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I watched Columbo yesterday, David.  It's so awesome.  I plan to try and get them all on DVD eventually.  The one on yesterday was from Series 8 from 1989.

^Only 3 series were made anf the third was quite a few years after the first two

I know but it seemed there was more than 22 episodes to me... I must have seen all of them though.

I was also surprised at how few Columbo's there are too.  Under 100 episodes.

Snow Dog wrote: Recently finished watching this....

James wrote: Only 22 episodes of that, Jody?  Wow.  I swear there was more than that! Such a classic series though.

James wrote: I watched Columbo yesterday, David.  It's so awesome.  I plan to try and get them all on DVD eventually.  The one on yesterday was from Series 8 from 1989.

Yes it's the best, Falk may be finest television actor ever.   The shows from '89 are much later after the main series from the 1970s but still very good (no surprise the show attracted the best writers and scripts).   The character is such a gifted detective it's as if he only needs one or two small clues, even suggestions, before he immediately knows who did it.   It's as much psychological game as investigation, great stuff.

TheProgtologist wrote: James wrote: Only 22 episodes of that, Jody?  Wow.  I swear there was more than that! Such a classic series though. Yep,7 episodes in the first series,6 each in series 2 & 3 and 3 Christmas specials.And there was a 5 year gap between series 2 and 3. It's such a good show,and Crawford literally makes me laugh so hard tears stream down my face.I do wish there was more of it though!

We don't have a TV so it's rare for me to post in these things. But...we recently got caught watching the British Merlin series on DVD which my older daughter is obsessed with. Almost finished with season 3.

Dean wrote: Atavachron wrote: James wrote: I watched Columbo yesterday, David.  It's so awesome.  I plan to try and get them all on DVD eventually.  The one on yesterday was from Series 8 from 1989. Yes it's the best, Falk may be finest television actor ever.   The shows from '89 are much later after the main series from the 1970s but still very good (no surprise the show attracted the best writers and scripts).   The character is such a gifted detective it's as if he only needs one or two small clues, even suggestions, before he immediately knows who did it.   It's as much psychological game as investigation, great stuff. Columbo was clever (and at the time unique) for a detective programme because the viewer knew "whodunnit" from the beginning, and as you say, Columbo himself also knows who did it from the smallest of clues often early on too, so the premis of the programme is simply, "how will the villian get caught"       ...oh Sir, there's just one more thing before I go... the quality of the villains (as actors) also helped the shows success.

It's also Columbo's character too.  His dishevelled look, his constant talking of his wife who you rarely see (apparently she is in a few episodes but I've not seen those ones).  His Bloodhound dog named Dog.  He also never carried a gun.  He made the true villains comfortable around him and act like their friend.  Plus he was never averse to using sly tactics himself, like planting false evidence or using policemen and women as actors and the like.

I read about that yesterday.  It failed badly and they had to change its name, as well as the name of the character as well and it still failed. 

Edited by James - February 07 2012 at 09:14