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  • @Davtwan
    @Davtwan Місяць тому +154

    One of Columbo's traits is how fast he picks up on things (but acting like he doesn't understand). A couple of his suspects even complimented on how he's a quick learner at the latter half of episodes.

  • @KBJade39
    @KBJade39 Місяць тому +227

    I love the ending when Colombo is introducing the undercover detectives for the set up scene. So extra

    • @Malrottian
      @Malrottian Місяць тому +34

      I've always believed that Columbo was just describing how the set up worked and the director was in the middle of a mental breakdown and imagined it that way.

    • @Davtwan
      @Davtwan Місяць тому +13

      Alex would have known better if his ego and overconfidence didn't get in the way. There are plenty of officers that have to go undercover, so they know a thing or two about acting.

    • @Jack-o3k5w
      @Jack-o3k5w 26 днів тому +5

      In the first clip with the subliminal cuts, I think it was one of the other detectives at the station that gave Columbo the idea of using subliminal suggestion to catch his suspect. He was sick and tired of Columbo going on and on about a hidden gun in the killers office. So he says to Columbo along the lines of "You go to the suspect and ask him where he hid it"

    • @groofay
      @groofay 3 дні тому +2

      @@Malrottian That totally tracks, with that shot toward the end of Columbo in an impresario outfit. The director was losing his mind for sure.

  • @doctordeej
    @doctordeej Місяць тому +132

    When I was undertaking detective training many years ago, one of the instructors, a Detective Sergeant of many years experience, claimed that Columbo was the most realistic police series ever. We all thought ‘what?’. Then he went not o explain that pretty much all police detective work was about asking questions, the right questions. And after many years of investigations I can honestly say - he was 100% correct. I even told a lecture theatre full of criminology students today the same thing. Of course, not many knew who Columbo was. Suffice to say, they do now.

    • @Domesthenes
      @Domesthenes Місяць тому +7

      I kind of wonder what a modern-day take on Columbo would look like. Who would you get to play him, would the show strive to be as accurate as this, and would there be more of a focus on "action" as opposed to the slow-burn of the original show?

    • @h3rpad3rpacifilis
      @h3rpad3rpacifilis 29 днів тому +8

      @Domesthenes I think all they have to do is keep it simple. Modern detectives always have some kind of superhuman gimmick, which is the complete opposite as to how Columbo operates. He's just a regular guy who has a lot of life experience, and very perceptive to emotional and social cues. The pacing is very slow for modern audiences for sure, but I think cutting it to around 20-30 minutes is very doable and all they really need, considering a lot of the time is spent kinda just poking and prodding the suspect's patience.

    • @chrisklecker
      @chrisklecker 26 днів тому +4

      I think it would still work even given the technology. Remember the show is about police work, not really a murder mystery. In the end, they can do what Law and Order does, just spin it for the Columbo universe. There are some episodes that especially work today like Murder Under Glass, How to Dial a Murder, Try and Catch Me, and so on. These episodes were not about anything technical, they were all about piecing together the puzzle.

    • @robert9016
      @robert9016 17 днів тому +1

      @@DomesthenesTimothee Chalamet is… Columbo 😂

  • @thelastdictator482
    @thelastdictator482 Місяць тому +103

    Columbo repeatedly saying, "Mr Fisher," to young Fisher Stevens feels like Peter Falk harassing a young actor in the most Columbo way possible.
    Columbo was such a good show that you not only had the murder answered up front, but even watching how he eventually catches them doesn't spoil it because it's all about the journey of watching a bedraggled good cop torment rich arrogant jerks.

    • @jeremybelcher1727
      @jeremybelcher1727 Місяць тому +6

      The fact that his real name is Steven Fisher makes it better lol!

  • @stevenj9970
    @stevenj9970 Місяць тому +95

    The best detective show ever made...........Thank you, Peter!

    • @alaricblair5514
      @alaricblair5514 Місяць тому +5

      EVER...

    • @davidaston5773
      @davidaston5773 27 днів тому +2

      Thank you Peter Falk. NEVER be another one like you.... Just one more thing 💖

  • @keithjones7390
    @keithjones7390 Місяць тому +74

    That caviar was to die for!

  • @jrewing1512
    @jrewing1512 Місяць тому +48

    The part where Columbo wipes the floor with that arrogant movie director was pricless.

  • @mikebasil4832
    @mikebasil4832 Місяць тому +56

    Robert Culp sure knew how to play a cold-blooded killer.

    • @psmith2714
      @psmith2714 28 днів тому +5

      He played a spy in I Spy so he had practice.

    • @SnowDaulphin
      @SnowDaulphin 21 день тому +3

      Peter Falk must have thought so.

    • @karlbassett8485
      @karlbassett8485 18 днів тому +4

      When Mad Magazine spoofed Columbo they based the likeness of the killer on Robert Culp, and the character was "Dr Robert Culpable".

  • @badcompany-w6s
    @badcompany-w6s Місяць тому +25

    I have a hard time remembering things. So I started carrying one of those note pads in my shirt pocket. Everyone at work has started calling me Columbo. LOL!

    • @20catsRPG
      @20catsRPG Місяць тому

      They should call you Pinocchio instead, for being a liar.

    • @DoofXMachina
      @DoofXMachina 29 днів тому +3

      ​@@20catsRPG mfers be calling everything fake

  • @qualityman1965
    @qualityman1965 Місяць тому +37

    Robert culp looks exactly like one of my former bosses. He was one control freak, I will never forget.

  • @Jack-o3k5w
    @Jack-o3k5w Місяць тому +25

    Robert Culp was Culp(able) of murder in three Columbo episodes. He also payed a part in one of the Columbo remakes about the two college students who kill their professor. In that episode I think he played the father of one of the killer students.

  • @randomjunk1977
    @randomjunk1977 Місяць тому +62

    Columbo went to a lot of extra effort to REALLY rub it in Fisher Stevens' face on that second one.

    • @hemmojito
      @hemmojito Місяць тому +6

      Absolutely loved it☺

    • @sshza2143
      @sshza2143 Місяць тому +7

      21:35, we worth it😳😂🍻that🍻look😁✌😎

  • @daniel_sc1024
    @daniel_sc1024 28 днів тому +12

    I'm not searching, I'm looking. 🤣🤣

  • @rfletch62
    @rfletch62 26 днів тому +8

    Columbo as the ringmaster. Priceless.

  • @AstalThe9
    @AstalThe9 Місяць тому +31

    Ill be honest, I have never seen Columbo or grew up with him, but he seems an awesome guy. Would not want to meet him when hes working though!

    • @sshza2143
      @sshza2143 Місяць тому +5

      oh...and one more thing...your comment...🙌😁🍻✌😎

  • @michaelbezoski3096
    @michaelbezoski3096 4 дні тому

    To the Master I bow. As others have said, "The best detective show ever made". Perfect description of the brilliant Columbo (did an absolute justice to his writers)!!!!! No one but Peter Falk could play the character so perfectly well.! Thank you so much. A great actor in every movie he played and starred in.

  • @aaronk534
    @aaronk534 Місяць тому +20

    I love the old tech. Takes rooms and trunks of equipment thats all on our phones now or hanging on a keychain.

  • @theodorewatkins7284
    @theodorewatkins7284 6 днів тому +2

    Everyone thought I was weird when I used to watch this show in the 70s. I'm 63 years old now and find myself caught up in watching reruns. Just for the clothing, the cars language, everything about colombo, and peter falk, I loved it incredible show. Oh yes and the beautiful women. Susan placechette laying on the boat.😉

  • @SALTYH2O
    @SALTYH2O Місяць тому +9

    Robert Culp can kidnap me anytime 😂

  • @phdtobe
    @phdtobe Місяць тому +46

    The number of greedy idiots who try to blackmail the murderers in Columbo episodes just crack me up. How can they fool themselves into thinking the murderer won’t also try to kill them?!!! 😂😂😂

    • @sshza2143
      @sshza2143 Місяць тому +5

      right,😏 i thought culp was gonna choke him out right there.😃 watta dingus🤦‍♂and continues to work for him🙄😁🍻✌😎

    • @paulrandig
      @paulrandig Місяць тому +8

      And they ALWAYS forget to mention that they deposited their proof with several notaries. So if anything happens to them, the thruth would immediately be revealed.

    • @yewhanlim8916
      @yewhanlim8916 Місяць тому +6

      Almost as bad as trying to blackmail a vigilante called Batman. It is not going to work out well.

  • @CB-dg4gg
    @CB-dg4gg 22 дні тому +4

    11:01 that was some Solid Snake stealth behind that plant.

    • @HaramXL
      @HaramXL 20 днів тому

      😂😂😂

    • @HaramXL
      @HaramXL 20 днів тому +1

      What he would've given for a cardboard box 😂

  • @Jack-o3k5w
    @Jack-o3k5w Місяць тому +10

    The thing nobody mentions is in some Columbo episodes the killer kills two people. In this case the killers main target and the projectionist who saw him disabling the CCTV monitor monitoring the lobby where the murder took place. If Columbo had investigated the murder of the projectionist as well he would have caught Culp without the need for final gotcha scene. Culp never used the calibration converter that he had hidden in the lamp after the first murder, when he shot and killed the film projectionist who was blackmailing him afterwards, and that bullet could be traced back to his gun by ballistics.

    • @gaslightgatekeepgaleboss
      @gaslightgatekeepgaleboss 12 днів тому

      Didn’t he use a gun from the projectionist’s house to kill him tho? Or am I misremembering?

    • @Jack-o3k5w
      @Jack-o3k5w 11 днів тому

      @@gaslightgatekeepgaleboss Yes he did and he came prepared with a handkerchief to avoid leaving fingerprints on it. I only saw that scene after I made my original comment. How he knew in advance the projectionist kept a gun in his house, or that it would be clearly visible in an unlocked drawer is another mystery. My feeling is he had forgotten all about the converter in the lamp until Columbo's subliminal cuts of him looking around his office subconsciously reminded him of it and he became uneasy. He wasn't expecting Columbo would ever look for a gun or a calibration converter hidden in a lamp.

  • @maverikmiller6746
    @maverikmiller6746 10 днів тому +1

    11:15 I googled a bit and there is no "single tube caliber converter" for a handgun. The only thing came up was a "conversion kit". That is a hard large hand carry that includes the whole top slide part of the gun and a complete new magazine (these are %70 of the all parts of the gun).
    Also if the gun was fired there would be residue of burnt gunpowder all over the internals and externals (around the ejection port) of the gun. It has nothing to do with an "internal converter cylinder".

  • @karenpato1
    @karenpato1 Місяць тому +12

    When the gum starts sticking to the shoe.

    • @sshza2143
      @sshza2143 Місяць тому +3

      uh oh,😳 columbo🏆😁🍻✌😎

  • @SRDhain
    @SRDhain 18 днів тому +1

    I've seen these many times as I've had the series on box set(s) (each season on a different set), for years & they were shown on channel 5 in the U.K. on Sundays, for years on end. Even though you know exactly what goes down in each one (or maybe because of this), they're great for winding down with. Sometimes you notice new things, too.
    I noticed that the guy playing Milt at 9:34 , was also in an episode of Kojak around that same time period; he looked exactly the same. He played a blackmailer and had more screen time.
    At 21:32 , this actress goes on to play William Shatner's adopted daughter in the episode where Shatner's character murders her friend, who tries to help her ambitions as a writer.

  • @dewforpolitics
    @dewforpolitics Місяць тому +6

    Could you imagine Columbo working with Grand Admiral Thrawn? They would be unstoppable sleuths.

    • @tmp-3mtempest79
      @tmp-3mtempest79 26 днів тому +3

      "There's just one thing that's been botherin' me, maybe you could clear it up. If you weren't there, then how DID that happen? It was so... ARTFULLY done!" - Grand Detective Thrawn Columbo

  • @michiel5379
    @michiel5379 Місяць тому +11

    I always found a big plothole with the 1st one the fact that the murderer could have removed that converter at any point in time, instead he left that critical piece of evidence in his office... 🤔🧐

    • @casda1972
      @casda1972 Місяць тому +1

      Why keep it in the office at all??

    • @johnfinnegan8474
      @johnfinnegan8474 Місяць тому +4

      Presumably because he didn't have time to dispose of it anywhere else as nobody was allowed to leave the building without being searched. In other episodes Columbo always seems to be there when killers are trying dispose of the evidence. Like the one where the old lady is trying to dispose of her murdered nephews car keys into the ocean but somehow Columbo appears right beside her.

    • @patrickjohnson5658
      @patrickjohnson5658 Місяць тому +1

      But he did try to remove it at that particular point in time. He had no idea Columbo was hiding in the darkness, or that he had made subliminal cuts in the movie he was watching of him looking around his office. In another episode where he ran a private detective agency, Columbo caught him searching his car for a contact lens that supposedly fell out of the the murder victims eye when he was driving with her body in the back of his car to dump it.

    • @gophersmith
      @gophersmith Місяць тому

      I think it was a plot hole. If Dr. Keppel had placed the converter anywhere but his office, Columbo's subliminal cuts would have had no effect.

    • @casda1972
      @casda1972 Місяць тому

      I get the immediate hiding following the murder (although no-one actually searched him) - but at the end we are days or weeks away from the murder - why is it still hidden in the lamp? The only reason is to support the final gotcha.

  • @DaveMillman
    @DaveMillman Місяць тому +7

    11:10 he probably meant to say "Caliber converter" as in a cylinder that could be inserted into a 45 cal pistol to allow it to fire 22 cal rounds.

    • @maverikmiller6746
      @maverikmiller6746 10 днів тому +1

      I am not sure if this is real. I haven't google it, but I have a feeling it does not exists.

  • @benberkhof4265
    @benberkhof4265 Місяць тому +11

    Still weird that Culp never removed the converter

    • @martinfinn1550
      @martinfinn1550 Місяць тому +3

      Maybe like Columbo admitted to him he would never have thought of looking for a calibration converter, never mind one hidden in a lamp. So he probably thought it was a perfect hiding place for it nobody would ever think of looking in.

    • @TJay41
      @TJay41 Місяць тому +5

      The man’s ego trapped him, he thought he was so much smarter than everyone else, especially Columbo, but that’s here he messed up, he underestimated Columbos thinking ability dumb move

    • @patrickjohnson5658
      @patrickjohnson5658 Місяць тому +2

      Columbo was looking for a gun not a converter. So it would seem to me it was not urgent that Culp removed the converter from the lamp with any haste, and it could have been safely left there until the lightbulb eventually burned out and needed to be changed.

    • @Jack-o3k5w
      @Jack-o3k5w Місяць тому

      Even stranger is he apparently didn't use the converter in the gun when he shot and killed the film projectionist later on.

  • @PrimarchMatterion
    @PrimarchMatterion 23 дні тому +1

    "Roger" who came in to help the Doc. That was the Dude that was the Rancor trainer in Return of the Jedi.

  • @nettiewolverinethunderbird8341
    @nettiewolverinethunderbird8341 16 днів тому +1

    Did he say Belusha?? Its Beluga..the cutest whales ever

  • @CB-dg4gg
    @CB-dg4gg 22 дні тому +1

    14:45 it was more fun when Lillard

  • @Futur3sGamer
    @Futur3sGamer Місяць тому +6

    Excellent

    • @mikebasil4832
      @mikebasil4832 Місяць тому +2

      The final scene between Peter Falk and Fisher Stevens is among the most excellent.

  • @leesullivan98
    @leesullivan98 Місяць тому +10

    the new show, Elsbeth is a throw back of Colombo check it out😊

    • @Maja_J
      @Maja_J Місяць тому +3

      Its not Colombo was't autisticspectrum exentric he was great observator and detectiv and use his look as weapon almost all villians in show dont take him serious because of that and its work really well for him.

    • @lisawilliams2013
      @lisawilliams2013 Місяць тому +2

      I like Poker Face, which was more directly inspired by Columbo. It’s edgier, protagonist more flawed, but it’s fun. Even the show’s credits are a throwback to older episodes of Columbo!

  • @SnowDaulphin
    @SnowDaulphin 21 день тому +1

    He tricks Milos (Robert Conrad) with the recording of a dead man. Doesn’t incriminate the murderer but it flips him off.

  • @kerchydaproductions6384
    @kerchydaproductions6384 25 днів тому +1

    My grandfather kinda acts like Colombo, especially if I’m trying to hide something from him. He acts just like Colombo safe to say I haven’t really hidden that much stuff from my grandfather because he can sniff it out like a bandit due to all that military training he’s had since he’s a retired Vietnam vet. He’s a bit younger than Peter Falk and by a bit I mean a lot younger than him Mr. Falk was born in 1927 where as my grandfather was born 1948 but I swear he walks like him and has his mannerisms and candor sometimes it’s almost eerie

  • @AlaskianTourist
    @AlaskianTourist 3 дні тому

    0:07 Subliminal cuts

  • @StefanTravis
    @StefanTravis 19 днів тому +1

    I wonder how many people still believe in subliminal suggestion, just because they saw it on Colombo.

  • @FunkHead
    @FunkHead Місяць тому +1

    Legendary

  • @20catsRPG
    @20catsRPG Місяць тому +1

    Except the second case is irrelevant. Watch the restaurant scene. The secretary can only confirm he took a phone call from Fisher, and he can explain that in a number of ways. Also, she was the one who asked to go on holiday, as she put it 'on a long paid vacation, maybe a cruise' - he didn't offer it as a bribe, he merely agreed and he can just say it was because he wanted to treat his secretary for all the long years she worked for him. He will walk, they got nothing on him.

    • @patrickjohnson5658
      @patrickjohnson5658 Місяць тому +2

      In Columbo episodes the viewers are the judge and the jury and we know he is guilty of murder and Columbo got the right man. There are no lawyers or court trials in Columbo shows. That's all that really counts at the end of the day.

  • @Synthematix
    @Synthematix 29 днів тому +3

    Is that Jack tramiel ?

    • @TheFoggyjones
      @TheFoggyjones 27 днів тому +1

      I was thinking exactly the same thing.

  • @joggingscissors632
    @joggingscissors632 28 днів тому +7

    Makes me miss the days when white collar murderers used handkerchiefs to wipe fingerprints.........like gentlemen.
    Sigh

  • @adelalax3553
    @adelalax3553 Місяць тому +4

    Someone thinks money gives you power? To do what? To think you are better then other poor people gues what you put your pants one leg at a time also!

    • @Muck006
      @Muck006 Місяць тому

      Just listen to all the Hollywood celebrities getting outraged by the election result ...

  • @MrRobby1
    @MrRobby1 Місяць тому +6

    The narrator of the subliminal picture movie sounds like William Shatner. I think it was and that it was uncredited in the credits. Is anybody agree or know if it's someone else?

    • @RADIUMGLASS
      @RADIUMGLASS Місяць тому +2

      I believe Falk and Shatner were friends. They did two or three Columbo episodes together.

    • @punkinuk1
      @punkinuk1 Місяць тому +1

      According to IMDb, it's Peter Walker

    • @MrRobby1
      @MrRobby1 Місяць тому +1

      @@punkinuk1 could that be an alias that William Shatner uses??

    • @punkinuk1
      @punkinuk1 27 днів тому +1

      @@MrRobby1 I never thought of that. Could be true, I suppose, but would William Shatner's ego allow him to do that, do you think?

    • @MrRobby1
      @MrRobby1 27 днів тому +1

      @@punkinuk1 I've seen that episode so many times ( I've seen all of them so many times LOL) and every time I watch this one I hear William Shatner. And since they were friends and it was a very small off camera role it's possible he didn't want to give attention to his own name because Robert Culp and Peter Falk were the headliners. I don't know but that's just my opinion.

  • @Seyer40
    @Seyer40 26 днів тому +1

    Was Fischer Stevens young director supposed to be a parody of Steven Spielberg?

  • @marilynwillett804
    @marilynwillett804 15 днів тому +1

    Robert Culp, always the eternal narcissist.

  • @albertchehade9916
    @albertchehade9916 Місяць тому +1

    Dear lord!
    Is that ......celluloid? 😂🤣😂

  • @neilkematch6598
    @neilkematch6598 Місяць тому +2

    Columbo was annoying but, he was not boring.

    • @Muck006
      @Muck006 Місяць тому +1

      Columbo TOOK HIS TIME and it was always "getting to the explanation through the backyard ... up the fire ladder ... in through the window at the roof. Personally I like that style, because the obvious straight line for the quick resolution is boring.

    • @keithjones7390
      @keithjones7390 Місяць тому +2

      It was always interesting to see what Columbo was going to ask the suspect in his "Just one more thing" moment.

  • @valeriasorica1688
    @valeriasorica1688 Місяць тому +3

    Ieri și azi am căutat pe Amazon colecția completă a seriei Colombo. Din păcate nu am găsit cu traducere în limba italiană. De limba română nici nu poate fi vorba!😊...mai ștept și mai sper! Până atunci mă mulțumesc cu ce văd aici și la TV. Uneori mă gândesc cum ar fi decurs anchetele sale în lumea de azi?! 👏😇

  • @derekbrou
    @derekbrou 29 днів тому +2

    One of my favorite times when Columbo used the murderer's tricks against them was when that one murderer beat the victim to death over the course of several days, in kind of a no bells and whistles scenario, and so Columbo just did the same thing to them, seemingly taking a good amount of pleasure out of it and not letting them eat or go to the bathroom or nothing, and he's bleeding everywhere crying begging that he doesn't wanna die and he'll sign anything Columbo wants him to sign and then that detective Wilson character was like "gee sir I think this is a bit outside standard operating procedure, and the fact that you picked this guy randomly out of a crowd has me worried this might be a false confession" and Columbo's like "I don't give a g** d*** about no false confessions son, I always get my f**** man, I don't care who it's gotta be, some son of a b** going down for this one way or another" and then he shoots the guy dead straight up. They end up not really getting the confession since Columbo kills him before he signs the confession but it's a cool revenge plot for the gumshoe detective

  • @randallrona9618
    @randallrona9618 18 днів тому +1

    Modern Crime/Detective Fans: Law and Order: SVU is the best crime & detective show!
    Columbo Fans: Just one more thing.

  • @KamillGran-ch5sb
    @KamillGran-ch5sb Місяць тому +12

    Like most Columbo cases this would never hold up in a court of law.

    • @jasonbennett7002
      @jasonbennett7002 Місяць тому +11

      Haha .. not a regular viewer eh?! Most of his suspects end up confessing or badly implicating themselves before Columbo has finished explaining why he thinks they're the murderer.

    • @KamillGran-ch5sb
      @KamillGran-ch5sb Місяць тому +6

      @ I meant in real life. We all know the rich and the powerful get the best defense money can buy, and those lawyers would poke money holes in these cases. In this case, breaking into the office and inserting messages into an existing film would be thrown out court unless he had a judges order. It’s fun to watch these shows but in reality he would get very few convictions.

    • @jasonbennett7002
      @jasonbennett7002 Місяць тому +7

      @@KamillGran-ch5sb Once again, you must be new. Columbo always has all the warrants necessary to do whatever is required to prove his case.

    • @KamillGran-ch5sb
      @KamillGran-ch5sb Місяць тому +1

      @ does he? The shows are very entertaining but as I said, he would get very few convictions in real life.

    • @KamillGran-ch5sb
      @KamillGran-ch5sb Місяць тому +1

      Furthermore, some of these high profile people would refuse to speak to him without a lawyer. Anyway, it’s a great show.

  • @harshnaini
    @harshnaini Місяць тому +4

    First

    • @sshza2143
      @sshza2143 Місяць тому +1

      🏆😁🍻✌😎