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I recently viewed all the Columbo episodes on Netflix, and loved seeing them again.
Don't know if they had all the seasons, so I should probably check on IMDB
I have the COLUMBO COMPLETE DVD SET which includes every single episode every made of Columbo (the first incarnatin and then the later-years incarnation as well) that I'd bought online. I'd created the following list for my own use:
COLUMBO EPISODES LISTED BY CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERING OF SEASON & EPISODES WITHIN EACH SEASON (in numbered order)
1) SEASON 1
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 2/20/1968): PRESCRIPTION: MURDER
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 3/1/1971): RANSOM FOR A DEAD MAN
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 9/15/1971): MURDER BY THE BOOK
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 10/6/1971): DEATH LENDS A HAND
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 10/27/1971): DEAD WEIGHT
f) (Episode 6 – Aired: 11/17/1971): SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
g) (Episode 7 – Aired: 12/15/1971): LADY IN WAITING
h) (Episode 8 – Aired: 1/19/1972): SHORT FUSE
i) (Episode 9 – Aired: 2/9/1972): BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER
2) SEASON 2
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 9/17/1972): ÉTUDE IN BLACK
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 10/15/1972): THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 11/5/1972): THE MOST CRUCIAL GAME
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 11/26/1972): DAGGER OF THE MIND
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 1/21/1973): REQUIEM FOR A FALLING STAR
f) (Episode 6 – Aired: 2/11/1973): A STITCH IN CRIME
g) (Episode 7 – Aired: 3/4/1973): THE MOST DANGEROUS MATCH
h) (Episode 8 – Aired: 3/25/1973): DOUBLE SHOCK
3) SEASON 3
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 9/23/1973): LOVELY BUT LETHAL
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 10/7/1973): ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 11/4/1973): CANDIDATE FOR CRIME
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 12/16/1973): DOUBLE EXPOSURE
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 1/18/1974): PUBLISH OR PERISH
f) (Episode 6 – Aired: 2/18/1974): MIND OVER MAYHEM
g) (Episode 7 – Aired: 3/3/1974): SWAN SONG
h) (Episode 8 – Aired: 5/5/1974): A FRIEND IN DEED
4) SEASON 4
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 9/15/1974): AN EXERCISE IN FATALITY
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 10/15/1974): NEGATIVE REACTION
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 10/27/1974): BY DAWN´S EARLY LIGHT
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 2/9/1975): TROUBLED WATERS
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 3/2/1975): PLAYBACK
f) (Episode 6 – Aired: 4/27/1975): A DEADLY STATE OF MIND
5) SEASON 5
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 9/14/1975): FORGOTTEN LADY
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 10/12/1975): A CASE OF IMMUNITY
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 11/2/1975): IDENTITY CRISIS
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 2/1/1976): A MATTER OF HONOR
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 2/29/1976): NOW YOU SEE HIM
f) (Episode 6 – Aired: 3/2/1976): LAST SALUTE TO THE COMMODORE
6) SEASON 6
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 10/10/1976): FADE IN TO MURDER
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 11/28/1976): OLD FASHIONED MURDER
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 5/22/1977): THE BYE-BYE SKY HIGH I.Q. MURDER CASE
7) SEASON 7
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 11/21/1977): TRY AND CATCH ME
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 1/30/1978): MURDER UNDER GLASS
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 2/28/1978): MAKE ME A PERFECT MURDER
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 4/15/1978): HOW TO DIAL A MURDER
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 5/13/1978): THE CONSPIRATORS
8) SEASON 8
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 2/6/1989): COLUMBO GOES TO THE GUILLOTINE
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 2/27/1989): MURDER, SMOKE AND SHADOWS
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 4/3/1989): SEX AND THE MARRIED DETECTIVE
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 5/1/1989): GRAND DECEPTIONS
9) SEASON 9
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 11/25/1989): MURDER, A SELF PORTRAIT
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 1/20/1990): COLUMBO CRIES WOLF
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 2/10/1990): AGENDA FOR MURDER
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 3/31/1990): REST IN PEACE, MRS. COLUMBO
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 4/28/1990): UNEASY LIES THE CROWN
f) (Episode 6 – Aired: 5/14/1990): MURDER IN MALIBU
10) SEASON 10
a) (Episode 1 – Aired: 12/9/1990): COLUMBO GOES TO COLLEGE
b) (Episode 2 – Aired: 2/20/1991): Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
c) (Episode 3 – Aired: 4/29/1991): COLUMBO AND THE MURDER OF A ROCK STAR
d) (Episode 4 – Aired: 12/15/1991): DEATH HITS THE JACKPOT
e) (Episode 5 – Aired: 3/15/1992): NO TIME TO DIE
f) (Episode 6 – Aired: 11/22/1992): A BIRD IN THE HAND
g) (Episode 7 – Aired: 10/31/1993): IT'S ALL IN THE GAME
h) (Episode 8 – Aired: 1/10/1994): BUTTERFLY IN SHADES OF GREY
i) (Episode 9 – Aired: 5/2/1994): UNDERCOVER
j) (Episode 10 – Aired: 5/8/1995): STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
k) (Episode 11 – Aired: 5/15/1997): A TRACE OF MURDER
l) (Episode 12 – Aired: 10/8/1998): ASHES TO ASHES
m) (Episode 13 – Aired: 3/12/2001): MURDER WITH TOO MANY NOTES
n) (Episode 14 – Aired: 1/30/2003): COLUMBO LIKES THE NIGHTLIFE
Then I'd also created a a detailed guide/list to accompany the above titled:
COLUMBO EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS (episodes arranged sequentially in chronological order of original TV airing)
with detailed episode descriptions coming from TV.COM . . . but it may all be too much to paste in here.
P.S.-- I tried pasting it in (20 pages of data from a Microsoft Word document) and the C-D servers twice rejected my attempts (saying "Bad request"). I guess that is too much for a single posting to encompass.
Thank you so much! I couldn't remember how long the series had lasted. So now, I'm pretty sure I've seen only the first season.
That was a great show, and I'd forgotten how much I liked it at the time. And now, it's a pleasure to view because it's so purely done, without resorting to gratuitous violence and vile language. It was truly from a better time in the history of this republic.
After "Airplane!", "Police Squad", and the "Naked Gun" movies, it can be difficult to take him seriously in any of his many non-comedic roles.
Of course, it's difficult to take that awful remake of "Beau Geste" seriously at all.
To each their own.
Watching his serious acting work, I was never really that impressed with it. He always seemed so wooden. Perhaps his best serious work, IMHO, was The Poseidon Adventure.
As far as Columbo goes, the earlier runs were better than the latter.
The best snare was probably "Negative Reaction" (at 34:22)
.................but the hilarious thing is, there is a simple, non incriminating way for Dick Van Dyke to clear himself, a method that any good photographer (at least back then) should know............
.............................and it's one of the tricks that Columbo himself uses in "Make me a Perfect Murder".
I still remember the parody song from "MAD" magazine (first verse, anyway):
(To the tune of "They Call the Wind Mariah")
You may prefer a character,
Like Donald Duck or Dumbo,
This guy's for real,
A true schlemiel,
And they call the sap Columbo,
Columbo, Columbo,
They call the sap Columbo,
Also remember an episode of "Sanford and Son" where Lamont was trying to impress an African girl by "getting back to his roots" by wearing a dashiki and calling himself "Kalunda". Fred called him "Columbo".
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