No Time To Die | Echoes of Columbo
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- "They" (you know "they" - them, over there!) say that this is the WORST episode of "Columbo." But WE aren't so sure that's true. Join us as we make the case for why the sheer audacity of NO TIME TO DIE saves it from the bottom of the barrel!
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Thank you! For some reason this singular episode is never repeated on British tv and is still the only episode I haven’t seen
I've had the DVD's for years and I think it's the only one i've only ever watched once.
Very interesting! Before I drew this episode out of the hat I’d only seen it once, years ago!
I'm starting to see a pattern here! :)
This is an episode of Columbo that I think about all the time. Not because I like it or anything like that, I'm just traumatized.
It’s memorable, and not for all the right reasons.
@@EchoesOfColumbo Hey this was another great video btw. I never thought I wanted one for this episode but this was very entertaining and insightful. Cheers!
@@AWSOMEPOSSUM16 Thank you! I try to make even the poor ones interesting… glad to get this one out of the way!
Hahah, 5:27 caught me off-guard…and that’s saying something… 😂
To surprise TheFrank of AngryDadGaming is no small feat!
I read some of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books because of these Columbo episodes... I think it could've worked if he had selected the books featuring The Deaf Man and adapt them as inverted mysteries; The Deaf Man has the profile of a classic Columbo villain.
Apparently Falk bought the rights to two McBain books completely “sight-unseen” after a friend recommended the series for having great clues. I really liked the book - will have to check which entries feature this “Deaf Man” character!
@@EchoesOfColumbo The Deaf Man is a would-be criminal mastermind who stages elaborate pranks to distract the cops from even more elaborate robberies; he's known to wear a hearing aid, but may not be deaf. He's often compared with The Riddler from Batman comics. Offhand, iirc, he appears in The Heckler, Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man, Fuzz, Eight Black Horses, Mischief and Hark..of the 6, The Heckler and Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man would've been fine Columbo movies with room for adaptation to fit better.
@@josephadorno92 Thank you!! I’m going to add some of those tomes to my wish list!
I didn't hate this one. Fandoms can be extremely finicky too, just look at Star Wars fans. This is also more in line with what Columbo would be realistically doing- someone of his rank(of which he dodged promotions for decades) should be commanding a squadron, not out doing his own beat cop detective work(in addition to his general refusal to carry a gun or without a partner... but Columbo usually ditches a lot of real procedure for the sake of story. Carrying evidence in a paper bag with his lunch? That would get thrown out of court!). Yes, this is the only living relative of his we see directly(a photo of a sister-in-law showed up in "Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo"), I don't think it contradicts earlier statements as he did mention having several siblings at one point, in addition to the fan theory he's lying about his family to the suspects. That said it focused a bit too little on Rudy & shooting him was an unusual end, aside from trying to adapt this & "Undercover" to the Columbo canon had issues.
Personally my biggest disappointment is "Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo", as they set it up to be the wife of a past arrest getting revenge but made it some off-screen adventure. The basic setup even sounds like it could be reworked to be the wife from "The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case" so the whole story was a missed opportunity to be a proper sequel. Maybe they had rights issues due to switching networks? It's not a bad story on its own(and I'd rank the casting of Vincent Price as a barely-there cosmetic company president to be equally disappointing... COME ON!) it just set up a lot that could have been used better.
Of note is photographer Alex Varick, played by Daniel Davis- he appeared on Star Trek TNG 2 times as the holodeck Moriarty & a regular on The Nanny as smart-mouth butler Niles. (and good for putting in the clip from The Thing so you don't have to deal with 40+ comments referencing it)
The photographer was Moriarty! I love TNG and I did not realize that was him. It’s a real challenge to select my own “worst” (or least favorite) episode… “Old-Fashioned Murder” has to be one of the all-time stinkers, but I feel that the more I watch any of them, the better they seem. Just a testament to how entertaining the show is, even the WORST have some redeeming qualities.
@@EchoesOfColumbo That one had a "frame the girl" scenario tacked on because it felt like it was running too short, with the revelation that the killer had once killed prior leading to something interesting, then just being used as a lame setup at the end to get her to confess despite Columbo having more than enough evidence. Plus the whole hairstylist going on a rant scene just as an excuse to give Peter Falk a weird haircut for a sight gag.
I DO have to tip my cap to the murderer in that one though - doesn’t she kill two guys, each with a single shot, in the space of a few minutes?
@@EchoesOfColumbo Yep, but then turns the light off out of habit which was a red flag.
Andy shooting Rudy may have been impulsive but Rudy did lunge with a knife, so it would likely be ruled a justified shooting in either case.
Multiple cutaways and a Seinfeld mention..... Worst. EOC. Ever.
Stay teeeuuuned for my NEXT EOC - Columbo/Seinfeld parallels!
You sir, just bought yourself an unsubscribe.
@@ericphelps1672he’s crying himself to sleep, I’m sure…
As I do every night, my good chum!