Columbo is back on TV in Northern Ireland.
Some people said I couldn't do it, that WE couldn't get it back on but they were wrong.
So what is your favourite episode? I like the one with the wine guy
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I’m rewatching season 1 now, really enjoying the cinematography in a lot of it, more creative shots than you’d expect from a procedural
I like the one with his friend Cassavetes as the conductor. What channel is it on in Norn Iron?
The one where he busts the corrupt police commissioner.
Wasn’t Colombo also corrupt? I’m not sure, but some anon said he planted evidence.
He's not corrupt, but he has planted evidence to get a reaction from a suspect and he has also gotten evidence through illicit means, but he's never out to arrest the wrong person or anything like that, he just bends the rules to get whoever he's after.
That’s illegal, who are you? Mark Fuhrman?
On a different note, do you know the name of the episode with all the toy soldiers?
It's illegal but he doesn't incriminate people based on false evidence or deliberately arrest the wrong people or murder people like his superior had, so even if it's illegal I wouldn't describe him as a corrupt cop. When I think of a corrupt cop I think of something like Bad Liutenant which is about as far from Columbo as you can get. I think the toy soldiers episode is Grand Deceptions, though I remember not liking that one much.
>toy soldiers
grand deceptions
From the perspective of the show, he's a "good guy" and doesn't do anything wrong. But in reality some of his cases would have significant problems getting a conviction in court. I remember one scene where he plants something in a woman's medicine cabinet in order to trick her into confessing somehow.
>he planted evidence
I think that was the commissioner who planted the LOOT in the apartment trap.
He planted evidence in the episode where he goes to London. He proposes that if the people he's claiming to be the killers were present when the crime took place then the beads of the woman's necklace may be in the umbrella that's present at the wax museum, and then he opens up to umbrella to reveal that's the case and the woman breaks down and admits it all. Right afterwards Columbo admits he flicked the bead into the umbrella just so he could get that reaction out of her.
That's the one with the wax museum. I wouldn't say he plants evidence, more like he plants "evidence" which leads to the criminal confessing. The "evidence" isn't admissible in court (and you're supposed to understand that if the confession-seeking gamble didn't work out, Columbo wouldn't have actually used the evidence). But the confession *is* admissible.
The episodes with Jack Cassidy and Patrick McGoohan.
>the one with the wine guy
Top shelf episode and a great performance by Pleasance. I occasionally drink wine and this episode alone convinced me to get a decanter - it really does make a difference.
What are the other episodes where Columbo ovbiously feels sympathy/empathy for the murderer? I remember the one with an old, dying actress who was going senile and forgot she killed her husband, with Columbo allowing her to die free.
i remember that one
they used to show columbo (probably still do) on tv on sundays midday and it was perfect lounging around on the sofa tv
>now sundays are house duties, or just lying in bed thinking terminal disease pls, end this
I feel like the Fade in to Murder kinda falls into that category
The one with Johnny Cash
>A man with a voice like that can't be all bad.
Or something like that.
>dying actress who was going senile and forgot she killed her husband
a perfect crime
Genuinely a joy to see Pleasance have so much fun with this. I'm so used to seeing him in his many "gotta pay the bills" 80s movies.
>I'm so used to seeing him in his many "gotta pay the bills" 80s movies.
hey one of those films was Escape from New York and was worth the bills.
such a straight laced type of guy, plays everything just straight up serious, like a PRO
This was my first episode I watched & it ruined the show for me. None of the others were as kino.
i've finished watching the entire series recently, it was top tier comfy and kino, i'm sad that i ran out of episodes to watch
i ranked all of the episodes like an autist
What was your favorite episode anon? Also its no peter falk but have you tried Poker Face? Also Ive heard its terrible but Ive been curious about Mrs Columbo.
Im doing the same thing with my friend right now anon, we call it The Columbo Document[/spolier]
now you've done it anon, now you've made me post it
some of these are ranked higher than they should be just because i enjoyed the perpetrator's personality, one such example is "the conspirators"
favorite episode is "a friend in deed"
>Im doing the same thing with my friend right now anon
sounds comfy
which episode are you at?
Very nice, of the episodes I've seen I vibe with your list a lot. We are going real slow, just 2 or 3 episodes a month, but the next one we are watching is Last Salute to the Commodore which I've heard is a crazy one.
>some of these are ranked higher than they should be just because i enjoyed the perpetrator's personality
I'm with you there, Columbo's so hard to rank because there are so many seperate qualities that make the show good. From the villain to columbos attitude that ep to the ending gotcha.
>We are going real slow, just 2 or 3 episodes a month
that's real slow all right
>which I've heard is a crazy one
it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, maybe because i've heard so much bad shit about it that i overhyped how bad it's going to be
i think the episode's biggest sin is how it removes the crucial aspect of the series, and that's the "you find out who the killer is at the beginning of the episode and watch columbo figure out his identity"; i'd also argue that him getting help from a few assistants is also a major change from the expected formula (where he's solving the case basically alone)
Gotcha, yeah we basically treat columbo as a book club and have been going for like two years since graduating college. I like when they mess with the formula sometimes, like when a twin killed a guy and they dont reveal which one did it till the end.
i don't mind the formula being changed as long as a handful of crucial staples stay the same
Exactly, just like a science experiment, you can change one variable as long as the others are kept constant
Is Columbo suposed to be a supernatural entity? He knows who did it from the very begining. He is a very misteryous guy, we never see his wife, he always uses the same clothes... Idk he seems like a paranormal phenomenon to me.
No he’s just a high functioning turboautist with an eye for details that 99.9% of people ignore. He solved one episode based on how the victim’s shoelaces were tied. You can usually pinpoint when he’s figured it out and it just trying to find the final clue. Sometimes its in the first 10 minutes, sometimes its in the last 10.
>with an eye
yes, his glass eye canonically gives him second sight
holy frick is The Silver Case by Suda51 a columbo reference, down the silver eyes? I knew Kusabi was clearly based on Columbo
He explains this himself
this is generally why midwits inherit the earth while roughly half of the exceptionally intelligent people languish in poverty/prison
can you elaborate on that?
That anon probably thinks that calling yourself well read and acting like you're intelligent entitles you to just skate through life. Meanwhile the people that bust their ass working every day, putting in the hours, doing actual labor are the ones that succeed. As it should be
>Meanwhile the people that bust their ass working every day, putting in the hours, doing actual labor are the ones that succeed.
What is inherited wealth.
What are stagnant wages.
What is parents' economic status as a strong predictor for their child's economic status.
Except there are smart ones who bust their ass too.
Not him but IQ is actually not nearly as important as conscientiousness is.
If you're smart but lazy you'll have a much shittier life than a midwit who puts in the work
I don't really like this monologue.
Columbo is obviously a hard working man, but he knows who the killer is almost immediately after crime scene investigation in most episodes. Even if there's an entire crowd of policemen around, he is always the smartest one.
>after crime scene investigation
Autistically noticing everything that is off on a crime scene is his thing anon, i wouldnt call it almost immediately
He is clearly underestimating his extremely keen innate organic intelligence just to be humble
This monologue is nice, but it’s really the first episode that encapsulates why he’s so good. I don’t have the webm but he basically says as that really smart criminals only really get one chance to make an “unbreakable” case, while he gets to practice cracking difficult cases every day. That’s why he’s so much better, it’s because he’s an old detective with lots of practice.
>Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q.
good episode.
>puts the wrong end in his mouth
fantastic little detail.
>He knows who did it from the very begining
I haven't seen the whole series, but at least in season 1 it was always someone who was close to the victim. They thought they could hide their tracks, but they always behaved suspiciously or did things that didn't make sense. In one of the episodes he explains that first-time criminals don't have experience fooling the cops, but that cops have a lot of experience with criminals trying to fool them.
He's a cenobite in a flesh suit sent here to torture the rich.
>the episode where Columbo solves the murder of a homeless man on Skid Row fighting over a rotten sandwich
>it was another hungry homeless man
He's a reaper of powerful elites. He has no time for small time inner city noggery.
except for a handful like adrian carsini, who literally did nothing wrong. he merely wanted a world without liquid filth
Johnny Cash guest episode.
Cash is actually a surprisingly good performer and it makes me wonder why he didn't do more acting.
He did a few westerns too I believe
He appears in 4 episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. You will never guess who plays his wife. They grew so close with Jane Seymour that she asked them to be godparents to her twin boys. One of them was named after Johnny himself.
I like that episode because I Like Cash and find him charming, but I didnt think the episode as a whole was great. Its one of the ones where the middle drags and Columbo researches parachute logistics for like 30 minutes
I was rooting for him that whole episode. If he had taken the time to get rid of the evidence beforehand, he would have been in the clear. Closest episode to perfect crime, the only giveaway was his behaviour, if he had sucked it up for a couple of months and acted grief-stricken, no one would have even investigated anything
He has a great guest spot on little house on the prairie
how do i become columbo?
Just walk around and think hard on any shit you see.
Why that dude drinks coffe?
Why that b***h wear no makeup?
Why that dog barks so loud?
Why that window is open?
Etc.
always have just one more thing to ask after pretending to leave
>how do i become columbo?
Why would you want to be columbo?
not his words
Peter falk voices isn't high?
And this clearly isn't thee Peter Falk talking it's some fan bs
Do you live in a swamp? They play 8 hours of episodes every Sunday on 5USA.
Can europe not make their own shit? How pathetic
I like the Berlin one... the one where he plays a former angel.
For me, it's the one where he overthrows the military regime of a West Indies' island through a revolution.
My favourite ending is candidate for crime when columbo has already pulled the bullet out of the wall
negative reaction
>You were counting on that
You can have Chili without beans? Aren't they a key ingredient?
>So what is your favourite episode?
The cruise ship one where he ditches his wife to solve a murder.
Anyone remember the period about 15 years ago when someone used to spam threads of just Sammy Wilsons profile pic?
It was very odd, I was the first person to actually point out who it was. Up to then, people would call it " Rowsdower"
A friend in deed is without question the best columbo episode
Why was it ever not on TV in Northern Ireland? I know there's The Conspirators episode they might not want to air, but surely they could just not air that one episode like how they used to not air that Star Trek episode that mentioned Ireland becoming a unified country in Britain.
Best scene in the entire series
That is also my favorite episode the wine guy's brother is funny and I also like when he gets super autistic about the ruined wine at the end
the other episode that's close to this one, is the one with the video producer, where he uses subliminal clips to get him to incriminate himself
>watch classic columbo
>so great
>always talking about his wife
>skip around to a later episode
>his wife literally dies and he attends the funeral
what the frick I didn't ask for this
The 90s episodes are all over the place (but most are shit). The only one I remember enjoying was Agenda for Murder, pure McGoohan kino.
that was a set-up anon
>watch classic columbo
Apparently, you didn't. The house was the young(er) detective's home while the photo of the woman depicted the sister of Columbo's wife.
>YOU CALL THAT A LINING?!
>POPPYwiener
Not a filthy euro but I got into it after watching the pseudo spin off that came out last year. First episode was honestly the best one of what I sat through, the next 6 episodes were kinda meh.
>If you liked... you may also enjoy...
McCloud and Columbo premiered together as part of the NBC Mystery Movie "wheel" series, an anthology program that rotated through several detective dramas at a time (partly the reason why shows like Columbo had such high production values, more time between episodes meant more polish). A New Mexico Deputy Marshal assigned to the New York police as a "cultural exchange" exercise, cowboy-like McCloud solves big city crime wearing his trademark Stetson and raising the blood pressure of his perpetually fuming chief (quite possibly one of the most solid archetypal expressions of the dynamic). He's brash, but no dummy either, solving crimes with his analytical mind as much as his instincts and fists. There are some stylistic similarities to Columbo: He often has his suspect figured out early on, but rather than play coy frequently announces his intentions to wrangle them then and there. There's enough twists and turns to keep the stories engaging while he hunts the evidence to make his case though, and every so often you get a horse chase down Fifth Avenue. Diana Muldaur of Star Trek fame appears as love interest.
>There ya go!
Wednesday nights in the same format had Banacek and Madigan, not quite as good as Columbo or McCloud, but better than McMillan & Wife by a long shot.
I have never watched this show so you can call me formernorthernirelandtelevisionscheduleanon or the-anon-of-northern-ireland-television-scheduling-past
It's the Dick Van Dyke photography episode for me. And also the Jack Cassidy episodes.
I felt so bad for the ex-con in that. He was legitimately trying to reintegrate and work for someone he thought was reputable, then bam
The military school one with the cannon.
Bros how does it hold up so good?
My big problem with Columbo is that if I watch it, then I just wanna talk like Columbo all day long.
Well, y'see, the funny thing about that, sir, is that I noticed your post, and couldn't help thinking, gosh, that's literally me. You know what I'm gettin' at here?
I started acting like Columbo at work and it led to great success.
me too. wtf is with that
I did the 'one more thing' line a couple of times at work
A Friend in Deed starts off great but it gets cartoonish when the police commissioner throws his wife in the pool. Would’ve preferred if they played it straight and just kept it him covering up for his friend.
A Stitch in Crime is my favorite Columbo kino. Love that Spock is a constant threat throughout the episode outside of the initial murder. Also one of the rare times we see Columbo break character a bit and get angry when he confronts him at the end. 10/10 episode.
That's the one where Spock kills a poor lad with PTSD who was finally getting his life back on track after quitting drugs, just because he might know something (but he didn't)? Always felt like the nastiest death in Columbo for some reason.
It was to frame him.
You're right, my bad. And Jesus it's even worse than I remembered.
He definitely was in the top 3 most despicable killer in Columbo, great performance by Nimoy.
Columbo actually met Spogg once before :]
>A Stitch in Crime is my favorite Columbo kino.
going to rewatch it right fricking now
Its one of the tehcnically best episodes and as a drama probably the best, but I live my columbo episodes to have a bit more levity. Its why I love episodes like An Exercise in Fatality, where you have goofy bits of columbo in sweats working out with the villain, then the drama where he calls columbo a devious man and he just responds "thats what they tell me"
Columbo - Shinigami:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/16CKjELxHhg?feature=share
ok just finished the wine episode because of this thread. it was pretty great
Do they dub Columbo into Irish or does he just speak American ?
lmao who watches TV anymore. I have no idea what's in the air in my country and I'm a third worlder.
I just checked, and Columbo is not available for streaming in my country (Canada). Weird, I would have thought someone would have picked it up.
Doesnt matter anyway, because it looks like all the episodes are on archives
you dont have tubi in canada?
Yah, but they don't have it. Strange. I would expect either tubi or pluto to have a columbo channel, which would be based
I like the one with Donald Pleasance.
>it's a scene where Columbo is offered free food
i gut-laugh every single time, he's like a rabid animal.
Gotta be just about the comfiest thing around.
>the episode with the italian chef
he man he's in heaven
My favorite one is when he's at the homeless shelter and the sister thinks he's homeless and delusional talking about his cases.
iirc she comments on how filthy his jacket is which makes it even better lel, fricking love that episode.
I love it when he gets to eat chilli, seems to be his favourite food
just finished the first season and started the second season this week.
top 3 of season 1:
>suitable for framing
>death lends a hand
>murder by the book
favorite moment in season one was during the pilot when he's talking to the psychiatrist about his sister's new table and how it's "gotten" to his brother in law.
My little bro out of nowhere starting talking about columbo and started making references I didn't get. Now I see why t. derry
What uhh, what did you do to get it back on the air?
what are some times you acted like columbo?
>work in food service
>walk in one day and theres banana residue all over the wall near the dishwasher
>the wall i just fricking scrubbed
>clearly one of the moronic dishwasher kids threw bananas at the wall and made a huge mess
>someone also drew a banana man on the dry erase board
>cross reference the schedule to find prime suspects
>subtly try to coax information out of the kids by talking about bananas
>place a banana in front of some of them and ask them if they recognize it
i eventually found out who it was. frick you justin.
I like the Patrick McGoohan episodes.
Especially the one where he as a CIA agent pretty sure skated off and he didn't go to jail for murder either
One benefit of glowing in the dark.
They also finally released it on BD other than that Japanese edition that was going for hundreds of dollars second hand.
Dunno which is my fav, still rewatching, but some guest stars were kino
>Janet Leigh
>Leslie Nielsen
>Ida Lupino
>Leonard Nimoy
>Ricardo Montalban
>Johnny Cash
>Robert Vaughn
Watching the England episode now, why is the butler such a c**t?
Oh I see he’s a slimy creep.
The actor was in The Third Man
>So what is your favourite episode?
The Shatner episode was pretty good.
>Shatner plays a detective in a tv show, basically Columbo
>throughout the episode Columbo keeps going back for help on the case
>Shatner says what the detective would do in this situation, how he would think, etc
>breaks apart his own alibi's and misdirections
>the case is basically solved by Shatner alone
>not in a "shit, I didn't mean to say that" way, he seemed happy to help and almost happy to be caught
>So what is your favourite episode?
The one about chess game. Kino villain actor, and it always made me want to eat something delicious.
The one about sea trip. I love detectives about the group of people who stuck in secluded place.
The one about the guy who blew up his uncle or stepdad, kino villain, very nice and high energy one.
Thats among some others.
The one with Vincent Price
Wasn't he like barely in it?
Depends on what you mean by barely
If I recall he was in it a fairly decent amount
Even if he had a 5 second cameo it would still be the best episode
I like Columbo a lot but those late 80's/early 90's episodes just suck. It doesn't feel the same.
>first time going through all the Columbo seasons
>get to the end of season 5 when they have that really shitty episode where Columbo acts like an butthole and there's a bunch of bad comedy
the frick were they thinking?
Is it the one where he rows off at the end? Because if I'm not mistaken they let a friend direct that one and they thought it'd be their final episode.
yeah, that's the one. I did like the twist of Columbo being wrong about who the killer was at first, but the rest of the episode feels like a bad "whodunit" dinner party where they just sit around trying to figure things out.
>So what is your favourite episode? I like the one with the wine guy
Any old Port in a Storm is a solid choice, great ending. For me its Suitable for Framing, best ending I've ever seen.
>Oh Mr Adams there is just one more thing.
There's a nice lady on youtube who makes cool reviews of columbo and murder she wrote and that kind of stuff. I'd post her channel but I've seen what happens and I don't want her to be scared off
Post channel butthole
Do you guys promise to be well behaved?
Just post it
https://www.youtube.com/@WatchitforDays/videos
She researches extras and shit, it's kinda neat
Thank you
Btw you acting like some Nancy boy asking people not to be mean to her et cetrea et cetrea et cetrea only in a increases the odds of people wanting/actually being buttholes to the person in question
Fair enough, she just seems like a nice lady and I'd actually feel bad if she caught flak for being a columbo nerd
No one gives two actual gotdangs if someone likes Columbo
Have you not seen the infamous Cinemaphile thread screencap where an anon found some small channel and people drove her off?
Post it
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/Cinemaphile-lit-book-vlogger-katie-harassment/
Lmfao even better, some homosexual wrote an article about it
Gay. seems like some extremely sensitive woman got her feelings hurt and over reacted
It would be one thing if they Chris chan her or some shit
I feel like the general rule of Cinemaphile is the more niche of a subject and the more passionate about it anons are the less likely we are to be dicks. Columbo is just under the radar enough that plenty of people have watched it but the threads are still chill
>the less likely we are to be dicks
But the more likely you are to find that one autist.
I liked the one with Spock
>Northern Ireland.
Dont you mean Ireland?
No
yes
Ireland
Two different places
Are they though?
Yes
The Leslie Nielsen episode was kino. I saw that dude fight a bear and rape a lady, or maybe it was the other way around
Real chads watch kojak
>MFW watching Columbo and I slowly turn into him