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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 287358" data-attributes="member: 33">I can&#039;t disagree with [USER=23]@Mel O&#039;Drama[/USER] review of this episode. I think Undercover gets one of my nominations for being the worst Columbo episode ever. It&#039;s actually a reasonably entertaining made for TV detective film but it just isn&#039;t Columbo. It&#039;s a great shame because it has a strong cast with Ed Begley Jr and Tyne Daley, amongst others, it&#039;s well acted throughout and some of the comedy works but it just feels like another show altogether with Peter Falk playing another detective. Why couldn&#039;t they have written it as a standard Columbo format with a character played by Ed Begley Jr. murdering one played by Tyne Daley?I thought Tyne Daley was great in her scene playing the heavy drinking ex-prostitute. When I first saw this scene some years ago I remember posting something on another thread in which I commented on the end of the scene when Columbo briefly kisses Ms Daley on the lips which was completely out of character for Columbo and totally out of place for how he was interacting with her&nbsp; character up to that point.<img src="https://i.imgur.com/Di9ejig.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 499px" />At the time I speculated (and I still believe) that Peter Falk was so taken with how well she played the scene that he spontaneously kissed her in appreciation of her performance and they decided to keep it in even though it was very un-Columbo like. However, as the entire episode was very un-Columbo they could have done anything as the rule book had gone out the window from the beginning.My sentiments exactly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 287358, member: 33"] I can't disagree with [USER=23]@Mel O'Drama[/USER] review of this episode. I think [I]Undercover [/I]gets one of my nominations for being the worst [I]Columbo [/I]episode ever. It's actually a reasonably entertaining made for TV detective film but it just isn't Columbo. It's a great shame because it has a strong cast with Ed Begley Jr and Tyne Daley, amongst others, it's well acted throughout and some of the comedy works but it just feels like another show altogether with Peter Falk playing another detective. Why couldn't they have written it as a standard Columbo format with a character played by Ed Begley Jr. murdering one played by Tyne Daley? I thought Tyne Daley was great in her scene playing the heavy drinking ex-prostitute. When I first saw this scene some years ago I remember posting something on another thread in which I commented on the end of the scene when Columbo briefly kisses Ms Daley on the lips which was completely out of character for Columbo and totally out of place for how he was interacting with her character up to that point. [IMG width="499px"]https://i.imgur.com/Di9ejig.jpeg[/IMG] At the time I speculated (and I still believe) that Peter Falk was so taken with how well she played the scene that he spontaneously kissed her in appreciation of her performance and they decided to keep it in even though it was very un-Columbo like. However, as the entire episode was very un-Columbo they could have done anything as the rule book had gone out the window from the beginning. My sentiments exactly. [/QUOTE]

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