The pilot for a candidate for the best TV detective series ever made, this sees the scruffy sleuth in a battle of wits with a coldly arrogant psychiatrist who plots with his mistress to kill his wife. Columbo is one of those characters you cannot imagine being played by anyone el...( read more)
Anthony James,
Gene Barry,
Katherine Justice,
Nina Foch,
Peter Falk
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Psychiatrist Ray Fleming is having a passionate affair with actress Joan Hudson, and uses her to help him murder his wife Carol, and to make it appear the work of a vandal. Fleming and Hudson pull off...( read more
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Starts like a James Bond film, but with a hero practically Bond's direct opposite. The stumbling distraught lieutenant is not without force though, and this first episode shows it well. As the first James Bond film, this one is also not quite 'tuned in' to the style of the series...( read more)
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