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7.0/10   572 votes
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Director:
Edward M. Abroms
Writers:
Jackson Gillis (teleplay)
Lester Pine (story) ...
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Release Date:
19 January 1972 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Mystery | Crime more
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
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. more
User Comments:
It should have been Sir Roddy McDowall! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Falk ... Lt. 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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Additional Details

Runtime:
73 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-7 (2004)
Company:
Universal TV more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The last episode of the first season of "Columbo" to be filmed, though it aired before Columbo: Blueprint for Murder (1972) (TV) more
Goofs:
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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Movie Connections:
Followed by Columbo: No Time to Die (1992) (TV) more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
It should have been Sir Roddy McDowall!, 18 May 2006
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Author: Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States

It should have been Sir Roddy McDowall in my opinion. Why he never got knighted for his contributions to acting and drama, I will never know. This episode also feature Ida Lupino, another legendary actress, writer and director herself. Sir Roddy as I will call him plays a genius character who wants too much from his stepfather who played the evil Vice Presidential candidate in the original Manchurian Candidate. His plan is ingenious but there are exceptions being that Sir Roddy's character is still no match for Lieutenant COlumbo's genius. You have to laugh with him at the end of the film. Like most COlumbo episodes, you have to pay attention. We know who kills the character but how does Columbo catch him or her in some cases is just as fascinating as the episodes themselves.

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