@@Davtwan Loud voices upstairs when the club already knew the two men were upstairs checking the dictionary would not have been unexpected or any surprise...... whereas explosives and heavy objects hitting the floor definitely would.
1:43 Bertie says “I could never hurt you” and seems to be having second thoughts about reporting him. Then Brandt tickles him again which is the last straw for Bertie. I think Brandt could have convinced Bertie not to report him if he was just decent to him and explained the problems with his big spending wife.
That moment when you realize, as much as you LOVE Columbo (heck, Peter Falk was from your home town) that these cases might not hold up in court, the umbrella from this episode being but one example.
There are honestly a few cases like that. I think Columbo gets a certain satisfaction in at least being able to tell the murderer he knows they did it, and HOW they did it. But very often the case probably wouldn't hold up in court. Often the case against the accused hinges on a single key piece of "gotcha" evidence, that works for us as the audience because we know that they did it and we know it's a tv show. But I'm not convinced it would be enough to get a jury to send people to the chair (which most of the people that Columbo catches would be fated for if convicted).
@@seraphinaaizen6278 Columbo was filmed before 1976 (when the supreme court reinstated the death penalty) as such those people would have gone to prison for life instead of getting the chair
In case anyone is wondering what the sheet music on the stand behind the violin is, it's the solo violin part for Antonio Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 4 no. 6 (RV 316a).
That's Sorrell Booke as the victim - I'd forgotten that. Best known as Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard, but he also played General Barker in the early episodes of MASH. He's the general who first encounters Klinger in full drag. Barker: "Still trying to get out on a psycho? Well, it's not going to work!" Klinger: "Then, I'll have to keep trying, Mary!"
I read somewhere Theodore Bikel who plays the high IQ killer was actually a member of the Mensa society. Of course it was not the first time Columbo took down a genius, he also took down José Ferrer in the episode "Mind Over Mayhem".
@JohnFinnegan Moreover.... membership in mensa never seems to result in actual accomplishment in the world; not in science, or invention, or mathematic theory, or engineering, or starting a successful business, or curing a medical disease, etc...... typically mensa members spend their entire lives congratulating themselves for being part of mensa.
This episode has similarities with the "playback" one in that time delay devices were used by the killers to disguise when the murder actually took place so they would have an alibi for it.
Love the episode except for the more insufferable members of the genius club (the D-bag with the white pipe especially) but I do have to wonder how as downstairs they can hear the music playing but earlier no one heard Bertie repeatedly yelling at the top of his lungs?
They may have heard him yelling, but with the door closed the sound would have been muffled just like the sound of the music playing. It would not have been loud enough for them to hear what he was actually shouting about. Besides they would not have associated him with the murder as the gunshots appeared to sound when he was with them.
@@patrickjohnson5658 I disagree. Shouting is shouting and Bertie's shouting seems louder than the music actually. It wouldn't really matter what about, whether Bertie was shouting passionately about something he liked, or angry. It was never really investigated as to why and to not link any type of shouting at all to the following "gunshots", does weaken the episode a little. Disputes are often on-going and reactions to one another once tempers are lost are often slow burning, not instant, so even though a little time had passed between the shouting and gunshots, a connection should have been investigated since they were the only 2 people in the room.
@@jackclements2163 The murderer closed the door, there were two doors at opposite ends of the room, when the victim was shouting at him and he shot him, but then opened it again afterwards so the people downstairs would hear the music. Yes some of the people downstairs did report hearing shouting to Columbo, but when he questioned the murderer about it, he claimed it was an argument over a business dispute. But as the murderer was in the same room as the others when the 'shots' were heard and the sound of the body falling to the ground was heard, they would not have associated the murder with him.
Carinae is my favorite constellation although I can't see it from here.Second brightest star, Canopus,plus Carinae was split off from the huge ancient constellation of Argo Narvis.
Bikel is at his best playing the admirably detestable Oliver Brandt. Check him out on Twilight Zone "Four O' Clock," a cautionary tale of poetic justice and glass houses 😏
That's Sorrell Booke, the 1-derful actor who hilariously played the corrupt Boss Hoggs in The Dukes Of Hazzard !!! Theodore Bikel was no slouch himself.
@@kevino4372 Because silencers can only do so much to deaden the amount of noise generated by a gunshot, it would have sounded at least like someone striking the wall with a hammer from downstairs
in a video that I no longer find on YT I remember that Campanella's friend in the disco was talking under the influence of drugs and was giving a speech where she implied that she would enter the sect of Charles Manson do I remember wrong or is it really like that? thank you
The funny thing about this episode is that a lot of murderers think they are always 'the smartest person in the room'. And like here, they are usually wrong.
@@rickrick5041 When he threw the gun into the rubbish bin it was wrapped in a brown paper bag and then it partially fell out of the bag. He is not specifically shown wiping it first. I am assuming if he was an intelligent man he would have wiped it first before tossing it into a waste basket at a public park.
I would have liked this episode more if the writers had put a little more effort into the script. Killing Bertie, a beloved partner, came across as too dark and giving a trophy, gold digging wife as the reason for his embezzling was cliché and lazy writing. The rest of the script was good, as was the acting.
agreed. wasted premise. a modern narration would have Columbo teaming with the quirky members of the club to solve the murder mystery, which was the only interesting part of this story. Actually something similar was done in one of the Monk episodes.
Well murder sometimes comes from stupid reasons. People can be irrational. I have to admit that in this case it feels like a bit weird. We've got a genius here, who is almost able to pull a perfect murder (we know that there is no such thing) - but he pays so much attention to details... and yet he sees THIS as the solution to a much smaller problem... rather than ditching the wife and work with the company to solve the financial issues. Or even to take responsibility for his actions... CALLING MORE police into the case than it would be needed for a simple crime.
Some of the ladies there did tell Columbo they thought they heard shouting but it was not clear enough to hear what it was about. When Columbo mentioned it to the killer he made a reasonable reply it was over a business disagreement if I remember correctly. But the shots apparently came after he had gone back downstairs. So they would not have connected the two things.
Those group should all have been guests at the Plaza hotel in Oslo Norway back in 1995. They may well have been crucial witnesses to Jennifer Fairgate death.
It appears he didn't wipe the fingerprints off the gun after the shooting. Not too intelligent I would suggest. Surprised the genius did not put on the hand cover prior to taking out the gun.
A man was murdered at the sigma club so why were all the club members who were present not questioned and searched by the police? Then they would have found the gun with the fingerprints of the killer still on it. The police would have no way of knowing all the society members were together in the meeting room when the gunshots were apparently heard. All they knew was a man was murdered on the upper floor.
We grew up NEVER SEEING BLOOD in the movies. This generation is OUT OF CONTROL . WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SO ELICIT? Parents better .. monitor their children and know what they are watching.
Funny how everyone could hear two fire crackers and a book falling to the floor but not hear Bertie yelling in protest.
Very frequently, people shot in surprise do not yell out in protest.
And yelling Oliver’s name
@@laertesindeed - They meant his earlier rant. “I WILL TELL THE WHOLE WORLD!!”
@@Davtwan Loud voices upstairs when the club already knew the two men were upstairs checking the dictionary would not have been unexpected or any surprise...... whereas explosives and heavy objects hitting the floor definitely would.
Totally. Notice you can clearly hear the music playing downstairs, but they somehow didn’t hear a quarrel with yellin...
1:43 Bertie says “I could never hurt you” and seems to be having second thoughts about reporting him. Then Brandt tickles him again which is the last straw for Bertie. I think Brandt could have convinced Bertie not to report him if he was just decent to him and explained the problems with his big spending wife.
he really wanted to try out his brilliant murder plot i suppose
@@doctorbodacious2598
Or he didn't want to spend his days wondering if Bertie might still change his mind.
Perhaps he could have worked out an arrangement to turn himself in for a lesser sentence.
Maybe he should have gotten rid of the parasitic wife
You can easily notice how much Brandt used to tickle torture this poor Bertie back to old days
Bertie ended up surviving, moved to Hazard County and became Boss Hogg.
And the sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane!
And Oliver time traveled to the future and adopted Worf.
Poor Bertie, he seemed like a decent fellow.
Not too smart.
they better get Roscoe P. Coaltrain on the phone, and them them someone shot Boss Hogg
He survived, changed his name and moved to Hazzard County. Kinda corrupt though.
@@kev3d He did giggle about the same amount, though.
If only Oliver just told Bertie the truth about the fact that Vivian is a mooch.
My man got shot twice, but didn't spill a drop of blood. He was a considerate friend even in death.
Shot by invisible bullets
@@ethericboy I'm more impressed by the invisible blood.
People just aren’t as polite as they used to be, bleeding everywhere like some sort of drama queen. Total mess
You all know why that was: TV censorship
what if Brandt didn't shoot him, just pretended to shoot? And his friend died of heart attack?
Still one of the best episodes, in my opinion
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@@Алечка-ф4ж RUclips TV has most of the episodes.
@@Алечка-ф4жThere's also Freevee, and DVD [and an upcoming Blu-ray set or two]
5:55 anyone else notice the guy who apparently cut his hand when he accidentally broke the china, but continued to push through the scene anyway?
A Di Caprio-esque performance ante litteram :D
Yes, another great episode!!!! The Lieutenant certainly holds his own with the smartest people!!!! 👍🎄
Ahh, the good ole' days, when a two shots from a gun produced no blood
well it also made no sound so that's fair.
(suppressors are not magically effective in real life and only really work with subsonic bullets)
*...when two shots....
...and a suppressor works on a revolver not made in Russia.
@@macmcleod1188 They are effective, just not at suppressing noise, which isn’t what they’re meant for anyway
@@DeathnoteBB they suppress noise 20 to 30db. They just don't silence it.
That moment when you realize, as much as you LOVE Columbo (heck, Peter Falk was from your home town) that these cases might not hold up in court, the umbrella from this episode being but one example.
There are honestly a few cases like that. I think Columbo gets a certain satisfaction in at least being able to tell the murderer he knows they did it, and HOW they did it. But very often the case probably wouldn't hold up in court. Often the case against the accused hinges on a single key piece of "gotcha" evidence, that works for us as the audience because we know that they did it and we know it's a tv show. But I'm not convinced it would be enough to get a jury to send people to the chair (which most of the people that Columbo catches would be fated for if convicted).
@@seraphinaaizen6278 The guy confessed to the crime. I doubt it would have gone to jury
@@friedrice7 You are right, unless they took it back later under their counsels' advise, but usually confessions are pretty airtight.
@@seraphinaaizen6278 Columbo was filmed before 1976 (when the supreme court reinstated the death penalty) as such those people would have gone to prison for life instead of getting the chair
I thought after Columbo catches the killer, he, she or they confess to the murder(s)
In case anyone is wondering what the sheet music on the stand behind the violin is, it's the solo violin part for Antonio Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 4 no. 6 (RV 316a).
Bikel was a great dramatic actor.The umbrella gave him away.
That's Sorrell Booke as the victim - I'd forgotten that. Best known as Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard, but he also played General Barker in the early episodes of MASH. He's the general who first encounters Klinger in full drag.
Barker: "Still trying to get out on a psycho? Well, it's not going to work!"
Klinger: "Then, I'll have to keep trying, Mary!"
He played a fun role as the Bristol Hotel house detective in What's Up, Doc? as well.
A possible slight flaw in this plot is...nobody heard the screaming Bertie made.
Or the loud music early on!!! “BOO HOO” song
I read somewhere Theodore Bikel who plays the high IQ killer was actually a member of the Mensa society. Of course it was not the first time Columbo took down a genius, he also took down José Ferrer in the episode "Mind Over Mayhem".
From what I understand, the standards for entrance into Mensa are not quite genius level.
@@nolanboles8492 Understand you take a SAT-type test, and if you get a certain percentage, you're in.
Kinda like buying a Rhodes Scholarship.
@JohnFinnegan Moreover.... membership in mensa never seems to result in actual accomplishment in the world; not in science, or invention, or mathematic theory, or engineering, or starting a successful business, or curing a medical disease, etc...... typically mensa members spend their entire lives congratulating themselves for being part of mensa.
They don’t make silencers like they used to.
Never thought one day Bertie Hastings would deal with the Duke cousins . Lol
This episode has similarities with the "playback" one in that time delay devices were used by the killers to disguise when the murder actually took place so they would have an alibi for it.
It takes a real genius to shoot a man and leave no bullet holes behind.
The tickling was weird.
yeah. spoils the scene. horrible to watch a grown man tickling another grown man.
It’s not like with a child. It was a power move.
@@bee1978 it is humiliating for the man, who is tickled.
If Colombo didn't catch the one who murdered Boss Hog, the Duke boys would have!
Sorrell Booke was such a great actor!!
Love the episode except for the more insufferable members of the genius club (the D-bag with the white pipe especially) but I do have to wonder how as downstairs they can hear the music playing but earlier no one heard Bertie repeatedly yelling at the top of his lungs?
They may have heard him yelling, but with the door closed the sound would have been muffled just like the sound of the music playing. It would not have been loud enough for them to hear what he was actually shouting about. Besides they would not have associated him with the murder as the gunshots appeared to sound when he was with them.
@@patrickjohnson5658 I disagree. Shouting is shouting and Bertie's shouting seems louder than the music actually. It wouldn't really matter what about, whether Bertie was shouting passionately about something he liked, or angry. It was never really investigated as to why and to not link any type of shouting at all to the following "gunshots", does weaken the episode a little. Disputes are often on-going and reactions to one another once tempers are lost are often slow burning, not instant, so even though a little time had passed between the shouting and gunshots, a connection should have been investigated since they were the only 2 people in the room.
@@jackclements2163 The murderer closed the door, there were two doors at opposite ends of the room, when the victim was shouting at him and he shot him, but then opened it again afterwards so the people downstairs would hear the music. Yes some of the people downstairs did report hearing shouting to Columbo, but when he questioned the murderer about it, he claimed it was an argument over a business dispute. But as the murderer was in the same room as the others when the 'shots' were heard and the sound of the body falling to the ground was heard, they would not have associated the murder with him.
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I can't believe Worf's father is a dishonorable cold blooded murderer.
My wife leaves the room when I’m watching Columbo. She hates those shows - but I LOVE them!
I really thought he was going to tickle him to death
He was so extremely ticklish, that he could do that
The murderer was relived ,telling his wife that he no longer needs her.
...and poor Bertie paid the price for him to reach the destination of finally realising he needed to dump her a long time ago.
Good episode, the tickling was a bit weird though.
This my favorite Columbo episode.
Where was Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane when you need him.
Poor Boss Hogg. I would have thought the Duke boys would have gotten him first.
Carinae is my favorite constellation although I can't see it from here.Second brightest star, Canopus,plus Carinae was split off from the huge ancient constellation of Argo Narvis.
Sorrell Booke and Kenneth Mars also appeared in What's Up, Doc? (1972).
that's a great episode indeed
Sorry, but you can't put a suppressor on a S&W Model 19 revolver, its not gas sealed and would do nothing to prevent the sound of a gunshot.
Bikel is at his best playing the admirably detestable Oliver Brandt.
Check him out on Twilight Zone "Four O' Clock," a cautionary tale of poetic justice and glass houses 😏
Yes! also as the steadfast second in command of the U Boat in the classic "The Enemy Below"...not to mention Worf's adopted father on "Star Trek: TNG"
That's Sorrell Booke, the 1-derful actor who hilariously played the corrupt Boss Hoggs in The Dukes Of Hazzard !!! Theodore Bikel was no slouch himself.
I had forgotten that Boss Hogg was murdered in a Columbo episode.
Wow! Worf’s father is a murderer!!
Worf's adopted father, you mean
@@arthuralford I am well aware of that but Worf called him his father not “my adoptive father”
didn't know Worf's father and Boss Hogg were friends.
When you've just had enough of the people around you 🔥
If the silencer worked the way they do in real life, the odds are, someone would have heard both of those shots.
How does it work?
@@kevino4372 Because silencers can only do so much to deaden the amount of noise generated by a gunshot, it would have sounded at least like someone striking the wall with a hammer from downstairs
in a video that I no longer find on YT I remember that Campanella's friend in the disco was talking under the influence of drugs and was giving a speech where she implied that she would enter the sect of Charles Manson
do I remember wrong or is it really like that?
thank you
The funny thing about this episode is that a lot of murderers think they are always 'the smartest person in the room'. And like here, they are usually wrong.
Crazy how Columbo encased himself in bronze after this episode.
This prison of bronze...
Bertie would later reincarnate as sherif Hoggs of Hazard County. Sorell Booke vs Theodore Bikel.
4:12 not too smart leaving that door open that long.
Yeah, if Tarantino was in charge, the blood would be even on the stairs
Isn't he Heiney on The Enemy Below?
Wait. How did that door close?
Suction from another door....
That's kind of the point of watching t he episode.
Hard to believe that's Boss Hog from Dukes of Hazzard
He was Congressman Raskob in the original Fail-Safe. 4:05
Sorrell Booke spoke a half-dozen languages. That's something I wish I could have learned more about him.
He spoke 15 languages. He and Ted Bikel really were geniuses.
Theodore Bikel. Bikel rhymes with Tickle.
Thought it was more like “Bye Kell”, but I’ve never heard a pronunciation of his name
@@zaq55 He was a singer also. You can find things of him being introduced and what not.
@@riversideguy2356 Yiddish folk songs were his specialty
Poor Boss Hogg. If only Rosco had been there, he'd have been ok.
6:07 was it explained how he got that door to shut like that?
5:48 that's the dude who sold george his toupee on seinfeld.
Always liked this one
Didn’t he leave his fingerprints on the gun?
Yes, I thought he might have removed them with the black sleeve thing but on re-watching he did not.
Later on in the episode he got rid of the gun by throwing it in a rubbish bin in a park.
@@patrickjohnson5658 I didn't know. With his fingerprints still on?
@@rickrick5041 When he threw the gun into the rubbish bin it was wrapped in a brown paper bag and then it partially fell out of the bag. He is not specifically shown wiping it first. I am assuming if he was an intelligent man he would have wiped it first before tossing it into a waste basket at a public park.
How did that second door close?
Hey that's BOSS HOG right there!
Dunces - the lot of them!!
I think I'll have a Doughnut...
For a genius he sure has behavior of a 5-year old. 🤦
One of the few suspects Columbo ended the story on good terms with.
weird, because surely he didn't deserve any sympathy
Great episode, great cast, but one of the dumbest most convoluted murders in the whole show.
those people didn't hear the victim yelling?
How come they didn't hear the gunshots?
This isn’t the one with the kid and the talking robot, is it? I can’t watch that one ‘cos it’s so naff . . .
PLEASE PLEASE SHOW THE ENDING TO THIS EPISODE. INCLUDING THE CALL FROM BRANDT'S WIFE
If was the killer i would have destroyed the umbrella as it evidence and removed the red pen
Bertie is ... Boss Hogg in the Dukes of hazzard!!!
I would have liked this episode more if the writers had put a little more effort into the script. Killing Bertie, a beloved partner, came across as too dark and giving a trophy, gold digging wife as the reason for his embezzling was cliché and lazy writing. The rest of the script was good, as was the acting.
agreed. wasted premise. a modern narration would have Columbo teaming with the quirky members of the club to solve the murder mystery, which was the only interesting part of this story. Actually something similar was done in one of the Monk episodes.
Well murder sometimes comes from stupid reasons. People can be irrational. I have to admit that in this case it feels like a bit weird. We've got a genius here, who is almost able to pull a perfect murder (we know that there is no such thing) - but he pays so much attention to details... and yet he sees THIS as the solution to a much smaller problem... rather than ditching the wife and work with the company to solve the financial issues. Or even to take responsibility for his actions... CALLING MORE police into the case than it would be needed for a simple crime.
I remember Theodore Bikel from the Twilight Zone--where he also played a total jerk named Oliver!
4 O' Clock
The tickling is awkward to watch
because it is humiliating for a grown man to be tickled like that and cant take it?
So how come they didn't hear all that shouting? Ridiculous.
The door was closed when they were arguing, which probably muffled the sound
Some of the ladies there did tell Columbo they thought they heard shouting but it was not clear enough to hear what it was about. When Columbo mentioned it to the killer he made a reasonable reply it was over a business disagreement if I remember correctly. But the shots apparently came after he had gone back downstairs. So they would not have connected the two things.
The killer was a genius but there is no flawless crime . There is always some evidence to find .
If it were any other copper he might have gotten away with it.
Who runs towards gun shots?
Those group should all have been guests at the Plaza hotel in Oslo Norway back in 1995. They may well have been crucial witnesses to Jennifer Fairgate death.
No one heard the argument?
Its actually 'A genius, genius murderer'
It appears he didn't wipe the fingerprints off the gun after the shooting. Not too intelligent I would suggest. Surprised the genius did not put on the hand cover prior to taking out the gun.
Christ which school of over acting did the little fella with the glasses go to?
Bertie Bertie Bertie 😂
The old boy had to go.....
Jesus I call on you how do I call on you.
CHEESEY ACTING by Boss Hogg 😆. Sloppy murder too. Columbo would see this from miles away.
So he handled the gun in the killing without a gauntlet and then used a gauntlet to hide the fecking thing. Wtf? Very flawed production values.
So no one heard Birdie screaming?
El asesinato más inteligente del mundo , 🥂👊
I found it funny how he likes to tickle torture his friend 😂😂😂
Mi piace il film in italiano
Just a man tickling another man. Nothing to see here
Bo & luke duke....lol...i thought that was boss hogg.....lol....
Boss Hogg gets kilt
There once was a time when people didn't bleed from gunshot wounds🩸
Wow, the actor who plays bertie has a very poor actor game !
A man was murdered at the sigma club so why were all the club members who were present not questioned and searched by the police? Then they would have found the gun with the fingerprints of the killer still on it. The police would have no way of knowing all the society members were together in the meeting room when the gunshots were apparently heard. All they knew was a man was murdered on the upper floor.
tickle you...hihihi!
😂
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We grew up NEVER SEEING BLOOD in the movies. This generation is OUT OF CONTROL . WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SO ELICIT? Parents better .. monitor their children and know what they are watching.