Double Exposure (1973) review | The Columbo Episode Guide (S3, E4)

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We say goodbye to Robert Cup in his very finest outing.
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@RegginaldRiglet 2 жыл бұрын

This is like Christmas. Schlock dropping all the Columbo reviews. We’re getting spoiled. I love this episode of Columbo. Robert Culp is always world class

@michelesummers2437 Жыл бұрын

That golf course sequence is sublime.

@Loulovesspeed 4 ай бұрын

@michelesummers2437- Interesting you thought it was sublime. I would bet my home that you are not a regular golfer or you would see the fallacy in your statement. From the story standpoint I might agree. From a reality standpoint it is absolutely ludicrous and absurd! I played golf for over 30 years and I will tell you that NO ONE rides in a golf cart without a bag of clubs, extra tees, balls, towel, etc. The only golf played with one club is miniature golf! They really should have portrayed him as a real golfer, and not some hacker trying to use one club. Looks like his only club is a mid iron and you can't putt with a mid iron. Well, I suppose you could, but you would look more like one of The Three Stooges if you did. Disappointing scene in a great series! A wasted scene for a brilliant actor!

@crappyluxurypdx 2 жыл бұрын

What an absolutely fantastic tribute to Robert Culp and the Columbo series!

@Altar-Ego Жыл бұрын

Brilliant “Smooth Criminal” wrap up! I so enjoy these Columbo reviews!

@WatchitforDays 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Culp is definitely a Smooth Criminal. Awesome review as always!

@kahliatangazi448 Жыл бұрын

Your appreciation of Columbo is so fantastic. My sister and I have always felt like we're the youngest Columbo fans (I'm 29 and she's 24) after our dad got us hooked on it as it was one of his favorite shows. So I hadn't seen this one and when this review came up I stopped and jumped over to Peacock to watch the episode real quick. HOLY SHIT! I also love Robert Culp in Columbo and oh my god he was amazing here! That driving scene was incredible, I was legit mad when Columbo didn't get him. That gotcha as soon as the camera flash when Columbo catches him I said "Yeah! Got that little shit!"

@thenicklas615 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree with you more Robert Culp is brilliant I've been saying this for years to fellow Columbo fans; he's likeable, lethal and a very clever villan.

@CarlB_1962 2 жыл бұрын

Great review and the closing tribute to Culp is f*cking phenomenal!

@merfigNOW 2 жыл бұрын

As always, well done! Culp is on the Mount Rushmore of Columbo suspects! Here he builds to a slow burn, staring the detective down and handing out passive aggressive compliments. This turns to hostility and the "can't win 'em all" line--which is one of the best in the the entire show. Also: the end can be used as a filmmaking lesson. When Kepel asks to see the photo, you could insert any pic and hilarity would ensue! Columbo as mime? Dressed as clown? A Dracula costume? Cut back to Culp losing it. Proof of the power of the cut! Thanks for all of your work and bravo on the end montage. It was uh...killer! ;-)

@stevengalloway8052 5 ай бұрын

🤔 Other than Culp, I can think of two others on that mountain: Jack Cassidy and Patrick McGoohan. Who do you think could be the other one on Rushmore? 😏

@merfigNOW 4 ай бұрын

@galloway8052 I agree with your choices and nominate Nimoy! We know from Spock that he could play intelligent and intense, but he was so arrogant and stylish in the part. And evil. I loved how he got under Columbo's skin and provoked that water pitcher slamming outburst! ;-)

@nicedo33 2 жыл бұрын

I'm loving these videos! Columbo is one of my favorite shows of all time.

@richsmith9063 8 ай бұрын

Excellent review. Robert Culp was a bad ass actor in these (3x) Columbo episodes. Your tribute to Mr. Culp set to the song Smooth Criminal was PHENOMENAL !!!

@asteverino8569 2 жыл бұрын

Robert is so Culpable. 🙄 Great music video at the end.

@diamonddog13 Жыл бұрын

As fun as this episode was, there are so many things that don't ring true. 1. I can't imagine someone like Culp's character would keep the calibration converter in his office and not get rid of it as it's the only possible hard evidence he could have been nailed with. 2. Why wouldn't any of the cops thought of the possibility of a calibration converter? 3. Columbo telling his photographer "I'm not searching, I'm looking" won't help him when the defense presents photos that sure look like he's searching. Plus the fact he used his badge to gain access to the office but with no warrant. 4. But why couldn't he have gotten a warrant based on the circumstantial stuff?

@ravenwilder4099 Жыл бұрын

While laws on this can be varied and complicated, so long as Columbo never claimed to have a warrant, just said "I'm a cop" and asked to go inside, then I don't think there would be a problem. You don't need a warrant if someone voluntarily lets you come inside.

@benreed9348 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this review whilst drinking tea from my Columbo mug. Very satisfying indeed.

@Michael_Wertenberg Жыл бұрын

Great Smooth Criminal montage!, especially the gunshot!

@puryakiani1145 2 жыл бұрын

Bro for the life of me I could never find a good reason why Keppel kept the calibration converter, let alone hid it IN HIS OFFICE. Why didn't he just toss it??

@nicholasschroeder3678 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was his arrogance, or keeping it as a kind of trophy. It's a show.

@davidg-ig8vj 2 жыл бұрын

Damn good point!!!

@rebirthaudio2023 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant review of a brilliant episode

@brucedyvig5971 Жыл бұрын

.. .i think the entire golf course scene is a mini-masterpiece...i have re-watched it dozens of times because it doesn't have a flaw...not an extraneous detail or unenjoyable moment...(your own stated physiological response is quite understandable)...ty

@Loulovesspeed 4 ай бұрын

@brucedyvig5971 - You can't be serious? Culp is a great actor, but the golf scenes were pathetically constructed. So unrealistic it would be like watching him play tennis with a ping pong paddle!

@ELEKTROSKANSEN 2 жыл бұрын

I smiled when I saw Robert "Cup" in the description :) So awesome that someone does videos on Columbo episodes, thanks! PS. What a great montage at the end!

@DeltaStar777 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant review, thanks for this gem!!

@luminousbanjo 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the Smooth Criminal supercut! Could you upload it separately?

@timi_ro 2 жыл бұрын

This episode is full of plot holes, but I love every second of it!

@captaindreadeye6264 2 жыл бұрын

Really?

@timi_ro 2 жыл бұрын

@@captaindreadeye6264 ?!

@captaindreadeye6264 2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember any plot holes...

@timi_ro 2 жыл бұрын

@@captaindreadeye6264 For example it is framed as mister Norris was the only one who served caviar but what if other guests wanted to take some, what would Dr. Bart Keppel could have done to stop them, that's just something that pops in my mind, but I'm sure if a rewatch the episode I can come up with other plot holes!

@cornflakesmitmilch8691 2 жыл бұрын

@@timi_ro true, but i would say this is one of those Standard standard plot holes

@rawn4203 Жыл бұрын

Loved your review and loved this episode. The part at the golf course was great when columbo finally accused him of murder. But as with all columbos, the interaction between him and the murderer is always the best part. Culp was of course super and thats why they had him 3X. He was great as one of the murderers dad in Columbo goes to college. I would have loved to have seen him do maybe at least 1 more as the killer like they did with Patrick Mcgoohan in 1998.

@mlg4035 Жыл бұрын

Great commentary and superb editing!! Very refreshing!

@jerrygleeson4769 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t wait to see your tribute to Jack Cassidy.

@mikewiddowson6778 2 жыл бұрын

Soooo good, keep up the good work 👌

@ravenwilder4099 Жыл бұрын

It takes a special adversary to make Columbo drop the pretense and straight up say "I know it was you". Only other instance of that I can recall is "Stitch in Crime" with Leonard Nimoy.

@neenanorto3399 Жыл бұрын

He’s always either missing breakfast or dinner or lunch😮😮😮

@NassifKazan 2 жыл бұрын

Dude....that tribute with the Alien Ant Farm was EPIC Kudos sir!

@42luke93 Жыл бұрын

Aired in December but you see pumpkins in the store, maybe it was filmed in the fall?

@DeltaStar777 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the calibration converters from the military, we used them way back in the 80s because of budget cuts, ,22 is much cheaper than 7,62 ammo. But of course the whole characteristics is different and the range much lower but we used them anyhow at times to save costs.

@timmi59 5 ай бұрын

Love your enthusiasm and I enjoyed the video. Good work here. Peace

@richardthorne2804 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best reviews I’ve ever seen on a columbo episode. It also happens to be in my Top 5 all-time columbo episodes as well. Hard to beat Robert Culp.

@DeltaStar777 2 жыл бұрын

You should start a way for us to support you. We want more of your great reviews but we also understand how much work it takes to come up with this level of quality

@trygve45 Жыл бұрын

Why didnt he use a muffler when shooting ? The sound could easy be heard in the other room, even when the movie was playing. Still, a good episode.

@raymeedc 7 ай бұрын

The sonic difference between the portable tape recorder and his live voice would have been distinctively obvious.

@marcusjuniusbrutus1859 2 ай бұрын

I believe Columbo references a prior case (the candidate) in the episode filmed in Mexico along side Ricardo Montalban.

@stingray2001 Жыл бұрын

This wasn't the only episode Columbo referenced a previous case. In season 3 episode 5. He references the case from season 3 episode 3 "Candidate for Crime".

@r0bw00d Жыл бұрын

In the real world, it's called a caliber converter, as calibers and calibrations are two different concepts.

@MarioFaker 2 жыл бұрын

I’m surprised calibration converters are even legal…

@timbriggs1305 10 ай бұрын

Splendid.. thanks.

@ilovetitanium4136 Жыл бұрын

It’s Tawnia Baker - the same character to be used in the A-Team years later by the writer Stephen J. Cannell.

@aceyirl 2 жыл бұрын

I love Columbo. great review and thoughts! I do like the back and forth between the two, but one wonders why he didn't hire a lawyer after the first day of intense questioning. I guess just dramatic affect.

@ranjansharma4649 Жыл бұрын

No one hires a lawyer in Columbo while the first thing people would do now is lawyer up.

@RAN480L64 Жыл бұрын

I think it’s good that subliminal cuts were disproven, especially at 24fps, wayyy too noticible, we would be able to pause and see them in the episode! 🤣

@amandajstar 10 ай бұрын

"I want one" -- giggle!

@qualityman1965 Жыл бұрын

Robert Culp, and Jack Cassidy were the best next to Colombo on that show.

@stevengalloway8052 5 ай бұрын

Don't forget Patrick McGoohan... 😏

@kevinb2844 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite scenes from this episode is when Columbo interviews Mrs. Norris. She gives him her whereabouts at the time of the crime and notes that she doesn’t have an “alibi.” Love how Columbo believes her using his wife’s no-head for crime as likely coming up with a better alibi than Mrs. Norris.

@cornflakesmitmilch8691 2 жыл бұрын

if i have a problem with columbo it's probably that the episodes don't feel as round because of columbo's finale gotcha! moment, because it often feels a bit out of context and has nothing to do with the whole building of the murder that we experienced at the beginning of that episode. But with "double exposure" it's different, because the killer is beaten with his own methods and every detail in the film spills over into the next! So one of my absolute favorite episodes.

@RADIUMGLASS Жыл бұрын

10:12 it looks like Uncle David's desk and Gene Stafford's chair.

@davidg-ig8vj 2 жыл бұрын

Love your reviews. What is your accent. It's mild, but detectable. British of some sort. Northern England?

@Toracube 5 ай бұрын

Nobody does frustration as well as Robert Culp lol

@Toracube 5 ай бұрын

Even when he holds it in you get the rage…

@virnamisra1657 2 жыл бұрын

9999999999999 star 🌟 liked immediately & immensely

@Brian-bg2cb Жыл бұрын

I have noticed Robert Culp's plasticity and his deal in his given role. He's the murderer in my favorite episodes. But there is another "blackmailer" who bites the dust, and that is the nurse to Mr. Spock in "A Stitch in Crime" She knew about the dissolving suture... Which, in a roundabout way, lead to her death in the parking garage, due to her potential force of blackmail....Just like you mentioned about Ms. LeSanka. Thanks for your insight about the many lessons to be learned from Lieutenant Columbo.. You are totally right about this shit! Well... Maybe a little gray area, but thanks for keeping "The Leftenant" where he ought to be. ("Dagger of the Mind" another fav)

@NorCal2225 2 жыл бұрын

A bit of useless trivia but Culp wore that green jacket in every episode where he was the murderer.

@fastguned 2 жыл бұрын

Who cares ?? Michael Landon wore the same green jacket for 14 seasons on Bonanza.

@NorCal2225 2 жыл бұрын

@@fastguned Yea, who cares? If you don't care don't bother replying

@fastguned 2 жыл бұрын

@@NorCal2225 Oh Yea ?? I have the right to reply to anything I want to whether I care or not as long as I meet the YT guidelines. So why don't you take a long walk on a very short pier. ??

@NorCal2225 2 жыл бұрын

@@fastguned Tough guy I'm scared. Thanks for the useless and irrelevant Bonanza info that nobody cares about. Get lost troll

@johnfeeley7094 10 ай бұрын

One of my favourite episodes🍔

@louiscario6798 2 жыл бұрын

I think a good lawyer would get the evidence thrown out because if you could tamper with a suspects subconscious that way, where would draw the line? Could the police use hypnosis to get a suspect to reveal where evidence was or even confess? But still, one of the best episodes ever.

@pinball1970 2 жыл бұрын

There would be a few like that, Prescription Murder Columbo fakes the death of suspects patient/lover! Pretty sure that's not cricket! Still great tho. Be interesting to go through each one from a law perspective and see which could be thrown out of court. Next project after this one!

@ChrisJones-ij3xp Жыл бұрын

@@pinball1970 True. The doctor's confession brought out by the faked death in Prescription: Murder by itself would have been weak in the courtroom, which is why his mistress' confession was so important to the case.

@pinball1970 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisJones-ij3xp I don't know criminal law, it was just a thought. Columbo the best ever

@ranjansharma4649 Жыл бұрын

This was 70s & a TV show. Agree, most of them would be thrown out. The fun was in finding out how Columbo would get him/her.

@michaeljames4904 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Culp episodes, heck this is my favourite Columbo episode of all!

@arthurjeremypearson 6 ай бұрын

When I watched columbo, I would be confused about how they would find a killer convict him and then he'd be killing people again in the next episode

@thehorrorist3471 Жыл бұрын

Culp is my favorite Columbo adversary. He is so fucking cool & collected in every situation. Bonus that the victim is a gross cad. Licking his greasy fingers with those purple lips uuughhh

@gregrambo606 Жыл бұрын

I agree. I think it's the best of all the Columbo episodes. Written by Stephen J. Cannell, co-creator of The Rockford Files, creator of Baretta with Robert Blake, The A-Team, etc.

@nevientadross8129 Жыл бұрын

Bart Keple erased the tape by taping over it, the comments from the audience. I just don’t get how the audience didn’t hear the gun shot just outside the auditorium.

@shadowstealer2790 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite TV episodes ever in any genre. Phillip K Dick could have written the treatment for this story, it's in that arena of psychological /technological manipulation with a head-spinning payoff. Not only that it's also got some common themes with The Prisoner,(albeit a lot subtler) and shows us the common dramatic instincts that must have underpinned the Falk/McGoohan friendship. Both of these guys had the ability to place highly original and sometimes (like this episode) even subversive ideas smack in the middle of Primetime TV. There can be no greater praise for any artist in any medium .Thanks for this post!

@kevinobrien9626 Жыл бұрын

Another brush with Columbo and golf. He tees off a beauty in DEATH LENDS AN HAND, then makes a point of reading a golf magazine in EXERCISE IN FATALITY, all the while concealing or obfuscating his obvious interest. I haven't seen this episode in a while - are there any additional hints that Columbo is a natural on the golf course course? Does he have, say, a telltale dexterity with the golf cart?

@master-kq3nw Жыл бұрын

Great episode

@Oppeldeldoc1 2 жыл бұрын

The one bad thing is that the actress Arlene Martel got edited out of it (even though she's in the credits). She's great in anything, including that famous OUTER LIMITS with Robert Culp.

@rawn4203 Жыл бұрын

Does anybody wonder why the peeps in the audience are all seated way in the back when clearly there are tons of seats closer to the screen???

@terrortorn Жыл бұрын

The down spot is that Columbo was hiding in the corner of the room behind a plant with a photographer. I wonder if that scene was heavily edited.

@Halucygeno 5 ай бұрын

As good as this episode is, I just can't appreciate the gotcha. It's beyond contrived that Keppel would keep the caliber converter in his office when he had plenty of opportunities to sneak it out and dispose of it. With how meticulous the murder itself was, it makes no sense for the killer to get complacent when it comes to erasing the last piece of evidence that could tie him to the crime.

@qv2539 Жыл бұрын

What the heck is a "calibration" converter? It's called a caliber converter, or caliber conversion. 🤣

@komandor9584 Жыл бұрын

Why subtittles, even auto-generated are not available?

@HandMadeFilms Жыл бұрын

Love from Kenya

@sadderthanyou7793 Жыл бұрын

A smooth criminal indeed, lmao.

@joeinc1236 2 жыл бұрын

0:01 I swear I say that whenever I see the title of (almost) every pre-90's Columbo

@virnamisra1657 2 жыл бұрын

A L 🔥 I 🔥 V 🔥 E 🔥. James Hadley Chase. Robert Culp

@phillipbrown2318 11 ай бұрын

The Great Stephen j Cannell wrote this Classic.

@samsontesfay1 2 жыл бұрын

excellent work indded, apart from the occasional swearing.

@DouwedeJong Жыл бұрын

What is wrong with that second golf shot?

@jsfbr Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@neenanorto3399 Жыл бұрын

He’s always starving, how about “Iam a glutton “

@TMSAS07 Жыл бұрын

I thought the thumbnail for this video was a parody of a tears for fears music video…

@RaymondPowell-lu5kl 11 ай бұрын

Columbia is the best ditective

@mrtelevision Жыл бұрын

Written by Stephen J. Cannell

@justinfalzon6854 2 жыл бұрын

awesome ending

@ianmangham4570 Жыл бұрын

Boy I'm thirsty

@richsmith9063 8 ай бұрын

Good one !

@batmandestroys1978 Жыл бұрын

This is not Robert Culp final appearance in Columbo. Robert Culp also appeared in the 1990 episode "Columbo Goes to College" as the father of one of two young murderers.

@r0bw00d Жыл бұрын

I see that you didn't listen to the narrator.

@jsfbr Ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@markwarren250 8 ай бұрын

Why did you stop reviewing Columbo? I've enjoyed them.

@jimmikulsky4810 10 ай бұрын

11:08

@scottfairclough9764 Жыл бұрын

I SHOULD HAVE SAID HIS FIRST VICTIM!

@kevinobrien9626 Жыл бұрын

The blackmailing projectionist seems a bit on the slow side. I'd go so far as to say, special.

@NorCal2225 2 жыл бұрын

Your favorite scene! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5p-hNilqMu-cYE.html

@seriously58 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe I am wrong, maybe it was mentioned, but we see Robert Culp actually 4 times in Columbo: As the father of a murderer in 1990s Columbo Goes to College. But yeah, he only is the murderer himself in 3 episodes (EDIT: should have watched to the end not post so soon) :p

@JORDAN-ul9vs 2 жыл бұрын

This episode was almost a masterpiece, but I personally feel that they tried to cram too much into a hour and fifteen minutes. Between the Subliminal Cut, the Calibration Converter, his alibi with the voice over and trying to frame Tanya Baker, and the two rolls of film, it’s almost overwhelming and I don’t feel they had time to explore those things as much as I would have liked. Still, a very good episode.