M McLaurin80 my wife hates when i respond like this rofl

"I know!"

Wow! How astute of you. I had not come to that conclusion. Brilliant!

@@PamelaSmithakapossbert From Identity Crisis.

Clever way of referencing identity crisis

: I love the last line is "It's your funeral". That's the title to an episode of "The Prisoner".

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Josh Brobud ...sounds familiar....

3rd times a charm

David Currie ...slippery...indeed !

No, I think u got THAT BACKWARDS

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A more valuable lesson might be: don't commit murder.

I think if you want to help the police find the real killer...you should cooperate and eliminate yourself as a suspect...assuming you didn't commit the crime.

@@markmerzweiler909 Your heart is in the right place but you put yourself in danger whenever you speak with the Police. Trust me I'm an x-cop.

@@jameshalleluyah8133 I do understand...but imagine your child was kidnapped...as the father you are the prime suspect...if you didn't do it...wouldn't you want the police to be focused on the real kidnapper and waste as little time investigating you as possible?

Yeah, maybe just a tad shady, but he got his man!

And great friends off screen too i believe.

Well played Lol

Yes, that statement surprised me, especially as the mortician stated the temperature of the oven was 1600°F (871°C).

I was thinking the same thing. I think the best bet is the way this guy did it with putting the diamonds inside the body, meaning they're insulated throughout the majority of the time the body is being cremated. Even then, you'd have to be judicious about it and time when you turn the heat down so that you don't vaporize the diamonds -- but presumably, McGoohan's character is familiar with how to do just that.

Hey im not trying to be rude, nut I think you are wrong. Diamonds are highly compressed carbon, which has a melting point of almost 4000C. Due to diamond’s density, the range would be slightly higher, maybe 4050-4120C. Ceramic flower pots are carbon based clay and can withstand the blaze of thermite.

​@@thedeplorable8370 Yes, the melting point is very high and the vaporization temperature is indeed actually lower than that. It so happens that this is also true of coal and graphite, btw. The difference between them is available oxygen content. Under normal atmospheric conditions, diamonds don't really burn even at 1600 F simply because there isn't usually enough oxygen available. You'd likely only get some surface ablation. If you place diamonds into a kiln or something, nothing much will happen below that 4000 C range (assuming you can get up there). Open air demonstrations of burning diamonds tends to involve some additional injection of oxygen. To really burn a diamond, you actually need an oxidizing flame such as oxyacetylene or nitrous injection into propane flames. If I'm not mistaken, though, oxidizing flames are anyway necessary for cremation furnaces because even human flesh runs into the same problem. Someone else can correct me on this because given that cremation is otherwise doable on open pyres, one could just get by with a proper influx of fresh air. I just figured that furnaces are more resource-efficient and faster than an open pyre, so they might well be raising that efficiency by raising oxygen content within the furnace. Still, the trick he uses involves hiding it inside the body, so the diamonds will be pretty well shielded until you get to a certain point in the cremation. Either way, I believe he'd have to remove the diamonds early and then finish off the cremation.

There's always the chance he put the diamond in his own mouth, Colombo was assuming after all

Ha. Rule of three?

RobbHahn yes!

I got terribly bored of the smug nature of Columbo always winning. It would have been more interesting to have more challenge sometimes. More intelligent if he had someone who he couldn't nail but years later managed to with another murder. Perhaps a nemesis of sorts. Columbo sounds way too frail in the later shows.

the catch was if he came not once but twice, in the most unexpected time. he was suspecting you.

@@JohnnyZenith I understand what you're saying, but for me it has always been the predictability of the show that I found refreshing. Everyone knew Columbo would win, so we could sit back, relax, and just watch the whole thing unfold.

He does look very thin in this episode.

He became Steinmetz in real life.

you must be talking about Hollywood age scale. For instance, both of my parents at age 75 wouldn't even be able to walk half as fast as he does.

I loved Patrick McGoohan. His daughter was in this episode. he was a family man. Went too soon

@@Gera1713 he was great. Not sure that a men dying in his 80’s is going too soon. A lot of people would love to reach that age.

Hmmm I think Peter Falk fans would disagree. Respectfully disagree that is. So would Robert Culp fans. And Jack Cassidy fans. And Shera Danese fa... whoa, whoa, whoa, that's enough.

You would think the writers would have looked into that

Nah... diamonds were much more resistant back in the days... :-)

@@welchomestudio I saw first hand a diamond engagement ring being raked out a furnace, the diamond had fused and looked like a worm but still attached in the setting. Needless to say, it did not look good on the finger next to the wedding ring.

Yeah, I’ve read a bunch of mystery stories where somebody threw diamonds or emeralds or rubies or sapphires into a furnace and retrieved them from the ashes later. But in fact, most gems will burn or melt or otherwise decompose at temperatures that are attainable in an average furnace.

awww just let me believe!

It goes for such a natural flow of conversation because that's exactly what would happen in real life when someone realises they had forgotten their manners.

Awesome way to spend a Sunday.

me 2 snap

EMINƎM A completely off-topic comment? M. Bison: “Of course!”

Do yourself a favor.. get the boxed set - all seasons + movies. You'll thank yourself!

@@princeharming8963 ooo I treated myself and it was the best investment ever. Also got my granadad it too. My first memory of watching Columbo was with him!! He introduced me to the legend lol.

@@davidcurrie6955 I tell my children that ALL THE TIME.. The majority of the wealthiest people in this world r criminals

Terrific memory

True. Diamonds have one of the lowest burning points of all gemstones. Lower than diamonds are only amber, as far i can tell. The writers should look into this, before they make such a claim.

Columbo the character: smart Writers of Columbo in real life: stupid

Well, aren't you the sharp-eyed one! I'm just the opposite: one of the least observant people in the world. I could never do what Columbo did. Nor even what you did here.

The case of the disappearing wallet. We need a new "Columbo" Who took the wallet?

bee1978 You! My friend, have a keen Colombo eye.

To be fair you could imagine he popped it back in to his pocket, however I guess it was just a bad continuity moment - there are a LOT of them in this series!

Well spotted!

yup - he over-acted on these later Columbos- almost to the point of making a mockery of his own character.

For some reason they never say that pieces of bone need to be crushed after cremation, and that aspect wasn't on Columbo's tour; maybe that's a Hollywood thing? Or American squeamishness? Anyway, maybe he was in such a hurry, he didn't do a good job. Of course the ending isn't on KZfaq, so it took me a while to find the "shrapnel in the ashes" reveal.

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Season 10 is very affordable. I have it and can say it's totally worth the money....

I do have them all on DVDs legally purchased and would love to share it with the whole world but do not know how without getting myself into crime one way or another. Mind you I am a public trust person, ie court sworn translator :) Meaning half a lawyer... and half a suspect LOL

I watch full eps on daily motion. Search a specific episode and just put daily motion at the end.

@@MIck-M I am rather old Master in English from Poland and I do not understand what you say ! LOLDaily motion seems to be the clue though ... :)

@@anyviolet Unfortunately I don't live in a country where official DVD or Blu-ray editions are available... :(

Closed yes but one case the elderly killer had dementia so her friend went to prison for her

Only the ones we see get solved. Maybe if they send him to solve killings of poor people, he's not so good?

In the 70's, Columbo said he only closed about 1/3 of his cases.

What about "Monk?"

Sugar or honey to sweeten, a little milk (a neutral) to cool and dilute the acidity. Try it you'll see ! Doesn't ruin the taste of the tea. And then of course you dunk your McVities biscuits !!!!!!

@@pressureworks For myself, when I drink tea, I have soy milk and sweeteners.

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McGoohan actually directed this episode (he directed several he was in and at least one he was not), though in this one, they often feel like they're having a bit TOO much fun!

Actually it is a 19th century solid silver Victorian tea service. I have seen many of them, the last one I saw was in Windsor Castle, so the production actually got it correct. It looks very similar to a coffee service of the same era.

@@johnking5174 tea service included coffee pot, which is what he is using. Look it up.

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I always thought Cassidy edged out McGoohan. Shatner was the most fun.

Rosie's...never arrested Janet Leigh

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in pure oxygen, but that takes a laboratory. if you do an average fire you need about 3000 F

Perhaps a dog, being smaller, is cremated at lower temperatures ? My dog's ashes contain many bone fragments, especially pieces of spine.

Not with the technology of the Colombo era

Ooo I'd be too scared to use it. 😉😂

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Aired on October 8th 1998, but filmed in the late summer and early Fall of 1997, so it was a year after filming before it finally aired on ABC.

@@johnking5174 ok thank you

@@cheesemeister9610 Back in the ABC era of the show, many of the programs were filmed over a year before they were ever transmitted. Very long gaps, especially when they started to become less and less of them from around 1995 onward. The Billy Connolly episode "Murder With Too Many Notes" was a prime example, aired in March 2001 but was taped back in January 2000, during the rainy season in Los Angeles, which you can see during the scene when Columbo drives Billy's character home, the LA roads were soaked wet after recent winter rain storms in the city.

Not sure, but I think most of the episodes are on the IMDB movie app, if you're still interested.

One of the last, title "Ashes to Ashes", two more were to come later.

Will 20% of oxigen suffice?

@@tiltil9442 I do not know what that means, but i know diamonds can burn. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJanqaeouNTek6s.html

Diamonds can burn. Bad Columbo bad. www.gemsociety.org/article/can-diamonds-burn/

He would not have had, as Columbo would have informed his staff where he was going, and by this point everyone knew Columbo was leading the investigation, and all fingers of suspicion would have gone to him. No, he would not have dared.