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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 282716" data-attributes="member: 33">I&#039;ll cut to the chase, I hated The Conspirators. The best thing I can say about it is that it isn&#039;t as bad as Last Salute To The Commodore and if I was given a choice, I would chose to watch Mind Over Mayhem or Dagger of The Mind over this episode. It&#039;s probably a better episode than I remember but I&#039;ve only seen this one a couple of times so my memory of it isn&#039;t as great as it is for the others in the series which I have seen multiple times. What I can&#039;t forget is how they portrayed a IRA terrorist as a chirpy limerick reciting, banjo playing, affable Irishman, making use of just about every stereotype in existence, bar having him dressed up as a&nbsp; leprechaun. Another stereotype is that Irish men like having a drink so just about ever scene is set in a pub or with characters drinking, even Columbo.The fact that the murderer has connections with the IRA and supplies them with arms to murder innocent people is overlooked in favour of creating some bonhomie between the murderer and Columbo. It&#039;s not for this show to go into the history of The Troubles but when you compare Columbo&#039;s dislike of Louis Jourdan&#039;s character in Murder Under Glass for reasons I&#039;m not entirely clear about, to his warm friendly banter with a terrorist in this episode, it just doesn&#039;t feel right.The story itself is not particularly strong either. I recently said how much l liked the murders in some other episodes but in this one the murder was very low key and there was no elaborate planning or cover up as is normally the case in episodes of Columbo. The gotcha was ok but not enough to make up for everything that proceeded it.There have been a few weak episodes but overall the quality of the whole series is very high and almost every episode still makes entertaining viewing 40 to 50 years after they were made. It&#039;s no wonder that TV stations still repeat them regularly and that they still find an audience when they are screened.I didn&#039;t know this but I&#039;ll bear it in mind next time I watch this episode and it might make me view it differently.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 282716, member: 33"] I'll cut to the chase, I hated [I]The Conspirators[/I]. The best thing I can say about it is that it isn't as bad as [I]Last Salute To The Commodore [/I]and if I was given a choice, I would chose to watch [I]Mind Over Mayhem [/I]or [I]Dagger of The Mind [/I]over this episode. It's probably a better episode than I remember but I've only seen this one a couple of times so my memory of it isn't as great as it is for the others in the series which I have seen multiple times. What I can't forget is how they portrayed a IRA terrorist as a chirpy limerick reciting, banjo playing, affable Irishman, making use of just about every stereotype in existence, bar having him dressed up as a leprechaun. Another stereotype is that Irish men like having a drink so just about ever scene is set in a pub or with characters drinking, even Columbo. The fact that the murderer has connections with the IRA and supplies them with arms to murder innocent people is overlooked in favour of creating some bonhomie between the murderer and Columbo. It's not for this show to go into the history of The Troubles but when you compare Columbo's dislike of Louis Jourdan's character in [I]Murder Under Glass[/I] for reasons I'm not entirely clear about, to his warm friendly banter with a terrorist in this episode, it just doesn't feel right. The story itself is not particularly strong either. I recently said how much l liked the murders in some other episodes but in this one the murder was very low key and there was no elaborate planning or cover up as is normally the case in episodes of Columbo. The gotcha was ok but not enough to make up for everything that proceeded it. There have been a few weak episodes but overall the quality of the whole series is very high and almost every episode still makes entertaining viewing 40 to 50 years after they were made. It's no wonder that TV stations still repeat them regularly and that they still find an audience when they are screened. I didn't know this but I'll bear it in mind next time I watch this episode and it might make me view it differently. [/QUOTE]

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