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Jackson Gillis (written by) and
Richard Levinson (creator)
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22 November 1992 (USA) more
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Harold likes to gamble, but as a rule he loses and he is heavily in debt. His uncle is the famous Big... more | add synopsis
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A different twist: two bodies more than usual. more (7 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Tyne Daly | ... | Dolores |
 | Greg Evigan | ... | Harold McCain |
| Frank McRae | ... | Lt. Robertson (as Frank Mc Rae) |
 | Don S. Davis | ... | Bertie |
 | León Singer | ... | Fernando (as Leon Singer) |
 | Michael Gregory | ... | Mr. Hacker |
| Steve Forrest | ... | Big Fred |
| Stephen Liska | ... | Casino Manager |
| G.F. Smith | ... | Salesman |
| Carol Swarbrick | ... | Casino Waitress |
| Ed McCready | ... | Ed |
| John Petlock | ... | Medical Examiner |
| Joel Beeson | ... | Clyde |
| Kay Perry | ... | Honey |
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Germany:90 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)
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Repeated "stock footage": The film of two police cars racing to the scene of the second murder in "A Bird In The Hand", swerving around the corner by the liquor store is the same film seen in Columbo: No Time to Die (1992) (TV), as police rush to rescue Melissa. These two episodes were originally broadcast during the same year, one after the other. more
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Followed by Columbo: Undercover (1994) (TV) more
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Because Of You more
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This episode may have been weakened by three people being killed off, with possible multiple culprits.
As in some other episodes, there is delightful chemistry between Columbo and his quarry, in this case played by Greg Evigan. Evigan's reactions and timing are impeccable.
Tyne Daly works hard, but not too convincingly at first, at being a middle-aged boozy ditz. However, when her husband is killed, she takes control of his football team and his money, the latter always needed by her younger lover, Evigan, for gambling debts; this transformation has a perverse appeal.
Noteworthy, too, is a scene when Columbo, in his rumpled coat, walks into a very proper Rolls Royce showroom and is all over the engine compartment and underneath the car threatening to take something apart, all this to the delight of a gathering sidewalk crowd.