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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 276817" data-attributes="member: 33">Well there's no accounting for personal tastes and I'm sure, like you, most viewers would be able to look past it's shortcomings and still enjoy the episode. I just feel the standard of most of the early episodes is so high that when this one come along and it isn't as good I struggle to warm to it. I normally like Honor Blackman but I felt she and Richard Basehart got the whole tone of their performances wrong and played it far too light. I like when there are elements of comedy in Columbo but here I felt a more serious tone would have made their characters more believable which would have given the episode more credibility. That said, it isn't the worse episode of the original series and it's better than some of the duds in the revival series.</blockquote>