Season 2 of Columbo

Cet article presents the guide of the episodes of season 2 of the Televised series Columbo ( Columbo ).

Episode 1: Symphony in black

  • original Title : Study in Black
  • Number (S) : 10 (2.1)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Steven Bochco ; history: Richard Levinson & William Link
  • Realizer (S) : Nicholas Colasanto
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : John Cassavetes (Alex Benedict), James Olson (Paul Rifkin), Blythe Danner (Janice Benedict), Anjanette Comer (Jennifer Welles), Myrna Loy (Lizzy Fielding), James McEachin (Billy), Gift Knight (Mike Alexander), Dawn Frame (Audrey), Charles Macaulay (Durkee), Pat Morita (House Servant boy), Michael Fox (Dr. Benson), Wallace Chadwell (TV Director), George Gaynes (Everett)
  • Summarized : Alex Benedict, leader financed by his mother-in-law, has a connection with one of his pianists, Jennifer Welles. This one requires of him to divorce his wife under the threat to reveal this connection at the great day. Not to give up its luxurious way of life, Benedict assassinates its mistress one evening in concert to the Hollywood Bowl and makes up the scene in suicide. It tries to mislead Columbo while making accept its presence in the slides at the time of the murder.
  • Comment : In this episode, Columbo evaluates the age of its dog at approximately 12 years.

Episode 2: Say it with flowers

  • original Title : The Greenhouse Jungle
  • Number (S) : 11 (2.2)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Jonathan Latimer; history: Boris Sagal
  • Realizer (S) : Boris Sagal
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Ray Milland (Jarvis Goodland), Bradford Dillman (Tony Goodland), Bob Dishy (Sgt. Fred Wilson), Sandra Smith (Cathy Goodland), William Smith (Ken Nichols), Arlene Martel (Gloria West), Robert Karnes (Grover), Milton Frome (Driver), Peggy Mondo (Woman), Larry Watson (Sound Man), Richard Anus (Officer)
  • Summarized : Tony Goodland organizes his own removal with the assistance of his uncle Jarvis in order to release 500.000 $ of the supervision under which they are placed. Once the poured ransom, Jarvis assassinates its nephew and tries to make show the inaccurate wife of its victim. By finding an index in the greenhouse of Jarvis, Columbo will establish the link between this crime and an older business.
  • Comment :
  • In this episode, Columbo is assisted by the Wilson sergeant of which the methods and the temperament are contrary to those of the lieutenant.
  • the memorable cascade of Columbo when it descends the slope is quite real. Not indicated in script, this so funny and unexpected fall was retained for the episode.

Episode 3: the Grain of sand

  • original Title : The Most Crucial Range
  • Number (S) : 12 (2.3)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: John T. Dugan; history: Jeremy Kagan
  • Realizer (S) : Jeremy Kagan
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Robert Culp (Paul Hanlon), Dean Jagger (Walter Cunnell), James Gregory (Rizzo Coach), Valerie To grip (Eva Babcock), Susan Howard (Eric' S Wife), Dean Stockwell (Eric), Valley Avery (Ralph Dobbs), Kathryn Kelly Wiget (Johnson Miss), Richard Stahl (Mr. Fremont), Gift Keefer (Deputy Coroner), Cliff Carnell (Plainclothesman), Joe Renteria (Waiting Box), Ivan Naranjo (Sgt. Hernandez)
  • Summarized : Paul Hanlon, in load of a football team, is in conflict with the owner. He decides to assassinate it during a match while making believe that it remained permanently in the central cabin by some telephone calls given judiciously. Suspect Columbo that there was murder, and nothing comes to support the alibi of Paul Hanlon, until Columbo discovers that the telephone of the victim had been put on listening by a private detective. These recordings bring the proof that Paul Hanlon telephoned during the match, which confirms its alibi. Consequently, Columbo, always convinced, starts to despair not to find a weakness in the plan of the murderer.
  • Comment : One finds Robert Culp in the role of the assassin, whom it had already held in episode 4 (1-2) False witness ( Death Lends has Hand ). This last is well-known for the role of Kelly Robinson in I Spy (1965) where it divided the high-speed motorboat with Bill Cosby (Alexander Scott).
    La victim is interprêtée by Dean Stockwell, large actor of cinema, and which will play later in '' Code Quantum '' ('' Quantum Leap '', 1989).

Episode 4: S.O.S. Scotland Yard

  • original Title : Dagger off the Mind
  • Number (S) : 13 (2.4)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Jackson Gillis; history: Richard Levinson & William Link
  • Realizer (S) : Richard Quine
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Richard Basehart (Nicholas Frame), Wilfrid Hyde-White (To tan), Bernard Fox (William Durk), John Williams (ISir Roger Haversham), Honor Blackman (Lilian Stanhope), Arthur Mallet (Joe Fenwick), Harvey Jason (Director), Peter Church (Constable), Veronica Anderson (Maid), Gerald S. Peters (Inspector Smythe), Sharon Johansen (Dudley Miss), John Orchard (Country Constable), Ronald Long (Mr. Jones), Walker Edmiston (Gardener), Hedley Mattingly (Customs Man)
  • Summarized : With London: Nicholas Frame and his wife Lillian Stanhope are two actors of British Théâtre S preparing Macbeth. It is by alluring the producer Sir Roger Haversham that Lillian, with the complicity of her husband, led Sir Haversham to assemble the part. When it realizes there, it wants all to stop, but in the argument which follows it takes a bad blow and dies. The husbands decide to mask this homicide in accident of fall of staircase in its residence. Lt Columbo is in visit with Scotland Yard for exchanges of police method, and is interested in the business. Its insinuations push the detective as a chief superintendant Durk to require a autopsy which indicates that there was murder. Details like spots of rain on the car, and the melodramatic attitude of the husbands pushes it on their track, but it does not find any element concrete. The caretaker of the Théâtre has a proof without the knowledge, but Nicholas Frame manages to subtilize it.
  • Comment : A singular episode which occurs to London. Almost all the possible stereotypes and wink reviewed: Big Ben, the concerns the guard, the Tower Bridge (Bridge of London), Scotland Yard. Some scenes highlight accents and choice of the British words or London, one of it so much so that Columbo even does not include/understand what is said. Certain elements are even integral part of the scenario: the typical Umbrella London, Shakespeare, a majordomo, and the Museum of Wax of M {{me}} Tussaud. The detective as a chief superintendant Durk is played by Bernard Fox which one remembers the memorable appearances in '' My witch beloved '' ('' Bewitched '', 1964). Lillian Stanhope is interpreted by Honor Blackman, which was Cathy Gale in '' Bowler hat and leather boots '' ('' The Avengers '') of 1962 à1964. The scene where she drinks champagne in the bed of course points out its partner John Steed of this series.

Episode 5: Requiem for a star

  • original Title : Requiem for has Falling Star
  • Numéro (S) : 14 (2.5)
  • Scénariste (S) : Scenario television: Jackson Gillis; history: Richard Quine
  • Realizer (S) : Richard Quine
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Pippa Scott (Jean Davis), Anne Baxter (Nora Chandler), Mel To shoe (Jerry Parks), Kevin McCarthy (Dr. Frank Simmons), Frank Converses (Mr. Fallen), Edith Head (Herself), John Archer (Paul), Sid Miller (Director), William Bryant (Sgt. Jeffries), Robert E. Meredith (Joe), Bart Burns (Sgt. Fields)
  • Summarized : Nora Chandler is an actress on the decline, which secretly surprises its Jean secretary (to pronounce Djin ) in flirt with Jerry Parks, a journalist with scandal. When Nora threatens it, he says to him that he is with the current certain private embezzlements and he threatens all to reveal. By softness, Nora convinces Jean to deal with certain number of races for it knowing that thwarts its plans to pass with Jerry its evening of birthday. Jean meets Jerry in secrecy, followed by Nora. Then Nora traps the house of Jerry with gasoline, which it ignites when the car of Jerry arrives. One learns the following day that it was Jean and not Jerry in the car. It thus seems, for the spectator and Columbo, that the assassin was mistaken in target. Columbo seeks a track in the enemies of Jerry, but it does not manage to explain suitably why Jean and Jerry exchanged their car. Finally, Nora claims to help the investigation by making Columbo force Jerry to reveal the embezzlement to him; but it had already negotiated with the victim of the diversion, returning the blackmail of Jerry without object, and this revelation does nothing but eliminate it from the list of the suspects.
  • Comment : This episode is relatively short: 70 minutes, and its structure differs from the usual formula. It is only tardily that one learns who was really the person aimed by the murder (one does not know since the beginning if Nora wanted to kill Jean or Jerry), and it is not that at the 61 qu minute ' one learns finally the true mobile.

Episode 6: the Specialist

  • original Title : has Stitch in Crime
  • Numéro (S) : 15 (2.6)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Shirl Hendryx; history: Hy Averback
  • Realizer (S) : Hy Averback
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Nita Talbot (Marsha Dalton), Anne Francis (Sharon Martin), Jared Martin (Harry Alexander), Aneta Corsaut (Children's nurse), Victor Milan (Detective), Leonard Nimoy (Dr. Barry Mayfield), Anne Francis (Children's nurse Sharon Martin), Will Geer (Dr. Edmund Hidemann), Victor Milan (Det. Flora), Kenneth Sansom (Paul), Patsy Garrett (Cleaning Woman), Murray MacLeod (Dr. Simpson), Ron Stokes (Tom), Leonard Simon (Dr. Michaelson)
  • Summarized : The surgeons cardiologists Dr. Barry Mayfield and Dr. Edmund Hidemann see their research about to succeed, but Dr. Edmund Hidemann, which directs the research, refuses to publish before still prolonging the one year tests. Dr. Mayfield, ambitious go-getter, decides to get rid of his colleague, who must precisely undergo a operation of the heart (a bridging). It is Dr. Mayfield who operates, and it uses special wire of joining. The nurse Sharon Martin discovers it, and it even kills it the evening. It makes up then this murder to make believe that it was killed for a history of flight of drugs. The operation seems succeeded, and Columbo inquires into the death of the nurse. The attitude of Dr. Mayfield is suspect, all the more when it blows with the girlfriend of the nurse the name of a suspect for the flight of drugs. Columbo finishes by suspecter that the operation was made with temporary joining and not of the permanent joining, and if it is the case, the life of Dr. Hidemann is in serious danger.
  • Comment : It is Leonard Nimoy, known to have been Mr. Spock in the series Star Trek (1966), which interprets Dr. Barry Mayfield.
    Anne Francis plays the short part of the Martin nurse. This actress little known in France had played in '' prohibited Planète '' ('' Forbidden Planet '', 1956), and had made many appearances noticed in episodes of televised series. She was the high-speed motorboat of the short series Honey West (1965) for which she had a Golden Globe Award.

Episode 7: dangerous Match

  • original Title : The Most Dangerous Match
  • Number (S) : 16 (2.7)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Jackson Gillis; history: Jackson Gillis & Richard Levinson & William Link
  • Realizer (S) : Edward Mr. Abroms
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Laurence Harvey (Emmett Clayton), Jack Kruschen (Tomlin Dudek), Lord Bochner (Mazoor Berozski), Michael Fox (Dr. Benson), Paul Jenkins (Sgt. Douglas), Stuart Nisbet (Dr. Sullivan), Mathias Reitz (Anton), Trout Miller (1st To defer), Oscar Beregi Jr (Proprietor)
  • Summarized : A tournament of failures prepares between Emmett Clayton, a champion titrates of it American and Tomlin Dudek, a former Soviet champion which decided to leave its retirement to beat holding it of the title, for the honor. The two men meet not officially before the part, and Clayton realizes that Dudek is perhaps too strong for him. Not wanting to lose the face, it precipitates it in a compactor of refuse, in a way resembling an accident, after him to have made write a note indicating that it fled. Clayton can at the same time claim that Dudek was afraid to lose and to get rid of its adversary. Dudek is an old man, but he survives the attack, while remaining in the coma with the hospital. The fact that it had a brush with teeth in its bag at the time of its be-saying escape, whereas it has false teeth, that it did not sign the note, and that the note was written on a foreign paper with its hotel room, puts Columbo on the assumption of a murder. The attitude of Clayton, and their last part at the restaurant intrigue it. On its side, Clayton must make sure of the silence of Dudek, and tries to adulterate its drugs.
  • Comment : The basic screen of this episode diffused in 1973, a young champion living a country of the West, and which refuses to lose, vis-a-vis an old sick champion Soviet, is close to that of the film '' the Diagonal of insane the '' (1984) where the young person Pavius Fromm faced the Liebskind old man, itself inspired of the true meetings in 1978 then 1981, between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Kortchnoï, all that well after the diffusion of this episode, the similarities are thus fortuites.
    Son sudden dog an operation. Colombo indicates to us in this episode that its dog does not have a name (this returns several times in the series).

Episode 8: Double shock

  • original Title : Double Shock
  • Number (S) : 17 (2.8)
  • Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Steven Bochco & Peter Allan Fields; history: Jackson Gillis & Richard Levinson & William Link
  • Realizer (S) : Robert Butler
  • Diffusion (S) :
  • Invited (be) : Martin Pram (Dexter Paris/Norman Paris), Sleeve-board Nolan (Mrs. Peck), Tim O' Connor (Mike Hathaway), Julie Newmar (LISA Chambers), Paul Stewart (Clifford Paris), Dabney Coleman (Murray Detective), Kate Hawley (Mrs. Johnson), Michael Richardson (Lawyer), Marc Singer (Young Doctor)
  • Summarized : Mr. Clifford, a rich and old man, is on the way to marry a pretty young woman. Its nephew kills it by throwing a beater with eggs adulterated in his bath. He installs then the body on an apparatus of musculation, thus simulating a heart attack. When Columbo notices that the soap and the towel are wet, it suspect a murder and orders a autospie. We discover whereas Clifford had two twin nephews, Dexter and Norman Paris which resemble themselves physically in all points, but which differ nevertheless by the vestimentation and the manners. The man who killed the uncle was one of both, but the televiewer does not know which. At the time of the murder, there was an interruption of current which was noticed by controlling. Dexter is a stimulating of television broadcast culinary; Norman is a banker with a dependence with the play.
  • Comment : It is Martin Landau who plays the parts of the two brothers. It was at this time already a large high-speed motorboat for its role of Rollin Hand in '' Mission impossible '' ('' Mission: Impossible '', 1966)
    La been engaged LISA Chambers is interpreted by beautiful the Julie Newmar, more known for its role of Catwoman in the series '' Batman '' ('' Batman '', 1966).
    With the difference in the other episodes of Columbo, it is necessary to await the denière scene of the episode to know which really killed Clifford.

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