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I’m not sure if Columbo’s aquired culinary skills could be put down to sloppiness of the writers, but Columbo being cured of vertigo definitely is – that’s something that really bothers me too. In Murder, Smoke and Shadows there’s this aweful scene, you know the one, where he joins his suspect in a flying director’s chair without issue.
The set up at the beginning is good enough, and the movie has other virtues. Columbo is his usual bumbling self and the plot is by no means dull or disjointed. Dabney Coleman makes a good nervous murderer. And Little Richard RULES. The guy has only a few minutes screen time but he's one of the best things in the picture, seated at his on stage piano and pounding out something that sounds like a variation on the theme of "Tutti Frutti." What a voice! Even when he speaks its terminal contours curl upward so that every utterance ends in a high-pitched squeak! And there are surprises in store for the viewer. As mentioned above, Creighton not knowing who Columbo is is absolute balderdash! Why have him cast as a homicide defence lawyer at all? Why not have his special skill be helping rich and famous folk get away with fraud and tax evasion, for example? That would give an excuse to not know who Columbo is. According to California Penal Code 32 PC: “Every person who, after a felony has been committed, harbors, conceals, or aids a principal in such felony, with the intent that said principal may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction, or punishment, having knowledge that said principal has committed such felony or has been charged with such felony or convicted thereof, is an accessory to such felony.” She doesn’t say “Where’s Freddy?” or “Who are you?”. She seems to know that Freddy is dead even though she never sees the body.He told my brother and I that he and Peter Falk had hung out at some point, and that Uncle Marty had been wearing this NFI hat (I don't have any idea where he got it). Peter Falk, being an inquisitive guy, asked my great uncle, "So, ah, what does NFI stand for?' to which Marty answered, "No F------ Idea!" Peter Falk apparently thought this was so funny that he just had to wear the hat in the episode he was currently filming! I’m not a Shera hater per se, but it’s increasingly hard to justify her meaty roles in the show given her paucity of talent.
Mr Creighton, there's no way you could have known this but there's only one place in all west Los Angeles that these berries could have come from at this time of the year. Don't let my celebrated colleague's theatrics distract you from the one inescapable fact of this case: The fact that the defendant's fingerprints were found on this knife. Hollywood film composer and conductor Findlay Crawford ( Billy Connolly) has been mentor to a talented young composer, Gabriel McEnery ( Chad Willett), who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work for the last few years. Gabe even penned Crawford's last movie score, which won an Oscar. Crawford realizes he will be ruined and ridiculed if it ever becomes known. Aware that Gabe practices on the roof of a studio building, Crawford plots his murder. He promises Gabe will get to conduct the orchestra during a concert based on Crawford's "own" movie scores. While giving a toast, Crawford drugs Gabe, then takes his body up to his rooftop rehearsal place, which happens to be atop a trapdoor to a freight elevator. He makes it look like Gabe was there rehearsing; With the concert about to begin, Crawford starts the freight elevator, then makes it into the concert hall in time to begin conducting before the elevator reaches the top. When the elevator doors open, Gabe's unconscious body is pushed over the side and falls to his death, landing in front of a late-arriving couple. Shera Danese's character unwittingly helped Dabney Coleman's attorney commit the murder by taking part in some "research". We don't know specifically what research she was carrying out, but clearly it involved wearing a mask and driving past a speed camera. Maybe they should have elaborated on how he persuaded her to do this, but it's made clear she didn't knowingly become involved in the murder.
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No explanation is given why Anders substituted his unsmoked cigarette butts with those of the victim's smoked butts. Only two cigarettes played a role in the crime; the cigarette containing the poison and the cigarette placed in the victim's hand after the deed had been accomplished. They all remembered seeing her car and a motorcycle in the driveway at the same time on several Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. When an uninitiated child can so easily see the signposts to how the case will be wrapped up, that’s a pretty hollow mystery. It’s as if the production team believed this was too complex a case for viewers to comprehend, so felt the need to spell things out in minute detail. However, this isn’t a complicated mystery by the series’ standards, making the sledgehammer style of the clue reveals seem overly clunky. Credit the viewer with a little intelligence, please. They always, um get that carried away or? Didn't you when you were that age sir? In that report of yours, um Let me see it again.
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