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    I use to watch all the older Columbo shows and I still catch a lot of
    the reruns but I haven't watched many of the MOTW Columbos.
    
    I love his style - or some would say - lack there of :^} and quite a
    few of the snippets from his shows are stuck in my mind.
    
    I also enjoyed the way the writers had him stalking about his wife,
    making her out to be a warm sensitive yet intelligent person who
    sometimes helped him solve a case
    
    Jt
    

    
    I very much enjoy Colombo and all the fridaynight mystery movies
    (old and new)
    
    I did find lastnights show alittle boring, but I still love
    Peter Falk
    
    Louisa

    Love Columbo, but can't stand William Shatner.  Watched "A Murder
    Between Friends" instead.
    
    lv

    count me in as another Columbo fan! :^)
    
    Natalie

    
    	New "Columbo" on tonight ... ABC [channel 12 - Providence RI],
    	9PM.
    
    	And A&E [cable station] is running 14 hours worth of "Columbo"
    	episodes throughout the week ... the 1st 2 being from 2-5 this
    	afternoon.
    

    
    	A&E will have an 11-hour "Columbo" marathon on July 4th.  Not sure
    	of start/end times nor the length of episodes yet.
    
    
    	I was off last week and happened to catch a 2-hour episode that
    	was directed by Nicholas Colasantro ["Coach" from "Cheers"].
    

    
    	I saw one Monday that was directed by Steven Spielberg.
    
    	The bad guy was Jack Cassidy, the 3rd time I've seen him play
    	a "Columbo" bad guy.
    
    	I've noticed 2 repeating guest stars so far:
    
    	Jack Cassidy [3]
    	William Shatner [2]
    
    
    	And if I'm boring you with all this useless info, let me know
    	and I might stop.  But probably not.  8^)
    
    	But I DO like watching "older" shows and trying to pick out the
    	stars of today from when they were either in their prime or just
    	starting out in whatever roles they could get.
    	

    
    	Add another "repeating guest bad guy":
    
    	Jack Cassidy [3]
    	William Shatner [2]
    	Robert Culp [2]
    

    Patrick McGoogan(Secret Agent Man) a baddie in at least 2 episodes that
 I've seen,one where he kills off Frank Drebbin(Leslie Neilson).Also saw an
 episode directed by Jonathan Demme(Silence of the Lambs,Philadelphia).
    .............aaaaaaaahhhhh sir,there is one other thing.............
    

    
    What kind of car did Columbo drive?  anyone know?
    
    Lou

    
    	I asked this in CARBUFFS last week, and the answer was a 60's
    	Peugeot 403 or something like that.
    
    	I'll go check.
    

    
    	Peugeot 403 Cabriolet.
    

    
    a Peugeot, I would of never guessed.  Thank you for checking.  I 
    allways thought it was a cute car.
    
    Lou

    
    	Add another "repeating guest bad guy":
    
    	Jack Cassidy [3]
    	William Shatner [2]
    	Robert Culp [2]
    	Robert Vaughn [2]
    

    
    	Caught an episode the other day with Katie Sagal ["Married with
    	Children"], but I'm not sure if I saw her or not.  I saw someone
    	who looked sort of like her, but I couldn't be sure.
    

> Date:  8-MAY-1995 09:50
> New "Columbo" on tonight ... ABC 9PM.

	I may of missed this!  Maybe someone can give a 2 line plot
	synopsis to see if it jogs my memory .....

    
    	Repeating guest bad guys:
    
    	Jack Cassidy [3]
    	William Shatner [2]
    	Robert Culp [2]
    	Robert Vaughn [2]
    	Patrick McGoohan [2]
    

    
    	John, you wait 3 months to ask what it was about?  Do you know
    	how many "Columbo" episodes I've seen in the past 3 months? I'd
    	figure about 40.  8^)
    
    	But anyways, if I remember correctly it would have been the one
    	starring George Wendt [Norm from "Cheers"] who was in a bit of
    	trouble with the mob.
    

> But anyways, if I remember correctly it would have been the one
> starring George Wendt [Norm from "Cheers"] who was in a bit of
> trouble with the mob.

	Oh, ok, thanks!  I did see that one (I think I taped it and
	saw it a couple weeks after that).  It was a pretty lamo
	episode!  Let's hope for better ones this season!

    
    	Sorry, John ... not sure why I keep calling you John.
    
    	8^)
    
    	[Must be some kind of a Monday thing, I hope.]
    

    
    	I never mentioned this, but:
    
    	Out here in the Worcester MA area, A&E runs "Columbo" on 4 days
    	during the week ...
    
    	Monday		2PM-5PM
    	Tuesday		9AM-12PM
    	Thursday	2PM-4PM
    	Friday		9AM-11AM
    
    	Tuesday is a repeat of Monday and Friday is a repeat of Thursday.
    

    
    	I found an epsiode listing for the original series.  As far as I
    	can tell it's complete, and the only ones I haven't seen are 1,2
    	and 14.
    

    
Below is the Columbo episode guide.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov
------------------------

Here's a list of all the Columbo episodes from the old series.  Beside
the title is the date of first airing.  Below that are the three main
stars (besides Peter Falk, of course), and below that are comments or
key words about the episodes, if I can think of any.  Don't worry -- there
are no spoilers.

Pilots:

1. PRESCRIPTION: MURDER  (Feb. 20, 1968)
     Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, Nina Foch
     This was a made-for-TV movie which was not originally supposed
     to be a pilot for a series.  It aired three years before the first
     season of the show.  
     Mistress pretends to be wife; stages fight on airplane.

2. RANSOM FOR A DEAD MAN  (Mar. 1, 1971)
     Lee Grant, Harold Gould, Patricia Mattick
     The real pilot for the series, which began the following fall.
     Lawyer shoots husband; makes it look like kidnapping.

First Season  (1971-72):

3. MURDER BY THE BOOK  (Sept. 15, 1971)
     Jack Cassidy, Martin Milner, Rosemary Forsyth
     One partner of a mystery writing team kills the other.

4. DEATH LENDS A HAND  (Oct. 6, 1971)
     Robert Culp, Ray Milland, Patricia Crowley
     P.I. tries to blackmail wife of client; fails, so kills her.

5. DEAD WEIGHT  (Oct. 27, 1971)
     Eddie Albert, Suzanne Pleshette, Kate Reid
     Women in boat think they see a murder.

6. SUITABLE FOR FRAMING  (Nov. 17, 1971)
     Ross Martin, Kim Hunter, Don Ameche
     Art collector killed by art critic.

7. LADY IN WAITING  (Dec. 15, 1971)
     Susan Clark, Richard Anderson, Leslie Nielsen
     Sister waits for brother to come home through her bedroom
     window.  She plans to shoot him, then explain that she thought
     it was a burglar.  Her plans go awry when the brother has an
     extra key.

8.  SHORT FUSE  (Jan. 19, 1972)
     Roddy McDowall, Ida Lupino, James Gregory
     Bomb in cigar box.

9.  BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER  (Feb 9, 1972)
     Patrick O'Neal, Forrest Tucker, Janis Paige
     Architect kills Texas tycoon.

Second Season (1972-73):

10. ETUDE IN BLACK  (Sept. 17, 1972)
     John Cassavetes, Blythe Danner, Myrna Loy
     Conductor kills pianist/mistress.

11. THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE  (Oct. 15, 1972)
     Ray Milland, Bradford Dillman, Bob Dishy
     Uncle and nephew fake kidnapping, then uncle kills nephew.

12. THE MOST CRUCIAL GAME  (Nov. 5, 1972)
     Robert Culp, Dean Stockwell, Valerie Harper
     Football team manager.

13. DAGGER OF THE MIND  (Nov. 26, 1972)
     Richard Basehart, Honor Blackman, John Williams
     Columbo in London.

14. REQUIEM FOR A FALLING STAR  (Jan. 21, 1973)
     Anne Baxter, Mel Ferrer, Kevin McCarthy
     Former movie queen; automobile fire.

15. A STITCH IN CRIME (Feb. 11, 1973)
     Leonard Nimoy, Will Geer, Anne Francis
     Heart surgery.

16. THE MOST DANGEROUS MATCH (Mar. 4, 1973)
     Laurence Harvey, Jack Kruschen, Lloyd Bochner
     Chess players.

17. DOUBLE SHOCK  (Mar. 25, 1973)
     Martin Landau, Paul Stewart, Julie Newmar
     Mixer in bathtub.

Third Season (1973-74):

18. LOVELY BUT LETHAL  (Sept. 23, 1973)
     Vera Miles, Martin Sheen, Vincent Price
     Cosmetics queen; microscope as murder weapon.

19. ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM  (Oct. 7, 1973)
     Donald Pleasance, Gary Conway, Julie Harris
     Winemaker; apparent scuba accident.

20. CANDIDATE FOR CRIME  (Nov. 4, 1973)
     Jackie Cooper, Ken Swofford, Joanne Linville
     Senate candidate kills campaign manager.

21. DOUBLE EXPOSURE (Dec. 16, 1973)
     Robert Culp, Robert Middleton, Louise Latham
     Subliminal messages.

22. PUBLISH OR PERISH  (Jan. 18, 1974)
     Jack Cassidy, Mickey Spillane, Mariette Hartley
     Publisher kills author.

23. MIND OVER MAYHEM  (Feb. 10, 1974)
     Jose Ferrer, Lew Ayres, Robert Walker
     One professor kills another to protect son's reputation.  Robot.

24. SWAN SONG  (Mar. 3, 1974)
     Johnny Cash, Ida Lupino, William McKinney
     Country singer makes plane crash with wife in it.

25. A FRIEND IN DEED  (May 5, 1974)
     Richard Kiley, Michael McGuire, Rosemary Murphy
     Police Commisioner and neighbor give each other alibis for
     their respective murders.

Fourth Season (1974-75):

26. AN EXERCISE IN FATALITY  (Sept. 15, 1974)
     Robert Conrad, Philip Bruns, Pat Harrington
     Physical fitness expert.

27. NEGATIVE REACTION (Oct. 6, 1974)
     Dick Van Dyke, Antoinette Bower, Don Gordon
     Photographer makes wife appear to be victim of kidnapping.

28. BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT  (Oct. 27, 1974)
     Patrick McGoohan, Tom Simcox, Mark Wheeler
     Commandant of military academy makes cannon explode when fired 
     ceremoniously.  McGoohan won Emmy for this performance.

29. TROUBLED WATERS (Feb. 9, 1975)
     Robert Vaughn, Patrick MacNee, Bernard Fox
     Murder on a cruise ship.

30. PLAYBACK  (Mar. 2, 1975)
     Oskar Werner, Martha Scott, Gena Rowlands
     Electronics genius; closed-circuit TV.

31. A DEADLY STATE OF MIND (Apr. 27, 1975)
     George Hamilton, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen Elliott
     Hypnotist.

Fifth Season  (1975-76):

32. FORGOTTEN LADY  (Sept. 14, 1975)
     Janet Leigh, Sam Jaffe, John Payne
     Onetime screen queen watches old movie in her house; film breaks.

33. A CASE OF IMMUNITY  (Oct. 12, 1975)
     Hector Elizondo, Sal Mineo, Barry Robins
     Murder in an Arab diplomatic legation.

34. IDENTITY CRISIS  (Nov. 2, 1975)
     Patrick McGoohan, Leslie Nielsen, Otis Young
     One CIA spy kills another one.

35. A MATTER OF HONOR  (Feb. 1, 1976)
     Ricardo Montalban, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., A. Martinez
     Bullfighting in Mexico.

36. NOW YOU SEE HIM  (Feb. 29, 1976)
     Jack Cassidy, Bob Dishy, Robert Loggia
     Magician; water tank trick.

37. LAST SALUTE TO THE COMMODORE  (May 2, 1976)
     Robert Vaughn, Fred Draper, Diane Baker
     Son-in-law kills naval architect.

Sixth Season (1976-77):
     (Due to various circumstances there were only three episodes this
     season.)

38. FADE IN TO MURDER  (Oct. 10, 1976)
     William Shatner, Lola Albright, Alan Manson
     Television detective kills show's producer.

39. OLD-FASHIONED MURDER (Nov. 28, 1976)
     Joyce Van Patten, Celeste Holm, Jeannie Berlin
     Museum of medieval artifacts and art.

40. THE BYE-BYE SKY HIGH I.Q. MURDER CASE  (May 22, 1977)
     Theodore Bikel, Samantha Eggar, Sorrell Booke
     Murder at a club for geniuses; phonograph.

Seventh Season (1977-78):
     

41. TRY AND CATCH ME (Nov. 21, 1977)
     Ruth Gordon, Mariette Hartley, G.D. Spradlin
     Mystery writer locks victim in vault.

42. MURDER UNDER GLASS (Jan. 30, 1978)
     Louis Jourdan, Shera Danese, Richard Dysart
     Food critic kills restaurant owner.

43. MAKE ME A PERFECT MURDER  (Feb. 28, 1978)
     Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Patrick O'Neal
     Assistant network programmer murders her boss.

44. HOW TO DIAL A MURDER (Apr. 15, 1978)
     Nicol Williamson, Tricia O'Neil, Kim Cattrall
     Dogs kill victim.

45. THE CONSPIRATORS  (May 13, 1978)
     Clive Revill, Jeanette Nolan, Bernard Behrens
     Irish terrorists; gun smuggling.


    

    
    	Looks like "Columbo" is also on Sunday nights at 9PM on The
    	Family Channel ... last night's was one I hadn't seen yet
    	["Columbo Goes to College"].  East coast, anyways.
    
    	And Robert Culp finally co-stars as something other than a
    	suspect.
    

	I saw a snippet of a commercial for a Columbo to air on ABC
	this Thursday night I believe.  Anyone see the full commericial
	and know if it's a new one?

    
    	It's from 1993, co-starring Faye Dunaway and Claudia Christian.
    	"It's All in the Game".
    
    	There's also the weekly "Columbo" Sunday Night Movie on FAM,
    	from 1992, co-starring Joanna Going and Thomas Calabro.  "No
    	Time to Die".
    

    
    	Sunday's FAM "Columbo" episode is 1989's "Murder, Smoke and Shad-
    	ows" with Fisher Stevens.
    

    
    	Well, the Columbia House Video Library apparently had me in
    	mind when they decided to add "Columbo" to their choices, so
    	I went ahead and signed up for the set.  I can cancel at any
    	time, so I definitely don't have to buy them all.
    
    	But yesterday I receieved, as I figured, the pilot episode
    	titled "Diagnosis: Murder" from 1968.  Of course, I had to
    	watch it last night since I've never seen it before, and I
    	have to say it's very possibly the best of them all.  And I
    	hope that the next 1 is the 2nd episode, or the "2nd pilot"
    	from 1972 or so, which I also haven't seen yet.  Then I can
    	cancel, which will be a total cost of about $30 for both
    	episodes.
    

    
    I just watched that episode a couple of weeks ago and have to disagree
    about it being the best. Columbo couldn't break the case on the
    evidence and only got the murderer because of the girlfriend. Later
    shows refined the story lines to the point of having clever deductive
    reasoning by Columbo. Sadly, the last few episodes must of run out of
    good ideas.
    
    ej

    
    	What do you mean you just watched it a couple of weeks ago?
    
    	8^)
    
    	Where'd you see it?
    
    	And BTW, he DID crack the case, but had no proof of same.
    	This was the 1st of a few instances of "beat him at his own
    	game" to trip up the suspect.
    
    	I prefer this method to his "conveniently finding clues to
    	easily deduce the identity of the suspect".
    

    
    I saw it on Lifetime . I think that's the name of the channel. 
    
    	I said he cracked the case, just not on hard evidence.
    
    ej

    
    No, I just saw it on the Family Channel.