The Columbo Files – Suitable for Framing Review

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jump back in time with Colombo these are the

Colombo files here in size 2 to those nine and

Yeah, letting you know as always to be dot TV

is where I'm watching these Dave has the DVDs

Because apparently I'm in a line and he's not

yeah No, no, it's I'm an old man and hold on

to my physical media and yeah I understand to

trust me as somebody who is rebuying a lot of

physical media these days when they upgrade it

to various Improved image qualities. I completely

understand that to my eyesight is garbage. Anyway,

so it's like I went through college and it was

like I had like my my Copies of Star Wars were

ripped off of I think Showtime so five seconds

the Showtime logo would pop up at the bottom

of it but I mean by the time I got to college

they were like That blob is Luke Skywalker It's

that dark blob is Chewbacca, you know, the white

blob is probably a stormtrooper or some kind.

So I'm Not that much different nowadays Well,

don't you wear glasses is like yes, my glasses

can just earn a blob over there It's not quite

that horrible may still let me drive that's Good.

They're like use your glasses on the test. You

gotta use your glasses when you drive I'm like,

I thought that was legally required to wear my

glasses when I drive. Yeah, exactly. I got my

glasses because I couldn't read the word signs.

Exactly. I literally was driving with a friend

and he's like, what's that sign say? And I was

like, not even a joke. I was like, what sign?

And he's like, oh. Yeah, see my vision is 20

Slash 200 God I am technically I am legally blind

even though I can see But for me, it's more about

distance than anything else. So yeah, it's it's

it's like up close I'm fine like two inches away

from my screen. I'm absolutely fine But from

here and people aren't gonna be able to hear

this podcast Mike Well, no people will be able

to hear it, but I'm gonna I'm gonna do this over

here away from the microphone So over there over

there down there down that hallway where my front

door is if there was a stop sign On my on the

back of my front door to my apartment. I probably

would not be able to read Sto P But I would know

red white and I could make the letters out and

I could tell you that that's a stop sign so yeah

new But I was gonna say I'm not sure what my

numbers are but like sitting here now I can read

my I can look at my computer and see that fine.

I can see the stuff in front of it, but like

Ten feet away stuff on the walls blurry. Yep.

Yeah, it's great. There's a magic There's a magic

zone to where like everything like goes from

focus to out of focus Yep, which is great when

I go to like toy shows and stuff cuz like I gotta

have my glasses on to be able to see the room

and then I get up to the thing Tried bifocals,

but didn't work. Yeah, bifocals didn't work.

And then at one point they wanted me to try trifocals.

And I'm like, not if you want me to be able to

walk. Nope, that's not going to happen. So I

don't really care. Walkings is sort of not really

the we don't really care about that. We're just

here to sell some glasses. So right. Yeah. Well,

what you do with the rest of your life is up

to you, pal. Exactly. Glasses sold. See, see,

and my thing is what are we a podiatrist? Not

yet, but you will be. I'll stop going to the

eye doctor and start going to the foot doctor.

You know who also went to the eye doctor? Peter

Falk, who had a tumor in his eye as a child and

had it removed, which is why one of his eyes

is weird, in Colombo, the subject of today's

podcast. That's pretty slick. Yes, pretty slick,

and I'm still gonna ruin it for you. Well, you

mentioned how... For the record, people, I tried

to get us back on topic. It's okay. It's not

like we're talking about the weather yet. For

me, in my vision, I have my right eye is my dominant

eye, and I have nothing but center tunnel. As

long as I'm looking forward, I'm fine. My left

eye, I have no center. I have all peripheral,

and I see like... anything out of the left corner

of my eye, but I can't see crap out of the right

corner of my right eye. It's wacky, crazy, and

weird. But yes, Mr. Columbo, we are here, and

this episode is suitable for framing, and it

is not because I had seen this, like, two months

ago, but I swear I recognize Ross Martin, who

plays Dale Kingston. Like, I'm like, where have

I seen this guy before? Wild Wild West. Oh. Okay.

Well, well, where have you seen him? What else

has he been in? I don't know. That's what I'm

saying. Like it was Gordon. Well, I made a joke

last episode and you stepped on it. Yeah. Like

he was Gordon. He was the Kevin Klein role in

the actual show. Well, in the show. Yes. Problem

is I never saw the show. So I'm thinking, yeah,

I mean, it's okay. But like, I don't know. It's

just you're old enough that there's there you've

had endless hours in front of a TV with just

Like I just assumed the people pick up stuff

by osmosis, you know, it's like I'm not saying

it was my favorite show or that I watched it

regularly, but I mean right I'm 53 years old

it was on and there were times where like it

was on TV and I passed by a TV and I watched

it mm -hmm and the movie was terrible enough

that like I kind of like made mental notes about

like the existence of Wild Wild West like so

you wanted the little person in the show not

a crippled, kind of, I don't know. Exactly. Okay,

I'm sorry. The osmosis character for me in this

is the lawyer. Don Amici. Don Amici. Because

that, ladies and gentlemen... By the way, it's

like top billing and he's in like five minutes

of the show. Yeah, I know. But as soon as I heard

his voice, I was like... Oh my god, that's Mortimer

Duke from Trading Places! Yes! I was like, holy

crap! Like, Mortimer, your brother, fuck him!

Oh god. Yeah, no. But this one... You know, I

was kind of afraid you were going to say something

like that. Yeah, suitable for framing. It's an

art heist, folks, or an art something or other.

Well, it's a murder. Yeah, it's a murder. But

the impetus is art. Yes. And there's a line in

here by one of the... I think it's the wife or...

Literally, I have the audio somewhere. I specifically,

you know. Well, OK, the premise is that I can't

remember the actor's name. You should want to

call him Armist Gordon. The killer is the nephew

of this rich guy who has a huge art collection.

Yep. And he's going to leave it all to the rich

guy is going to leave it all to his ex wife when

he dies. Right. And Armist Gordon. What's the

character's name? For the love of God, help me.

It's it's Dale Kingston. Dale. Dale is an art

critic. has become an art critic, loves art.

So he basically shoots his uncle and then like

kind of clever, like he's got this whole elaborate

alibi plan. So he wraps up the body in an electric

blanket to keep it warm, screw up the time of

death and seal some painting. Like the the the

room trashing scene is kind of hilarious. It

is. Yeah, because it's so kind of haphazard and

half ass. My favorite is he's throwing chairs

around and he goes up one painting and like tilts

it slightly. There. No, no, no common civilized

man would tilt a painting like that. Nope. And

he steals two, I can't remember, paintings by

a very famous painter. Monet? Are they? Oh, the

watercolors, god. I think they were supposed

to be from a very famous, but I can't remember

who they were supposed to be from. And you're

the note taker and you don't know, so. Yeah,

I skipped over. The important thing is that they're

worth a crap ton of money. Yeah, and he's got

an accomplice who is also who's a painter a young

woman who's a painter and she's? Enabbered with

him and he also she also kind of hopes that he'll

help her career as a painter So he goes off to

this gallery While she kind of monitors she kind

of stays at the house with the corpse being warmed

and she's got the paintings He goes off to a

gallery opening so that he can publicly be seen

by everybody. He's always like oh my watch is

broken What time is it? so that everyone will

go, oh, it's this time. So when the police come

around, they'll go, oh, he was here at 945 or

whatever. And the artist of the hour actually

is Vic Tabak, who was Mel, the cook on Alice,

playing a very scuzzy bohemian artist guy. So

I kept going, he's Mel, the cook from Alice.

And then for some reason, see, every now and

then there are little elements of the Colombo

world that don't really seem to fit in with the

world that I live in or understand sometimes.

And in this one, it's like there's a security,

there's a cop who drives by the house every night

at a certain time. And as he drives by, the accomplice

fires a gun. So he hears the gun and he, you

know, she runs out the back and he comes into

the house. And of course she's removed the blanket.

So like he finds the body and it's still warm.

Yeah, it's still warm. Oh boy. So that must mean

she would have just left just now out the back.

He just died. Yeah. Yeah. So, and then Colombo

gets involved. Because it's murder and that's

his thing. Yep, yep, yep. I was kind of like

leaving him. Yeah, no, absolutely. He gets involved

and during the thing of the nephew trying to

do his alibi, where he's at this hoity -toity

art party, The relationship to the pieces, the

laughter from the women in that scene went on

way too damn long. I don't care if it is 50 year

old television. I understand they're supposed

to be high society art people, but those laughs

were way too long and too generous for a really

bad line. Well, but you could also interpret

that as he's, you know, he's a big shot art critic

and you want to impress because I mean, the gallery

owner has a whole thing about I got him at my

showing, and no one else there could say that,

and he's always in Paris and London. It's interesting

because he actually says that he's not a rich

guy. I mentioned earlier that one of the big

themes of Colombo is class. He says, I'm not

a rich guy, but art critics are not like blue

collar jobs. And frankly, he like I made a joke,

I think in between episodes about how like in

the beginning when he's dressed for the art gallery,

he looks like Austin Powers. I mean, and that's

not even like a semi facetious riff. I mean,

he kind of has a velvet jacket with big fluffy

lace collars or cuffs. You know, very Austin

Powers looking like he's very upper upper snoopy

class. You may not have money. And I think that's,

again, a theme. is that a lot of these people

who are very upper -class and powerful actually

don't have the money under, you know, they're

always like, they're squabbling for money just

like anybody else. And then phase two of his

little scheme kind of starts to kick in. As Colombo

starts sniffing around, he's got to move into

phase two, which is that the accomplice has to

be dealt with. He's got to get the pains back

from the accomplice. And when he does, a rock

gets involved, a large rock. And I was like,

oh, I don't remember murdering the accomplice.

But he does. Murders her and stages a car wreck.

And that sort of leads. And then Colombo gets

dragged into that because it's a seemingly separate

murder, but also involves an artist. And there's

a nice little like every now and then there'll

be like a little misdirect. Like you think Colombo

is going to get like a key clue, but he doesn't.

It doesn't pan out. And this one is the the accomplices

landlady has pictures of the guys the accomplices

dating. Yeah. And you think, aha. And of course,

he's not he's not in the pictures like no, there's

this older guy that she was seeing and ha ha

ha That was a different older guy. So was it?

Yeah, I was no it was a different guy We started

the show by talking about how terrible my eyes

Yeah, no, you're not wrong Cuz I thought like

oh He's gonna get it it's gonna be it's gonna

be the trick. That's the key, right? Right. That's

the trick. The trick is is that He has to go

to the landlady and the landlady like I don't

pay attention to everything, but I know all the

gossip I don't gossip but I know everything and

I have all these pictures and she's one of those

little old ladies that will Talk your ear all

like she goes through like three pictures before

she actually finds the supposed picture And yeah,

no, that's not the guy that that was not Dale.

That was somebody completely different And then

we go into phase three Although there's a there's

a critical moment during the sequence where after

Dale gets the pictures back He'd given he was

very arrogant about Columbus. He kind of like

a lot sometimes the the criminals You know, there's

there's a miss there's a mistaken belief that

the criminals always kind of buy into Columbus

Shaggy dog routine Yeah, and a lot of time they're

they're on to him pretty early on Yeah deals

kind of very on to him early on and even like

arrogantly goes, here's a key to my house. Go

search my house when I'm not around. And so he

comes back from having killed the accomplice

with the paintings in like a little folio and

Columbo's there. And he's like, oh crap. What

are you doing in my house, Columbo? Well, you

said I could stop by and I was reading these

books here. You said I could stop by and buy

these books about art. Yeah. Yeah. I was looking

at these books about art and stuff and yeah.

And the critical thing happens there where he's

like, oh, what do you got in the folio? And,

you know, Dale kind of like, no, no, leave them

alone. Leave them alone. They're not yours. Don't

touch them. Sorry, I have a used to dogs. They're

not yours. That's right. Which is a critical

moment because Colombo slips his hand into the

folio to grab, you know. So then phase three

kicks in, which is you go to Don Amici's office.

He's the lawyer for the uncle and he's reading

the will. And Colombo is. Did I miss a scene?

Cause Columbo's already very friendly with the

uncle's ex -wife. I don't. Cause they were very

cordial. So yes, yeah, you are missing a scene

because he goes to her house. Cause they talk

to the ex -wife, the police talk to her. Okay.

I remember he was in the house and Dale shows

up. But I thought that was a later scene. Maybe

I'm wrong. Let's see here. I do remember there

was a scene in her house, but I thought that

was after the scene at the lawyer's office. I

don't know, but I remember that he has a scene

with her before the lawyer's office. I don't

remember that scene. He says to her, oh, hi,

Mrs. whatever. Yeah. Edna, Mrs. Matthews is what

he says. He says, hi, Mrs. Matthews and whatever.

And her, oh my God, her character. Oh, boy. She

seems kind -hearted and she's the one that got

that got the uncle onto art. Mm -hmm. And Actually,

I guess she was the reason they got divorced.

They were they were still close friends. They

lived nearby each other. Like I think she lived

at the Symbolically, he lived on the top of the

hill and her house was at the bottom of the hill.

Yeah So anyway, they go to the lawyer's office

Don Amici and he breathed the will And Dale gets

everything but the art. And that goes to the

ex -wife. And the whole thing is the ex -wife

is going to donate them. She's going to donate

them to museums. She says schools, which made

my skin crawl, because it was like, oh no, filthy,

grubby little chocolate -covered hands touching

priceless artwork. No, I mean, maybe she meant

art schools. Places that would probably take

care of the artwork. Yeah, I think that's what

she I'm just been in my brain. I was like little

toddlers with like disgusting Grimy candy -covered

hands is touching everything. Yeah, and Dale

is very arrogant about this. He's very cocky

He's like you see Colombo. I wouldn't even stand

to benefit from my uncle's death Cuz I cuz and

it turns out that the uncle had nothing else

like the house rented And that happened before

he met the landlady, because when he was talking

to the landlady, it took me a second to be like,

is that Dale's landlady, or is that the uncle's

landlady, or is that... It took me a second,

because it happened before the landlady scene.

But anyway, like, the uncle has nothing else

but the art. So Dale really inherits nothing.

And they never really... I mean, you know, sometimes,

you know, the will gets changed is a slight to

the person who was the murderer, usually. This

time, it just felt like he really just wanted

the art to be... given to museums and New Deal

wouldn't do it. So phase three of the plan is

that Dale begins to set up the aunt, the uncle's

ex -wife. He leaves a gun planted, which was

like just on a tangent. I've been playing a lot

of this game called Hitman. Yep. And there's

this moment where like in the game Hitman, if

like someone sees a gun lying around randomly,

they immediately flip out and go find someone

to tell. like a security guy. And so like as

this kind of happens in that episode, a gardener

finds a gun. He's like, oh, please, please, I

found a gun. I'm like, well, this is familiar.

But that's what happens. A gardener finds a gun

in the bush, and it's like right above the aunt's

property. And the other thing is they establish

that the person in the house was a woman. They

bring in the security guy who heard the gunshot,

and then they have a female officer running down

the steps in the back of the house. And he's

like, oh, that's what the sound was like. Yep.

To establish that she was wearing heels, I guess.

Yes. I love that scene. They know that a woman

was involved. Well, they think a woman shot him.

There's a woman involved. Yeah. So the idea is

that he's setting up his aunt, and then he ends

up having to, like, smuggle the watercolors into

the house. Well, the whole thing is Columbo's

like, oh, I don't think she did it. I don't think

she did it. I think the gun was planted there.

It's probably just dropped. I think she's completely

innocent and he's like, but aren't you gonna

search her? It's like, no, no need to. She's

legit. So Dale kind of freaks out because his

whole plan revolves around her getting caught

with the art. So he pressures the lawyer, Don

Amici, to pressure the police to search the house.

He's like, we have to do this to clear her name

and they'll find nothing and it's all for her

benefit and they convinced her to do it. There's

a classic and we gotta get this Colombo guy off

the case. He's a nuisance. And of course they

think they've got Colombo off the case and they

don't. So he sneaks the art in just before the

police show up. He hides in the house and the

police show up and they're searching the house

and she's a little frazzled because she doesn't

know what's going on and they find the watercolors.

And they're like, okay, we gotta dust. And Colombo

is... You you I don't know. When did you when

did you peg that Colombo was acting weird? I

don't know what I mean by that, but yeah, right.

Yeah, I know. Did you pick that? that was It

was a little late it was it was when they were

dusting I was like, uh, I Want to say I Pegged

it When Is it when, when he said, is it, uh,

again, now I'm mixing the episodes up. Is it

this episode where he's where he chastised like

that? We should have had that an hour ago or

whatever it was like the fingerprints. So he

says something about, okay, maybe that was the

other. Anyway, the point is I think I pegged

that as soon as, um, a few minutes before it

actually happens. Well, the point being that

Colombo has his hands shoved in his pockets.

Yeah, he's not, exactly, yeah. Which you wouldn't

like, you know, and it's one of those things

like you don't really even seem to notice it

until you do. And so they're dusting the watercolors

for prancing, like we found them. And Dale's

like, big deal, of course, I helped my uncle

unpack because they had been like loaned to a

museum or something and they'd just come back.

So he's like, I helped my uncle unpack and pack

those and my fingerprints are all over those.

And Columbo's like, oh no, not your fingerprints,

sir. Remember that time in the house, which I

just belabored explained, where I touched that

thing in the folio? Those are my fingerprints

on that painting. You touched my paintings? No,

no, no, he's like, he's like, and that's when

he goes. This is entrapment. You just you had

all the time in the world to touch those things,

you know, blah blah blah You just put your prints

on those entrapment entrapment and colombo takes

his hands out of his pockets and the reveal of

the gloves And that's and that's where the episode

ends. Yeah, he gives a look like you dick and

That ending is so good. Yeah, it is no it is

very good So far I think out of all the all of

them so far this one is my favorite of this season

This is by far the this it doesn't have every

Colombo ism as far as like yeah, honestly these

two episodes I didn't even keep up with my just

one more thing counter because I don't think

he says it very many times sort of says it once

he sort of says it one more thing he Like this

first season it doesn't seem like he says well

one more thing sir. Just one more thing It's

he'll go all one more thing like like yeah Not

as a Columbo, you know, the meme, but as like

a normal person saying, one more thing. Yeah.

Yeah. It's not the what we remember. Yeah. I

knew. And this is what I love about Columbo is

how they pace and how they use and don't. They

use music and then they use silence and they

use the sound effects because that scene transition.

with the car. Uh, but, but Dale, when am I supposed

to be blah blah blah blah blah? Next thing you

know, he's parking the car in the garage or whatever.

And obviously he killed her. I mean, they show

him picking up a rock and you hear her scream.

Wait, he picked up a rock? I thought he ran over

with... Do you picked up a rock and put her in

the car and like drove that over push that over

a cliff? You don't see that part. You see him

pick up a rock Okay, and then like the camera

kind of like freeze frames and you hear her scream

And then Colombo says that they found a car crash.

Yeah Yeah, I guess I didn't hear the scream then

because I guess I must have blacked out on that

part because literally that whole I'm pretty

sure I heard something like that or like the

music stand. There's a musical sting Yeah, they

use musical stings for screams sometimes, and

sometimes they use actual screams. And then,

when we get to the lawyer's office, oh man, the

reading of the will. I guess, what is this supposed

to be? 50s, 60s, California? 73? I mean, the

show officially started in 73. Okay, so 70s,

California. I guess $2 ,000 a year for the housekeepers.

Guess that's all that must have been a fortune.

Okay, cuz I don't know cuz I look I I heard that

and I'm like 2000 a year in the 70s in California.

I It didn't bump me. It's not a bad thing. I

was just trying to figure it out in my head No,

that would have been a lot of money like I like

so Star Wars figures in the late 70s 78 79 were

like two bucks a pop and like To her death. My

mother was bitter about that Right. Like, she

was like, those things cost $2 a pop. And I'm

like, because in the 70s, money went like, and

the housing prices in California didn't go berserk

until fairly recently. Yeah. Because I mean,

there's a lot of stories about people who are

like, I bought my house and I just sold it for

a million dollars. Yeah. My crappy little bungalow.

So yeah, $2 ,000. I will look it up while you

speak and I'm pretty sure. Again, it was just

one of those things where I was trying to do

the math in my head when he said the line and

they got so ecstatic over it. And again, this

is just me nitpicking because I was trying to

think of what that would... This is a lot of

math. You mentioned about renting. The lady mentioned

that you rented the big house. I was like, when

I saw that big house for just the uncle, I'm

like... Oh, wow, that's a mansion for one. We

did have... Well, no, Dale lived there. Dale

did live there, like... Okay. They established

that Dale lived with his uncle. Okay, that's

right. So, okay, mansion for two, fine. But,

like... I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But,

like, those are, like... Man, mansions. Hoo,

boy. We already mentioned the ex -wife gets the

art. Just do what my wife does. She gets the

art, but she's not going to keep it. Yeah, no,

no, no, no, no. Yes. $13 ,725. A year? In today's

money? $2 ,000 in 1973 was worth that last year.

Oh, wow. $13 ,725. That ain't not bad. That ain't

not bad. That ain't not bad at all We get one

wife reference in this where he's like just do

what my wife does I thought that was hilarious.

You have nothing to worry about now. Did you

want to go shopping? Well, I was planning to

meet some friends at the fashion center, but

I can do that some other time I want you to go

right ahead And I want you to forget about all

this. Just do what my wife does. Because when

she hits a department store, she can forget anything.

Even the fact that I'm sitting outside waiting.

Have a good time, Andy. Out of all the murderers

and out of all the criminals we've seen so far

in these six episodes, is Dale the Slimiest?

Ooh, the guy from Prescription Murder was pretty

scummy. Yep. Dale? Well, Dale's pretty, like,

mur - I mean, like, this is stupid to say, it's

a stupid way to put it, but he's - he's both

bloodthirsty of all the little suckers so far.

Yeah, that's - yeah, maybe I meant to write down

bloodthirsty, but - No, no, no, Slimy's like

- There is something scummy about him, like,

particularly the way he just totally, like, frames

his - his aunt, his aunt -in -law. Like, you

know, just that murder of the - the girl. Because

I think it's like one other secondary murder

so far and that was in the the book one the Spielberg

one Yeah, and that was kind of like she was back

blackmailing him. Yeah, I'm not saying that excuses

murder, but it's obvious that's Scummy then,

you know, I trust you. We're all together. I'm

turning my back on you clock, you know, the the

blackmail woman You know provoked it a little

bit I don't know, that matter's justifiable,

I'm just saying. No, we're not trying to justify

it, folks. We're trying to compare how despicable

each of us is. How despicable these people are.

Like, uh... Yeah. Yeah, I mean, because like,

you know, you think about like the... I think

Dale is the most blatant about it. Dale, I'm

comfortable saying scummy. Because it is literally

just for profit. Yeah. He kills the guy that

put him through college, he sets up his aunt,

he murders the girl that's kind of got a thing

for him. He's kind of a slimy piece of crap.

So far, I think he's the sleaziest, yeah. And

the most bloodthirsty, like I said. I think that

he's the only other secondary murder so far,

aside from the riding one, which again was a

thing that he felt pressured to do. That will

be going forward. Did I send you the video niceness?

Yes. Yeah. Going forward, you'll see that a lot

of times the murderers are they're not just like

out for money or revenge. Sometimes they're kind

of pushed into a situation, you know, where they're

not evil people, but they they feel they have

no other options. They're not, you know. So that's

like the reverse of what we're talking about

now. This guy is like the quintessential I just

want this expensive painting. I am entitled to

my fancy life I'm gonna murder and frame whoever

gets in my way Well, yeah, I'm comfortable saying

he's the slimy the slimmiest slimy is good to

speak Slimey yes, yes, absolutely fine slimy

so far. Well, yeah, so far. Yeah, I'm saying

like comparing. Yeah We're not jumping ahead

because we don't know. Yeah, I'm trying to think

of the episodes I remember really well. And generally,

I think more of the ones that I remember have

the more sympathetic protagonist or sympathetic,

sympathetic murderers. A little too much Hitman,

buddy. So, yeah, folks, this one, this one definitely

kept my interest throughout. I am very much looking

forward to the next one. What about you? I'm

interested in what the next one I you know one

thing I kind of liked that was like We talked

about like the artistic touches that they have

sometimes Mm -hmm, and it was almost like I almost

laughed when I thought about it when the when

the uncle gets killed because he's surrounded

by art Mm -hmm, and they kept cutting like these

faces Yeah, you know like looking and watching

and judging as the music was playing it was I

mean Pun intended I guess it was kind of artistic

it was weird and interesting kind of cool Yeah,

absolutely, absolutely love it. Yeah, it is very,

very fun. And so far, out of these nine episodes

that we're going to be discussing in season one

of Colombo, very, very good. So overall rating,

what are we giving this one? I'm gonna give it

a four. I like the artistic stuff at the beginning.

I mean, I had fun making fun of his stupid Austin

Powers outfit. It was cool to see Mel, the cook

from Alice. There's a weird little scene where

Columbo drops in on him and he's painting a model.

And the easel is, again, Austin Powers. He's

painting her, but whatever he's painting looks

like flowers. But the easel blocks her body,

so you can't see that she's naked. And Columbo

is very uncomfortable. And she's very, I mean,

it's 1973, but she's a 60s chick. Like, hey,

man, hang out. Have fun. You know, what's up?

And Vic Tabak keeps yelling at her, quit moving.

It's a very Columbo scene. It's very cute. We

do get the Peugeot. We've got everything but

the dog at this point, so we can't get to five

yet. Won't get the dog until season two. But

yeah, I think and then the ending, the ending

is probably one of the best Columbo endings.

It is just that whole he pulls the gloves and

just gives him that look and then it cuts. Yeah,

like you don't need anything else. Like I know

you said like what happens next. Well, there's

like police all over the place He's going to

jail He's not he's not slipping out the back

door You remember the time that I was in your

apartment and you came in with some paintings

and you said that they were watercolors and you

wanted to evaluate them and Remember I wanted

to see him and you wouldn't let me and I even

touched him You touched yes my fingerprints are

on those paintings Now, if Mrs. Matthews is guilty,

how could my fingerprints get on paintings that

she stole? This is entrapment. It's a setup,

that's all. You touched those paintings just

now while I wasn't looking. You saw them do it,

didn't you? You put your prints on those paintings

while you were bent over watching them when they

were working on it! He dodged them! You dodged

them! So, in my research for something that I

don't even remember what we were trying to figure

out earlier in this podcast episode, I found

the Columbo File blog. Oh, so now we've got to

change our little... No. No. No, no, no. Difference?

No, no, no. File as in audio file, as in pH.

Oh, that's clever. Not, yeah, so the Colombo

file. Yeah. But in this, he goes, he does little

trivia for each. He has his whole thing. It's

been going on for years now, apparently. But

at the end of the suitable for framing, he goes,

it goes, did you know, as well as sporting the

single most 70s hairdo ever seen in this episode,

Rosanna Hoffman, Tracy O 'Connor, which is the

girl that ends up, the accomplice, yeah, was

married to none other than Colombo creator Richard

Levinson. Meanwhile, after many mystery stretching

back nearly 50 years, the Colombo file can now

confirm the identity of the uncredited nude model

who sew a badge to the lieutenant, which is,

I find that hilarious. that scene with the painting

he's like i told you to sit still oh my god that

painter oh boy that that that big payback mill

book on alice this defense is a good offense

yeah sure okay uh -huh no i get the reference

but yes i am i am also going to be giving this

this a four out of five it's It's almost there.

It's really good. It's very, very good. Again,

I wouldn't say top 10, but top 20, maybe. Yeah,

top 20 easily. It's definitely a better, not

better, better is kind of wrong, but a fun example

of Colombo. Absolutely. Alright folks, we're

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Alright folks Day 16 out of 31 here inside the

studio 2009 for the 31 days 31 podcasts Hey,

look, I actually of course in the other episode

I'll probably fix it to where I actually sound

coherent, but I actually got all that out in

one Any closing thoughts for suitable for framing

or your overall thoughts so far six episodes

into the overall series? Um It's interesting

because we had the conversation about the one

more thing. It is interesting to watch a show

build and evolve into what it's going to be.

I mean, a lot's there. I think by the second

episode, a lot was there, but the whole one more

thing. I'm having fun. I love the character.

It's fun to watch him. It's it's fun to watch.

You know, I don't know that a younger audience

is gonna You know cuz it's got that whole sort

of uh, I don't know what a modern equivalent

would be but like love boat a murder she wrote

yeah, the whole thing of like In the last episode

I kept talking about green acres in this episode.

I'm talking about well Well, but you know people

that are familiar to me from wandering by a TV

screen and seeing a show From from before I was

even born But, you know, but they were in heavy

rotation when I was a kid. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah.

So there's that element that's fun. It's always

fun to try to figure out because, you know, there

are only so many that I remember really well.

So, you know, like always that the moment when

Colombo figures out what's going on and trying

to figure out how Colombo is going to get him

is fun. Like what are you going to trip him up

on? Sometimes they're lame. Sometimes they're

cool. Yeah, and I it's it's fun. We talked about

the first episode how like the phones were weird.

There were rotary phones like the you know, you

you you mentioned that thing about like her the

most 70 most 70s haircut ever and I'm like I

don't remember it being that weird. Um, frankly

But like the the weird My joke about Austin Powers,

you know that he was unironically wearing that

kind of outfit. Yeah, the the early 70s of it

Fun like and you know, like I said, I think in

this episode how the whole thing about those

security guard checks in is it's just weird There's

there's like a little weird behavioral things

that like I don't see or know or you know, it's

just weird little things that like it's how people

really live like it's gonna be a long time, but

there's like a The the final episode of column

of the original run, right? My favorite episode

the character has this habit that I've never

heard of before And that's kind of how they get

them. But I'm like, I've never heard of people

doing that. But that's fun. The time machine

element of it is also fun. The mystery is fun.

The character is great. The weird pop culture,

for me at least, nostalgia of faces that I know.

I think this season we get Leonard Nimoy. I'm

not sure. I know we get Shatner. We get checkoffs

too, but like, you know, that's that's that's

that's part of the fun. There's just a lot. Colombo

is a fun show to watch. Yeah, it's got a lot

going on. I guess is my point. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, so next episode we get Susan Clark as Beth

Chadwick. Rodney McDowell is in short fuse. Yes,

that's that's a pretty good one. Rodney McDowell,

of course. the Fright Night, Planet Apes, Big

Red, super old, like me, just ready to go, Mr.

Stark, I don't feel so good. Yeah, but that was

a young kid. Look, he turned to dust regardless.

It's very true. It shows poorly. Is that a reference

you prefer? There you go. There you go. That's

that's that's more in line with what we we old

men wanna yeah Season two episode six a stitch

in crime is Leonard Nimoy's episode plays Barry

Mayfield. So that's Very cool. Very cool. I was

trying to see if if Shatner and and Nimoy were

in the same season No, no, no. I was trying to

say they're the same season, but they're not.

I don't think they are, yeah. No, they're not.

Keening is in the episode with Shatner. He plays

a beat cop. Oh, nice. Very cool. Yeah, I remember

I was watching and I was like, wait, is that

Chekov? Man William Shatner doesn't Though the

William Shatner a fade into murder. That's season

6. That's 76 77. I think we had a long time till

we get to that folks. Yeah, well he The beauty

okay. He's also one of the 90s Renaissance one

or whatever you want to call it. And then the

90s when he plays a rush limbo type rush limbaugh

type DJ but in the original one He's basically

an actor on a TV show playing a quirky detective

who always gets his man. It's beautiful. Uh huh.

That's that's why. Oh, and it's also Mrs. Colombo's

favorite TV show, because this is at some point.

Mrs. Colombo becomes like, you know, like I said,

like her favorite TV show stars a murderer. Her

favorite books are written by a murderer. Her

favorite music is conducted by a murderer. She's

Mrs. Colombo. I know. Right. I think. I think,

after all this time. We still haven't gotten

to Patrick McGuinn yet. That's weird, because

McGuinn isn't like three of them. Yep. We've

gotten to Jack Cassidy. Jack Cassidy isn't three

of them. McGuinn isn't three of them. Robert

Culp shows up. Yeah, Robert Culp shows up. He'll

be Paul Hanlon in the most crucial game in season

two. Yeah, it's cute that you think I know them

by the catchphrase. I'm just reading. I don't

even remember their names when we're talking

about the shows. Yeah, I understand that, but

I'm just saying it's a distinctive difference

between the character he already played. That's

all I'm saying. We could make a joke and say

they're the same character that just keeps getting

away and starts a new identity. Like Jack Cassidy,

in one of them he's a former Nazi who was a stage

musician. And then the third one he's in, he's

not an author, but he's a literary agent, which

will make things completely not confusing. Long

way. Cassidy was the guy from the Spielberg episode.

He was the murderer from the Spielberg episode.

He's a literary agent who's handling a guy who's

writing the Anarchist Cookbook or something.

Mm -hmm, so I saw a name in Season two episode

four dagger of the mind the oh, that's one where

they go to London. Mm -hmm. The victim is played

by Eddie guy named John Williams, and I'm like,

there's no way no it's it's not it's not it's

a different it's Hugh is it not enough that we

have Emma Peele and Wilford hide white I mean

come on man Well, dude, just like how even the

guy even the guy who's the murderer is like Was

kind of famous in England. I think um Yeah, that's

a that's a fun episode. Oh my god that episode

so the episode with the The actor is obviously

he's long gone now at this point unfortunately,

but his full name Hugh Ernest Leo Williams known

professionally as John Williams He plays the

victim in Dagger of the Mind. The killer is,

and I can't believe I can do this. This is a

connection, folks. This is not saying they're

in the same universe. There's a difference. The

murderer is played by none other than Richard

Basehart. Yes. Now, the only reason why I even

recognize his name is because he was the narrator.

in 1982 from 1982 to 1986 in a dangerous world,

the world of the Knight Rider. He's the narrator

in Knight Rider. Yeah. I know that Gypsy from

MST3K was obsessed with him, but I didn't know

he was the narrator for Knight Rider. Nice. Like

I said, he's famous in England. A shadowy flight

into the dangerous world of a man who does not

exist. Yeah, I know they're all famous in wherever

they're famous for, but yeah, no, I just want

to be really certain. Yes, 82 to 86. He was the

voice of the narrator and he also played in the

pilot episode. He actually played Wilton Knight,

who died in Night of the Phoenix part one. So

he played the the main character, but yes, the

voice for the introduction of Knight Rider. So

yay, I can tie a podcast I did like 11 years

ago to a podcast I'm doing currently now. All

right, folks, I think that's gonna do it for

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