>it's a Columbo thread

>>85795019
>Ah, thank you sir
>BUT JUST ONE MORE THING

>>85795019
>No he's not under arrest. You are...

>it's a Columbo has no evidence and he entraps the alleged killer with legally dubious practices episode

>>85795019

>Oh thank you Sir, thank you but I have to be getting back to Mrs Culumbo... but.. there's just one thing I don't understand...

>>85795019
>thank you sir thank you, my wife loves you.. thank you... oh just one more thing sir.. why.. does the killers dna that was found at the crime scene, also match your dna? i cant quite get my head around that one sir...

>>85795300 fl
Fuck Alzheimer's

>>85795389
>It's a "Colombo only has circumstantial evidence at best, but the criminal admits they did it anyway" episode

>>85795389
>>85796280
That's why he was the fucking master

Columbo was a wraith summoned by the LAPD to solve high profile crimes.
There is no other way to explain it.

>>85795019
comfiest tv show I have ever watched

>>85795496
I cloned myself in order to build an army. They went rogue.

>>85796503
Accurate.

>tfw finding out he only had his famous shiggy look because he had a glass eyeball

What's with the recent Columbo threads? I've seen a couple in the past few days.

>>85795019
>it's a "the guilty guy starts friendly but slowly starts hating Columbo until he can't suffer him anymore" episode

>>85795300
:(

>>85796280
That was pretty much every episode

>>85798242
So an episode of Columbo

>>85798229
You never wondered why it never moved?

Favorite murder?

>Sir, one thing confuses me. We have video of you killing the man at 6:10 PM, but you said you were eating dinner at 6 PM. How can that be?

First episode best episode. It seemed like the original plan was that columbos wife wasn't real and his dumb guy schtick was entirely fake. But as the show goes on the writers make the wife real and make columbo actually just a goof. Still a comfy show.

>>85798347
Rosebud

>>85798328
I always assumed his eye was focused on justice

I want a Netflix series with Mark ruffalo as Colombo solving crimes iin San Francisco or los angeles

>>85798242
I've seen it go the other way too sometimes.

The murderer hates the overly intrusive detective at first, but the more they realise just how smart Columbo actually is, the more they come to respect him.

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>>85798431
That give me a good lauf, Thanks.

>>85798448
I don't.

>>85798397
I think Columbo always played up his eccentricity. It throws people off, because when they see this weird shaggy goofball, they just assume he's a God damn moron most the time. Columbo constantly uses that to his advantage.

>it's a criminal admits to the crime because Columbo keepn on bothering him episode

Is all of columbo good or should I start at a certain point?

>it's a Columbo gets mad at the murderer episode

>>85798347
Leonard nimroy as the surgeon.
Only ep where columbo gets angry.

>>85798564
Yeah I just think that towards the beginning of the series he was more calculating & using the schtick to his advantage but as the series goes on he becomes more of an actual goofball.

>>85798595
Might as well start at the beginning, it's a fairly steady series.

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>>85795300

>>85796503
That could actually make a decent cop show. Something in a horror/comedy genre.

>>85798595
It's a detective procedural. There are no hanging threads, and every episode is stand alone.

Pick a random season, random episode and watch. Most of them are pretty decent, a few D's, but all comfy.

The later ones where Peter Falk is old and grey often get into retarded territory though. At least in my opinion.

>>85798595
from the beginning

>>85798595
I didn't care much of the later episodes made in the early 2000's, later 90's, but other than that, I'd say pick anything prior to that.

>>85798229
did he really have a glass eye? i thought he had some forest whitaker thing going, lazy eye or something.

>>85798739
Yeah, the much later -- near the end -- episodes aren't that good. When it got rebooted in 89, the episodes were still great, though.

>>85798397
first episode was directed by spielberg

>>85798304
>>85798314
Fucking newfags don't know how these threads work. Lurk more or get the fuck out.

>>85798742

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/14/peter-falk-cia-merchant-navy-food-tales

>>85798783
Are you okay anon? What is at all newfag about that?

>>85798783
>Columbo thread puristfag

Take your medicine gramps.

>>85798595
the formula basically never changes, its all good except for maybe the very last few episodes when hes so old and can barely speak.

>>85798532
Well fuck you then cuckold

>>85798790
good eye then because i never suspected and i watched all episodes

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>>85795019
I liked him better when he was a gruff Japanese high school student interested in marine biology.

>>85795300
This makes me sad and scared

>>85799155
>that Columbo reference out of nowhere in the hotel episode
Actually got me. How big was Columbo in Japan? I've heard that story that the emperor wanted to meet him when he visited the US but I'm pretty sure it's bullshit

>>85799205
Yeah, he got dementia and literally forgot he ever played Columbo.

>>85799205
Don't be, if you were that far gone you wouldn't know about it anyway.

>Mr.Mayor, the police is asking to dig up a large portion of that large estate north of the city. It's going to cost a lot and they probably won't find anything.
>Why are you bothering me with that, the answer is no.
>It's Colombo, Sir.
>Oh...just do it then.

What else could Colombo get away with because of his reputation alone?

>>85799585
Elaborate setups where the whole police force was staging a play in benefit of catching a killer.

>>85799585
Reminds me of the episode where he completely blew off his weapon proficiency test, and it was other cops who helped him get away with it.

>>85795019
How many episodes featured a white male as the criminal vs a black man?

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>Eh just one more thing you fuckin Irish mick bastard

Wow I knew there's bad blood between Italians and Irish but was that OK on television back then?

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>>85795019
He was also remarkable as Ramos Clemente.

Any apparent similarity to real persons is not intended by the author and is either a coincidence or the product of your own troubled imagination!

>>85795300
It's sad how predatory photographers are.

>>85797845
t. Jango

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>tfw mods didn't give sticky

Did Columbo also have a glass eye, or did Peter Falk's glass eye play the part of a real, healthy eye? Because if it was the latter it wasn't a very good performance 2bh.

Columbo vs kolchak
Who win?

>>85799755
Did he ever fire his gun?

>>85800443
desu I never notice his eye but I guess i'm not really looking

>>85798643
>that ending when they bust into the operating room
so good

>>85800443
Columbo had a glass eye, he mentions it offhand one time that he only has one eye

Favourite Columbo villain? Mine is probably Louis Jourdan

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>>85798448
>Mark ruffalo as Colombo
Fuck off.

>>85800881
No.

>Murder by the Book
>Columbo is out played by the villain
>can figure out who the killer is but can't gather the evidence to make his case
>the second murder at the lake is sloppy but he still can't get the evidence to lock him up
>defeated, returns to the widow in order to make one last hail mary before he gets taken off the case
>no big reveal, no eureka moment, he just asks her to talk all night to give him a clue
>he returns to the office to search one last time and finds the decisive piece of evidence because he worked hard and didn't give up, not because of an epiphany and leap of logic
>even his final assessment of the murderer was wrong, Columbo thought he wasn't smart enough to plan the first murder, even though he actually did

Why is Columbo so much fucking better than other fictional detectives who just make wild leaps of logic that are always right? Columbo isn't just a super genius, he actually feels like he struggles at times and deserves his wins. He doesn't have super powers and relies on mind games and back and forths with the murderer instead of coming up with clues from thin air. It's almost as if he's a smart character written by smart writers...

>>85802246
I agree. That would be a travesty.

>>85802246

I don't care much for Ruffalo as a person but he can pull off the look and do the mannerisms (or so he says) and he actually wants to play the role so I'd be fine with it.

>>85803083
a real human bean

>>85800881
He almost did in "No Time to Die".

If Columbo himself committed the would-be perfect murder, is there anybody who could catch him out?

>>85795019
I'm impressed that threads for such an old show always manage to be fairly popular.

Curious, has anyone seen a successful MASH thread on /tv/? I love that show and would like to discuss it.

>>85798685
I think Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes are basically about that.

>>85804510

Poirot already did that story.

>>85804540

Stop being a fag and just make a thread if you want to talk about something.

>>85799215
You can't really take anything Araki does as representative of Japan as a whole. He just loves a lot of non-Japanese stuff (hence all the music references) so it stands to reason he would enjoy Columbo.

>>85798454
that's the episode where the murderer is the head of the local mensa chapter or something right?

>>85804635
If it's not successful I have to wait fifteen minutes before I can start a new thread about something else so I'd rather know it's gonna be successful.

>>85804687
how many fucking threads do you want to create exactly?

>>85799994
how the fuck did he look so much like any spic leader

>>85804687
i'd talk about M*A*S*H with you desu

>>85798232

Quality rises to the top occasionally, even on /tv/.

>>85798397

>and make columbo actually just a goof

what did he mean by this?

>>85806048
He was always a silly goofball but in the beginning it was more of a calculated act and later the writers forgot or abandoned this and just made that his actual character. Unless you are implying something else. I don't speak meme.

he was a real friend

>>85798838
You've never been in a Coumbo thread before, which probably means you are a newfag.

>>85803083
>Why is Columbo so much fucking better than other fictional detectives who just make wild leaps of logic that are always right?
There are episodes like that. The episode with the private security guy is retarded.

>>85809359
>Coumbo

>>85798448
If Columbo ever did get remade it would be a forgettable bro-tier comedy.

Ah, you see, sir, it's not me, it's my wife, Mrs. Columbo...........

>>85810895
>She, uh... she's me in drag.

>it's a went to make a Columbo thread on /tv/ but duplicate file episode

The fuck guys where have you been?

>>85809359
I've been here years longer than you most likely

>>85795019

I have never seen Columbo

Is it worth watching?

>>85812476
Yeah

What ould you say was the last good episode of Columbo? I know a lot of people don't like the very late ones but honestly I quite enjoyed his interplay with Billy Connolly in the second-to-last episode and I don't really hate it as much as some people do (while acknowledging of course that it isn't up to the classic standard)
Is there a definitive point where the quality suffered a major drop?

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>>85813662
bump for interest

>>85795019
not
>iss a Columby t'read

>>85813662
I really like "Murder with Too Many Notes" as well, but that's probably because it was the very first Colombo episode I saw.

>>85813662
They bought it back in the 80's after it had been away for years.

It was never the same though. They started doing weird shit, like giving Columbo a dog. The plot resolutions were way more pulled out of the air too.

And it was kind of sad to see Falk mumble and stumble through the performance near the very end, especially when you know what happened to him.

There's still some OK episodes in that time, but less and less. It's like The Simpsons after season 8 or 9. You can find some good stuff, it just gets harder to find the further it goes on.

>>85813662
A Trace of Murder, I feel.

But, it's hard to say because some episodes before that aren't that good.

>>85815626
>They started doing weird shit, like giving Columbo a dog

Columbo always had a dog. His name was Dog.

>>85815626
Columbo had a dog in the 70's. I call him Columbone

>>85795019

Anywhere streaming this for free?

>>85800719
Kojak.

>>85798347
MENSA

>>85795019
>check out this robot i built
>and this hi tech computer

cue reels and reels of dat tape taking up a room.

>>85795019
Is this patrician? Should I watch it?

>>85817540
It was a simpler time.

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>peter falk's alzheimers had gotten so bad towards the end of his life that he had forgotten who columbo was
one of the saddest things i've read in a while. he was great in cassavetes films.

Mate if mine bought one of Columbos jackets at an auction

>>85799155
the reason i even started watching, until netflix canned it.