#the columbophile

[edpor68]

Happy Sunday! This is a nice Instagram post by that expert in everything Columbo, The Columbophile. Pattye was awesome as the stepdaughter Margaret Williams, in this her 2nd tv appearance… #pattyemattick #patriciamattick #columbo #1971tv #adorable #thecolumbophile #instagram #GoneButWillNeverBeForgotten #leegrant #peterfalk

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[lieutenant-columbro]

a young peter falk (and puppy!!!!!!) photographed at the beach, c. 1950s

[daisyflea]

if u arent reading the columbophile blog after watching your episode of columbo... ur missing out holy COW THE NUANCE

[comicus-uk]

Tim Vine is Columbo

[baltazar93100]

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[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Prescription: Murder

Yeah so here's something different. Very directly as a consequence of me mostly watching anime I don't enjoy recently, but then neither wanting to rewatch anything and being apprehensive about starting something new for a variety of reasons, I felt I needed a change of pace. Just launch myself into something completely different, that I could hopefully be invested in. And Columbo is what I ended up with. It's been implanted into my mind with its somewhat recent resurgance on tumblr, randomly getting recommended the blog Columbophile, seeing the very nice looking DVD boxset for sale in hmv, and the final nail in the coffin being some even more recent twitter memes regarding the series. "Let's watch Columbo" I decided. And here we are.

So, this is my first introduction to Columbo, with its pilot episode. And I liked it! Quite a bit! This is a very different type of media in general for me, so I don't know how much I'll have to say about any given episodes just because they're completely not what I'm used to, but certainly I like where we're at right now.

There's a lot of time well spent on merely setting up the murder - I believe this is what's famous about the series anyway but it's entirely not a whodunnit - we see exactly how the murder happens, exactly who does it, pretty much every part of why they did it, and even a lot of time spent on clean-up. Honestly at the beginning of the episode, Flemming is so meticulous that you begin to wonder how he's even gonna be caught. And throughout the episode they answer that very well, and very very gradually.

It turns into this clash of personalities really, two bright minds up against one another, one intentionally demeaning himself and the other so prideful that he basically admits to everything. But the pair have a read on one another as well - Columbo knows Flemming did it and Flemming basically explains Columbo's entire shtick to us anyway. Undermine himself, present as small, unkempt, distracting, downright annoying most of the time. Flemming gets the read on him but even then Columbo is so persistent and annoying that the man cracks.

Although per the episode's own calling attention to it, Joan was the real weak link in the entire ordeal - frankly she was just less invested than Flemming was, tripped him up because of it. I do think the final scene that plays out to get the confession was maybe a little contrived - wasn't really a conclusion to the bouncing pride and intelligence of Columbo and Flemming, rather just a scenario that came up to end the story, but like, eh. I appreciate that Joan... doesn't quite get off scot-free or anything but she could've had it worse, I think Flemming would rather she had it worse. This ending ends up working the best narratively for pretty much everyone involved. Like if she died it'd be unfair that she had the worst fate even though she was hesitant, you know? This was good.

That's pretty much the main things I've got to say about the episode. Fascinating as a more general statement to go back to a live action show from this long ago - honestly there are devices I don't even recognise, an aesthetic so far removed from my life but recent enough to feel real, or something. It's neat. I don't usually watch anything this old or anything live action to begin with, so like, yeah.

As two other quick little notes - I don't actually know if every episode has a neat title card like this one does, but I would like the format for these posts to be the episode title as the tumblr post title, followed by the episode title card. I hope the show lets me keep to that. Also, I've not got a schedule for this or anything. I've got 68 episodes still to watch which would be a lot even if they were 24 minutes long a la the anime I spend all my time watching. Instead, they're all 70-90 minutes long. I cannot even pretend to promise a consistent "yeah I'll watch it this week" or something. Next post on Columbo will be when I watch the next episode. I will watch the next episode whenever I watch it. You know how it is. But yeah, swag.

[columboscreens]

Do you know where I can watch columbo? I know columbophile but that ons doesn't have all episodes

peacock+, tubi, pluto, regular ol television, and it looks like the internet archive cache is back up!

[milktrician-hell]

yakuza font spotted on the columbophile website

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

There are other Columbos I wouldn't recommend, but this is the first one that isn't even worth watching.

Also, respectfully, the "Columbophile" blog is dead wrong about the score being good let alone "excellent" and it's legit embarrassing that Bernardo Segáll wasn't fired after his 1st score for the series. I think the Dick Van Dyke episode's his first. Like Dick De Benedictis makes some eeehhhh decisions in his first few scores for the series, but he improves and also still delivers decent scores. Segáll with only a few small exceptions is BAD. Not every bit of music you write can be perfect, but that man is so actively bad at film scoring it baffles me how anybody on a show like this, biig show, big budgets - how could they not want to can him? Really awful. But there's only one more BS episode left. I'll be okay.

[raekiez]

The columbophile blog reblogged my art of columbo kissing my fursona onfnfngjesnsnskaksnd

[edpor68]

Happy Monday! It’s possible I posted this before- is a cool post by The Columbophile-Margaret & Columbo cooperate to bring down the lady lawyer-in the 2nd Columbo pilot “Ransom for a Dead Man”- she was superb-on national tv less than 2 years after graduating from high school- so awesome. #patriciamattick #patriciamattick #columbo #ransomforadeadman #1971tv #thecolumbophile #awesome #GoneButWillNeverBeForgotten https://www.instagram.com/p/B3c9oniHsno/?igsh=MXI1aWNldjUydWt2Ng==

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[lieutenant-columbro]

THE COLUMBOPHILE REPOSTED MY MEME??? AND I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT IT?????????

[boomerissimo]

Tenente Colombo: il miglior compagno è un basset hound

Tutta la storia dell'unico partner che Colombo abbia mai avuto #boomerissimo #ltcolumbo #peterfalk #tenentecolombo #classictv

Un investigatore atipico, con metodi poco “americani” che guida un’auto francese, poteva avere solo un partner altrettanto fuori dagli schemi. “Just one more thing. There’s something that bothers me”. Queste frasi del tenente Colombo sanciscono la fine dell’assassino, è solo una questione di tempo il suo arresto. Il tenente Colombo (@columbophile) Boomerissimo.it Ma in realtà tutti gli episodi…

[alter-koker]

this makes me want to cry and throwup and scream never say this again

[baltazar93100]

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[possumcollege]

"Pardon me ma'am, I'm very busy. I eat garbage, smoke too much, and get very little sleep. On top of that I got these short legs and very cheap shoes. Could we maybe move this along?"

(thanks, @columboscreens for your lovely screengrabs)