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 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 10:56 AM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

Has anyone seen The Andersonville Trial (1970)? Jack apparently did some great work in that.



Whatta smile!


The first P.B.S. primetime special to win an Emmy award.

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 10:57 AM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Has anyone seen The Andersonville Trial (1970)? Jack apparently did some great work in that.



Whatta smile!


The first P.B.S. primetime special to win an Emmy award.


I remember seeing that!

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 10:57 AM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

Oskar Werner also appeared in an episode of "Columbo" (his only American television dramatic appearance), as did Peter Falk's friend John Cassavetes and even Johnny Cash.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 10:58 AM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

Has anyone seen The Andersonville Trial (1970)? Jack apparently did some great work in that.



Whatta smile!


The first P.B.S. primetime special to win an Emmy award.


I remember seeing that!


You can get it on D.V.D..

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 10:59 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Here's that missing photo referenced twice before. Feel free to replace the broken link with it, restoring Jack to his former glory.

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 10:59 AM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

I haven't been to the Columbo forum in years. I thought the lady who went under the name Cassavetes45(?) was an absolute sweetheart. I had chatted with her briefly on the "Johnny Staccato" IMDb message board. I was saddened to learn that she died in 2012.

I just watched STACCATO. Complete series on DVD.
Still have it if you're interested in buying or trading for it.

Also have MAN WITH A CAMERA fs/ft

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 11:01 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

I just watched STACCATO. Complete series on DVD.
Still have it if you're interested in buying or trading for it.


Oh, sure! I'd love to trade for a dvd set that I've had for ten years and in fact told you about months ago!

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 11:38 AM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

I just watched STACCATO. Complete series on DVD.
Still have it if you're interested in buying or trading for it.


Oh, sure! I'd love to trade for a dvd set that I've had for ten years and in fact told you about months ago!


Great.
Send me your list!

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2019 - 1:56 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Robert Culp in "Death Lends a Hand"



Thanks to (member) for the original picture.

 
 Posted:   Dec 25, 2019 - 10:46 AM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

Someone on the Ultimate Columbo Site message board finally spotted Ms. Martel in Double Exposure. When Kepple goes to plant the gun in the Norris house, Mrs. Norris leaves just before he goes inside. Coincidence? Long wait? No...she gets into a car with Arlene Martel. Kepple's confederate, Tanya Baker was obviously helping clear the way for him. The rest of the scene must have been cut.

Incorrect. That wasn't Martel that was an actress named Alma Beltran playing Mrs. Norris's housekeeper. It's more evident that Martel's role was intended for scenes that took place before the opening shot of the episode because I'm convinced the episode was filmed as a two hour show and then hacked to 90 minutes.

 
 Posted:   Dec 25, 2019 - 5:35 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Someone on the Ultimate Columbo Site message board finally spotted Ms. Martel in Double Exposure. When Kepple goes to plant the gun in the Norris house, Mrs. Norris leaves just before he goes inside. Coincidence? Long wait? No...she gets into a car with Arlene Martel. Kepple's confederate, Tanya Baker was obviously helping clear the way for him. The rest of the scene must have been cut.

Incorrect. That wasn't Martel that was an actress named Alma Beltran playing Mrs. Norris's housekeeper. It's more evident that Martel's role was intended for scenes that took place before the opening shot of the episode because I'm convinced the episode was filmed as a two hour show and then hacked to 90 minutes.


Very possible.
The blackmail plot always struck me as weak, which is one reason I don't rate this at the top.

Btw check out Kepple's demeanor as Chuck tries to shake him down.
Culp was. marvel!

 
 Posted:   Dec 26, 2019 - 9:09 AM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

Given McCann's prominence in all those Right Guard commercials in the 70s as the annoying neighbor on the other side of the shared medicine cabinet, I keep thinking Culp should have said as he pulled the trigger, "One shot and you're good for the whole day!"

 
 Posted:   Dec 26, 2019 - 10:35 AM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

I'm shocked that it has taken me ten years to get in here and state my complete agreement with Jim P's initial assessment as noted in the thread title.

Much as I love many others named here (especially Lee Grant, Ross Martin, Ruth Gordon, Shatner & Nimoy, and Donald Pleasence) - these are my faves.

I've grown to love Double Exposure best among equals - mostly because it is probably the best "two hander" of them all. For example, the scene on the golf course is perfect, with some fine ad-libbing. Two pros having a ball.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 26, 2019 - 10:57 AM   
 By:   Xebec   (Member)

Robert Culp in "Death Lends a Hand"



Thanks to (member) for the original picture.


The music and editing in the murder scene was so great!

I also liked the episode where Columbo catches a sneering art critic. I think there's a fantastic-looking receptionist in a gallery in that episode too.

 
 Posted:   Oct 11, 2020 - 1:19 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

OnyaBirri's on a Columbo jag, so let this thread rise again.

 
 Posted:   Oct 12, 2020 - 8:59 AM   
 By:   Ray Faiola   (Member)

For me, the biggest miss was not having Ben Gazzara do a killer role. One of the Cassavetes crew (many of whom were on Columbo) he directed 2 episodes. But it would have been great to have the two greatest underplayers on television face off against one another.

 
 Posted:   Oct 12, 2020 - 9:09 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

For me, the biggest miss was not having Ben Gazzara do a killer role. One of the Cassavetes crew (many of whom were on Columbo) he directed 2 episodes. But it would have been great to have the two greatest underplayers on television face off against one another.

I agree! I think someone posted that same Gazzara sentiment either here or in another Columbo thread.

 
 Posted:   Oct 12, 2020 - 10:13 AM   
 By:   Ray Faiola   (Member)


I agree! I think someone posted that same Gazzara sentiment either here or in another Columbo thread.


HAH! It was me! In Gazzara's RIP thread!

 
 Posted:   Oct 12, 2020 - 4:00 PM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

For me, the biggest miss was not having Ben Gazzara do a killer role. One of the Cassavetes crew (many of whom were on Columbo) he directed 2 episodes. But it would have been great to have the two greatest underplayers on television face off against one another.

In the AV Club's TV Club 10 article, Levinson and Link put it like this: "Given the persona of Falk as an actor, it would have been foolish to play him against a similar type, a Jack Klugman, for example, or a Martin Balsam. Much more fun could be had if he were confronted by someone like Noël Coward.".

 
 Posted:   Dec 30, 2020 - 1:42 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Columbo co-creator William Link dead at 87.

Steven Spielberg paid tribute to Link in the article:

“Bill’s truly good nature always inspired me to do good work for a man who, along with Dick Levinson, was a huge part of what became my own personal film school on the Universal lot,” Spielberg said in a statement. “Bill was one of my favorite and most patient teachers and, more than anything, I learned so much from him about the true anatomy of a plot. I caught a huge break when Bill and Dick trusted a young, inexperienced director to do the first episode of ‘Columbo.’ That job helped convince the studio to let me do ‘Duel,’ and with all that followed I owe Bill so very, very much. My thoughts are with Margery and his entire family.”

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/william-link-dead-columbo-murder-she-wrote-1234876219/

 
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