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Tag Archives: Columbo
Columbo: Grand Deceptions
We begin with a slow panning shot across model soldiers on a battlefield, and it’s a great way to start an episode of Columbo. Anyone who has seen the 1970s episodes will also have high hopes, because we know the … Continue reading
Columbo: Sex and the Married Detective
Name two things that don’t fit naturally together. You might say wellington boots and sunglasses, trampolines and caviar, hospitals and popcorn, bicycles and leathers, libraries and raves, pineapple and pizza, swimming pools and face paint, or even tubas and detectives. … Continue reading
Columbo: Murder, Smoke and Shadows
If I can be permitted to engage in a brief moment of nostalgia, when the first season of Columbo was made in 1971, the first episode was directed by somebody you might have heard of: Stephen Spielberg. He went on … Continue reading
Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
If you are a fan of a television show that ended years ago, its triumphant return is a magical moment. I can’t quite claim to be in that lucky contingent with the return of Columbo in 1989, because I wasn’t … Continue reading
Mrs Columbo: Love, on Instant Replay
Kate’s final case is an unusual one. The victim, Laura White, had been asking for trouble with her twisted behaviour, running a dating agency and using that as an opportunity to threaten her clients and film her exploits. In the … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: Feelings Can Be Murder
For the first time in a while the writers of this series play to its strengths, with Kate involved in a murder case simply because she is a journalist. She doesn’t need to have any pre-involvement with either the murderer … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: Falling Star
The writers of this show continue to rely on an outrageous degree of coincidence in terms of Kate’s involvement in the murder mystery stories. As per nearly every other episode, she just happens to be involved in the life of … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: A Chilling Surprise
This show really didn’t seem to know what it wanted to be. We’ve gone from thriller to Columbo-esque how-will-she-catch-’em murders, to whodunits with an amateur sleuth who is always placing herself in danger, and now the writer this week seemed … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: The Valley Strangler
Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. This … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: Off the Record
If we were unsure of Kate’s marital status, she makes it clear in this episode. She is Kate Columbo no more: “I went to court and got my maiden name back.” Oddly, Mike expresses surprise at hearing Kate introduce herself … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: It Goes with the Territory
What goes with the territory? For Kate, it’s danger, and that’s an element that differs very much from the parent show. Once again Jenny is imperilled as well, so having a daughter also adds to that element of risk. You … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: Ladies of the Afternoon
What’s this? Mrs Columbo isn’t Mrs Columbo any more? There have been some odd ideas floated around as to why this happened, and in the absence of a detailed interview with somebody connected with this show we can only really … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: A Puzzle for Prophets
You’ve got to hand it to this show: they tried to choose interesting people as the killers. We had a retired police officer in Murder is a Parlor Game and a ventriloquist in A Riddle for Puppets. Now it’s the … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: Caviar with Everything
The first episode of Mrs Columbo was about 90 minutes, but every subsequent episode has been around the 45 minute mark. This is significantly shorter than a Columbo episode, despite still showing us the murder first and then having Kate … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: A Riddle for Puppets
We start this episode with a lot of shots of disembodied ventriloquist dummy heads, which had me on edge right from the beginning. The story centres around ventriloquist Noel Abbott, who is a recognisable, famous entertainer, but takes the trouble … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: Murder is a Parlor Game
Mrs Columbo is still hanging on the coat-tails of the parent show, but unlike the first episode this one could easily have worked as an actual Columbo episode, with minimal rewriting, so let’s return to a review format that regular … Continue reading
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Mrs Columbo: Word Games
To say this series has a bad reputation would be an understatement. As a Columbo fan, I have been aware of the existence of a spin-off show for many years, but have never seen a single episode. Everything I have … Continue reading
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Columbo: The Conspirators
Every generation of children has their worries. My parents had to survive through the war years. Before my time, many children were born into a world of fear, thinking that a nuclear attack could hit at any time. Nowadays climate … Continue reading
Columbo: How to Dial a Murder
Dogs are supposed to be man’s best friend, but they can also be deadly weapons in the wrong hands. In this episode of Columbo, the very inventive seventh season continues with the most unusual method of killing yet, but can … Continue reading
Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder
Kay Freestone is a television executive looking for her next promotion. She is hard-working, intelligent and efficient. In fact, she possesses all the qualities necessary to be a perfect… murderer. The Motive Kay is having an affair with her boss, … Continue reading