The First & Last Time Columbo Cracks The Case | Columbo

The First & Last Time Columbo Cracks The Case | Columbo | PD TV

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Columbo (Peter Falk) has cracked a lot of cases in his time so we've put his first & last cases together to see whether the super sleuth's techniques changed throughout the years.
From Columbo Season 1 Episode 1 'Murder By The Book' - Lt. Columbo cannot resist the challenge of a perfect murder, a reliable alibi and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a murderous mystery writer.
From Columbo Season 10 Episode 14 'Columbo Likes The Nightlife' - Crumpled detective Lieutenant Columbo finds himself in the unlikeliest of places - the Los Angeles rave scene - when he investigates the supposed suicide of a tabloid reporter and the disappearance of a notorious mobster's son.
Columbo (1971 - 2003): Lieutenant Columbo, a polite homicide detective, sets out to solve some of the most brutal, cunning and covert murders in Los Angeles.
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@Nine-Signs Жыл бұрын

Real glad someone had the sense to bring the show back for a run all those years later. And real glad they had heart enough not to try to recast Columbo for a modern audience.

@ToreDL87 Жыл бұрын

If they do recast I couldn't care less about who they're trying to please, but I DEMAND fake eye.

@pablohanc 11 ай бұрын

They were considering a remake (rumours were Mark rufallo was 1st choice).

@nickfifteen 11 ай бұрын

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see someone do a new version in the STYLE of Columbo for the 2020s, but make it its own thing. There is only one Columbo.

@yoda5436 11 ай бұрын

@@pablohanceh that's not that bad, i mean looks wise it's pretty close, he may need to pack on a few pounds but they do look similar, but idk if mark ruffalo has that capacity to seem sympathetic, comforting and outwardly intimidating and aggressive at the same time, frankly i don't think i've seen an actor do it the way this one does ever, ig if they really needed to reboot it mark ruffalos not a bad pick

@pablohanc 11 ай бұрын

@@yoda5436 I agree actually, he'd be decent at it......but personally I'd like them to leave this one alone.

@chugg159 Жыл бұрын

The final scene of the final episode really is a masterpiece. Just the whole scene and all of its composition. It's so clever to have the extras constantly moving out of the way of Columbo to hold the continuous shot. Brilliant.

@knowsmebyname Жыл бұрын

Yeah but I liked the killers more than the victim In the last one. The girl was a victim too

@jasonbrown6184 Жыл бұрын

The only thing the extras got a bit wrong is that they start looking pointedly at the fish before Columbo has started talking about them, and they couldn't have known it would be the focus of the investigation ahead of time, even if he did start walking towards them, they're part of the ground.

@grf15 Жыл бұрын

How do you figure this is one shot?

@chugg159 Жыл бұрын

@@grf15 As far as I can tell, the continuity holds through the cuts which leads me to believe it was one continuous shot.

@Eleventhearlofmars Жыл бұрын

@@chugg159bingo, and there you have it.

@kabeuum Жыл бұрын

I love how at the end Columbo just walks away and out, and like the directors wanted for the original Columbo, he is like a myth that appears and disappears.

@samdurham6277 Жыл бұрын

Columbo was really coy asking what the name of the fish were.

@davincent98 11 ай бұрын

He was quite koi

@fixxxer3456 10 ай бұрын

The fact that Columbo lasted until the advent of Windows XP always blows my mind

@wayneyadams Жыл бұрын

At the very end Columbo once again uses the expertise of a relative. I have lost count how many times his wife, brother-in-law, niece, or nephew have helped him solve a case, either directly with information or inadvertently by saying something that sparked an idea that put Columbo on the right track. It is fitting to use it in the final scene of the final show.

@celesasheldon6931 11 ай бұрын

Indeed

@VinceBlack536 8 ай бұрын

I always felt he had no relatives. And if he did they did not held he just said it so he did not look smart or he took the time to research everything

@wayneyadams 8 ай бұрын

@@VinceBlack536 It is interesting that in the one episode where he has a framed picture of his wife on a table, it turns out not to be his wife, so we never saw her in the entire series.

@cathystruska1558 9 ай бұрын

This is my favorite episode. The way Jack Cassidy trys to get away with his crime. I'm glad also that they didn't decide to replace Columbo for today's audience. It's fantastic!

@ejay1118 9 ай бұрын

I think Misa Collins could do it. NOT just because he spent almost 11 years wearing a trench coat.

@grahamwhittle6817 Жыл бұрын

Best TV detective to walk on earth 🌎 you can just watch him over and over the will never be another one off him .

@esthersmith9182 Жыл бұрын

What about Monk? He was good too.

@a.r.gentum6517 11 ай бұрын

Oh, oh , just one more thing. I grew up on Tuesday Mystery Movies on... none other than NBC. Now, TV totally sucks. What's a TV? LOL

@Makeyourselfbig 9 ай бұрын

Well it certainly helps when you can just walk in the room and immediately spot the killer. Then just haunt them wherever they go until that one piece of crucial evidence turns up without them at least consulting a lawyer.

@randallrona9618 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Columbo has lasted 10 seasons and still regarded as one of the best Crime & Detective shows of all time. Also, Columbo's last case in the last episode was not his last as there was a planned 40th Anniversary special episode of Columbo but due of TV scheduling conflicts as well as Columbo's actor Peter Falk is already diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease that he is no longer recognized the character he played, it sadly never happened until he passed away in 2011. R.I.P. to Peter Falk. ♥️

@novawolf_gaming Жыл бұрын

Also technically his first in the video wasn't his first, the pilot was, of course that isn't the Columbo we know

@johnb4905 10 ай бұрын

@@novawolf_gaming Nothing technical about it and they weren't pilots but TV made movies just like all the later Columbo shows. The Columbo character IS the Columbo we know with all his familiar trademarks and arguably the first Columbo is the best one ever.

@novawolf_gaming 10 ай бұрын

@@johnb4905 Its referred to as the Pilot Online, I'm talking about the one from 1968, if you watch it, its not the same Columbo, he acts more like a professional detective rather than... well Columbo

@annette2326 8 ай бұрын

17 seasons of Columbo, right?

@stevengalloway8052 5 ай бұрын

Disagree. It was THE best detective show of all time... 😏

@ciobalina7445 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved this show. I was so sad it ended.

@sha11235 7 ай бұрын

Well, it had to end eventually.

@ciobalina7445 7 ай бұрын

@@sha11235 Yes, that's true.

@retroelectrical Жыл бұрын

What's interesting is the Columbo goes out on top using literally state of the art tech to catch the killer. However, the technology was only useful because he had figured out where the body was buried.

@billcame6991 11 ай бұрын

The first case cracked was not with Jack Cassidy but with Gene Barry.

@quirkyqwerty2840 Жыл бұрын

You can really see the evolution in television between these two scenes. More camera movements, variations in loudness and consistency, and the writing (though I'm not sure that really counts, it *has* been 10 seasons and near 30 years.)

@mrdider1 Жыл бұрын

How good that I have full collection of Columbo movies, and can watching this all from first to last. And its not boring at all.

@Uajd-hb1qs Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the final episode and instantly recognised how modern it was compared to the 70s and 80s episodes. The most striking thing is the murders in the older episodes have that 70s quality of actors mildly exaggerating the deaths, very quick and absolutely no sign of injury or blood. Very much censored you could call it. The last episode on the contrary was incredibly violent in comparison, even taking multiple attempts to kill the victim.

@garfieldsmith332 Жыл бұрын

Actually this was Columbo's 3rd case. He had 2 prior cases in 2 TV pilot movies before the series started. This does not take into account any other cases Columbo was involved with befpre he was played by Peter Falk.

@williampetersen9915 11 ай бұрын

True, but it technically was the 1st episode after Columbo went to series. The 1st two were actually 2 separate pilots.

@PRHILL9696 10 ай бұрын

that is what I thought

@walterevans2118 10 ай бұрын

One of them was Ransom For a Dead Man with Lee Grant.@@williampetersen9915

@Sheerkat7 Жыл бұрын

Saw the first one, but never saw the last Columbo. Thanks. It was a great show. The first one to show you the crime at the beginning, so you could watch him stalk the perpetrator and pounce on him at the end.

@michaelmckinley5708 Жыл бұрын

Ending scene of the final episode indicates no one was just going through the motions to justify being on the clock.

@SpottedSharks Жыл бұрын

The last episode was as good as any of the classic ones.

@mark.8949 11 ай бұрын

I thought the last Columbo episode was really well made. I thought it was one of his better case solves.

@karlkarlos3545 Жыл бұрын

Funny, how nobody mentioned that the first one was directed by Steven Spielberg,

@yogsenforfoth5948 11 ай бұрын

Peter Falk was an acting LEGEND. I still consider him to be the best TV cop of all time.

@danhuttinger5040 11 ай бұрын

I still watch Columbo every week I never get tired of the program it is on Cozi tv on Saturday morning and Saturday night.

@ryanbarker5217 11 ай бұрын

first columbo appearance was in 1960, but by a different actor. then there was a two hour pilot in 1968 with falk. the pilot pops up now and then. it's weird, lol.

@rr7firefly 10 ай бұрын

Ten seasons, 69 episodes. From 1968 (two TV pilots), then a regular season in 1971. Last season in 1990. Peter Falk, beloved actor, won five Primetime Emmys.

@sha11235 7 ай бұрын

He actually did specials with Columbo up to 2003.

@frankieclayton9303 11 ай бұрын

I love watching Columbo at work what a Masterpiece

@tjguzik Жыл бұрын

the scenario is brilliant, always with an idea, always at the endno violence.... and the acting of Peter Falk.... very good actor in just role suitted for him :)

@rachelgarber1423 Жыл бұрын

Wow, ten cents for a phone call, that goes way back

@kevinslaney486 10 ай бұрын

This isn't the first case he cracked. That is the first pilot where he tricks the Doctor into thinking his girlfriend has drowned herself. There is also a second pilot, my very favourite. The greatest Columbo set up ever.

@amandacurry5210 10 ай бұрын

“Your always in the neighborhood” LOL

@bikiniluvnguy1 Жыл бұрын

technology certainly evolved between the first and last episodes. I never watched any of this, but was aware of him. How many years did his adventures span? watching all of these is another of my things on the to do list when I retire.

@novawolf_gaming Жыл бұрын

10 seasons spanning from 1971 - 1978 and 1989 - 2003 There was also a Pilot in 1969 but it's no where near as good as the series

@WillCWilson 11 ай бұрын

@@novawolf_gaming You're a year off on the pilot; it was actually 1968 that one came out

@markhugo8270 Жыл бұрын

"Yeah, he swims with de fishes now..." Love it!

@JamesCAsphalt8 Жыл бұрын

That was an AWESOME idea. "First and last." My hat is off to you! Amazing video.

@koreainsincere 11 ай бұрын

What is it about this damn show? I have seen every episode hundreds of times and yet every time it comes on TV my world has to stop and I have to watch. Maybe it's the peerless writing, maybe it's the "howcatchem" twist, maybe it's just the magnificent Peter Falk. Whatever it is, it will never be bettered.

@hamidmbaga8723 Жыл бұрын

You are always in the neighbourhood 😂

@BornotB-xi6kg 9 ай бұрын

I keep coming back to this video for the sole reason of the music once the murderer is caught in the first episode, just... deliciously eerie.

@aaroncoffman88 11 ай бұрын

My Dad's favorite detective. Mine too. So cool to see this

@cristinabumbac151 10 ай бұрын

I'd like to watch again this series! Too bad it is not rerun...Netflix could maybe make us a gift, it would certainly be very well appreciated!

@randallrona9618 10 ай бұрын

It's funny that Matthew Rhys who played the bar owner/perpetrator of Columbo's last episode, would go on to play a detective/lawyer, Perry Mason in the titular HBO series based of Erle Stanley Gardner novels of the same name.

@michaellazzeri2069 10 ай бұрын

With his grey hair, Peter Falk & my Dad, looked so much alike, it was uncanny . He is NYC Russian Jewish , & my Dad was born in Syracuse Sicily, & came here at 5 y/o, 1918. But at certain times, at certain angles, he & my Dad, looked uncannily alike, especially the hair. RIP, Peter Falk. And Dad, I miss you, every day. ------------MJL, 76 y/o

@gemster18 9 ай бұрын

Without a doubt the greatest detective show ever! Columbo was the best God rest your soul Peter. ❤

@SADCOCK1970 11 ай бұрын

I thought the first episode was the Steven Spielberg one with Patrick Magoohan?

@amandaljefferson5175 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@robert48719 9 ай бұрын

And less than 6 years later he wouldn't even know that he had ever been Columbo

@georgesturdy7040 Жыл бұрын

Peter falk and Jack cassidy two great actors from the bronx new york

@user-ec9ut2qr2s 10 ай бұрын

“Brilliant, Sherlock.” “Elementary, Doctor Watson.”

@1mattwilson83 Жыл бұрын

not going with his first appearance as columbo first case, but the first case of the first series?

@Tarek_ElMaddah 8 ай бұрын

You see the difference between people back then and people now. The class!

@walterevans2118 10 ай бұрын

I always thought 'Ransom For a Dead Man' with Lee Grant was the pilot for the TV series.

@martinmiller2000 Жыл бұрын

He was old but sharp as a tack.

@MarcG7424 Жыл бұрын

I looked forward to the NBC Mystery Movies as a kid the original 3 Columbo McMillan & Wife & McCloud everyone in the house had their favorite

@phooboy1 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, that shrill and eery opener theme music, and what looked like a dude waving around a flashlight.

@niksarass 11 ай бұрын

Not first episode

@ds7900 9 ай бұрын

Columbo was the disheveled antithesis of the keystone cop.

@prancer4743 Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@stevieboy2938 10 ай бұрын

just one more thing good night rest in rip mr falk loved all your shows

@frankieclayton9303 11 ай бұрын

No one can work it like him

@knitterscheidt Жыл бұрын

with the fishes as they say...brilliant...or do you have to be from Brooklyn to get that joke?

@sha11235 7 ай бұрын

I think you just have to be familiar with The Godfather.

@anthonysteel3232 Жыл бұрын

Colombo is the best

@Zak6959 Жыл бұрын

And no more questions.

@stuartjohnson5686 Жыл бұрын

I remember the first episode, the victim played one of the cops in Adam-12. Don't think I ever saw the last one.

@katheymoore3348 Жыл бұрын

Good episode. Like there’s any other kind. ❤

@Renegadegamer2001 Жыл бұрын

Pete Malloy. That's the cops name.

@brandtbecker1810 Жыл бұрын

@@Renegadegamer2001 And he was played by actor Martin Milner who also starred in Route 66 a decade earlier.

@Eleventhearlofmars Жыл бұрын

The first columbo was in 1969 wasn’t it with Gene Barry playing the murderer?

@Marky11694 Жыл бұрын

@@Eleventhearlofmars1968

@kradanbandicootovich6444 11 ай бұрын

Well, technically

@BreakTime10101 Жыл бұрын

That’s Jack Cassidy, David and Shaun’s dad.

@brandtbecker1810 Жыл бұрын

It was a real tragedy when actress Barbara Colby (Mrs. LaSanka) and a friend were killed by a drive-by shooter while leaving an acting class; the perp was never caught. One wonders if God takes coffee breaks when things like that happen.

@missladyanonymity Жыл бұрын

I think her friend put a hit out on her. Ijs.

@brandtbecker1810 Жыл бұрын

@@missladyanonymity Hmmm - something to think about. If it was the same friend, it didn't do him/her much good in the end, did it??? Sad that the killer of Bob Crane (of Hogan's Heroes fame) was never caught either.

@solarprophet5439 10 ай бұрын

I wonder too, sometimes. I think the most difficult part about believing in any deity is accepting the idea that He sees the whole picture, and even the most horrible and tragic events have reasons for occurring, even if we can't understand them. Sometimes a lesser evil must be suffered in order to achieve a greater good. Suffering and conflict is what makes us grow, both as individuals, and as a species. Without difficulties to overcome, we'd stagnate. But that's a very bitter truth to accept.

@celesasheldon6931 11 ай бұрын

Well look at that 😮

@upthebracket26 9 ай бұрын

one more thing...there's more than nine fish in that last tank.

@johnkiprov7210 4 ай бұрын

The women in the nightclub finally knew they were in the presence of greatness.

@calvinjackson8110 Жыл бұрын

Peter Falk was in one of these original pictures, I do not know which one: Pennies From Heaven or Pocketful of Miracles.

@kathypiazza7228 9 ай бұрын

Pocket full of miracles. A personal favourite.

@robert48719 9 ай бұрын

To be honest, in the first episode when he killed the witness it was kind of a relief to me. I mean she was really annoying , and she definetely would have gone on blackmailing him

@frankieclayton9303 11 ай бұрын

He is always 60 two 90 steps ahead of you

@edwinmalachy 9 ай бұрын

THe first picture was a Steven Spielberg assignment

@carmelopappalardo8477 Жыл бұрын

The first columbo episode was the pilot and actually it had to do with a food critic killing a chef. And outstanding episode but very low key and actually probably my favorite.

@paulfrombrooklyn5409 Жыл бұрын

Nope

@evoman1776 11 ай бұрын

Not even close. That episode was in the 7th season - the last season of the originals.

@The_Mighty_Fiction 11 ай бұрын

The first pilot was a psychiatrist killing his wife. Then there was a second pilot three years later about a female attorney murdering her husband and faking his kidnapping to get her hands on the ransom money. The first official episode was this one here.

@michaelwaldmeier1601 10 ай бұрын

In that episode with the food critic, I particularly enjoyed person who was learning the business. He spoke & acted just as the Italian restaurant owners & waiters do here.

@GregMoress Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but there's no way a dude could rip up an in-ground fish-tank, bury a body, replace the tank with a smaller one, then re-stock it with the number of fish that meets some law a club owner would have no way of knowing about. And then a detective just randomly counting fish in tanks. Just one more thing... The dude could have just dug the pit deeper and used the same tank and same number of fish and it would be way less bother.

@sha11235 7 ай бұрын

Caught his eye, his only eye.

@GS-zc4sk 11 ай бұрын

Is that Joey Fatone under the fish tank?

@boblordylordyhowie 9 ай бұрын

Columbo was at a time before the violence and shootouts took hold and diminished the entertainment, it was more, British.

@peggypeeler4449 Жыл бұрын

What time Sunday evening

@urszulajaskierska3111 9 ай бұрын

Seriale ekstra,sam główny bohater zajebisty,gra aktorska nie ma sobie równych oglądam na podwórkach,bo w latach siedemdziesiątych dwudziestego wieku nie było takiej możliwości,mam teraz przynajmniej dobrą rozrywkę,w trzeciej mlodosci😂

@julianp2868 10 ай бұрын

I have never seen that last one?

@sha11235 7 ай бұрын

Boy, did Columbo look older near the end. But that makes sense, since he was older. I'm just used to his hair being dark.

@ejay1118 9 ай бұрын

Bad guy should have put 9 fish in the deep tank, Colombo would have had nothing to notice.

@BoyKagome 3 ай бұрын

His first case was one of his hardest, his last case was one of the easiest.

@gavinreid8937 Жыл бұрын

I dont watch the latter grey haired Columbos, he looks too knowing like he,s read the last page of the script & knows it was the special guest star instead of working it out eventually.

@lewisner 11 ай бұрын

Yes by the 1990s he was in love with his own character. The 70s Columbos were classic TV though.

@a.r.gentum6517 11 ай бұрын

NO WIRE HANGERS!

@johnswan9123 11 ай бұрын

Only one Columbo.

@normanfinkelstein78 Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@gordgasperski1514 9 ай бұрын

I remember when Columbo didn't need silly music during their climactic scenes.

@jonnyrubberman 9 ай бұрын

That's not the first episode what about the pilot fine it never gets added to a series list but it's still the very first episode

@edwinmalachy 10 ай бұрын

First episode by Steven Spielberg

@chrisparky 2 ай бұрын

A baby Matthew Rhys in full Welsh brogue.

@filmnobelpreis 6 ай бұрын

There have been 2 episodes before this

@OneMoreJames Жыл бұрын

Not his first case, but...

@user-vc9np4kp9d 11 ай бұрын

피터 포크는 타고난 천재 였다. 저많은 대사를 자연스럽게 영상으로 옮길수 있다는 것이 그걸 말해준다. 시상식 멘트나 버라이어티 쇼 영상에서도 그의 천재적 순발 력을 알아볼수 있다.

@spectrum7virkeytroni Ай бұрын

The third time...but who's counting.

@marianmurphy4625 11 ай бұрын

When did he pass RIP?

@kevinfalconer177 Жыл бұрын

That was not the first episode. First episode was about a shrink that killed his mistress

@paulfrombrooklyn5409 Жыл бұрын

His wife, not his mistress.

@neildelaney5199 Жыл бұрын

Very true ,played by Gene Barry

@marianmurphy4625 11 ай бұрын

Full episodes are much better

@jesusperezlunaperezluna9559 Жыл бұрын

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@mammamia9472 Жыл бұрын

Mistrz

@fab92n15 Жыл бұрын

First episode pilote 1968 was better than this one...