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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 285147" data-attributes="member: 33">Looking at the photo of of Columbo you posted, Peter Falk still thought hair dye was a good idea for Columbo which doesn&#039;t really fit with the character everyone thought they knew who wasn&#039;t particularly bothered about his appearance.My overriding memory of this episode is the scene in which Columbo says &quot;panties&quot; about 100 times. Well, it&#039;s not actually as many as that but he says it so often that it feels as though it is 100 times. Maybe it&#039;s an American thing but it&#039;s not a word I hear anyone say in normal life and I always found it surprising that Columbo didn&#039;t refer to the garment as &quot;underwear&quot;.I also think Peter Falk used a fake cigar in this episode. He might have used it before but his was the first time I remember noticing it. There was one scene in which his cigar had a huge length of ash on the end and he&#039;s waving his arm around while he&#039;s talking and the ash remains in place. The length of the cigar stays the same length throughout the scene and as I mentioned previously there were often continuity inconsistencies with his cigar and I can&#039;t imagine they would have got it right with so much ash on his cigar.I came to same conclusion. It was an ok but not great episode but not knowing exactly who the murderer was added a bit more interest to proceedings.I agree, she was great in her role. She would have made a more interesting murderer than Andrew Stevens who I thought seemed to be a very average actor in this and at times I thought he was a bit wooden. I remembered him being a more convincing actor when he was in Dallas. I never have put my underpants on back to front but I have put them on inside out before (boxers not panties!) so yes, it&#039;s an easy mistake to make. I think they knew it was a weak clue which is why Columbo said arrest him on &quot;suspicion&quot; of murder rather than something more conclusive. I can&#039;t recall him ever saying this in any other episode. At least they spared us the Scooby Doo moment when the murderer gives a full confession when presented with shaky evidence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 285147, member: 33"] Looking at the photo of of Columbo you posted, Peter Falk still thought hair dye was a good idea for Columbo which doesn't really fit with the character everyone thought they knew who wasn't particularly bothered about his appearance. My overriding memory of this episode is the scene in which Columbo says "panties" about 100 times. Well, it's not actually as many as that but he says it so often that it feels as though it is 100 times. Maybe it's an American thing but it's not a word I hear anyone say in normal life and I always found it surprising that Columbo didn't refer to the garment as "underwear". I also think Peter Falk used a fake cigar in this episode. He might have used it before but his was the first time I remember noticing it. There was one scene in which his cigar had a huge length of ash on the end and he's waving his arm around while he's talking and the ash remains in place. The length of the cigar stays the same length throughout the scene and as I mentioned previously there were often continuity inconsistencies with his cigar and I can't imagine they would have got it right with so much ash on his cigar. I came to same conclusion. It was an ok but not great episode but not knowing exactly who the murderer was added a bit more interest to proceedings. I agree, she was great in her role. She would have made a more interesting murderer than Andrew Stevens who I thought seemed to be a very average actor in this and at times I thought he was a bit wooden. I remembered him being a more convincing actor when he was in [I]Dallas[/I]. I never have put my underpants on back to front but I have put them on inside out before (boxers not panties!) so yes, it's an easy mistake to make. I think they knew it was a weak clue which is why Columbo said arrest him on "suspicion" of murder rather than something more conclusive. I can't recall him ever saying this in any other episode. At least they spared us the Scooby Doo moment when the murderer gives a full confession when presented with shaky evidence. [/QUOTE]

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