Hell hath no fury like a doctor scorned – and no medical man has a meaner spirit than Leonard Nimoy’s devilish Dr Barry Mayfield.
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Well, I begged my 19 yr old son to watch Columbo with me as my Christmas gift, supposedly to myself. What he didn’t know was that it was my Christmas gift to him.
It took him about fifteen minutes to fall in love with the character Columbo.
Now he understands what I was trying to teach him about how to build a character that grabs hold of an audience.
A lesson for an aspiring content creator!
I call this A Grade parenting! Well done all round.
Perps are often stupid. Even the smart ones are mostly inexperienced and prone to miss a beat. Slip ups are quite in keeping with reality. Also every crime is unique in some way.
Even real life psychopathic, serial killers, quite often of above average intelligence, slip up…. and that is how they get caught eventually.
It is a great gift to be able to simply relax and enjoy. Finding fault with everything for the sake of appearing superior is a downer. Who needs it?
Columbo remains one of the most enjoyable shows after nearly half a century.
Finding this site has made my year.
This episode was always too creepy for me- anything more terrifying than a killer surgeon?
Columbo is OK. But the undoing of the perp is down to stupidity and unique circumstances, not at all lifelike or believable. Good entertainment though.
I guess that’s what it is supposed to be – good entertainment. There are enough “real crime” videos on YT, but they are not what I’d call “entertaining”.
I love this show. I can’t say exactly why, but I just do. So glad they’re available!
Great episodes !! wanting to watch more of these ! these are the only murder/mystery
stories where one knows the guilty person first……….and how Columvo gathers the evidence !! love them,Thanks .wish could watch MORE ,
I recommend “Cracker” a UK cop series starring Robbie Coltrane.
A similar structure: we know who is guilty from the start
The real full-circle irony here is that Mayfield’s trivial unlocked office door caused his undoing from start to finish. If locked, the Lt would not have witnessed him resetting his clock while getting the news of Sharon’s desth, and on the back end, he could’ve taken the suture out of the pocket and stashed it somewhere before the Lt came dashing back in to render him guilty!
47 “Not near any of that stuff” – addicted to cigarettes,
Just “watched” this while temporarily blinded (baby scratched my eye). It was an excellent painkiller. It struck me that Nimoy’s character is so arrogant that he doesn’t think to avoid drawing attention to himself–his pushing of the drug narrative was ill advised.
I enjoyed the moment when the roommate turns to Nimoy and coyly asks, “What do you think we should do now?” only to be disappointed with Nimoy taking her home. I bet she’d have loved to snag a wealthy doctor.
I’ve been watching columbo all my life and have seen every episode made and still I watch him like its the first time. Love that man so clever and sooooooo funny.