I love this scene not just because it’s one of the rare instances we see Colombo getting angry, but also that the villain recognizes Columbo’s perception and intelligence. Most villains underestimated him.
Yeah. And the way that Columbo instantly accelerates into his kind-of 'fast lane' that he usually plays down. The fast lane where he has vastly more planned-out than he pretends and is fully able to start controlling people to complete the case. It's a sort of 'controlled angry snap' that is right on the money.
His anger was put on display purposefully, in order to create a sense of adversarial worry in the Doc, worry that would push him to try and hide his attempt to kill Heideman.
This was such a great episode - we saw many different villains but few were so absolutely evil. Columbo knew this, Columbo knew this guy wanted to kill the doctor. He knew he killed the nurse. He knew he made the drug addict forcefully relapse, to me the cruelest and most unnecessary of his crimes. His anger is so justified.
Combine all that with the fact that this is a doctor, meaning he could always cause more harm that way in the future and it perfectly explains Columbo's anger. It was probably one of the few cases that really put him under pressure, as in more pressure than usual.
I don't think it's reactive anger. I think it's calculated just like his "play dumb" routine. He has to scare Nimoy into saving Dr. Heideman, because Nimoy is the only one who can do it, and he has no incentive to do it unless he feels threatened that he might go to jail via an autopsy. Columbo doesn't do anything out of emotion. It's all just different tactics.
I think it’s a bit of both. Judging by all the episodes of Columbo I’ve watched, the lieutenant usually classifies his suspects in the following categories. The redeemable: Usually people who kill in the spur of the moment, or only when they feel no other way out, and are afterwards crushed by anxiety. The misguided: Generally genuinely pleasant, even kind, people who kill because they believe to be in their right to do so, for whatever reason, and while not showing any remorse, they bear no animosity towards the lieutenant. The irate: people who kill because of long seethed grudges, revenge, or because of their violent disposition. Columbo doesn’t overtly break character with them, but you can tell he finds no small amount of joy in catching these guys. The cold: people who murder for venal reasons without a hint of emotion or a scrap of remorse. Incidentally, most of these people are actually doctors of some kind (researchers, psychiatrists, M.D’s etc.) Mayfield belongs to the latter category, which is the one who gets the most under Colombo’s skin. There’s nothing that irritates the lieutenant more than people being callous and nonchalant about murdering someone else. The very thing that put Mayfield under Columbo’s radar was how casually he seemed to take the news of his nurse having been killed.
Mayfield is so da-n arrogant with a cold, calculating disregard for the lives of anyone who he sees as a threat to his ambition that he doesn't hesitate to violate his oath to "first, do no harm" by commiting two premeditated murders and attempting a third. Columbo on at least occasion talks (e.g., the ladies' group in Try & Catch Me) about how he could sympathize with, respect or even like various murder suspects he's investigated. In fact, Columbo did let two suspects go during the series as I recall. One suspect was essentially encouraged to flee the country per her mother's wish to take full responsibility for the murder. The other suspect (Forgotten Lady) had a terminal condition affecting her memory so that she couldn't even recall killing her husband by the time Columbo solved the crime. But unlike other suspects, Dr. Mayfield had no redeeming qualities to elicit any respect or sympathy. Columbo's display of anger and determination in response to Mayfield's condescension pierced through the doctor's delusion that he was the one in control.
I think the thing I love about this scene is that it feels like Mayfield is too wrapped up in himself to realise Columbo's telling him he knows until he ACTUALLY tells him he knows.
Yes, and another memorable scene is in "Exercise in Fatality", with guest star Robert Conrad, as health spa entrepreneur Milo Janis. Columbo loses his cool with Janis in a great scene, coincidentally also in a hospital.
@@classrockin I've seen this episode, and yes he does lose his cool. As I mentioned these moments are rare. This is not in his usual characteristics, but I did like seeing this every once in a while.
@@robertszekely8686 True, both those scenes of Columbo getting angry are excellent and slightly surprising as he's usually calm and in control of his emotions but they serve as a reminder that although we're watching entertaining, funny films about murder, that the bottom line is, lest we forget, that murder is a terrible, abhorrent thing.
What I like about this scene is we see Columbo lose his cool he actually shows that he’s not a man to be messed or fooled with, and that he takes murder very seriously!
It's kind of fun when you have moments where Columbo drops the act and says directly what's on his mind, it's always enough to rattle the previously calm and overconfident perps.
I think he was this mad at the young girl who tried to hit him. I forget the name but it was the one where the lady shot her husband & his daughter fought with her
As Robert Conrad's character in "An Exercise in Fatality: could attest to, you really don't want to get Columbo a certain kind of angry. The brilliance of the writing of Columbo is that you see a side to him, just for a flash. That is more powerful in effect than a character who routinely loses his or her cool at the drop of a hat.
True, spot on. Your comment shows the reasoning behind why I've always appreciated the quality of the writing and acting in Columbo films. It sometimes frustrates me when others don't value them like me, especially if it's my loved ones, as I feel like they're missing out. Still, what can I do. I know what I should do and that's to shut up and leave it alone. If I try to force it on them, I'll just become a pain and no fun to be with. Sorry, waffling on here. Anyhoo, just wanted to say that I agree with your, well made point. Slainte.
Yep. Quite often people that play the villain are not so well appreciated. Everyone remembers the guy that played Harry Potter but IMHO Tom Felton's portrayal of Draco Malfoy was a much better performance. Leonard Nimoy did a great job in this episode of Colombo.
I love the little detail of columbo giving mayfield the stare and almost bumping into the closing door-- it could've become a blooper but peter falk never broke character and it became just another endearing quirk of columbo
You almost forgot that he was Mr Spock until he laughed, then you were reminded of that Star Trek episode when Mr Spock was forced to laugh by the race with telekinesis powers.
Two observations: 1) Leonard Nimoy missed his calling as a villain, because he was good at being one here. 2) Peter Falk never was scarier as Columbo than he was here (possible exception: "An Exercise In Fatality").
I can rewatch this scene over and over again. They should use this as an example in acting classes of the interplay between two alternative forces, and then the quick acceleration of emotion and anger by the most mild mannered detective ever. From the moment he looks at the object his going to slam, to how he angrily and firmly grips the carafe, to then the perfect accusation. Just absolute brilliance by Peter Faulk and Leonard Nimoy here. Master class all the way
The split second in which Coumbo slams the coffee pot on the table is the moment when the murderer realizes that Columbo is not an idiot, but a massive threat to him! Fantastic acting.
The last time I heard Nimoy laugh like that was in the Star Yrek episode This side of paradise..sadly at the end of the show,he told Kirk that for the first time in his life, he was happy
Columbo dropped his amiable facade to save the the doctor's life. He wanted Mayfield to know he was on to him, so he'd operate and replace the dissolving suture.
@@evanjones4705 Yeah, really could be as simple as that. He's frustrated, hates this creep doctor, and the urgency of the situation means he's done with the games and just lets the anger go.
Peter Falk said in an interview many decades ago that the way he saw it, Columbo thought of a doctor the same way he thought of a police officer; someone who has the public trust because of the job they have. And that he would be disgusted with someone who is entrusted with the health and wellbeing of people violating that trust and being a murderer.
This scene is one of my favorite moments of the entire series because not only is it the first time we see Columbo get real angry we have seen glimpses of his anger through out season one like the pilot episode where Margaret attempted to slap him or in the movie Perscription:Murder where Joan Hudson attempted call her lawyer but this is first time we see him get geniunely angry and Peter Falk sells it like nobody else can he is one of the greatest actor of our age and nobody will ever replace him
Gotta love Columbo holding a lit cigar right near the face of a man in the hospital with heart disease. Oh how times have changed in the last 50 years.
Including in the pilot movie “Prescription: Murder”, when Columbo’s personality was still being formed. He went off on Joan, the murderer’s accomplice/lover.
I think I prefer the episodes where the murderer is totally unsympathetic. They tend to have a more serious tone in my opinion. This episode and "A Friend In Deed" with Richard Kiley as the murderer are great examples of that in my opinion.
I’m wondering if Peter Falk improvised slamming the water pot. By Nimoy’s reaction and, Falk and John Cassevetes were very close friends (and who played the villain in the Columbo episode “Étude in Black”), and Cassevetes was very big on improvisation. Not sure, but just a thought.
I wonder that too because Nimoy seems genuinely rattled for a second. Another scene that I’m sure was improvised is in the episode where Martin Landau played identical twins. There’s a scene where landau asks Columbo to come up and separate eggs on his TV cooking show and the scene just goes on like Landau and Falk are just goofing around and having fun.
AM I THE ONLY ONE EVER TO NOTICE THAT COLUMBO SAID THE WORD " FASCINATING" TO STAR TREK'S. MR SPOCK , LOL. Oh my god, that really is Fascinating. !!!!!!!! He says it at the 1:01 mark
Ha, I always took it different, I thought he was provoking reaction. Maybe it's the pause before he throws the pitcher down? Now the exercise dude? That to me was anger.
It’s crazy he got caught for the insanely complex medical murder but him attacking a woman in a parking lot with a blunt weapon and just leaving her there was deemed to be unprovable by the lieutenant.
The classic Columbo. Obviously brilliant surgeon looks at a scruffy downtrodden cop assuming him to be clumsy and foolish. Instead finds a mighty intellectual opponent he did not bargain for.
When Mayfield laughs at Columbo this was his way of being defensive, but Columbo didn't like being mocked so he reminded the doc who's really in charge.
POLICE INUENDO DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IF YOU BUY SOMETHING YOURSELF WITH YOUR OWN PIN NUMBER AND YOUR OWN MONEY THANKS AND YOUR THE ONE THAT BOUGHT IT?
When I was growing up, my mom actually called Nimoy that. As she was a big Columbo fan (got me into during the revival), I wonder if this episode is why.
I love this scene not just because it’s one of the rare instances we see Colombo getting angry, but also that the villain recognizes Columbo’s perception and intelligence. Most villains underestimated him.
Yeah. And the way that Columbo instantly accelerates into his kind-of 'fast lane' that he usually plays down. The fast lane where he has vastly more planned-out than he pretends and is fully able to start controlling people to complete the case. It's a sort of 'controlled angry snap' that is right on the money.
I would also say the villains are always wealthy and also treat him with contempt because he's blue collar
His anger was put on display purposefully, in order to create a sense of adversarial worry in the Doc, worry that would push him to try and hide his attempt to kill Heideman.
It's the ONLY TIME
Columbo gets pissed because a doctor, like a police officer, is sworn to protect and preserve life, and this person has forsworn himself
This was such a great episode - we saw many different villains but few were so absolutely evil. Columbo knew this, Columbo knew this guy wanted to kill the doctor. He knew he killed the nurse. He knew he made the drug addict forcefully relapse, to me the cruelest and most unnecessary of his crimes.
His anger is so justified.
Combine all that with the fact that this is a doctor, meaning he could always cause more harm that way in the future and it perfectly explains Columbo's anger. It was probably one of the few cases that really put him under pressure, as in more pressure than usual.
I don't think it's reactive anger. I think it's calculated just like his "play dumb" routine. He has to scare Nimoy into saving Dr. Heideman, because Nimoy is the only one who can do it, and he has no incentive to do it unless he feels threatened that he might go to jail via an autopsy.
Columbo doesn't do anything out of emotion. It's all just different tactics.
I think it’s a bit of both. Judging by all the episodes of Columbo I’ve watched, the lieutenant usually classifies his suspects in the following categories.
The redeemable: Usually people who kill in the spur of the moment, or only when they feel no other way out, and are afterwards crushed by anxiety.
The misguided: Generally genuinely pleasant, even kind, people who kill because they believe to be in their right to do so, for whatever reason, and while not showing any remorse, they bear no animosity towards the lieutenant.
The irate: people who kill because of long seethed grudges, revenge, or because of their violent disposition. Columbo doesn’t overtly break character with them, but you can tell he finds no small amount of joy in catching these guys.
The cold: people who murder for venal reasons without a hint of emotion or a scrap of remorse. Incidentally, most of these people are actually doctors of some kind (researchers, psychiatrists, M.D’s etc.)
Mayfield belongs to the latter category, which is the one who gets the most under Colombo’s skin. There’s nothing that irritates the lieutenant more than people being callous and nonchalant about murdering someone else. The very thing that put Mayfield under Columbo’s radar was how casually he seemed
to take the news of his nurse having been killed.
Mayfield is so da-n arrogant with a cold, calculating disregard for the lives of anyone who he sees as a threat to his ambition that he doesn't hesitate to violate his oath to "first, do no harm" by commiting two premeditated murders and attempting a third.
Columbo on at least occasion talks (e.g., the ladies' group in Try & Catch Me) about how he could sympathize with, respect or even like various murder suspects he's investigated. In fact, Columbo did let two suspects go during the series as I recall. One suspect was essentially encouraged to flee the country per her mother's wish to take full responsibility for the murder. The other suspect (Forgotten Lady) had a terminal condition affecting her memory so that she couldn't even recall killing her husband by the time Columbo solved the crime. But unlike other suspects, Dr. Mayfield had no redeeming qualities to elicit any respect or sympathy. Columbo's display of anger and determination in response to Mayfield's condescension pierced through the doctor's delusion that he was the one in control.
@@terracottapieSpot on!
I think the thing I love about this scene is that it feels like Mayfield is too wrapped up in himself to realise Columbo's telling him he knows until he ACTUALLY tells him he knows.
The acting was great. This scene between Falk and Nimoy. One of the rare times we see Columbo get angry.
Yes, and another memorable scene is in "Exercise in Fatality", with guest star Robert Conrad, as health spa entrepreneur Milo Janis. Columbo loses his cool with Janis in a great scene, coincidentally also in a hospital.
@@classrockin I've seen this episode, and yes he does lose his cool. As I mentioned these moments are rare. This is not in his usual characteristics, but I did like seeing this every once in a while.
@@robertszekely8686 True, both those scenes of Columbo getting angry are excellent and slightly surprising as he's usually calm and in control of his emotions but they serve as a reminder that although we're watching entertaining, funny films about murder, that the bottom line is, lest we forget, that murder is a terrible, abhorrent thing.
What I like about this scene is we see Columbo lose his cool he actually shows that he’s not a man to be messed or fooled with, and that he takes murder very seriously!
“Beware the anger of a patient man.”
It's kind of fun when you have moments where Columbo drops the act and says directly what's on his mind, it's always enough to rattle the previously calm and overconfident perps.
He apologized to the door after bumping into it! 0:34
Truly great acting RIP Leonard Nimoy & Peter Falk
I was blown away by seeing Colombo loose it like this. I don't think he was ever that angry again in any other episode.😳
I think he was this mad at the young girl who tried to hit him. I forget the name but it was the one where the lady shot her husband & his daughter fought with her
@@michelebartlett3921 I believe that was "Ransom for a Dead Man" the 2nd pilot with Lee Grant.
First episode with Gene Barry when he’s shouting at the girl on the movie set was another but yeah this was his angriest scene for sure!
He also gets angry at Milo Janus in the hospital scene in "Exercise in Fatality".
See Milo Janus
As Robert Conrad's character in "An Exercise in Fatality: could attest to, you really don't want to get Columbo a certain kind of angry. The brilliance of the writing of Columbo is that you see a side to him, just for a flash. That is more powerful in effect than a character who routinely loses his or her cool at the drop of a hat.
True, spot on. Your comment shows the reasoning behind why I've always appreciated the quality of the writing and acting in Columbo films. It sometimes frustrates me when others don't value them like me, especially if it's my loved ones, as I feel like they're missing out. Still, what can I do. I know what I should do and that's to shut up and leave it alone. If I try to force it on them, I'll just become a pain and no fun to be with.
Sorry, waffling on here. Anyhoo, just wanted to say that I agree with your, well made point. Slainte.
yeah!
It's like the rare times you see him working with other cops and Columbo becomes a no-nonsense authority figure.
I love this show. Literally timeless. And Nimoy was SUCH an underrated actor!
Yep. Quite often people that play the villain are not so well appreciated. Everyone remembers the guy that played Harry Potter but IMHO Tom Felton's portrayal of Draco Malfoy was a much better performance.
Leonard Nimoy did a great job in this episode of Colombo.
Nimoy? Underrated? Are you high?
@@RenegadeVile His non-Trek work is underrated. Most people only know him for Spock.
Amusing for Columbo to tell Leonard Nimoy's character that the sutures were "fascinating".
Literally two of the coolest people ever in this scene.
I love the little detail of columbo giving mayfield the stare and almost bumping into the closing door-- it could've become a blooper but peter falk never broke character and it became just another endearing quirk of columbo
You almost forgot that he was Mr Spock until he laughed, then you were reminded of that Star Trek episode when Mr Spock was forced to laugh by the race with telekinesis powers.
3:00 The look of shock and surprise on Dr Mayfield's face says it all - his little act to throw the Lieutenant of the scent didn't work! 👮📺👍
When Columbo forcefully brings that pitcher down, that's when the doctor sees who he's really dealing with...an implacable hunter.
This is good, Columbo saved a man's life. In some episodes like the telephone suicide it was too late to prevent a double murder.
Two observations: 1) Leonard Nimoy missed his calling as a villain, because he was good at being one here. 2) Peter Falk never was scarier as Columbo than he was here (possible exception: "An Exercise In Fatality").
Exercise in fatality was with whom?
@@amina-pr8xt Robert Conrad...that confrontation in the waiting room was TENSE.
@@johnathonhaney8291 ah the murder in the fitness center?
@@amina-pr8xt The very one!
@@johnathonhaney8291 Hard to believe "Jim" is gone. Part of my childhood is no more.
Just one more thing. If Columbo asks you more than two questions, you're guilty.
I've never seen the Lieutenant so angry. There must be something about Vulcans that gets him so riled up!!! 🖖
😂😂😂
I can rewatch this scene over and over again. They should use this as an example in acting classes of the interplay between two alternative forces, and then the quick acceleration of emotion and anger by the most mild mannered detective ever. From the moment he looks at the object his going to slam, to how he angrily and firmly grips the carafe, to then the perfect accusation. Just absolute brilliance by Peter Faulk and Leonard Nimoy here. Master class all the way
The split second in which Coumbo slams the coffee pot on the table is the moment when the murderer realizes that Columbo is not an idiot, but a massive threat to him! Fantastic acting.
You hear that dr. Mayfield?! Lt. Columbo is watching you!
Columbo is thee funniest when he is fed up. This and the particular scene from ‘An Exercise In Fatality’ are two of my favorites 🤣
One of my favorite Columbo scenes ever!
Bunch of really cool actors in this episode!
One of the few times the facade drops and the killer gets to see just how fucked they are.
I would have loved to see Nimoy in more episodes
Me too!
This episode had Columbo leave during the operation in time for the patient to be saved.
Columbo never got this angry again! I sympathise with many Columbo villains but not this one. Spock got what he deserved.
Another one can be found in "An Exercise In Fatality", which featured a similar sleaze with a similarly tense confrontation.
Because he wasn't logical going up against Columbo.
@@johnathonhaney8291 Yeah, he was a real nasty piece of work. I think he even threatened Columbo if I recall correctly.
@@IndyCrewInNYC Oh yeah...if ever there was a guy the Lieutenant ENJOYED putting away, it was THAT guy.
The last time I heard Nimoy laugh like that was in the Star Yrek episode This side of paradise..sadly at the end of the show,he told Kirk that for the first time in his life, he was happy
So is Columbo's angry about being laughed at, or is he angry that the murderer is so shamelessly evil that he can laugh about his crimes?
Columbo dropped his amiable facade to save the the doctor's life. He wanted Mayfield to know he was on to him, so he'd operate and replace the dissolving suture.
@@evanjones4705 Yeah, really could be as simple as that. He's frustrated, hates this creep doctor, and the urgency of the situation means he's done with the games and just lets the anger go.
Peter Falk said in an interview many decades ago that the way he saw it, Columbo thought of a doctor the same way he thought of a police officer; someone who has the public trust because of the job they have. And that he would be disgusted with someone who is entrusted with the health and wellbeing of people violating that trust and being a murderer.
This scene is one of my favorite moments of the entire series because not only is it the first time we see Columbo get real angry we have seen glimpses of his anger through out season one like the pilot episode where Margaret attempted to slap him or in the movie Perscription:Murder where Joan Hudson attempted call her lawyer but this is first time we see him get geniunely angry and Peter Falk sells it like nobody else can he is one of the greatest actor of our age and nobody will ever replace him
COLUMBO; Fascinating.
MR. SPOCK; Hey, that's my line!
Columbo using Spock's catchphrase there MUST have been intentional!
I was thinking the same. The scriptwriters allowed themselves a little joke. Star Trek fans would chuckle.
3:01 Laughing at Columbo is not logical.
Columbo sure is a real McCoy .
Also, both Falk and Nimoy is in top of their game in this episode.
another absolute classic episode.
Gotta love Columbo holding a lit cigar right near the face of a man in the hospital with heart disease. Oh how times have changed in the last 50 years.
Very unlike Columbo to get angry. I believe it happened 1 or 2 other times.
Including in the pilot movie “Prescription: Murder”, when Columbo’s personality was still being formed. He went off on Joan, the murderer’s accomplice/lover.
@@lisawilliams2013 yup
I think I prefer the episodes where the murderer is totally unsympathetic. They tend to have a more serious tone in my opinion. This episode and "A Friend In Deed" with Richard Kiley as the murderer are great examples of that in my opinion.
Don't forget "An Exercise In Fatality"!
My favorite scene. What a great actor he was!
Ah, the days when you could smoke in a hospital... wait, what am I saying!
Do you suppose the bit where Columbo walks into the door was a blooper that stayed in?
Yes.
It's a great little touch that goes along with him being really upset.
LOL. Columbo didn't know a door was there? Not believable at all.
Columbo was channeling Dr. McCoy.
Leonard Nimoy was not only Mister Spock.
I also fondly remember Mr. Nimoy as the host of "In Search of."
@@IndyCrewInNYC First time I ever saw Nimoy, actually...and man, was he unsettling as the host of that.
Loved this scene. Suddenly it’s no more Mr Nice Guy.
I love that scene
It takes a lot to make Columbo lose his customary cool.
two greats, awesome scene 👍
Great performances
Didn’t know nimoy was in this
I’m wondering if Peter Falk improvised slamming the water pot. By Nimoy’s reaction and, Falk and John Cassevetes were very close friends (and who played the villain in the Columbo episode “Étude in Black”), and Cassevetes was very big on improvisation.
Not sure, but just a thought.
I wonder that too because Nimoy seems genuinely rattled for a second. Another scene that I’m sure was improvised is in the episode where Martin Landau played identical twins. There’s a scene where landau asks Columbo to come up and separate eggs on his TV cooking show and the scene just goes on like Landau and Falk are just goofing around and having fun.
AM I THE ONLY ONE EVER TO NOTICE THAT COLUMBO SAID THE WORD " FASCINATING" TO STAR TREK'S. MR SPOCK , LOL. Oh my god, that really is Fascinating. !!!!!!!! He says it at the 1:01 mark
It's official: Columbo outsmarted Spock!! ... oh sorry - I mean't *Dr. Spock* :)
Ha, I always took it different, I thought he was provoking reaction. Maybe it's the pause before he throws the pitcher down?
Now the exercise dude? That to me was anger.
the one time someone survives! 😂
the best of the
70 s
It’s crazy he got caught for the insanely complex medical murder but him attacking a woman in a parking lot with a blunt weapon and just leaving her there was deemed to be unprovable by the lieutenant.
Columbo was mad cause Mr Spock was trying to murder grandpa Walton!bahahahahahahaha
There’s just one thing I don’t understand Inspector...
Leonard Nimoy annoyed PLENTY of people
Now if you will excuse me Liuetenant, I have a game of 3D chess to win.
Great episode
I have to go to the doctor in one hour, what timing!
Bros laugh is literally 'muhahahahahahahahah'
The classic Columbo. Obviously brilliant surgeon looks at a scruffy downtrodden cop assuming him to be clumsy and foolish. Instead finds a mighty intellectual opponent he did not bargain for.
Spock shouldn't test a detective like Columbo
I thought Columbo might get the Vulcan death grip
He's very intelligent and to have his mind laughed at is unacceptable in his mind he knows that the doctor is a killer
Why Columbo gets angry
I have a camera bag that has Will Geer's wife's name tag on it. Never met either one of 'em, but I keep it just the same.
When Mayfield laughs at Columbo this was his way of being defensive, but Columbo didn't like being mocked so he reminded the doc who's really in charge.
POLICE INUENDO DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IF YOU BUY SOMETHING YOURSELF WITH YOUR OWN PIN NUMBER AND YOUR OWN MONEY THANKS AND YOUR THE ONE THAT BOUGHT IT?
Bamboozled... END
It takes a lot to ruffle Columbo feathers....
😂
Chad columbo.
I saw this episode many years ago, that moment is the one thing I remember most.
Doctor Spock 😁
When I was growing up, my mom actually called Nimoy that. As she was a big Columbo fan (got me into during the revival), I wonder if this episode is why.
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