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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 276777" data-attributes="member: 33">I consider Dagger of The Mind to be the second worst episode in the original run of Columbo episodes mainly because of the hammy performances of Honor Blackman and Richard Basehart. They are so over the top they almost give a pantomime performance. I just couldn&#039;t take the episode seriously because they were so awful. What I did like though was seeing what London looked like in the 1970s and my favourite part of the show and trying to work out what were the real use of buildings repurposed for the show (e.g. the House of Wax at the end was really a college of the University of London).The storyline of Dagger of The Mind&nbsp; is actually not that bad and in the hands of 2 more lead actors that played the parts more seriously it could have been a reasonably good episode. It&#039;s a shame really because they went to the trouble to shift production to London only to produce a really weak episode. The ending when Richard Basehart rambles lines from a play like he&#039;s having some kind of mental breakdown was badly written and even worse acted and just when I thought this episode couldn&#039;t get any worse that moment proved me wrong. I can only recall 2 episodes of Columbo that weren&#039;t set in the USA this one and Troubled Waters which was&nbsp; set on a cruise ship and the actor who played the English detective in this episode also played a key member of the ship&#039;s crew in Troubled Waters. Requiem For a Falling Star is in a different league altogether. The 2 main actors other than Peter Falk (Anne Baxter and Mel Ferrer) were both really good and I loved the Lieutenant&#039;s bashful star-stuck approach when interacting with Nora.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 276777, member: 33"] I consider [I]Dagger of The Mind[/I] to be the second worst episode in the original run of Columbo episodes mainly because of the hammy performances of Honor Blackman and Richard Basehart. They are so over the top they almost give a pantomime performance. I just couldn't take the episode seriously because they were so awful. What I did like though was seeing what London looked like in the 1970s and my favourite part of the show and trying to work out what were the real use of buildings repurposed for the show (e.g. the House of Wax at the end was really a college of the University of London). The storyline of [I]Dagger of The Mind[/I] is actually not that bad and in the hands of 2 more lead actors that played the parts more seriously it could have been a reasonably good episode. It's a shame really because they went to the trouble to shift production to London only to produce a really weak episode. The ending when Richard Basehart rambles lines from a play like he's having some kind of mental breakdown was badly written and even worse acted and just when I thought this episode couldn't get any worse that moment proved me wrong. I can only recall 2 episodes of Columbo that weren't set in the USA this one and [I]Troubled Waters[/I] which was set on a cruise ship and the actor who played the English detective in this episode also played a key member of the ship's crew in [I]Troubled Waters. [/I] Requiem For a Falling Star is in a different league altogether. The 2 main actors other than Peter Falk (Anne Baxter and Mel Ferrer) were both really good and I loved the Lieutenant's bashful star-stuck approach when interacting with Nora. [/QUOTE]

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