I never get tired of how Columbo could wrap the culprit up into such a neat bow. They always think they're being so clever, outsmarting the bumbling detective, when they really just putting the final nail in their coffin.
"The perfect murder sir. Oh, I'm sorry there is no such thing as a perfect murder. That's just an illusion." Perfectly written and delivered line to end the episode.
@@zer0h0urs000 usually its because the killer doesn't know everything, there is always a loose end, like in this case the typewriter ribbon, even if he knew, swapping it out would be a dead giveaway since it was a fresh ribbon.
The pure malevolence that almost leaps from Jack Cassidy's face as he stares at Columbo when he says 'On no, that's just an illusion" Cassidy was always at his best as a villain!
I like how at 3:10 Wilson pretends to act surprised. That shows complete dedication to the ruse in order to give the murderer a false sense of security and confidence. (It also helps to throw off the audience)
I love his bit at 3:43 too. He really plays up the "We already have means, motive, and opportunity, so thank you for demonstrating mens rea" attitude and enjoying being part of Columbo's trick on the overconfident criminal. And wow is Cassidy good at that roll.
Love it when Columbo pulls another letter and says, "You can burn that one too..." Then Wilson's smile, when he whips his copy of the letter from his suit jacket - the whole scene is priceless 😄
I love the look or arrogance Jack shows the police officer when arrested. You see him revert back to being a nazi . That look he gave was the look of someone disgusted with someone beneath him daring to touch him .
I like the attitude of the Officer - the time he approached to arrest the magician! He was very polite and cautious to enforce him and he came close to him like a gentleman - strict but at the same time providing a degree of kindness and dignity. I hope every Law abiding and serving Officers treat people with that kind of manner. 😊
I really adore this sequence of scenes! Notably also this scenario also includes one of the few small appearances of the, imo; fascinating actor: Robert Loggia in the "Columbo" series! In my opinion, he would've made a superb "Columbo" villain!! P.S.: I love all of the music scores used in these sequences; in this ep; too!
Not as easy as the surgeon who used the dissolving stitches instead of permanent ones, or the TV detective who killed the woman who created his character. They would just beam out of their prison cells and back to the future..
@@patrickjohnson5658 Indeed, those particular villains have a sophistocated, futuristic technology at their disposal that enables them to quickly and easily navigate around the universe. The ability to take a journey -- a trek, if you will -- amongst the stars.
Will always love Columbo. Plot holes to drive a truck through. Special guest murders who ridiculously draw attention to themselves. Columbo accidentally noticing random bits of otherwise irrelevant details... All time favorite show...
There have been some pretty close perfect murders though such as the victim who was clubbed to death with a frozen joint of meat which was subsequently served up and eaten by the investigating a Police Officers. I believe this was the theme in the Fried Green Tomatoes film and Hitchcock’s Lamb to the Slaughter. Both worth watching!
9bviously from an old (1950s) short story by Roald Dahl. I read it in the 70s when I was in high school. Actually, I read probably all of Dahl's short stories.
This should have been the final episode of the 70's Colombo. You have Cassidy, excellent writing, and even Wilson gags. Not saying all the other episodes were bad after this, they were equally excellent. The final episode of 'Far and Farther' didn't feel like an epic conclusion to the series. You start with Cassidy and finish off with Cassidy. I know Cassidy had already passed away by 1977 when the series was still running, just a fantasy wishing.
I have noticed that the murderer never runs off after the murder e.g. the murderer never does the murder then flies off on holiday somewhere instead they still remain within the area!
It only adds to Columbo's suspicions when his main suspects have too good an alibi for the time of the murder. Like the old woman who locked her nephew in her safe and left him to die there, or the wine connoisseur who left his stepbrother to die in his wine vault, while they both jetted off to New York.
I would love to see what happens when Columbo gets transferred to the Urban Crime division's Gang prevention Unit. Where he investigates the murder of Lil-Bit, and Sha-nene at the hands of Junebug. I'm thinking he follows Junebug around cause he's fascinated by Whips with expensive rims. Not that they would look right on his classic Peugeot you understand, no they don’t make em like that anymore. That's just one of the ways he could disarm Junebug by making him think it’s about the cars, and not about the fact that cell phone towers picked up Junebug's cellphone location between the hrs. of 11:45 midnight and 2:00am at the corner of Central and 5th on the night of Sept 2nd. Where its further alleged the treads from his Air Jordans match the imprint found on the victim’s lower mandible (prior to being shot 14 times) where unknown to Junebug a gold tooth from Lil-Bit oral cavity had surreptitiously lodged itself into the sole of the murderer's Jordans, conveniently donated to the Goodwill the morning after the killing. Or how, now get this: strands from Sha-nene's very rare make of Indian weave could be matched up to the manufacturer by lot number (where Columbo visits of course), found clinging to his baseball cap & tangled with his gold chains (which he later pawned) subsequent to a heated physical altercation ensuing over her messing up his Chipotle order. A mistake which cost Sha-nene her life.
Serial COLUMBO, ekstra,aktorstwo GŁÓWNEGO bohatera wyśmienite,mogę oglądać POWTÓRKI na okrągło,skąd oni go wytrzasnęli do tej pory nie wiem,a żyję już na tym świecie hooooooooo a może i dłużej😂😂👆👍
In many episodes, Columbo uses the murderer's area of expertise to catch them in the end. Whether its subliminal cuts, photography, or magic in this episode; Columbo gets his suspect.
Has anyone wondered what prison sentences that all the people Columbo caught got? Would any have been the death penalty? I would have thought double murders would have been?
You jackballs posted the same exact end scene several months ago. So I'll just say it again: "A perfect murder sir? Oh I'm sorry there is NO such thing as a perfect murder, that's just an illusion..." Cue the Charade theme with Cassidy's reaction take, and imo we have perhaps the sweetest and most satisfying ending of the series.
Colombo doesn’t always get his perp prosecuted, many return to a life of crime after changing their names. Colombo has awful memory of his suspects from previous arrests.
Great villain and episode , however when Columbo and his partner start pulling out all the copies of the letter with that overly-dramatic flair, you can't help but cringe .
One thing we all have to admit, that during those kind of circumstances, every each of us become murderers for self protection. Jesse Jerome suppose to ask his money back in a much clever way, instead of blackmailing him to avoid any further action of revenge from his adversery - magician, but come and see that he failed to do so by ending his own life.
For the letter to have burned that fast, it must be one of those waxed paper that is infused with very flammable material. Not a typical paper you type on. Why would Columbo give him the letter typed on this paper? Detective shows by their detailed nature, should be the exception to the typical free license to have plotholes.
The shows went for 60 minutes but they had to condense them to under 10 minutes by taking out unnecessary and repetitive content because the old TVs couldn’t hold anything over 10 minutes. The mondo Columbus shows are very short always less than 10 minutes because of the primitive mondo TVs they had back then. The old old old TVs could not hold more than 10 minutes of show even without nipnagel or shnibuts rhetoric as they used CRT Catholic Ray Tubs technology Motorola involvement and non Dylan Mulvaney CLT or Claw Technology. No harm no fowl. Crackhead Barney oversees the southerly wing of the flies we fight as fly fighters. Caitin Clark scores best against them. The fly fighters tried Dylan Mulvaney to shorten the shows advertising and tried to produce a non racist TV set with Motorola involvement with flypaper control and Dylan Mulvaney CEO. The historically correct Crackhead Barney and a prominent associate of Dylan Mulvaney declined comment at that time but was very involved. So was Cat Clark on our side. Transgander influencer Dylan Mulvaney abandoned by Bud Lights and faced too much bullying and transphobia. Crackhead Barney is her team member in Chicago. The proof is in the pudding. It’s all part of the non racist Al Qawama discovering process
I never get tired of how Columbo could wrap the culprit up into such a neat bow. They always think they're being so clever, outsmarting the bumbling detective, when they really just putting the final nail in their coffin.
To think that all some of them had to do was lawyer up 🤣
"The perfect murder sir. Oh, I'm sorry there is no such thing as a perfect murder. That's just an illusion." Perfectly written and delivered line to end the episode.
@@zer0h0urs000 usually its because the killer doesn't know everything, there is always a loose end, like in this case the typewriter ribbon, even if he knew, swapping it out would be a dead giveaway since it was a fresh ribbon.
"Now you see him" was such a lovely episode! With the amazing jack Cassidy and this beautiful ending scene!
“Now You See Him” - great episode.
The pure malevolence that almost leaps from Jack Cassidy's face as he stares at Columbo when he says 'On no, that's just an illusion" Cassidy was always at his best as a villain!
Yeah but they kept releasing him. Just like Robert Culp and Patrick McGoohan.
I like how at 3:10 Wilson pretends to act surprised. That shows complete dedication to the ruse in order to give the murderer a false sense of security and confidence. (It also helps to throw off the audience)
I love his bit at 3:43 too. He really plays up the "We already have means, motive, and opportunity, so thank you for demonstrating mens rea" attitude and enjoying being part of Columbo's trick on the overconfident criminal. And wow is Cassidy good at that roll.
Love it when Columbo pulls another letter and says, "You can burn that one too..." Then Wilson's smile, when he whips his copy of the letter from his suit jacket - the whole scene is priceless 😄
The best of the three endings with Jack Cassidy
Easily one of my top 5 favorites. Jack Cassidy played arrogance to perfection. I loved every Columbo he did.
This is one of my favorite episodes. Jack Cassidy was a great villain.
Great episode!!! Jack Cassidy was such a good villain, he just wasn't as smart as the Lieutenant!!! 👍👍🙂
Most of them "almost" were, that's pretty much the plot of all of them
Cassidy died less than a year later at 49. He played a villian in 3 different Columbo episodes and everytime tripped up by a typewriter.
Loved the character Wilson. Wish he were in more episodes.
Much better than the other Illusionist based episode with the guillotine rubbish.
I know the bar is low but I always felt that episode was one of the better 90s efforts
Was that the late 1980s episodes, I wish they could have got in real good writers for those episodes, I guess DNA made Colombo obsolete
Oh! At 5:42, the background music is "Charade" by Henry Mancini. How appropos!
Yup. Noticed that.
Best crime show ever!
Great episode - one of the best
Thank you for keeping the memory of Columbo alive. I enjoy every second on your channel.
Please. Continue.
I love the look or arrogance Jack shows the police officer when arrested. You see him revert back to being a nazi . That look he gave was the look of someone disgusted with someone beneath him daring to touch him .
You sound like a holocaust survivor by proxy 😂
I like Wilson's shoes - they fit his personality, for sure!
I like the attitude of the Officer - the time he approached to arrest the magician! He was very polite and cautious to enforce him and he came close to him like a gentleman - strict but at the same time providing a degree of kindness and dignity. I hope every Law abiding and serving Officers treat people with that kind of manner. 😊
my brother in christ he was arresting a nazi
He didn't deserve that kindness
I really adore this sequence of scenes!
Notably also this scenario also includes one of the few small appearances of the, imo; fascinating actor: Robert Loggia in the "Columbo" series!
In my opinion, he would've made a superb "Columbo" villain!!
P.S.: I love all of the music scores used in these sequences; in this ep; too!
Number 1 episode? If not it’s really up there. I never get tired of it. Jack Cassidy was the best bad guy.
I can see him escaping from prison pretty easily.
Heck, I can even envisage him giving those two beat officers the slip with no problem.
Satan:
"I think I can safely say there is one prison where he will not be able to perform his own disappearing act."
@@rbrucerye Yes, out of the frying pan easily enough, but into the fire regardless.
Not as easy as the surgeon who used the dissolving stitches instead of permanent ones, or the TV detective who killed the woman who created his character. They would just beam out of their prison cells and back to the future..
@@patrickjohnson5658 Indeed, those particular villains have a sophistocated, futuristic technology at their disposal that enables them to quickly and easily navigate around the universe. The ability to take a journey -- a trek, if you will -- amongst the stars.
The 'That's just an illusion' line was delivered perfectly
Will always love Columbo. Plot holes to drive a truck through. Special guest murders who ridiculously draw attention to themselves. Columbo accidentally noticing random bits of otherwise irrelevant details...
All time favorite show...
Cassidy and Falk were such a great combo. I watch these old Columbo episodes any time I catch one on cable.
This is the best.
In my opinion this is his best episode..I can watch it over and over.❤❤❤
"Now You See Him" (1976) sadly Jack Cassidy would pass away later in December 1976
In his Columbo roles, Jack Cassidy, as an actor, was Da Man! Lol.
Great episode, i have them all.
There have been some pretty close perfect murders though such as the victim who was clubbed to death with a frozen joint of meat which was subsequently served up and eaten by the investigating a Police Officers. I believe this was the theme in the Fried Green Tomatoes film and Hitchcock’s Lamb to the Slaughter. Both worth watching!
9bviously from an old (1950s) short story by Roald Dahl. I read it in the 70s when I was in high school. Actually, I read probably all of Dahl's short stories.
I love how Columbo pulled the extra paper out like a ref pulling a yellow/red card in soccer. lol
This should have been the final episode of the 70's Colombo.
You have Cassidy, excellent writing, and even Wilson gags.
Not saying all the other episodes were bad after this, they were equally excellent.
The final episode of 'Far and Farther' didn't feel like an epic conclusion to the series.
You start with Cassidy and finish off with Cassidy.
I know Cassidy had already passed away by 1977 when the series was still running, just a fantasy wishing.
I have noticed that the murderer never runs off after the murder e.g. the murderer never does the murder then flies off on holiday somewhere instead they still remain within the area!
then you haven't watched enough episodes. there's a few but the one i can think of specifically off the top of my head is the one with Johnny Cash.
'Any old port in a storm'
Donald pleasance flees to NY for a week as is alibi (among others)
It only adds to Columbo's suspicions when his main suspects have too good an alibi for the time of the murder. Like the old woman who locked her nephew in her safe and left him to die there, or the wine connoisseur who left his stepbrother to die in his wine vault, while they both jetted off to New York.
Harry should have said: You want me to believe Omar was a stoolie because Sosa said so? You bought that line?
I would love to see what happens when Columbo gets transferred to the Urban Crime division's Gang prevention Unit. Where he investigates the murder of Lil-Bit, and Sha-nene at the hands of Junebug. I'm thinking he follows Junebug around cause he's fascinated by Whips with expensive rims. Not that they would look right on his classic Peugeot you understand, no they don’t make em like that anymore. That's just one of the ways he could disarm Junebug by making him think it’s about the cars, and not about the fact that cell phone towers picked up Junebug's cellphone location between the hrs. of 11:45 midnight and 2:00am at the corner of Central and 5th on the night of Sept 2nd. Where its further alleged the treads from his Air Jordans match the imprint found on the victim’s lower mandible (prior to being shot 14 times) where unknown to Junebug a gold tooth from Lil-Bit oral cavity had surreptitiously lodged itself into the sole of the murderer's Jordans, conveniently donated to the Goodwill the morning after the killing. Or how, now get this: strands from Sha-nene's very rare make of Indian weave could be matched up to the manufacturer by lot number (where Columbo visits of course), found clinging to his baseball cap & tangled with his gold chains (which he later pawned) subsequent to a heated physical altercation ensuing over her messing up his Chipotle order. A mistake which cost Sha-nene her life.
I can't believe the great Santini did that murder..
Serial COLUMBO, ekstra,aktorstwo GŁÓWNEGO bohatera wyśmienite,mogę oglądać POWTÓRKI na okrągło,skąd oni go wytrzasnęli do tej pory nie wiem,a żyję już na tym świecie hooooooooo a może i dłużej😂😂👆👍
Ahh. The Great Fartini!💨💨💨
In many episodes, Columbo uses the murderer's area of expertise to catch them in the end. Whether its subliminal cuts, photography, or magic in this episode; Columbo gets his suspect.
Although I disagree about there being no such thing as a ‘perfect murder’. Too many unsolved killings and missing people dispel that notion.
the murders weren't perfect, just like the investigations weren't.
he was such a nice boy, that i can't believe eastwood would just leave him in the middle of the desert like that.
Hey, the Maitre D is Frank Albanese. He mostly played in gangster movies and was in Goodfellas.
Has anyone wondered what prison sentences that all the people Columbo caught got? Would any have been the death penalty? I would have thought double murders would have been?
You jackballs posted the same exact end scene several months ago. So I'll just say it again: "A perfect murder sir? Oh I'm sorry there is NO such thing as a perfect murder, that's just an illusion..." Cue the Charade theme with Cassidy's reaction take, and imo we have perhaps the sweetest and most satisfying ending of the series.
Jack Cassidy, the icy cold maestro, in a league of his own, as usual up to no good….👏👏👏
given link is NOT available for us !!!! please show us at least a few FULL episodes !
Jack Cassidy, like William Shatner, Patrick McGoohan and Robert Vaughn, was a serial baddie.
Shatner never worked for me. Never seemed to hit the right tone of arrogance, I felt. The others in your list, and Culp, were superior, IMO.
Colombo doesn’t always get his perp prosecuted, many return to a life of crime after changing their names. Colombo has awful memory of his suspects from previous arrests.
i think this may have been one of jack cassidy's tv roles
except of course there wouldnt be any spaces on the ribbon
Wrong but an interesting story 😂JC was the best Columbo villain, with R. Culp.
Lol why does he have to prove it to the murderer every time? He’s just rubbing it in low key.
Just because you have opportunity and motive doesnt mean you did it. I think more evidence is needed in a real court.
Columbo will get a confession. That's what he meant when he asked Santini if he needed to say more.
Columbo works for the LAPD
Columbo produced almost 70 episodes yet you show clips from only 6 or 7. Why is that?
Great villain and episode , however when Columbo and his partner start pulling out all the copies of the letter with that overly-dramatic flair, you can't help but cringe .
i laughed, actually.
Should have had wife Shirley in there somewhere.
Cameo by "Rabbaht LOW-ja. R, as in Rabbaht Low-jah. O, as in Oh My God, it's Rabbaht Low-jah. B, as in, by God, that's Rabbaht Low-jah..."
One thing we all have to admit, that during those kind of circumstances, every each of us become murderers for self protection. Jesse Jerome suppose to ask his money back in a much clever way, instead of blackmailing him to avoid any further action of revenge from his adversery - magician, but come and see that he failed to do so by ending his own life.
Unfortunately, Jack Cassidy burnt up like Columbo’s letter😟
For the letter to have burned that fast, it must be one of those waxed paper that is infused with very flammable material. Not a typical paper you type on. Why would Columbo give him the letter typed on this paper? Detective shows by their detailed nature, should be the exception to the typical free license to have plotholes.
The shows went for 60 minutes but they had to condense them to under 10 minutes by taking out unnecessary and repetitive content because the old TVs couldn’t hold anything over 10 minutes. The mondo Columbus shows are very short always less than 10 minutes because of the primitive mondo TVs they had back then.
The old old old TVs could not hold more than 10 minutes of show even without nipnagel or shnibuts rhetoric as they used CRT Catholic Ray Tubs technology Motorola involvement and non Dylan Mulvaney CLT or Claw Technology. No harm no fowl. Crackhead Barney oversees the southerly wing of the flies we fight as fly fighters. Caitin Clark scores best against them. The fly fighters tried Dylan Mulvaney to shorten the shows advertising and tried to produce a non racist TV set with Motorola involvement with flypaper control and Dylan Mulvaney CEO. The historically correct Crackhead Barney and a prominent associate of Dylan Mulvaney declined comment at that time but was very involved.
So was Cat Clark on our side. Transgander influencer Dylan Mulvaney abandoned by Bud Lights and faced too much bullying and transphobia. Crackhead Barney is her team member in Chicago. The proof is in the pudding. It’s all part of the non racist Al Qawama discovering process