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Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.In 1962, that episode became a stage play titled Prescription: Murder, which starred Thomas Mitchell as Columbo, Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead as Roy and Claire Flemming, and Patricia Medina as Flemming's mistress.
Note: In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 16 on its '100 Greatest Episodes of All Time' list. [1] [2] The Mrs. Melville novel that is frequently seen in the episode is named "Prescription: Murder", the same name as Columbo's first pilot episode.
Columbo ( / kəˈlʌmboʊ /) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [ 2][ 3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie.
Columbo first appeared in a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show titled "Enough Rope", wherein he was portrayed by Bert Freed. [3] After this, the character was portrayed almost entirely by Peter Falk, who appeared in the role from 1968 through 2003.
(Season 5, Episode 5). It is also the first episode in which the main crime is committed after Columbo's initial appearance. Gloria, Tony's friend, who believes Tony's wife (Sandra Smith) is the killer and wants to collect a reward, is played by Arlene Martel.
February 6, 1989. ( 1989-02-06) 88 min. Elliott Blake ( Anthony Andrews) is a "psychic" who, with his girlfriend/partner in crime Dr. Paula Hall ( Karen Austin ), is attempting to scam U.S. military intelligence into hiring him to use his ESP abilities against the Soviets. Blake and Hall rig a test with a stock set of Zener cards, but the Army ...
September 14, 1975. ( 1975-09-14) 93 min. When elderly physician Henry Willis ( Sam Jaffe) refuses to finance a return to the spotlight for his wife, aging former movie star Grace Wheeler ( Janet Leigh) kills him in his sleep, passing it off as a suicide. Their elderly butler ( Maurice Evans) believes Grace was in a private screening room the ...
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