Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 285127" data-attributes="member: 23">I&#039;ve noticed that there&#039;s a channel that seems to show episodes of Columbo all day every day on a Sunday, which might be this one.I do wonder if that&#039;s the case with me when an actor seems familiar.Oh wow. So it&#039;s really come full circle then.That&#039;s incredible (and incredibly blatant). That really should be a huge strike against the episode, but I think the fact that it was so identical without the Nineties flourishes is what made it work. It kept things simple and it kept to the formula.I&#039;m quite intrigued by McMillan &amp; Wife anyway, so hope to watch it at some point. There doesn&#039;t seem to be a UK edition still in print, but I&#039;m sure if I keep my eyes peeled I might spot a&nbsp; decent copy or import.Oh yes. I think he even does a bit of that in the episodes written in the Nineties. I like to think he&#039;s avoided most of his training on forensics like he did his firearms test or car inspection. Probably because he was hot on someone&#039;s trail and didn&#039;t want to take time away from the field to sit in a classroom.The other two people are billed as Ron Cey and Victor Bevine. Ron Cey was apparently in the LA Dodgers baseball team, so the terrible impressionist must have been actor Victor Bevine. According to IMDb he was in four episodes of The Trials of Rosie O&#039;Neill which I watched very recently, but for the life of me I can&#039;t remember his character.That&#039;s a nice bit of fantasy casting. I can see that working really well.Yes. It seemed like an attempt to give him a childlike quirk, but he has that anyway. The brown paper bag would have been enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 285127, member: 23"] I've noticed that there's a channel that seems to show episodes of [I]Columbo[/I] all day every day on a Sunday, which might be this one. I do wonder if that's the case with me when an actor seems familiar. Oh wow. So it's [U]really[/U] come full circle then. That's incredible (and incredibly blatant). That really should be a huge strike against the episode, but I think the fact that it was so identical without the Nineties flourishes is what made it work. It kept things simple and it kept to the formula. I'm quite intrigued by [I]McMillan & Wife[/I] anyway, so hope to watch it at some point. There doesn't seem to be a UK edition still in print, but I'm sure if I keep my eyes peeled I might spot a decent copy or import. Oh yes. I think he even does a bit of that in the episodes written in the Nineties. I like to think he's avoided most of his training on forensics like he did his firearms test or car inspection. Probably because he was hot on someone's trail and didn't want to take time away from the field to sit in a classroom. The other two people are billed as Ron Cey and Victor Bevine. Ron Cey was apparently in the LA Dodgers baseball team, so the terrible impressionist must have been actor Victor Bevine. According to IMDb he was in four episodes of [I]The Trials of Rosie O'Neill[/I] which I watched very recently, but for the life of me I can't remember his character. That's a nice bit of fantasy casting. I can see that working really well. Yes. It seemed like an attempt to give him a childlike quirk, but he has that anyway. The brown paper bag would have been enough. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Who played JR Ewing?