columbo video I watch, there’s at least one person in the comments claiming that this particular scene is the best of the series. The exact same comment, or at least something similar, on every single video. I think it’s a testament to just how amazing this show is that every single episode can be considered “the best” by at least one person
A passionate murderer, dedicated to his "professional" art. That's why he's so happy to get caught in such a way, thanks to himself.
I wonder how many crimes Robert culp committed before he was discovered and became a famous villain,
6
He could have stuck that converter in the nearest pond or sea. Why hide it
We can assume that people getting in and out the building were constantly searched, while the police was waiting for a judge to issue a warrant (we don't know if they would have eventually got it, you need to convince the judge there's a probable cause). And we can assume that the murderer was waiting for the moment he could safely get rid of it, but never got the chance.
2:11 I don’t know what it is about this film, but it kinda makes me want to check on that gun converter in my office.
What is it about Falk that keeps me going back?
He was a true entertainer.
One of the very best gotchas
that is a classic.
Not sure which I love more; How Columbo shuffles the cameraman out the door while looking over his shoulders at the other officers in the room like he expects trouble from them, or every officer in the room trying their damndest to pretend they're not actually just bit players ignoring the main actors in the scene *so hard* that I doubt Columbo spontaneously combusting would have gotten their attention, lol
Nevermind, my favorite part is how he holds the lab technician after hours, just to suddenly dismiss him on a random notion
With all this COVD going on and everyone locked at home, isn't it time to upload a few more episodes?
Get the box set DVDs.
@@jamescombs8316 They need to start selling episodes in downloadable formats. Do people still buy DVDs?
@@saintrude I do. I've got my Columbo and Hill Street Blues...
@@saintrude Yes obviously people still do buy DVD's. I mean the manufacturers wouldn't be still making and selling DVD players if people weren't buying DVD's to play on them. Many people still like to physically own movies or other content on DVD or Blu Ray rather than relying on internet streaming.
@@patrickjohnson5658 Who said anything about streaming? Read before you post a snarky reply.
Robert Culp is awesome
HAH! I've finally caught you Columbo!
You can't just neck down the barrel of a .45 semi-auto to fire a .22.
The recoil isn't enough to operate the slide so in addition to the barrel, you have to replace the recoil spring, the whole slide with a lighter mass one for the gun to work right!
Gotcha!
The firing pin wouldn't align to the .22 rimfire either.
That's not how a calibration converter works. The bullet is inside the tube. The firing pin is at the end of the tube. The only part of the .45 that's being used is the hammer and pin.
That's why the gunl was clean. All the action was taking place inside that tube.
Do a TH-cam search for ".22 caliber flare gun insert" to see a simplified example.
You are wrong....the calibrator sits inside the barrel and the hookidumf takes up the impact recoil snap of the bullets tnt and channels it to the bullet casing thrusting the bullet down the barrel while the gunpowder on the end of the hammer triggers the barrel to spin to the next bullet ready for you to load (you do this the normal way, poke the bullet down the barrel and push a rod in then light the fuse)
So the calibrater works just fine, as long as the hookidumf has been aligned to the blast regulator axis primer by the pin.
Colombo ,,,no gun just a badge and Street smarts ,,, excellent job 👍💯🇵🇱
It would be interesting to see what the fundamentals of manipulation are today
@Sean O'Keefe, this show was first aired over 50 years ago... I imagine there are ways that are even more clever now... But this was a very impressive series... Most murder mysteries don't say how or who did the murder, at the beginning...This series made the viewer wonder HOW Columbo was going to catch the killer... Really good...
When i watch this the part when they went to take pics was taken out
Very thin Colombo. Very thin indeed.
good episode, ridiculous ending.
I think if he would have played his cards right and not cracked under pressure he could have gotten a good lawyer to get himself off the hook.
But he did get caught taking the gadget out of the lamp though.
if the subliminal message was to make him think columbo was in his office searching for the gun.......then if i were that guy the first thing i would have done when opening the office door was checking to see if anyone was in there first.......all he did was walk in and go straight for the lamp.......that was just dumb
@@ChataCovers I think a bigger question is why didn't he dispose of it earlier?
@@FishKepr u would have had to see the whole show to find out why
@@FishKepr yep. how many weeks was columbo investigating? he could have easily disposed of it during that time.
@@ChataCovers : It actually will be aired tomorrow night 04/12/2020 so that's a good opportunity to review it. However, if he was able to take the time dispose of the tampered film, as implied in the other clip, why not not the conversion sleeve? It's still a really fun episode though. Hey, I guess I'm like Columbo! "There's something about this that bothers me..."
was that machine he used at the end to look at the slides even real? or was it some sci-fi machine used as a prop?
Would the "I'm not searching, I'm looking" line hold up in court?
In this context subliminal messaging WOULD work as it gives the target a push into doing whats in the back of his mind already, hes thinking "at some point I'll have to scrap that caliber converter thingy" Columbo just added panic to an already planned action. So everyone saying subliminal messaging doesn't work are not completely right.
he took out the important evidence while leaving the door open ?
He mind was in anxiety and plus detective was already in his house. And shouldn’t it be illegal to come into someone’s house without a warrant
As in interesting note here for you.
Robert Culp passed away March 2010 at the age of 79.
There are two causes of death.
The one I remember hearing on the news is that the tripped whilst on a normal walk in his neighborhood, fell, hit is head, and died.
The other one is listed as heart attack.
Here is an excerpt from Reuters:
Culp, who also starred alongside Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon in the 1969 film “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” was pronounced dead at a Los Angeles hospital where he was rushed after falling during a morning walk, a police spokeswoman said.
“It appears that the individual (Culp) had fallen down and struck his head. It’s still a preliminary investigation and we’re still waiting on the official cause of death,” she said, adding there was no indication of foul play.