Uneasy Lies the Heart That Loves Again
Devilish dentistry was under the proverbial microscope on April 28, 1990 equally the fifth outing of Columbo'south 9th flavor aired nether the witty title of Uneasy Lies the Crown.
Featuring a villain with a selfish streak a mile wide, who volition both kill and frame to protect his way of life, Uneasy Lies the Crown was revived following nearly two decades on ice after offset being penned past Steven Bochco in the early 1970s.
That's quite a recommendation, simply is this a truly toothsome televisual treat, or ought it to be extracted from our collective consciousness forthwith? Let's vanquish those digitalis pills and get gear up to mingle with some Y-List celebs at a poker party as we detect out…
Dramatis personae
Lieutenant Columbo: Peter Falk
Wesley Corman: James Read
Lydia Corman: Jo Anderson
Adam Evans: Marshall Teague
Horace Sherwin: Paul Burke
David Sherwin: Mark Arnott
Columbo's dentist: Raymond Singer
Nancy Walker: As herself (ooooooohhh)
Dick Sargent: As himself (ahhhhhhh)
Ron Cey: As himself (Cantonaaaaah)
Written by: Steven Bochco
Directed past: Alan J. Levi
Score by: James Di Pasquale
Episode synopsis
Dentist-to-the-stars Wesley Corman's life of freeloading appears to exist over. Summoned to the family dental practice, where he's the junior acquaintance to irascible father-in-law Horace Sherwin, Corman is essentially given his marching orders from the business organisation and the family!
Horace can no longer tolerate Corman's gambling habit and speculative business buy-ins, which take left him over $200,000 in debt to the older man, nor his apparently bungling dental skills. On top of this, Horace'south feeble-hearted daughter, Lydia (Corman's wife of six years), wants a divorce – something Horace is happy to facilitate as he seeks to rid his family of Corman'southward cloying presence.
Corman is given until the end of the month to leave the business and get out of Horace'due south life for practiced, merely he predictably has plans in place to safeguard his comfortable lifestyle. He knows that his married woman has constitute a new lover in burly action movie star Adam Evans, a patient of Corman's who is going to pay the ultimate toll for this expose.
Engineering a scenario where Evans brings forward his dental engagement from 2pm to 12.30pm, Corman pretends the appointment has been cancelled and sends his staff off for an early lunch to ensure no witnesses when Evans arrives – other than the excitable autograph hunters in the car park and doubtless dozens of other on-lookers he passes betwixt in that location and the dental reception.
The wily tooth physician has already procured some digitalis eye medication pills from his bilious wife, which he crushes into powder and mixes into a paste. Evans is in to have a cavity checked, but Corman pretends a crown needs attention instead. Afterwards extracting said crown, Corman drills a hole in information technology, which he stuffs with digitalis paste. The whole matter is and then cemented dorsum into the role player's manly jaw.
Later that day, Corman pleads his case with Lydia to go on him but the absurd redhead gives him the brush-off. While ostensibly departing for his weekly poker game, he listens in on a call from Lydia to Evans. The muscle-bound hunk will exist right over to see her knowing that Corman volition be out losing money until the small hours. Or will he?
Safely ensconced at the poker game (alongside such luminaries equally Lydia's wimpy brother David, old pro baseballer Ron Cey, actors Nancy Walker and Dick Sargent, plus unbelievably wearisome impressionist John Roarke), Corman is setting a rock-hard alibi while his wife is seeing to Evans' rock-hard needs in the class of margaritas and SWEET LURVIN'!
The honey turns sour, however, when, in the throes of passion, Evans' heart packs in and he perishes correct at that place in Lydia'southward artillery. In a panic, she hits the speed-dial for 911 (because it's also hard to remember the number in an emergency, correct?) and begs for assistance – but it'due south all role of Corman'due south fiendish scheme. He'south reprogrammed the telephone so that the phone call will actually divert to the poker game, setting him and David off an a mission of mercy to save the damsel in distress.
Arriving at the crime scene, the pair find Lydia whimpering beside the corpse of her lover. David moves to call the police, but Corman stops him. Lydia is too fragile to handle this crunch scenario, which appears to be an exact repeat of the decease of her former married man on their wedding dark seven years earlier! No, instead the ii men will motion the corpse and make it wait like a car accident.
As David cares for his sis, Corman puts the final pieces of his plan in place by pouring the remains of the digitalis pill powder into the margarita-making blender and cocktail glass, and planting a book of monogrammed Corman matches in the dead man's pocket. Evans and his car are and so taken to a secluded road in the hills and pushed over a precipice – looking for all the world like he had a heart attack while driving.
Despite breaking every law there is, Corman'south actions earn him the adoration of Horace Sherwin, who forgives his errant son-in-police for past misdemeanours and welcomes him back into the fold with open arms. What an emotional rollercoaster ride!
Naturally enough, i of the investigating officers on the scene the post-obit morning is Lieutenant Columbo. And, just equally naturally, he's soon being bothered by little things, like why the car gear lever was in neutral rather than drive. He'southward also handed the monogrammed matches by a young man officer, sending the detective to Corman HQ, where he is welcomed at the door past the breakfasting murderer.
Corman's reaction to the news of Evans' expiry is straight out of the Riley Greenleaf school of faux grief, although he swiftly recovers his composure to answer questions. Despite the matches on Evans' person, Corman says the thespian hadn't been visiting their house the night before as far as he knows, although his attendance at the poker match means he can't guarantee it. He's reluctant to accept Lydia troubled with questions, though, as she was such a fan of Evans that her dicky heart mightn't accept the strain.
Columbo beetles off to run across the medical examiner who has two stunning revelations for the detective. Firstly, Evans' eye assail was caused by an excess amount of digitalis. Indeed, there was so much in his system that he must have died inside a minute or two of ingesting it. Columbo is also told that the actor was in the midst of dear-making at the time of death, that he'd been consuming alcohol, and there was a gash on the inside of his right cheek. What tin can the Lieutenant brand of all that?
Every bit a result, Columbo scarpers back to the Corman residence to question Lydia, who is in an enfeebled state out by the pool and being shielded by husband and father. Lydia denies that Evans was there the night before, and also rebuffs the proposition that she spoke to him on the phone. Columbo, however, has checked the phone records which testify v calls from the Corman firm to Evans' number in the preceding 24 hours.
Pushing harder, Columbo reveals that Evans was murdered, at which indicate Lydia admits that he had paid her a visit, and had merrily swug some margaritas. A subsequent check of the pool house throws up the dregs of the cocktail in the mixer and glass, which Columbo confiscates for lab assay. He besides receives confirmation that Lydia takes digitalis to control her own middle condition.
Lydia's starting to expect guilty as sin – especially when lab results bear witness in that location was digitalis residual in the mixer and glass. Columbo, all the same, starts to notice reason to doubtable Corman's involvement. First, he finds out that Evans had been due for treatment at the surgery on the twenty-four hours of his expiry, supposedly ringing Corman rather than the receptionist to abolish. Secondly, if Evans had died in Lydia'due south presence, outside aid was needed in moving his heavy body.
His investigations side by side take Columbo to Corman's poker mates, who are once over again wasting a weekday evening by throwing proficient coin away at cards. In betwixt some celebrity appreciation of Nancy, Dick and Ron, Columbo finds out about Lydia'south phone call to the house, and how Corman and David fled to her aid. The plot thickens!
Things then take a dark twist, as we cut to Corman at dwelling house urging Horace to have Lydia committed to an asylum to keep her out of Columbo's clutches. Apparently, Lydia spent some time under psychiatric observation later on the death of her offset hubby. Horace is balked at the thought, merely Corman is floating the notion that merely a sick listen would take put poisonous substance in Evans' margarita, so having her locked upward will be skillful for her. That'due south some seriously tough love Wesley is dishing out!
Columbo rings the house requesting an audience, and so Corman and uber-wimp David arrange to meet him at a frigging night club, which seems to be total of xl-somethings dressed badly and dancing worse. The Lieutenant challenges the pair about their concealment of Lydia'south call to the poker match, and they come up clean, albeit moving Evans' corpse to protect dear Lydia.
The Lieutenant finally collars the demure ginger on her own the next day and asks her why she rang her husband and not 911 when Evans perished. Lydia claims she did band 911 on the speed dial, and when Columbo tests it, it does indeed go through to the emergency services. Even stranger, several of Lydia's digitalis pills are missing from her canteen and she claims to have no thought why.
Rather than putting her nether lock and fundamental, Columbo'due south conventionalities in Corman'due south guilt only deepens as he secures some telling circumstantial testify. The stub of a parking ticket found on the windshield of Evans' crashed automobile shows he had been at the building where Corman'south dental practice is on the mean solar day he died. While information technology doesn't prove he and Corman met, it's very suspicious.
The Lieutenant therefore tails Corman to the race rail, where he and his pals are enjoying success on the gee-gees. In a archetype unsettling move, Columbo ruins Corman's afternoon past insinuating that the matches were placed in Evans' pocket deliberately, and the car left in neutral deliberately to ensure police were able to trace the death back to Lydia.
He takes things further, notwithstanding, by demonstrating Lydia's innocence. According to the autopsy, Evans drank two margaritas before his death. But there was so much digitalis residual left in the 2d glass, information technology suggests a dose so high that he'd have died before finishing his kickoff. Ergo, the digitalis wasn't in the margaritas when he drank them – information technology was planted afterwards.
Who could have done that? The same person who reprogrammed the phone to band the poker match instead of 911 – and then re-reprogrammed it to ring 911 when next tested. And that person can only be… Wesley Corman! Withal, the detective admits he doesn't have nearly plenty prove to make an arrest and the ultra-smug dentist sure ain't confessing.
A trip to his own dentist provides Columbo with food for thought when he subsequently bites and gashes the within of his cheek earlier the novocaine injection wears off. The wound is a friction match for the ane constitute on the within of Evans' cheek.
Seeking further inspiration, Columbo enlists Horace to assistance unravel how Corman could have poisoned Evans at a hugger-mugger dental appointment. They tin can't effigy it out until a chance give-and-take about the dissolving blanket of pills sets off a light bulb in the Lieutenant's head. That's how Corman killed Evans – he coated the digitalis, hid information technology in a crenel, and the blanket wore away hours later when Evans was lying in sin with Lydia.
The theory seems sound, only how to prove it? With Horace's aid, Columbo sets up a trademark set up-piece to describe out the killer. Summoning Corman to police HQ, the Lieutenant outright accuses him of murder by mixing digitalis with a time-release medical gel, which was subsequently absorbed through his gums, causing the fatal coronary. The body has been exhumed, and when traces of digitalis are constitute in the mouth, Corman volition exist bedevilled of murder.
To achieve this, Columbo needs to complete a cursory chemistry experiment. He divulges that a tiny speck of digitalis will plow the porcelain enamel of a crown blue when catalysed by moisture at body temperature, and gain to demonstrate his point using a kiddies' chemistry gear up.
When he tips warm water on a crown that he claims has been pre-prepared with digitalis, it immediately turns blue. "And y'all know what, dr.?," Columbo chides Corman. "When we pull that porcelain crown from Adam Evans' rima oris, you can bet your eye molar that the underside of it is going to be stained blueish."
Horace eagerly steps forrad, keen to extract the tooth that volition seal his hated son-in-police's doom. Merely before he can exercise so, Corman stops the sideshow. The habitually useless gambler folds like a concertina in a Frenchman'southward hands and admits his guilt before being roughly dragged away by uniformed officers. A smirking Horace, meanwhile, leads a disgusted Lydia home.
The medical examiner looks on in wry amusement. Digitalis on porcelain wouldn't do a matter, he says. The only thing that would turn the crown blue is mutual laundry bluing. As he says this, Columbo reveals tell-tale bluish marks on his own shirt. "Laundry bluing, is that a fact?" he utters, striking an innocent pose as credits roll…
My memories of Uneasy Lies the Crown
I'll be able to keep this short because I hardly remember anything about this ane other than the smarminess of the murderer, the employ of digitalis subconscious under a molar as a means of murder and the ghastly celebrity poker match.
I couldn't recall a thing about the victim, nor Lydia Corman, nor her family members, nor even the gotcha moment. I've seen this episode only a few times (and non for several years) and it has fabricated very trivial impression on me – usually a bad sign. Will Uneasy Lies the Crown pull a few pleasant surprises when viewed with fresh eyes? I certainly promise and then…
Episode analysis
Before leaping into a total assay of Uneasy Lies the Crown, it's essential to consider the history of the story, which was created by no less a writer than Steven Bochco (he of Murder by the Volume, LA Law and NYPD Blue fame) style back in 1972 with the intent for it to form part of Columbo Flavor 2.
Many ardent fans of the serial are enlightened that the episode was rejected at the fourth dimension and put on mothballs, merely non all know precisely why, every bit varying reasons are given on the internet – including that Peter Falk didn't recollect the script or killer was interesting enough. However, I have information technology on excellent dominance from Columbo writer (and Peter Falk confidant) Mark Dawidziak that the truth of the matter is quite different.
He alleges that evidence creators Richard Levinson and William Link took Peter Falk and his mother Madeline out for dinner to celebrate the success of Columbo's debut year, and to talk near what would come next. Keenly interested in what the future held for her son, Madeline asked for a run-downward of what stories were in the bag for Season ii – and it was she that gave Uneasy Lies the Crown the kiss of death.
According to Dawidziak, Madeline couldn't conceive that the audience would buy into a dentist beingness a murderer. Her doubts convinced Falk to decline the script, which was quietly tucked away into the vaults at Universal. In that location would be a dastardly medic in Columbo'south second season, but it would be ice-cold killer surgeon Barry Mayfield in A Run up in Criminal offense, not wicked dentist Wesley Corman.
Yous can't go on a skilful homo downwards, though, and Bochco's story would exist resurrected, Lazarus-like, in 1977 when it was released under the championship of An Affair of the Centre as part of the sixth season of McMillan and Wife (at which point Police Commissioner McMillan was no longer married – go figure!).
I watched this in order to write the review (you can access information technology on Dailymotion here) and to analyse how the original treatment compared to the Columbo version of 1990, and I can tell you it's extremely similar; the key departure existence we don't run into Corman (here played by Larry Hagman) tampering with Evans' crown equally McMillan didn't follow Columbo'southward inverted mystery formula.
That bated, it'southward pretty much beat out-for-beat the same in terms of characters, clues and plot – although McMillan did include a ludicrous endeavor past Corman to kill McMillan via a domicile-made car flop, which is so stupid information technology surely wasn't part of Bochco's original Columbo teleplay.
At that place's no elaborate deception to force Corman'southward confession, either; instead, sensible use of dental x-rays prove Evans' crown had been taken out and replaced, while traces of digitalis were constitute on it to seal Corman's fate (although he does so try to escape after taking his receptionist hostage at gunpoint – some other dubious inclusion).
Having now watched both versions, information technology'southward safe to say that McMillan's 70s' setting helped profoundly to heighten the aesthetic amuse of the episode, while the cast was a darn sight meliorate, also. However, it can't disguise the fact that this just isn't a great story for either of the iconic policemen. I actually find it mind-boggling that a Columbo that was rejected in 1972 was deemed potent enough to exist exhumed 18 years later – especially after the story had already been televised on McMillan!
Uneasy Lies the Crown doesn't fifty-fifty try to hide its connections to the by by changing grapheme names. It simply boldly retells the same story with the aforementioned characters, making merely slight corrective changes, padding out scenes to lengthen the running time, and adding in the tedious sub-plot about laundry bluing to make the gotcha much more confusing than in the original. That's a pretty poor return in my opinion.
"I discover information technology mind-extraordinary that a Columbo that was rejected in 1972 was accounted strong enough to be exhumed 18 years later."
Still, let's consider Uneasy on its own merits and start off past examining central villain Wesley Corman. I can't say I rate James Read terribly highly in terms of charisma, merely he does portray Corman'due south odious qualities to a tee. This is a guy so drastic to go on his grubby mitts on his father-in-law's riches that he's willing to come across his married woman either jailed or packed off to the aviary! He's a vile specimen of manhood who deserves everything he has coming to him.
Though he may be utterly repellant, the show made the mistake of making Corman too stupid to be a truly great villain. It's hinted at that he's a scrap of a liability as a dentist (although that doesn't explain how he maintains a client base brimful with celebrities), simply surely a man who conceives of such a brilliant plan as to place poison within a irksome-release medical gel could take avoided undoing his proficient work past spiking the dregs of the margarita mix with and then much digitalis powder.
I'm aware that he wants police to doubtable foul play and investigate Lydia, but Corman is aware how lilliputian digitalis is required to kill, and therefore putting so much of it in the margarita mix is a gaffe of mammoth proportions. Nosotros're told he'south not much of a chemist, but even the class dunce would realise that such an act could only accident a hole in his scheme a mile wide.
As a comparison, call up of Stitch in Law-breaking's Barry Mayfield. He was such a vivid baddie considering he was so smart and then ruthless. It fabricated his downfall ultra-sugariness. Corman, on the other mitt, makes it far besides easy for Columbo to nail him, severely blunting the impact of a gotcha scene that really ought to take been punch-the-air satisfying.
Even Corman'southward set-up of switching Adam Evans' appointment to an earlier time of day and so he could send his staff off for lunch and avoid witnesses is ridiculous. Hundreds of people could take seen the movie star accept the lift to the dental surgery and place him in Corman'southward company on the day he died, despite the yarn that he'd cancelled his date.
Information technology's a risk of Titanic proportions for a murderer to take. Far more plausible (and so easy to include in the script) would accept been to accept Corman enquire to meet him right at the end of the mean solar day afterward sending his staff habitation, when there would be less likelihood of witnesses. Not having Evans be a hugely recognisable movie star might also have been a sensible telephone call. Why not but make him a handsome, wealthy businessman whom passers-by would never recall?
If I'm existence charitable, I'm guessing we're supposed to interpret Corman's failings of being a second-rate dentist and abysmal gambler as reasons why he'd make the errors and take the risks that ultimately doom him. Withal, you'd expect a betting man to put up more of a front at the finish when he utterly falls for Columbo's barefaced and admits his guilt before Horace can excerpt Evans' crown.
Everything we see of Corman throughout the episode indicates a man who doesn't fold – even when the going's tough. He has aught more to lose by letting the tooth be pulled, yet he meekly submits – letting Columbo off the hook and delivering a gotcha that can only be described equally tepid at best. In all these examples, the writing is at mistake and the impression I become from watching is of a story that's been rushed into production, rather than i that has been gathering dust for the best role of ii decades.
There are other aspects of the story that disappoint, too, non to the lowest degree Columbo'due south employ of laundry bluing to trick his opponent. This appears to have been added in especially for Uneasy, and to put in bluntly, it sucks. I mean, who even knows what laundry bluing is today anyway? It makes for a inkling that has dated terribly and only sullies the waters at the end of the episode when the damning evidence was already right there in a suitably strong form in the original handling.
The Lieutenant inferring that both he and Evans' bit their own cheeks due to novocaine injections is a suitably Columbo-similar deduction to take led him to bank check dental ten-rays and discern (with Horace'southward assist) that Evans' crown was tampered with on the day he died.
From in that location, I'd have been quite happy for Columbo to merely have the crown extracted and find trace amounts of digitalis below it that force Corman to confess. Certain, this might take made for a less dramatic finale, but it would accept felt a whole lot more realistic, made Columbo seem similar a real detective instead of a prove pony, and prevented at that place being such inconsistency at the heart of the Corman grapheme.
Wesley, nonetheless, ain't the only member of the Corman household that I struggle to take seriously. Lydia is a strangely written character who comes across as such an insipid husk that the idea of all-action hero Adam Evans falling for her after a chance coming together at a political party seems rather far-fetched.
The Lydia we meet in McMillan and Wife was much stronger, and in fine fettle both mentally and physically (Horace was the one with the middle problem there). Her past trauma and enfeebled state in Uneasy brand Lydia a pathetic and pitiable figure against whom Corman'southward actions seem all the more beastly, only as a character in her own right she'south completely bland – a criticism that can exist levelled at much of the supporting bandage, including Lydia's laughably weedy brother David, whom I wouldn't entrust to open up a pocketbook of crisps, permit alone clear up a crime scene.
Speaking of the support cast, I judge now is as good a time as any to raise the horrendous spectre of the celebrity poker friction match that Columbo gatecrashes when checking up on Corman's alibi. I'd forgotten quite how bad this scene is, but information technology'due south a shocker that is both hammy to the max and agonisingly drawn out (admitting notable for Ron Cey becoming the commencement human to wearable a full beat arrange on network television).
"Watching the celebrity poker scene unfold is like having teeth pulled without the benefit of anaesthetic."
Quite whose thought it was to dredge upwards this cavalcade of D-Listers (including sometime McMillan and Wife regular Nancy Walker – what a scream!) remains to be seen, but 1 can only assume it was a put-upon work experience lad who never worked in television over again. The scene is dull, gratuitous and hopelessly unfunny, reducing the Columbo character to cooing like a star-struck teen, but with none of the charm of his meeting with, say, Nora Chandler in Requiem for a Falling Star.
Aptly for an episode with a dental theme, watching this scene unfold is similar having teeth pulled without the benefit of anaesthetic. Permit us never speak of it once again…
Annoyingly, afterwards seeming to have rediscovered his mojo in the preceding trio of episodes, Falk's Columbo is back to showing strains of extreme silliness – a trait regular readers will know I've been sincerely lamenting since his comeback in Columbo Goes to the Guillotine.
I object to the broader comedic characterisation re-employed at times here, which undermines the steelier Lieutenant of recent adventures. His introduction in Uneasy, where he can't fathom how to rig upward a plug-in law light for his car earlier galloping off to flag downwards a motorbike cop, is particularly infuriating equally it makes him out to be an imbecile.
I don't mind Columbo playing the fool to downplay his threat level to a suspect. When he's merely shown to exist a fool for no expert reason, however, my blood boils. This arm-waving clown brings back unwelcome memories of the Lieutenant soothing a frightened pot found in Guillotine, or running around yelling and rummaging in bins in Sexual activity and the Married Detective.
As well of note (although less offensive) are some inconsistencies around Columbo himself. For ane affair, he asks for coffee with cream at the Cormans' business firm, when even the greenest fan knows he takes it blackness. He also states that he'southward been on the force for 22 years, which would hateful that he had literally just started his career in Prescription: Murder. Gimme a break! Either this is a nod to his 1968 screen debut, or no ane updated Bochco's original script, which would have (realistically) backdated Columbo's career commencement to the early on 50s.
Do piffling things like this really matter? I suppose not, but skid-ups similar these shouldn't happen to such a firmly established character and are indicative of either a slap-dash approach or a failed attempt at humour. Bah humbug!
To avert readers condign besides depressed, I'll gloss over the awfulness of the night club rendezvous (arrgh!), the farthermost unlikeliness of Evans being exactly where Corman wanted him to be at the time of his decease (yaroo!), and Falk's appalling orangey hair dye job (aieeeee!) and seek, instead, the crumbs of condolement that tin can be found tucked beneath the episode'southward gumline.
Firstly, the murder itself is clever and memorable, even if the near wasn't made of it. Secondly, Wesley Corman is enjoyably sub-man in his motives, making him 1 of the to the lowest degree redeemable Columbo killers of all and someone whose downfall nosotros tin justifiably celebrate. Thirdly, Paul Burke was pleasingly vindictive as Horace Sherwin, and gave a lot more than free energy to his functioning than Read mustered as Corman.
There's a squeamish extended scene of Columbo haranguing Corman at the race track, which had the experience of one of his great tussles from the archetype serial most it. Elsewhere, 70s Columbo regular John Finnegan is granted a modest cameo as a lurgy-ridden café owner (with woeful hand sanitation skills), while the episode title is a nice throwback to the witty titles of the past. That aside, though, it'due south pretty uninspiring.
In spite of all my grievances, Uneasy Lies the Crown falls short of being a complete train wreck. If it had originally aired in the 70s, it could conceivably exist considered a tolerable, if forgettable, entry to the timeline, perhaps on par with Lovely but Lethal or Dead Weight. That's a big if, though. The sorry fact is that this wasn't deemed good plenty for Columbo'southward classic era. So, why was it deemed practiced plenty years later on when the story had already aired equally a McMillan and Wife? It makes no sense.
I tin't overcome the feeling that Uneasy's ship had sailed long before 1990, making its belated addition to the canon a decision that rather sums up the about-enough-is-good-plenty approach all also prevalent in Columbo's revival run.
How I rate 'em
While not exactly a disaster, Uneasy Lies the Crown is a toothless matter with plenty of pain points that really should never have been resurrected. It represents a giant backwards leap for Season 9 after 3 promising episodes and only goes to evidence that even a name every bit great as Steven Bochco's tin can't guarantee a hit.
Missed any of my earlier 'newColumbo'episode reviews? You'll find them via the links below.
- Agenda for Murder
- Columbo Cries Wolf
- Rest in Peace, Mrs Columbo
- Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
- Sexual activity & The Married Detective
- Murder, A Self Portrait
- Murder, Smoke & Shadows
- Uneasy Lies the Crown
- Grand Deceptions
If you want to bank check out whatsoever of my 'classic era' episode reviews, or see how I rank them all in order, click here. IfUneasy Lies the Crown acts equally sweet anaesthesia to your troubled soul, you can vote for information technology in the fans' favourite episode poll here.
I'll be nigh interested to hear your views on this ane, as they may differ considerably to my own. Were y'all aware that the story had already been told on McMillan and Wife? If non, has information technology changed your perception of the value of this episode? Let the argue commence.
After getting all that off my chest, imagine my please when I realised the next stop on my Columbo marathon is Murder in Malibu – an episode derided by the masses in which the Lieutenant says 'panties' far more often than can be considered adequate. Has the promise of Season nine completely evaporated? Check dorsum soon to find out…
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