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Robert Vaughn's collar crossed several time zones.

Hitler's went down to the nipples

Lol😂😂

Yes , absolutely, almost a law! definitely a rule of thumb!

LMFAO, how every Columbo show ends. Just like Scooby Doo, I would of gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids.

Rip Lucy Saroyan.

They confess and are always calm knowing they'll spend their life in prison.

I like it, it's sort of like one last tiny futile action to go out on his own terms with dignity before he spends the rest of his life behind bars, like he needs people to know he put himself here, and ironically, he's right.

I think, in this case, the Captain of the ship could insist...

He did it to make them think he was stupid and dimwitted. This kept them talking they would often try to help him solve the crime by suggesting alternative solutions to the problems he had in closing the case.

And it was one of the most successful gambits in his acting. It sure made the show interesting!

seems like it would also add an element genuine confusion to the actor who's playing the suspect

Columbo's theme , This old man was unscripted as well. He says in his auto biography that in one scene he is making a call and he is either put on hold or is waiting to be put through and he just started whistling/humming that song and it stuck.

@@nickinurse118 He's talking about the actor, not the character. Pay attention.

The trope name is "Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize" XD

Incidentally, I missed this implication entirely during a recent murder mystery, wherein the murderer was played by one of the Avengers. Helps that I didn't actually recognize him out of costume 😅

@@Arkylie Hey! A fellow TV Tropes fan!

I actually think the reason they only have one big star per episode (besides Falk) was because they had only enough money for one

@@lukacunningham342 Yup, I'm a troper from... lots of years ago. You can find my troper page under the name Kilyle; I started the So You Want To namespace, which seems to have blossomed quite nicely. And my biggest claim to internet "it isn't fame if nobody knows *you* did it" is that I designed the original TV Tropes logo -- that lampshade over the second T is my design, along with the original font chosen. During a thread where we were discussing making a logo, I mocked it up in Paint or something, someone converted it to vector, and the rest is history. (In terms of who all has seen my art, that logo has spread a *bit* further than the runner-up, which is my guest page for the Selkie webcomic one Christmas.)

I personally think that his hounding of suspects with his endless questions and "One more thing" is directly trolling. All by design, of course, to get under the person's skin and cause them to panic and err.

@@gaden002Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.

@@gaden002 Exactly. Columbo pretty much knows early on if not from the beginning. Then he absolutely trolls them day and night with how the cover stories don't quite work.

That's the bit I don't understand. He would have got away with it because he tossed the first pair of surgical gloves overboard. He was so obsessed with framing Harrington for the murder he gave himself away by robbing a second pair, because Columbo him he needed surgical gloves with power burns on them to make a case against Harrington.

Right. He knows that Columbo knows he did it, and his logic and nerves finally failed him: he needs, psychologically, to PROVE his innocence to Columbo.

​@@patrickjohnson5658He was obsessed with framing somebody else because he knew that Columbo knew he did it, so he panicked.

That's Dr. Bombay, that dude didn't want the smoke lol.

I'd LOVE to count how many times the villain wold have got away with it...had they only played it cool.

That's pretty much the default for most of the episodes. I've heard Columbo described as "How gonna catch em" as opposed to "Whodunnit" since the audience always knows who the killer is from the start.

Yep the guy could've either not provided evidence or if he did use gloves either had a different kind underneath or just not used surgical gloves. Oops.

Every. Single. Time.

Should be "Don't Murder Someone" but that's one lesson

@@americankid7782 My parents had already taught me that.

​@@americankid7782innocent people get convicted all the time. Even if you didn't commit a crime, *don't talk to the police*.

Then you’ve learned nothing.

@@akmi1931 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius

They don’t 😂 But 70’s Hollywood (and today’s ftm) think they do.

Possibly a naval or armed services thing?

@@balfnet I am very sorry to have to inform you that indeed we do say this. It's an old fashioned way of speaking but you will still hear it and similar phrases uttered in high-class establishments by workers in the service industry. Think , butler, valet at a country club or a bartender in a gentleman's club, that sort of thing.

@@EarlHare That sounds about right to me too. It's lost currency since Columbo's days and it definitely sounds a bit old-fashioned now, but it's still normal in certain situations.

"Perhaps some cheese on your coffee, sir?" "Well of Course!" "Very Good Sir!"

Whats it called?

IMDB said the ship was the Sun Princess, later the Ocean Dream. Sank off Thailand in 2016, currently being scrapped. It was also the location where they filmed the Love Boat pilot. @@_Meng_Lan

​@@_Meng_LanTroubled Waters

@@_Meng_Lan The ship itself was called the Spirit of London originally and then changed hands a fair few times, had some legal trouble and then capsized and sank in shallow waters very close to Thailand and as of 2019 pretty much all of the ship above the waterline where it rested had been removed and all that's left is what's below the water, getting that salvaged is another matter entirely.

Played by Patrick Macnee, famous for his role as John Steed in "The Avengers". The purser was played by Bernard Fox, who was one of those actors you would see over and over again in various shows (he played "Colonel Rodney Crittendon" in "Hogan's Heroes". Last but not least, Dean Stockwell was in this episode, too.

Fox also played Dr. Bombay in Bewitched. I will never forget about something the happened about a year ago. Someone posted a clip of this episode. I said that John Steed and Dr. Bombay helped Columbo solve the case. A woman claiming to be a doctor from India, blasted me. She called me a racist that thought all doctors in India are called Doctor Bombay. When I proved to her that Bernard Fox played a *CHARACTER* named Doctor Bombay, she never apologized! Hope she sees this!

We'd live forever and a... *BANG*. And we're a subject for Columbo.

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

Oh, a double crossover! Nice!

Triple or quadruple or more crossover, if you count Col Critendon from Hogan’s Heroes or Dr. Bombay from Bewitched or even M*A*S*H!

@@MrBiggles53 In the same episode?!

Or even Quantum Leap

"Man From U.N.C.L.E." was one of my favorite spy shows as a young girl...mostly because of "Ilya Kuryakin," of course! I came to appreciate Robert Vaughn's acting when I reached my 20s and realized he was quite superb.

And nearly always it was "This Old Man."

This raises the troubling possibility that someone gets killed whenever Frank is on vacay? Happened to that Murder she wrote Lady all the time...

it's a fact that many murder shows have homicide rates far in excess of average rates before the detective arrived...

Everyone Johnathan and Jennifer Hart ever knew was murdered!

Absolutely spot on!

There was just as much garbage tv back then as there is now, dozens of shows premiered and failed every year. We just remember the ones that were good.

@@Toastybees Yep. Survivorship bias. At the time of release? The good and the bad run neck in neck - sometimes it might even feel like the garbage drowns out the good stuff. But the good stuff is what people come back to again later, again and again, rather than the garbage which gets tossed out once the initial spectacle is gone. For example - my grandma once had me track down a copy of Quo Vadis (1951) and it was one of the driest, most dull things I ever watched, with only Peter Ustinov going ham as Emperor Nero and one Colosseum scene where a man wrestles an actual live bull offering any point of interest out of a nearly three hour long picture. But back in the day when it was released, it was The Big Deal, because of how Big the production value was. It really just goes to show you that 'time will tell' especially counts for media... though sometimes that's poor comfort for people who needed their work appreciated in its own time, rather than ten, twenty, or thirty years after the fact.

Come on dude, this is a golden age for tv, trouble is there is so much of it, it’s impossible to watch it all.

Wow. Isn’t that something? I didn’t know that.

Welding gloves won't😊

" Typically, gloves that leave no fingerprints are made from materials that do not absorb oil or moisture from the skin. Latex, nitrile, and PVC are commonly used in medical, laboratory, and industrial settings. "

I think you're confusing actual fingerprints and smudges

As a fan Years back, I tested this and found it to be true

I like this. It may be unrealistic but the story doesn't end with a chase and/or a shootout.

Yeah, well, I'm sure you know why that's the case, so I won't bother explaining it.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing while watching The Mentalist the other day. I guess it makes sense by TV logic, you wrap everything up in a nice bow and the hero gets their "gotcha" moment. That's one way Law and Order is different - you get the trial.

@@davidhoward4715 Wrong. All Columbo villians are educated, wealthy people. You can see each of them mentality calculating the odds of being found guilty as Peter Falk goes through his gotcha moment. They're not trailer park trash or ghetto gang members who try to escape in a car and kill themselves in the inevitable helicopter chase / shoot out or by driving into a bridge support at 105MPH.

@@ksjazzguitaryt You have to end the story somewhere. Why not an extra half hour after the guilty verdict on Law and Order to show prison life for the convicted child molester, and his murder in prison, and .....?

It's good, but nothing beats Captain Crunch.

The Man from UNCLE, John Steed, and Dr. Bombay all in one episode. Last time I mentioned Bernard Fox played Dr. Bombay, someone came on and blasted me. She called me a racist for saying doctors in India are called Dr. Bombay!

Making the Man From UNCLE say "Uncle!"...no small feat.

Khan took up bullfighting!

And Napoleon Solo.

@@slake9727 And Al (QL)!

They should have had Uncle Arthur as the band leader.

Columbo finessed him into doing it.

Agreed, it made zero sense logically

He knew he was caught. If he had refused Columbo it would have looked very suspicious. Why would an innocent man refuse to give his fingerprints in a murder investigation? On the high seas the captains word was the law, and he could have simply have commanded Hayden to give a fingerprint sample. The fact a murder had taken place on his ship would would have given the captain the right to demand his fingerprint.

@user-bf3jr7cu7z I am sure the Mexican Police would have checked the Passengers.

@user-bf3jr7cu7z I would have risked bribing a Mexican cop over just giving up. Then again I wouldn't have murdered anyone in the first place.

Robert Vaughn was a fantastic actor...and a very handsome man, which certainly did appeal to us women!

@georgfelis Yep , but my fav is when he plays Col Crittenton on Hogans Heroes . Classic

he was on the titanic. Twice!

That was the whole idea. That was precisely what the producers and writers wanted viewers to feel!

All they needed was Ilya Kuryakin!

The entire premise behind the "Columbo" series was specific, but wasn't revealed all at once. That premise was that Lt. Columbo, who appeared to be a bumbling, clumsy dolt who wore a huge, shabby trenchcoat in most episodes, was actually a seriously brilliant man, a police detective who was far more educated than the average homicide detective, and who had an IQ far, far higher than the average person in general. It was a brilliant bit of strategy on the part of the producers, actually, because it gained a huge, loyal viewership.

Thanks, I couldn't remember where I had seen that actor before.

@@johnklatt3522 Ah! Logic!

It was Bernard Fox, who played the part of the ship's Second Officer...the same man who escorted Robert Vaughn to the lower deck to be taken by the police.

I loved his last scene. He had a big smile on his face because he went out in the line of duty! It's all he wanted.

Bernard Fox played a vast number of character roles across many genres of tv and movies. He was a very versatile actor who typically liked to use his British accent, though I did watch him in just one show once where he spoke without it. It didn't suit him at all! He played his part well, but without the accent, he just wasn't the same.

Columbo.

i meant to say youre ABOUT to get columblowed

cololumbo'd its autocorrect sometimes

what do you mean fortunately?

@wisteria3032 - if the ship didn't see a need to unroll every hose during a drill, they never would have found the gloves.

@@MrYfrank14 no, the guy put it there exactly because he knew how the drill worked. he wanted them to find the gloves. you see him keep an eye on his watch because he was waiting for the drill. They sort of explained it at the end of the scene, when Colombo makes fun of the guy and says "you would have to find a gun, shoot it where no one would hear and hide the gloves in the hose... why would you do that" He did that because he had gotten rid of the gloves but Colombo wouldn't close the case without them. He told the guy he was sure it was the other suspect but that they needed the gloves with the gunpowder on them as a final proof. that's why everyone expected Colombo to look for gunpowder. He practically convinced the killer to falsify the proof they needed to get him since he had successfully done away with the real proof

@@wisteria3032 - I am not aware of anyone, anywhere, that unrolls every firehose during a drill.

@@MrYfrank14 my point wasn't that it made sense, my point was that it wasn't fortunate. If they hadn't behaved that way the killer wouldn't have hidden the gloves there, as he wanted them discovered. Anyway yes, it would have made more sense for it to be an inspection instead of a drill

The jurisdiction is typically under which ever country the ship is flying the flag of. The crew would likely offload the suspect to be held by the local constabulary as the diplomats work out extradition.

Couple of times even.

He needed the gloves to plant evidence and throw Columbo off. At least, that's what he thought.

George Peppard was the "A-Team" leader, though, and was always at his best with that single line at the end of each adventure..."I love it when a plan comes together."

It was the exterior of the gloves...the inside the pencil lead

And then breathing into them to inflate them. Completely worthless as evidence by modern standards.

Steed 😊

@@_Meng_Lan unmistakable. 🤗

Overplanned, really. His attempt to frame her ex utterly backfired, and by overcommitting to the act, he wound up handing Columbo the hard evidence he needed.

And, more famously, Napoleon Solo in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

??? I've seen every Columbo episode and have never seen one where he failed.

The show aired from 1971 to 1978. Things were very different back then, and the gloves surgeons wore weren't made of nitrile or vinyl, and yes, they did hold fingerprints very well. I was studying fingerprint identification when the show was on, and learned that bit. Doesn't work so well on nitrile, though.