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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 277751" data-attributes="member: 23">Publish Or Perish continued... As Greenleaf’s alibi came out into the open and Columbo appeared to be buying what he was being sold, I found myself second guessing both of them, and their interactions were great fun. Because of this, moments of doubt became even more important. Like Columbo pointing out that Riley had referred to the people whose car he hit with the plural form “they”, despite him not yet being supposed to know that there were two occupants in the car instead of one.It was nice to see Mariette Hartley, who I know best from her Emmy-winning performance in The Incredible Hulk. This episode’s glorious glasses alert (oh - I love seeing all these Seventies specs) comes from Alan Fudge’s character David Chase - Greenleaf’s personal lawyer - who wears a classy pair of tortoiseshell Tart Arnel type frames. <img src="http://www.movie-dude.com/1Actors%20Images%20A/Alan%20Fudge%20%20'Columbo'%20(1974)%203.5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Classic Columboisms galore come in the form of the impromptu lunch at Chasen’s restaurant, with Columbo horrifying the waiter by ordering chilli, crackers, ketchup and iced tea. It’s a joy to behold. Incidentally, despite the waiter’s incredulity at being asked to serve such a dish, Wikipedia tells me Chasen’s was famous for its chilli. Columbo himself says it’s good, so perhaps he started a trend. Can a Columbo episode be too clever? You’d think not. All the same if this episode has an Achilles’ Heel it’s just that. It’s all very nuanced and multi-layered, and the plot doesn’t seem to follow a linear path. Instead, we garner fragments of information here and there. There’s a lot of information to take on board and work with and the episode demands more attention than I gave it.Had I been more prepared for this episode I’d probably be marvelling at its ingenuity. As it was, I watched this one later than I usually would. It didn’t end until 10:20pm which, for me, is too late an hour to maintain such concentration. Consequently, the Gotcha almost went over my head until I'd dug deep to review what I'd already seen.All of which means the fates conspired to make this episode one of the less impactful one, even though I admire the craft that went into its complex structure. </blockquote>

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