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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 288477" data-attributes="member: 33">Thank you. I started watching Columbo when I was 7 and I used to think I watched it when it was first broadcast but with the advent of the internet and seeing when they were first broadcast I realised I must have been watching repeats unless they were shown in the UK many years after they were originally screened in the USA. Because they have been repeated often over the last 4 decades, I&#039;ve seen most episodes of the original run multiple times and other than Dallas, it&#039;s probably the show that I&#039;ve watched most often so I am very familiar with the series. However, reading your reviews often brought up interesting observations that I never before noticed so maybe I don&#039;t know it as well as I sometimes think.I totally get what you&#039;re saying and it is odd that they would take a completely new approach to telling the story for the last episode. My theory was that it wasn&#039;t meant to be the last episode and they were using this episode to show the network they could inject new energy into the old format to attract new audiences. I recall reading in a newspaper around the time Columbo Likes The Nightlife was broadcast that the next episode was going to be based around a murder in a Big Brother type setting and all the suspects and everything they did would have been recorded on camera. I think that would have been fascinating and would again be a episode that was more orientated towards a younger audience. Obviously, it never happened. I also read they again tried to bring it back for a final episode called Columbo Last Case which involved a murder taking place around Columbo&#039;s retirement from the LAPD but by then the network was no longer interested in making the show.&nbsp;I think there are a handful of episode that are so good they are a notch above all the rest and I&#039;d probably say they were the top 8 to 10 in my list and I think they would feature in most people&#039;s top 20. Of the other episode, there are around 30 more that I would still rate as beingvery good&nbsp; and any of them could have made my top twenty on another day. Then there are around 20 more that are reasonably good but didn&#039;t really blow me away and finally another 10 that are stinkers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 288477, member: 33"] Thank you. I started watching Columbo when I was 7 and I used to think I watched it when it was first broadcast but with the advent of the internet and seeing when they were first broadcast I realised I must have been watching repeats unless they were shown in the UK many years after they were originally screened in the USA. Because they have been repeated often over the last 4 decades, I've seen most episodes of the original run multiple times and other than Dallas, it's probably the show that I've watched most often so I am very familiar with the series. However, reading your reviews often brought up interesting observations that I never before noticed so maybe I don't know it as well as I sometimes think. I totally get what you're saying and it is odd that they would take a completely new approach to telling the story for the last episode. My theory was that it wasn't meant to be the last episode and they were using this episode to show the network they could inject new energy into the old format to attract new audiences. I recall reading in a newspaper around the time [I]Columbo Likes The Nightlife[/I] was broadcast that the next episode was going to be based around a murder in a [I]Big Brother[/I] type setting and all the suspects and everything they did would have been recorded on camera. I think that would have been fascinating and would again be a episode that was more orientated towards a younger audience. Obviously, it never happened. I also read they again tried to bring it back for a final episode called [I]Columbo Last Case[/I] which involved a murder taking place around Columbo's retirement from the LAPD but by then the network was no longer interested in making the show. I think there are a handful of episode that are so good they are a notch above all the rest and I'd probably say they were the top 8 to 10 in my list and I think they would feature in most people's top 20. Of the other episode, there are around 30 more that I would still rate as beingvery good and any of them could have made my top twenty on another day. Then there are around 20 more that are reasonably good but didn't really blow me away and finally another 10 that are stinkers. [/QUOTE]

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