The most admirable thing here is that Columbo overcame his fear of blood and hospitals and forced himself to watch Dr. Mayfield during the surgery in order to save Dr. Hideman’s life and nail the killer. That was brave !
A good lawyer could easily get him off this because Columbo left the room and Spock's lawyer to say he left the room grab the suture came back in and planted it
Most people watching this clip who don't have an in-depth familiarity with the full episode might think that Leonard Nimoy's performance was weak after he got hit with Columbo's gotcha evidence. Nimoy responds almost as if he's nonchalantly saying to himself, "Oh well, that was a little goof. I should have removed the sutures from the pocket of Columbo's gown when I had the chance immediately after he left my office." But Nimoy's acting in this episode was actually very believable throughout, including this gotcha scene. That's because the Dr. Mayfield character is one of the most heartless and psychopathic in the entire series, all the more sinister because he was a respected surgeon.
I interpreted that as simply him not expecting Columbo to come back into to his office, and that he had all time in the world to dispose of the sutures.
When the serie took the time to set the villains properly, this is why Columbo stands out to this day. The creators of the show knew what they were doing.
Still, my favorite Colombo original episode because Nimoy almost gets away with it but the credits roll just is Colombo realizes where those sutures are
I always think of this one as the one that almost got away. I honestly don't think there was a single one of Columbo's suspects that was as close to getting away with it as the doc in this episode.
If you think about it, though, finding no suture in the operating room would have been strange. They SHOULD have found the old suture somewhere. One of the members of the surgical team said that it had not been left in the patient.
@@MR-pv7qg Yes, but in that one, Columbo came back confident in his analysis. What puts this one ahead for me is that Columbo practically gave up before realising what had actually happened.
@@artmallory970In both examples, Columbo baited them on purpose so that they'd incriminate themselves. Neither of them were getting away with it. Columbo even said to the guy in Murder under Glass that he suspected him 2 minutes after he met him. Again, in this one, the surgeon was just about to get away with it if Columbo hadn't realised what he did last minute.
There are so many great episodes of Columbo but I don't think this is the best one. That distinction goes to Any Old Port in a Storm but this one is still very good.
Ah yes...this must be the long lost episode of Star Trek. The one where Spock time travels back to 70's Los Angeles and clips his ears to look human. So he becomes a surgeon to earn a conventional living, but a side affect of time travel turns him evil and emotional.
Sadistic? I’m someone who thinks that armchair psychology is a very horrible thing to enable and exercise, and I think that sociopathic would be a more accurate description of him in this episode than sadistic. I don’t remember seeing anything in this episode that demonstrated that he was sadistic or that he enjoyed harming people. I only saw that he was indifferent to harming people to get what he wants.
Leonard Nimoy was certainly one of the more despicable villains in the NBC era of Columbo. (The nurse was Aneta Corsault, the same actress who played Opie's teacher on The Andy Griffith Show.)
And to think if he had immediately disposed of the suture or at least taken it out of Columbo’s gown he might still get away with it. Instead he sits there and gloats. Karma at its finest.
@@JohnTierney-ki5ucIn this case that makes sense, but in an IRL court of law it could be more complicated. You could claim that the cops planted the evidence and are framing you, however I highly doubt that an irl doctor would have magician level pickpocketing skills so it kind of doesnt matter.
He's not a phoney surgeon, he is talented and knows what he is doing, he is a murderer, and only Columbo can catch him, get the title right, makes no sense
Where would Columbo get dissolving suture, you cannot exactly buy it in the shops? Under a powerful microscope it would be apparent the difference between unused suture and dissolving suture that has been used in a medical operation, and had just been removed from the victims body, after been there for days dissolving away even further.
@@paulvanallen-lononca We know that. But if it was in real life a surgeon could never beat an attempted murder charge by claiming the investigation officer planted the suture.
In all seriousness, that could be a possibility in a court of law. By his own admission the one person they didn't search was Columbo who came into the operating room wearing the surgical gown, so Mayfield's defence team could have argued that Columbo came in there with the dissolving sutures already in his pocket to implicate Mayfield. Also Columbo touched the suture with his bare hands. No case for Columbo as the DA would throw it out on contaminated evidence.
@@Romulan2469 Not really. A forensic analysis of the dissolving sutures in Columbo's pocket would prove they had just come from inside the patients body as they would have traces of his internal bodily fluids on them. That is not something Columbo could replicate with dissolving sutures already in his pocket. The surgeon didn't have time to sterilise them of all biological traces of where they had been.
@@crunkers_ No. DNA evidence wouldn't have started been used in criminal cases until the late 1980's. But surgery on somebody's heart involves a lot of blood some traces of which would get on the suture, and would be seen under a high power microscope, which would prove it had been used in a surgical operation, not just carried in by Columbo and planted in his surgical gown.
Like Columbo, I know nothing about suture. But when he pulled it out of his gown at the end, does it really look like that? Looks more like pubic hair!
They went for 75 minutes but they had to condense them to under 10 minutes by taking out unnecessary and repetitive content because the old TVs couldn’t hold anything over 10 minutes. The mondo Columbus shows are very short always less than 10 minutes because of the primitive mondo TVs they had back then. The old old old TVs could not hold more than 10 minutes of show as they used CRT Catholic Ray Tubs technology and non Dylan Mulvaney CLT or Claw Technology. No harm no fowl. They tried Dylan Mulvaney to shorten the shows advertising and tried to produce a non racist TV set with Motorola involvement with flypaper control and Dylan Mulvaney CEO.
The most admirable thing here is that Columbo overcame his fear of blood and hospitals and forced himself to watch Dr. Mayfield during the surgery in order to save Dr. Hideman’s life and nail the killer. That was brave !
Columbo got suspicious because Spock was acting emotionally.
This may be difficult for you to grasp but he's really not Mr Spock.
@@FIREBRAND38 Sounds like you live in a fantasy land.
Must have been his human half showing again.
Spock will just teleport back to the Enterprise after his arrest.
A good lawyer could easily get him off this because Columbo left the room and Spock's lawyer to say he left the room grab the suture came back in and planted it
Spock: "Your conclusion is highly logical Columbo."
Most people watching this clip who don't have an in-depth familiarity with the full episode might think that Leonard Nimoy's performance was weak after he got hit with Columbo's gotcha evidence. Nimoy responds almost as if he's nonchalantly saying to himself, "Oh well, that was a little goof. I should have removed the sutures from the pocket of Columbo's gown when I had the chance immediately after he left my office." But Nimoy's acting in this episode was actually very believable throughout, including this gotcha scene. That's because the Dr. Mayfield character is one of the most heartless and psychopathic in the entire series, all the more sinister because he was a respected surgeon.
I interpreted that as simply him not expecting Columbo to come back into to his office, and that he had all time in the world to dispose of the sutures.
No one fools Columbo even a physician
Not even a Vulcan...
@@paulzammataro7185 A half Vulcan.
@@Romulan2469 I didn't know that until I watched the prequel to BBT, 'Young Sheldon".
@@paulzammataro7185It was illogical to go against Columbo
Weird seeing Spock trying to kill Grandpa Walton
Dr Barry Mayfield. One more thing, Dr Spock....has me in "stitches"
When the serie took the time to set the villains properly, this is why Columbo stands out to this day.
The creators of the show knew what they were doing.
Still, my favorite Colombo original episode because Nimoy almost gets away with it but the credits roll just is Colombo realizes where those sutures are
Hands down one of the best episode! RIP great ones!
This Episode had many highlights.....even so rarely angry Columbo hitting the table
I always think of this one as the one that almost got away. I honestly don't think there was a single one of Columbo's suspects that was as close to getting away with it as the doc in this episode.
If you think about it, though, finding no suture in the operating room would have been strange. They SHOULD have found the old suture somewhere. One of the members of the surgical team said that it had not been left in the patient.
Columbo cries wolf came very close☺
@@MR-pv7qg Yes, but in that one, Columbo came back confident in his analysis.
What puts this one ahead for me is that Columbo practically gave up before realising what had actually happened.
In 'Murder under Glass' Columbo was almost poisoned, & in 'Columbo Goes to the Guillotine' he was almost decapitated...
@@artmallory970In both examples, Columbo baited them on purpose so that they'd incriminate themselves. Neither of them were getting away with it. Columbo even said to the guy in Murder under Glass that he suspected him 2 minutes after he met him. Again, in this one, the surgeon was just about to get away with it if Columbo hadn't realised what he did last minute.
This was the best episode ever of Columbo
There are so many great episodes of Columbo but I don't think this is the best one. That distinction goes to Any Old Port in a Storm but this one is still very good.
I remember my pediatrician, one of the partners in his practice had an office similar looking to that. It stayed like that until he died in 1997.
Ah yes...this must be the long lost episode of Star Trek. The one where Spock time travels back to 70's Los Angeles and clips his ears to look human. So he becomes a surgeon to earn a conventional living, but a side affect of time travel turns him evil and emotional.
Trying to outsmart Columbo is simply illogical...🖖
Columbo could tell he was phony. Only the Klingons would have been able to besides him.
Nimoy played one of the most evil and sadistic villains in all of the Colombo seasons and episodes.
I would never guessed it would be him lol.
It was the mirror universe Spock that used the time portal to go back in time to change the future.
Sadistic? I’m someone who thinks that armchair psychology is a very horrible thing to enable and exercise, and I think that sociopathic would be a more accurate description of him in this episode than sadistic. I don’t remember seeing anything in this episode that demonstrated that he was sadistic or that he enjoyed harming people. I only saw that he was indifferent to harming people to get what he wants.
@@Romulan2469😂
Leonard Nimoy was certainly one of the more despicable villains in the NBC era of Columbo. (The nurse was Aneta Corsault, the same actress who played Opie's teacher on The Andy Griffith Show.)
It was Ann Francis as the nurse
@@stefaniewick1212 You're right about Anne Francis the nurse that got killed. Aneta Corsault played the other nurse.
I was referring to the nurse in this scene who is seen talking to Leonard Nimoy early in the clip.@@stefaniewick1212
This is my favorite episode from season 2 "A stitch in crime"
And to think if he had immediately disposed of the suture or at least taken it out of Columbo’s gown he might still get away with it. Instead he sits there and gloats. Karma at its finest.
Love how he raises his eyebrow just like Spock.
Actually the doctor will be hearing from the board of medicine when they revoke his license.
Columbo could have planted the evidence. There is no way the doc could lose in court. His lawyers will make a mess with Columbo
Where would Columbo get dissolving sutures?
One of the best episodes ever.
A phoney surgeon is illogical 🖖
I wasn't fooled by Nimoy's character running his fingers through his jet-black hair a couple times. Not at all.
Never really understood this episode. If the sutures were not found on the suspect then how would be charged for the murder?
@@JohnTierney-ki5ucIn this case that makes sense, but in an IRL court of law it could be more complicated. You could claim that the cops planted the evidence and are framing you, however I highly doubt that an irl doctor would have magician level pickpocketing skills so it kind of doesnt matter.
It's Spock! I remember him from In Search Of too.
And the patient was Grandpa Walton! 😂
@@Duke_of_Prunes Yes Grandpa. Will Geer who was formerly blacklisted and ended up being TVs most famous Grandpa.
He wasn't a phoney surgeon
He's not a phoney surgeon, he is talented and knows what he is doing, he is a murderer, and only Columbo can catch him, get the title right, makes no sense
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Maybe Columbo planted the tread....no one check him in or out!
And maybe your parents were brother and sister.
@@FIREBRAND38 NO, both spend 4 days in jail because of a cop that lied. Cop only got 30 day suspension and demoted to sergeant
Where would Columbo get dissolving suture, you cannot exactly buy it in the shops? Under a powerful microscope it would be apparent the difference between unused suture and dissolving suture that has been used in a medical operation, and had just been removed from the victims body, after been there for days dissolving away even further.
@@johnfinnegan8474 it's a TV show...would come from PROPS....
@@paulvanallen-lononca We know that. But if it was in real life a surgeon could never beat an attempted murder charge by claiming the investigation officer planted the suture.
Poorly titled. He wasn't a phony surgeon.
"Why did he pull a clump of hair out of the scrubs?"
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"Wait, I'm a fool."
Just one more thing 😂
Dr McCoy wouldn't be pleased with you Spock.
- Now Mr. Spock, do I have an autograph?
- It's only logican lieutenant.
Spock beaten by Columbo😄
He's not really a "phoney surgeon," he's a very good surgeon who happens to have decided to kill someone.
Brilliant☺
This episode is the favorite Columbo for Sheldon Cooper
FWIW the title is wrong - he's a murderous surgeon, not a phoney one...
He wasn't a phoney surgeon as the thumbnail suggests..
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This means columbo was the real killer all along!?!
LOL
In all seriousness, that could be a possibility in a court of law. By his own admission the one person they didn't search was Columbo who came into the operating room wearing the surgical gown, so Mayfield's defence team could have argued that Columbo came in there with the dissolving sutures already in his pocket to implicate Mayfield. Also Columbo touched the suture with his bare hands. No case for Columbo as the DA would throw it out on contaminated evidence.
@@Romulan2469 Not really. A forensic analysis of the dissolving sutures in Columbo's pocket would prove they had just come from inside the patients body as they would have traces of his internal bodily fluids on them. That is not something Columbo could replicate with dissolving sutures already in his pocket. The surgeon didn't have time to sterilise them of all biological traces of where they had been.
@@patrickjohnson5658 Was DNA evidence even a thing when this was filmed? Asking because I dont know
@@crunkers_ No. DNA evidence wouldn't have started been used in criminal cases until the late 1980's. But surgery on somebody's heart involves a lot of blood some traces of which would get on the suture, and would be seen under a high power microscope, which would prove it had been used in a surgical operation, not just carried in by Columbo and planted in his surgical gown.
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Uhhh… Nimoy’s character wasn’t “phoney”, but “phony”!
RIP!! PETER FALK WILL GEER LEONARD NIMOY & ROBERT CONRAD FROM THE PREVIOUS EPISODE OF COLUMBO!!
Like Columbo, I know nothing about suture. But when he pulled it out of his gown at the end, does it really look like that? Looks more like pubic hair!
phony
This video was pointless w/o the part of the act that he was talking about: where Nimoy shoved him. 🤬
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They went for 75 minutes but they had to condense them to under 10 minutes by taking out unnecessary and repetitive content because the old TVs couldn’t hold anything over 10 minutes.
The mondo Columbus shows are very short always less than 10 minutes because of the primitive mondo TVs they had back then. The old old old TVs could not hold more than 10 minutes of show as they used CRT Catholic Ray Tubs technology and non Dylan Mulvaney CLT or Claw Technology. No harm no fowl. They tried Dylan Mulvaney to shorten the shows advertising and tried to produce a non racist TV set with Motorola involvement with flypaper control and Dylan Mulvaney CEO.
Spock!
Who the hell did Columbo think he was? Even on TV someone can't be this presumptuous and defiant.
Spock, kirk and Khan, all caught by the genius Columbo
Fascinating