Cet article presents the guide of the seventh season of the Televised series Columbo ( Columbo ).
Episode 1: the Mystery of the safe deposit
- original Title : Try and Wrestling Me
- Number (S) : 41 (7.1)
- Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Gene Thompson, Paul Tuckahoe; history: Gene Thompson
- Realizer (S) : James Frawley
- Diffusion (S) :
- Invited (be) : Ruth Gordon (Abigail Mitchell), Mariette Hartley (Veronica Bryce), G.D. Spradlin (Martin Hammond), Charles Frank (Edmund Galvin), Mary Jackson (Annie), Jerome Guardino (Sgt. Burke), Marie Silva-Alexander (Dance Instructor)
- Summarized : Abigail Mitchell is an author of detective novel with success. His/her niece died in suspect circumstances, and she is convinced that its nephew by alliance, Edmund, killed it. She locks up it in her safe after having made believe that it had left and that itself was with New York. But it has had to hide keys of car of Edmund, and when Columbo notices that these keys are missing, he does not cease raising questions.
- Comment : At one moment, it pianote with the piano the old story.
Episode 2: Murder with the chart
- original Title : Murder Under Knell
- Number (S) : 42 (7.2)/Prod° 49703
- Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Robert Van Scoyk; history: Jonathan Demme
- Realizer (S) : Jonathan Demme
- Diffusion (S) :
- Invited (be) : Louis Jourdan (Paul Gerald), Richard A. Dysart (max Duval), France Nuyen (Mary Choy), Mako (Mr. Ozu), Larry D. Mann (Albert), Michael V. Gazzo (Vittorio Rossi), Fred Holliday (Crawford), Antony Alda (Mario Delucca), Todd Martin (Sgt. Burke), Alberto Morin (Louis Chief), Jim Murphy (Charlie), Carolyn Martin (Cashier), Miyako Kurata (1st Geisha)
- Summarized : Paul Gerald, a famous criticism and organizer of culinary emissions is in conflict with a big boss, Vittorio Rossi, owner of restaurant. This last threatens it all to reveal on its equivocal intrigues. At the time of a meal together, Paul Gerald arranges himself to make him absorb poison, which it extracted from a Fugu. Colombo the suspect one as of the beginning, but neither him nor the televiewer knows how it poisoned it. The laboratory ends up establishing that the poison was in the wine, but Vittorio opened the bottle whereas Paul Gerald had already left. One suspect a handling on the Corkscrew with gas.
- Comment : In this episode, Columbo questions an Italian suspect.
Episode 3: perfect Murder
- original Title : Make has Me Perfect Murder
- Numéro (S) : 43 (7.3)
- Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Robert Blees; history: James Frawley
- Realizer (S) : James Frawley
- Diffusion (S) :
- Invited (be) : Socorro Swan (Nancy), James Frawley (Roark), Buck Young (guard), H.B. Haggerty (Masseur), Jerome Guardino (Sergeant Burke), Milt Kogan (Dubbing Chief), Kenneth Gilman (Jonathan), Bruce Kirby (Barnaby, TV Repairman), Susan Krebbs (Wendy), James McEachin (Walter Muirhead), Laurence Luckinbill (McAndrews Mark), Susan Bredhoff (Angela), Ron Rifkin (Luther), Patrick O' Neal (Frank Flanagan), Lainie Kazan (Valerie Kirk), Trish Van Devere (Kay Freestone)
- Summarized : Mark McAndrews, a director of chain in Los Angeles is promoted in New York. Kay, its executive secretary and mistress would have wished that it take it along, but failing this, she waits until it bequeaths its place to him. Mark considers that it does not have the profile for this station, and refuses to promote it, thinking of alleviating it with a new car. In the offices, one evening, it organizes the projection of a film which it produced: The Professionnal . It modifies the meters to make believe that a changeover in projection is imminent, and arranges itself so that the projectionist must go away. It then will kill Mark while being arranged so that the crime is immediately discovered by one of the assistants, hides the Pistolet on the top of the cabin of ascenscor, then turns over without being seen with the projection where she changes the reel. Its alibi is that the projectionist will declare that for the time of the crime, it was necessary well that somebody changed the reel.
Episode 4: Word game
- original Title : How to Dial has Murder
- Numéro (S) : 44 (7.4)
- Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Tom Lazarus; history: Anthony Lawrence
- Realizer (S) : James Frawley
- Diffusion (S) :
- Invited (be) : Joel Fabiani (Charlie), Nicol Williamson (Dr. Eric Mason), Tricia O' Neil (Cochrane Miss), Kim Cattrall (Joanne Nichols), Frank Aletter (Dr. Garrison), ED Begley Jr. (Officer Stein), Fred J. Gordon (technician)
- Summarized :
Nicol Williamson is Doctor Eric Mason, a lecturer specialized in “self-service mental control”. It is with the current of the connection that one of his/her friends maintained with his wife, recently deceased in an accident of the road. It decides to be avenged thanks to its two drawn up Doberman pinschers, Laurel and Hardy, while making pronounce with the victim a word of attack, while it is itself in a doctor for a check-up.
Anecdotes
The French version has an inconsistency in synchronization. In a sequence, lieutenant Columbo and Doctor Mason devote to a play words. This last concluded in the following way:
“I will conclude from it that your childhood had to be difficult but that you have of it very quickly avoided the traps” . Later, it is learned that the lieutenant had recorded the conversation to make it listen with the two Doberman pinschers. This one differs in the recording:
“I will conclude from it that your childhood had to be difficult but that you have of it avoided very well the traps” .
Episode 5: Of the smiles and the weapons
- original Title : The Conspirators
- Number (S) : 45 (7.5)
- Scenario writer (S) : Scenario television: Howard Berk; history: Stalemate Robinson
- Realizer (S) : Leo PEN
- Diffusion (S) :
- Invited (be) : Bernard Behrens (George O' Connell), Sleeve-board Nolan (Kate O' Connell), Michael Horton (Kerry Malone), Albert Paulsen (Vincent Pauley), Cleaves Revill (Joe Devlin), L.Q. Jones (Chuck Jensen), Deborah White (Angela), Sean McClory (Captain), Michael Prince (Michael Moore), Gift Whyte (Leach), Johnny Silver (Tow Truck Driver), Carole Hemmingway (Herself), Doreen Murphy (Barmaid), Tony Giorgio (Harry), John McCann (Torch), Cedric Wolfe (Customs Officer)
- Summarized : Joe Devlin, famous and rich a Poet Irish, ex terrorist, installed with Los Angeles, conceals traffic of weapon in order to provide his countries in Northern Ireland, the WILL GO. The trafficker tries to double it, and Devlin kills it. It is with Columbo on the back, and at the same time it tries to find the supplier, or failing this another supplier, in order to hold the made promises.
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