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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 440906" data-attributes="member: 33">It&#039;s a standard cliché used in TV and film to interrupt something important from happening with an every day, mundane action.&nbsp; It&#039;s used more than once in Columbo, for example in the first episode, Prescription Murder, the telephone rings in the middle of when the murderer (played by Gene Barry) is strangling his victim. I think its called &quot;bathos&quot; when this happens, although I might be ascribing the wrong term to this type of occurrence.It was originally an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in which Barbara Bel Geddes played the murderer who roasts the leg of lamb and serves it to the investigating police officers. You are correct though that it was made into an episode of Tales of The Unexpected in which Susan George (real life wife of Falcon Crest&nbsp; Greg Reardon actor Simon MacCorkindale) played the murderer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 440906, member: 33"] It's a standard cliché used in TV and film to interrupt something important from happening with an every day, mundane action. It's used more than once in [I]Columbo, [/I]for example in the first episode, [I]Prescription Murder[/I], the telephone rings in the middle of when the murderer (played by Gene Barry) is strangling his victim. I think its called "bathos" when this happens, although I might be ascribing the wrong term to this type of occurrence. It was originally an episode of [I]Alfred Hitchcock Presents[/I] in which Barbara Bel Geddes played the murderer who roasts the leg of lamb and serves it to the investigating police officers. You are correct though that it was made into an episode of [I]Tales of The Unexpected[/I] in which Susan George (real life wife of[I] Falcon Crest[/I] Greg Reardon actor Simon MacCorkindale) played the murderer. [/QUOTE]

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