Peter Falk wrote this terrific Columbo episode, "It's All in the Game," and it remained the only one he wrote that was produced. He learned a lot by working closely with the best writers of the series--and it shows. In this script, we see another side of Columbo that wasn't explored before in this depth.
Cheers James, I didn't know that, and find it extremely interesting. I now will watch the whole episode again, ASAP, paying even more attention than ever. I've always loved his acting but never knew he'd written anything. Cheers for sharing this information, that's the best type of comment.
as an italian, i can probably appreciate claudia christian's acting a bit better: she really sounds credible in the role of a girl who was raised in italy but is perfectly bilingual, because that's exactly how her speech sounds like. at first, i even thought she was actually italian.
@Sandal_Thong, according to IMDB, Bruce Boxleightner, Bill Mumy, Patricia Tallman are also still alive. Quite a few B5 cast members also guest starred in NCIS.
Oh man you cut it off before the best part when she tells Columbo it's her daughter. This is perhaps my favorite episode. Not only because of Fay and the equally gorgeous Claudia Christian but This episode also has the distinction of being the only episode written by Peter Falk. It won Fay Dunaway the Emmy.
@@MurrayJoe - nope, it's this massive twist - all the episode a relationship is hinted at between these two but it's not until the VERY END that we realize who they are to each other
One of the most moving scenes in Columbo with a killer and accomplice who command the audience's sympathy throughout. Most killers in the series did not.
That was what I liked about Columbo: not just how he immediately pegged the killer as soon as he saw them and then spent the rest of the episode badgering them until he wore enough holes in their story to prove them guilty, but many of the killers were actually quite sympathetic. Some of them, like the killer in Any Old Port In A Storm, genuinely liked Columbo and gained a mutual respect and sympathy from him. Columbo would show absolute contempt for the most remorseless, selfish killers he bagged, but he also just as often showed compassion for the ones whose motive was understandable and they at least showed some remorse or concern for someone other than themselves.
Simply brilliant acting all round ..........."Lauren wants it this way" ......... facial expressions are just fantastic with so much feeling and humanity.
Good job, you identified what's called a major theme. Class division is utilized in the tv crime drama titled columbo because the character named columbo likes to give the impression that he is what you may call "lower on the totem pole" this is because columbo wants to make the criminal underestimate his detective skills. He often portrays himself as confused ,bumbling and unassuming. Just one more thing. The guys name is columbo, and your name is probably Blake or Ryan or something stupid. Your mouth is like a pressure washer, exept imagine it as a spewing butthole instead and then you get the picture. Jk I love you guys. Wish you'd pressure barfed your diarrhea words into my face sooner.
I think you nailed it perfectly. With all the murderers he put away , he still had humanity in his character . No one , is ever too old to have sympathy , no matter how much violence they have witnessed during a career , or indeed a lifetime of living .
Let me first say, that I don't believe there is a bigger columbo fan than me. I have seen, dubbed, and enjoyed the ORIGINAL series episodes more times than I can count. However, I must admit, after seeing an episode or two of the series after it got rebooted years later, well, let me just say that it was painful to watch. I resigned myself to the fact that, I refuse to watch this new stuff, but at least I have the older classics, which was more than enough for me. Having said all that, I saw this clip with the BEAUTIFUL Faye Dunnaway , and I was immediately intrigued enough to search for this episode on Tubi. I can't express enough how this episode had me enthralled. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT FROM START TO FINISH!!!!! Excellent storyline, and excellent acting. I had flashbacks of Chinatown for those who know what I mean. To see Columbo wiping lipstick off his lips tickled me to no end. The cherry on top was when I did some looking and discovered that Peter Falk wrote this episode. BRAVO, I say. I am now going to have to go through the newer episodes looking for pearls. Rest in power Peter, aka Columbo. The greatest cop show to me off ALL TIME!!!
I wish we could get the full episode of this. The girl in the show is Claudia Christian of "Babylon 5" , one of the best, if not the best SF series ever made. The '90s were the "Golden Age" of SF tv series '.
Just by coincidence I saw this movie today which was saved on to the hard drive of my Sky Digibox. I noticed after Faye Dunaway shot the man and just before she got up off the couch to call the apartment manager, the supposedly dead man blinked his eye.
I watched this from a DVD with no commercials and I got drawn right in to the emotion and Moral issue for how 1 injustice helps bring true Justice . I would have agreed with Columbo as a fellow Det. and let her walk to board a plane never to be seen again and take that truth to the grave with me .
@@garywood9525 It was the only way he could catch the shooter. He's a predator who placed his prey in a situation where she had to choose between sacrificing herself or watch her daughter take the full blame. I don't think they had much of a case against the girl, but Columbo made it seem to the mother that they would badger her daughter into a confession. There was no other way for him to win.
@@abrahamlincoln9758 So easily to tell 70s from 90s columbo, Peter's hair's still dark and his face has mo where near as many wrinkles ,you may need spectacles 🙏
Season 10?? Never knew there was one. This movie was from 1994 and I believe was directed and or written by Peter Falk. The caliber of this episode is right up there with the original superb Columbo years.
Obviously Faye Dunaway is great but man Claudia Christian is an underrated actress. I might be somewhat biased with my love of Babylon 5, but she's great.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer these Columbo episodes to the original ones. I think its because of the time period they were set in: the 1990s. Looking back, it was a time when I was still a young man and hopeful of the future. I was just a kid during the original run. This one with Faye Dunaway is the best. But they are all terrific. I particularly like the has-been rock star episode and the series final that revolved around the--then popular--"Rave" scene.
@@mariaibarra5883 Agreed. I have all the episodes on DVD and I still catch them every so often on MeTV. They never get old no matter how many times I watch them.
I'm still hopeful of the future, and I"m old. I think these later episodes were more subtle than the early ones, having of course the advantage of time and audience knowing the detective.
I prefer the new ones too. Better lighting, camera work, music, audio. Just more polished. I also love the time period (late 80s till late 90s). 70s does nothing for me.
The only non excellent part of this is that Ivonova didn't bounce both of the cops heads off the desk for crowding her. I doubt she'd had her coffee yet.
TheWriterWalker of course they would. They’re the biggest backslapping brigade. Their lives are just one big act. Meryl Streep is only as big as she is because she’s towed the Hollywood line and her reward is media hype. She’s just one of many Hollywood hypocrites.
@@Irunwithscissors63, I was talking about her acting, not her politics. I appreciate great talent when I see it, regardless of how I feel about the person herself. I'd like to think it a sign of maturity.
Columbo is by far the greatest cop TV show there ever was/is. It's even one of the best TV shows ever. I love everything about it. Even tho I have the lot on DVD I still watch it on s Sunday on 5 USA. Anyone every seem Mrs Columbo?.the spin off it's ok but not my thing...
Mrs. Columbo was so bad a show that NBC later tried to pretend that she wasn't Lieutenant Columbo's wife. That's a little tough to swallow when the original show opening showed his car parked in the driveway and her cleaning out cigarette butts inside the house.
@@jayjay60 Either the studio or (far more likely) the network wanted to capitalise on the Columbo IP but do it on the cheap. Hence, it went from "Mrs Columbo" to "Kate Loves a Mystery" within a single season (1978-1979 or 1979-1980)!
UNtil the Last Season. I 've seen Claudia Christian in a lot of other Supporting Roles, but not as much lately. I think she is big on some new "Cure" for Alcoholism that isn't AA.
@@HoldenNY22 It's called the Sinclair Method and it is a pill you take that's supposed to block endorphin highs when you drink. The medical profession and rehabilitation centers hate it. She says it cured her of her alcoholism.
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 - Are you a user yourself of the so called Sinclair Method? Also, is this Sinclair Method from either the Minarbi or the Shadows or some ExtraTerrestial Race? It is probably not from the Vulcans or the Klingons. They are in some other Universe.
This episode is the one that completely changed my mind about what kind of guy Columbo is. Plot: A mother kills the man who was knowingly having sex with she and her daughter at the same time (during the same time-frame and, of course, without their knowledge). Columbo is a predator - an interesting one, but a predator nonetheless. He's spent his entire life catching people, and he's willing to do _anything_ to win. He has no family and no friends. His entire life is driven by his overwhelming need to catch his prey. It took him nine years of percerverance to catch one, but he got all of them, eventually. Notice how that in this episode, he places his victim, the perp, in a situation where she must choose between sacrificing herself or watch her daughter take the full blame (that's the way he makes it appear to the girl's mother). Someone might argue that he doesn't know their relationship. But really, come on, he knows. He's the "world's greatest detective." At the very least, he didn't want to know - he never asked, so we have to ask why, but we know why: he didn't want to know that for a fact. Peter Falk was a very smart man. He knew what he was doing when he wrote this episode. It took guts. The mother chooses to sacrifice herself, and Columbo leaves her without any mittigating circumstances at all to point to - the man's despicable use of the mother and daughter. So the mother is either (we don't know which) given the death penalty or life in prison. (She can't even comment on anything without implicating her daughter, so she's left looking like nothing more than a coldblooded killer who committed a senseless murder.)
@@droceretik where ? How ? I would love to have the complete series from start to finish, but buying box set videos from other countries could be a problem with playback (supposedly). would love to sit back and enjoy some of the old episodes
A unica forma do columbo chegar no culpado é antes de tudo apostar um culpado e depois buscar as provas contra ele. Em todos os episódios da série, sempre acontece um insight determinando o culpado em geral numa conversa inicial. Depois o columbo encarna no coitado até provar a culpa dele.
Faye Dunaway was notoriously difficult to work with, neurotic and self centered but when she was good man, she was GOOD. This reminds me of the skittish, fragile, fascinating Mrs. Mulwray in Chinatown.
@@williamsandell3260 i tried to get out if this town many times. Left the state. Was spun around back. The men werent done playing with me yet. My finances were and are being controlled.
Ive never been so personally destroyed in my whole life. Im numb. From years of trauma. And too many people with their hands in my life. Very scary power moves.
Actually no. He let Janet Leigh get away with killing Sam Jaffe because she had a brain condition and didn't even remember doing the murder. John Payne talked him into it because she only had a few months to live anyways. Season 5 Episode 1 - Forgotten Lady: One of my favorite episodes.
Since (assuming) by then he had it all figured out,I'm guessing it was part of the ploy to get her into confessing- abt communication with the suspect?( for a split second I wondered that also...why your question caught my attn) She acted the part very well,must say.Kept tightlipped to the end. I suspected there was some relationship bet them,but still...that was a shocker.And so sad. I could see why they were both so hurt and am glad the mother protected her daughter...took all the blame at the end.He had knifed the girl? She really had suffered enough trauma already.
- Do you know that girl? - Can you solve this case without hurting me? - Depends. Who is she to you? - She's my sister. - I don't believe you! * SLAP * - She's my daughter! - * SLAP * - She's my sister! - * SLAP * - She's my daughter! - * SLAP * - Shes my sister AND my daughter!! - Oh FFS. AGAIN!?
Yes, from seasons 2 - 4. She also appears on the final episode of season 5 (which was meant to be the finale for the Fourth Season). Only Claudia Christian on B5, BTW.
@@ikaikamaleko8370 I suppose you are a supermodel with flawless looks and are intelligent and charming. People in different eras adopted different looks in clothes, makeup, hairstyles and there was an era when "fish lips was seen as sexually attractive". These fashions come and go so we shouldn't be too judgmental about people's choices in the context or their days. Think of the 50's with beehive hair dos, slick back hair, stovepipe jeans and leather jackets. Every era, in the last 1,000 years has distinctive styling and we have to understand the context of the social norms. It's all rather superficial and what matters is the character and personal integrity of a person rather than their appearance.
In this episode, Columbo had an affair with the suspect? There is a scene they are in a bar and they kiss each other... where cam I see the full episode?
They DID NOT have an affair! She was trying to seduce Columbo. He was having none of it but played along, all the while picking up valuable clues. He genuinely liked her but never lost track of his single-minded mission. Columbo is a man of utmost integrity. He would never have an affair with a murder suspect. Besides, he loves his wife too much. His final words to Barney are most revealing.
Columbus in the 50’s was never more than 10 minutes partly because of programming. There’s hardware and software. The 50’s TVs were mostly hardware and too small so they couldn’t hold longer shows inside them. Nowadays the software programming and larger memory allows you to watch all sizes due to the chips and LEDs and Motorola involvement. The circuitry and transistors with programming makes the difference overall.
@@rickrick5041 It's pointless to try to top the inspired lunacy of that first post, especially when everyone knows that schools do not offer TV courses before 9th grade.
@@Ni999 They do in the gifted program and I learned a lot about it in grade 8 for 3 years. I left school then to learn more and become what I am now. Today you can probably buy a 370” TV which can hold any length episode and an hour episode without warming up at all. In the 50s 5 inches was about it. That’s progress. The proof is in the pudding
Lt. Dan Mathews ( Broderick Crawford ) of Highway Patrol would never give those two a break. He would bust them both and send them up the river for decades. Dunaway and Christian would both, to this day be sitting in their wheelchairs eating their meals in the prison soft food Buffett
Columbus has always been my favorite. It’s too bad when it started in the 50’s like this one it was less than 10 minutes long for the whole show. They leave out a lot of details. Later they were as long as half an hour which was a great improvement. The TV had just been invented in the 50’s so the TV sets were a lot smaller so they couldn’t handle longer shows
You are correct. We grew up in the 50's and kept our TV in a shoe box. As the 60's and 70's came along, we had to graduate to larger boxes. Today we keep the TV in the garage.
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Peter Falk wrote this terrific Columbo episode, "It's All in the Game," and it remained the only one he wrote that was produced. He learned a lot by working closely with the best writers of the series--and it shows. In this script, we see another side of Columbo that wasn't explored before in this depth.
Incredible play acting,incredible,what an incredible scene...fantastic,no words to describe it!
He already knew who what where when and that they're interrogating the young woman.
Tommy Edwards should get credit for being the originator of the show
Cheers James, I didn't know that, and find it extremely interesting. I now will watch the whole episode again, ASAP, paying even more attention than ever. I've always loved his acting but never knew he'd written anything. Cheers for sharing this information, that's the best type of comment.
One of the absolutely best of the new generations of Columbo, very emotional and well played
Love how he was so humble. With every arrest he was humble and with respect! They dont make em like that anymore
You know what it is like to get arrested nowadays? Well...
No doubt. Great call
They never did. Columbo is a fictional character.
Dianna A: Yes, they don't make 'em like that anymore because the are UNABLE to. They simply lack the talent, the artistry, the class.
as an italian, i can probably appreciate claudia christian's acting a bit better: she really sounds credible in the role of a girl who was raised in italy but is perfectly bilingual, because that's exactly how her speech sounds like. at first, i even thought she was actually italian.
I loved her in Babylon 5. Not many cast members are still alive.
@Sandal_Thong,
according to IMDB, Bruce Boxleightner,
Bill Mumy, Patricia Tallman are also still alive. Quite a few B5 cast members also guest starred in NCIS.
Bollocks
Oh man you cut it off before the best part when she tells Columbo it's her daughter.
This is perhaps my favorite episode. Not only because of Fay and the equally gorgeous Claudia Christian but
This episode also has the distinction of being the only episode written by Peter Falk. It won Fay Dunaway the Emmy.
Thanks for that explanation, I thought they were lovers and she was going to take the rap to save her lover from going to jail.
@@MurrayJoe - nope, it's this massive twist - all the episode a relationship is hinted at between these two but it's not until the VERY END that we realize who they are to each other
3:11 Maybe the strongest 3 minutes in the history of film-making. A superb Peter Falk.
One of the most moving scenes in Columbo with a killer and accomplice who command the audience's sympathy throughout. Most killers in the series did not.
This was the only time, I wish the killer had gotten away with it.
That was what I liked about Columbo: not just how he immediately pegged the killer as soon as he saw them and then spent the rest of the episode badgering them until he wore enough holes in their story to prove them guilty, but many of the killers were actually quite sympathetic. Some of them, like the killer in Any Old Port In A Storm, genuinely liked Columbo and gained a mutual respect and sympathy from him. Columbo would show absolute contempt for the most remorseless, selfish killers he bagged, but he also just as often showed compassion for the ones whose motive was understandable and they at least showed some remorse or concern for someone other than themselves.
Simply brilliant acting all round ..........."Lauren wants it this way" ......... facial expressions are just fantastic with so much feeling and humanity.
A rare footage of Ivanova being interrogated by Psi Corps.
Columbo was mentally Sherlock Holmes but many times acted like he was Inspector Clouseau
I think that Columbo was in some ways an inspiration for Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in Fargo.
The music. So incredible. Every element of the production was superb. They just don't make shows like this anymore.
Agreed
The sad thing! They never will again! RIP Peter Falk aka Lt.Frank Columbo!
Do you know who the female singer is in the diner, it's in the background, think it's country and Western..
@@notion14 no idea.
Is it just me or this show was they only one where almost all the murderers had so much class!
Lol! Now that you say that, yes, they did.
It's also only the second episode were an accomplice to the murder got let go.
@@donaldholderdoc2910 Waouw awesome observation👍🏾
@@blanchecolombe1 Thank you.
Good job, you identified what's called a major theme. Class division is utilized in the tv crime drama titled columbo because the character named columbo likes to give the impression that he is what you may call "lower on the totem pole" this is because columbo wants to make the criminal underestimate his detective skills. He often portrays himself as confused ,bumbling and unassuming. Just one more thing. The guys name is columbo, and your name is probably Blake or Ryan or something stupid. Your mouth is like a pressure washer, exept imagine it as a spewing butthole instead and then you get the picture. Jk I love you guys. Wish you'd pressure barfed your diarrhea words into my face sooner.
Peter Falk has never been more huggable.
Absolutely true.
I think you nailed it perfectly. With all the murderers he put away , he still had humanity in his character . No one , is ever too old to have sympathy , no matter how much violence they have witnessed during a career , or indeed a lifetime of living .
Of all the episodes, this was my favorite. And the only one that made me tear up.
@stevemrmusic9 True! The only "newer" Columbo that are arguably subpar are "Murder in Malibu", "No Time to Die", and "Columbo Likes the Nightlife".
Let me first say, that I don't believe there is a bigger columbo fan than me. I have seen, dubbed, and enjoyed the ORIGINAL series episodes more times than I can count. However, I must admit, after seeing an episode or two of the series after it got rebooted years later, well, let me just say that it was painful to watch. I resigned myself to the fact that, I refuse to watch this new stuff, but at least I have the older classics, which was more than enough for me. Having said all that, I saw this clip with the BEAUTIFUL Faye Dunnaway , and I was immediately intrigued enough to search for this episode on Tubi. I can't express enough how this episode had me enthralled. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT FROM START TO FINISH!!!!! Excellent storyline, and excellent acting. I had flashbacks of Chinatown for those who know what I mean. To see Columbo wiping lipstick off his lips tickled me to no end. The cherry on top was when I did some looking and discovered that Peter Falk wrote this episode. BRAVO, I say. I am now going to have to go through the newer episodes looking for pearls. Rest in power Peter, aka Columbo. The greatest cop show to me off ALL TIME!!!
Great ending. This is the best Columbo could do while still following his code even though he was probably torn about arresting her.
Wow, I didn't know Peter Falk wrote this! It's one of the best.
I wish we could get the full episode of this. The girl in the show is Claudia Christian of "Babylon 5" , one of the best, if not the best SF series ever made. The '90s were the "Golden Age" of SF tv series '.
Yes I haven't seen Babylon 5 in a few years but I do remember her in it playing Commander Ivanova.
All the Columbo episodes are on archive.org, just search for the name of the episode and not "Columbo"
@@Valincio Yess, done by title ''Columbo''
SPACE PRECINCT!! Gary Shackleford.
Babylon 5, Farscape, Space Above and Beyond - shows unjustly forgotten in our modern age.
Just by coincidence I saw this movie today which was saved on to the hard drive of my Sky Digibox. I noticed after Faye Dunaway shot the man and just before she got up off the couch to call the apartment manager, the supposedly dead man blinked his eye.
I saw that blink too. Shame, otherwise perfect
One of my favorite scenes. Columbo has a heart
I watched this from a DVD with no commercials and I got drawn right in to the emotion and Moral issue for how 1 injustice helps bring true Justice .
I would have agreed with Columbo as a fellow Det. and let her walk to board a plane never to be seen again and take that truth to the grave with me .
😊✌🌹🧚🏻♀️⌛
@@garywood9525 It was the only way he could catch the shooter. He's a predator who placed his prey in a situation where she had to choose between sacrificing herself or watch her daughter take the full blame. I don't think they had much of a case against the girl, but Columbo made it seem to the mother that they would badger her daughter into a confession. There was no other way for him to win.
Watched this episode a few times, but didn't get that the young girl was playing Faye Dunawaway's daughter.
Colombo is an explosion of humanity ❤️
i liked the final scene in the restaurant he always goes and says something like
" never believe something a cop tells you!"
What you are actually watching right now at this very moment is Emmy Caliber Acting. Play Close Attention !
Faye Dunaway is so beautiful and young looking! I thought this was a 70s episode until I realized that the clothes she was wearing were the 90s style.
Couldn't tell by looking at Falk. He was in his 50s for 30 years!
@@abrahamlincoln9758 So easily to tell 70s from 90s columbo, Peter's hair's still dark and his face has mo where near as many wrinkles ,you may need spectacles 🙏
Season 10?? Never knew there was one. This movie was from 1994 and I believe was directed and or written by Peter Falk. The caliber of this episode is right up there with the original superb Columbo years.
Faye Dunaway was my childhood favorite actor nowday's I chalk it up to her immortal name 💕
the best episode fay was nominated for a golden clobe
Obviously Faye Dunaway is great but man Claudia Christian is an underrated actress. I might be somewhat biased with my love of Babylon 5, but she's great.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer these Columbo episodes to the original ones. I think its because of the time period they were set in: the 1990s. Looking back, it was a time when I was still a young man and hopeful of the future. I was just a kid during the original run. This one with Faye Dunaway is the best. But they are all terrific. I particularly like the has-been rock star episode and the series final that revolved around the--then popular--"Rave" scene.
All of the episodes of columbo were great!!!!!
@@mariaibarra5883 Agreed. I have all the episodes on DVD and I still catch them every so often on MeTV. They never get old no matter how many times I watch them.
I'm still hopeful of the future, and I"m old. I think these later episodes were more subtle than the early ones, having of course the advantage of time and audience knowing the detective.
I prefer the new ones too. Better lighting, camera work, music, audio. Just more polished. I also love the time period (late 80s till late 90s). 70s does nothing for me.
The only non excellent part of this is that Ivonova didn't bounce both of the cops heads off the desk for crowding her. I doubt she'd had her coffee yet.
Yeah, Ivonova would do that. Without her dose of (home grown) Red Mountain coffee, she would be cranky.
Before Meryl became great, we already had Dunaway.
TheWriterWalker Meryl was never great.
@@Irunwithscissors63 , many thespians disagree.
TheWriterWalker of course they would. They’re the biggest backslapping brigade. Their lives are just one big act. Meryl Streep is only as big as she is because she’s towed the Hollywood line and her reward is media hype. She’s just one of many Hollywood hypocrites.
TheWriterWalker the hell with streep overraded actress.
@@Irunwithscissors63, I was talking about her acting, not her politics. I appreciate great talent when I see it, regardless of how I feel about the person herself. I'd like to think it a sign of maturity.
@5:56
The precise moment you realize that your freedom has been bought at a terrible price.
The interrogators should ask her why she likes them Docker commercials.
Omgg! What a great cast💕
Poor Ivanova. Getting grilled by the cops.
Probably one of the experiences that toughened her up for a command position with EarthForce
This episode is really deep
If I’m correct Falk wrote this episode. Shows a hardened side of Columbo. He squeezed hard and got justice.
Great Episode
Columbo is by far the greatest cop TV show there ever was/is. It's even one of the best TV shows ever. I love everything about it. Even tho I have the lot on DVD I still watch it on s Sunday on 5 USA. Anyone every seem Mrs Columbo?.the spin off it's ok but not my thing...
I'm with you mate - all three episodes on a Sunday though!!! And sometimes I switch to 5 Star to get another hour in 😅
Mrs. Columbo was so bad a show that NBC later tried to pretend that she wasn't Lieutenant Columbo's wife. That's a little tough to swallow when the original show opening showed his car parked in the driveway and her cleaning out cigarette butts inside the house.
@@jayjay60 Either the studio or (far more likely) the network wanted to capitalise on the Columbo IP but do it on the cheap. Hence, it went from "Mrs Columbo" to "Kate Loves a Mystery" within a single season (1978-1979 or 1979-1980)!
Good Heavens, Faye was gorgeous
I'd like to play chess with Ms. Dunaway.
Love colombo ❤️❤️❤️❤️
how do you have all these scenes for this ep but not the party scene
Oh, heck... thats the babylonian five girl, isnt it?
Does anyone know who the female singer is in the diner, think it's country and Western..
Tammy Wynette?
I heard she changed her name to Ivanova and joined some off world outfit called Babylon 5
UNtil the Last Season. I 've seen Claudia Christian in a lot of other Supporting Roles, but not as much lately. I think she is big on some new "Cure" for Alcoholism that isn't AA.
@@HoldenNY22 It's called the Sinclair Method and it is a pill you take that's supposed to block endorphin highs when you drink. The medical profession and rehabilitation centers hate it. She says it cured her of her alcoholism.
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 - Does it work for other addictions like Drugs, Food, etc.?
@@HoldenNY22 , maybe for drugs but more research is needed. Theoretically, it should work since alcohol is a drug, after all.
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 - Are you a user yourself of the so called Sinclair Method? Also, is this Sinclair Method from either the Minarbi or the Shadows or some ExtraTerrestial Race? It is probably not from the Vulcans or the Klingons. They are in some other Universe.
Faye Dunaway! What a babe. Nice release of her daughter...
HES THE TOPS GREAT SHOW
The end?
Nobody could open up an envelope or crumple paper like Columbo.
This episode is the one that completely changed my mind about what kind of guy Columbo is. Plot: A mother kills the man who was knowingly having sex with she and her daughter at the same time (during the same time-frame and, of course, without their knowledge). Columbo is a predator - an interesting one, but a predator nonetheless. He's spent his entire life catching people, and he's willing to do _anything_ to win. He has no family and no friends. His entire life is driven by his overwhelming need to catch his prey. It took him nine years of percerverance to catch one, but he got all of them, eventually.
Notice how that in this episode, he places his victim, the perp, in a situation where she must choose between sacrificing herself or watch her daughter take the full blame (that's the way he makes it appear to the girl's mother). Someone might argue that he doesn't know their relationship. But really, come on, he knows. He's the "world's greatest detective." At the very least, he didn't want to know - he never asked, so we have to ask why, but we know why: he didn't want to know that for a fact. Peter Falk was a very smart man. He knew what he was doing when he wrote this episode. It took guts.
The mother chooses to sacrifice herself, and Columbo leaves her without any mittigating circumstances at all to point to - the man's despicable use of the mother and daughter. So the mother is either (we don't know which) given the death penalty or life in prison. (She can't even comment on anything without implicating her daughter, so she's left looking like nothing more than a coldblooded killer who committed a senseless murder.)
Columbo has a wife...
Since the mother did it and the daughter had nothing to do with it why can’t the mother tell the judge what the man did to both of them?
@@rickrick5041 The daughter was still complicit in the crime even though she did not "pull the trigger" so to speak
@@jimthvac100 Why?
@@rickrick5041 I read the story. The mother committed the murder but the daughter helped simply put
"Why are you lying". Oh man, what a monumentally stupid question.
"Where do you get your ideas from?" is right up there, too.
Let my child go ! Go catch the bad guys Columbo. Stop further victimizing the victim and have the courage to expose the truth. Be a real Columbo.
I’m glad he wasn’t always kissing the women like some detective types did on those old shows.
I have a right to an attorney. Till then I say nothing.
93 was the year Miss Dunaway started showing up with a freakishly altered face.
Was thinking the same - especially if you go back and watch The Towering Inferno.
the girl in the interrogation room ... WHERE is her lawyer?
Good for her that there is no lawyer.
Wheres the full episode?
Buy the fucking episodes. Fuck me dead, you people are entitled misers.
@@droceretik where ? How ? I would love to have the complete series from start to finish, but buying box set videos from other countries could be a problem with playback (supposedly). would love to sit back and enjoy some of the old episodes
Just my favorite episod of Columbo ! Faye Dunaway IS just Wonderful, so beautiful and see them playing together IS delicious !
Heartbreaker!!!
A unica forma do columbo chegar no culpado é antes de tudo apostar um culpado e depois buscar as provas contra ele. Em todos os episódios da série, sempre acontece um insight determinando o culpado em geral numa conversa inicial. Depois o columbo encarna no coitado até provar a culpa dele.
Pois, é Falk escrisbéu ó episodéo.
Episodío.
Set my child free
that sort of interrogation is not legal these days and for a good reason
Faye Dunaway was notoriously difficult to work with, neurotic and self centered but when she was good man, she was GOOD. This reminds me of the skittish, fragile, fascinating Mrs. Mulwray in Chinatown.
0:46 shayna Huber.
I forget what their relationship is. Why did the blonde woman want to save the brunette from prosecution? Were they friends? Relatives?
Mother and daughter. But only they knew.
@@mik9007 Oh! Thanks!
(I think Columbo also figured it out).
@@1godonlyone119 It seems that he did not figure it out, which is very surprising. But maybe ...
@@mik9007 He knew there was something.
Peter Falk wanted a story with some romance in it, with the female lead coming on to him, so he had to write it himself ...
At the end if the day Colombo has a job to do.
It's all very China Town
Ivanova would have beat those jabronis in a second.
Oh man wonder about the line... Something going in in Europe tomorrow. What tell me.
He’s simply implying that she should get out of town
@@williamsandell3260 i tried to get out if this town many times. Left the state. Was spun around back. The men werent done playing with me yet. My finances were and are being controlled.
Ive never been so personally destroyed in my whole life. Im numb. From years of trauma. And too many people with their hands in my life. Very scary power moves.
This is the only time Columbo flipped
Actually no. He let Janet Leigh get away with killing Sam Jaffe because she had a brain condition and didn't even remember doing the murder. John Payne talked him into it because she only had a few months to live anyways. Season 5 Episode 1 - Forgotten Lady: One of my favorite episodes.
@@ladamyre1 True! Thanks for reminding me that, it was one of my favourite as well
Why did columbo ask if the young girl recognised his name?
Since (assuming) by then he had it all figured out,I'm guessing it was part of the ploy to get her into confessing- abt communication with the suspect?( for a split second I wondered that also...why your question caught my attn) She acted the part very well,must say.Kept tightlipped to the end.
I suspected there was some relationship bet them,but still...that was a shocker.And so sad. I could see why they were both so hurt and am glad the mother protected her daughter...took all the blame at the end.He had knifed the girl? She really had suffered enough trauma already.
Let the girl go punk. I couldn't do that cop, then it'd be me and you.
Mike Wall...Callahan ?
Fayedonaway✌🌹🌹🍃
Who?
Idk...
Might be 1of them?
- Do you know that girl?
- Can you solve this case without hurting me?
- Depends. Who is she to you?
- She's my sister.
- I don't believe you! * SLAP *
- She's my daughter!
- * SLAP *
- She's my sister!
- * SLAP *
- She's my daughter!
- * SLAP *
- Shes my sister AND my daughter!!
- Oh FFS. AGAIN!?
Yes mommy dearest
全ての事情を汲んでコロンボが共犯の娘をワザと逃す行為。この辺りは杉下右京とは全然違うなぁ…(笑笑)。
Get in a taxi. ??? Im so tired.
Was she on Babylon 5?
Yes, from seasons 2 - 4. She also appears on the final episode of season 5 (which was meant to be the finale for the Fourth Season). Only Claudia Christian on B5, BTW.
she looks like macauly culkan
Lt. Frank Columbo had a glass eyeball that every now and then would fall into his bowl of chile.
You mean Chilli the food and not Chile the country...
@@bobaloogats1349 Lol!!
In Italian it's COLOMBO,
Patrick Johnson Perhaps he means “chili” the food.
Into his bowl of voodoo chile?
They are really getting cheap with 6 minute episodes. Shows should be an hour. It’s good but they are cutting corners
no one would tour with faye when she did Master Class: super abusive to wig and makeup people. many say she is mentally ill.
Faye Dunaway's botox was in full force during this episode.
LOL
quack quack!
That can’t be true, as Botox was not yet approved for cosmetic purposes at the time this was filmed in 93
@@ikaikamaleko8370 I suppose you are a supermodel with flawless looks and are intelligent and charming. People in different eras adopted different looks in clothes, makeup, hairstyles and there was an era when "fish lips was seen as sexually attractive". These fashions come and go so we shouldn't be too judgmental about people's choices in the context or their days. Think of the 50's with beehive hair dos, slick back hair, stovepipe jeans and leather jackets. Every era, in the last 1,000 years has distinctive styling and we have to understand the context of the social norms. It's all rather superficial and what matters is the character and personal integrity of a person rather than their appearance.
@@droceretik The first three lines of your book report are spot on, couldnt have said it better myself.......quack quack 🦆🦆🦆😂😂
why does Fays face look so weird
In this episode, Columbo had an affair with the suspect? There is a scene they are in a bar and they kiss each other... where cam I see the full episode?
They DID NOT have an affair! She was trying to seduce Columbo. He was having none of it but played along, all the while picking up valuable clues. He genuinely liked her but never lost track of his single-minded mission.
Columbo is a man of utmost integrity. He would never have an affair with a murder suspect. Besides, he loves his wife too much. His final words to Barney are most revealing.
@@ivanppillay914 I agree. You are right my friend.
@@dpachannel2052: Cheers!
Wow, Mommy Dearest and Susan Ivanova on the same show!
Fakenham 2.55 5#6#2
Columbus in the 50’s was never more than 10 minutes partly because of programming. There’s hardware and software. The 50’s TVs were mostly hardware and too small so they couldn’t hold longer shows inside them. Nowadays the software programming and larger memory allows you to watch all sizes due to the chips and LEDs and Motorola involvement. The circuitry and transistors with programming makes the difference overall.
How stoned were you when you came up with that?
@@Ni999 I don’t remember but everyone learned this in grade 8. The proof is in the pudding
@@rickrick5041 It's pointless to try to top the inspired lunacy of that first post, especially when everyone knows that schools do not offer TV courses before 9th grade.
@@Ni999 They do in the gifted program and I learned a lot about it in grade 8 for 3 years. I left school then to learn more and become what I am now. Today you can probably buy a 370” TV which can hold any length episode and an hour episode without warming up at all. In the 50s 5 inches was about it. That’s progress. The proof is in the pudding
@@rickrick5041 are you old by any chance? The way you write about it tells me you grew with the tech
Lt. Dan Mathews ( Broderick Crawford ) of Highway Patrol would never give those two a break. He would bust them both and send them
up the river for decades. Dunaway and Christian would both, to this day be sitting in their wheelchairs eating their meals in the prison soft food Buffett
The top of her head doesn’t move definitely a face job for faye
Smel. LA
mom n daughter fall for the same bad boi. many such cases! sad!
Just think the shit I watched
So strange. When Men understand good two momdau women in the police then why did it take 20 years in India
Columbus has always been my favorite. It’s too bad when it started in the 50’s like this one it was less than 10 minutes long for the whole show. They leave out a lot of details. Later they were as long as half an hour which was a great improvement. The TV had just been invented in the 50’s so the TV sets were a lot smaller so they couldn’t handle longer shows
It didn’t start in the 50”s
@@christinebeames2311 It could have
You are correct. We grew up in the 50's and kept our TV in a shoe box. As the 60's and 70's came along, we had to graduate to larger boxes. Today we keep the TV in the garage.
@@lawrencetaylor4101 370 inches
A British company has created the world's biggest TV, leapfrogging the previous champ by almost 20 feet. The Zeus, from Titan Screens, measures a full 370 inches diagonally - and costs well over a million bucks. The number doesn't give an adequate estimation of the screen's size, though
All racism free products. Can you give 10 examples to prove you’re not a racist?
The jury convicted Chowin not Rittenhorse on all 4 counts. That should tell you something. 1619 BLM. The proof is in the pudding. It’s all part of the non racist discovering process
An interrogation like Gestapo or kgb
Not a fav...early wokie