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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Jackson Gillis (teleplay)
Lester Pine (story) ...
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TV Series:
Original Air Date:
19 January 1972 (Season 1, Episode 6)
Plot:
A chemical plant's director gets threats and issues threats, and one of the employees develops and plants a bomb in his car. When the car turns out to be missing, Columbo is called to find out what happened. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
A Columbo adventure without much spark! more (13 total)
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Roger Stanford |
 | Anne Francis | ... | Valerie Bishop |
 | James Gregory | ... | David L. Buckner |
| Ida Lupino | ... | Doris Buckner |
| William Windom | ... | Everett Logan |
| Steve Gravers | ... | Sergeant |
| Lawrence Cook | ... | Murphy |
| Rosalind Miles | ... | Nancy |
| Lew Brown | ... | Farrell |
| Jason Wingreen | ... | Policeman |
| Eddie Quillan | ... | Ferguson |
| Stuart Nisbet | ... | Pinstripe |
| Annette Molen | ... | Girl |
| Jim Neumarker | ... | Plainclothesman |
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Runtime:
73 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Finland:K-7 (2004)
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Roger's car is a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona. more
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Continuity: In the elevator scene as well as in the scene that follows where Columbo is standing on the small and narrow road in the mountains, the character obviously suffers from vertigo. However, a few scenes later he is walking down the high metal staircases at the outside of a factory building and suddenly his vertigo seems to have completely disappeared. more
Quotes:
Doris Buckner:
I called the Commissioner and he said he'd send his very best man.
Roger Stanford:
Is that a fact.
Lt. Columbo:
My wife says I'm the second-best, she claims there are eighty men tied for first.
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When I say that the ending is the best part of this final Season 1 Columbo adventure, I'm not being totally sarcastic: it is the most enjoyable and entertaining aspect of what is a largely indifferent addition to the series.
Roddy McDowall is certainly not one of Columbo's strongest adversaries, a fact that is perpetuated by his character's alarming tendency to incriminate himself. The story is not bloated with the typical script ingenuity or fluency, the plot development is laboured and the characters are decidedly boring.
All in all not one of Columbo's finest hours. On reflection, nobody's heart appears to be in it. For Columbo completionists only.