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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 285328" data-attributes="member: 33">I really like Columbo Goes To College, in fact it&#039;s one of my favourite New Columbo episodes. It has a well planned murder, interesting murderers who had an different but still fascinating relationship with Columbo, a nice gotcha and the return of Robert Culp.I hated the murderers but in a good way. I thought they were thoroughly despicable people. Overprivileged people who think the world should revolve around them and they can do what ever they like regardless of how it impacts on other people are one of the worse subsets of humankind in my opinion. They were the kind of people that grow up to become people like David Cameron and Boris Johnson so I was looking forward to seeing them get their comeuppance. I usually think the best Columbo episodes are when they have murderers who are likeable but it also works well when they are loathsome individuals.I also liked the relationship they had with Columbo because they were both playing each other. The the college boys were mocking him and thought they were manipulating his investigation whereas in reality Columbo was in total control. There wasn&#039;t the usual rapport that Columbo sometime had with the murder but it didn&#039;t matter here because there was another interesting relationship in the mix, that between the 2 college boys. Being able to vocalise their thoughts to each other gave the viewer an insight into their views on proceedings from their perspective which normally is only something we have to infer from the murderer&#039;s interactions with Columbo. I wonder whether they couldn&#039;t afford to pay him enough to do any more than play a small part. I imagine by this stage Peter Falk was on mega bucks so savins had to be found elsewhere. Whatever the reason, it was great to see him and he nailed the part of the rich dad. He always brings the right amount of anger and menace to his roles on Columbo.The gotcha reminded me of the one in A Friend In Deed&nbsp; in how Columbo manipulated the killers into planting incriminating evidence on the lieutenant&#039;s own or in this case, his wife&#039;s property.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 285328, member: 33"] I really like [I]Columbo Goes To College[/I], in fact it's one of my favourite New Columbo episodes. It has a well planned murder, interesting murderers who had an different but still fascinating relationship with Columbo, a nice gotcha and the return of Robert Culp. I hated the murderers but in a good way. I thought they were thoroughly despicable people. Overprivileged people who think the world should revolve around them and they can do what ever they like regardless of how it impacts on other people are one of the worse subsets of humankind in my opinion. They were the kind of people that grow up to become people like David Cameron and Boris Johnson so I was looking forward to seeing them get their comeuppance. I usually think the best Columbo episodes are when they have murderers who are likeable but it also works well when they are loathsome individuals. I also liked the relationship they had with Columbo because they were both playing each other. The the college boys were mocking him and thought they were manipulating his investigation whereas in reality Columbo was in total control. There wasn't the usual rapport that Columbo sometime had with the murder but it didn't matter here because there was another interesting relationship in the mix, that between the 2 college boys. Being able to vocalise their thoughts to each other gave the viewer an insight into their views on proceedings from their perspective which normally is only something we have to infer from the murderer's interactions with Columbo. I wonder whether they couldn't afford to pay him enough to do any more than play a small part. I imagine by this stage Peter Falk was on mega bucks so savins had to be found elsewhere. Whatever the reason, it was great to see him and he nailed the part of the rich dad. He always brings the right amount of anger and menace to his roles on Columbo. The gotcha reminded me of the one in [I]A Friend In Deed[/I] in how Columbo manipulated the killers into planting incriminating evidence on the lieutenant's own or in this case, his wife's property. [/QUOTE]

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