The Bad Columbo Episode? | Dagger of the Mind Review
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- We love ourselves some Columbo. But our love can only go so far.
Today we're reviewing Dagger of the Mind aka Columbo Goes to London.
On paper it have all all the markings of a stellar episode... an all-star cast, and Columbo in London.
How did it all go so wrong?!?
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I used to watch columbo as a teenager and I am rediscovering it now in my 40s. I just finished season 1 and is spectacular. Keep up with the good reviews guys.
Glad you enjoy it! We definitely have more on the way.
I for one found this episode humorous and entertaining! The perps played melodramatic Shakespearean stage actors well. The pearl in the umbrella gotcha was Columbo gold!
You are right. Its far from the worst with its double the pay off with two over the top villains, three if you include the opportunist butler. Its Dick Van Dyke parodies of English characters are dated but entertaining. There are far more clumsy episodes where you can tell they were struggling for a pay off. Oddly enough the one with Dick Van Dyke is far less convincing.
@@terrortorn I just rewatched it recently and it's becoming one of my faves.....yes the villains are over the top and fun. And it's so funny how Columbo can't understand the everyday British lingo throughout. I really don't understand why it's such an almost hated episode.
Yeah these guys are joking I think saying this is a bad episode. It is exquisitely done.
Loved it !
I totally disagree with these guys, this was a great episode
I work at a community theatre in PA and I just discovered how brilliant and comforting Columbo is. Your show is great and you guys remind me of the theatre ppl I work with.
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Absolutely LOVE Colombo, I can’t imagine anyone else playing that character , he was perfect and awesome.
Falk is the best. Supposedly Dirk Benedict (Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica) played him in a British stage adaptation. But I haven't been able to find any footage.
You guys should have thousands more views. Good job guys!
Thank you!!! We're trying. We need to get more consistent with our releases. It's one of our goals for the back end of 2023.
lol...people coming at Columbo with "that's not realistic! Those guys would never have been convicted in a REAL court!" holy hell... a police procedural it ain't. The show is all about watching a bunch of legendarily hammy actors (William Shatner? Jack Cassidy??) chew up the scenery while Columbo (brilliantly and often very subtly-portrayed by Falk) slowly and irritatingly (lol) grinds them down until the inevitable gotcha! ending. It has nothing to do with real police work. Most of the episodes are super fun. This one isn't one of the best, but it's still not bad. I can watch the Jack Cassidy episodes over and over again!
Jack Cassidy was the king of playing smarmy.
When you said "the bad Columbo episode," I thought you meant the one where his nephew's bride is kidnapped. (There was no murder.)
Oof. That one is really, really bad.
Really cool to find your channel! I literally just got done watch EVERY episode of Columbo from the 70s to 2003! And yes, this episode is pretty damn terrible. Hard to watch due to the overacting. Speaking of overacting, the second worst episode was the one where William Shatner was being blackmailed. Compared to the Leonard Nemoy episode (one of the best) it’s pretty obvious where the true talent resided on Star Trek.
We just reviewed the Nimoy episode. I (Sean) have him in my top 5 villains. I'll always have a soft spot for Shatner.
It's Wilfred Hyde White. Known for being in nearly everything including a Carry on Film. He is also the father I believe of Alex Hyde White.
I've been on a Hyde-White pattern lately. Just caught Wilfred in The Third Man. And Alex in Invitation to Murder.
This episode suffered by breaking the usual Columbo mould . Plus the two leads got carried away with hamming it up, trying to become the show. Just didn't feel like Columbo to me. Love listening to you guys talk about it though!
Agreed with the hamming. Which is a shame because I really like Honor Blackman.
I adore Dagger of the Mind!!!
Especially the pearl flick gotcha!
But what if he missed?!? His whole gotcha goes right out the window then.
It's is a big treat when one of the youngins, starts to recognize that there is a treasure of old shows and movies full of good stories.
Not sure is we still qualify as 'youngins', but thank you!
I think the show producers wanted to pay a tribute to the UK audience with that episode, and forgot the plot line would not make sense to the Columbo's audience outside Britain. On the other hand , the episode "A Matter of Honor" was to pay tribute to the Latin American audience of the show, but ended up being a master piece episode.
You can't beat Columbo in Tijuana.
My former Secondary School is near The Theatre from this Episode
Wilfred Hyde-White was the butler, he was also in My Fair Lady. A great character actor. He appeared in another Columbo episode, Last Salute to the Commodore.
I was watching The Third Man the other night and he popped up there as well. Even in 1949, he looked like an old man.
I'm new to the Columbo club thing and I just finished binge watching ALL the episodes. This one in particular I liked because I liked everyone calling him Leftenant for some reason.
I'm a big fan of all things British. But this one was tough for me. Even worse because I adore most of the British actors in this episode.
I loved this episode. Edit: It took the mickey out of American tourists, the British and actors, it was actually a really good episode.
One of the reasons this episode seemed poorly paced was that the producers wanted to get their money's worth out of the location shooting and asked that it be extended.
I've read (and still have) some of the William Harrington Columbo books. He doesn't solve the Manson Murder's but consults with Charles Manson, like Hannibal Lektor.
People who hate this magnificent Colombo episode Dagger of the Mind are just missing something. Taste and sophistication. 🤣
It is so great. One of the all time best episodes. The actors and acting are sublime. The story with the Scotland Yard and Shakespeare are perfect.
lol.
Being from Britain I liked the episode, and it was daring for Columbo to film an episode outside the US early on in the series, well have scenes filmed outside the US. Falk and the team probably spent a week filming in London then flew back to the US. I do not get the hate for this episode.
The shots of London were my favorite parts of the episode.
It's a stinker.
Apart from the terrible overacting, sometime Americans overdo the English thing. It was a very lazy episode. Stock cockney characters, too many clichés and chocolate box London.
Should have been more in the atmosphere of Hitchcocks - Frenzy. A bit more dirty and grimy.
I would have loved an atmospheric Columbo.
A few years since I saw this episode, but there is some dodgy continuity in it. The white Rover P6 saloon car changes from a UK spec. model to a US spec. model. Obviously some scenes filmed in the US.
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That was fun Guys, Thank you! 👍❤
Glad you enjoyed it
Agree, practically unwatchable...
Two sunday "had spare times" reviewers trying to edit Columbo: should try to find a job, guys!!!
We're dumb comedians with entirely too much time.
No, this episode wasn't THAT bad! Episodes where the circumstantial evidence is so flimsy yet the perp confesses anyway, that's irritating. Food for thought, just how many Columbo murderers beat the rap in court? I bet several! Plus, Columbo having a murder case solving rate at 100%? I don't think so, folks.
There does seem to be quite a few suspects who just crumble at the end. It's almost as if they're so sick of being pestered by Columbo that they just confess to get away from him.
bernard fox was dr bombay on bewitched. honor blackman was the avengers.
I don't think this was shown in the UK. I thought I'd seen every episode, maybe this one was seized at the border. Yes, obviously it's bloody awful and it's rather difficult to work out why the writers, network or sponsors thought it was a good idea. It's not because it was poorly researched, it was, but Columbo is essentially an American policeman and is a fish out of water in this pretend-England setting. Columbo is the best detective series to come out of the US and comfortably in the top five in the world. It is formulaic but what a formula, not a whodunnit but more of a how-did-he-work-it-out and it stays in the detection phase to the triumphant end without a need for everyone to start shooting at everyone else. He plays a credible character by which I mean he doesn't need to be crowbarred into place like for instance Miss Marple, an old lady in her 70s who just turns up at crime scenes and is more or less welcomed, irritates the crap out of me. In reality she'd be led away by a young constable, given a cup of tea and taken to hospital as a possible dementia case. One day they'll work out that dead people turn up wherever she goes and put her behind bars.
I just started watching the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple. At least in those she actively tries to sneak by Inspector Craddock to get to the crime scenes.
@@TheNerdsofComedyatthePush Yes and actually she was great and a superb actress for the role of a whimsical comedic Miss Marple. Those films were a treat when I was a child. Every other incarnation of her was in BBC TV series format, dull as dishwater and set in some quintessentially English background; big country pile or a vicarage or maybe a cricket pavilion. The BBC arts department had developed a thematic 'look' for the series and it was brown with flashes of grey into which was placed a grey Miss Marple wearing brown. The characters were made to such a rigid formula that any actor doing the role would be known forever as Miss Marple and enter talk shows to the Miss Marple theme having been type-cast to death in the first episode of series 1. Whilst all of these shows, Mis Marple, Morse, Midsomer Murders, Poirot were similar it was Miss Marple that was the most dull. If stuck watching one (I'm a minority group, most of my family adore her) I would heckle responses to her questions "have we established the cause of death, Inspector"? I'd nip in with "he died of boredom". It never worked.
Hang on. Miss Marple has inroads into her cases. Its in her village, at the hotel she's staying at, she's well known and respected by the Police, the local Vicar wants her in on the job, her holiday home is next door to some murderous maniacs. And Joan Hickson is impeccable in the role. She does appear however to be a harbinger of death. Marple not Hickson.
@@terrortorn Quite. Imagine being the proud owner of a hotel with a solid reputation and seeing Miss Marple glide up to reception to book in. Would you have enough time to sell the place before the screaming and the odour of bitter almonds hit?
The main problem for the police is surely explaining it to the judge. "We weren't sure what was going on your honour. Fortunately there was this little old biddy who solved it for us". there might be a credibility gap.
So many great episodes, I would be able to give you top 15 episodes and not be able to bring up the 'bad' one, for the NBC ones this is the bad one.
I thought this one was great, I actually enjoyed it for the same reasons a lot of people didn't like it; I'll tell ya the worst episode of the show [at least, what I've seen of it]: "Last Salute to the Commodore".
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Think they can comment on this episode and haven't even bothered to check the correct names of well known actor Wilfred Hyde White a very good and well known English actor. He was referred to as Something Hayden Something. What's your name Nothing know nothing about not a lot?
That's our bad. We are actually fans of his work. And we'll take Nothing know nothing about not a lot. We've definitely been called worse.
Thanks for being gracious perhaps I was a bit hard on you.
The video could have been called 'Chaves Talk Columbo. Or more appropriatly, 'Chaves Slag Columbo', or 'Chaves Slag Columbo, but fail'.
1) we're comedians, so we're used to failure.
2) what's a chave? we're not saying we disagree with you, we just don't know what a chave is.
@@TheNerdsofComedyatthePush He's probably misspelled "CHAVS", which is an an acronym for "Council House And Violent". Basically a British version of the American Trailer Trash. But you really don't come across as CHAVS not least because you are American.
This was always my least favorite episode of the original run. The reboot has some that are worse though, like "No Time to Die."
Couldn't agree more with No Time to Die. I'd watch Dagger in the Mind a thousand times before watching that one again. ...unless until it's time for us to review it.
Most “Americans acting like Americans in Europe” shows/movies suck imo
I think European Vacation is the exception.
@@TheNerdsofComedyatthePush yeah, but the Vacation movies are intentionally satirical. But other shows are mostly just Americans getting looked at with that snobby look while they say cheesy things. It's weird how you guys drive on the other side of the road here. Do you know the queen? Wow, Big Ben. That thing you call a cigarette here means something different in America, etc. Lame
Yeah, this episode was a stinker. Although there is a few stinkers in seasons 9 &10 as well. There is just no real likeable characters in this episode. The No Time To Die episode was just god awful. That’d probably be my #1 worst Columbo episode.
We have some plans to tackle some of the 90's episode. No Time to Die is god awful... but the absolute worst (and unintentionally hilarious) has to be Rest In Peace, Mrs Columbo.
@@TheNerdsofComedyatthePush Rest In Peace Mrs Columbo at least featured Greedy Gretchen, Colonel Sam Flagg and Dr Barnabus Foster as cameos, lol. That episode was terrible too.
Wow, need bleach for me eyeballs.
lol!!!
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I'm catching up on the latest episodes...one of which, in the first 5 minutes, totally lost me. A guy obviously dies of an accidental fall...just call 911, slam dunk case closed for self-defense. Yet they try to turn it into a murder case...poor poor writing! And, think about it, Columbo , the highly experienced, highly seasoned professional, highly intelligent investigator ALWAYS goes up against amateur, first-time, inexperienced, mistake-prone rookie killers...it's hardly a fair contest!
Is that the nightclub episode? That was one of the dumbest ones. For one thing, that skinny little girl could not knock that guy over hard enough for him to die, let alone die instantly. Lazy writing.
I disagree with your take on this one. I enjoyed the twist and turns of this one as Columbo made his way along in a foreign place. 👍
the al bundy episode sucked too..its just england that sux ..
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