Rule number no.1, if you know who committed the murder, don't try and blackmail the murderer. You have a 99% chance of being murdered too with the exception of a few people in Columbo episodes
Especially when it's in a TV crime show. And there's a 99% chance the murderer get's caught before the episode ends. ...unless someone pee's on a mans rug, there's a chance he will get away with a crime!
Even though they were only in one episode I would also add Ross Martin(“Suitable for Framing”) and my all time favorite, Richard Kiley, (“A Friend in Deed “)
Thank goodness these shows in the 70s were shut on high-quality film because they look so crystal clear and sharp today it's like a time capsule in my opinion. None of these actors can be matched currently. What's a high-quality television show this was from the writing to the producing, everything was top notch. Oh, and the acting was pretty good too. Lol.
The quality was high because there were what, only around seven episodes a year for the 70s Columbos? The writers could get an episode written right because they'd have so much time to do it. Columbo wouldn't have been as good if there were 20+ episodes a season, I'd think... 🤔
After watching columbo over the years ,I've found out how he knows who the killer is ,at the start of the show , Because he's arrested the same actor in previous episodes,
I subscribe to the "bush Theory" of watching Columbo. where you assume Columbo personally witnessed the murder and simply needs to prove what happened.
@@xXShowGameXx I think what got me was the scene on the golf course when he was fed up with Columbo's accusations. He picked his golf ball out of the weeds and said, "Oh! There's my ball. There it is. I'll just toss it out of there." He then leans towards Columbo and says in a low voice, "...and no one will ever know." That cat-and-mouse game was used in quite a few episodes, but this was one the best, as was another in "Try and Catch Me", when Ruth Gordon points her thumb at Columbo and says, "That's very extravagant of you, Lieutenant. Can you prove that?"
I first discovered Robert Culp from playing Half Life 2 as a teen. This guy is a legend and I absolutely adore how nonchalantly he calls out "Vic" before shooting him,
Also one of the few episodes where Columbo doesn't know exactly all the pieces to the puzzle until the very last minute (another example is the doctor episode with Leonard Nimoy)
One of the best episodes ever, with an exercise in fatality, the forgotten lady, a friend in deed, columbo goes to college, negative reaction, candidate for a crime!
I saw Robert Culp in downtown Denver. I noticed who he was and he said hello .We had a very brief conversation. Culp was cool and polite. Very nice guy .
He always rued the fact that after the I Spy TV series, he never made it as big as Bill Cosby did. He said that he felt his ability to write scripts for films and television would carry him through, but it never worked out that way.
Not so much any more. Many years ago YT had dozens of full Columbo episodes up even if they were like in VCR era low resolution. But then the copyright holder for the show pressured YT to take them down and delete the channels that uploaded them.
One of the most rewatchable Columbo episodes. It's so much fun that I can overlook one of the most glaring plot holes of any Columbo episode: Once the police have cleared out after the night of the murder, all Keppel had to do was take the calibration converter he had hidden in that lamp in his office and . . . get rid of it. It's quite silly that a man as intelligent as Keppel wouldn't have done that at the first opportunity. No matter. This one is so much fun that I just don't care!
@@agzzradface3113 Soo . . . what? Not _that_ stupid of a mistake. Even Stephen J Cannell, who wrote this episode, has acknowledged that Keppel not ditching the converter is a massive plot hole.
@@SECRETARIATguy224 yes but Keppel probably wasn’t thinking that a shabby detective would have the idea to use subliminal cuts to catch him with it. The other problem is that if Keppel was the main suspect surely that office would of been searched very thoroughly including the lamp ?!
Great detective series back in the day, and probably even to the present day, Columbo was certainly worth its weight in gold to the studio for sure. 👏👍
12:02 and 12:33 show both Dr. Kepple's admiration of Colombo's intellect, and a bit of gloating of the kind that only being too smart for your own good can provide. Well acted, Robert Culp!
This clip where he used subliminal cuts against the murderer to get him to reveal the hiding place was already posted on this channel recently. Of course if the murderer had gotten rid of the calibration converter from the lamp where he hid it after Columbo had left his office after the initial investigation to finish for the day, he would have got away scot free.
It's always obvious and easy when you have the answer and not in the situation. Stating the obvious doesn't makes you smart, as you seems to forget the basis that "it's always easy..."
@@garryiglesias4074 I am only saying it because it is what I would do in a similar situation. I wouldn't leave that incriminating evidence hidden in the lamp indefinitely, I would dispose of it at the first opportunity after the police had gone.
@@patrickjohnson5658 Personally I think the Columbo scriptwriters have murderers making silly mistakes to make it easier for Columbo to catch them. Like the William Shatner episode for example, where remembered to clean the gun of incriminating fingerprints but not the blank bullets he had to remove from it as it was a stage prop, to insert the real bullet he used to kill his victim.
That's why they call him Robert Culp. His name says it all, he was in 4 episodes I think and in 3 of them he was culpable as the murderer. I think he was in at least 1 of episodes of the short lived spinoff series called Mrs Columbo with Catherine Janeway..sorry Kate Mulgrew.
During the first murder, the scene at the water cooler, Culp did not have the .22 converter in the barrel of the .45. instead it is just the normal .45 semi-auto.
Might have worked out different if he just walked in, sat down and started reading the newspaper. Then he realises there are two guys standing behind a potted plant in the corner of his office.
Despite my defending in this column the alleged plot hole of Dr. Keppel's not disposing of the "callibration converter", there ARE several imperfections in this particular entry (won't list them here). Nonetheless it is my very favorite Columbo episode and has remained so for fifty years. Not only is the plot and dénouement ingenious, the acting and interplay between Falk and Culp is delightfully first-rate.
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp understood but the fact is, he's searching in the SAME location of where the actual evidence was found. I'm just curious how much the court is going to allow the 'splitting of the atom' with respect to evidence gathering. I also do NOT think Columbo received permission to be in that office WITH a photographer, Which is another thing- HOW did he get access to that guy's office? Yes, Hollywood does take liberties here and there but that's a lot of latitude- as in other Columbo episodes.
Yes but in regard to the subliminal cut technique that it works, not condoning the murder itself. Compliment for compliment only. Colombo was always the gentleman " priest ". Chew on that one for a while. In as much as we all enjoyed Colombo...it, as all of Hollywood, always has its own subliminal agendas.
Murderer rule number 1 - If you use a converter to kill someone with then get rid of it straight away , somewhere like the bottom of a lake instead of leaving it in your office. Just a thought…..😮
If you don't mind my re-posting a comment: Perhaps you underestimate the pleasure Dr. Keppel, clearly a narcissist, derives from being smarter than all the other sub-par intellects around him. Arrogance trumps caution over and again in evil minds with high IQs.
The episode actually addresses that point a little (the others worked for Mr. Norris and wouldn't have walked out), plus he had consumed a lot of salty caviar.
Apart from the masterpiece episode, which is indeed, I honestly must confess. I couldn´t see whatever jag about this supposedly subliminal cut thing. I ran the episode upside down, to all possible speed mode variations still nope! Is it just me, or was there really anything related to subliminal cut, on this episode particularly? Please help me my life desperately depends on it!
@@pnutbutrncrackers yep three times as killer ...death leads hand double exposure most crucial game and one time in columbo goes to college 1990but he was not killer his son was
He wasn't, but my guess is that they would only register with Dr. Kepple because he knows Columbo and subliminal cuts of him searching his office would create anxiety because of the physical evidence that is still there and could possibly be found by Columbo. It's like when Columbo planted a seed of worry with Tommy Brown by having him overhear Columbo's plans to search the area of the plane crash to find the thermos. He began to worry about them possibly discovering the hidden parachute.
The day after the murder, remove the calibre converter and dispose of it! The story doesn't require a person of great intelligence to make this ridiculous, just a plot that needed it to happen!!
Perhaps you underestimate the pleasure Dr. Keppel, clearly a narcissist, derives from being smarter than all the other sub-par intellects around him. Arrogance trumps caution over and again in evil minds with high IQs.
Rule number no.1, if you know who committed the murder, don't try and blackmail the murderer. You have a 99% chance of being murdered too with the exception of a few people in Columbo episodes
Yeah blackmailing a murderer is a bad idea as they’ve already shown they’re willing to kill.
Especially when it's in a TV crime show. And there's a 99% chance the murderer get's caught before the episode ends.
...unless someone pee's on a mans rug, there's a chance he will get away with a crime!
They must not know the old adage about not making a deal with the devil.
😂😂😂
In general in the detective genre, blackmailing is a bad idea
Robert Culp, Jack Cassidy, Patrick McGoohan were the best villains on Columbo.
Even though they were only in one episode I would also add Ross Martin(“Suitable for Framing”) and my all time favorite, Richard Kiley, (“A Friend in Deed “)
@@cathiehamilton5 Honorable mention. Ross Martin I remember watching Wild Wild West in reruns. Richard Kiley was known for doing documentaries
I have to wonder how many more times they would have used Jack Cassidy over the years had he lived longer.
George Hamilton was in that list as well.
Yes
Robert Culp was the best bad guy. I loved his work.
Thank goodness these shows in the 70s were shut on high-quality film because they look so crystal clear and sharp today it's like a time capsule in my opinion. None of these actors can be matched currently. What's a high-quality television show this was from the writing to the producing, everything was top notch. Oh, and the acting was pretty good too. Lol.
The quality was high because there were what, only around seven episodes a year for the 70s Columbos? The writers could get an episode written right because they'd have so much time to do it. Columbo wouldn't have been as good if there were 20+ episodes a season, I'd think... 🤔
FACT it would take 86 hours and 51 mins to watch ALL of Columbo!
FACT it would take a few minutes extra.
I own all DVD and changing disks takes time :p
I'm ready!
Does that include bathroom breaks?
What are we waiting for???
Also have to take into account all those subliminal cuts spliced in 👀
Culp is such a good actor.
After watching columbo over the years ,I've found out how he knows who the killer is ,at the start of the show ,
Because he's arrested the same actor in previous episodes,
😂😂😂
LOL
At some point he must have been thinking: not you again.
I subscribe to the "bush Theory" of watching Columbo.
where you assume Columbo personally witnessed the murder and simply needs to prove what happened.
😂
That look that Culp gives at the end is one of the craziest looks of all the killers. I'd say it surpasses Roddy McDowall's manic tirade.
I love it, and buy it too. Reveals his inner egomaniac.
I think Colombo pushed him over the edge with that last comment. What a character 😊
He has a good sense of humor. 🤭
I think this is my favorite Robert Culp episode and high on my list of 10 all-time favorites.
I prefer him in "Death lends a hand" but still, this is a great performance
@@xXShowGameXx I think what got me was the scene on the golf course when he was fed up with Columbo's accusations. He picked his golf ball out of the weeds and said, "Oh! There's my ball. There it is. I'll just toss it out of there." He then leans towards Columbo and says in a low voice, "...and no one will ever know." That cat-and-mouse game was used in quite a few episodes, but this was one the best, as was another in "Try and Catch Me", when Ruth Gordon points her thumb at Columbo and says, "That's very extravagant of you, Lieutenant. Can you prove that?"
My favorite Columbo episode - period - and Culp is fantastic in it.
This was one of my favorite episodes when I first saw it!
Just fantastic!!!
Still my favorite gotcha. It was so satisfying seeing someone so smug hoisted by his own petard. The ultimate irony and humiliation.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Yes, exactly
My #1 -- the plot, acting, and denouement were all absolutely first-rate.
Not all Heroes wear capes.
Some wear Trenchcoats.
Ps. Rorschach, Hellboy, Constantine,...
@@FizzleFX Horseradish, Bellboy, Constantinople..
I first discovered Robert Culp from playing Half Life 2 as a teen. This guy is a legend and I absolutely adore how nonchalantly he calls out "Vic" before shooting him,
First time I saw him was in The Greatest American Hero. As I got older, I saw him in more serious shows like Columbo.
Was good to see columbo again! Was one of the many mysteries show they used to play on NBC when I grew up.
ROBERT CULP...GREAT PERFORMANCE...SMART AND ELEGANT...
Totally agree. Erudite and evil.
A terrific episode in which the lieutenant uses the killers 'technique' to get his man 👌
Definitely a new and unique version of the old saying "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."
Also one of the few episodes where Columbo doesn't know exactly all the pieces to the puzzle until the very last minute (another example is the doctor episode with Leonard Nimoy)
Maybe a prototypical example of being hoisted by one's own petard
Brilliant touch.
One of the best episodes ever, with an exercise in fatality, the forgotten lady, a friend in deed, columbo goes to college, negative reaction, candidate for a crime!
That intro in Columbo goes to college 😀
I've loved Columbo since my youth, and thoroughly enjoy several episodes, but Double Exposure is, and has always been, my #1 favorite.
For some reason I really love the one with the magician
I saw Robert Culp in downtown Denver. I noticed who he was and he said hello .We had a very brief conversation. Culp was cool and polite. Very nice guy .
He always rued the fact that after the I Spy TV series, he never made it as big as Bill Cosby did. He said that he felt his ability to write scripts for films and television would carry him through, but it never worked out that way.
projectionist: "I figured out how you killed him"
killer: "How awkward. I figured out a solution."
projectionist: *shocked pikachu face*
Columbo is alive and well on youtube
And my DVD collection
It’s on Peacock also.
Not so much any more. Many years ago YT had dozens of full Columbo episodes up even if they were like in VCR era low resolution. But then the copyright holder for the show pressured YT to take them down and delete the channels that uploaded them.
Same.@@FizzleFX
One of the most rewatchable Columbo episodes. It's so much fun that I can overlook one of the most glaring plot holes of any Columbo episode: Once the police have cleared out after the night of the murder, all Keppel had to do was take the calibration converter he had hidden in that lamp in his office and . . . get rid of it. It's quite silly that a man as intelligent as Keppel wouldn't have done that at the first opportunity. No matter. This one is so much fun that I just don't care!
Well most killers are caught when they make a fatal frankly stupid mistake soo
@@agzzradface3113 Soo . . . what? Not _that_ stupid of a mistake. Even Stephen J Cannell, who wrote this episode, has acknowledged that Keppel not ditching the converter is a massive plot hole.
Keppel in Yiddish means little head...what can I tell you?
@@SECRETARIATguy224 yes but Keppel probably wasn’t thinking that a shabby detective would have the idea to use subliminal cuts to catch him with it. The other problem is that if Keppel was the main suspect surely that office would of been searched very thoroughly including the lamp ?!
@@Eleventhearlofmars Keppel wasn't the main suspect on the night of the murder.
Great detective series back in the day, and probably even to the present day, Columbo was certainly worth its weight in gold to the studio for sure. 👏👍
One of the very few TV shows I've purchased the DVD box set for. My wife and I have enjoyed countless hours watching and will never tire of it.
12:02 and 12:33 show both Dr. Kepple's admiration of Colombo's intellect, and a bit of gloating of the kind that only being too smart for your own good can provide. Well acted, Robert Culp!
Terrific. Agreed.
I love Columbo!!!! Always!!! ❤❤❤
Did sheepdogman REALLY think buddy wouldn’t try to maybe kill him?? He acts all surprised when he pulls a gun lmao
Never make a deal with the devil.
Love this show , it’s music , fashion and interior decor. 70s was a beautiful era
Most definitely one of the best episodes ever!
This clip where he used subliminal cuts against the murderer to get him to reveal the hiding place was already posted on this channel recently. Of course if the murderer had gotten rid of the calibration converter from the lamp where he hid it after Columbo had left his office after the initial investigation to finish for the day, he would have got away scot free.
Wow your probably the most fun person at a party.
Well he didn't 99, typical stupid errors murderers make
It's always obvious and easy when you have the answer and not in the situation. Stating the obvious doesn't makes you smart, as you seems to forget the basis that "it's always easy..."
@@garryiglesias4074 I am only saying it because it is what I would do in a similar situation. I wouldn't leave that incriminating evidence hidden in the lamp indefinitely, I would dispose of it at the first opportunity after the police had gone.
@@patrickjohnson5658 Personally I think the Columbo scriptwriters have murderers making silly mistakes to make it easier for Columbo to catch them. Like the William Shatner episode for example, where remembered to clean the gun of incriminating fingerprints but not the blank bullets he had to remove from it as it was a stage prop, to insert the real bullet he used to kill his victim.
Probably not a good idea to tell a man who just murdered someone that you know all about it.
The folly of making a deal with the devil.
I loved the Columbo specials...another favourite was Banacek
Subliminal cuts were banned in advertising some decades ago but only used in law enforcement fir the making of this episode.
First, subliminal stimuli DOESN'T WORK... Next, as far as I know, it's only explicitly ban in UK.
Illegal since 1958 in UK, Australia and America according to Google.
Just amazing
When Columbo helped himself to caviar I couldnt believe he put the spoon he put in his mouth back in the caviar, disgusting
That was part of the catch of the show, i.e., Columbo is a bum.
I've always felt the same way. GROSS!
Entertaining viewing the special guest stars
That's why they call him Robert Culp. His name says it all, he was in 4 episodes I think and in 3 of them he was culpable as the murderer. I think he was in at least 1 of episodes of the short lived spinoff series called Mrs Columbo with Catherine Janeway..sorry Kate Mulgrew.
Upvote for the word pun (I'm a sucker).
@7:23 No kidding, I was eating popcorn while watching this Recap. Déjà le pop-corn! 🍿
During the first murder, the scene at the water cooler, Culp did not have the .22 converter in the barrel of the .45. instead it is just the normal .45 semi-auto.
For some reason, I kept expecting a guy in a red suit and cape to come crashing down from the sky... 😆
We love Detective Columbo
I would love to watch the full length of that one
You have to pay for it, depending on where you live.
I like how this is the first time he acknowledged Him as doctor, when he was busted. Lol brilliant.
During the entire episode, Columbo kept calling him "doc" which you don't see in this short recap
Another one where Columbo uses the murderer’s technique against him
A major part of what makes this episode brilliant.
Might have worked out different if he just walked in, sat down and started reading the newspaper. Then he realises there are two guys standing behind a potted plant in the corner of his office.
I had a boss who is a copy of Robert culp. Not a word of lie. He even sounds like him. He was a control freak. Was relieved when he fired me.
Despite my defending in this column the alleged plot hole of Dr. Keppel's not disposing of the "callibration converter", there ARE several imperfections in this particular entry (won't list them here). Nonetheless it is my very favorite Columbo episode and has remained so for fifty years. Not only is the plot and dénouement ingenious, the acting and interplay between Falk and Culp is delightfully first-rate.
Just WILD!
"I'm not searching... I'm looking" - How's that going to play out in court?
A smile from the judge ?
It was not an actual search to uncover evidence as such. He was having photos taken of him searching, to use as subliminal cuts.
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp understood but the fact is, he's searching in the SAME location of where the actual evidence was found. I'm just curious how much the court is going to allow the 'splitting of the atom' with respect to evidence gathering. I also do NOT think Columbo received permission to be in that office WITH a photographer, Which is another thing- HOW did he get access to that guy's office? Yes, Hollywood does take liberties here and there but that's a lot of latitude- as in other Columbo episodes.
@@lynskyrd
I thought he was going to say, " I'm not searching, I'm OBSERVING."
@@lynskyrd He waved his pass at the security guard.
JUST A TIP: A red border on the thumbnail makes me think inhave already seen a video and i usually don't watch it again.
I know that there was a deleted scene from this Columbo episode with Arlene Martel. Is it possible for you to upload it?
did columbo pay the murderor a compliment by saying if there was a reward he would support his claim to it?
Yes but in regard to the subliminal cut technique that it works, not condoning the murder itself. Compliment for compliment only. Colombo was always the gentleman " priest ". Chew on that one for a while. In as much as we all enjoyed Colombo...it, as all of Hollywood, always has its own subliminal agendas.
To Dr. Keppel's intelligence and work regarding subliminal cuts, yes.
My own invention became my own trap of evil work!
Stephen j Cannell wrote this Classic.
Poor Robert Culp! He had to endure the Columbo treatment three times!
Please post the entire golf scene. I'm begging you.
Apparently Robert Culp, like Judge Smails, likes to play "winter rules" with their golf balls...
Roger Pulp is my favorite Columbo.
That's almost certainly a slip-up. Surely the sleeve insert is a caliber converter?
Don't forget Donald Pleasance!!
The projectionist was a stand-up comedian in the Rockford Files.
Chuck McCann!
He laughs on his way to prison.
I could not understand this last bit of this episode
Just one more thing
❤🎉 Супер фильм, круто ❤😊❤❤
life is sales..even a birds colors
I prefer Robert Culps narration on the film.
Murderer rule number 1 - If you use a converter to kill someone with then get rid of it straight away , somewhere like the bottom of a lake instead of leaving it in your office. Just a thought…..😮
If you don't mind my re-posting a comment: Perhaps you underestimate the pleasure Dr. Keppel, clearly a narcissist, derives from being smarter than all the other sub-par intellects around him. Arrogance trumps caution over and again in evil minds with high IQs.
The hot sun cut only worked on the targeted victim and not all the men. Now thats amazing!
The episode actually addresses that point a little (the others worked for Mr. Norris and wouldn't have walked out), plus he had consumed a lot of salty caviar.
Very acrual actually.
Chuck McCann
Apart from the masterpiece episode, which is indeed, I honestly must confess. I couldn´t see whatever jag about this supposedly subliminal cut thing. I ran the episode upside down, to all possible speed mode variations still nope! Is it just me, or was there really anything related to subliminal cut, on this episode particularly? Please help me my life desperately depends on it!
A 22 is a rimfire a 45 centerfire wouldn't work
And the projectionist went on to chase The Dukes of Hazzard
You can't convict a person for a crime after the court has already deemed them innocent. Just ask O. J.
How does that apply to this episode?
Culp has that Biden grin
Written by Stephen J. Cannell.
2:19 who
robert culp 2 times in columbo this is good episode
More episodes than that, actually.
@@pnutbutrncrackers I will search but I think two or three
@@master-kq3nw I think if you include the newer Columbos, 4.
@@pnutbutrncrackers yep three times as killer ...death leads hand double exposure most crucial game and one time in columbo goes to college 1990but he was not killer his son was
Why was he the only guy that saw the clips?
He wasn't, but my guess is that they would only register with Dr. Kepple because he knows Columbo and subliminal cuts of him searching his office would create anxiety because of the physical evidence that is still there and could possibly be found by Columbo. It's like when Columbo planted a seed of worry with Tommy Brown by having him overhear Columbo's plans to search the area of the plane crash to find the thermos. He began to worry about them possibly discovering the hidden parachute.
@@williampetersen9915 Exactly right, William Petersen.
Columbo was a better detective than batman...
Brilliant!
The day after the murder, remove the calibre converter and dispose of it! The story doesn't require a person of great intelligence to make this ridiculous, just a plot that needed it to happen!!
Perhaps you underestimate the pleasure Dr. Keppel, clearly a narcissist, derives from being smarter than all the other sub-par intellects around him. Arrogance trumps caution over and again in evil minds with high IQs.
Why are this guy and his indentical triplet brothers murderers? Is being murderous a genetic trait common to members of the same family? 🤔
That unkind untimely entry ..else it's Rob Culo all the way
Nono
Mine
Slight "jump the shark" on this pseudoscientific silliness to be honest. I guess no show is smarter than its writers are.
I take that as a compliment...
Yes tit tis.... 😂 Love culp
Culp always made a great baddie. A class act that exuded menace.