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Tonight's Columbo on MeTV Fisher Stevens is the culprit

Pearlee — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:45:16 GMT

I can't recall this one. It's a much newer Columbo from when it was on regularly.

It stars Fisher Stevens as the murderer. I'm going to watch it --- maybe I'll remember something about it, but maybe not. I didn't watch as many as the newer ones.

It's called Murder, Smoke and Shadows and this is the synoposis from IMdB:

"An egocentric wunderkind director murders a childhood friend who threatens to expose his negligent complicity in the death of his sister years earlier." Anyone remember and like or dislike this one?

8:00 pm ET on MeTV

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097087/

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NickNack — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:49:00 GMT

This was a good one! I've seen it twice.

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molly olly — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:53:37 GMT

This is one of the better Columbo episodes. Fisher Stevens is great in this episode and tries to outsmart Columbo, but well, we know no one can. I liked this one due to the "Hollywood" back lot scenes. Hallmark Channel just had a Columbo marathon and of course I had to watch most of them.

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piperbay — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:57:34 GMT

Cozi Tv has been showing the older Columbo shows now. I don't like the newer shows. I thought the writing and actors were much better in the old shows.

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StylishLady — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:59:56 GMT

Just one more response---another Columbo fan here. So sad the way Peter Falk passed on. I understand they had an episode ready to go, but Peter had regressed to the point where he could no longer work. I have mixed feeling about a reboot, but maybe someone can pull it off. Any ideas?

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twinsister — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:28:00 GMT

I've seen that Fisher Stevens episode a few times. It is good, but I prefer the older episodes. Right now I'm watching Columbo on COZI - this one is with Jackie Cooper playing a senatorial candidate who says his life is threatened.

I don't think anyone else could play Columbo - there would be too much comparison to Peter Falk.

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GSPgirl — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:28:12 GMT

This was a reboot of the series. Another good one from the 80's was with Deirdre Hall from Days of Our Lives. I won't give it away, but it's good.

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tansy — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:23:31 GMT

@GSPgirl wrote:
This was a reboot of the series. Another good one from the 80's was with Deirdre Hall from Days of Our Lives. I won't give it away, but it's good.

I remember that one, even though I wasn't a DOOL fan.

i'm recording the one Pearly mentioned because it doesn't sound familiar.

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Pearlee — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:17:06 GMT

I won't ruin anything for @tansy, but although I enjoyed tonight's show with Fisher it's just not as clever as the earlier ones. I didn't watch many of these "reboot" ones; I used to enjoy watching the earlier ones with my dad - when the later ones aired, I didn't ever watch much TV at that time.

The reason this one wasn't real clever is that early on Columbo finds out about the street that was made wet. Well....then he knows a major fact to implicate Fisher Stevens and there isn't a whole lot for him to be figuring out cleverly after that. I started thinking about the way more clever earlier episodes and the one with Ross Martin as the nephew or grandson or some relative of an art collector who killed the art collector because he was going to give away his valuable paintings rather than leave them to Ross Martin (who was an art critic or something as well as his relative). Wow- that ending - how Columbo trapped him - was super clever.. I won't give it away but will say it involved fingerprints and just about knocked my socks off the first time I ever saw it.

Tonight's episode was fun to watch - I agree with the poster who said the Hollywood stuff was pretty fun - and the ending, while not clever as to how Columbo figured things out - was pretty cool in the way it was explained to Fisher how he was trapped.

I kept thinking, watching Fisher Stevens, that I never understood how Michelle Pfeiffer was attracted to him (they had a three-year relationship). He is so slight - his physique is like a little boy's and not very manly. And according to his bio, he's only 5'7". Not exactly a "hunk." The role he played was kind of a young Steven Spielberg type. I did really like how a lot of things in his life fell apart at the end, just as Columbo was about to bust him. That was cool because he was such a manipulating loathsome character. But bottom line is - a fun but not clever episode IMO.

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KLevineFan — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:30:41 GMT

Fisher was a close friend of Carrie Fisher, spoke at her memorial.

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twinsister — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:36:21 GMT

@Pearlee - Agree about the ending of that Ross Martin episode - very surprising. It was on again last week. I read that at one time Ross Martin was Peter Falk's acting coach at some type of camp. It must have been when they were both very young and starting out.

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Pearlee — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:38:43 GMT

@twinsister wrote:
@Pearlee - Agree about the ending of that Ross Martin episode - very surprising. It was on again last week. I read that at one time Ross Martin was Peter Falk's acting coach at some type of camp. It must have been when they were both very young and starting out.

@twinsister Glad you agree. I always stop to watch that one when it's on. But almost all of those older ones are way more clever than the reboot of Columbo years later.

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Pearlee — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:47:34 GMT

@twinsister wrote:
I've seen that Fisher Stevens episode a few times. It is good, but I prefer the older episodes. Right now I'm watching Columbo on COZI - this one is with Jackie Cooper playing a senatorial candidate who says his life is threatened.

I don't think anyone else could play Columbo - there would be too much comparison to Peter Falk.

@twinsister Forgot to mention - I've seen that Jackie Cooper episode lots of times. It's good. I always liked J. Cooper.

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proudlyfromNJ — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:51:14 GMT

I am a huge Columbo fan. Started watching in the early seventies when it took turns with McMillan and Wife and McCloud. Have been watching ever since. I love the older ones. Not a fan of the "newer ones". Peter Falk made Columbo. For some reason, this is the only old show that doesn't seem dated to me. All the other ones on Cozi tv seem so hokey...not Columbo..just one more thing!

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qbetzforreal — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 05:00:10 GMT

Not my fave. edited to add. this particular episode not Columbo. I liked the series better than the later tv movies.

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Daisy Sunflower — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:36:30 GMT

I don't recall this one.

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tansy — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:11:47 GMT

That episode may have been the least interesting Colombo ever.

I used to look forward to the rotating shows, too. I've seen McMillan & Wife reruns every so often and, of course, Colombo but I can't recall seeing McCloud.

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AuntG — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:49:02 GMT

I liked this episode, DH not as much. We often try to guess when Columbo has figured out who done it. Last night, I think he knew very early on and played along for most of the episode. Loved the way he unveiled the players at the end.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:30:53 GMT

I am such a big fan of Columbo that we own all of them (I think). My fav is Ruth Gordan as the mystery writer.

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Pearlee — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:49:10 GMT

@ncascade wrote:
I am such a big fan of Columbo that we own all of them (I think). My fav is Ruth Gordan as the mystery writer.

@Group 5 minus 1 That one was just on the Marathon on Hallmark Movies and Mystery channel I think it was - a couple of days ago too. Saturday? I love that one!