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<blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 433375" data-attributes="member: 46">His last 2 years, in particular, were horrible. He didn&#039;t even know what Columbo was, nor did he remember having played him.In 2007, Peter Falk was talking about doing one last Columbo episode. He was fine then, seemingly. If I remember right, there was some sort of delay in regards to the funding for the intended last Columbo episode which wasn&#039;t ready until about a year later. By then, it was too late. In late 2007, Falk had some dental operations which made him a bit forgetful. In the summer of 2008, he had a hip operation, after which his mental cognivity declined further. In December 2008, Falk was diagnosed with Alzheimer&#039;s disease. By June 2009, his mental state was so bad that he couldn&#039;t remember Columbo or having played him, and he was put into conservatorship. He died 2 years after that.Looking back on it, he probably had early onset Alzheimer&#039;s disease even when he seemed perfectly fine in 2007. Apparently, operations can dramatically worsen dementia. So that last planned Columbo episode for 2007-2008 never happened, and the last episode that was made was instead screened in 2003.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustard, post: 433375, member: 46"] His last 2 years, in particular, were horrible. He didn't even know what Columbo was, nor did he remember having played him. In 2007, Peter Falk was talking about doing one last Columbo episode. He was fine then, seemingly. If I remember right, there was some sort of delay in regards to the funding for the intended last Columbo episode which wasn't ready until about a year later. By then, it was too late. In late 2007, Falk had some dental operations which made him a bit forgetful. In the summer of 2008, he had a hip operation, after which his mental cognivity declined further. In December 2008, Falk was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. By June 2009, his mental state was so bad that he couldn't remember Columbo or having played him, and he was put into conservatorship. He died 2 years after that. Looking back on it, he probably had early onset Alzheimer's disease even when he seemed perfectly fine in 2007. Apparently, operations can dramatically worsen dementia. So that last planned Columbo episode for 2007-2008 never happened, and the last episode that was made was instead screened in 2003. [/QUOTE]

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