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"Just one more thing...": Rewatching Columbo
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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 274522" data-attributes="member: 33"><p>Another great review [USER=23]@Mel O'Drama[/USER]. I hadn't realised that Ransom For A Dead Man was the first official pilot, for some reason I thought it was an episode in which the murderer was Robert Culp or Jack Cassidy but that's probably due to TV stations showing repeats in a different order or me missing seeing some of them.</p><p></p><p>However, I can remember this episode well because of the ingenious way that the murderer tried to cover up her crime and unlike most Columbo outings this episode had another interesting dynamic: the one between the mother and her step daughter. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I liked that not too much time wasn't taken on the background story to set the motive for the murder because most Columbo stories really take off once his investigation starts. </p><p></p><p>I agree this pilot episode isn't as good and the previous non-pilot episode but I would still rank it as being in the top (or maybe second) tier of great Columbo episodes, not least because Lee Grant created such a cool and callous character.</p><p></p><p>Until you posted this I hadn't really thought about it but every Columbo murderer is a middle class professional. You never see him investigate a plumber murdering his wife during a domestic argument or a supermarket cashier stabbing a colleague to death. </p><p></p><p>I don't recall that specific scene but so many of the early Columbo had some stunning pieces of cinematography or a particularly eye-catching effect that really stands out. (When you come to reviewing the episode where the murderer is a music conductor, I think it was called <em>Etude In Black</em>, I'll come back to this point).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 274522, member: 33"] Another great review [USER=23]@Mel O'Drama[/USER]. I hadn't realised that Ransom For A Dead Man was the first official pilot, for some reason I thought it was an episode in which the murderer was Robert Culp or Jack Cassidy but that's probably due to TV stations showing repeats in a different order or me missing seeing some of them. However, I can remember this episode well because of the ingenious way that the murderer tried to cover up her crime and unlike most Columbo outings this episode had another interesting dynamic: the one between the mother and her step daughter. Personally, I liked that not too much time wasn't taken on the background story to set the motive for the murder because most Columbo stories really take off once his investigation starts. I agree this pilot episode isn't as good and the previous non-pilot episode but I would still rank it as being in the top (or maybe second) tier of great Columbo episodes, not least because Lee Grant created such a cool and callous character. Until you posted this I hadn't really thought about it but every Columbo murderer is a middle class professional. You never see him investigate a plumber murdering his wife during a domestic argument or a supermarket cashier stabbing a colleague to death. I don't recall that specific scene but so many of the early Columbo had some stunning pieces of cinematography or a particularly eye-catching effect that really stands out. (When you come to reviewing the episode where the murderer is a music conductor, I think it was called [I]Etude In Black[/I], I'll come back to this point). [/QUOTE]
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