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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 285070" data-attributes="member: 33">Uneasy Lies The Crown is the most recent episode of Columbo that I've seen, I caught it on the channel 5 USA last year, so I have quite a good memory of it. While watching, it was bugging me where I had seen the murderer before so I visited IMBD to see what else he's been in but that didn't really help and I'm still not sure why he looked so familiar. He played Elle Wood's father in Legally Blonde so maybe I remembered him from that but it was a small insignificant role so I not sure if that was it. Then it suddenly hit me, I remembered him from this episode of Columbo when I had previously seen it!The research I did wasn't wasted because that was how I found out about this:What I read was that the episode was originally written for Columbo in the 1970s but Peter Falk didn't think the story was good enough and rejected it. Steven Bochco tweaked the script and turned it into an episode of McMillan. Standards weren't quite so high in the 1990s so they dusted off the script and filmed it as it was originally intended, as and episode of Columbo. I found the episode of McMillan online and it's fascinating to watch because it's almost identical and they made very few changes. Scenes that seemed like they weren't essential were in the original script so the poker scene was there and the coffee machine scene was there. Some of the dialogue was identical and all the characters' names were the same. I also liked this episode of Columbo so I can't understand why it was rejected but Mind Over Mayhem and Last Salute To The Commodore  were deemed to be good enough.Columbo did his usual compromising of forensic evidence. When he inspects the car where the body was found, he get into it and holds the steering wheel and searches around while not wearing gloves. Any fingerprint or fibre examinations that were subsequently carried out would be worthless due to potential contamination. However, it was written in the 1970s when people were less aware of the value of forensics in crime scene examinations.I knew Nancy Walker from McMillan & Wife and Dick Sargent from Bewtiched but who were the other 2 people, especially that annoying guy doing impressions who thought he was funnier than he actually was? The scene went on far too long and I couldn't help thinking if only that guy was the one who was murdered.I kind of liked him although if I was playing my fantasy casting with a bigger budget, Sean Penn would have been good in the role.Columbo arrived at the dental surgery with his brown paper bag which is always a good sign but then he takes out a child's science kit. Why couldn't he have borrowed a pipette and some reagents from the forensic lab? Showing up with a toy just made him look ridiculous. It's definitely one of the better episodes of the reboot series.</blockquote>

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