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June 11, 2025: Amazing Covers!

A few that caught my eye this week…

Eddie Brock: Carnage #5 – cover art by Juan Ferreyra

Exceptional X-Men #10 – cover art by Carmen Carnero

Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man #1 – cover art by Lee Bermejo

Magik #6 – cover art by Ramon Villalobos

New Avengers #1 – cover art by Andy Park

Supergirl #2 – cover art by Stanley Artgerm Lau

Which were YOUR favorites?

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June 10, 2025: SG-1! Atlantis! Universe! What were your favorite episodes of each show?

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Weigh in with your favorite episodes!

I’m thinking I may kick things off the first week of July with daily posts similar to what I’ve been doing with Columbo, offering behind-the-scenes insights and trivia.  And maybe I’ll also invite a guest to join me and do an X spaces live broadcast to discuss two episodes at a time, Tuesday and Thursday nights as well as one Sunday afternoon broadcast.

What do you think?

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June 9, 2025: Our Columbo rewatch continues with…A Case of Immunity!

This episode aired October 12, 1975.

Hector Elizondo, who played Hassan Sabah, fondly reflected on his experience shooting this episode: “You know what I remember? I remember laughing a lot. We had a great time.”

Four months after this episode aired, actor Sal Mineo, who played Rahman Habib, was stabbed to death.

Jeff Goldblum is an extra in this episode, part of the crowd demonstrating outside the embassy.

My thoughts on this episode in chronological viewing order…

Hooboy. I’ve got a bad feeling about this one.

Couldn’t they wait until they were done turning the place upside-down before summoning the security guard?

Columbo stepping on the poor guy’s robe (!).

Hmmm. The rifle misfired. How fortuitous for the murderer. So who had access to the guns?

Aha! The coffee from his 3 o’ clock break is almost full and cold.

Columbo on the priceless antique: “I think my wife go ours at the farmer’s market.”

Aha! The security guard had to have been surprised by someone he knew.

Again Columbo steps on his robe and we hear it rip. If this is a proper running gag, it has to happen one more time and completely tear away.

Columbo surmises it was an inside job. That was easy enough to put together.

Hmmm. He finds it suspicious that there was no ceiling dust on the documents from the explosion. Maybe because they were in the safe, no?

Uh oh. The protestors can identify Habib. He’s a goner.

Only 20% of the time that Columbo assumes innocence is he correct. That’s why I always say you have to assume the worst of people.

Ah, back in the good old days when a single blow to the back of the head was enough to render someone instantly unconscious.

Is that fall enough to kill him? Whiplash, probably, but death?

Columbo doing a bit of a Get Smart imitation, leaning up against the valuable antique and almost knocking it off its pedestal.

The dead man was wearing glasses when they found him. Really? The glasses managed to stay on despite the crash? Highly doubt that.

“Where’s your sign?”asks the protestor.
“I don’t have one,”replies Columbo
“Here,”says the protestor, handing him his protest sign. “Hold this.”
Columbo does and joins the protest.

“I’m fuzz”
“That’s cool.”
Can’t get much more 70’s than that exchange.

His majesty looks like he’s 16.

Columbo dipping his fingers in the beef. How uncouth.

He seems to have a problem with escargots, but didn’t he order and eat them in a previous episode? Somebody look into this for me.

“Haricots verts Bordelaise.”
“That looks like green beans.”

Columbo surmises the cash couldn’t have come from the safe and Habib could not have made that New York reservation.

After being accused of pursuing a vendetta and being ordered to back off, Columbo: ““Well that’s all well and good except for one thing. [—] He’s the murderer.”

This is the second time in as many episodes Columbo wears a tux!

“Wife insisted I wear striped pants,”Columbo confides. Reminds me of the time I was invited to my wife’s sister’s wedding in Japan. My father-in-law suggested I wear a traditional men’s kimono and Akemi loved the idea, throwing suggestions my way. I considered then, ultimately, opted to just wear a suit. The day of the wedding I show up and – every Japanese man in attendance is wearing a suit. I would have looked like a complete idiot!

“These are new. Sixteen ninety-five.” Columbo and his obsession with getting a good deal on shoes.

Columbo, parked outside the embassy liked a homeless man.

Seriously, why would Hassan even entertain Columbo’s presence at this point?

Columbo lays out his proof and…Hassan admits his guilt?! Why? What an idiot.

And, sure enough, it was a set-up.

What fate would await Hassan in his home country? Maybe Western prison food is preferable.

While this episode wasn’t as bad as I feared, it wasn’t particularly memorable either. Caricatures and amusing Columbo moments aside, the mystery itself wasn’t all that interesting to me and neither were any of the secondary characters. I also thought the Gotcha moment a little lame, one step above secretly tape recording a confession. Kinda weak.

Here is my revised episode rankings: 1. Forgotten Lady, 2. Negative Reaction, 3. Any Old Port in a Storm, 4. Double Exposure, 5. A Friend In Deed, 6. Double Shock, 7. A Stitch in Crime, 8. Death Lends a Hand, 9. Suitable for Framing, 10. Publish or Perish, 11. Dagger of the Mind, 12. Requiem for a Falling Star, 13. Prescription: Murder, 14. Murder by the Book/Ransom for a Dead Man (tie), 15. By Dawn’s Early Light, 16. Swan Song, 17. Troubled Waters, 18. Lady in Waiting, 19. An Exercise in Fatality, 20. Etude in Black, 21. Playback, 22. The Most Crucial Game, 23. Blueprint for Murder, 24. Lovely But Lethal, 25. A Deadly State of Mind, 26. The Most Dangerous Match, 27. The Greenhouse Jungle 28. Dead Weight, 29. Short Fuse, 30. A Case of Immunity, 31. Candidate for Crime, 32. Mind Over Mayhem.

Finally, in the event Hassan hadn’t confessed or made use of his diplomatic immunity, would Columbo have had enough evidence for a GUILTY verdict, or would Hassan have been looking at an ACQUITTAL? I think that, in this case, the circumstantial evidence wouldn’t have been enough. ACQUITTAL!

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June 8, 2025: Sharky Sunday!

Out and About with Sharky – The Distillery!

Twitchy –

Doing his part for the environment –

A visit to the vet –

Freeze-frame!

How many treats does Sharky eat in a day? [Spoiler: It’s actually double this.]

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June 7, 2025: Five more crime shows for your reconsideration!

Although I may have slowed down, the Crime Binge continues (ticking past 775 international crime shows and counting!).  Here are five recent favorites…

Your Friends & Neighbors – 1 season – United States

A hedge fund manager resorts to burglary after losing his job, targeting wealthy neighbors to maintain his family’s lifestyle, but makes a fateful error breaking into the wrong home.

Reservatet/Secrets We Keep – 1 season – Denmark When her neighbor’s au pair goes missing, Cecilie is compelled to personally investigate but as she uncovers the truth, her perfect world falls apart. Daredevil: Born Again – 1 season – United StatesMatt Murdock finds himself on a collision course with Wilson Fisk when their past identities begin to emerge. El Jardinero/The Gardener – 1 season – SpainLa China Jurado and her emotionally impaired son Elmer use their gardening company as a cover for their contract killing activities – until the day Elmer falls for one of his targets. Adolescence – 1 season – United KingdomWhen a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking what really happened.

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June 6, 2025: Our Columbo rewatch continues with…Forgotten Lady!

This episode aired September 14, 1975.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were offered the roles of Henry and Grace Willis, but turned them down.

This was the last year of Peter Falk’s contract and the assumption at the time was that this would be the show’s final season.

According to Falk, this episode was a bit of a challenge: “We had all kinds of problems getting that one to two hours.”

The butler and maid are watching a 1975 episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. One of the guests being interviewed is Della Reese. This reminded me of a story Stargate director Peter DeLuise once told us about the time his father, actor-comedian Dom DeLuise, was booked on the Redd Foxx Show. Arriving on set, Dom met Redd and enthusiastically thanked him for inviting him to appear on his show. A bewildered Redd asked him who he was and when Dom replied “Dom DeLuise”, Redd angrily shouted back to his people: “Dom DeLuise?! I said get Della Reese!”

My thoughts on this episode in chronological viewing order…

I get the sneaking suspicion she resents her husband.

She reminds me of Nora Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Also Ida Lupino’s character in The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine”.

The public will “learn to love her all over again.” Not sure if that’s how it works.

Uh oh. He’s refusing to bankroll her vanity project.

Love these old timey home theater experiences.

Ah, the timing comes down to the switching of the reels, thereby establishing an alibi.

The butler is three feet away in the screening room and has to use the intercom to talk to her instead of just poking his head around the corner.

Love how’s she’s dressed for the occasion as a cat burglar.

Gets the prints on the weapon and the powder burns on his hands. She’s smart.

And the locked bedroom door to make it look like a suicide.

She’s pretty spry for a woman her age, climbing down that tree.

She gets back just a little late and has to change the reel herself. Good thing Jeeves wasn’t on the ball.

Not sure what’s going on. Why is she burning the film?

They’re married, but sleep in separate rooms. How convenient.

That’s a very odd cut on them attempting to force open the bedroom door.

Given all the isolated shots of clocks, I know this one is going to come down to the timing.

Columbo looks like he just got out of bed.

Turns out he did!

Forgot his jacket, badge, and watch. “Lucky I didn’t show up in my pajamas.”

The butler has to loan him a note pad and mechanical pencil that Columbo isn’t quite sure how to use at first.

Love the butler also helping him out with that impromptu ashtray.

Why does a man who is about to kill himself bother taking sleeping pills? And isn’t it suspicious that he was so looking forward to his upcoming trip?

Cadaveric Spasm. Sounds like the name of a character from one of the Harry Potter books.

The butler nabs Columbo before he can make off with his note pad and mechanical pencil. I’m telling you, Columbo is a kleptomaniac.

Hmmm. Those suspiciously clean slippers.

This soundtrack is certainly whimsical. I feel like I’m watching a 50’s family sitcom.

She seems to be losing it a little, incapable of separating herself from her fictional character –
“Rosie was a character in a film.”
“There’s no difference.”
It’s an affliction that would later strike actor Steven Seagal.

You’re going to be the busiest girl around.
“You won’t even have time to go to the powder room.” Isn’t the powder room the bathroom?
“You won’t even have time to pee!”

I love this bit of Columbo promising Dog he’ll take him out for a hot dog and Dog responding enthusiastically.

The butler’s reaction “Not you again!” is great.

Columbo not so subtly listening in to the phone conversation. And then presents himself – starstruck. He’s a fan!

Ned Diamond’s response to Columbo asking him what he can do about having two left feet is pretty brilliant: “Become a critic.”

Columbo is also starstruck by Grace, which is kind of sweet.

“A light goes on out here and sometimes I can’t turn it off.” This line really sums him up.

This whole “Did he go out for the gun or have it with him?” is interesting. The smallest pieces of the puzzle coming together.

She’s been forgetful lately. Hmmmm.

Passes up on the opportunity to watch a surgery. I don’t blame him. My wife, on the other hand, would happily take the surgeon up on that offer.

Columbo hasn’t been on the gun range in five years!

“…then falls in love with a young exiled White Russian prince who happens to be a midget…” Who happens to be? Not exactly high-brow reading.

Aha. He purchased a book, no doubt planning to read it. So why would he commit suicide with such a fascinating novel on his reading list?

These guys dancing in top hats look like that gang from The Warriors. What were they called? The Top Hats?

She can’t remember Columbo’s name. Hmmmm.

The whole dog-eared and not dog-eared pages argument strikes me as kind of silly.

“People don’t usually forget to do the things they usually do.” Well said.

Not the kind of book you would read if you were going to commit suicide? Really? What kind of reading material would be more in line with someone wishing to commit suicide? The sequels to 50 Shades of Grey?

Who would want to kill him? Columbo doesn’t have an answer for that. Or does he?

This whole b story in which Columbo is hounded about failing to go to the gun range feels like padding. Is there a point?

Columbo on the flag flying at half mast: “Is this as far up as it goes?”
The butler indignantly replies: “There’s been a death in the family!”
Maurice Evans is absolutely brilliant as Raymond.

Whoa! Ned loved her and wanted to marry her. And she knew all along!

Dog gets his own ice cream. Glad he ordered the vanilla.

Now Dog has ice cream all over his face!

Love this beat of Columbo dancing up the stairs.

Also love this beat of Columbo eyeing the tree, looking very much like Mr. Bean.

What a great reveal out of the window of Columbo hanging from the tree branch, calling down to Dog who circles the ground beneath him.

What IS that outfit she’s wearing? What are those furry bell bottoms?

Columbo points out that if he could climb out the window, then anyone could.

He has to turn down her kind offer because he promised Dog he’d take him to the park. Love her incredulous reaction.

Columbo has to draft a buddy to take the gun test for him. Hmmmmmm.

This is a great scene of Columbo laying out his theory to Ned Diamond who refuses to believe Grace could be capable of murder.

Can I just say that Grace Wheeler is probably the most likable Columbo murderer since Carsini in “Any Old Port in a Storm”. She wants to make sure Mr. and Mrs. Columbo have a good time because they’re such big fans. And then has a very sweet moment with her maid. She’s very likable. A tragic figure.

Wow, Columbo cleans up well. He looks great in that tux. Distinguished and confident.

Why did the film take 15 minutes longer to run the night of the murder?

“You know who else likes champagne? Raymond.”

He’s testing her by breaking the film!

Holy plot twists! She’s suffering from a progressive memory disease that affects her short term memory. The clues were all there!

And another shocker! That’s why hubby didn’t want to bankroll her. Because he didn’t want to add pressure to her. He did it out of love! And she misinterpreted his actions and killed him for it.

She has two months at most.

“My problem sir, is that I don’t think she even remembers killing him.” Sad and tragic.

Ned selflessly takes the fall: “For you, Grace. For you.”

“It’s not going to take much to break your story.”
“Might take a couple of months.”
And, of course, that’s all she has.

And in that last lingering shot, she has already forgotten, lost in the film and visions of her past. Powerful.

Wow. That…was superb. I see a lot of Columbo aficionados critique the episode for its longer run time, but it doesn’t drag for me. The whole gun range b-story feels like pointless padding, but Mark Dawidiziak, author of the Columbophile, argues it parallels and foreshadows the main story, with Columbo finding someone to take the fall for him the same way Diamonds takes the fall for Grace.

This one had was equal parts comedy and tragedy, the more humorous moments (Columbo’s interactions with Dog and Raymond, dancing up the stairs, dangling off that tree branch) proving equally as memorable as the shocking reveals (Grace’s condition, Ned’s sacrifice, that final moment). And the performances were simply superb. I think Raymond the butler is probably my favorite supporting player to date.

There are a number of episodes I’m only watching for the first time and this was one. And it was great. How great? Well, this may shock you but here is my revised episode rankings: 1. Forgotten Lady, 2. Negative Reaction, 3. Any Old Port in a Storm, 4. Double Exposure, 5. A Friend In Deed, 6. Double Shock, 7. A Stitch in Crime, 8. Death Lends a Hand, 9. Suitable for Framing, 10. Publish or Perish, 11. Dagger of the Mind, 12. Requiem for a Falling Star, 13. Prescription: Murder, 14. Murder by the Book/Ransom for a Dead Man (tie), 15. By Dawn’s Early Light, 16. Swan Song, 17. Troubled Waters, 18. Lady in Waiting, 19. An Exercise in Fatality, 20. Etude in Black, 21. Playback, 22. The Most Crucial Game, 23. Blueprint for Murder, 24. Lovely But Lethal, 25. A Deadly State of Mind, 26. The Most Dangerous Match, 27. The Greenhouse Jungle 28. Dead Weight, 29. Short Fuse, 30. Candidate for Crime, 31. Mind Over Mayhem.

Finally, though a pointless exercise as Grace would never live to see trial, do we think Columbo has enough evidence for a GUILTY verdict or would Grace be looking at an ACQUITTAL? In this case, he’s got a fair amount of circumstantial evidence, but I honestly don’t think it’s enough to add up to a conviction. So, should a miracle occur and Grace survive the disease, then I think she bucks the odds again and dances off into the sunset. ACQUITTAL!

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June 5, 2025: Marathons Ahoy!

First and foremost, thanks to everyone who took time to offer recommendations for our upcoming “Best Episode Of…” watch marathon.  Check out Thursday (June 3rd’s) blog entry for a full listing of the 30 sci-fi shows that will be the focus of our lengthy watch-athon.

Prior to that, however, I’d like to do another marathon – Time Loopalooza – in which we will review pretty much every time loop episode produced, 37 in all, from the original Twilight Zone’s 1961 episode “Shadow Play” to Agents of Shield’s 2020 episode “As I Have Always Been”.  Should be fun!

I’m thinking we’ll go Columbo rewatch concluding with the show’s seventh season, then Time Loopalooza, and then the Best Episode of marathon – which should take us to October, Halloween month, where I’m thinking of doing a “Scariest Episode of….” marathon.

It would be great to do a live watch or even a recorded watch but, in a likelihood, I’ll probably stick with the current format of simply writing up my thoughts (along with some behind-the-scenes insights and trivia).

I have completed my 2024 crime novel read-a-thon, finishing up (though not technically accurate as I DNF’d) the last book this afternoon.  I ended up adding another two dozen books to the list in order to include this year’s Edgar Awards nominees for a grand total of 113 titles (maybe closer to 116 if I can track down a few that have eluded me).  Whew!  I’ll put together a list of my Top 10 Crime Novels of 2024 in the coming days – and then start checking out what 2025 has to offer in the genre.

Good timing too as it looks like Akemi and Sharky and I are off to Montreal for another 10 day stay.  Loading up the kindle!

Also, busy on the work front – developing a pitch, going out with a couple, and consulting on something else.

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Quick addendum.  Tomorrow, our Columbo rewatch continues with – spoiler alert for a 50 year old episode! – what is one of my favorite episodes of the show to date….

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June 4, 2025: Amazing Covers!

A few that caught my eye this week…

All-New Venom #7 – cover art by David Baldeon

Imperial #1 – cover art by Adi Granov

Wolverine #8 – core art by Daniel Warren Johnson

Justice League: The Atom Project #6 – cover art by Otto Schmidt

Power Rangers Prime #7 – cover art by Keyla K. Valerio

Be Not Afraid #1 – cover art by Reiko Murakami

Power Rangers Prime #7 – cover art by Li Cree

Heat Seeker: Exposed #1 – cover art by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau

Heat Seeker: Exposed #1 – cover art by Lucio Parrillo

2000 AD Nov. 2024 Progs – cover art by Nick Percival

So, which are YOUR favorites?

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June 3, 2025: “The Best Episode Of…” Top 30!

As I mentioned in a previous blog post (I think) I’d like to do a “Best Episode Of…” watch after completing season 7 of Columbo.  Basically, I would like to watch what is considered to be The Best Episode of each of 30 different science fiction shows.

After much thought and back and forth, these are the 30 shows I’d like to feature…

Andor

Babylon 5

Battlestar Galactica

Black Mirror

Blake’s 7

Dark Matter

Dr. Who

Eureka

The Expanse

Farscape

Firefly

For All Mankind

Fringe

The Mandalorian

The Orville

The Outer Limits (1995)

Quantum Leap

Red Dwarf

Space: 1999

Space: Above and Beyond

Stargate: Atlantis

Stargate: SG-1

Stargate: Universe

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Star Trek: The New Generation

Star Trek: The Original Series

Travelers

The Twilight Zone (Original)

The X-Files

Now, over to you.  What were your favorite episodes of each show?

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June 2, 2025: Our Columbo rewatch continues with A Deadly State of Mind!

This episode aired April 27, 1975

Dr. Mark Collier is the first of two murderers George Hamilton would play on the show. He’d return to play the equally treacherous Wade Anders in “Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health”.

Writer Peter S. Fischer talked about the episode’s final Gotcha: “That was Dick Levin’s idea. It was a clue he could never work into a story. Well, I had written the plot of the psychiatrist, but I didn’t know how to end it. One day, Dick said “I’ve always had this clue I wanted to use. A blind man at the driveway when the murderer escapes” I said “Oh yeah? Watch this.” I took my story and put it together with his clue.”

Three weeks after this episode aired, Peter Falk would take home his second Emmy for his portrayal of Columbo.

My thoughts on this episode in chronological viewing order…

Boy, this woman has some real daddy issues.

Not sure how professional that is but, to be fair, I don’t know what the physician code of conduct was like in the 70’s. Could doctors kiss their patients?

Wow. He’s not even the fifth man she’s had an affair with.

The guy is twice his age. Did he really need that poker to deal with him?

Whoa, careful! You almost hit the poor dog.

By way of an apology, he tries making out with his co-worker.

Isn’t this an active crime scene? Where are the rest of the police and investigative unit? A representative from the coroner’s office? The guy who takes the photos for the year book?

Columbo aint buying the grieving widow’s version of events.

I find it weird that Columbo is sitting on the couch, going through the events in his head with the corpse lying not two feet away.

Eagle-eyed Columbo notices and picks something up off the floor. But what is it?

The tire tracks suggest a European car. Now all they have to do is match the dent in the car and it’ll be case closed. They are going to do that, aren’t they? [Spoiler alert: They never do.]

Oh, it was a beach house. For a moment there I assumed they owned two homes.

And she suddenly remembers details about the gun. How convenient.

“The city’s number one collection of white rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs.” Wut?

“f’m sorry, I don’t have a willy.” Pardon me?

Wow. That is some hairdo on the secretary.

Love the fact we see Columbo following similar colored lines down the hall as the maze rat in the previous scene. P.S. Those colored lines remind me of the floor of the SGC.

Columbo opens door. Woman screams. “Oh I’m very sorry.” He doesn’t seem particularly bothered. Wonder if that exchange was added in post.

Columbo confides his misgivings about her story to Collier – thereby putting a target on her back. Nice one, Columbo.

This whole hypnosis bit is on the same suspension-of-disbelief level as the subliminal messaging from “Double Exposure”. But it feels a bit sillier.

Columbo, who was always more than happy to accept a drink in those early episodes, now asks for cream soda.

Columbo regales the guests with his insights into the case. Their improvised chitchat is pretty bad.

I love the woman who presumes the case was “solved” because the murder was committed by a couple of burglars. Well, that’s it. On to the next one!

I like how Collier immediately discards his cigarette off Columbo’s: ““We know there was a smoker there.”

“Come on, lieutenant. Surely you don’t suspect Mark.”

The discarded flint + his use of matches = Murderer!

THAT is one of the sultriest suicides I’ve ever seen.

That idiot cop who explains the phone receiver was off the hook and too noisy for him so he put it back (!)

The stolen items from the beach house!

Columbo suspects…hypnosis! Hmmmm.

Drugs in her body similar to truth serum!

Collier informing Columbo that Nadia murdering her husband would be “consistent with her personality” is a pretty transparent attempt to cast suspicion on her.

“I’m not sure that suspect is a strong enough word.” Great line.

Columbo assures Collier that when he makes progress on the case “You’ll be the first to know.” I think he’s used this line a couple of times in previous episodes and it’s still great.

The eyewitness is…a blind man!

Hmmm. Not sure about that Gotcha.

Overall this one was fine, but ultimately my least favorite episode of season 4. I wasn’t a fan of the hypnosis bit and I thought it incredibly fortunate for Columbo that Collier was stupid enough to fall into his clumsy trap and attempt to call out the presumed blind man. Also, why make mention of possible damage to the car if that angle is never pursued? Finally, I did miss some of the lighter moments that typified some of my preferred episodes.

My revised episode rankings: 1. Negative Reaction, 2. Any Old Port in a Storm, 3. Double Exposure, 4. A Friend In Deed, 5. Double Shock, 6. A Stitch in Crime, 7. Death Lends a Hand, 8. Suitable for Framing, 9. Publish or Perish, 10. Dagger of the Mind, 11. Requiem for a Falling Star, 12. Prescription: Murder, 13. Murder by the Book/Ransom for a Dead Man (tie), 14. By Dawn’s Early Light, 15. Swan Song, 16. Troubled Waters, 17. Lady in Waiting, 18. An Exercise in Fatality, 19. Etude in Black, 20. Playback, 21. The Most Crucial Game, 22. Blueprint for Murder, 23. Lovely But Lethal, 24. A Deadly State of Mind, 25. The Most Dangerous Match, 26. The Greenhouse Jungle 27. Dead Weight, 28. Short Fuse, 29. Candidate for Crime, 30. Mind Over Mayhem.

Finally, let’s consider whether or not Columbo has enough evidence to ensure Collier be found guilty. Or is the good/bad doctor looking at an acquittal? In this case, I think the drugs in Nadia’s system, Collier’s fumble at episode’s end, AND the damage to his car which they’ll eventually get around to will be enough to put him away. GUILTY!

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