In a first for the Columbophile blog, regular reader Richard Weill – a playwright, lawyer and former US prosecutor – provides a very different perspective to my own on Columbo Dagger of the Mind. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Episode review: Columbo Dagger of the Mind
Columbo broke new ground on November 26 1972. For the first time ever the Lieutenant stepped outside his Los Angeles comfort zone and mixed it up with a bunch of stereoptype-tastic Brits on a work visit to Scotland Yard. Can ‘Leftenant’ Columbo cut the mustard in old London town? Let’s see… Continue reading
The best laid plans: Columbo’s most fiendishly clever murders
Some crimes committed in Columbo were so deviously devised that the killers could be forgiven for thinking they’d committed the perfect murder. Here I examine the most fiendishly clever killings of all. Continue reading
