Your are correct. However, this episode came first

Don't forget the Johnny Cash episode too!

@@aarongoldstein7614 So?

Blueprint for murder was great 👍

And the man starts to look and then thinks twice to not look so he has deniability if ever asked

Oh, it obviously was a confession of what he had just done without actually saying it, but of course the potato would have been long gone, so nobody could be the wiser.

I don’t remember the rest of the story, but I do remember that potato in the tail pipe part from probably 50 years ago. Brilliant writing!

@@AAAskeet Ray Milland played it brilliantly.

Murder is one thing, careless disregard for safety regulations is quite another

Idiotic comment.

LOL! You're in my mind! I'm thinking the same thing.

Saying nothing of smoking in the workplace...

@@artmallory970 LOL! Never known a mechanic that didn't smoke in the garage.

This episode has quite a few problems. Right at the start, Brimmer shoots a revolver indoors without wearing any ear protection, later Columbo's haircut changes when he enters Kennicutt's house, etc.

diamond???

Contact lens columbo put in the boot of the car anyway even if he succeeded by putting the diamond in the cigarette packet if columbo had suspected him wouldn't he have checked his belongings back at the station and found the diamond?

I guess you can't scratch a "diamond" contact lens))

@@victorsuarez3546 In those days they were glass contact lens, now we have dailys

When Mad magazine spoofed Columbo the murderer was clearly based on him and named Dr Robert Culpable.

Shag is coming back. 😉

I remember rotary phones. Good point about the 8 and 9's. Makes you wonder why the emergency number was 911.

Oh man, good riddance to rotary phones. And you didn’t own them either, Ma Bell did!

Or try to call a radio station to win a contest lol

Rotary phones I never minded, but shag carpets were hell with vacuum cleaners.

I watched every episode at least 10-15 times. Every year the same procedure

Jack Cassidy another great villain. And I agree. My favorite as well. Directed by a young Steven Spielberg.

Just meg. I Guess IT was the second episode I remember😭😭

Dial M For Murder as the bad guy.....OUTSTANDING!

@Jeff Massey Ray Milland made a brief appearance in Where Eagles Dare as the pilot flying the plane extracting the team at the end of the mission

@@iskrajackal9049 I didn't know that. i'll check that out

Don't worry. In Season 2, he plays a murderer.

alas overshadowed by his toupet.

it's my Sunday. I don't go anywhere so I can spend the day with C olumbo

Fun Fact: The music at the end was one of several potential "themes" for Columbo, this one composed by one of Universal's contract composers, Gil Melle (who also did the theme for Kolchak). As it turned out, they never really did settle on a single Columbo theme ... ever. ("This Old Man" doesn't count; it was never used as a theme in any of the shows.)

@@mikedoran9851 With a nick knack paddy whacK Columbo whistles. This old man came rolling home. OMG! Thanks! The nuances of the character Peter Falk created was unparalleled. Murder Inc, Cookie, Princess Bride. Peter was a cherished GIFT + so humble.

I agree.

Needs water chime.

Series

I think he’s just quirky. Naturally. That’s what trios them up. If it was an act, they’d see through it.

@@davsaltego Its both. He is naturally quirky but hes conscious of it and he overplays it and uses it to his advantage.

Made me laugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

the music is always so good, great talent in those who created it

I think it's "yup"

It's my favourite episode too!

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When you know, you know. A nasty petri dish.

A minor detail - in the Columboverse!

Oh there was others. Like Donald Pleasence in 'Any Old Port in a Storm'.

No they wouldn't get off on a technicality. One, we have every faith in the good Lieutenant's scrupulosity and fastidiousness when it comes to the law and its technicalities and loopholes then even as now and two, they basically confess in front of officers and other witnesses despite most likely knowing their rights which pretty much cooks their goose right then & there.

Most of those cases probably result in plea deals for lesser charges/time. Then if they go up on the stand, they need to explain why they lied to the cops. Otherwise the prosecution is going to paint these people are liars with a certain narrative.

The two of you make good points. I can understand you questioning whether the cases would get tossed or not based on what many incompetent or corrupt judges have done. And then there is Columbo. Probably would have his evidence very well organized. A lot of these folks do get caught with witnesses in the midst

Nah, the end of a Columbo episode isn't the end of Columbo building his case, it's only the beginning. Once he has incriminating evidence like this, he can finally get warrants to go through the guy's entire life with a fine-tooth comb, which he couldn't do before. That's almost certain to turn up more evidence. For example now he can get a warrant to go through the guy's business records including his client list. Once he has the client list he can interview former clients and find out how often this guy runs his blackmail scam on them. Bank and phone records will confirm those stories. First will come the trial for the blackmail because they'll have a mountain of evidence for those charges. Once those charges are proven and he's convicted, the murder charge comes. Once you can show a jury that a defendant is definitely a criminal, even on lesser charges, he gets far less benefit of the doubt on graver charges. Once Columbo and the prosecutor walk the jury through the defendant's history of blackmail in all the sordid details, they're ready to hear how he was blackmailing the victim, too. The jury will see the same details of the blackmail process play out, but then get told that this time the blackmail victim ended up dead. Half the battle is making the jury WANT to believe the defendant is guilty, and at this point they will. Then finally the prosecutor will call the coroner who can tell the jury that the marks on the body match the defendant's ring exactly. And then Columbo gets called back to the stand to tell the jury how he lied to the defendant about a contact being missing, and how the defendant was shortly thereafter observed (by MANY reliable police witnesses) sneaking into a garage to search the trunk of his own car, how the same witnesses saw him conclude his search satisfied, how they saw him try to dispose of a contact lens he'd found in that trunk upon being arrested, and how at that point he then spoke (things said in front of police isn't hearsay, which is why lawyers tell you to keep silent as soon as they show up) about how "it was an accident" and not "premeditated". Then the prosecutor sits back and defies the defence attorney to concoct a story that could possibly explain all of that. The only story that fits that evidence is "he's guilty".

It is an extremely odd coincidence. It's still a clever episode, but that bit is very contrived.

@@NiceTryLaoChe What coincidence? Columbo obviously planted it.

@@JBurdoo you are correct Jennifer.

I think the implication is that Columbo planted it there when it was in the garage. He likely didn't want to openly admit it in front of a civilian, but how else would it have got there?

@@tonguelessghostofsin - not admitting it? Ok? That kind of break the 'logic' of the Colombo