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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 288481" data-attributes="member: 23">That&#039;s great. I&#039;m fascinated by people&#039;s personal histories with certain TV series as much as the series themselves. The more TV I&#039;ve watched, the more I feel a bit like a Jack of all trades. I&#039;d struggle to pick a show that I could have as a specialist subject on Mastermind, but I&#039;m thinking you might do quite well with Columbo as yours.&nbsp; I&#039;d agree with that. I really think they&#039;d have added something that felt more definitive for the final few moments if it was. I suppose that&#039;s the risk with the sporadic way it was being shown at the end. The choice was either go overboard with each ending or to risk the entire series ending on a less memorable note. It certainly felt like this. In its way it felt like a new start, and I suppose the slick, cutting edge style kind of echoed what was done in early episodes where there were lots of little cinematic and experimental flourishes that would have been very new at the time. Interesting.&nbsp; I wonder if any of these elements made their way into other stories elsewhere. The Big Brother documentary style seemed to be a standard for some horror films of the era. I&#039;d also be interested to know how Columbo was received in its latter days. Did it do OK in the ratings, for example. And was there a loyal fanbase? Or critics who still loved it? That&#039;s probably very similar to how my ratio would be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 288481, member: 23"] That's great. I'm fascinated by people's personal histories with certain TV series as much as the series themselves. The more TV I've watched, the more I feel a bit like a Jack of all trades. I'd struggle to pick a show that I could have as a specialist subject on [I]Mastermind[/I], but I'm thinking you might do quite well with [I]Columbo[/I] as yours. I'd agree with that. I really think they'd have added something that felt more definitive for the final few moments if it was. I suppose that's the risk with the sporadic way it was being shown at the end. The choice was either go overboard with each ending or to risk the entire series ending on a less memorable note. It certainly felt like this. In its way it felt like a new start, and I suppose the slick, cutting edge style kind of echoed what was done in early episodes where there were lots of little cinematic and experimental flourishes that would have been very new at the time. Interesting. I wonder if any of these elements made their way into other stories elsewhere. The [I]Big Brother [/I]documentary style seemed to be a standard for some horror films of the era. I'd also be interested to know how [I]Columbo[/I] was received in its latter days. Did it do OK in the ratings, for example. And was there a loyal fanbase? Or critics who still loved it? That's probably very similar to how my ratio would be. [/QUOTE]

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